welfare - hofreps - 1970

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

Under the Social Welfare Ordinance 1964- 1969, section 10, the Director of Social Welfare may provide to persons who in his opinion are socially or economically in need of assistance such legal assistance as in the Director’s opinion may be necessary or appropriate. [More…]
The only time the Opposition gives a thought for the welfare of those who have fought for Australia or who are currently fighting for this country is when it thinks it can achieve some political end. [More…]
Over many years in this place honourable members opposite have been completely dishonest in their approach to the welfare of ex-servicemen except when they have seen some political advantage in espousing an interest in ex-servicemen. [More…]
This includes the effects on woolgrowers of the high rates of economic growth which have been achieved elsewhere in the economy whether due to tariffs or to other measures of government policy; the effects of government policies which assist the industry; as well as other domestic and overseas matters important to their welfare. [More…]
ber of occasions made clear its friendly interest in Fiji and in the welfare of its people. [More…]
Can he state what is the estimated additional cost which each additional migrant imposes on State, semi-government and local government instrumentalities for the provision of (a) water supply, (b) sewerage and drainage, (c) road, (d) education, (e) health and (f) welfare services in each major urban area in Australia. [More…]
Liberal-Country Party politicians and officials whether in New South Wales, Canberra or the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, have realised that their policies on such issues as development, welfare, education, financing of health services, rural problems, defence and foreign affairs are obviously not supported by the electorate. [More…]
Also, it has said that the Vietnam war was won in 1967; that the statement of the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) that his main concern was improved social welfare was satisfied by an increase of 50c in pensions; and that the means test for non-contributory pensions was essential and fair, except in the case of $7,500 pensions for those who had rendered special services to the Government. [More…]
What sum specifically for capital expenditure has the Commonwealth (including its banks) in the last financial year (a) spent, (b) transferred as grants or loans direct to (i) State, local or semigovernment authorities, (ii) autonomous health, education and welfare organisations and overseas recipients and (iii) private industry, including all compensation and capital subsidies and price support to private industry except by way of relief of temporary natural disasters, and (c) received, as grants or loans, from other countries. [More…]
What is the nature of the assistance available to local authorities, through his Department, for the provision of welfare services or buildings. [More…]
Was the Office of Aboriginal Affairs or the Welfare Branch of the Northern Territory Administration consulted before the licence was granted? [More…]
On what dates have there been meetings of the interdepartmental committee established to consider welfare policy. [More…]
The only social welfare programme administered, by my Department that has not yet become operative in ail States is that authorised by the States Grants (Home Care) Act 1969. [More…]
The legislation, which was assented to on 14th June 1969 grants financial assistance to the States for the provision of Home Care Services, Senior Citizens’ Centres and the employment of Welfare Officers by Senior Citizens’ Centres. [More…]
The amount available for Senior Citizens’ Centres and Welfare officers’ salaries is subject to annual appropriation. [More…]
Has there been any social welfare programme resulting from legislation by the Commonwealth which has not become operative in any Slate because of the failure of the Stale Government to co-operate in such a programme. [More…]
What amounts or assistance have been contributed by the Commonwealth Government in each of the latest 3 years for which figures or estimates are available by way of subsidy, tax exemptions or other financial assistance to non-profit, non-statutory organisations concerned with (a) military, paramilitary and related activities of military value, including cadet corps, gun clubs, flying clubs and ex-service organisations, (b) community welfare, including education, non-industrial science, health, emergency services, home help and institutional care and (c) sport, physical recreation and physical culture, including the Boy Scouts Organisation. [More…]
Are these services provided free to exservice personnel while other applicants are obliged to meet all costs in full or immediately submit an order guaranteeing payment from a recognised welfare agency as payment by instalments is refused. [More…]
Does the Minister agree that the Navy has a special responsibility for the welfare of its sailors, some of whom are as young as 16 years and are far from their homes? [More…]
I refer to the concern the Minister expressed yesterday about the development of migrant education and welfare programmes. [More…]
and (2) In addition to the direct service which my Department provides for the migrant community through its own social workers and in other ways, funds are provided also under a grant scheme for the employment of social workers by community welfare agencies which are engaged in direct welfare amongst migrants. [More…]
Hunt, Minister for the Interior; the Honourable J. L. Waddy, Minister for Child Welfare and Social Welfare, New South Wales; the Honourable E. R. Meagher. [More…]
King, Minister for Social Welfare and Aboriginal Affairs, South Australia; the Honourable W. F. Willesee, Minister for Community Welfare, Western Australia; and the Hon ourabls D. F. Clark, Minister for Housing, Industrial Development and Sea Fisheries, Tasmania. [More…]
Is he able to say whether these surveys normally form an essential basis for the welfare policies of most other advanced countries. [More…]
I have had the records checked, but no letter has been found from the Premiers written either to me or my predecessor as a result of discussions by the State Ministers concerned with child welfare at their meetings in March 1970. [More…]
Have the Premiers been in touch with him or his predecessor on matters discussed by, the State Ministers concerned with child welfare at their meeting in March 1970 (Hansard, 13th October 1970, page 2082 and 9th March 1971, page 750). [More…]
The Welfare Division of the Northern Territory Administration has a substantial collection which is to be made available to the Territory Museum and Art Gallery Board for display, etc. [More…]
As part of a continuing programme over many years the Welfare Division of the Northern Territory Administration, the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies and linguists have recorded and catalogued a considerable amount of oral literature and history from Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Within the limits necessarily imposed by available resources, it is the policy of the Government to improve progressively the welfare of elderly citizens. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some 9,000,000 East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
If granted permissive residence the Administrator of Papua New Guinea usually arranges settlement away from the border and adequate provision is made for housing, welfare and employment. [More…]
Permissive residents and their families are also free to utilise the same welfare benefits that are available to other Papua New Guinea residents. [More…]
Does his Department control a fund for welfare purposes; if so, what is the limit of the fund. [More…]
How does his Department determine the stage at which a person seeking welfare assistance should not seek it as an immigrant but should seek it as a non-immigrant and, in consequence, should direct his inquiries to the Department of the Interior. [More…]
Does his Department publicise the fact that it offers a welfare service to immigrants in Canberra; if so, what form does that publicity take. [More…]
What steps have been taken, as recommended by the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare in its report tabled on Stb May 1971 on Mentally and Physically Handicapped Persons in Australia, (a) to co-ordinate those functions relating to the health, welfare, education and employment of handicapped persons at present being exercised by the Departments of Health, Social Services, Labour and National Service, Interior, Education and Science and Repatriation, and (b) to collaborate with the States on legislation and services for the handicapped. [More…]
What sum has been (a) available and (b) granted for (i) home care services, (ii) senior citizens’ centres and (iii) welfare officers at senior citizens’ centres under the States Grants (Home Care) Act 1969 to each of the States in each of the last 2 years. [More…]
However, I understand that officers of my Department co-operated to the fullest possible extent with the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare and supplied it with all information that was required and that was available. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some 9 million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
If so, will he assist those in the community who have the welfare of youth at heart by taking steps to remove sporting equipment from the Schedule of the Act which requires sales tax : to be paid on this type of equipment. [More…]
Is the approval of the Welfare Branch sought before prospecting authorities are issued on reserves? [More…]
Research into these and many other fields is being undertaken in universities, in government departments and agencies, in voluntary health and welfare agencies, and by private individuals. [More…]
The welfare of unmarried mothers who continue to care for their children is traditionally a matter for State Governments. [More…]
The National Welfare Fund was established on 20 March 1943. [More…]
The purposes of the National Welfare Fund are the making of such payments as are directed by any law of the Commonwealth to be made from the Fund, in relation to health services, unemployment or sickness benefits, family allowances or other welfare or social service. [More…]
When was the National Welfare Fund established. [More…]
Did the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare submit its. [More…]
Is the inter-departmental committee established to consider the recommendations of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare in its report tabled on 5th May 1971 on Mentally and Physically Handicapped Persons in Australia, whose membership was disclosed by the Minister for Health in the Senate on 9th December 1971 (Senate Hansard, page 2560), the same as the inter-deparimental committee established to make a survey of handicapped children and the facilities available for their use, whose membership he himself refused to disclose on 28th September 1971 (Hansard, page 1602). [More…]
How many welfare officers are now subsidised under the Act. [More…]
Are any subsidies paid in respect of the salaries of welfare officers or social workers employed by local government authorities. [More…]
I know that there are few members of the Liberal Party now who are prepared to acknowledge the services to this country, including services in matters of welfare, of their last successful leader. [More…]
What amount was spent on Aboriginal welfare (a) in total and (b) per capita of Aboriginal and part-Aboriginal population by (i) each State and (ii) the Commonwealth in each of the last 10 years. [More…]
The right honourable gentleman will have read the submission by the Australian Council of Social Service - the acknowledged professional body - that the inquiry should be held into social welfare and not confined to poverty and should be held by persons with skills and knowledge from Commonwealth, State, local government and voluntary agency fields though not acting as representatives, experts in social welfare and user and citizen members and that the issues are too complex and the skills required too diverse for one man or woman alone. [More…]
The following State and Commonwealth Ministers attended the Conference of Child and Social Welfare Ministers held on 5th June 1972: [More…]
The matter of welfare assistance in the Northern Territory for persons falling outside the provisions of the Social Services Act is one for my colleague, the Minister for the Interior. [More…]
What were the names and portfolios of the Ministers who attended the Conference of Child and Social Welfare Ministers held in Brisbane on 5th June 1972. [More…]
Minister for Immigration) - by leave - I wish to inform the House of the measures by which effect will be given to the Government’s announced policy of placing increasing emphasis on migrant counselling and selection and migrant education and welfare services. [More…]
Under an arrangement between the Department of Social Services and the Welfare Branch of the Department of the Interior, the Welfare Branch will make, in cases of need, immediate cash payments to applicants for social service pen sions or benefits. [More…]
The Welfare Branch is subsequently re-imbursed from arrears of benefit or pension, subject to the applicant’s authority being obtained. [More…]
However, what consistently worries us is that in many areas there is a clear need as a matter of very high priority for this and other forms of community welfare services which, for a number of social, cultural and economic reasons do not get developed; that is, the initiatives regrettably are not taken up. [More…]
and (4) Assistance similar to that given in the States is provided in the Northern Territory by the Director of Social Welfare after assessment of the needs and circumstances of each applicant. [More…]
Did he note the claim of Mr Alan Hayes, a welfare officer of the Civilian Maimed and Limbless Association, on the “This Day Tonight’ program last night that sheltered workshops employees receiving the invalid pension plus supplementary assistance totalling $24 a week have their benefits reduced by $1 for each $1 earned over $24 weekly? [More…]
Welfare Committee [More…]
1 just want to point out to the House and to the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) that members of the armed services stationed at Butterworth near Penang have mentioned to me lately that they feel that their welfare could be improved considerably if on humanitarian grounds the Government were to organise periodic charter flights so that the relations of those people who are up there for a long term could visit the serving personnel in those areas. [More…]
Finally, do his Government’s policies in favour of the big cities mean that the welfare of the small States which export much more than they import is to be sacrificed in favour of the most populous States? [More…]
Is it a fact that the proposed social welfare centres to be set up in the main cities - I refer particularly to the Collingwood, Fitzroy and Northcote areas and the western suburbs of Melbourne - have been cut back or deferred? [More…]
Why was the Australian Council of Trade Unions the only organisation with an interest in the work of the National Commission on Social Welfare given the right to nominate a representative. [More…]
National Commission on Social Welfare. [More…]
The National Commission on Social Welfare will, no doubt, have regard to other welfare inquiries that have been, or are being made. [More…]
Will the National Commission on Social Welfare wait until the National Compensation Inquiry and other welfare inquiries have been completed, so that it does not examine areas that specialist committees are investigating. [More…]
Until that investigation is concluded, I am afraid I can say nothing concrete, except that I hope that in the total conspectus of what we are trying to achieve in the field of social welfare this will be one of the areas where we will provide adequate responses to the clear needs in the community. [More…]
Social Security seen a statement alleged to have been made by the Canadian Deputy Minister for Health and Welfare and used by the Australian Medical Association, the General Practitioners Society and professional letter writers employed by Messrs Turner and Cade of the hospitals contribution fund and medical benefits funds who quoted the Canadian Deputy Minister as saying: [More…]
It is true also that there have been discussions over a couple of years now about a series of multi-lingual welfare officers to help in the attack on the problems which have been created by the unplanned movement of people into the cities. [More…]
Has action been taken to appoint the long discussed and long prom ised multi-lingual welfare officers to assist migrant integration and settlement? [More…]
In what way does the extension of the integration services to meet the special needs of migrant children by the provision of bilingual or multi-lingual officers trained in welfare work, announced by him as an initiative of his Government, differ from the proposal on the same subject announced by the previous Minister on 31 August 1972. [More…]
I might mention also at the outset that the appropriations for the child care program appear in the Budget not under education but under the functional classification of social security and welfare. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the first report of the Interim Committee of the Social Welfare Commission covering the period 3 April to 30 June 1973. [More…]
A pre-school teacher and a welfare officer will visit the child care centres on a regular basis and instructive pamphlets will be distributed to parents and child minders. [More…]
Section 10 (1) of the States Grants (Home Care) Act provides that where a person is employed as a welfare officer of a senior citizens’ centre wholly or mainly in connexion with the provision of approved welfare services by or in association with the centre there is payable to the State, by way of financial assistance, an amount equal to one half of the amount paid to the welfare officer by way of salary. [More…]
Incidentally, as the Treasurer announced in his Budget Speech, it is proposed to amend this Act soon to increase the rate of the Australian Government’s subsidy to two-thirds of the welfare officer’s salary. [More…]
A welfare officer who devotes 75 per cent or more of his time to welfare services for the aged is accepted as being ‘wholly’ so employed and half of his salary is paid by the Australian Government. [More…]
A welfare officer who devotes between 50 per cent and 75 per cent of his time to welfare services for the aged is accepted as being ‘mainly’ go employed and my Department pays half of his salary in respect of the time during which he is so employed. [More…]
Payment of this assistance is usually claimed by the State concerned at quarterly intervals based on records kept by the welfare officer in the course of his work with the aged. [More…]
It is understood that the information required is not extensive and should not cause undue inconvenience to the welfare officer. [More…]
A detailed report, to provide a basis for assessment of th subsidy payable, is necessary only in those cases where the welfare officer devotes between 50 per cent and 75 per cent of his time to aged people’s welfare. [More…]
Is a grant provided to local governing bodies under the States Grants (Home Care) Act to assist with the salaries of welfare officers employed by Councils, and is this grant restricted to a basis of 50 per cent of a calculated 56 per cent of time spent on work with the aged. [More…]
If so, and as this restriction limits the activity of a welfare officer to a particular section of the community, (a) can a re-assessment of this grant be made to modify the requirements relating to this restriction and (b) can the suprvisiion of services provided be organised so that the need for detailed quarterly reports is removed or modified. [More…]
Proposed Multi-purpose Welfare Clinics (Question No. [More…]
What will be the functions of the proposed multi-purpose welfare clinics in Sydney and Melbourne. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Government has responded to its social welfare commitment by increasing pension payments twice since last December? [More…]
The Melbourne-Centre will employ: 1 Sessional Psychiatrist 1 Sessional Clinical Psychologist 2 Sessional Remedial Teachers 1 Executive Officer 1 Social Worker (number of positions will be dependent on the size of the case-load) 1 Senior Vocational Counsellor 1 Welfare Officer 1 Workshop Manager 2 foremen 4 Instructors 1 Storeman 1 Liaison Officer 1 Clerical Assistant 2 Typists 1 Labourer [More…]
He will have read in the Press, as I did, the statement of the Australian Country Party’s spokesman on social welfare that his Party will oppose the Bill. [More…]
Has the Minister for Social Security noted in the Press recently reports that Aborigines in Western Australia were alleged to be spending their money on taxis, liquor and in other ways rather’ than on family welfare? [More…]
What is the purpose of the 3-year social welfare project in the south-west and southern agricultural region of Western Australia. [More…]
It is a general popular error to Imagine the loudest complaint’s for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. [More…]
I may add that the whole question of funeral benefits for deceased social service pensioners has been referred to the Advisory Council on Social Security/ Welfare for examination and advice. [More…]
Expenditure by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs on Aboriginal welfare for the period 2 December 1972 to 31 August 1973 was as follows: [More…]
What sums were expended on Aboriginal welfare from the day the previous Minister took office to 31 August 1973 in each of the following categories: (a) projects, (b) housing, (c) land, (d) sporting associations, (e) sporting activities, (f) education, (g) health, (h) personal loans or grants and (i) other. [More…]
Pursuant to the provisions of the Services Trust Funds Act 1947-1950 I present the annual reports of the Australian Military Forces Relief Trust Fund, the Royal Australian Navy Relief Trust Fund and the Royal Australian Air Force Welfare Trust Fund for the year ended 30 June 1973, together with the reports of the Auditor-General on the books and accounts of the funds. [More…]
As the spokesman for the Opposition on matters relating to health and welfare, the honourable member for Hotham (Mr Ohipp), and members of the Opposition want to sit for a further week and thereafter. [More…]
Only pensioners, migrants, the indolent, no-hopers and alcoholics would benefit from the Government’s health scheme’, the Liberal welfare spokesman (Mr Chipp) said yesterday. [More…]
This indicates to the Australian people that this Government has long-ranging and far-reaching concern for the welfare of all sections of the community. [More…]
Did the Minister for Social Security note during February newspaper reports from Western Australia relating to claims made before the Western Australian Royal Commission into Aboriginal Affairs by a Mr R. W. Crosbie, District Officer of the Western Australian Community Welfare Department at Katanning, and other allegations made by Mrs B. Hayward of Gnowangerup? [More…]
I present a paper which is entitled Liberal Party of Australia - Committee on Social Security, Health and Welfare, Policy Recommendations.’ [More…]
Is the Government committed in any way to cut public and social welfare programs as a counter to inflation? [More…]
As a first principle, it should say how much the scheme will cost the Australian people and what it will mean for their health welfare. [More…]
The honourable member for Hotham has re-stated what can only be described as a wicked attack on welfare organisations in the community and on sporting organisations, all of which have been benefiting and more of which will benefit from these programs. [More…]
I point out that all welfare and sporting organisations in the honourable member’s electorate will be circularised with his comments today and . [More…]
Something about which I am concerned and about which I know the Minister for Social Security is concerned is the welfare of those pensioners who are at the very bottom of the rung - for instance, the ones who do not own their own homes. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present a report entitled ‘The Contribution of the Mineral Industry to Australian Welfare’. [More…]
Does the Attorney-General intend to alter the family law legislation to take account of views expressed by State Ministers for Child Welfare that children continue to be supervised and advised by State welfare officers. [More…]
These groups are normally involved with charitable, educational, health, welfare or like activities. [More…]
I am aware of the situation at Indulkana and recently discussed it with the South Australian Minister for Community Welfare in the context of the application of the principle behind the recommmendations of the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission to South Australia. [More…]
However, it should be noted that not all meetings that have been held on the Australian Assistance Plan are necessarily recorded on the Social Welfare Commission’s files, or known about by the Commission as meetings are convened by local groups, which may not advise the Commission of their action. [More…]
Has the Social Welfare Commission taken any part in ensuring that any organisations interested in matters of community welfare are invited and involved. [More…]
) In what field of welfare are they qualified or interested. [More…]
1 ) and (2) In relation to each of the eleven offices opened to date in all States, various bodies and persons active in the field of welfare have offered assistance. [More…]
The 36 volunteers comprise seventeen solicitors, one clergyman, three social workers, a welfare officer, an employment officer, three typist/secretaries, one law clerk, one law student, three members of the Citizens Advice Bureau, one interpreter, and four persons who have volunteered to give general assistance, including a member of the State Parliament. [More…]
Has a decision been made on assistance for the construction of a kindergarten building at Nyabing, Western Australia, submitted by the Kent Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [More…]
1 ) Has a decision been made on assistance for the purchase of equipment for the Pingrup kindergarten submitted by the Kent Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [More…]
Has a decision been made on assistance for improvements to ablutions facilities and the installation of a telephone at the Ravensthorpe kindergarten submitted by the Ravensthorpe Community Centre to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [More…]
Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [More…]
Has the Social Welfare Commission established committees to inquire into various matters. [More…]
1 ) Has a decision been made on assistance for the construction of a pre-school centre at Jerramungup, Western Australia, submitted by the Gnowangerup Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [More…]
1 ) Has a decision been made on assistance for alterations to the kindergarten building at Ongerup submitted by the Gnowangerup Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [More…]
1 ) Has a decision been made on assistance for the erection of two toilets at the kindergarten at Borden, Western Australia, submitted by the Gnowangerup Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [More…]
The Social Welfare Commission has established three Committees under Section 17 of its Act- [More…]
The permanent Working Party on Social Welfare Manpower [More…]
This would aggravate the fragmentation of community welfare services, weaken the capacity for co-operation between such bodies, and defeat the objective of community involvement in regional decision-making on such matters. [More…]
1 published by the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
Will he provide an outline of all methodology being employed in all social analysis work being undertaken by or through the Social Welfare Commission for the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]
In some instances a regional profile (including existing welfare services) is being drawn in conjunction with the development of a set of social indicators. [More…]
Who are the members of the Manly Warringah Social Welfare Co-ordinating Committee, and what organizations do they represent. [More…]
Of the 120 not yet approved, 9 were referred back to the Board for further information on their social welfare aspects as they did not appear to come within the scope of the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]
The executive members of the Manly- Warringah Social Welfare Co-ordinating Committee and the organizations they represent are as follows: [More…]
The Interim Committee Southern Regional Council for Social Development currently has 289 members who are either interested individuals or represent organisations such as service clubs, local government and welfare groups, etc. [More…]
1 ) The members of the Townsville Welfare Council and the organisations they represent are as follows: [More…]
The members of the Outer-Eastern Regional Council for Social Development total 70 at the present time who are either interested individuals or represent Municipal Councils, Government Departments, service clubs, welfare agencies, etc. [More…]
1 ) The Broadmeadows Welfare Advisory Committee has been renamed the Interim Committee for the North-Wes Regional Council for Social Development. [More…]
1) The Ballarat Council of Social Services has numerous members representing organisations such as local government, welfare groups, service clubs, individuals interested in the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]
Who are the members of the Broadmeadows Welfare Advisory Committee and what organisations do they represent. [More…]
Red Cross, Parents and Citizens, Sporting Bodies, all Service Clubs, Aged Welfare, Youth Groups, Local Government, Asthma Foundation, Arts and Cultural Groups, Silver Chain, Education and many others. [More…]
1 ) Who are the members of the Central Coast Social and Welfare Co-ordination Council and what organisations do they represent. [More…]
1 ) Who are the members of the Mackay Council of Social Welfare and what organisations do they represent. [More…]
Who are the members of the Townsville Welfare Council and what organisations do they represent. [More…]
Could the Minister inform the House what devastating effects there will be on recipients of social welfare payments and patients in nursing homes, and indeed on nursing homes themselves, should a cutback in his Department of 8 per cent take place? [More…]
The members of the Rockhampton Social Welfare Development Planning Council and the organisations they represent are as follows: [More…]
1 ) Who are the members of the Rockhampton Social Welfare Development Planning Council, and what organisations do they represent. [More…]
The Albury-Wodonga Interim Regional Working Committee for Welfare Education and Welfare Coordination is the body initially funded under the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]
What is the budget of, and what results have been obtained by, Professor Harris in evaluating the present role of local government throughout Australia in providing personal welfare services. [More…]
1 ) Has a decision been made on assistance for hospital improvements at the Boddington Women’s Hospital submitted by the Boddington Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [More…]
The Department employs thirty-six social workers and welfare officers whose services are available to all members of the community. [More…]
Has a decision been made on assistance for development and equipment of an Aboriginal community centre at Pinjarra submitted by the Murray District Aboriginal Association to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
What is the function of each of the Governmentemployed social welfare workers. [More…]
2 on the Australian Assistance Plan, a report prepared by the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
How many graduates have enrolled to undertake Ph.D. courses in (a) physics, (b) chemistry, (c) biology, (d) geology (e) geography, (f) psychology, (g) social welfare and (h) mathematics at each university in Australia in each of the last 10 years? [More…]
1 ) Has a decision been made on assistance for extensions to building and provision of telephones at the MurrayDrakesbrook St John Ambulance Sub-centre submitted by the Murray Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [More…]
1 ) Has a decision been made on assistance for the construction of a garage for the Newdegate St John Ambulance Association submitted by the Lake Grace Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [More…]
1 ) Has a decision been made on assistance for the purchase of a new ambulance for the Ravensthorpe St John Ambulance Association submitted by the Ravensthorpe Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [More…]
Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department [More…]
Did he receive advice from the former Minister for Immigration that it was proposed to establish in the City of Parramatta an office of the Department of Immigration to assist particularly in the fields of local migrant welfare, information, education and the issue of passports. [More…]
What is the composition of the committee of evaluators set up by the Social Welfare Commission to evaluate the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]
Has a decision been made on assistance for equipping the Community Centre at Fitzgerald submitted by the Ravensthorpe Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [More…]
If there is a decline in commencement, approvals or anything else they rub their hands in glee because they are more concerned about their declining electoral prospects than they are about the welfare of the people of this country. [More…]
1) The Social Welfare Commission has an establishment of30. [More…]
1 ) What is the current establishment of the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
The Committee was set up to advise the Government on the proper measures needed to facilitate desirable structural changes in the Australian economy, particularly in the areas of adjustment assistance, training and relocation, and social security and welfare. [More…]
Has an appropriation of $2m been set aside to provide financial assistance to voluntary welfare organisations throughout Australia. [More…]
I have interpreted it to include only those bodies involved in social, charitable or welfare work. [More…]
1 ) Did the Minister receive advice from the former Minister for Immigration that it was proposed to establish in the City of Parramatta an office of the Department of Immigration to assist particularly in the fields of local migrant welfare, information, education and the issue of passports. [More…]
At a time when the acid corrosion of a socialist welfare state is staining the idea of a responsible society and cluttering up the money printing presses, it is to be hoped that this initiative of the Minister will act as a catalyst to other Ministers to come out from behind the barricades of officialdom and allow the eyes of the nation to be focused on their actions. [More…]
There are a number of other factors, particularly in the social welfare area, to which it is more related. [More…]
Social Welfare. [More…]
-Mr Chairman, you will notice that the provision for the appointment of Director of Counselling and Welfare does not appear until clause 37 of the Bill whereas reference to him is made in clauses 14 and 15 of the Bill. [More…]
The court shall regard the welfare of the child as the paramount consideration. [More…]
The court should not give a damn about the parents when it comes to the welfare of the child. [More…]
But, of course, in the consideration of the welfare of the child the conduct of the parents is relevant. [More…]
and the work they perform, in order that he can make a better assessment of the adequacy of the number of social workers that have been allocated to his Department, and whether there is unnecessary duplication in the work undertaken by Government employee social welfare workers and those employed by other organisations in the A.C.T. [More…]
I ask him to do this because of circumstances which, in my judgment, are profoundly important to the welfare and reputation of this country in the South-East Asian area. [More…]
Has a decision been made on assistance for the purchase of equipment for the Nyabing Girl Guides Association submitted by the Kent Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [More…]
1 ) Has a decision been made on assistance for establishing facilities at the Pinjarra Methodist Youth Club submitted by the Murray Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [More…]
1 ) Has a decision been made on assistance for building extensions and purchase of equipment for the Mandurah Girl Guides Association submitted by the Mandurah Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commissioner to his Department. [More…]
1 ) Has a decision been made on assistance for the purchase of a projector for use at Lake King, Western Australia, submitted by the Lake Grace Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [More…]
Has a decision been made on assistance for the purchase of equipment for the Dwellingup Hills Youth Centre submitted by the Murray Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [More…]
and (4) An Interdepartmental Committee was established by the previous Government to examine the recommendations of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare in its report on Mentally and Physically Handicapped Persons in Australia. [More…]
The Interdepartmental Committee did not complete its examination and report on the ‘Survey of Handicapped Children’ and therefore it was never presented to the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]
The report of the separate survey of Invalid Pensioners aged 16 to 20 years m New South Wales and Victoria headed (‘Handicapped Children in Australia’) was submitted to the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare and was incorporated in its Hansard of 1 970-7 1 . [More…]
The functions of the Australian Minerals Council are: ‘To promote the general welfare and progressive development of the Australian mining and mineral industry’. [More…]
Was the Australian Minerals Council established to facilitate co-operation between the Australian and State Governments in the promotion of the general welfare and progressive development of the Australian mineral industry. [More…]
Does the Prime Minister feel that his Government’s reluctance to take any positive steps to assist in Timor is consistent with his own and his Government’s proclaimed concern for humanitarian causes and the welfare of the developing world? [More…]
Pursuant to section 16 of the Social Welfare Commission Act 1973 1 present a report by the Social Welfare Commission entitled Care of the Aged. [More…]
-For the information of honourable members I present a paper dated July 1975 prepared by the Priorities Review Staff entitled Possibilities for Social Welfare in Australia. [More…]
Pursuant to section 16 of the Social Welfare Commission Act 1973 I present the annual report of the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
I have to inform the Committee that we have present in the gallery this evening members of the Swedish Parliament’s Standing Committee on Social Affairs (Welfare) led by Mr Goran Karlsson, Chairman of the Committee. [More…]
What I am saying is that we have to look to the real welfare of these Aboriginal people - [More…]
In addition the Department administers payments to the States for housing, education, health, welfare and employment responsibilities. [More…]
I gave the justification for that in the following words: ‘It would be self-defeating if the system of wage indexation were to attempt to insulate the community from tax measures designed to redistribute resources for the benefit of the community in the form of improved public facilities in fields such as education, health, welfare, personal benefits, urban improvement and so on. [More…]
How many of these were selected on (a) a health professional, (b) Government department, (c) social welfare, (d) consumer organisation, (e) women’s organisations and (f) political, basis. [More…]
1 ) Did he say on 20 July 197S that advances for the States Welfare Housing Program will not be less than in the previous financial year. [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to substituting the following words: ‘this House congratulates the Government on its continuing action to restrict inflation and its effects on people with low incomes receiving superannuation or receiving welfare payments and condemns the Opposition for placing in jeopardy the improvement in living standards of all Australians since 2 December 1972 by its action to defer the passage of the Budget. [More…]
He also said in the course of his remarks that he has heard a rumour that I had washed my hands of any interest in social welfare. [More…]
-I ask the Treasurer: Was there a plea at the Premier’s Conference for more funds for welfare housing? [More…]
At the time the Government took the opportunity to say to the Premiers that the position in welfare housing is very much derivative from the stop-go policies which were pursued by the previous Labor Administration. [More…]
As I recall the figures, subject to checking after question time, the amount of money provided for welfare housing some 3 years ago under the Labor Administration was $ 169.8m. [More…]
If so, which institutions are involved and what arrangements have been made for the welfare of the patients and staff at those institutions? [More…]
Government Health and Welfare Committee about looking at a range of options that we can consider in trying to overcome the problems to which the honourable member for Isaacs has referred. [More…]
of the Social Welfare Commission Act 1973, I present a progress report by the Social Welfare Commission entitled Social Welfare Manpower. [More…]
It seems to me that members of the Australian Labor Party claim that they are the only ones who have an option on a social conscience; that they are the only ones who would make a contribution to the welfare of our community and the way we live in Australia. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister: When will the Government complete its review of Aboriginal services and revise expenditure on Aboriginal welfare, as foreshadowed by the Treasurer in his Budget Speech last week? [More…]
This followed growing concern by people working in welfare agencies, and local community groups, that many elderly people were either being forced to live in squalid conditions or placed in Nursing Homes because of the lack of flexibility in the types of services being offered to the residents of the Inner city area. [More…]
1 ) Have allegations of misappropriation of funds allotted for Aboriginal welfare in Victoria been brought to his attention. [More…]
1 ) Who are the members of the Task Force that has been set up to examine welfare services and community based programs in the health/welfare/community development area. [More…]
I know it is unusual for members of this House to speak in the third reading stage of a Bill, but I want to express my pleasure at the fact that the Bill has reached this stage and that shortly there will be an increase in the amount of the nation’s wealth which is expended on caring for those in need of social welfare. [More…]
Following the heated debate which has ensued this afternoon, I wish to make the point that the Liberal-National Country Party Government has greatly increased the amount of money available for social welfare. [More…]
Last year in the Hayden Labor Budget a total of $5,0 12m was outlaid on social security and welfare. [More…]
I am just about to ask the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner), who is at the table, for permission to incorporate in Hansard a letter from the Australian Greek Welfare Society in which very strong exception is taken to this kind of reporting. [More…]
That where rebates are transferred to social welfare payments the transfer compensates for the value of the rebates for each taxpayer or the household supported by the taxpayer, [More…]
1 ) I am advised that the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health is working towards presenting its first report before the end of the year. [More…]
1 ) When is the Task Force into health, welfare and community based programs to submit its report. [More…]
Pursuant to section 34 of the Service Trust Fund Act 1947, I present the annual reports of the Royal Australian Air Force Welfare Trust Fund, the Australian Military Forces Relief Trust Fund and the Royal Australian Navy Relief Trust Fund for the calendar year 1975. [More…]
I was able to obtain from Cabinet issues of principles and definitions of objectives relevant to options available for future welfare housing in the States. [More…]
I repeat to all Australians, but particularly to the Western Australians in whose State there has been a determined effort to confuse and frighten, that the Commonwealth has no aim other than to ensure that welfare housing is provided for all those who need it, and as well that all Australians, regardless of means, should have a real chance of owning their own homes. [More…]
The Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare, Health and Community Development has produced an interim report only and a full examination of its implications is still being undertaken. [More…]
What new grants for 1976-77 will the Australian Government now make under the program for Capital Assistance for Leisure Facilities as a result of its examination of the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health (Hansard, 6 October 1 976, page 1611). [More…]
I refer to reports that the Government is considering cutbacks in social welfare expenditure. [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to paragraph 1 60 of the Report of the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health. [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to recommendations 26, 27 and 28 of the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health. [More…]
Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health: Recommendation 24 (Question No. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister been drawn to recommendation 24 of the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health. [More…]
The domiciliary nursing care benefit has been the subject of examination by 2 Government established enquiries in the health and welfare fields- the Committee on Care of the Aged and the Infirm and the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health. [More…]
The Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health proposed in its report that the domiciliary nursing care benefit, with envisaged possible modifications, be included in a Community Health and Care Program. [More…]
Indeed, it has reduced the amount available for welfare for aged people and young people. [More…]
I sincerely trust that every honourable member in the House will apply himself to the report because many of the recommendations will be crucial for the welfare of this country. [More…]
Our association over the years, whether I was in or out of this House, related to the welfare of the people in his or my electorate. [More…]
1 ) The second report of the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health is expected to be received in October. [More…]
Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health (Question No. [More…]
When does he expect to receive the second report of the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health. [More…]
People working in the social welfare and health areas, voluntary and services organisations, government departments, politicians, parliamentary and tertiary libraries, churches, hospitals and individuals who have a special interest in social welfare. [More…]
In reaching its decision on the mining of uranium the Government had as a fundamental concern the welfare of the Aboriginal people in the Ranger Region. [More…]
The Government, the Minister for Social Security and the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs stand condemned for their absolute disinterest in migrant welfare and services. [More…]
The disgraceful conditions in welfare matters and the inexcusable destruction of the migrant English classes are condemnatory evidence of their neglect. [More…]
Will there also be a decline in the number of new welfare houses being built. [More…]
It certainly concerns the welfare of ex-servicemen. [More…]
-I refer the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs to the fact that the Western Australian Government intends to provide for the Minister for Community Welfare in that State to override the Commissioner for Aboriginal Planning and, by extension, the Aboriginal Land [More…]
However, in the course of its recent inquiry into drug problems in Australia, the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare did cover the use of analgesics. [More…]
When was the attention of the Department of Social Security drawn to the findings in the (a) 1959 Annual Report of the Western Australian Department of Native Welfare, (b) 1976 report by the Western Australian Department for Community Welfare and (c) 1977 report by the Office for [More…]
The position of Interpreter- Receptionist, North West One Stop Welfare Centre, Coburg, Melbourne. [More…]
Is there any evidence that the Premier of Queensland will in future change the habits of a lifetime and place the welfare of the Aboriginal people before other considerations? [More…]
1 ) The honourable member will be aware that the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health recommended that negotiations be commenced for the transfer of the laboratory at Port Pirie to South Australian administration. [More…]
1 ) The Australian Capital Territory Consultative Committee on Social Welfare (ACTCCSW) and the Northern Territory Consultative Committee on Social Welfare (NTCCSW) each have a member of the respective Legislative Assemblies on their committee. [More…]
The Australian Government meets welfare payments in all other avenues. [More…]
But what the honourable member for Kingston (Mr Chapman) did not say was that the Commonweath sought to increase the rents for welfare housing to the long-term bond rate. [More…]
1 ) What restrictions are placed on financial assistance made under the States Grants (Home Care) Act for the employment of welfare officers. [More…]
Have any restrictions caused inflexibility and difficulties in municipal social welfare departments if so, how many councils have complained of the problem. [More…]
The Cocos (Keeling) Islands will obtain revenue from these operations, primarily from philatelic sales, and the revenue so derived will be retained on the Islands for the welfare of the inhabitants. [More…]
Pursuant to section 34 of the Services Trust Funds Act 1947 I present the annual report of the Royal Australian Air Force Welfare Trust Fund, the Austraiian Military Forces Relief Trust Fund and the Royal Australian Navy Relief Trust Fund for the year ended 31 December 1977, together with financial statements and the report of the AuditorGeneral on these statements. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the work of the Malta Star of the Sea Welfare and Cultural Centre in St. Albans, Victoria. [More…]
If so, will he give sympathetic consideration to the request of that organisation to provide a welfare worker for the St. Albans area. [More…]
1 ) Funds will be made available to the Indulkana Community in June 1979 to enable it to assume responsibility from the Department of Community Welfare on 1 July 1 979. [More…]
1 ) When will funds be made available to the Indulkana Community Council to allow that body to take over the services now provided by the South Australian Department of Community Welfare. [More…]
Mr Neil expressed concern that the Liberal Party- may have alienated itself from the Greek community because of the mass prosecutions of Greek migrants involved in allegations of social welfare fraud. [More…]
What steps have been taken to implement recommendations of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare concerning drug abuse, in particular the adjustment of excise to ensure that the cost of beverage alcohol does not decrease relative to average consumer costs or incomes. [More…]
The Report of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare has been the subject of detailed consideration and 1 expect to make an announcement of the Government’s response to licit drugs aspects of the Senate Committee’s recommendations soon. [More…]
1 ) Can he state whether the United States Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare recently stated that it was his opinion that a full 20 per cent of cancers may be caused by occupational exposure to industrial carcinogens. [More…]
The necessity to restrain welfare abuse and wastage so that those in greatest need receive a more equitable share of the welfare dollar. [More…]
The reports cover specific aspects of the implementation of the Australian Assistance Plan in Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia as well as the general issues of interest to people and groups involved in community development and social welfare programs. [More…]
The Fraser Government has continued to give a high priority to income security and social welfare. [More…]
In formulating the Government’s welfare housing policy, what maximum proportion of a person’s disposable income does the Government assume is reasonable to spend on housing? [More…]
Welfare relief is not the responsibility of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and no provision is made for it in my Department’s budget. [More…]
What (a) allocation and (b) expenditure was made in the Department of Aboriginal Affairs’ budget or otherwise for welfare relief on settlements and missions during each year since 1973. [More…]
The Task Group comprises representatives from the Departments of Employment and Youth Affairs, Education, Finance, Health, Industry and Commerce, Prime Minister and Cabinet and Social Security (Social Welfare Policy Secretariat). [More…]
1 ) While my Department does not undertake or commission opinion polls, considerable survey work is undertaken in conjunction with its evaluation of ongoing programs, internal administrative arrangements and overall assessment of the welfare needs of the community. [More…]
The Research Information System maintained by my Department indicates that since 1975 the Department has been involved in 87 research projects, excluding Commission of Inquiry into Poverty and Social Welfare Commission undertakings. [More…]
1 ) What is the current status of the North West one stop Welfare Centre (the NOW Centre). [More…]
Will provision be made for further one stop welfare centres. [More…]
Will the Minister establish a one stop welfare centre in the City of Northcote, Victoria. [More…]
You are assembled at this Second Session of the 27th Parliament to consider and decide on matters affecting the security and growth of the Australian nation, and matters concerning the welfare of the citizens who constitute that nation. [More…]
And now, as we enter this new decade of opportunity for Australia, I leave you to the discharge of your high and important duties in the faith that Divine Providence will guide your deliberations and further the welfare of the people of Australia. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I am sure that this and other matters concerned with the welfare of primary producers of this country were very carefully considered by the Minister for Primary Industry and indeed by the Government generally since there are, as the honourable member would agree, many advantages enjoyed by primary producers which the other sections of the community do not enjoy. [More…]
If the Australian Labor Party said that it was going to spend half that amount of money in improvements in social welfare, perhaps by eliminating university fees - I think the figure we recommended was only about $12m - the Government would express alarm. [More…]
I have received complaints, and from inquiries I have made it seems that at least some of these organisations are primarily concerned with encouraging people to invest funds in their various business enterprises rather than with the welfare of the individuals involved. [More…]
Quite clearly it is designed to achieve a political aim and not to contribute to the welfare of the people the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) claims to support, namely the professional engineers of Australia. [More…]
It is a contribution towards the welfare of certain people. [More…]
The grave deficiency as I see it is that the provision of the Meals on Wheels service, like so many other social welfare benefits required in the community, is dependent on the response of charitable groups. [More…]
Some areas of need will receive a benefit because the people in those areas are concerned about the welfare of others. [More…]
If we intend to develop social welfare services, we should identify priorities. [More…]
Are we concerned about the welfare of people? [More…]
We are living in an age where human values are supposed to be predominant and clearly it is quite wrong to approach the provision of Meals on Wheels services or other community welfare services on this ad hoc basis. [More…]
What is clearly needed is a regional organisation of social welfare services. [More…]
There is a grave deficiency in our approach to social welfare services in the community if we always approach these things on an ad hoc basis. [More…]
For all we know it might very well be that other forms of social welfare service rate a much higher priority than Meals on Wheels. [More…]
I make it only to indicate that we are wrong in plucking something out of the air as a social welfare service because we think This will be very good for votes at the next election. [More…]
What we need in the Australian community is some sort of inquiry to establish what are our needs in social welfare. [More…]
I have no doubt that they will continue to contribute to the welfare and development of this country. [More…]
Later I shall outline the multitudinous problems that a society such as ours creates when its elderly citizens, both superannuitants and pensioners, after a lifetime of contributing to the welfare and prosperity of Australia, are given a small1 pittance to eke out a subsistence living and are then forgotten. [More…]
lt is a measure of the Government’s inability to get to grips wtih the problems of aged people that we now see another few small attempts to patch up the present creaking social welfare legislation. [More…]
We also talked with council officers, school teachers, local graziers, business people, police, a doctor, a Child Welfare officer, ministers of religion and publicans. [More…]
There would have been no need for the receipts tax if the national Government had accepted at least as much responsibility for civic finances and functions - in land acquirement, in welfare, in culture, in transport, in pollution - as national governments in any comparable country, in either federal or unitary systems, already do and have done for decades past. [More…]
There is not one aspect of the many sided task we have to do in New Guinea - in defence, in development, in commerce, in welfare, in education - in which the value of the Australian contribution will not be enhanced when we cease also to be rulers. [More…]
In the social welfare field we see a hodge-podge produced for pensioners. [More…]
Increased welfare services are also being forced on local government by subsidy in the way of baby health centres, elderly citizens’ clubs, creches and so on. [More…]
He is much better at chasing Corns on this issue, I would imagine, than he is at administering social welfare. [More…]
I am bound to say that I deprecate the possibility that there will be stoppages of this magnitude - with their obvious harm to Australian industry, commerce and the general welfare of the people - while claims are before the national conference, which has the support of all parties including the Waterside Workers Federation and the employers. [More…]
These extreme left wing union leaders - many are professed Communists - are not interested in the welfare of the people whom they purport to represent. [More…]
Aboriginal administration traditionally has been concerned with policies of protection, control, and welfare. [More…]
These policies are essentially static in their purpose and intent, and their required administrative personnel, police, doctors, welfare officers and clerks. [More…]
It is no use asking the welfare officers: ‘What have you done to assimilate the Aboriginals today?’ [More…]
The honorable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) was good enough to say that I was sincere in regard to Aboriginal health and welfare. [More…]
When I heard this and found this opinion expressed by the most competent authorities I checked it in a number of places and personally contacted a number of doctors who were active in the field of Aboriginal welfare. [More…]
I spoke personally to sisters in charge of welfare clinics on the settlements. [More…]
They enjoy their television and their radio, but the zoom of jets flying overhead has practically destroyed their health and welfare and the enjoyment they obtain in their old age from such things as television and radio. [More…]
The main emphasis of the debate falls on the domestic issues of the economy, namely, health, housing, primary industry, education and social welfare. [More…]
For the purpose of expedience he chose to muddy the policies of the Australian Labor Party on health and social welfare rather than to debate the alternatives. [More…]
Many men and women in the community break the law not because they are promiscuous and irresponsible but because they are married, over stressed and desperately seek abortions as the only way out in a perfectly respectable family situation where an unexpected pregnancy threatens the health or welfare of the mother and her whole family. [More…]
Local government is required to provide infant welfare centres and immunisation campaigns and it is expected to support kindergartens. [More…]
Some people restrict this concern and emotional discomfort to the welfare of race horses. [More…]
We are worried about the welfare of the people of the Territory. [More…]
Is it because honourable members opposite care one jot about the welfare of the District Commissioner in Rabaul? [More…]
The fundamental question today is not whether the District Commissioner was on leave: it is the miserable effort by honourable members opposite to use a public servant in Papua and New Guinea in order to foist something on this Parliament - to drag the issue of Papua and New Guinea down to this single incident instead of allowing us to discuss matters affecting the general welfare of the people of the Territory. [More…]
They could not care less about the welfare of the people of Papua and New Guinea. [More…]
The people who are on charge this afternoon with having maltreated and disregarded the welfare of the district commissioner service of Papua and New Guinea are those who initiated the debate. [More…]
You are assembled at this Second Session of the 27lh Parliament to consider and decide on matters affecting the security and growth of the Australian nation, and matters concerning the welfare of the citizens who constitute that nation. [More…]
Nearly 3 years have elapsed since the Government was given the responsibility for Aboriginal welfare and still no accurate figures are available about almost any area that requires concentrated attention - health, education or housing. [More…]
The improvement involved in the amendments is only minuscule in comparison with the needs for major overhaul in social service and social welfare provisions in the community. [More…]
This is especially so if the structure of the social welfare programme is to penetrate into the heart of what is called the poverty environment and overcome want and deficiency, and to help people to lift themselves up and participate at a level in the economy which will give them self respect and adequacy. [More…]
The rigidity of the present system of social services and the discontinuities in the various forms of social welfare facilities available only consolidate people in the area of poverty and in the marginal area near that threshold. [More…]
For anyone with a sense of moral commitment for the welfare of one’s fellow beings in the community who are in an area of want, we have what should be an intolerable situation. [More…]
It is just as well for the physical and mental welfare of the Minister that I proceed beyond these notes. [More…]
This leaves only $3.09 a week for food, clothing and travel, including travel to the nursing home, because obviously one spouse, who is not committed to an institution, will want to visit his or her mate to see how that mate is proceeding and how that mate’s welfare stands. [More…]
Only 1 child in 13 in Australia is able to attend a child welfare centre which is up to government standards. [More…]
Indeed, the Opposition would have given wholehearted support to the Government if it had broadened out the debate by proposing to restructure completely the pattern of social welfare provided under the Social Services Act. [More…]
She is in the situation where she is not only devoid of financial support from her husband but is having to contribute financially to his welfare. [More…]
But it could be the most significant legislation under the social welfare heading which the Parliament is to deal with in 1970. [More…]
The Speech was silent on very important matters affecting the welfare of aged people in our community and, indeed, invalids as well. [More…]
Here in this legislation is the time honoured connotation of the dollar complex and the inevitable and mercenary relationship of social welfare legislation to a forthcoming election. [More…]
More importantly, the Government should recast Australia’s social welfare provisions to lay a basis for the remaining years of the 20th century. [More…]
Italy now leads us by roughly 30% in the field of social welfare. [More…]
The United States, with due respect to it, was one of the few countries, until the Kennedys came to light which never thought much of social welfare, heads Australia by 12% at 66.6%. [More…]
That is a damning indictment of the Government’s policy - the slip in social welfare in this country after 20 years of administration by it is shown by the fact that we have dropped behind countries that never thought of having a social welfare scheme in days gone by. [More…]
That is why today I condemn to some extent the Minister for his failure to see that we lead other countries, as we did when Labor was in office, in the field of social welfare and that the needy and the deserving get the assistance to which they are entitled. [More…]
At the same time I think we have an obligation to pensioners from one end of this country to the other to get up and condemn the Government that spends unlimited funds on everything one can think of except social welfare. [More…]
We are going to continue that straight path into the future, bearing in mind our responsibility for the welfare of the Australian people as a whole. [More…]
In my view the function of the Commonwealth should be to formulate national policy and what might be termed ‘social and economic priorities’ such as how education will be used as an instrument of social and economic welfare. [More…]
He is an appointed spokesman for the Australian Labor Party on health matters but I would like to draw his attention as a fell’ow Queenslander and somebody who I would like to believe is interested in the welfare of the people of my State to a statement made by his leader during the last election campaign. [More…]
You will be aware that in my policy speech I said that the government would continue to make general improvements in the Social Welfare field as and when we can responsibly do so, without causing inflation or increasing the tax burden. [More…]
Under present arrangements child welfare,, broadly speaking, is a function pf the States rather than of the Commonwealth. [More…]
It takes the Commonwealth into a new area of welfare work but its purpose is to enable churches and voluntary organisations to improve and expand a service which they have been providing for many years. [More…]
As I understand it, it was not so long ago that the Minister for Social Services - [ would pray that he would correct me if I am wrong - endeavoured to prevail upon Cabinet and the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) to increase social welfare benefits. [More…]
But the Government that sits in this place, and which is supposed to look after the aged and the welfare of the community, had to wait almost 20 years before it recognised that these organisations were doing a very good job. [More…]
It does seem though, as honourable members from this side have pointed out, that the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth), with all his great talk about social justice and what he would do for the people of Australia, has proved that he is a bits and pieces and patch up man in respect of social welfare. [More…]
The Minister is very critical of members of the Opposition when we talk of social welfare. [More…]
This real social welfare scheme was pioneered by people from this side of the Parliament. [More…]
The fact of the matter is, as the honourable member for Scullin (Dr Jenkins) said, that this Government has never made a survey of what is required in the field of social welfare in respect of Meals on Wheels. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that the Minister will not admit that, instead of accepting his responsibility under the Constitution for the welfare of the aged, he is passing the buck onto voluntary institutions from one end of this country to the other. [More…]
He is always boasting about what has been done by this Government in the field of social welfare. [More…]
Another factor which should be considered in relation to this Bill is this: Why does not the Government subsidise meals which are served in the welfare centres conducted by various councils throughout the Commonwealth? [More…]
When all is said and done, these meals are being served to the aged in welfare centres. [More…]
Commendable as it is to subsidise even in the minimum way that the Government has done in respect of those people who will be served meals in their own homes, these organisations that conduct these services to which people come, such as welfare centres, also should be entitled to the benefits of the legislation. [More…]
If this is the best contribution that the present Minister for Social Services can make to the welfare of aged people it is a long, long way to that haven of security that they have all longed for. [More…]
I hope that members on the Government side will be as extravagant with money for social welfare purposes as they are in other fields. [More…]
One might have come, to expect from this Government by now that when it brings down social welfare legislation of this kind it would present to the Parliament some kind of social survey of the community indicating the basis - of need, where it is located and what kind of methods are going to be used to meet the need. [More…]
One would have imagined that in a piece of welfare legislation of this kind we would have been setting out in some way to remedy the deficiencies, or the most obvious deficiencies, that exist. [More…]
Welfare workers attached to Meals on Wheels services in my own area have indicated to me that they would be strongly in support of the provision of meals at such centres. [More…]
People who are involved in this business of providing Meals on Wheels, particularly welfare officers who are employed by such services, feel that a lot more should be done to advertise the existence of Meals on Wheels services, not only to attract good civic minded people to come and help in the provision of such meals but also to bring this service to the notice of a great many more people. [More…]
The point was made to me also by these liaison officers and welfare officers that provision ought to be made for a good deal more communication and discussion between welfare officers and the like from different areas. [More…]
It was called the Old Peoples Welfare Council. [More…]
The welfare officers do not feel that this is sufficient. [More…]
As the extent of this service apparently will build up, they believe that there ought to be more opportunity for discussion and liaison between welfare officers so that they might get ideas about how each of them runs his or her service, how the services are financed and how volunteers are attracted to carry out the work. [More…]
Just recently the honourable members for Capricornia (Dr Everingham), Bendigo (Mr Kennedy) and myself, on behalf of the Australian Labor Party’s welfare committee, went to Newcastle to have a look at the scheme operating there. [More…]
I indicated before that the Government had gone off half-cocked on many of these welfare schemes. [More…]
The Commonwealth offered a 50% subsidy for services that cared for people in their own homes, a subsidy towards the building and extension of senior citizens centres, provision of welfare officers to be employed at such centres, the provision of para-medical services for old people, such as chiropody services, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and speech therapy. [More…]
We have to try to assess how far the basic services of Meals on Wheels, pensions, housing, health and welfare services are specifically designed and effectively directed towards meeting the needs of old people. [More…]
What is the priority of these welfare steps? [More…]
How many of our welfare services are adequate and, indeed, how many are grossly inadequate? [More…]
Canada had a Senate select committee looking into the problems of welfare services for the aged. [More…]
The local council, with an enlightened outlook on social welfare, was already providing home help services and many other welfare services. [More…]
However the finance for welfare services was already overstrained and the council had to look for a local charitable organisation to raise the money that was needed to meet the capital cost of the scheme. [More…]
In supporting the legislation that is now before the House, 1 would like to congratulate the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) for introducing another social welfare measure. [More…]
The Minister has emphasised that social welfare is not merely the handing of services to people. [More…]
We must do this with the knowledge that our own welfare and security are inextricably bound up with the welfare and security of others. [More…]
Without a comprehensive survey of the social welfare needs of our nation we do not know, to the extent that we should know, just what other services such an organisation should be giving to the elderly people of our nation. [More…]
It was my privilege to meet Miss Taylor when we were both appointed as the first members of the Social Welfare Advisory Council in South Australia which was set up under the Labor Government’s new Social Welfare Act in 1965. [More…]
It is interesting to note that it was with Miss Doris Taylor on the Social Welfare Advisory Council in South Australia that I first came across the great need for a social welfare survey. [More…]
We find, if I might use the term, the Gorton problem that whenever some welfare programme is brought forward it comes unstuck because the States will not ratify the legislation because they do not acquire the finance to do so. [More…]
Yes.I understand the undertakings were made following representations to the U.S. airlines by officials of the Departments of Transportation and Health, Education and Welfare. [More…]
Under the Child Welfare Ordinance 1961-1968 of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea an allowance not exceeding Seven dollars per week may be granted by tha Director of Child Welfare where one or both of the parents of a child under the age of sixteen years is imprisoned. [More…]
Welfare officers regularly visit all major corrective institutions in the Territory and detainees are encouraged to discuss with them domestic matters including fears they may have for the well-being of their families. [More…]
Industrial safety in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea is provided for by the Industrial Safety, Health and Welfare Ordinance 1961, and orders made under the Ordinance; the Industrial Safety, Health and Welfare Regulations 1965; and sections of other Ordinances, such as the Papua and New Guinea Electricity Commission Ordinance 1961-69. [More…]
What worries me is that, as with so many other aspects of social welfare policy brought into this Parliament, no comprehensive report has been produced to the Parliament indicating the basis upon which the Government has made its decision to embark on particular legislation. [More…]
I am not talking of the general public relations booklet which the Department has produced but the sort of report that is produced as a command paper by the Welfare Department in Great Britain. [More…]
The grandiloquence of the Minister on this aspect of social welfare scarcely seems justified. [More…]
The report did not stand up technically nor did it cater for the welfare of South Australians. [More…]
The second basic reason was the obvious difference in approach, attitude and capabilities - and here I am making a contrast between Liberal Premiers, Sir Thomas Playford and Steele Hall in keeping the welfare of their State constantly to the forefront. [More…]
The people of South Australia were interested in the issues concerning their welfare and prosperity. [More…]
On looking at the map of New South Wales it can be seen that the Menindee Lakes are the only major water storage in the western part of New South Wales and to hand over control of this water to the River Murray Commission, as stated in the terms of this Bill, is a serious disregard for the welfare of the citizens of this area. [More…]
I was urged to be brief but I want to close by making a considered statement and I do so as one whose only interest in this exercise is the welfare of his State. [More…]
It is most frustrating, indeed quite horrifying, to a new member to come here full of the wonderful spirit of being able to make some contribution to this national Parliament and to the welfare of the people but to see the appalling tactics adopted time and time again by the Government to prevent members from making some contribution, however small it may be. [More…]
At the same time the new health benefits plan will retain the basic principles which the Government believes are essential in any national welfare measure. [More…]
Also one would never contest the case that there was a special obligation on members of Parliament, whatever their Party, and on any other members of those parties to protest in a way which is most likely to conduce to the welfare of the country. [More…]
The welfare of the patient is the primary objective that the Government always has in mind. [More…]
Housing is vital to the welfare and happiness of individuals and thus to our future development as a nation. [More…]
Housing is vital to the welfare and happiness of individuals and thus to our future development as a nation. [More…]
Housing is vital to the welfare and happiness of individuals and thus to our future development as a nation. [More…]
lt is democratic that Parliament should sit for the welfare, concern and care of the majority of our people. [More…]
Undesirable is defined as any publication that ‘brings any section of the inhabitants of the Republic into ridicule or contempt; is harmful to the relations between any sections of the Republic; is prejudicial to the safety of the State, the general welfare or the peace and good order’. [More…]
What is the estimated cost of these proposals as a percentage of total current expenditure (a) from the National Welfare Fund and (b) by the Commonwealth Government from consolidated revenue. [More…]
Under the State Grants (Home Care) Act it would be acceptable for a local governing authority to employ a social worker or welfare officer in connection with approved welfare services for aged people within its area and to seek the Commonwealth grant of half the amount of the person’s salary. [More…]
It is not necessary for a welfare officer to be appointed to each Club, in order to qualify for subsidy. [More…]
We should have such a provision for 2 reasons: In the first place, tax avoidance would result in a loss of dutv to the revenue, which is important enough in itself; but secondly, and of interest to everyone interested in the welfare of those in rural areas, as we all ought to be, it would create a more artificial demand for rural land. [More…]
The most recent available document which surveys the types of social security schemes operating overseas is the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare’s publication ‘Social Security Programmes Throughout the World 1967’, which gives the principal features of schemes inthe following countries: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Ceylon, Chad, Chile, China (Nationalist), China (Communist), Colombia, Congo (Brazzaville), Congo (Kinshasa), Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Dahomey, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Germany (Federal Republic), Germany (East), Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Korea (South), Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Luxembourg, Malagasy Republic, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Arab Republic, United Kingdom, United States of America, Upper Volta, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam (South), Vietnam (North), Yugoslavia, Zambia. [More…]
The complexity and diversity of the schemes operating in the countries surveyed by the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare are such that it is not possible to provide a concise and accurate summary, and hence the publication mentioned above is recommended to the honourable member. [More…]
I repeat that that was a most important contribution to Australia’s welfare. [More…]
In America the former Secretary of Housing, Education and Welfare and now head of the Urban Coalition, John W. Gardner, has bluntly stated that the present system of medical care delivery is outworn, expensive and outrageously inefficient. [More…]
The third principle is that the national expenditure on health must rema n in balance with our expenditure in other areas such as education, national development and social welfare. [More…]
The general practitioner has a tremendously important part to play not only in relation to the physical welfare but also the psychological welfare of the patients. [More…]
I accept that as I assume we all do as social justice which has motivated not only modern social welfare states but many other earlier and even ancient societies. [More…]
I know that the general practitioner groups who have criticised the scheme and have offered alternatives have done so honourably and with the welfare of the public and the type of medical service available to the public as their prime motivation. [More…]
The Statistician has advised that he is examining the practicability of obtaining separate classifications of ‘certified nurses’, ‘probationers or trainees’ and ‘nursing personnel not elsewhere classified’, for purposes of both the next Census and the annual returns from health and welfare institutions. [More…]
Whilst I believe that the medical profession is entitled to consideration in the formation of a new health scheme, it seems to me that it is one thing to afford consideration but that it is another thing to go overboard and to bc led by the nose to such an extent that the welfare of the community of this country has to take second place. [More…]
Perhaps a more equitable approach is to finance health services from taxation just as we finance education, social welfare and most other public services in this country. [More…]
It is concerned not simply with financing a health scheme but with ensuring that there is quality in medical care and regard for the patient’s welfare. [More…]
I do so with a great deal of concern for the welfare of the community. [More…]
That RANF take all necessary steps to close hospital beds to all non-urgent cases when properly trained nursing staff are not available for the adequate welfare of the patient. [More…]
So far 1 have been speaking about the patient with whose welfare the Government states it is primarily concerned as a taxpayer, but the patient is also a contributor to insurance and as such he must pay an additional $24m. [More…]
The mother and the family look to the general practitioner and expect him to look after the welfare of the family. [More…]
If in the welfare state this is a process of robbing Peter to pay Paul, then it is the Peters to whom I am referring, and it is the Pauls on behalf of whom my friend, the honourable member for Barton, is complaining. [More…]
After listening to the honourable member for North Sydney (Mr Graham) I could not but think that if he represents the advanced thinking of members of the Government side on health and welfare schemes it is no wonder that the national health scheme is in a hell of a mess. [More…]
I was a member of the social welfare committee of this Parliament which gave to every citizen of this country from one end of the nation to the other free hospitalisation without any means test. [More…]
The greatest difficulty that the industry could face would be if it were under a government the great majority of whose members lived in the metropolitan areas and had no sympathy for or interest in the welfare of wool growers. [More…]
The average working class man who arrives in Australia with his family is struck by the inordinate costs of social welfare in Australia both in the field of education and in the field of health, lt would pay honourable members to make a study of the advantages and disadvantages of the British medical service. [More…]
Surely, the Parliament has justification for hoping that these wielders of the scalpel would also have incisive minds, that they would be men able to cut quickly to the core of concern in this debate, namely, the welfare of the people of Australia, the welfare of the patients. [More…]
We would probably soon reach the position that is applying in Canada, where the Minister for National Health and Welfare has announced that reductions of 25% in votes for both emergency health services and emergency welfare services will be effected in 1970-71. [More…]
I am concerned about the welfare of this constituent of mine. [More…]
I have risen in this debate, which is a debate on supply, to express my concern at the diversion of funds in this country from purposes which are essential to the welfare of the people to causes associated with the Vietnam war. [More…]
In these teams would be people whose principal job was to evaluate development proposals and compare alternatives and give the Government the facts about the alternatives so that the Government could make up its mind which was the best proposition in which to invest funds on behalf of the people of Australia and in the best interests of Australia, taking into account of course the welfare of Australia and the commercial principles involved. [More…]
As Ministers of his Government, especially the Minister for External Affairs, have been enunciating passionate concern for the welfare and rights of people in other countries, will he extend this with some consistency by now publicly condemning and denouncing the treatment of these political prisoners in Greece? [More…]
I agree with the honourable member for Banks (Mr Martin) that public servants have kept pace with the rise in national productivity, but the benefits of increased productivity can be and are distributed in many other ways - in higher wages, the avoidance of price increases that might otherwise occur, and increased expenditure on community services such as education and social welfare. [More…]
The Opposition’s Health and Welfare Committee considered ways in which we could most expeditiously handle the proposed amendments but the time allotted is altogether too short. [More…]
for instance, a cardiac problem, and some apprehension exists about his welfare, he would go into hospital for that sort of treatment. [More…]
The first thing he referred to was a 25% cut in the votes for emergency health and emergency welfare services which were effective during this financial year. [More…]
I am certain that all members of the Parliament sympathise with and support the point of view expressed by the honourable member for Herbert (Mr Bonnett) about the need to look after and protect the welfare of our aged people. [More…]
I have gained the impression from complaints that I have received from people living right under the flight path that if instructions have been given to pilots to safeguard the welfare of people by flying around residential areas the pilots have ignored the instructions or not carried them out. [More…]
Have honourable members opposite ever stopped to think of the needs of most people in our community, to consider what could have been provided for them with the money which has been wasted on the Fill aircraft, how many schools could have been built, how many pre-schools might have been constructed or what burden could have been lifted from the pensioners, to refer to one narrow field of welfare? [More…]
If he were to appreciate that in the view, of the Opposition in this Parliament there is no substantial threat to the welfare, survival and development of Australia it might be easier for him to understand Labor’s position. [More…]
It says that it is concerned with economic stability, economic welfare, proper uses of resources and, of course, the welfare of the whole country in terms of defence. [More…]
Recently in this House I have raised by way of questions and in debate the very extreme plight that age and invalid pensioners find themselves in as a result of the callous attitude displayed by the Liberal-Country Party Government towards those members of the community who are reliant upon social welfare handouts. [More…]
Added to the number receiving social welfare payments are those in the community who are in receipt of some form of fixed income. [More…]
The Labor Party said that abolition of the means test and national superannuation are inseparable aspects of a truly modern welfare system. [More…]
It also said that the whole question of welfare and pensions must be taken out of the electioneering atmosphere engendered by the Liberal Party’s cynical $1 rise on election eve. [More…]
We said that Labor would enact legislation ulong the lines of the Canadian Assistance Act, to develop along with the States, local government bodies and voluntary agencies a new, regionally based pattern of social welfare arrangements. [More…]
I conclude by stating that the Government is discriminating against most of the people by ignoring their needs, their welfare, their protection, their health and their security and imposing at the same time a taxation burden from which the country gets scant and reluctant government benefit. [More…]
Australia’s minerals, its industries and laws and its social welfare are involved in the relationships between the Commonwealth and State governments. [More…]
Sir, it is quite clear from the remarks of all of them that they arc concerned with preserving the special position which the lending institutions now enjoy in this country and with preserving the special position enjoyed by the interests which show little regard for Australia’s welfare. [More…]
If this is the Government’s view - a government that proclaims an interest for people and their welfare - then its policy and approach to the problems of the people that I have talked about this morning are bankrupt. [More…]
Honourable members in this Parliament have been entrusted to look after the welfare of the people of this nation. [More…]
The team manager thought that it was a shocking thing to happen in a civilised country but was forced to warn Dr Darveniza for the welfare of the team as a whole. [More…]
If anything, one thing above all that can be said of the Labor Party, Sir Thomas Playford and the Independent Speaker in South Australia is that they have been consistent in trying to safeguard the welfare of South Australia by insisting on the Chowilla dam. [More…]
But railways are built for the welfare, progress and development of a State and its people. [More…]
At the next Senate election, and at the House of Representatives elections, I shall propose joint standing committees - for example, on Aboriginals, science and technology, health, education and welfare and technical change as my Party’s platform ordains, and, as I have often advocated, on such matters as law reform, Commonwealth-State agreements and New Guinea. [More…]
In March he suggested committees on external affairs and defence; transport and communications; trade, industry and labour; legal, constitutional and home affairs; health, welfare, education and science; and national finance and development. [More…]
The work of this Committee pointed the way for advances in social welfare policy. [More…]
Adverting to the point with which I commenced and which I want to develop, this again is social welfare by instalments. [More…]
The needs and priorities of the community have not been established and indeed are being ignored because of this piecemeal way in which the Government approaches social welfare. [More…]
This arises because the philosophy upon which the Government largely bases its action in social welfare seems to be vote purchasing power which is cynically calculated. [More…]
This sort of cynical standard ought to be rejected, and we ought to have identified and clearly established the social welfare priorities and needs of the community. [More…]
Where are the white papers on social welfare generally? [More…]
They are extremely valuable because they create an informed mind and help to develop a suitable climate for more positive reception of proposed changes in social welfare thinking. [More…]
In any event, I did quite a bit of reading in the public library in Brisbane, and one of the most influential documents I read was a report on this subject by the British Ministry of Social Welfare. [More…]
Given the secrecy which shrouds so much of what is done by Government departments which are noi associated with strategic factors, such as defence - health cannot be put into this category, nor can social welfare - and given the fact that when the Government does make an inquiry it keeps its information confidential, it is awfully difficult for ordinary members of Parliament - back benchers on the Government side, and front and back benchers on this side - to delve out the sort of information they need if they are to make valid conclusions on important matters of legislation in this House. [More…]
This just is not good enough and ii is nol the way in which we ought to be proceeding in our deliberations on important social welfare policy. [More…]
I cannot expect that he alone will change the situation in relation to resources for private members, but he can do something about seeing that reports are produced regularly on aspects of social welfare policy or on social welfare needs in the community. [More…]
It is sometimes said of social welfare that it is not a question of policy but of politics. [More…]
That is the view of two overseas experts - not people with a political axe to grind if that is the way in which my approach might be interpreted, but people who, out of human compassion and because of their professional training, are concerned about the welfare of the mentally retarded. [More…]
Referring to education, I now want to quote from the 15th Annual Report of the Queensland Subnormal Children’s Welfare Association. [More…]
Is that the measure of the human compassion which motivates the social welfare policy of the Government? [More…]
This gives concern to those responsible for their welfare. [More…]
What is its disjointed and uneven approach to welfare programmes for handicapped children achieving? [More…]
In Queensland it is notorious that when the Federal Government provided age pensions for those people in mental institutions the State Government immediately moved in and charged those people rent and board for occupation of the premises and it did not divert the money released in this way into increased benefits, welfare services or activities in the mental, institutions. [More…]
Hitherto, child welfare has always been regarded as the responsibility of the States and the voluntary organisations, although the Commonwealth has been paying $1.50 per day as a subsidy towards the accommodation of certain handicapped children who are living away from home. [More…]
There are 11 such regional advisory committees in New South Wales consisting of representatives of education and public health bodies and child and social welfare officers, to help guide and advise the New South Wales Government and local workers for the cause. [More…]
School facilities will be acceptable only if the schools receive certification under the Public Instruction Act, while residential facilities for children or pre-school kindergarten facilities require to be licensed under the Child Welfare Act of New South Wales. [More…]
assistance from government and voluntary welfare agencies - nevertheless the spastic organisations throughout Australia, in the main, do not have enough income to adequately carry out their total responsibilities to the cerebral palsied, and this inadequacy lies mainly in the medical treatment/ medical training/nursing field- [More…]
In my own State there is the Subnormal Children’s Welfare Organisation and the Wheelchair and Disabled Association of Australia. [More…]
I pay a tribute to the Minister for Child Welfare and the Minister for Social Welfare, Mr Hewitt, who is a personal friend of mine. [More…]
With the knowledge also that all Slates are screaming for more revenue from the Commonwealth Government to meet their commitments, local councils, voluntary organisations, parents organisations and the parents and families of these unfortunate people whose welfare we are. [More…]
They did not start because some grand idea was formulated within the Commonwealth Department of Social Services or a State Department of Social Welfare. [More…]
The thing that bothers me most is that nobody in Australia is settling down to look at the whole field of handicapped children, let alone the whole field of general welfare, and asking: ‘What are rights of the people that we should be looking after? [More…]
The Commonwealth has made a survey of Australia’s needs in education and it should be able to do this in the field of social welfare and assistance to handicapped children. [More…]
That child’s parents probably need a social welfare worker. [More…]
There should also be social welfare workers available to be able to go around and visit families so as to assist the parents in educating handicapped children if the parents are undertaking this task. [More…]
Acting on a brochure we received from the Sub-Normal Children’s Welfare Association, we inspected The Chalet, and were immediately taken with the ‘family’ type atmosphere, and the progressive outlook of the director . [More…]
It seems to me that we have reached the situation where the Government rarely accepts full responsibility with regard to any field of social welfare. [More…]
Over the years governments have relaxed this policy slightly by giving such groups a ‘modest subsidy, but without ever being prepared to accept responsibility for the organising, financing and running of the whole range of welfare services. [More…]
In England rand other countries the government’s social welfare policies are constantly under review. [More…]
In the past 25 years there has been only one major review of any social welfare policy. [More…]
this and because child welfare is something which requires more individual application than the granting of the adult invalid pension it is reasonable to consider that this is primarily a State function. [More…]
and (2) It is generally accepted by pensioners and all concerned with their welfare that a surviving spouse needs more than half the pension income available to a married pensioner couple to maintain an equal living standard. [More…]
Collectively it is a very significant contributor to the welfare of the nation, lt is of great importance in earning export income. [More…]
The welding together of a practical approach involving considerations of scientific advances which, these days, can make possible efficiency if there is an economic basis, together with considerations of community welfare give us the spectacle of an industry that concerns people; and people are the concern of this Parliament. [More…]
Both economically and in welfare terms then I think transferable quotas would be beneficial. [More…]
In all our actions, therefore, the overall objective must be the healthy continuation of an industry capable of competing on world markets; an industry which has contributed, and will continue to contribute, provided sound and realistic policies are pursued, to the nation’s economic welfare. [More…]
I want also to congratulate the Government and the Minister for Primary Industry on showing the same courage in taking what were no doubt in some quarters - and this has been proved - unpopular decisions, but they were the right decisions for the welfare of the Australian wheat grower and the Australian community. [More…]
I recognise that the welfare and future of the staff of the Authority are matters of the utmost importance, and that proper provision for any who might be displaced in whatever permanent arrangements are ultimately developed for the industry should be determined well in advance of any such displacement. [More…]
Has the Minister considered widening the scope of national service to include matters of civil defence such as natural disaster relief and a coastguard service which would at once constitute a constructive contribution to the national welfare and obviate the protests of those who oppose national service as a means by which they can be involved in a particular war? [More…]
It is a move made by the group themselves who arc deeply concerned about and for the welfare of the Tolai people as a whole. [More…]
The group was formed entirely on the initiative of the Tolais who composed it and, as they have said themselves, its only concern is the unity and welfare of the Tolai people. [More…]
There are few aspects of our environment, our culture or our welfare which can be adequately tackled without involving local government. [More…]
In particular, modern societies require that a great deal of work hi the social welfare field be carried out by local authorities. [More…]
The intriguing feature about this is that the Leader of the most centralist Party in its own power distribution in the Anglo-Saxon world - except the Communist Party - would find the occasion appropriate to raise for discussion as a matter of public importance a subject concerning the fate, the existence and the welfare of] local government and semigovernment authorities. [More…]
The Party has done no work on this matter until today when, for reasons which have nothing to do with the welfare of the people, it has been able to dredge up this matter for discussion. [More…]
He worked most vigorously with the Defence Forces Retirement Welfare Association on all matters and became its consultant on amendments and suggestions to the Government on how the Act should best be altered for the welfare of the Services. [More…]
I have here a circular from the Regular Defence Forces Welfare Association. [More…]
The serviceman lays his life, his future, his health and welfare on the line. [More…]
The honourable member for Mitchell has had a long and enduring interest in the welfare of ex-servicemen. [More…]
Does he realise that vast population increase, once considered highly desirable, is now being questioned due to the pressures it places on education, health and social welfare services, housing and land prices and the consequent diminution in the quality of life that over-crowded cities have on our environment? [More…]
This clause of the Bill is merely further evidence of the Government’s determination to put the riches of our country at the mercy of foreign enterprise and comes as no surprise from the Liberal Party which sees any national effort, be it the Snowy Mountains Authority or the Australian Industry Development Corporation, as a threat to its friends who could not care less about the welfare of the Australian people. [More…]
In other words, whilst the provision of glasses does not happen to be a traditional medical service in the way in which one might view a surgical procedure, the need for glasses often can be more vital for the welfare of the patient than many other medical services. [More…]
That export income is vital to Australia’s growth, particularly as it allows for the imports of capital and consumer goods which are essential to the economic welfare of the labour intensive manufacturing sections which are highly protected by tariffs. [More…]
The State insists that by thus guaranteeing the general public against books not too rugged for grown men and women in order to shield juvenile innocence, it is exercising its power to promote the general welfare. [More…]
As you are doubtless aware, I am vitally interested in any matter relating to the farming community and look very sympathetically on any proposal made to me for its welfare. [More…]
Evidently there was no doubt in the Board’s mind that it was contributing to the welfare of the nation by development and things of that nature. [More…]
Our first obligation is to our own people, and tariff protection affords us the opportunity to protect their welfare. [More…]
Is he aware of the rising resentment amongst the staff of Parliament House at all levels at the callous disregard of their personal welfare shown by his handling of the hours of meeting? [More…]
The Committee believes that the solution is a matter of comprehensive urban planning to ensure continued benefit from a thriving air transport industry whilst still having due regard to the well being and welfare of the community which it serves. [More…]
An urgency motion was moved in this House and in the Senate by honourable members and senators concerned with the welfare of the people of Tasmania. [More…]
In most cases this category of centre is required lo register wilh State welfare authorities, who exercise some measure of supervision over the physical but not necessarily the educational standards of these centres. [More…]
He was also an ever-ready advocate for the welfare of servicemen. [More…]
Those of us who sat with him in the Parliament and in Cabinets are well aware of his tremendously wide interest in what he conceived to be the basic welfare and security of the country. [More…]
Sir Wilfrid Kent Hughes was always helpful in his attitude to those sections of our legislation that were designed to promote the welfare of people who had helped Australia but who were in need. [More…]
By these proposals the Government seeks: - to provide for a large increase in essential expenditures, especially on payments to the States, welfare, development and assistance to industry, including emergency relief for woolgrowers hard hit by drought and low prices; - to make reductions in personal income taxation, especially on lower and middle income earners, estimated to have a value to the taxpayers concerned of $289m in a full financial year and $228m in 1970-71; we thereby make good - indeed more than make good - our undertaking to give substantial income tax relief to this large body of people; - notwithstanding these large commitments, to produce a responsible budget, a balanced budget, a budget shaped to the requirements of an economy that is dynamic and fast-growing - but an economy still threatened by disruptive inflation. [More…]
These concession rates represent, in effect, a substantial subsidy to the publishing and printing industry and to many organisations, ranging from religious, charitable and welfare organisations to social and recreational clubs. [More…]
Registered newspapers and periodicals published by religious, charitable and welfare organisations, consisting in substantial part of news, information and articles about their activities or about religious, charitable or welfare subjects; and by educational, scientific, technical and agricultural organisations whose principal object is the dissemination of knowledge, consisting in substantial part of news, information and articles on such subjects, will pay 6c for each 12 oz, on the total weight of the consignment, subject to a minimum per article charge of lc. [More…]
It may be of interest to the honourable member that social workers of the Repatriation Department have been attending inter-agency discussions arranged by the Hanover Centre with a view to finding an alternative to Gordon House, a community problem of which welfare agencies in general are well aware. [More…]
My officers also interviewed Mr Vrettos, who said that there seemed to be far more worry back home about his welfare and whereabouts than he had himself. [More…]
Will he indicate, by reversing this decision, that the welfare of all the people of Tasmania is far more important than the profitable trading of the ANL? [More…]
My Department and the Office of Aboriginal Affairs have made special efforts to assist the States in determining the most effective ways to improve the health of this section of our community and recently in an effort to determine the major factors responsible for the production of subnormal health, particularly in Aboriginal children, and ways to correct them, convened a meeting or Workshop’ at which representatives from the States and Territories and experts in fields of anthropology, nutrition, paediatrics, nursing, welfare, administration, public health and medical research were present in Sydney in December 1969. [More…]
the need for a comprehensive health and welfare service for the ACT. [More…]
Native Welfare Act 1963 (section 17) [More…]
The honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) who was very vocal in opposition to this item has a motion before the House seeking standing committees on foreign affairs and defence, finance and trade, health and welfare, primary industry and national development, transport and communications, education, science and the arts, legal, home and internal territory affairs. [More…]
I do not mind being a sort of social welfare worker. [More…]
He is accepted as a man who strove mightily for the welfare of all Australians as he viewed that welfare. [More…]
Shops (to provide day-to-day needs); play areas, infant health and pre-school child welfare centres; meeting hall; and schools. [More…]
The Standing Committee on Health and Welfare; [More…]
So the following divisions are suggested: A standing committee on foreign affairs and defence, a standing committee on finance and trade, a standing committee on health and welfare, a standing committee on primary industry and national development, a standing committee on transport and communications, a standing committee on education, science and the arts, and a standing committee on legal, home and internal territory affairs. [More…]
I will certainly give instruction to ensure that Our ambassador keeps watching the welfare of this gentleman and does all he can to ensure that he is properly treated. [More…]
It helps Liberals obscure the truth that government expenditure is, or should be and could be, the community’s own investment in its own prosperity and its own welfare. [More…]
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I refer to social welfare. [More…]
This Budget highlights the impossibility, not to say the immorality, of clinging to the present system of sole reliance on cash payments to meet the requirements of welfare in a modern society - a society which claims to be enlightened and progressive. [More…]
Under this system those who depend on social welfare payments - the aged, the widows, the sick, the handicapped, the veterans - are not only the victims of Liberal economic policies; they become an instrument in that policy. [More…]
In his first year of office we had from the Prime Minister what was to be a welfare Budget. [More…]
I suggest that the very way in which the taxation concessions have been administered in this Budget illustrates that the welfare principle has been honoured by this Government. [More…]
The very fact that a rate of taxation concession applies at a higher level for incomes up to $10,000, at a decreasing level to $20,000 and cuts out at a higher level of income, indicates a welfare principle. [More…]
There are those who say that having granted these taxation concessions not sufficient was given in other terms - in terms of social welfare benefits. [More…]
So one makes no apologies for the taxation concessions because it follows welfare principles, especially on the levels up to $10,000 a year, and then it follows good economic principles of providing incentives on incomes above that level of income a year. [More…]
The tax concessions followed some well worn and well recognised social welfare principles and I hope that they will be recognised for what they are. [More…]
Who likes any lack of social welfare? [More…]
In this year indirect taxation has risen slightly so that some increases in social welfare and some increases in terms of works could be given. [More…]
For instance, never have recipients of social services been treated with such contempt and such callous disregard for their welfare as they have in this Budget. [More…]
But on this occasion in particular the Government has shown complete disregard and complete contempt for their welfare. [More…]
Their commitments include the education of their children, looking after the health and welfare of their families, paying off their homes and providing their families with what most Australians would consider to be the standard of living to which they are entitled. [More…]
Not only has the honourable member forgotten this, but obviously he has not made a close study of the policy speeches of leaders of the Australian Labor Party who have from time to time during election campaigns - in 1953, 1954 and 1955 in particular - made enormous gestures towards a welfare state in Australia. [More…]
These are matters vital to the welfare of Australia and matters which over the next 12 months the Government must consider carefully. [More…]
In his critical speech yesterday I would have expected the Leader of the Opposition to concede that in this Budget there was an enormous diversion of resources to the States and to assert that these were insufficient, which is the usual Opposition line of attack, or that too much money was being diverted to the States and that from the vast sums going to the States funds should be diverted for social services and welfare payments. [More…]
They have been contributing to the National Welfare Fund in the form of taxation and they have been getting shrunken benefits in return. [More…]
The advice tendered to me by these senior officers, who have had considerable experience in the handling of social welfare cases, is that at this stage the facts do not justify the repatriation of that family at Commonwealth expense. [More…]
000m per year in hidden costs, as the Minister said in his announcement, because they cannot be readily dissected from total community spending on facilities such as education, social welfare, provision of water, sewerage, roads, hospitals, etc. [More…]
One need hardly add the present deficiencies that exist in the field of education, social welfare and health, coupled with the spiralling cost of land and housing - and we have just had an example of how little is being done for people such as pensioners - to know that a continually increasing population has created a gap for many millions of Australians between the myth of the affluent society and the reality of the deficiencies they are facing in almost: every facet of their day to day existence. [More…]
Inflation menaces the welfare of every Australian citizen. [More…]
In concluding my remarks on the rural section I point out that the essential difference between the Government’s policy and the Opposition’s policy is that the Government endeavours to implement the policy of the primary producers expressed through their elected representatives, while the Opposition in a blatant vote catching exercise supports generally the dissentient minority without regard to the welfare of the industry and those engaged in it. [More…]
The whole field of social welfare is a monumental failure. [More…]
The whole sorry document reveals their anaemic approach to social services and social welfare. [More…]
Indeed, the very words ‘social welfare’ are anathema to most members of the coalition. [More…]
It is a reasonable assumption that he ought to be interested in farmers, their welfare and their future, although primary producers in my own State of Tasmania have formed other opinions. [More…]
The welfare of primary industry has for too long been ignored by this Government and primary producers are to stage a protest march in Canberra. [More…]
The business of this Parliament and the members of this Parliament is the welfare of the Australian people. [More…]
To increase our understanding of the problems facing these people, a new section was recently created within my Department to carry out research into the effects of social, cultural and environmental factors on employment and employee welfare. [More…]
This has been necessitated, no doubt - we have to face it - by the need to find additional funds to pay increased amounts to the States as general revenue and the need for further large sums to meet the bill for education, health services and national welfare generally. [More…]
lt is purely and solely a matter which concerns only the department responsible for education in each State and only the government of each Stale, or is it something which concerns the interests and the welfare of the whole of the Australian people? [More…]
It also condemns the Government for its lack of interest and apathy towards social welfare. [More…]
On the basis of past actions by the Liberal Government we could predict just how miserly and meagre the Government would be in its social welfare policy. [More…]
It is natural that I should take this interest in the welfare of aged people. [More…]
My own view is that council government is one of the ideal areas in which an active role can be played in social welfare. [More…]
I have been looking at the Budget estimates of expenditure this year and the amount that has already been spent in accordance with legislation introduced last year to provide Commonwealth participation in a comprehensive plan of welfare for the aged and infirm. [More…]
On a comparison of the amount to be spent next year on such things as paramedical services in the home, senior citizen centres and the provi sion of welfare officers one will see that the Government has still really not gone very far beyond the old philosophy of putting aged people into institutions and keeping them there. [More…]
The interest of the Liberal Party is not primarily in the welfare of the people: it is not primarily in the aim of providing the Government assistance to which we in the Australian Labor Party believe the people are entitled. [More…]
An examination of the Budget will reveal that 36% of the proposed expenditure will go to the States; 14% has been allocated to defence purposes; 23% to expenditure on national welfare and repatriation measures; and 2% to external aid. [More…]
I move on now to social welfare. [More…]
In such countries there is a considerable obligation of offspring to take some part in the welfare of their parents. [More…]
Our national welfare expenditure is to be increased by $148m and expenditure on capital works by $78m. [More…]
At page 71 the Budget contains 48 categories of social welfare. [More…]
Here we have a budget providing for a large increase in essential expenditures, especially on payments to the States, welfare, development and assistance to rural industry, including emergency relief for wool growers who have been hard hit by drought and low prices. [More…]
Those plans are so significant that they affect the level of economic activity of the country and the social welfare of each of its citizens, and thus the lives of each one of us who lives here. [More…]
They are capable of selection, but in the areas of resource allocation and the setting of appropriate social and welfare priorities these budgetary policies have been remiss. [More…]
3 on page 13 of the Budget Speech documents, under the heading ‘Payment to National Welfare Fund’, discloses a drop of $20,143,000 in the amount expected to be spent on child endowment during the current year - from an actual expenditure of $220,143,000 in 1969- 70 to an estimated $200m in 1970- 71. [More…]
I want to make it quite plain that this meeting was a proper meeting, that it is proper for the people of the south coast - trade unionists and othersto be concerned with the welfare of their old people and to be concerned also with the consequences of industrial accidents, and that if they wish to say something about the Budget at the same time then I am perfectly happy and willing to receive their proper representations. [More…]
This is a matter in which I hope that the real things to be considered - namely, the welfare of the old people on the south coast and the welfare of people who may be the victims of industrial accidents - will not be made a political football, as would seem to have been the consequence of the published statement of Mr Nixon which he said was a misreport of what his words were. [More…]
Social welfare payments will account for $ 1,820m. [More…]
Today we see the social welfare provision amounting to almost that total. [More…]
Consideration should be given also to various other aspects of our social welfare programme. [More…]
The tapered means test, supplementary assistance, homes for the aged, sheltered workshops and Meals on Wheels have resulted in increased expenditure on social welfare. [More…]
We were told that the two previous Budgets were social welfare Budgets. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Gorton), the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) and others told us that they were social welfare Budgets. [More…]
In the field of social welfare there can be some disappointment with what is provided by the Budget. [More…]
If I take random headings from the Treasurer’s speech, I see: ‘Defence’, ‘Payments to the States’, Social Welfare’, ‘Sheltered Workshops’, Repatriation Benefits’, ‘Mental Health Institutions’, ‘External Aid’, ‘Assistance to Woolgrowers’ and ‘Aboriginal Advancement’. [More…]
In health and welfare Australia led the world nearly 50 years ago. [More…]
Firstly, these industries are vital to the welfare and interests of the Australian community, and more particularly those who live outside the metropolitan areas. [More…]
Regarding social services, I think that the House sometimes has been inclined to overlook that payments this year from our National Welfare Fund will reach the all-time level of $ 1,473m, which is an increase of SI 31m over last year or an increase of almost 10 per cent. [More…]
Except for 1969-70 this is the largest increase in the whole history of the National Welfare Fund. [More…]
Behind this increase in expenditure from the National Welfare Fund there are several factors, and I should like to list three of them. [More…]
However, I would suggest that the House might consider that one reason for this is that in this welfare field 1970-71 is the year of health services. [More…]
The item which possibly has been discussed more than any other in this debate is social welfare. [More…]
The allocation for social welfare in this Budget is SI, 820m. [More…]
The 3 items I have mentioned, payments to the States, defence and social welfare, represent about 72 per cent of total expenditure for this financial year. [More…]
This allocation represents almost a quarter of the estimated expenditure for this financial year, lt is a pretty fair figure for any nation to be allocating to social welfare. [More…]
Health benefits and other items within the social welfare field also give them security and this is what they need. [More…]
The present conditions influence not only thos: people on fixed incomes, such as recipients of social welfare payments about whom I have been speaking, but also industries which earn their returns from exports. [More…]
In the social welfare field the Government is accused of denying benefits to the aged, the sick and the handicapped, to prevent inflation. [More…]
When this and schemes such as the home care programme, the aged persons homes scheme, the sheltered employment scheme and the Commonwealth rehabilitation scheme are taken into account it is clear that the Government is most concerned about the welfare of the less fortunate members of our community and has taken effective action to improve it. [More…]
It is the instrument for carrying out the Government’s policies in the fields of social welfare, health and education, defence, the development of the nation’s resources and other essential areas. [More…]
Although the increases in social welfare payments will be welcomed, a 50c increase to pensioners will not arouse any degree of enthusiasm. [More…]
The means test as we know it would, ipso facto, disappear and a very limited welfare fund would exist for cases for dire emergency where a new and much more stringent means test would apply. [More…]
Whilst one is critical of the welfare aspect of the Budget in particular, it is more important to see the way that the Leader of the Opposition has approached the economy as a whole. [More…]
As usual, the Opposition could well be asked how it would finance its vast but indefinite expenditure on defence, social welfare, local government, education and overseas aid, without increasing taxation. [More…]
Why then, for the sake of politics, does the ALP support those who are not interested in the welfare of Australia? [More…]
Victorian Social Welfare Department as at 1st October 1969 are paid a supplementary benefit. [More…]
South Australia: A supplementary housing allowance of up to $2.00 per week (to the extent that housing costs exceed $4.00 per week) may be paid by the Department of Social Welfare to age pensioners who do not qualify for Commonwealth supplementary assistance. [More…]
The allowance is paid by the Child Welfare Department. [More…]
Tasmania: The Social Welfare Department may gram supplementary benefit to age pensioners with dependent children subject to a means test. [More…]
In addition pensioners residing in country areas may apply to the State Social Welfare Department for a free travel warrant to enable them to attend hospital. [More…]
Heating allowances may also be provided by the Social Welfare Department. [More…]
Sure, this year our welfare programme concentrates on consolidating past gains and getting the new health scheme under way. [More…]
In dealing with the tremendously important field of social welfare the Leader of the Opposition again came forward -with a most confused dissertation that I could not understand. [More…]
would like to see certain other improvements in the social service and social welfare legislation, particularly for old people, but this is my personal opinion and it is not backed, as it should be, by the information that is available to the Government. [More…]
There is also movement between Wattie Creek and the Wave Hill welfare settlement. [More…]
Let me now mention briefly some of the achievements in Aboriginal welfare in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Total expenditures on Aboriginal welfare in the Northern Territory have risen from S6.7m in 1965-66 to an estimated SI 5.7m in 1970-71. [More…]
Some honourable members on the Government side of the chamber, those few who bothered to speak in this debate - and they were extremely rare - attacked the social welfare measures in the Budget quite outspokenly. [More…]
Let us have a look at what the Government promised when it came to office, particularly in the field of social welfare. [More…]
My Government will review the field of social welfare with the object of assisting those in most need while at the same time not discouraging thrift, self-help and self-reliance. [More…]
On 21st March the honourable member for Evans made a speech on social welfare. [More…]
I was involved in 2 meetings of the Public Works Committee, a meeting of the Publications Committee, a meeting of my Party’s Aboriginal Affairs Committee and a short time ago a meeting of my Party’s Welfare Committee was scheduled. [More…]
In the Northern Territory the administration of education by the Commonwealth is shared by the Departments of Education and Science and the Welfare Branch of the Northern Territory Administration. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) foreshadowed this in his policy speech before the last elections when he laid it down that rehabilitation would be one of our major objectives in the welfare field. [More…]
The subjects of these committees will be foreign affairs and defence; finance and trade; health and welfare; primary industry and national development; transport and communications; education, science and arts; and legal, home and internal territory affairs. [More…]
Surely if a Government member were worth his salt, knowing what was proposed for pensioners in the Budget, and he had any sort of fortitude at all he would have stood his ground firmly, as the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth), who is not in the chamber tonight, should have done on the matter of social welfare. [More…]
The first was payments to or for the States, the second was welfare, the third was development and the fourth was assistance to industry and so on. [More…]
The next section worthy of mention is that of welfare. [More…]
Of course, many honourable members on this side of the Committee and on the other side have a great deal to say about the national welfare section of the Budget Papers. [More…]
This year the increase in the welfare field is an additional $131m over the figures of 1969-70. [More…]
So, in the 2 areas that I have mentioned - Commonwealth payments to or for the States and the welfare section - there has been a grand total of increase of expenditure over the last year of $422m. [More…]
the effects of the scheme on the health and welfare of the community. [More…]
I would recognise, although I do not agree with the Australian presence in South Vietnam, that our forces over there have carried out their duties in the best traditions of the Australian armed forces and I believe very sincerely that they have endeavoured to make a contribution to the welfare of those people in the province for which they have had a measure of responsibility. [More…]
The Minister will recall that in Townsville we have formed a sporting association for Aboriginals known as the All Blacks Welfare and Sporting Association. [More…]
I heartily wish that the Minister for Social Services had contributed more of his time to this particular matter, because social welfare in this country is still blighted by concepts which were first conceived in the dying stages of the last century. [More…]
It would have been more appropriate for him to have talked in terms of new concepts that he hoped to develop in the last third of the 20th century in preparation for the new social welfare programme which would be required to meet the needs of the people in the 21st century, which is a mere 30 years away, not long in the span of time. [More…]
But in the table that the Minister has presented to the House and which has been incorporated in Hansard, running to about 20 pages, he clearly has provoked this sort of response, so I will spend a few minutes discussing some aspects of how he could have looked at the pension in real terms of contributing to the people’s welfare. [More…]
It is literally a level of deprivation for so many social service beneficiaries, for which this Government is responsible by manipulating pensions at election time in an effort to bribe votes and then neglecting the welfare of beneficiaries at crucial moments subsequently. [More…]
Any money which becomes available for social welfare should be allocated to the area of greatest need and according to priorities. [More…]
Their need is greater than mine and social justice demands that greatest benefit from social welfare programmes must go to areas of greatest need as a priority. [More…]
We do not know what the long term objectives are for social welfare services in the community. [More…]
The unconcern for their welfare which is consistently manifested in subsequent Budgets is an example of atrocious neglect of public responsibility. [More…]
There is an infinite variety of figures, analyses, surveys and findings to establish that the Australian system of social welfare is inferior to need and that it stands embarrassingly disadvantaged compared to other advanced economies. [More…]
Where once we led in social welfare services we now rank somewhere between 15th and 20th on a scale of what has been provided by various other countries. [More…]
According to the 1968 United Nations Year Book on National Accounts, Australia spent 10.4 per cent of its gross national product on the provision of health, education and welfare. [More…]
Social welfare programmes in Australia proceed on a disjointed piecemeal basis. [More…]
It is crass political opportunism which motivates a government to manipulate social welfare programmes like a box of tricks for election audiences to ‘ooh’ and aah’ over and then, after the election is over, to tuck the box away with determination after carefully labelling it: ‘Not to be used until the next election’. [More…]
The conservative government at Canberra is thoroughly discreditable, exploiting as it does in this manner of grand political opportunism the welfare needs of those in want. [More…]
A completely new approach must be adopted to the provision of social welfare services in Australia. [More…]
With these requirements in mind, the Australian Labor Party has pledged itself to undertake a wide ranging social welfare programme, not only aimed at rooting out poverty but also aimed at progressively removing the very real disadvantages of social discrimination and at establishing economic security for all in ill health, unemployment, invalidity, widowhood and age. [More…]
On the other hand the development of community based field services operated by regional departments of social welfare will be fostered by direct special grants under section 96 of the Constitution to State governments, local authorities and voluntary agencies. [More…]
It is because of the large allocation from the national welfare fund to health this financial year that more has not been available to keep up the pace of improvement in the pension rate which this Government has maintained since it came into office. [More…]
Payments this year from our welfare fund will reach an all time high of $ 1,473m, which is an increase of $13.) [More…]
My Government will review the field of social welfare, with the object of assisting those in dire need while at the same time not discouraging thrift, self help and self reliance. [More…]
To this end my Government will set up a standing Cabinet committee, including the Ministers for Health, Social Services, Repatriation and Housing, and that Committee will direct its attention to coordinating the approaches and proposals qf the various departments concerned with social welfare. [More…]
I summarise my remarks by emphasising that the Government stands condemned for its callous disregard for the welfare of the pensioners and for its insulting and disgusting increase of 50c a week in pensions. [More…]
They have been contributing to the National Welfare Fund in the form of taxation and getting shrunken benefits in return. [More…]
I rise to support the amendment moved by the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden) not only because I believe in the amendment fervently but because I happen to represent an electorate which has more people who are concerned with social welfare than any other electorate in Australia. [More…]
I believe that both sides of this House ought to try to stop scoring political points on the question of social welfare. [More…]
Let me quote again from ‘Health and Welfare in Canada 1969*. [More…]
It extends federal sharing to include the following costs, which were not shared under the Unemployment Assistance Act: The cost of assistance to needy mothers with dependent children, maintenance of children in the care of provincially approved child welfare agencies, health care services to needy persons, and the extension of welfare services to prevent or remove causes of dependency or to assist recipients in achieving self-support. [More…]
Welfare services may include rehabilitation services; casework; counselling and assessment services; adoption services and homemaker, day-care and similar services supplied to persons in need or to persons to whom the service is essential if they are to remain selfsupporting. [More…]
Our objective is a social welfare structure which identifies the most needy in the community and ensures that those who have no other means are provided with enough to live on, in a modest self-respecting way, without requiring any other assistance outside the pension. [More…]
That is to say that they involve very often the services of the Commonwealth, State Services, local government welfare services, and those of private agencies. [More…]
But their functions are limited and they operate independently of State social welfare agencies and other groups. [More…]
Then, of course, there ought to be in the regional council of social service structure provision for a contingency welfare fund which would be operated on a regional basis. [More…]
With every regional council of social services, in which the organisations and the State and Commonwealth services are integrated, with the advisory or administrative group and the contingency welfare fund that could be invoked in times of emergency, there ought to be also a Commonwealth welfare services directory. [More…]
Modern welfare theory is based on the belief that problems do not come singly but in clusters. [More…]
So I put it to the Minister that on the basis of three very learned papers presented at the Australian Council of Social Services Conference in Canberra in May of this year, at which both the Minister and I were present, there seems to be very considerable scope for a thorough examination of this new theory about social welfare. [More…]
Government welfare committees should bc serviced by high grade units skilled in social analysis. [More…]
He contended that we needed a government White Paper on development of local health and welfare services. [More…]
When it is all said and done, this is a country which once showed initiative in leading the world in relation to social welfare. [More…]
I know that most States now give some assistance in the form of State social welfare payments. [More…]
We realise that money is also spent in the field of repatriation and that the total amount of expenditure in the category of welfare is in the vicinity of $l,800m. [More…]
They are mindful of the fact, for instance, that child endowment, maternity allowances, child allowances, wife’s allowances and certain other benefits are very important and necessary for the welfare and reasonable living standard of a large number of families. [More…]
That Bill promised home care services for pensioners; capital subsidies for senior citizens centres; the provision of welfare officers in senior citizens centres; the provision of paramedical services by way of chiropody, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech therapy and so on. [More…]
Furthermore, I believe the Minister should adopt the policy of the Labor Party and make welfare benefits available to all Australians and eliminate the system whereby a person more than a century old is ineligible for welfare benefits which, putting it mildly, hardly assists our drive for migrants. [More…]
Finally, so far as the Department of Immigration is concerned, I believe that its officers should be congratulated if this migrant is the type of citizen selected - healthy, ageless and so confident that he will live long enough to share in the welfare state of liberalism. [More…]
There is also the matter that relates to the size of aid projects and their nature, which in the case of voluntary agencies are sometimes small and of a welfare nature rather than a developmental nature. [More…]
But the plain fact is that if the Government wants those who have the responsibility of governing the RSL in every State and at the Federal level to become less interested in the matters that affect the welfare of exservicemen obviously it has to distract the attention from the paucity of the Government’s attitude to the payment of compensation to those who have served this country in 2 world wars and in Korea and who are now serving Australia in Vietnam. [More…]
This is a completely unwarranted procedure in terms of welfare criteria. [More…]
This imposes unwarranted demands on the welfare services and resources of these devoted organisations. [More…]
The amendment merely supports the contention of those who have responsibility to attend to matters affecting the welfare of servicemen of this country. [More…]
So I urge the Minister and the Government to have another look at this because these services make a very worthwhile contribution to the welfare of our nation. [More…]
action of those people and their disregard for the welfare of the people in that area. [More…]
These concession rates represent, in effect, a substantial subsidy to the publishing and printing industry and to many organisations, ranging from religious, charitable and welfare organisations to social and recreational clubs. [More…]
The modern laissez faire economy - that is monetary and fiscal policy, wage freeze and the welfare state - cannot get the allocation of resources needed for a great national effort or for any other purpose. [More…]
They are, firstly, to accelerate progress towards economic self-reliance; secondly, to accelerate indigenous involvement, that is, involvement by local or native people, in employment, management and ownership; and thirdly, to raise the standards of welfare of the local people. [More…]
When in Canada a few weeks ago 1 checked on this claim with top officials of the Canadian Department of National Health and Welfare. [More…]
But it forgets entirely that having taken this H per cent it will have to take an enormous sum out of revenue to build up the deficiency in the national welfare account if that is all it is to be credited with. [More…]
If the Leader of the Opposition saves only 1 life by his actions, he will have made a magnificent contribution to the welfare of this country. [More…]
I am hoping that we will be able to present evidence of his work before the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]
The estimated expenditure from the national welfare fund for this year is $423m. [More…]
Because it arises in such a vital area of community welfare a number of competing interests come into play. [More…]
It is an unusual government instrumentality because it handles such diverse matters as local transport, garbage, housing, kerbing and guttering, nature paths, adoption of children, welfare, agricultural services, animal and bird protection, architects’ registration, boiler inspection, bush fire control, the Canberra Tourist Bureau, registration of dogs, civil defence, drivers’ licences, electoral offices, forest management, fruit inspection, registration of hawkers, lake administration, meteorology, testing and registration of motor vehicles, the News and Information Bureau, the police, scaffolding and lifts, street cleaning, the War Memorial, weights and measures, and workers compensation. [More…]
Firstly, 1 should like to thank the Minister for the Interior (Mr Nixon), Mr Giese and the officers of the Welfare Branch in all the places that we visited for their co-operation in making a fairly short visit to the Northern Territory as informative and educational as possible. [More…]
I intend to devote the rest of my time tonight to speaking about the situation at Wattie Creek near the Wave Hill welfare settlement where a group of Aboriginals have been living for several years. [More…]
In August 1966 there was a strike, for award wages, on many pastoral stations in the Northern Territory and at that time a group of Aboriginal people - most of them were Gurindjis - went to camp near the Wave Hill welfare settlement and later to their present site at Wattie Creek. [More…]
The annual report of the Welfare Branch of the Northern Territory for 1968-69 makes this comment: [More…]
Although the Welfare Branch ascribes motives with which I do not agree, it agrees that the Aboriginals at Wattie Creek have a strong attachment to the land in that area. [More…]
One of the problems throughout all of these situations is that the Welfare Branch of the Northern Territory Administration, the State Department of Aboriginal Affairs, or whoever the administration might be, always knows best. [More…]
But it is not without its disadvantages as well and I will quote from the report of the Welfare Branch for 1967-68 in which it said about Wave Hill: [More…]
Wave Hill Welfare Centre is situated 280 miles south west of Katherine, near the Wave Hill Police Station. [More…]
I believe the reason that they choose to live at Wattie Creek is that they desire to be independent from the cattle properties, particularly Vestey’s, and the Welfare Branch for part of the year. [More…]
I again turn back to reports of the Welfare Branch in recent years. [More…]
That is the Welfare Branch - for assistance in recruiting Aboriginal labour. [More…]
Again in the following year in the Welfare Branch report we find the comment that the labour demand was strong. [More…]
The welfare and integration of all its citizens. [More…]
The Minister in his publication ‘Immigration in the Seventies’ quoted interesting figures on the migrant contribution to our economic welfare which should be studied by all people. [More…]
So apart from my concern for the welfare and well being of all these people, the problems of the migrant community are now of special significance to me. [More…]
The Opposition believes that a proper immigration programme must have a basis of and work towards ensuring Australia’s national and economic security, the welfare and integration of all its citizens and the balanced development of our nation. [More…]
Chain migration enables the base families to act as welfare officers to migrants. [More…]
I believe the Department of Immigration is aware of these problems and by the provision of migrant educational services, social workers, welfare officers, trained contact workers, together with a host of voluntary workers, it does much to reduce the problems of migrants in this country. [More…]
The council in that area has done more in social welfare at the grass roots level than the State and Federal governments put together. [More…]
and (2) Neither ibe Department’s staff of 15 social workers nor the 25 social workers employed with community agencies engaged in welfare work amongst migrants (whose salaries are financed by the Commonwealth) include a Finnish speaking social worker. [More…]
Moreover, many of the integration problems encountered by migrants do not require the services of professionally qualified social workers, but can be handled effectively by trained welfare staff. [More…]
It is also endeavouring to increase its welfare staff for which bilingual officers can more readily be recruited. [More…]
It recklessly disregards that matter, uncaring as to the outcome of it both for our own commitment or for the welfare of the South Vietnamese people and their capacity to choose their own solutions. [More…]
Commonwealth Government grants to autonomous health, education and welfare organisations in Australia for capital purposes totalled $14m in 1969-70. [More…]
What requests or suggestions were made by the Ministers concerned with child welfare at their meeting in March 1970 for legislative or administrative action by (a) the Commonwealth, (b) the Territories and (c) the States. [More…]
I advocate that we should have an Australian taxation foundation such as already exists in Canada, a body of people outside our Taxation Branch who are knowledgeable in this field - lawyers, accountants and people in business - and who are interested in this field which is vital to the welfare of our nation and vital to our level of economic activity. [More…]
I draw the attention of the House to the Institute of Economic and Social Welfare which has been set up in the United Kingdom and subsidised by that Government. [More…]
The answer shows - the figures are in the Budget - that in 1969-70 a lesser proportion of gross national expenditure was devoted to social welfare payments than was the case in 1960-61. [More…]
Something which is rather contradictory and which has been built into the income tax structure is that the allowance made for family and other concessions runs counter to the logic of social welfare payments. [More…]
With respect to welfare, is there less welfare distributed as a result of this Budget or as a result of this income tax measure than there was hitherto? [More…]
Unless the growth of output is maximised, a government has neither income taxation concessions to confer nor welfare to confer. [More…]
Countries with low rates of growth have no welfare to confer. [More…]
Do not members of the Opposition know that the problem with the British taxation system after the war was that insufficient incentive to the people subject to that taxation system was allowed and while the British Government devoted itself to welfare in the years immediately after the Second World War, British growth was retarded right throughout the 1950s because that principle was forgotten. [More…]
More measure is made in order to draw distinctions between people at different income levels in relation to their contributions to Australian welfare than occurs in almost any other country in the world. [More…]
It is no use talking about welfare on its own. [More…]
We talk about nothing if we talk about welfare on its own. [More…]
Welfare cannot be administered in a vacuum. [More…]
It simply means that if welfare is to be administered with respect to taxation, if taxation is to be reduced - and this has been the welfare programme of the Government - one can apply oneself only to the 29 or 30 per cent of the increase to which I have referred. [More…]
There is an amount, of $400tn in the National Welfare Fund. [More…]
During the Government’s term of office the number of companies that control the welfare and the destiny of millions of people has fallen remarkably. [More…]
The first and most apparent one is that this Bill is another instance of welfare service being provided by instalments. [More…]
I feci that this is not the way in which welfare services should be provided in the community. [More…]
There should be a full explanation of the overall objectives of welfare service policy by the Government, not only in terms of what it has implemented and how that is evaluated in terms of service to the community but. [More…]
how this meshes into a broad long-term plan proposing adequate welfare services for the benefit of the whole community and of the whole man. [More…]
This has not been done so far, nor have we had a philosophical explanation of the basis upon which the Government promotes its welfare services. [More…]
This, in turn, throws up the inconsistent manner in which we develop our welfare services, not only at the Federal level but at the State level too. [More…]
But I make the criticism quite strongly that this is another example of a disjointed approach to the provision of social welfare service in Australia. [More…]
Again I would appreciate a fuller analysis of the facts of the Commonwealth’s extension of its commitment to social welfare services where there is already a State commitment. [More…]
But as far as 1 can see the situation, when the Commonwealth increases its commitment to social welfare services for which the States have already accepted a commitment the tendency is for the States to withdraw commensurately. [More…]
Indeed, 1 propose in a few minutes to suggest that the Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service as it operates anyway ought to be phased out in favour of an expansion of community welfare services. [More…]
In Ontario, Canada, I had the opportunity of discussing with people involved in social welfare services their approach to this sort of assistance for people who have received injuries and have to go back into the work force. [More…]
The Labor Party’s proposal is to set up, as I have mentioned many times before, regional departments of social welfare harnessing the co-operative support of the State governments, local authorities and voluntary agencies. [More…]
We have to ensure - and it is a public responsibility for the regionalised departments of social welfare - that the staff serving these sheltered workshops are adequately trained and that where they should be professional people they are in fact professional people. [More…]
Well meaning people can do a good job in social welfare, but in those areas where they have some particular ability to serve the people. [More…]
What the Labor Party does is to spurn the piecemeal blight which affects Government thinking in welfare services. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) announced last year that this Government has given rehabilitation a high priority in the welfare field. [More…]
Thus, during 1969-70 I made grants totalling $203,000 to Aboriginal organisations and other bodies to enable them to make their welfare and other activities more effective. [More…]
What I am worried about is his welfare. [More…]
All we have said is that there are clear areas of public need in Australia in health, hospital and welfare services. [More…]
This was driven home to me after I had the good fortune recently to investigate mental health and social welfare services overseas. [More…]
Australia has the highest standard of health and welfare policies in the world. [More…]
The main problem is arising probably because of a failure to mesh in the mental health services concept with the concept of social welfare services, also on a community basis. [More…]
Rice in a publication ‘Estimating the Cost of Illness’, issued by the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare in 1966, estimated that mental illness alone in the United States cost $7 billion in 1963. [More…]
There is not a person on this side of the House who would not prefer, if we lived in the kind of a world in which it would be practicable, to spend all our resources on national development, welfare, health and education which are matters of great concern to all honourable members in this Parliament. [More…]
I should like the Committee and the country to know that the Department of the Navy is seeking on every possible occasion to see where and how any of the timetables can be reasonably cut to ensure that the best possible equipment is provided for those who serve in the Navy and, furthermore, to ensure that the Royal Australian Navy, as it faces the very difficult years ahead, will make the maximum contribution to the welfare and security of this country. [More…]
They are men who develop specialised expertise in a field which cannot be gained anywhere else in the community, and through the way in which their welfare is being indifferently regarded by the Government they are being pressured out of the Service. [More…]
So whilst there is in Australia a diminution of our involvement in State housing - it is on the skids and going down as fast as can be - we find that in other comparable countries such as the United States which I have just mentioned, but there are others which I could mention if more time were available, housing is being considered more and more in the welfare context and greater assistance is being given to people to overcome the competitive situation regarding the availability of finance. [More…]
By a large majority in the 1967 referendum the Australian people gave power to the Commonwealth to legislate for the welfare of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
I would like to know, although 1 am not likely to be told and the House is not likely to be informed, why the Budget increases the proposed vote for this body by about 13 per cent, which is a greater percentage increase than was accorded to the social welfare sector of the community? [More…]
What I said was that when the strike broke out the Aboriginals established a strikers camp near the Wave Hill welfare settlement and that subsequently they went to the site of Wattie Creek which was the site of their own choice. [More…]
It does not give me any satisfaction to be saying some of these things, but it is transparently obvious to any person interested in Aboriginal welfare in this place that these problems exist. [More…]
None of us would take away from the Minister his sincerity and dedication to the welfare of Aboriginal people. [More…]
Over a number of years, the Victorian Government, through its Department of Social Welfare, has given assistance to families receiving Commonwealth pensions, such as widow’s pensions and so on. [More…]
Springs is growing very fast - the problem in relation to the aged and the housing and welfare of them will not reach crisis proportion. [More…]
The Methodist Church, like the municipality, is concerned about the need for the provision of social services and social welfare in the area. [More…]
The centre is to be used to provide for the social welfare of the people in the area and, according to the surveys that have been made, there is a very great need for such a service. [More…]
Churches of other denominations in the area are providing part-time social workers, and the Victorian State Government has provided a full-time welfare officer. [More…]
I would like to refer to the book containing the constitution, rules and platform of the Australian Labor Party and particularly to page 20. which under the heading ‘Social Welfare’ deals with pensions. [More…]
I was dealing with page 20 of the document setting out the Labor Party’s constiutiion, platform and rules under the heading ‘Social Welfare’. [More…]
The Government has had available to it reports on welfare programmes in countries comparable to Australia and what has happened in those countries. [More…]
Honourable members opposite have only to go across the Tasman Sea to get literature on the New Zealand system of social welfare and after a glimpse at those documents they will see the shocking inequalities that they render unto the people of Australia. [More…]
More people are entering this group each day but they enter this welfare sector realising that they are joining the ranks of the poverty stricken. [More…]
- Let me state briefly lo the Committee that the plight of the pensioners, of the sick and the needy, is to be dealt with by what is termed social welfare. [More…]
If the Government can find money in that way it should make it available to provide assistance for more than 1 million people dependent on social welfare. [More…]
I do not quibble at money being provided for essential services but I do say that the Government’s priorities in social welfare are completely upside down. [More…]
In a splendid little document the campaign lists chapter and verse the failure of this Government in respect of social welfare. [More…]
On the first page of this letter to the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) of 8th October 1970 it states: 1 am writing to you on behalf of the Pensioners’ Little Budget Campaign Committee which consists of people who are not themselves pensioners but who have joined together in a voluntary capacity to urge upon your government new initiatives in the field of pension and post retirement welfare, following the introduction of the recent Federal budget. [More…]
Parliament and say: ‘For once the Prime Minister has listened to me and 1 am willing to introduce a little Budget Let him give a stimulating approach to social welfare, not the old decadent approach be has brought to the Ministry which we thought had gone when he was elevated. [More…]
We can only conclude that in the current Budget the welfare voices in the Cabinet were not heard. [More…]
The Government allows that to happen and then does not correct its mistakes in the social welfare side of the Budget. [More…]
He could not justify the Government’s inaction and the fact that it had completely ignored the representations that had been made to it by those who are responsible for the welfare of exservicemen in this country. [More…]
I think it is time that a responsible Minister - one who spoke with, I believe, some sincerity when he sat on the back bench, on the abolition of the means test and the inadequacy of the income received by pensioners - spoke in his reply about the miserable 50c increase that he gave to the pensioners in this Budget and which has led to the kind of representations that every honourable member in this Parliament, whether he sits on the Opposition side or the Government side, has received from the various organisations which are concerned about the welfare of these people. [More…]
I implore him to pay attention to those people in his electorate who, I understand, have visited his office from time to time, have written letters to him from time to time and are disgusted because he will not pay attention to their needs as far as social welfare is concerned. [More…]
Whilst he was in Australia his 4 children were under the care of the Child Welfare Department. [More…]
That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]
Further still, we would not find, as we have found for the last couple of years, that a substantial amount of the money provided for Aboriginal welfare remains unspent. [More…]
It is certainly a remarkable situation that money allocated to Aboriginal welfare should remain unspent when so much is required to achieve the purpose for which the money was appropriated. [More…]
Each of these sections, which require the expenditure of welfare moneys on them in some way or another, will have to be dealt with differently. [More…]
According to figures available from the Departments of Health and Native Welfare in Western Australia, about 13 per cent of the- fullblood Aboriginals in the Kimberleys now have or have had leprosy and, according to Dr Davidson of the Health Commission, it is never claimed that they are cured. [More…]
Also he belongs to a very conservative political group as regards most social and political exercises and therefore we make very little advance in the material welfare of the Aboriginal people of Australia. [More…]
One of the basic recommendations was that the Aborigines Welfare Board should be abolished. [More…]
The inquiries and investigations of the committee indicated that the Aborigines Welfare Board in New South Wales had not fulfilled its function and had not done the job that it was hoped it would do. [More…]
It was coincidental that at about the time the report of this all party joint committee was presented to the Parliament the Aborigines Welfare Board embarked on some improvement projects - and I am speaking from only personal experience here– at least in one quarter of New South Wales. [More…]
But, of course, there came the time when the Parliament of New South Wales in its wisdom implemented the report of the select committee and said that the Aborigines Welfare Board, should be dissolved and its functions taken over by the various departments of State that were charged with the care and responsibility and welfare of the rest of the community. [More…]
Therefore, in due course it was decided by the Government of New South Wales that the Aborigines Welfare Board would cease its operations and would be in fact dissolved. [More…]
I accepted the recommendation of the Board because this decision was made by the Parliament in good- faith in the belief that more would be done in the field of welfare and in the sphere of social advancement. [More…]
The whole burden of work in this quarter of the State has now been given to an officer of the Child Welfare and Social Welfare Department who has already been called upon to cover a tremendous area and to tackle very many complex problems. [More…]
As the basis of my speech I quote the petition which I presented in this House this morning as the first of a series that will be presented dealing with the question of Aboriginal welfare and housing in the south west land division of Western Australia. [More…]
that there is a crisis in Aboriginal welfare in the south west land division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]
With the concurrence of honourable members I incorporate in Hansard a table which I have received from the State Minister for Native Welfare showing the amounts that have been received from the Commonwealth and the amounts that have been spent by the State on Aboriginal housing from 1955-56 to the present time. [More…]
There is payable, during the year that commenced on the first day of July, 1970, to each State, for the purpose of financial assistance in connexion with the welfare and advancement (including housing), of the Aboriginal people of Australia living in that State, amounts not exceeding in the whole the amount specified in the First Schedule to this Act opposite to the name of that State. [More…]
After the amount of $4,800,000 is used for housing, as specified in the Bill, the balance is to be used for other welfare or advancement of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
The way to regard this is that $2.2m is left for expenditure throughout the 6 States for all the other purposes under the headings of welfare and difficulties. [More…]
There is the Migration Act 1958-1968; the Navigation Act 1912-1968; in Queensland the Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders’ Affairs Acts 1965-67; the Vagrants, Gaming and Others Offences Acts 1931-1967; in Western Australia the Licensing Act 1911-1968; the Native Welfare Act 1963; the Native (Citizenship Rights) Act 1944-1964. [More…]
I think that all honourable members on this side of the House, and I am sure quite a few honourable members on the other side, would agree that there is a need for a much more comprehensive programme for the welfare and housing of Aboriginals. [More…]
So the people who are concerned with welfare matters at the reserve are faced continually with the problem of finding sufficient housing for Aboriginals. [More…]
I pay a tribute to the local welfare committees in these areas. [More…]
They will help the progress and development of Aboriginal people; they will help also in providing housing and Aboriginal welfare. [More…]
This can be advanced into our Aboriginal population - I feel it cannot go very quickly but still it is going - and these people deserve a pat on the back for the efforts they along with the welfare committees in these places are making. [More…]
Briefly, the conference proposed the setting up of an elected body representing Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders on a regional basis to take over the administration of their affairs, their welfare and also the disposal of government finance. [More…]
I think it is high dme the Minister had support from the Cabinet and from this party to assert that the values that are important to Australians are not those represented by Vestey’s which is getting land for a few cents a square mile, but the interest of human welfare. [More…]
I am sorry that a greater opportunity is not given to honourable members to debate these matters because I think they are just as fundamental to Australia’s welfare as are questions such as defence. [More…]
While he was in Australia his 4 children were under the care of the Child Welfare Department; so government departments had some knowledge of him. [More…]
Pursuant to the provisions of the Services Trust Funds Act 1947-1950 I present the annual reports of the Australian Military Forces Relief Trust Fund, the Royal Australian Navy Relief Trust Fund and the Royal Australian Air Force Welfare Trust Fund for the year ended 30th June 1970, together with the reports of the Auditor-General on the books and accounts of the funds. [More…]
The less consumption it takes to maintain a given state of welfare, the more efficient the economic system. [More…]
We recognise that for the welfare of the industry inevitably there has to be a change. [More…]
It is a social welfare problem; it is a matter of educating or reeducating the families of wool growers and taking social welfare measures. [More…]
We have to do something about Aboriginal welfare, the problems of cities and pollution and all the other problems that face us. [More…]
That there is a crisis in Aboriginal welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]
That there is a crisis in Aboriginal welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Aus-, tralia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]
That there is a crisis in Aboriginal welfare in tha South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]
That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]
That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor bousing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]
If so, is there any reason why the law should not be amended to provide that persons or organisations affected by aircraft noise at all hours of the day and night should be entitled to take similar action against the Government or the airline companies responsible for this menace to their health, homes and welfare? [More…]
I hope that the amendment is carried because I believe it will represent a landmark in regard to these things in respect of our country’s approach to the welfare of people who live or who will live in proximity to large airports. [More…]
I do point out that this country is very often compared with countries whose figures include such items as the following in their educational expenses: school meals, free milk, the nation’s cultural activities, scientific research, sport, youth activities, child welfare, armed services colleges, radio and television and so on. [More…]
No-one has suggested that Western Australia should not have a naval base, but thoughts are centred on an investigation to arrive at the best possible site in relation to the effect that such a site would have on the welfare of the community in time of war rather than to select a site to meet the convenience of the Navy. [More…]
What (a) interest, (b) redemptions, (c) revenue, (d) grants, (e) gifts and loan moneys has the Commonwealth (including its banks) in the last financial year (i) paid to and (ii) received from (A) State, local or semi-government authorities, (B) autonomous health, education and welfare organisations and overseas aid recipients and (C) private interests, including interest paid to overseas lenders less Australian tax thereon. [More…]
Repayments received from autonomous health, education and welfare organisations, and overseas aid recipients were negligible. [More…]
Grants to autonomous health, education and welfare organisations and overseas aid recipients totalled $169m in 1968-69, while transfer payments in the form of cash benefits to persons, subsidies to enterprises and other overseas contributions were $1,664 million. [More…]
Advances to autonomous health, education and welfare organisations and overseas aid recipients were negligible in 1968-69. [More…]
In Victoria the groups are as follows, the numbers of organisations in each group at 30 June 1969 being shown in brackets: hospitals (160), benevolent homes (12), hostels for the aged (124), children’s homes (56), foundling homes and refuges (15), rescue homes’ (4), convalescent homes (1), blind, deaf and dumb institutions (6), medical dispensaries (2), institutes for maternal and infant welfare (4), philanthropic organisations and societies (295), church relief organisations (27), benevolent societies (76), training schools for nurses (3), nursing services and societies (4), bush nursing centres (20), ambulance services (24), hostels (11), creches (7), kindergartens (135), and organisations for the welfare of boys and girls (425). [More…]
Recommendation concerning Seafarers’ Welfare at Sea and in Port. [More…]
She made a very notable contribution especially to social welfare and to the advancement of Australian Aboriginals. [More…]
For instance, in Canada classes for language instruction and courses in civic affairs have mushroomed and are conducted under various auspices, such as provincial departments of education, local school boards, service clubs, churches, welfare agencies, universities and ethnic groups. [More…]
Child Welfare Ordinance 1961-1968 [More…]
The Commonwealth Employment Service consistently pursues a policy of advising employers that ability and capacity to do the job should be a prime consideration in selection, and that only in exceptional circumstances or where the individual’s welfare is affected should age be a factor. [More…]
Quickly pass the legislation necessary to make the kangaroo a protected animal throughout Australia - the culling of herds for the protection of the few property owners genuinely threatened by excessive numbers, or for the welfare of kangaroos themselves, to bc carried out by or under direct supervision of Government officers. [More…]
To me there appears to be no reason why small classes could not be conducted in the home, local church hall or even infant welfare centre. [More…]
Such a class was established last year in Doveton in my electorate at the local infant welfare centre where women could attend and leave their babies under the care of the infant welfare teacher. [More…]
I have spoken to welfare officers and chaplains who have in the last few months come to Australia on vessels carrying migrants, and there seems to be no doubt that a large number - 10 per cent is a large number - of persons coming to Australia at the moment from the United Kingdom are really coming here for a holiday. [More…]
I believe that they are of considerable benefit to migrants and I am thinking in particular of the Greek community and how much it has done to help Greek migrants in counselling, securing employment and general social welfare work. [More…]
I am pleased, however, to !earn that migrant education and welfare will not be restricted for financial reasons. [More…]
I find, as I think most honourable members would, that migrants, especially newly arrived migrants, have very exaggerated ideas of what they can expect from our social welfare structure. [More…]
Will he take steps with the appropriate authorities to correct this imbalance of trade between the two countries and convert it into one which will benefit the economic and moral welfare of Australia. [More…]
The training of Aboriginal men and women is the responsibility of the Welfare Division of the Northern Territory Administration within the Department of the Interior. [More…]
One of the functions of the Welfare Division is to provide for the welfare and advancement of Aborigines in the Northern Territory and to carry out its functions the Division is staffed with experienced and qualified officers. [More…]
If the claims were substantiated, did or will, the Government take steps to alleviate the situation of these children whose welfare should be the responsibility of this country. [More…]
Along with other welfare policy questions, invalid pension conditions will be considered when social service benefits are being reviewed. [More…]
It would not be appropriate to give any details about meetings of representatives of the Departments concerned with welfare policy except to say that liaison and consultation is constantly taking place. [More…]
They are to be discouraged from looking after the welfare of their employees but price rises which disregard the public interest arc to he ignored. [More…]
They distress in particular pensioner householders for whose welfare the Commonwealth should have a special concern. [More…]
Also, $l,473m is provided for welfare payments. [More…]
For the Prime Minister to sit in this House yesterday afternoon and say he would not give consideration to a Budget which would have the purpose at least of giving some consideration to the position of those on fixed incomes and those on social welfare benefits, was to display an arrogant and absolutely pigheaded attitude. [More…]
Clearly, the needs of the cities, education, health and welfare will suffer through these programmes. [More…]
There are achievements in the field of social welfare which I would like to see brought to fruition during my time as Prime Minister. [More…]
He has now been Prime Minister for 3 years, but instead of making progress in the field of social welfare, his Government has regressed. [More…]
What a magnificent contribution that is to the welfare of Australia. [More…]
In consultation with the New South Wales Minister for Child Welfare and Minister for Social Welfare, Mr Hewitt, I arranged for the Army to make available emergency tentage especially for the relief of these Aboriginals. [More…]
Prior to the suspension of the sitting I pointed out how the sugar industry is a model of socialisation - that is, not national ownership, not national dictation, but control by the people involved, the consumers and their elected representatives co-operating with the producers for the welfare of society as a whole - and how it is a model for all other industries to follow. [More…]
The report did suggest that all the health, education and welfare activities were to be phased out as soon as possible. [More…]
The system of social services, welfare and law enforcement aggravate rather than alleviate the problem of chronic unemployment. [More…]
Indeed we want to go much further and introduce a new concept of social security payments and social welfare services. [More…]
Yet, on the question of welfare state activities I believe that the record of this Government is the best in the history of Australia. [More…]
The welfare state now costs this country $1,40Om dollars a year. [More…]
I believe that our present Prime Minister is a man who is dedicated to the welfare of the Australian people, perhaps more than any other Prime Minister Australia has had. [More…]
My Government will review the field of social welfare with the object of assisting those in dire need, while at the same time not discouraging thrift, self-help and self-reliance. [More…]
Whether there is any real advantage in the lifting of the ban on these books depends on the contribution that they make to the welfare and benefit of the community. [More…]
On 1st June 1970 in Malta Dr Vincent Tabone, Minister of Labour, Employment and Welfare on behalf of the Maltese Government and I on behalf of the Australian Government initialled agreed draft texts of the proposed new Migration and Settlement Agreement and related Arrangement dealing with assisted passage provisions. [More…]
The Commonwealth has the luxury .of being able to choose freely what it can and cannot do in respect of ‘ what are essential projects, looked at on a national scale, but the States find increasingly that their revenues, both ordinary and loan funds, are taken up more and more in providing essential services like education, health, upkeep of roads, public transport, social welfare and so forth. [More…]
It is a very important project to everybody concerned with the welfare of that area. [More…]
Members were discussing election policy items and 1 had brought to the notice of Caucus an anomaly in the social welfare regulations in that aged widow and widower pensioners who had either a child or children living at home caring for their parent were being refused the Postmaster-General’s Department’s fringe benefits in those cases where the child was earning in excess of the permissible supplementary income a pensioner was allowed to have. [More…]
Such work includes water supplies for villages; construction of classrooms; electrification of hamlets; construction and improvement of hospitals; the building of 500 houses for regional force soldiers and their dependants; miles of road construction; medical assistance; and education, agricultural and social welfare work in many different areas of the province. [More…]
The seminar was attended by senior representatives of a number of professions - police, magistrates, probation and parole officers, child welfare officers, psychiatrists and other experts. [More…]
Certain types of desirable welfare assistance which should be given to physically, culturally and/or socially handicapped persons in this modern, affluent society are not available here and would be less effective if recipients were to continue to enlarge families which they admit are now too large for them to care for. [More…]
Let me assure the House that there are husbands who, on their own admission, believe they are entitled to require their wives to do this; yet I have been accused of talking of compulsion when I have suggested certain procedures for the benefit of recipients of social welfare. [More…]
However, my critics seem to be bent on twisting my intentions as if I would extend welfare as a kind of Nazi racial dictatorship. [More…]
That there is a crisis in Aboriginal welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]
I believe if this approach could be adopted in Australia we would see a national water authority established which would be of tremendous and vital importance to the future planning and welfare of this nation. [More…]
So far as the Australian end of the operation is concerned, again a number of special measures have been undertaken which include special language training facilities to assist Turkish migrants to understand and acquire a knowledge of the language, citizenship education courses and an increased number of Turkish speaking welfare officers. [More…]
I should add that if such a concession were to be granted on the same basis as the age allowance, it would apply not only to persons in receipt of pensions but also to persons qualified by widowhood or invalidity but not in receipt of social welfare pensions on this account. [More…]
This Government has come in for a great deal of unfair criticism because of its welfare policies. [More…]
The amount paid by this Government for welfare - that is, for social services, repatriation and health - represents a much higher percentage of the total Budget than that paid by Labor in its last year of office. [More…]
Of all the criticisms which (he Labor Party could have offered against the Liberal-Country Party Government those relating to social welfare are by far the weakest. [More…]
I want to draw the attention of honourable members to just some of the very great improvements in social welfare which have been introduced by this Government during the past 2 to 3 years. [More…]
1 chose to speak on welfare because the Government has been unfairly criticised by uninformed people and by the Opposition for its welfare policies. [More…]
We stand committed to the development of this nation in every way and to the welfare of the people whom we were elected to serve. [More…]
So provision for the welfare of 78 per cent of Australia’s children has to wait. [More…]
; of others and of meeting the requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society. [More…]
I understand that the social welfare branch to which he is attached has not had a director for 2 years, so low does this particular area rate. [More…]
The Victorian social welfare report of last year discloses the severe overloading of staff working on parole and probation. [More…]
Here I am referring to the prison officer, the parole officer, the social welfare officer and those people who are charged with responsibility from the psychiatric aspect, namely doctors and nurses. [More…]
Prior to my election to this Parliament I had some experience in looking after the welfare of prison officers, social welfare officers and psychiatric nurses, particularly those charged with the care of people whom I might loosely term as criminal mental defectives. [More…]
In my experience in the past decade there have been dramatic changes in these institutions, but not one executive officer, whether he was a police commissioner, a comptroller of prisons, a director of mental services or a director of social welfare, has to my knowledge ever stated that he was satisfied with the existing situation. [More…]
An entirely different approach is adopted when money is required for a complete review of penal reform or social welfare corrective agencies. [More…]
This is true in the field of health and welfare where people carry out very fine research work, but because the results of the research work could be offensive or embarrassing to somebody or to the Government they are suppressed. [More…]
1 like the practice in Britain where reports are published not only on various aspects of health and welfare services but also on the broad span of public responsibility. [More…]
Is is non-violent to deny a human being the right to vote, the right to free choice of employment or the rights to equal wages, equal justice, education, health and social welfare, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, equal participation in cultural activities, freedom to choose his own spouse, the right to strike, freedom of movement, of religion, of political views, and the hundred other rights enshrined in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights? [More…]
That there is a crisis in Aboriginal welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]
That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]
My next point is that the Opposition should be asking itself a third question - whether it is right that, when men are called out on strike, no regard should be paid to the welfare of their families, who have to do without the take-home pay and consequently must live in a state of distress while the strike continues. [More…]
The administration of the Territory covers complex matters such as the welfare of Aboriginals, development and the administration functions of the Legislative Council. [More…]
Today I had the privilege of presenting to the Parliament a petition on behalf of those people, as did another Western Australian, the honourable member for Forrest (Mr Kirwan), requesting that earnest consideration be given to the crisis in Aboriginal welfare which exists in Western Australia, that urgent attention be given to providing town housing to all Aboriginal families with a breadwinner, and that further welfare assistance in the form of homemaker assistance, that is, a welfare officer to guide them in home settlement, be given. [More…]
There are some 364 applications for Aboriginal housing held by the Native Welfare Department in Perth alone. [More…]
We can only hope that the State Housing Commission or the Native Welfare Department can help them for they and others have walked the streets of Perth and met with refusal after refusal. [More…]
Must we tolerate such a situation that when a doctor prescribed to an invalid pensioner, a native, that he leave Narrogin in the country to go to Perth to receive weekly treatment at the city hospital the patient was told by some bureaucrat in the Native Welfare Department to return to the country reserve as there was no hope of city accommodation? [More…]
Though appreciated, it underlines our laxity in this field and without question leaves this country open to international criticism in the field of Aboriginal welfare. [More…]
But what amazes me is that the people responsible for the welfare of these Aboriginals accept this as a matter of course. [More…]
The records of the Aborigines Welfare Boa id relating to Crown Land reserved for the use of Aborigines were incomplete and at present action is in hand to bring those records up to date. [More…]
That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population -explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]
In my opinion this is far outside the wishes of the producer and shows a disregard for his welfare. [More…]
The grower is entitled to be told that he is a part of any scheme claimed to have been introduced for his welfare. [More…]
Honourable members may like to contrast this Chifley pension with the rates of $16 a week for a single person and $14.25 a week for each of a married couple, proposed in the present Bill, and to draw their own conclusions about the extent of the Government’s continuing interest over the years in the welfare of pensioners. [More…]
What he said as an expression of the Government’s philosophy on social welfare is worth repeating. [More…]
It was not worried about the welfare of pensioners. [More…]
This is the magnificent symbol of conservative social welfare achievement proposed for the 1970s and, to boot, there is added a means test within a means test. [More…]
To realise this one has only to look at a table showing percentage expenditures on health and welfare in this and other countries. [More…]
All that the Government proves by refusing to act in this respect is how backward it is in its thinking on welfare. [More…]
Most of what he has put forward as far as welfare thinking is concerned has been superseded. [More…]
We see no radical rethinking, no fresh concepts emerging, no efforts to remould the sort of welfare practices, policies and values which apply in this community and yet clearly we need new values. [More…]
We need a system of welfare programmes that will back this up. [More…]
It is not of much use giving money to people with need and more especially people with chronic need unless you have the welfare services to back up this sort of assistance to help people to become selfsufficient, to maintain their self-respect and to uphold their personal dignity. [More…]
Canada and Australia are comparable countries in this sort of thing and certainly in economic terms and the social welfare programmes that this country is capable of achieving, lt is quite clear that Australia has the capacity to introduce this sort of system for the benefit of the community. [More…]
We have the power to do it and having the power we must fulfil the responsibility to introduce these things; to give people a sense of security and to assure them that the community is concerned about their welfare and that in times of crisis need especially there will bc adequate support for them. [More…]
We must introduce a system of regionalised social welfare programmes, a subject I have raised many times before in this House. [More…]
I conclude by suggesting that this House should refer the total area of social welfare, not only the benefits now provided but also the funds of services which should be provided, both financially and by way of welfare programmes backing up financial services, to a select committee of this House so that we can have some objective, in depth, analyses of the needs in this community and so that appropriate recommendations may be made to this House on the kind of policy which should be developed in the future. [More…]
There has been too much secrecy surrounding the work conducted by the Department of Social Services on policy matters affecting the welfare of many human beings. [More…]
The reforms in the area of social welfare introduced by that Labor Government make a long list. [More…]
This is a question of social welfare, and in fact we have all expressed concern about this situation. [More…]
1 remember making a speech in this place about an unmarried mother who was paid a social welfare benefit of 35/- a week. [More…]
This situation has been brought about by the Government’s total lack of coherent planning or policy in social welfare matters, combined with a complete lack of responsibility in its decisions affecting the Australian economy. [More…]
However, the needs of such people are far from placated, and all the other desirable features of a comprehensive social welfare scheme are ignored. [More…]
The article refers to the proportion of gross national product which is expended by a number of countries on social welfare. [More…]
The Scandinavian countries spend 10.9 per cent of their gross national product on social welfare; the member countries of the European Economic Community spend 15.2 per cent; Canada 9.9 per cent; the United Kingdom 8.6 per cent; Switzerland 8.2 per cent; New Zealand 6.6 per cent; the United States of America 5.9 per cent; and in Australia the figure is down to 5.5 per cent. [More…]
The Canadian pension plan was introduced in 1968. lt is a comprehensive welfare programme. [More…]
shelter, vocational training, household supplies, tools of trade, health care and welfare services. [More…]
It is not related to a national welfare scheme. [More…]
I believe that we have reached the stage in this country where there is a need for a royal commission to inquire into the whole question of social welfare. [More…]
Yet when there is the possibility of export rape seed, field peas, feed barley, and six-row barley we find that investment and effort have not been put into the production of seed crops, some old and some new, which could very welt have a marked effect on the future export potential and welfare of this country. [More…]
That the capital cost of welfare works is higher than the amounts which can be raised by community service organisations or local government authorities on a voluntary basis [More…]
Naturally, all of us feel that our own political party has a unique contribution to make towards the welfare of the people of our country. [More…]
What is more, they can be made to serve as a basis for the sound formulation of social and welfare policies. [More…]
Many of Australia’s most urgent needs are in the fields of education, health and public welfare, urban development, and financial assistance to underdeveloped countries. [More…]
Let me add two further points about the Chifley social welfare programme. [More…]
On the other hand, we must talk about it because the contents of this Bill, and especially the way in which the Bill was foreshadowed, raise fundamental questions as to what our attitudes should be on not only pensions but also the whole social welfare system in Australia. [More…]
Instead of discussing the social welfare aims appropriate in an affluent democracy and instead of discussing need, all of us too often have been content to deal in statistics, averages, percentages, tables, indices and summaries and having exhausted all these things, in reciprocal abuse. [More…]
The announcement came as a shabby kind of repudiation of all the protestations by the Government, at the time of the introduction of the Budget in August of last year and in a debate only a couple of weeks before this measure was introduced, that no more money could be found for pensioners or for any form of social welfare. [More…]
That is the contribution that is made for pensioner welfare in the face of ever increasing costs in the community. [More…]
The European Economic Community countries pay out 15.2 per cent of their gross national product in social welfare, Scandinavia pays 10.9 per cent, Canada 9.9 per cent, the United Kingdom 8.6 per cent, Switzerland 8.2 per cent, New Zealand 6.6 per cent, the United States 5.9 per cent and Australia, with a means test loaded on to it, pays 5.5 per cent, trailing all those countries with which we ought to be able to compare ourselves. [More…]
There was a time when Australia was either in front or near the front as far as its social welfare provisions were concerned. [More…]
It is a poor show that many of the grants which the Government makes to help pensioners in the provision of housing, senior citizens centres, domiciliary services and welfare offices are conditional on local governments or State governments matching those grants. [More…]
Although not as eloquently as the honourable member has asked I want to know when debates on social welfare will get out of the level of We gave them more than you gave them when you were in office’. [More…]
If we have progressed so much surely our hopes and aspirations with regard to social welfare should also have risen. [More…]
1 believe, as the honourable member for Maribyrnong does, that we should have a national inquiry into social welfare and we should genuinely try to remove social services from the realm of politics. [More…]
1 cannot recall - I am sure that the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) will agree - one Budget when the Press, the television stations and the people of this country have universally said ‘What a wonderful Budget for the people of this country’ or ‘What a wonderful welfare Budget this is’. [More…]
Mr Sheridan, the officer at Wyong of the State Department of Social Welfare, had been handling the case. [More…]
In helping this woman he went as far as the State Department of Social Welfare can go. [More…]
We need a social welfare system with flexibility, one that does not require a person to fit into section A sub-section (1. [More…]
In a proper social welfare system the basis for assistance would be need and no other qualification should be necessary. [More…]
On top of that they are expected to assist in meeting the welfare needs of the community. [More…]
They have used the pensioners and social welfare purely and simply as a political football. [More…]
The Combined Pensioners Association has attested constantly to the inadequacy of existing provisions for those who through infirmity, ill fortune or old age have been forced to rely for extended periods on the benefits of our so-called welfare state. [More…]
Although the goals and principles of Labor’s social welfare policy have been set out, the necessary administrative flexibility will only be possible if all involved recognised that the content of social welfare is the process of interaction of all involved. [More…]
The success of Labor’s approach to planning for the future in this field will depend on the willingness of both social security and social service agencies to work together for the social and political goals involved, and on the co-operation achieved among social, medical, vocational and other members of the welfare establishment. [More…]
The real danger facing the Australia of the future is that we could retain the post-depression neurosis as the basis for our thinking about welfare. [More…]
It is essential for Labor to be aware of the rationalisations behind this relegation of welfare to the bottom of the priority list. [More…]
For example, it is often argued that the development of adequate welfare programmes would reduce the will to work or reduce the competitive struggle which keeps society going. [More…]
One need only look at those countries which have highly developed welfare- services - such as Canada and Scandanavia - to see that productivity continues to remain high, and improves as the standard of living improves. [More…]
Labor is aware that the wrong questions have been asked about welfare expenditure over the post-war period. [More…]
The needlessly expensive consequences of inadequate social welfare provision can be well illustrated by considering the immediate cost of the breakdown of a single large family. [More…]
The result is the reverse of the pattern predicted by the knockers of welfare programming. [More…]
The most important item of the welfare programme must therefore be the development of a new spirit in this country - a spirit of human fellowship which will create a collective national effort for better conditions for all members of the community. [More…]
In determining the appropriate content for the social welfare programme one of the greatest difficulties is to decide how much emphasis should be placed on meeting the needs of individuals and families in trouble and how much to place on overall schemes which improve the standard of living of the whole community. [More…]
It is unrealistic to expect that decentralisation of functions such as education, social welfare, urban planning, resource development and law enforcement can be achieved without a regionalisation of local and semi-government authorities and a rationalisation of finances. [More…]
Nearly 1 million Australians remain impoverished because our social welfare services are still fragmented, archaic and inadequate. [More…]
If the demand exceeds the resources and the money is raised only to send it competing for the demands, that is bad economics and bad for the welfare of the people of Australia. [More…]
The Commonwealth assists development generally by helping to create a climate for investment, by making available grants and loans, by establishing special financial channels to assist private enterprise, and by investment in such responsibilities as civil aviation, telecommunications, health, social welfare, basic research and exploration programmes, in none of these things does the Government act unilaterally. [More…]
My colleagues have already pointed out other areas of great need - housing, urban renewal, social services at the Federal level as compared with social welfare at the State level, the Matrimonial Causes Act and the legal aid that surrounds that Act, public transport and so on. [More…]
There are the Australian Forestry Council, the Australian Minerals Council, the Australian Water Resources Council, the Australian Fisheries Council, the Australian Agricultural Council, the Australian Council for Aboriginal Affairs, the Australian Transport Advisory Council, child and social welfare committees, the Standing Committee of Attorneys-General and the Australian Education Council. [More…]
It has to maximise the welfare of the people. [More…]
Some of the important matters which the States administer include housing, decentralisation, urban development, education, health, social welfare and transport. [More…]
To sum up, the economic welfare on which social and cultural welfare depend will be advanced or retarded according to how we utilise our resources. [More…]
Productivity is largely dependent on individual attitudes, and our national welfare and success in the broadest possible terms depend on the continued development of a positive approach to the manifold problems of using our limited resources in the most efficient way possible. [More…]
Our task is to ensure that growth really does lead to an increase in welfare, remembering that welfare consists not only of the quantity of goods and services which we produce but also of the quality of the environment in which we consume them. [More…]
At the same time they spoke about introducing a national superannuation scheme for social welfare benefits. [More…]
The results of the Department’s research into personnel practices, industrial training and industrial welfare are widely disseminated. [More…]
Is it a fact that the position of Director of Social Welfare, Northern Territory Administration, has no permanent occupant. [More…]
Has the Public Service Board been asked to give a certificate in accordance with section 38 of the Public Service Act in relation to the position of Director of Social Welfare, Northern Territory Administration. [More…]
There is a position of Director, Projects and Services Branch in the Welfare Division of the Northern Territory Administration, lt is a new position and has no permanent occupant at present. [More…]
The former Director, Welfare Branch, who is now Assistant Administrator, Welfare Division, is carrying out the statutory responsibility of the Director of Welfare for the time being. [More…]
It is a matter which does concern their general welfare. [More…]
in the exercise of his rights everyone shall bc subject to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing recognition nf the rights of others and of meeting the requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society. [More…]
Included in this figure are 153,000 wards of the nation for whom basic responsibility lies with the Ministry of Social Welfare. [More…]
The Ministry of Social Welfare in Vietnam has indicated that it is not completely correct to speak of ‘destitute orphans’: those not being cared for by the Government are, for the most part, cared for in family groups. [More…]
The matter of adoption of foreign children in Australia is one which chiefly concerns Child Welfare Authorities in each of the Australian Slates. [More…]
The Vietnamese Ministry of Social Welfare and Refugees and the Ministry of Health have advised that, generally speaking, the Government of Vietnam does not favour the adoption of Vietnamese children in foreign countries. [More…]
But because we are accustomed to the subdued attitude of the population we become alarmed when people express their displeasure at our ineptitude in foreign policy or social welfare programmes or salary provisions. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party must ask itself whether it wants to jettison or desert a country that has the welfare of 14 million people under its control. [More…]
Surgeon General Jesse L. Steinfeld disclosed all of the actions at a hearing of a Senate Commerce Sub-committee following their approval by the Secretaries of Health, Education and Welfare, Agriculture and Interior. [More…]
A circular on 2,4,5-T was published by the United States Department of Agriculture, Department of the Interior, and Department of Health, Education and Welfare on 15 April 1970. [More…]
Firstly, welfare has become a matter of politics, rather than humanity. [More…]
In 1952, the then Minister for Commerce and Agriculture, introducing the Fisheries Bill, informed the House that the intention of the legislation was to provide for conservation of the fishery resources of Australia, The Government now believes that the Act should be broadened to provide not only for conservation but also for the orderly conduct and general welfare of the fishing industry, including the rational utilisation of the living marine resources and the rational development of the fishing industry at all levels. [More…]
That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]
In other words it was not to be considered as though it were a welfare service. [More…]
Human welfare and real people are involved iri this. [More…]
But there has never been an advance in social welfare, or in public economic management that such members have ever received in any other way. [More…]
We are, of course, very concerned about the welfare of the people who live in these areas. [More…]
As the welfare and development of Aboriginals affect more than one department, a ministerial committee will be appointed to study the special needs and problems of Aboriginals and to advise ways of improving them. [More…]
These vary from day to day but range across such matters as the state of the economy, the Commonwealth’s role in welfare, relations with the States - so important in a Federation - and external relations and defence. [More…]
Thus we have the situation in Victoria referred to by the Maternal and Child Welfare Officer of South Melbourne Council, Doctor Dora Bialestock, who was quoted in the ‘Age’ of 14th November last year as saying that the largest portion of the Victorian Government’s subsidy for preschools was going to the more affluent suburbs. [More…]
While it guarantees to all children in the Australian Capital Territory the right to 1 year of preschool education, the assistance which the Commonwealth gives to the States in the form of capital grants for pre-school teacher colleges if of only marginal assistance and reflects a sense of concern for the welfare of Australian children which is only slightly greater than English governments in the eighteenth century showed towards Dame Schools. [More…]
State governments are made up of good men and true who have regard for public welfare. [More…]
It provides recreation facilities, swimming pools, athletic areas, parks, playgrounds, and welfare programmes for youth and the aged. [More…]
Now, this expenditure is taken from the National Welfare Fund, as I think it is” called. [More…]
It ought to be the aim of a Commonwealth government, a national government, which has the long range national welfare at heart, to see that every university comes up to the ideal standard that we have at the Australian National University. [More…]
I continued to press his case after his induction and his psychiatrist in Perth, on hearing that he was in the Army, wrote immediately to the Department saying that it was his opinion that this lad should not be in the Army because that would be extremely detrimental to his health and welfare. [More…]
The Minister-in-Charge of Aboriginal Affairs corresponded last year with the Minister for Native Welfare in Western Australia about the amendment of discriminatory provisions in legislation affecting Aborigines. [More…]
It did so, as I recall, against a background of concern that the care, development and welfare of children whose mothers worked should be safeguarded. [More…]
Further there are the areas of social welfare, works, the defence Services and so on. [More…]
Most important of those would be the attention to be given to Aboriginal welfare. [More…]
There are others in this Parliament, certainly in my own Party, who are better qualified than I am to speak on Aboriginal welfare. [More…]
We on this side of the House regard ourselves as having an equal right at least - and I say that with some reservations - to debate the measures which affect the community and the welfare of this country which is so sadly and shockingly neglected by those who sit on the Government benches. [More…]
I would need 21/2 hours to point out to honouraoble members opposite how dismally they have failed in regard to social welfare, education and defence, you name it. [More…]
It is true that the reduced immigration programme for this year will provide an opportunity, as I said in my statement on the size of the programme, to extend and develop our welfare and education activities amongst migrants. [More…]
We must take other welfare and social aspects into account. [More…]
We consider welfare, protectionism and qualitative aspects also. [More…]
There is always pain in adapting to a new situation but there is no reason why that pain should be made greater by people who are not concerned with their welfare but with some political advantage. [More…]
In conclusion I would just make a plea for the social welfare of these people. [More…]
Under the States Grants (Home Care) Act, financial assistance may be granted by the Commonwealth to the States in relation to the provision of Home Care Services and Senior Citizens’ Centres, and welfare officers employed in connection with Senior Citizens’ Centres. [More…]
Since the company is a major fruit cannery in the Shepparton region these difficulties, without some degree of alleviation, would have serious consequences for the stability of the industry, the welfare of growers and the welfare of the whole Shepparton area generally. [More…]
The present system operates in an uncoordinated fashion with the Minister for the Interior prevailing on the one hand over so many matters concerning the Northern Territory and with, on the other hand, the Northern Territory Administration and the Director of Native Welfare and his personnel infiltrating into certain spheres of operation there. [More…]
Some of the Scandinavian countries achieve the same result through social services or social welfare. [More…]
As I said earlier, honourable members on both sides of the House have had quite numerous representations made to them recently by local governing authorities suggesting that payments should be made directly from the Commonwealth to the local authorities to assist them in such works as the abatement of rates to people in receipt of age pen sions, the provision of certain social welfare services such as child minding centres and baby health centres, and the various kinds of relief work that local authorities are called upon to perform in the nature of social services but for which no direct payment is made to the local authorities and which has to be met out of their rates. [More…]
I should say, Sir, that alcohol is banned from native reserves unless there is a special dispensation by the Social Welfare Department in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The honourable member will also be aware that the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare is currently taking evidence. [More…]
What percentage of the gross national product was spent on health, education and welfare and what percentage was spent by (a) all public authorities and (b) all private sources, during each of the past S years. [More…]
Can he state for the latest years available those countries in which the total expenditure on health, education and welfare expressed as a percentage of their gross national product exceeds that of Australia. [More…]
Complete information is not available for personal consumption expenditure on health and no estimates are prepared for private sector expenditure on welfare services. [More…]
Estimates of public authority current and capital expenditure on public health and welfare are published jn Australian National Accounts (tables 64 and 74 of the 1968-69 issue), and an estimate of private gross fixed capital expenditure on new buildings for health services is available from the building statistics collection. [More…]
The estimates of expenditure on education and public health in the accompanying table may of course be compared with similar figures for other countries, and the honourable member is referred to the United Nations Yearbook of National Accounts Statistics’, which shows for many countries, current expenditure oa education and health, and public authority current expenditure on welfare. [More…]
Is he able to say whether similar surveys are carried out in other advanced countries; if so, do these surveys form the basis of welfare policies in those countries. [More…]
If the position is as stated will he direct that this important survey be conducted and repeated at reasonable intervals so that the welfare policies of Australia can be continually improved by regular comparison with other comparable countries. [More…]
Many countries conducted official surveys of family or household incomes and expenditure, and it is understood that the results of such surveys are useful in connection with welfare policy and administration. [More…]
As explained in the answer to the previous question asked by the Honourable Member, the admin istration of education by the Commonwealth in the Northern Territory is shared by the Department of Education and Science and the Welfare Branch of the Northern Territory Administration. [More…]
My Government has also reviewed important aspects of social welfare. [More…]
The effective development of an adequate social welfare system, to which I have pledged my Government, depends heavily on a good working arrangement between the Commonwealth and the States. [More…]
I have tried to trace through something of the impact of this lack of trust and the pervading presence of outside influence on Cabinet on one important sector of public policy, that is the defence of this country and the welfare of members of the forces. [More…]
maternal and child welfare, [More…]
(a) and (b), (i) and (ii), (A) and (B) The following tables show enrolments in Northern Territory Community Schools operated by my Department and enrolments in ‘ schools operated by the Welfare Branch of the Northern Territory Administration. [More…]
What were the names and portfolios of the Ministers who attended the Conference of Child Welfare Ministers in Hobart on 18th March 1971? [More…]
Vietnamisation has tended to become the sort of catchcry that is used for the justification of many activities, but in governmental action, in the capacity of the South Vietnamese forces to defend themselves and in the field of assistance and social welfare policies this Government in South Vietnam is beginning to reach out to the people to an extent that it never had before. [More…]
The only reason for this is that the Commonwealth Government - this Government which claims to have some sort of a social welfare policy - has an absolute contempt for people who are psychiatric patients. [More…]
The health of Aborigines is of major concern to Government and special health and hygiene services including infant welfare clinics are provided in Aboriginal communities. [More…]
Recent inquiries made by welfare officers of Aboriginal shoppers have also indicated that there is no substance to this allegation. [More…]
But I cannot help feel that in large measure it is a power given to judges to bolster their need for believing that the sentences they impose will not be undone by subsequent decisions by psychologists, social and welfare workers, and others who are charged with the duty of observing prisoners and assessing their chances of successful reintegration into society. [More…]
Its members consist of the Director-General of Social Welfare and 3 other members who at present are the Chairman of the Prisoners’ Aid Society, an ex-Chief Parole Officer, and a medical practitioner. [More…]
The parole boards receive opinions from psychiatrists, psychologists, prison officials and welfare people, and with the growing experience and expertise that they, acquire, they make a decision as to, whether a prisoner should be released by being parolled. [More…]
There is nothing in the Ordinance to direct a departmental officer or officers to take account of medical reports, psychological reports or reports of social or welfare officers, or to take account of the opportunities or lack of opportunities for gainful employment outside gaol. [More…]
The Government has taken no specific action on this recommendation; however it was aware that the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare had received a referral related to this subject. [More…]
We must never ignore from now on the welfare and security of the South Pacific, to which area the Minister for Foreign Affairs very properly devoted a large part of his statement. [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to inserting the following words in place thereof: ‘the House condemns the Budget because (a) it breaks the Prime Minister’s pledge to Parliament on taking office to bring into effect for 1971-72 a fundamental review of social services and of methods for adjusting them, (b) it contains no proposals to balance the finances and functions of the Commonwealth, the States and local government and (c) it produces no programmes for high national objectives of social welfare, economic strength and national security.’ [More…]
It reflects not a justifiable concern for the welfare of family farms impoverished through no fault of their owners, but the servitude of the Minister for Trade and Industry to large scale and corporate farming interests and the servitude of the Prime Minister to the banks. [More…]
Perhaps nothing so clearly demonstrates the bankruptcy of the Government’s social welfare policy than its gesture on pensions. [More…]
They are often utilised and varied for causes of social justice and welfare, but they are pre-eminent. [More…]
The degrees of difficulty have to be borne in mind against 2 principles which ought to motivate a Budget analysis: What are the welfare provisions in it and what are the attitudes within that Budget to the position of human capital? [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition spent very little time dealing with the welfare provisions in this Budget, and well he might because within those economic constructions the welfare provisions have been real; they have Men generous and they have been just. [More…]
The attitudes to family welfare, almost not mentioned by the Leader of the Opposition, in view of his adoption of a new, strange family code at Launceston, are well understood. [More…]
But the attitudes to family welfare are also real in this Budget. [More…]
I have indicated that two of the welfare aspects of a Budget are its attitude to social welfare and its attitude to human capital. [More…]
So the strategy is to dampen down Australia’s economic growth - already one of the lowest among the advanced nations of the Western world - ignore the needs for upgrading education, health and welfare services and to take no effective remedial action to end the rural slump. [More…]
Again I am reminded by the presence of the Minister for the Navy that if a member seeks to gain access to a psychologist’s report, a psychiatrist’s report or a welfare officer’s report that might have been acted upon he will be told: *No, it is confidential. [More…]
Can we take it that the Minister’s rebuff is the sole product of the trumpeted review to improve social welfare promised by the Prime Minister in March this year? [More…]
That all words after That’ be omitted with a view to inserting the following words in place thereof: ‘the House condemns the Budget because (a) it breaks the Prime Minister’s pledge to Parliament on taking office to bring into effect for 1971-72 a fundamental review of social services and of methods for adjusting them, (b) it contains no proposals to balance the finances and functions of the Commonwealth, the States and local government and (c) it produces no programmes for high national objectives of social welfare, economic strength and national security’. [More…]
We must give incentives to production and development and we must protect our social security, educate our children and guard our national security and welfare. [More…]
I commend the Government generally on the increase in social welfare expenditure, including repatriation expenditure which this year will reach a record figure of $2,095m, some $268m more than last year. [More…]
Even though the total amount spent on social welfare is the largest single item in Government expenditure, few people will disagree with the Government’s determination to give this increased assistance to people who need and deserve it. [More…]
Responsible people, including ministers of religion and people who have interested themselves in the welfare of those who deserve consideration, have urged me that this should be done so that people may have greater access to departmental representatives. [More…]
It is in the interests of all Australians that Australia should continue to have a vigorous trade union movement fighting for the welfare not only of its members, but also of retired people, primary producers and others throughout the country. [More…]
They include the increased expenditure in social welfare, education and, of course, the increase in assistance to primary industry. [More…]
When we take into account the increases in salaries and wages that other honourable members have referred to the real level of expenditure on Aboriginal welfare has not gone up by a great amount. [More…]
The Budget announced no new programmes in Aboriginal welfare. [More…]
There is a need, again in the field of Aboriginal welfare, for a programme of rehousing Aboriginals living in the cities. [More…]
The doctors in the scheme expressed the view that one of the merits of their system of practice was the ability to deliver medical services without concern for the economic welfare of the individual patient. [More…]
In all, these measures, taken together with other matters of a welfare nature, will involve an expenditure in excess of $2,000m. [More…]
This benefit will be of enormous assistance to all those pensioners and widows with dependent children, and indicates the concern of this Government to provide for their welfare and assistance. [More…]
He has attempted to undertake this therapy by doing welfare work in the service of others. [More…]
He was the President and Chairman of Welfare of all branches of ‘Shiralee’ the association for divorced, separated and deserted men and women. [More…]
He was also a contact and welfare offiicer of the Good Neighbour Council of South Australia. [More…]
He has also assisted with other types of welfare services in the community. [More…]
The position is that this gentleman is not allowed to claim, for taxation purposes, any of the money he has spent on doing welfare work for others in the community. [More…]
That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]
Henty in the work of Dr Kalokerinos in the field of the welfare of Aboriginal children, particularly in parts of the central north west of New South Wales, and of his views on the importance of vitamin C. Dr Kalokerinos has recently been in parts of the Northern Territory and has been examining what are in his view the causes of infant mortality there, particularly in Alice Springs. [More…]
I now come to the provisions of the Bill which are specifically oriented towards the family and the welfare of children. [More…]
No worthwhile government will ever feel that it has solved all the social welfare problems which confront it, but it will always seek to deal with them as best as it can within available resources. [More…]
This Government places its greatest emphasis upon improvements in social welfare. [More…]
Thirdly, the Leader of the Opposition claims that the Budget produced no programmes for high national objectives of social welfare, economic strength and national security. [More…]
and (3) Under the Social Welfare Ordinance 1964-1971, the Director of Social Welfare hat authority to provide assistance to persons, including pensioners, who are in need of it. [More…]
The final point I wish to make is that the relationship of one country to another in an exchange sense is vital to its economic and trading interests and when we do take our decision we will, as the Prime Minister said in his statement, take a decision that is in the best interests of the country’s economy and the welfare of its people. [More…]
the matters which I have mentioned we can now in this Parliament, thanks to last Friday’s historic decision by the High Court, at last achieve national codes in matters which concern the welfare of all Australians. [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to inserting the following words in place thereof: ‘the House condemns the Budget because (a) it breaks the Prime Minister’s pledge to Parliament on taking office to bring into effect for 1971-72 a fundamental review of social services and of methods for adjusting them, (b) it contains no proposals to balance the finances and functions of the Commonwealth, the States and local government and (c) it produces no programmes for high national objectives of social welfare, economic strength and national security.’ [More…]
I will deal with economic and social welfare matters during the debate on the Estimates. [More…]
There is pressure for increased welfare benefits, social service benefits, repatriation benefits, assistance to the family man and assistance to the States. [More…]
This Government and the people of this country, our trade, our prosperity and our future welfare will be determined by the diktat issued from Washington; make no mistake about that. [More…]
Left unchecked, the rate of price increases would soon erode the gains we propose for pensioner and other social welfare recipients. [More…]
The Budget in fact provides for substantial increases in social welfare, defence, education and the arts, assistance to rural industries, and other areas of essential activity. [More…]
But let me just mention social welfare as one example. [More…]
The Government looked at various possible measures in the social welfare field. [More…]
Unlike the Leader of the Opposition, my Government has acted responsibly by matching its welfare programme to what we have judged can reasonably be raised from taxation and other revenue sources. [More…]
These increases in pensions, child endowment and other social welfare and repatriation benefits should ensure a welcome improvement in the standard of living of those dependent on them, even after allowing for the faster rate of price rises. [More…]
I have already mentioned our social welfare programme. [More…]
We are also making substantial contributions to Aboriginal welfare, to education and the arts, and we have established a department whose functions include examination of environmental problems. [More…]
It is a Budget which will help us achieve our great national aims of economic strength and prosperity, social welfare, and security. [More…]
He will ignore the real issues affecting Australia and endeavour to run an election on false and despicable issues ignorning the mess in foreign affairs, education, health services, social welfare, etc. [More…]
There should be committees such as a standing committee on health and welfare set up in this place. [More…]
Let us set up a committee on health, a committee on social welfare and a committee on trade practices. [More…]
He knows that the strength and the health of the United States economy is of vital importance to the welfare of the free world and he knows that the future of Australia is to a very significant degree dependent upon the proper discharge of those responsibilities which have been accepted by the United States Government during the last 30 years. [More…]
The House condemns the Budget because (a) lt breaks the Prime Minister’s pledge to Parliament on taking office to bring into effect for 1971-72 a fundamental review of social services and of methods for adjusting them, (b) it contains no proposals to balance the finances and functions of the Commonwealth, the States and local government and (c) it produces no programmes for high national objectives of social welfare, economic strength and national security’. [More…]
The estimated ‘cost of the above proposals as a percentage of estimated expenditure for 1971-72 from (a) the National Welfare Fund and (b) by the Commonwealth Government from the Consolidated Revenue Fund, is as follows: [More…]
In regard to the recommendation concerning an inquiry into the problems associated with the special care and treatment of the physically and mentally handicapped of all ages, this recommendation is closely related to the series of recommendations made by the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare in its Report on Mentally and Physically Handicapped Persons in Australia which was tabled on 5th May 1971. [More…]
Complete figures were not available for South Australia, but the Department of Social Welfare and Aboriginal Affairs reports that 94 Aboriginal children are known to have attended pre-schools in 1969. [More…]
As at 30th June 1969, 342’ children were known to the Commissioner of Native Welfare to be attending pre-schools in Western Australia. [More…]
In 1969, 540 Aboriginal children were attending Administration (Welfare Branch) pre-schools in the Northern Territory; 150 were attending mission pre-schools and 79 were attending community pre-schools operated by the Department of Education and Science - a total of 769 children. [More…]
Much of the current thought on future planning stems from the many recommendations made at a Workshop on Health and Nutrition in Aboriginal Children held in Sydney in December 1969 and which was .attended by representatives of Universities, Public Health Departments and workers from welfare and social organisations. [More…]
The function of the Chaplain is, in liaison with the Police Chaplaincy Advisory Council consisting of representatives of Papua New Guinea churches, to give assistance to members of the Regular Constabulary in matters of religion, morality and welfare, in particular by arranging for services, pastoral care and other facilities for the free exercise of the religion of members. [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to inserting the following words in place thereof: ‘the House condemns the Budget because (a) it breaks the Prime Minister’s pledge to Parliament on taking office to bring into effect for 1971-72 a fundamental review of social services and of methods for adjusting them, (b) it contains no proposals to balance the finances and functions of the Commonwealth, the States and local government and (c) it produces no programmes for high national objectives of social welfare, economic strength and national security’. [More…]
One was the failure of the Government to provide programmes for high national objectives of social welfare, economic strength and national security. [More…]
Four of these settlement hospitals have infant welfare clinics. [More…]
In recommending this, I do not detract from the excellent work that has been done by the nursing staffs, by the Welfare Branch of the Northern Territory Administration and by everyone connected with the running of these hospitals. [More…]
We believe that much more needs to be spent on social welfare, Aboriginal welfare, education and other important fields. [More…]
My view is that State aid should be for the welfare of the State and for all the people in it. [More…]
Unless we can throw off the crushing burden of rural industry, led to bankruptcy and bewilderment by this Government, we can never really afford the urgent measures so desperately needed in the fields of social welfare, Aboriginal welfare, education and all the rest. [More…]
Three main sections of the Budget account for some 56,231 m. They include defence, the first responsibility of a national government, which will require SI, 252m, and the national welfare fund and repatriation, over $2,000m. [More…]
If in a Budget of $8.654m a sum of about S2,000m is for social welfare, surely this represents a reasonable deal for the people concerned. [More…]
In the field of social welfare spokesmen for the Government continually assert that its welfare policies are based on the formula of first assisting those most in need. [More…]
At every opportunity the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) and his predecessor have always claimed that the Government’s welfare policies are based on the premise - I repeat it - of assisting those most in need. [More…]
It certainly appears to be a callous rejection of the welfare of a section of the population who have been written off as useless because they are no longer productive. [More…]
The Government has reversed the election promise to reduce taxation; it has ignored the pledge to pay special attention to the chronically ill; it has sabotaged the undertaking to establish a national system of kindergarten child minding” centres; it has failed in its social welfare programme to make adequate provision for those most in need; it has forgotten its indication to act on the report of the nation-wide survey on education. [More…]
That small percentage of people pays 471 per cent or 47c in the dollar in income tax which goes primarily to the welfare funds and which is spent by the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth), lt goes to the States and to defence. [More…]
a joint select committee should be established to inquire into and report upon the social welfare needs of the Australian community’. [More…]
The Prime Minister has dishonoured - as indeed has the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) - an important promise to many people in Australia who had been expectantly looking forward to a fairly radical alteration and improvement in the system of providing social welfare benefits and services in the community. [More…]
One would have expected too that in this Budget the opportunity would have been taken to define a broad programme not only involving social security payments but actual welfare services and mobilising the resources available in the community against poverty in the community. [More…]
This calls, of course, not only for the provision of adequate social security payments but the development of welfare services in the community; an appreciation that a complex of services has to be mobilised and integrated within the community to combat this problem. [More…]
I have mentioned before the need for regionalised development of our welfare services to back up this sort of programme of which 1 am speaking. [More…]
1 will not develop that again today but 1 would add that we do need to establish a parliamentary joint select committee on social welfare. [More…]
We have not had such a committee since the 1940s with the result that we are still proceeding, so far as the social services and social welfare benefits at the federal level are concerned, according to reflexes learnt in the 1940s - several decades ago - and which were the product of people who had been through a traumatic experience of a major world depression that shattered this country and a major world war which also seriously disrupted it. [More…]
Australia now ranks as one of the 4 wealthiest countries and accordingly is in an eminently suitable position to provide much more generous benefits financially and much more adequate services in terms of welfare assistance in the field than it has done so far. [More…]
If we had such a joint committee, which I repeat we have not had since the 1940s, there would be an appropriate opportunity to develop something which we badly need - a philosophy behind what we are doing in social welfare. [More…]
We will be backing up all that we are proposing for social security with the development of regionalised welfare services. [More…]
Australia as the fourth wealthiest nation in the world should be the leader, the innovator the great laboratory of social welfare inventiveness, innovation and improvement in the world. [More…]
Expenditure on social welfare and repatriation now constitutes the largest single item of expenditure in the Budget. [More…]
In conclusion, I repeat that no government should be expected to take over the entire responsibility of caring for those in need while members of their families contribute little to their welfare. [More…]
It is meant to demonstrate, admittedly in just a small way, that we are concerned and that we protest at the fact that in spite of all of the Government’s hints, suggestions, promises and implications to the contrary, the Government has still produced no basic rethinking or restructuring of the Australian social welfare system. [More…]
I have said in earlier debates that one of our greatest difficulties and frustrations in trying to get to grips with the social welfare system as it exists, and as it appears likely to develop, is the lack of definition and purpose. [More…]
If nothing else it would at least clarify the social welfare differences between the Government and the Opposition and enable the public to judge our relative positions more sensibly than they are now able to do. [More…]
I believe that it can be realistically said that each one of these concessions meets, or is designed to meet, some social welfare aim. [More…]
But obviously social welfare aims which are met on this basis will be met haphazardly at best and perhaps not at all. [More…]
If we were clear in our own minds as to what our social welfare aims are and confident enough that they were right, we might just pluck up enough courage to say to the electorate something like this- ‘Look, we know how much you love a tax deduction.’ [More…]
Firstly, the taxation deduction system as a welfare instrument is regressive and totally haphazard. [More…]
On that progression it would probably be modest to estimate that the cost to revenue this year will be approximately $l,400m, or $200m more than the cost of our entire social welfare programme because, as the Minister for Social Services indicated in his second reading speech, our entire programme for the forthcoming year is estimated to cost only $l,187m. [More…]
In other words, we could double the funding of our social welfare programme by re-allocating the sums now foregone in what can roughly be regarded as social welfare tax concessions. [More…]
There is the special role of accommodation in any consideration of a social welfare system. [More…]
It is interesting to note that the Minister for Social Services, as a backbencher in many of his contributions to social welfare debates, was a fervent advocate for the abolition of the means test. [More…]
Paragraph (6) states: a joint select committee should be established to inquire into and report upon the social welfare needs of the Australian community. [More…]
The honourable member for Hume (Mr Pettitt) said earlier that this Budget provided for a record expenditure on social welfare. [More…]
Even if we do not increase any pensions, unemployment benefits, maternity benefits or child endowment, each year we would see an increase in the expenditure on social welfare simply because our population is forever increasing and because the number of people who are eligible for those benefits is increasing, So it is just futile and fatuous to talk about record expenditures. [More…]
One of the ways would be to look at how worth while are the provisions made in the legislation and to see how Australia fares in comparison with other countries in the provision of social welfare. [More…]
The latest comparative figures available in respect of general Government expenditure on health and welfare as a proportion of the gross national product are the figures for 1968. [More…]
They show that as a proportion of gross national product - that is, the value of all the goods and services any country produces in a year - Denmark spends 20.S per cent on its health and social welfare programme, the Federal Republic of Germany spends 18 per cent, Sweden spends Hi per cent, France spends 16.8 per cent, Italy spends 1S.8 per cent - honourable members will be wondering where Australia comes - the Netherlands spends 13.3 per cent, the United Kingdom spends 11.2 per cent, Norway spends 10.2 per cent, Canada spends 10.7 per cent and Australia spends 7 per cent. [More…]
There is an obvious need to examine the whole hotch potch of our social welfare programme. [More…]
I support the Labor Party’s programme to set up autonomous regional departments of welfare which will involve the co-operation of State, local and Federal authorities. [More…]
We urge too that consideration be given to the welfare of the mentally and physically handicapped and I hope that full notice will be taken of the recent inquiry carried out by the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare into this subject. [More…]
In fact, expenditure in the Budget on social welfare and repatriation is the largest single item of Commonwealth expenditure. [More…]
As a matter of fact it is the largest amount provided for social welfare in the history of the Commonwealth. [More…]
The provision of social services, repatriation benefits, health services, housing and other welfare activities will require an expenditure of $2,095m. [More…]
This is almost $268m more than last year and $78m of this increased amount represents current improvements in social welfare. [More…]
a joint select committee should be established to inquire into and report upon the social welfare needs of the Australian community’. [More…]
It is regrettable that the Government saw fit a short time ago to vote against the motion for the suspension of Standing Orders in order to allow the setting up of a committee to inquire into social welfare. [More…]
The fact that the Committee was abandoned by the present Government’s predecessors is one of the most regrettable features of the social welfare system of this country because the Committee did commendable work. [More…]
Other Labor speakers on this side of the House have ably supported the honourable member for Oxley in presenting to the Australian people the case for a real social welfare programme and not the half baked, patched up propositions brought forward by the Government. [More…]
I thought that all of these attributes fitted him to take his place in this Parliament as one of the great social welfare Ministers of our time. [More…]
But the Minister has never been able to give effect in this Parliament to the expressions on social welfare which he so ably put to this Parliament in days gone by. [More…]
With all the good intentions in the world he has proved conclusively to the Australian people and to pensioners in particular that the only way to get a social welfare programme, to which even he would subscribe, is to elect a Labor government in Australia. [More…]
This Government places its greatest emphasis upon improvements in social welfare - under previous Liberal governments we have made great strides and under future Liberal governments will make even greater advances. [More…]
That in itself is a great disappointment to him, to honourable members on this side of the House and to about one million people who thought that welfare benefits would be given as they require them. [More…]
I believe that Australians should demand a drive to provide adequate social welfare benefits in line with the amendment moved by the Opposition in order that all should enjoy the prosperity and the wealth of Australia which at this time is shared by only the fortunate few. [More…]
Consequently I condemn the broad concept of this Government’s social welfare programme but not the few meagre dollars that it is handing out. [More…]
When one looks at the record of what this Government has not done in the field of social welfare one sees that these handouts are made just tq one section of the community. [More…]
This is the pattern of the development of Liberal policies on social welfare. [More…]
It is not possible to estimate how much he has caused Victoria to lose in subsidies for welfare officers at senior citizens’ centres. [More…]
They have been contributing to the National Welfare Fund in the form of taxation and getting shrunken benefits in return. [More…]
a joint select committee should be established to inquire into and report upon the social welfare needs of the Australian community’. [More…]
I have every faith in the Minister for Social Services and in his genuine concern for the welfare of people who are dependent upon the Government for assistance. [More…]
What are the social welfare proposals within that necessary economic constraint of expenditure? [More…]
I have been intrigued to hear this afternoon the similarity between the proposals put forward by the Opposition and the proposals for a social welfare programme made by the Opposition’s other partner in power, the Austraiian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
It has neglected the economic analysis, with a fair assessment of how appropriate social welfare is to social justice within the context of the Australian economy. [More…]
A social welfare policy can be pursued only with a certain type of social engineering. [More…]
The honourable member for Griffith (Mr Donald Cameron) pointed out that the growth in the Australian work force has been a most significant engine to enable social welfare development to proceed. [More…]
I regret very much that, as the very basis for the determination of a social welfare policy, the Opposition has adopted policies with respect to Australian family codes and immigration, which is itself an addition to the work force, which run counter to every tradition that we have had in Australia. [More…]
That Party talks about social welfare and redistributist responsibilities while at the very base and soul of Australia’s development it has adopted principles which are contrary to 70 years of its own history. [More…]
These are involved in social welfare policies. [More…]
They may be outside the precise considerations of the National Welfare Fund but they are concerned in Australian social welfare. [More…]
Pensions and repatriation benefits have again been increased and social welfare spending in the current year is estimated at $2,095m. [More…]
But they are sufficient to indicate that the whole intent of the Liberal-Country Party Government is to further the advancement of our nation and the welfare of its people. [More…]
Social welfare, as I mentioned a moment ago, will this year absorb $2,095m, and education $346m. [More…]
These 4 items alone - payments to the States, social welfare, education and defence - account for $6,983m out of a total anticipated expenditure of $8,833m. [More…]
The Liberal Party attempted to discredit Labor’s estimate of costs and all of Labor’s social welfare proposals are answered by the oft repeated cry: ‘Where’s the money coming from?’ [More…]
By the standards of changes in other welfare payments, the special rate pension has been treated reasonably well. [More…]
The attendant’s allowance is a worthy welfare provision but again the application is extremely limited. [More…]
Since 1 have had the honour of being a Minister I have always appreciated their dedication to the welfare of ex-servicemen. [More…]
That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]
If we were able to study the accounts of a separate corporation dealing with postal services as closely as we should, we would note that the reasons for the deficit relate not only to interest charges but also to the fact that the Post Office provides welfare services and other very necessary services for the community generally. [More…]
These concession rates represent in effect a substantial subsidy to the publishing and printing industry and to many organisations ranging from religious, charitable and welfare organisations to social and recreational clubs. [More…]
I have no doubt that that policy pursued is in the great interests of the welfare of our economy and of the Australian people. [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to inserting the following words in place thereof: ‘the House condemns the Budget because (a) it breaks the Prime Minister’s pledge to Parliament on taking office to bring into effect for 1971-72 a fundamental review of social services and of methods for adjusting them, (b) it contains no proposals to balance the finances and functions of the Commonwealth, the States and local government and (c) it produces no programmes for high national objectives of social welfare, economic strength and national security.’ [More…]
Secondly, I appeal to them on the third ground of our amendment, that is, that this Budget produces no programmes for high national objectives of social welfare, economic strength and national security. [More…]
Thus, we have a Budget that provides nothing even in the short term that could be construed as a programme for high national objectives of social welfare, economic strength and national security. [More…]
One of the Government’s more able and energetic Ministers - the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) who is at the table at the present time - has, as he has said, prepared a scheme for improved social welfare. [More…]
For the sake of the welfare of Australia, this Government has no right to place itself at electoral risk. [More…]
However, it surely is valid economics to provide increased subsidies in relation to increased costs in favour of those citizens whose voluntary contribution to the nation’s welfare provides education for 22 per cent of Australian youth. [More…]
He said that the Budget produces no programmes for high national objectives of social welfare, economic strength or national security. [More…]
This is another reason why there would be interference to something that is already contributing greatly to the welfare of the people of Australia. [More…]
That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]
I instance for example the Jewish Family Welfare organisation in Melbourne, which has been interesting itself in this field, but lately this matter has taken on a new dimension by reason of the pioneering work done by Alderman Joan Pilone and the City Council in Sydney in the establishment of the Beehive Industries. [More…]
I gratefully acknowledge the lead that has been given in this field by such activities as those of the Jewish Welfare organisation in Melbourne and particularly of course the initiative shown by Beehive Industries in Sydney. [More…]
They too have spent their lives in an endeavour to promote the welfare of Australia and its people and they must be given consideration. [More…]
Another of the reasons why 1 am so against payroll tax being transferred to the States is that I believe this son of taxation should be used specifically for other social welfare measures - indeed, let us include child endowment. [More…]
We have done that but even these measures have not been sufficient for the State governments to be able to cope with the tremendously increased demands on their services - services which I think should have the highest priority, those that happen to fall within the responsibility of the State governments, namely health, many aspects of social welfare, and, most particularly, education. [More…]
This Budget does affect all matters including employment levels, expenditure and social welfare. [More…]
Because of this it has become traditional it is even written into standing order 81 - that the Parliament becomes the forum upon which to debate any issue affecting the welfare and happiness of the Australian people. [More…]
It produces no programme for high national objectives of social welfare, economic strength and national security. [More…]
The share of gross national expenditure going through Government hands is still far too low in order to provide adequately for the community’s needs in such areas as education, health and welfare. [More…]
Value in terms of potentially improved welfare services, improved education and improved environmental conditions will be lost and will never be achieved again no matter how much the performance of the economy is improved in subsequent years. [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to inserting the following words in place thereof: ‘the House condemns the Budget because (a) its breaks the Prime Minister’s pledge to Parliament on taking office to bring into effect for 1971-72 a fundamental review of social services and of methods for adjusting them, (b) it contains no proposals to balance the finances and functions of the Commonwealth, the States and local government and (c) it produces no programmes for high national objectives of social welfare, economic strength and national security.’ [More…]
What banking facilities are available at the Wave Hill Aboriginal Welfare Settlement in the Northern Territory. [More…]
By conscripting Australians to fight in Vietnam and now by reducing the period of service to 18 months one would think that they had made a major contribution to the welfare of the nation. [More…]
Germany: German assistance continued to be centred primarily in the field of medical care and social welfare activities. [More…]
Mekong Delta); post and communications (postal equipment and motorcycles) welfare and relief (flood relief for Central Vietnam). [More…]
That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]
This will be used for grants to non-governmental organisations for a wide range of purposes - for welfare work, adult education, the provision and running of hostels, support of the arts, crafts and cultural activities, support of youth and sporting activities, Aboriginal housing societies and for pre-schooling provided by private organisations. [More…]
The effectiveness of these policies will be measured by the rate at which progress over the coming years justifies the elimination of measures of social welfare assistance directed at Aboriginal Australians as such, by the increasing contribution to the national product by Aboriginal Australians, and also by the increasing contribution to the varied pattern of Australian social life made by their traditions and culture. [More…]
and the Government - this is what the honourable member for Chifley (Mr Armitage) and others were speaking about - never considered the interests and welfare of the people generally. [More…]
The Government announced its desire to introduce a scheme to assist with child-care centres in November last year against a background of concern that the care and welfare of the children of working parents should be adequately safeguarded and that such children should have every opportunity for the fullest development, intellectually, socially and physically. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some 9 million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
I was interested in this regard in an observation made a few weeks ago by the Premier of Queensland when talking about the difficulties which he and his Government face in recruiting sufficient people to work in the field of welfare for Aborigines, lt has often seemed to me that those who demonstrate, whatever the form of demonstration, might well look to more beneficial and fruitful form in displaying their concern than simply to seek publicity, whatever the form of search might be. [More…]
Involving, as it does, the welfare of tens of thousands of Australian families, this matter of urgency is of the utmost importance. [More…]
The passage of almost 2 years since its introduction in January last year has dramatically highlighted in the most compelling way the failure of a system whose objective is not the welfare of people, but the protection of property and profit for vested interests in the medical insurance business and the propagation of party dogma at any expense to the community. [More…]
The Government decided finally that health insurance should not be used as the vehicle for assistance to large families because other welfare measures such as taxation concessions and child endowment currently provide assistance of this nature. [More…]
We must continue our efforts to ensure that all who are eligible are aware of their eligibility, probably through greater use of social workers, charitable organisations and other appropriate welfare groups. [More…]
We must not fall into the trap, which the Opposition evidently finds so seductive, of making this another welfare State handout. [More…]
Other welfare organisations have also been contacted. [More…]
There was a lot of correspondence and consultations between the Department of Native Welfare and the Department of Health in Western Australia, the AMA and the Commonwealth departments concerned. [More…]
I have grave doubts whether in our society health or welfare services should be part of the profit making system. [More…]
Health and welfare should be a public responsibility. [More…]
To do more would flood markets and bring ruin to all in the industry; to do less would not take into account the welfare of apple producers who are disadvantaged by high wages, high costs and other matters which they believe - and I think rightly so - have come about through no fault of their own. [More…]
Indeed, it affects the whole economy of the State of Tasmania and the future of the welfare of so many of the people of that State. [More…]
1 make an appeal in this speech for a total freight freeze for the Tasmanian fruit industry and, if not a freight freeze, then a subsidy to protect the economy and welfare of the Tasmanian people. [More…]
The apple and pear industry in Tasmania has made a very great contribution to the welfare of this nation, and the people in that industry want the opportunity to continue to do just that - and they have every right to continue. [More…]
That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare In the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]
But, as I have said, the Labor Party wants to degrade it because it wants it to be a welfare organisation. [More…]
In view of the primary responsibility of the Commonwealth for pensioner welfare and the severely strained resources of the States, will the Prime Minister undertake to consider remedial action at an early date? [More…]
With this objective achieved, the focus of the Act switched to the care and welfare of returned soldiers and the dependants of those who had died. [More…]
In New Zealand any contribution that is made towards the welfare of children at school, thus saving the Government money, is an allowable deduction. [More…]
What is probably the most current and authoritative body of information is the report of the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare issued on 3 1st January 1971. [More…]
It is absolutely vital to the welfare of this country and when a political party states that it has an answer to the industrial problems of the day this Parliament should want to hear that answer. [More…]
Nothing is more depressing than to go into primary schools particularly and see evidence of the concept that we still retain that with good parents and teachers organisations and good welfare committees certain equipment can be obtained but that if these bodies do not exist a school can go begging for this equipment. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some 9 million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
As I mentioned on Tuesday night of last week, this should be seen as part of the total development of health and welfare services in the community - an integrated, balanced plan for the provision of adequate health and welfare protection for the community. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) has been particularly critical of the standards of nursing homes and has also claimed that the Government, in announcing its intention to provide higher patient benefits, has been concerned with the welfare not of patients but of nursing home proprietors. [More…]
The collapse of the Government’s subsidised scheme shows clearly that its interest was not in the welfare of the poor but in the continuation of its health insurance scheme. [More…]
As a result, we know very little about the following: Firstly, the distribution and accessibility of general practitioners in poorer areas; secondly, the extent to which the poor are forced to use outpatients departments of public hospitals which are not designed to meet such needs; thirdly, the efficiency and economy of the use of outpatients departments by the poor; fourthly, the incidence of illness among the poor and the nature of this illness, especially chronic illness; fifthly, the connection between the ill health of the poor and the general pattern of their life style such as diet, hygiene, social and psychiatric problems and their promptness in seeking medical care; and, sixthly, the need to link health, education and social welfare services. [More…]
The major components of the programme were $500,000 a year for housekeeper and home help services, $500,000 a year for welfare officers’ salaries and approved capital expenditure in senior citizens centre, and $250,000 for paramedical services to aged persons in their own homes. [More…]
Another advantage of the State-run institutions is that they provide the sort of ancillary services - physiotherapy, occupational therapy and so on - which are essential to any chance of rehabilitation and to the welfare of the aged if they are to live a reasonably happy life in the evening of their days. [More…]
The cost of nursing home care is perhaps the most serious problem in the whole structure of community welfare services. [More…]
So, the effect that the deterrent charge will have will vary according to the degree to which the doctor is prepared to compromise his patient’s medical welfare in order to safeguard the patient’s financial welfare. [More…]
This assistance is useful because a number of organisations are working in various social and sporting fields, undertaking welfare work and the like. [More…]
I doubt the honourable member’s real interest in the welfare of these children, whether they were black or white. [More…]
It was made because the honourable member for Prospect puts the support of some Australian Labor Party candidate ahead of a common and decent approach to Aboriginal welfare as practised by the manager of Napperby station. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
In a sense, its purpose is largely of a welfare nature. [More…]
If one admits this proposition the next logical step is to assess the scheme, using as one’s cri* terion the possibility of attainment of the welfare objective. [More…]
It will affect directly up to perhaps a quarter of a million rural producers and, indirectly, perhaps, one million people, lt is tremen dously important, not only in economic terms in connection with balance of payments but also in social terms from the point of view of human welfare and the suffering of individuals. [More…]
The subsidy provisions stand in isolation as welfare measures which will’ discourage the forms of rural adjustment proven to be necessary. [More…]
The wool price subsidy can be justified on economic and welfare grounds only if the collateral provisions to promote restructuring are substantially more far reaching and effective than the current reluctant attempt to admit the need. [More…]
If the problems of individual welfare and political considerations are to determine eco.omic policies for rural industry the result will be chaos, increasing charges on the taxpayer and a progressive loss of export market outlets. [More…]
Where and when have there been meetings of Ministers concerned with child welfare since March 1970 (Hansard, 13th October 1970, page 2082, 9th March 1971, page 750 and 29th September 1971 page 1698). [More…]
The State Ministers concerned with Child Welfare held their Second Annual Conference in Hobart from 15th to 18th March 1971. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some 9 million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some 9 million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally, concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have closed the border into India. [More…]
But the human welfare of the staff concerned and the human welfare of the communities affected have not been taken into account at all. [More…]
During the time available to me I intend, naturally, to concern myself with Aboriginal welfare and with the way in which Aboriginals will benefit this year from the estimates of the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
I remember having lengthy discussions with the matron of a hospital which was dealing with maternal and child welfare in the Alice Springs area. [More…]
The Aboriginal women had a natural ability to learn maternal and child welfare. [More…]
Although from time to time we have new statements and new government offensives in some direction on Aboriginal welfare always there later comes the shock. [More…]
But for reasons which had nothing to do with Aboriginal welfare when there was a change of Prime Minister, a new, ingratiating attitude was taken towards the Government of Queensland with this egregious failure as its record and it has been left in immunity. [More…]
This afternoon we have heard Opposition speakers very clearly illustrate that the Government cannot continue to pass the buck in regard to responsibility for Aboriginal welfare. [More…]
I believe that he had a genuine interest in the welfare of these people and certainly a genuine interest in the social work that Mrs Wilding was carrying out. [More…]
Yet I suggest that it was the influence of this gentleman in particular, who has taken action in the past to prevent Mrs Wilding from receiving the assistance that may have been accorded to her by the Department for the carrying on of the very essential and valuable work that she had undertaken at Mount Gravatt, which has driven her to resign and driven her out of the hostel in order to illustrate the frustrations which she has faced, in working for the welfare of Aboriginals, through the incompetence of the Government. [More…]
The Minister who at present administers the Department must bear a heavy responsibility for the failure to see the problems not only in this field but also in other areas of Aboriginal welfare in Queensland which are developing so quickly that it is almost too late to overcome them. [More…]
I would prefer to save my remarks on the future of Aboriginal welfare until that later debate. [More…]
Further, is it appropriate for a member of the Reserve Bank Board, which must, as part of its charter, operate in such a manner as to ensure the economic prosperity and welfare of the people of Australia, to be directly involved in selling off Australian land through 1,700 salesmen operating in a manner which would be approved by no stock exchange in Australia? [More…]
Yet when it comes to the opportunity to show the Asian people and the world that we as a country in the Asian region really care about the welfare of Asians, we can squeeze out but $5. [More…]
That there is a crisis in Aboriginal welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]
In housing, as in so many other areas of national welfare, this Government substitutes inertia and expediency for planning and positive policy. [More…]
There are the side effects from the fact that the family is financially overcommitted, and of course this is when the Government has to do something about social welfare, social services, health or in some other field. [More…]
The welfare and integration, of all its citizens. [More…]
With the success of the programme have come the problems of education, housing, employment, social welfare and a myriad of other problems. [More…]
Welfare, health services and local government facilities present grave problems to the Australian people. [More…]
This committee revealed that one of the main factors affecting the attraction of migrants to Australia and their decision to remain here was Australia’s social welfare programme. [More…]
Let me cite the particular aspect of social welfare. [More…]
As a result of our belief in that regard, the basis of our policy includes the welfare and integration of all our citizens. [More…]
Our policy provides that Australia should have the capacity to provide such things as housing, employment, education and social welfare. [More…]
The humble petition of citizens of Australia respectfully showeth: 1, It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
Some of us had hoped that the appointment of a new Minister for the Navy who comes from Sydney would see a mellowing of the old hard line which characterised the attitude of some of his predecessors from Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia, none of whom could be expected to have the indigenous interest in Sydney’s welfare of the present Minister for the Navy (Dr Mackay). [More…]
1 simply point out once more, as I have pointed out in this House for about 10 years, that the logic of the taxation system of deductions runs counter to the logic of social welfare. [More…]
How anybody can justify this sort of thing in a system of social welfare is, to my mind, the height of absurdity, yet the same sort of thing is repeated in some of the other deductions that are currently allowed. [More…]
1 maintain that the greatest barrier to the development of an adequate social welfare system in this country is the loss of revenue that is built into the income tax structure by reason of this higgledy-piggledy array of deductions that have been built up applied originally in the main to dependants but only one-third of which now cover dependants while the rest are a ragbag of assortments. [More…]
Available revenue would be increased which could well lead to the establishment of a better pattern of social welfare that would be according to need and not according to income. [More…]
In turn this would be a great saving to the nation and would be of great benefit to us socially as well as being in the interests of the welfare of aged people. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
Young Aboriginals educated at Darwin’s highly rated Kormilda College are living in ‘insanitary kennels’ at a welfare settlement without job opportunities, a doctor claimed this week. [More…]
Sisters are employed at bush hospitals run by the Welfare Division of the Department of the Interior. [More…]
Honourable members will notice that the estimates of my Department for the Northern Territory this year provide for a total expenditure of $16m on Aboriginal welfare which is an increase of 13.7 per cent on the estimates for the previous year. [More…]
I believe that I should say something about the dimension of the problem of Aboriginal welfare because it is only when there is a real appreciation in this regard that there will be an awareness of what has to be done in the future and the time scale to which this can reasonably be related. [More…]
This will enable the States to devote more of their housing funds for the provision of welfare housing. [More…]
Let me say in rebuttal of what has been said by the honourable member for Angas that there is not a redundancy problem insofar as the sulphuric acid plant is concerned which is affecting the social welfare of some members of families both at Nairne in the honourable member’s electorate or in the Largs North area. [More…]
In other circumstances it might be desirable for him to be absent, and with the sort of Prime Ministerial leadership we are getting it might be better if he stayed absent, but the facts are that at this moment the Parliament is meeting and I doubt if his contribution to the nation’s welfare by his absence overseas warrants his being away from the Parliament when it is meeting. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some 9 million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
I hope, for his own welfare, that the honourable member for the Northern Territory (Mr Calder) will be absent at the time. [More…]
In this environment it will be absolutely essential for the people of Australia, irrespective of rising costs, to find the courage, the capacity and the dedication to the welfare of their country to put forward their own best capacity in the defence of Australia. [More…]
Also, the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare is to inquire into all aspects of repatriation. [More…]
I would now like to deal with some of the individual items in the estimates for social welfare and repatriation. [More…]
I think it would be a highly desirable development for the Commonwealth, in expansion of its current interest in the further welfare of these homes, not simply to require that the financial position of the homes should be made available on demand to the Director-General, but that it should be made available annually as a matter of course to the Director-General, and also that any information appearing therein should automatically be available to the residents of the homes themselves. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
It is obvious the people .of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
That there is a crisis in Aboriginal welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]
They make a tremendous contribution to the welfare of the country and to the interests of the people. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]
The improvements provided for in this Bill will enable the Scheme to continue making an important contribution to the national welfare by assisting eligible persons and their families in all parts of the Commonwealth to obtain homes and I commend the Bill to the House. [More…]
The aim of the Government’s overall policy for agriculture has been to ensure the economic welfare of the rural industries and those associated . [More…]
Is it because of Government policy (Hansard, 28th September 1971, page 1602) that the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare, in inquiring into the problems of, and the provisions for assistance to, mentally and physically handicapped personsin Australia, did not have the benefit of access to reports of the interdepartmental committee established to make a survey of handicapped children and the facilities available for their use (Parliamentary Paper No. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine - million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
That there is a crisis in Aboriginal welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
Under the heading of health and welfare the Government evidently does not consider public road safety important enough to receive individual attention in the Budget Papers. [More…]
1 do not argue about the relative merits of one kind of brew compared with another, but t suggest that as far as the future welfare of Papua New Guinea is concerned, if it is to have a local brewing industry I am not too sure that there should not be some barriers set against the import of the product from outside Papua New Guinea. [More…]
They should not be adjusted for the benefit of financial speculators who indulge in transactions which have nothing whatever to do with the welfare of people but have a great deal to do with their own speculamania’. [More…]
He sought to build up a public expectation - he was supported in this by members of his Government - that what he was doing was significant for the welfare of Australian’s, but it was nol. [More…]
lt is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
That there is a crisis in Aboriginal welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]
That there is a crisis in Aboriginal welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]
These are the ‘problem’ families who frequent public and voluntary welfare agencies with a variety of social disabilities, such as alcoholism, children at risk, employment instability, marital problems and so on. [More…]
It can be argued with respect to the social problems of these families that housing authorities are not social welfare agencies and are not organised to solve the social disabilities of problem families. [More…]
The priorities which this Government has adopted insofar as the welfare of the community is concerned have been very poor indeed. [More…]
It is true that in other countries - particularly the overcrowded countries, many of which are in our part of the world - the standard of living and of welfare generally is bound to fall if there is no limitation of the population; but that is not true of Australia. [More…]
Local government councils are continually pressed to provide child welfare establishments and associated social requirements. [More…]
Again, this will enable the States to devote more of their housing funds to welfare housing programmes. [More…]
Secondly, there is the rental assistance grant, which is an entirely new welfare proposal, and one which is designed to help those in the greatest need. [More…]
Thirdly, there is the new provision regarding Service housing, which is intended to assist the States to allocate more funds to welfare housing proposals. [More…]
This is a completely new welfare proposal. [More…]
Let us look at the type of welfare proposal that has come from the Government. [More…]
It is designed to assist the States to facilitate the building of dwellings for those who desire welfare housing. [More…]
It is for the States to determine who would be appropriate to receive welfare housing. [More…]
It has no welfare aspect to it whatsoever, lt is designed to help most those who negotiate the biggest mortgages, and it would assist ‘hose who, in negotiating the biggest mortgages, bid interest rates up. [More…]
lt would make such a subvention a hostage to higher interest rates, and that should be examined, lt is a welfare policy that would operate in absolute and complete regression from the way in which it should operate. [More…]
The smaller the amount saved, the higher the mortgage, and the more assistance the Opposition would have to give - yet this is put forward as a welfare policy. [More…]
That there is a crisis in Aboriginal welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]
That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability,. [More…]
The welfare problems created by these peculiar features of Vietnam have produced immense problems in the United States. [More…]
Mrs Justice Wiratmo visited Australia from 5th July to 26th July to exchange views with Australian jurists and officials, particularly about social welfare legislation, juvenile courts and systems of appointment to the judiciary. [More…]
In addition, I have instructed my Department to examine more effective means of inducing eligible persons to avail themselves of the assistance under the Plan and it is proposed that this examination will encompass greater utilisation of social workers, charitable organisations and other appropriate welfare groups in the community. [More…]
The Government should be required to say whether it considers there is a satisfactory future demand for rural products to maintain rural industry at its present level or whether it will bring forward a plan to transfer farmers out of production for their own welfare. [More…]
This should disturb the national Government which is concerned with the health and welfare of its community, and also with its labour force. [More…]
But this Budget, concerned as it is with the high national objectives of social welfare, economic strength and national security, provides the essential framework for the attainment of these national goals. [More…]
But concerned as they are with the high national objectives of social welfare, economic strength and national security, they provide the essential framework for the attainment of those national goals. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some 9 million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare in the South West Land- Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]
That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]
That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees ‘hat have crossed the border into India. [More…]
My personal experience is that on occasions my office has had to organise child welfare assistance and the assistance of charitable bodies, and in fact we ourselves have provided furniture and money on occasions. [More…]
Some of the people who have been concerned with the problems they are facing in Australia and who have contacted me have said that they could go home if they had not sold up, left their positions of employment, bringing qualifications to Australia which would be normally acceptable but because of the current economic trends they are unable to fit into the community and often place a heavy burden on the welfare services both official and voluntary. [More…]
They affirm thai the new owners had to comply with certain conditions for the betterment and future welfare of the natives but these benefits have not been defined and, in this remote area, may never com: lo anything. [More…]
The company has appointed Burns Philp and Co. (Sydney) to act as their agents, we hear, and they, have never considered the welfare of natives - other than the work to be obtained from native labour. [More…]
I point out that when I speak on these matters I realise very fully that the measures I am asking for will not affect a great number of people, but they are a section of the community which is helping to promote the welfare of Australia generally, and they are utilising for the benefit of the community areas which are very difficult to utilise. [More…]
Many of them are in the nature of welfare services. [More…]
Those are historical kinds of assumptions, but in later times more and more has it been expected of the local authorities that they should go into the fields of health and social welfare services. [More…]
For the year 1969 in Brunswick - these were figures given in a 1971 submission - out of a total expenditure by the Municipality of Brunswick of $1,420,000, an amount of 8165,000 - that is, close to 12 per cent of the available income of the Municipality of Brunswick - was spent on health and welfare. [More…]
for example, infant welfare centres cost, the council in 1970 $18,276 wilh a government grant of $3,700, i.e. [More…]
This is illogical because a scheme of this nature is primarily a welfare measure. [More…]
What sum has been (a) available and (b) granted for (i) home care services, (ii) senior citizens’ centres and (iii) welfare officers at senior citizens’ centres under the States Grants (Home Care) Act 1969 to each of the Stales in ea-h of the last 2 years. [More…]
What disturbs me is this: When the money is made available the Government announces that it has a big scheme to cover home care services, senior citizens centres or social welfare workers and a lot of publicity is given to the announcement. [More…]
1 point out also that there is provision in this Act for social welfare officers. [More…]
In 1969-70 the Commonwealth made available $60,000 for social welfare workers. [More…]
That amount of $60,000 was made available for the State of New South Wales for social welfare workers but not one cent of it has been used. [More…]
I do this because as far as I am aware - although I have from time to time made representations in this Parliament on matters concerning the welfare of these people - the peculiar problems which apply to a very small section of the community but, nevertheless, a very important one have never been placed on record. [More…]
But there are substantial welfare problems flowing from the existence of this unique people. [More…]
These can take the form of implied threats to deny welfare benefits or other assistance to islanders unless they leave Cape Barren and go to Tasmania. [More…]
In saying this 1 do not criticise the efforts of State Government employees who look after the health, education and social welfare of the islanders. [More…]
These are problems similar in many ways to those encountered by Aboriginal people in other parts of Australia - problems of housing, social welfare, education and employment. [More…]
His work is social welfare work; it does not give any medical cover to people on Cape Barren Island. [More…]
According to the list contained in attachment B, a total of $1,628,699 has been distributed over the past 3 years to organisations administering Aboriginal welfare. [More…]
Looking at the wide range of grants made to welfare, social and sporting clubs and to individuals for welfare assistance to Aboriginals, it is disappointing that Tasmanian Aboriginal people should be neglected. [More…]
I spend a good deal of time discussing the problems confronting Aborigines both with the Aborigines and with the people who are concerned with their welfare, such as welfare workers and child welfare officers.. [More…]
T went along with one welfare officer who had a talk to an Aborigine living on the river bank. [More…]
The welfare officer said: ‘You will probably get a bit more work later on’. [More…]
But the thing that concerns me is that there can be a conference of officials of the State Department of Aboriginal Welfare in my area and 1 will know nothing about it. [More…]
It is a sad thing that this legislation was not brought down in circumstances which would have enabled the whole range of people interested in Aboriginal welfare - no less the Aborigines themselves - to express their views on the legislation in order that whatever emerged from the Queensland Parliament might be the best possible legislation. [More…]
There has been a failure to train staff in all the positions they occupy on these reserves, whether they be policemen, justices of the peace or the lass working in the maternal and child welfare centre. [More…]
I believe that this Bill, which is designed to grant financial assistance to the States in connection with the welfare and advancement of the Aboriginal people of Australia, is an anachronism in anybody’s language. [More…]
Among the many task that 1 have as a Minister, at the present time there is nothing more important than the welfare of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
There has been a tremendous increase in activity and welfare devoted towards Aboriginal people throughout the whole of Australia, and I believe that this Government has taken a tremendous interest in these problems. [More…]
My predecessor has done so much over the years to improve the welfare of these people, for whom we must have great care. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]
That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]
The detailed regulation of working conditions including such matters as a contract of employment, paid public holidays, overtime rates and safety, health and welfare matters are further illustrations of the benefits that have been achieved through our Federal and State systems. [More…]
The Government has always displayed a general disregard for the welfare of the 4i million men and women employees of the nation’s workforce. [More…]
If an industry docs that we will achieve all that tariff protection can achieve so far as the welfare of this country is concerned. [More…]
Will he make a statement to the House on the report by the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare and the recommendations touching on the care and education of handicapped children; if so, when. [More…]
It is obvious the people of Australia are vitally concerned about the welfare of some nine million East Pakistan refugees that have crossed the border into India. [More…]
The American Health, Education and Welfare Committee, which published its report early this year, reached the same sort of conclusions. [More…]
Education and Welfare issued on January 31 1971, titled ‘Marihuana and Health’. [More…]
Country post offices are an integral part of the welfare of all rural areas; they have provided essential services to rural communities for almost as long as those communities have existed. [More…]
If he does not it will seem that he has lost interest in the welfare of the Australian people. [More…]
In any case for the future health and welfare of this community in terms of its intellectual and emotional development it is vital that we should develop this new form of communication. [More…]
This is the essential issue as has been pointed out by the distinguished and honourable member for Eden-Monaro (Mr Allan Fraser) who, like myself, has a deep and vested interest in the welfare of studs and the people who arc associated with them. [More…]
First of all, an officer of the Welfare Department of the NT Administration is responsible to decide whether liquor shall or shall not come onto an Aboriginal reserve. [More…]
His name is Cyril Cecil Allom, a Regional Welfare Officer with the NT Administration. [More…]
It disclosed a disgraceful situation where the welfare officer gave no evidence to assist the court, where the applicant had no concern whatsoever for the Aborigines - he merely wanted a hotel licence to do what a storekeeper did on the other side of Arnhem Land - where there was talk about the accommodation of visitors whereas the mine discourages visitors and where every point of view was taken into account except the interests of the Aborigines. [More…]
Part of the continuing work of Welfare officers is Instruction on the need for moderation in the consumption of alcohol with individual counselling given in problem cases. [More…]
Research in these fields is being undertaken in universities, government departments and agencies, voluntary health and welfare agencies and private commercial organisations, as well as by private individuals. [More…]
The Canadian Minister for National Health and Welfare announced an increase in the budget for the ‘Smoking and Health Programme’. [More…]
I have also instructed my Department to examine more effective ways of encouraging eligible persons to participate in the Plan, lt is envisaged that the examination will encompass wider use of social workers, charitable organisations and other appropriate welfare groups in the community. [More…]
An interdepartmental committee has been established to examine in detail the recommendations made by the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare in its Report on Mentally and Physically Handicapped Persons in Australia. [More…]
t Social Welfare Claims and Payments (Question No. [More…]
4120 (Hansard, 2nd November 1971, pages 2880-1) regarding social welfare claims received and payments made in Canberra during the last 5 years, was the increase in the number of claims received between 1966-67 and 1970-71 attributable to the increase in population during the period or was it due to other reasons. [More…]
Can he give details of how the sum of $53,226 paid out as Welfare benefits in Canberra in 1970-71 was spent. [More…]
and (2) The number of claims for Social Welfare Benefits received in the Australian Capital Territory in 1970-71 (1,749) as compared with 1966-67 (1,352) had increased by 29.4 per cent. [More…]
The increase in total Social Welfare Benefit payments between 1966-67 ($16,466) and 1970-71 ($53,226) amounted to 223.3 per cent. [More…]
and (5) Social Welfare Benefits are intended primarily to help people awaiting statutory aid, such as deserted wives with children, or persons who are unable to qualify for Commonwealth pensions or benefits and for various reasons cannot support themselves and their families. [More…]
The total amount of $53,226 paid in Social Welfare Benefits in the Australian Capital Territory in 1970-71 was distributed as follows: [More…]
This is a matter that concerns the welfare of the Australian people and is fundamental to our growth and employment prospects. [More…]
Does he not find it strange that those in our society who consistently complain of inadequate government expenditure in social welfare areas have found this unessential expenditure unworthy of protest? [More…]
It has the power to intervene in general wage cases to put logical arguments and economic realities to arbitration tribunals so that when they give their decisions - for it is the tribunals that give the decisions - they can have in mind all these factors which are so important to the economic welfare of this country and therefore to the social wellbeing of the Australian people. [More…]
The Committee considered that the Commonwealth now had to discharge a responsibility of government which did no; exist when the Constitution was originally framed, namely, to safeguard and promote the economic welfare of the community of Australia. [More…]
It affects the living standards, the savings and the welfare of Australians everywhere and the fact that the Government will not allow a vote on this issue is something about which the people should be enlightened. [More…]
J quote from The Family in a Money World’ by Feldman, a well known social welfare worker, on the subject of money. [More…]
Within our society the position of economic independence in the light of what I am putting to the House from sources regarded as fairly powerful authorities in the field of welfare work emphasises that reasonable money resources play a dominant role and is essential to the mental welfare of people in our community. [More…]
Also, the Australian Council of Churches and hosts of other welfare organisations have drawn the attention of the Government to the inadequacies of these amounts. [More…]
So such wage rises do not benefit the working people, those on wages, and they certainly do not benefit the Australian economy upon which, in the final analysis, the welfare and prosperity of every Australian must depend. [More…]
Can the Minister say what efforts the Australian Government is making on behalf of Mr Francis James, as to his whereabouts and welfare and the possibility of facilitating his release from China? [More…]
the Government is going to consult with any Aboriginal communities which might be affected by such mining activities so that their welfare will be taken into account when applications for exploration and mining development rights are being considered. [More…]
Even the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) - it probably does not surprise many people and it certainly does not surprise me - has been induced to become involved, probably seeing some short term political advantage to the ALP in the next Federal elections, but not necessarily concerning itself with the welfare and the long term welfare of the Australian Aboriginal people. [More…]
Extensive welfare policies based on race and not on need can create, and in my opinion and in the opinion of a lot of people are creating, a white backlash in many parts of Australia. [More…]
It is all there in the newspaper cuttings - education, health, welfare and social advancement. [More…]
The honourable member for Wills said what the Government should have done, but may I remind him that over the last few years the Government has done more to assist in the field of Aboriginal welfare than has any other government since federation; it does not have a bad record. [More…]
A study of the achievements of the Government since the setting up of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs in 1967 must prove that the Government has not been niggardly or lacking in its approach to the welfare of our coloured people. [More…]
1 am informed that various matters relating to maternity leave in respect of employees of the Commonwealth have been the subject of representations to the Government and that they are under review in relation to other employees in the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory, in the latter case as part of a general review of legislation on health, safety and welfare in work places. [More…]
Category A registered publications are confined to country newspapers and periodicals and newspapers and periodicals published by religious, charitable and welfare organisations and by educational, scientific or technical organisations having the dissemination of knowledge as their principal object. [More…]
That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]
One result has been the greatest decline in interest rates charged for welfare housing ever sustained or experienced in this country. [More…]
Therefore, in general there is a range of interest rates now chargeable on Stab welfare housing and to the home builders account to the co-operative terminating societies of the order of 5 per cent to 5S per cent and 51 per cent. [More…]
I believe that it represents the real opinions of the Australian people in regard to providing increases in social welfare benefits. [More…]
Now we need a government in office which will take up the development of public policy in these directions and achieve for Australia, as a Labor Government can achieve for Australia, what is needed in this field to correspond with what Labor in fact achieved 30 years ago in the development of the welfare State. [More…]
Australia needs the job to be done now in the public control of resources and their use that we achieved in social welfare 30 years ago. [More…]
I know there are difficulties within the social welfare section of my Department. [More…]
I would like to inform the member for the Australian Capital Territory and the House that the Department of tie Interior has been undertaking a review of the general structure of the administration of the social welfare section of the Department. [More…]
The greatest decreases in interest rates on housing have occurred with respect to welfare housing in the three fields of housing under the responsibility of State authorities, both for rental and for purchase, and housing which is financed through the home builders account of the cooperative terminating societies. [More…]
A major consideration in any proposal to expand the present benefits is the additional burden which would necessarily be placed on Australian taxpayers who, in 1970-71, provided from the National Welfare Fund $427m for expenditure on National Health alone. [More…]
We have many industries ‘that are very capable of producing satisfactory products which are essential to the health and welfare of this .country. [More…]
Ten per cent of Comonweallh revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]
Royal Commission or other form of public enquiry into Australia’s social welfare structure that Australia may be brought into line with accepted world standards of the most advanced countries. ‘ [More…]
Financial assistance has been granted for travel by rural workers under certain circumstances; subsidies have been paid to employers taking more than the normal number of apprentices; goods and services have been provided in decentralised areas by the Commonwealth in the areas of cultural and recreational facilities, public health, welfare and housing. [More…]
This factor, coupled with the inability of the various State associations to reach agreement on matters affecting the welfare of the industry as a whole, has resulted in a deadlock on some issues. [More…]
There is a grave difference between the theories of academic economists on tariffs and what we should consider having regard to the welfare of the people. [More…]
This is a different criterion from that which the Government has to take, which is to maximise welfare. [More…]
Economics is only one part of welfare. [More…]
But we believe in protection based on intelligent planning and intelligent economics as applied to the Parliament or the nation, not to the academic textbooks, which completely ignore the welfare and the economic lives of people. [More…]
Far greater attention should be given by the Press to the whole question of tariff policy, which is vital to the future welfare of Australia. [More…]
However, the honourable member may be interested to know that an interdepartmental committee has been set up to study and report on the recommendations of the Report on Mentally and Physically Handicapped Persons in Australia made by the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]
Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]
Royal Commission or other form of public enquiry into Australia’s social welfare structure that Australia may be brought into line with accepted world standards of the most advanced countries. [More…]
It is the same crude, insensitive, brutal materialism that characterises the Liberal Party in every sing’e one of its social welfare policies. [More…]
In my opinion, it is not good enough in a wealthy country such as ours to have a gold-plated standard of services, whether they be in health, education, welfare or any other field - urban environment is probably the outstanding example - in a national capital such as Canberra and then to find in the capital cities far greater aggregations of the nation’s population living in slums or resorting to slum standards of facilities such as our public health services. [More…]
10 per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]
Royal Commission or other form of public inquiry into Australia’s social welfare structure that Australia may be brought into line with accepted world standards of the most advanced countries. [More…]
But are not the rights involved in the provision of welfare services just as powerful in their demands for adequate financing as are the rights of the people who command and operate our defence Services? [More…]
I believe that there is a strong case for the formation of an advisory board on the lines of the Council for Aboriginal Welfare to investigate and report upon the needs of aged people. [More…]
At that time there was also a plan to provide other kinds of assistance for the welfare of aged people, but I will not dwell on that at the moment. [More…]
I know that this paper deals principally with the aged persons homes scheme, but there are other allied schemes that do have an impact upon the welfare of the aged. [More…]
Care) Act that bad a 3-pronged approach to the matter of looking after the welfare of aged people. [More…]
Likewise, there was provision for welfare officers in the senior citizen centres. [More…]
The Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare tabled a report on 5th May 1971 - nearly 12 months ago - in which it indicated the needs of the schools catering for the handicapped. [More…]
We on this side of the House will constantly keep in mind the need for the promotion of the welfare and the progress and development of both government and independent schools. [More…]
Contrary to what Liberal supporters say when they refer to their welfare programmes, notably in education, it was the right honourable member for Melbourne (Mr Calwell) who, as the Leader of the Federal Labor Party in 1966, proposed that per capita grants to independent schools be made on the basis of $30 per annum for primary school students and $40 per annum for secondary school students. [More…]
What has been preventing sales and the subsequent use of these aircraft has been the lack of co-operation from governments concerned about the welfare of the people they represent in refusing overflight permission on land routes; but not the Australian Government. [More…]
Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]
Royal Commission or other form of public enquiry into Australia’s social welfare structure that Australia may be brought into line with accepted world standards of the most advanced countries. [More…]
Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]
Royal Commission or other form of public enquiry into Australia’s social welfare structure that Australia may be brought into line with accepted world standards of the most advanced countries. [More…]
This excellent publication referred, for example, to the following items: School meals; free milk; health services; national cultural activities - in this country they are subject to another department; scientific research and development - again financed separately through the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and other such bodies; sport; leisure activities; civil education; youth activities; child welfare; public libraries: in-service industrial training; basic nursing training; armed Services colleges; rehabilitation and repatriation training; sponsored foreign students - for instance, the entire implications of the Colombo Plan - radio and television, and interest payments on loans used for school buildings. [More…]
Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]
Royal Commission or other form of public enquiry into Australia’s social welfare structure that Australia may be brought into line with accepted world standards of the most advanced countries. [More…]
Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]
Royal Commission or other form of public enquiry into Australia’s social welfare structure that Australia may be brought into line with accepted world standards of the most advanced countries. [More…]
Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]
Royal Commission or other form of public enquiry into Australia’s social welfare structure that Australia may be brought into line with accepted world standards of the most advanced countries. [More…]
Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]
Royal Commission or other form of public enquiry into Australia’s social welfare structure that Australia may be brought into line with accepted world standardsof the most advanced countries. [More…]
Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general actitivies which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]
Royal Commission or other form of public enquiry into Australia’s social welfare structure that Australia may be brought into line with accepted world standards of the most advanced countries. [More…]
Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]
Royal Commission or other form of public enquiry into Australia’s social welfare structure that Australia may be brought into line with accepted world standards of the most advanced countries. [More…]
Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]
Royal Commission or other form of public enquiry into Australia’s social welfare structure that Australia may be brought into line with accepted world standards of the most advanced countries. [More…]
It will be recollected that when an Act was passed in this House last year which has enabled interest rates on welfare housing, even in their own State of New South Wales, to come down to levels such as Si per cent and 5) per cent they voted against such proposals. [More…]
Finally, does this policy being pursued by the Victorian Government endanger the welfare of migrant school children and does the Minister’s failure to prevent it represent a dereliction of bis responsibilities? [More…]
I can assure all honourable members and anyone else who is listening that it is the Government’s objective to do all it can to sustain the national dignity of this House and to make our contribution to the welfare and development of the country. [More…]
They have transferred from the community schools to the welfare schools or vice versa. [More…]
Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]
Royal Commission or other form of public enquiry into Australia’s social welfare structure that Australia may be brought into line with accepted world standards of the most advanced countries. [More…]
Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]
Royal Commission or other form of public enquiry into Australia’s social welfare structure that Australia may be brought into line with accepted world standards of the most advanced countries. [More…]
Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]
Royal Commission or other form of public enquiry into Australia’s social welfare structure that Australia may be brought into line with accepted world standards of the most advanced countries. [More…]
Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]
Royal Commission or other form of public enquiry into Australia’s social welfare structure that Australia may be brought into line with accepted world standards of the most advanced countries. [More…]
Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]
Royal Commission or other form of public enquiry into Australia’s social welfare structure that Australia may be brought into line with accepted world standards of the most advanced countries. [More…]
I have seen a number of reports of a scheme such as that which has been outlined by the right honourable member for Fisher and I must say that from looking at this scheme it is quite clearly an economic and social abomination because it offends against every decent welfare principle appropriate to home ownership and housing that has been operative in Australia for many decades. [More…]
Britain, Italy, Greece, Malta, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Sweden, Turkey, the United States of America and Canada already transfer their social welfare entitlements to their citizens wherever they chose to live. [More…]
The first is that people who have skills and connections in Australia and who would contribute to the welfare and development of this country are no longer attracted to it. [More…]
In the past, it could have been said that Australia had made great innovations in the field of welfare. [More…]
There is scarcley a European country which is not more generous than Australia in determining eligibility for welfare benefits and in the extent of those welfare benefits. [More…]
Members of the Australian Labor Party are particularly aware of the deficiencies of our welfare services as they affect migrants because most migrants live in electorates represented by members of the Australian Labor Party in this House. [More…]
There could scarcely be anything more begrudging than this in any social welfare legislation. [More…]
These groups include the Central Council of Croation Associations in Australia, the Italian Welfare Centre of Sydney, the Netherlands Society of Sydney, the Estonian Society in Sydney, the Hungarian Council of [More…]
My authority is a volume publised by the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare which I obtained from the Parliamentary Library. [More…]
In total this represents one of the greatest long-term social welfare and rehabilitation problems in history, lt involves millions of people and affects just about every family in South Vietnam. [More…]
The contribution Australia has made to social welfare and rehabilitation is a mere drop from the tap compared with its military spending. [More…]
We stand for progressive social welfare policies . [More…]
There is a great deal of social legislation and social welfare legislation in the broader sense, among other things, which is enacted almost daily in this place for the benefit of the working man. [More…]
As I mentioned at the outset of my speech, or soon after, it is entirely important that this Bill should be seen to be achieving or attempting to achieve a situation of improved industrial conditions generally for the economic welfare of this country, which certainly can stand improvement in any direction in which we are able to effect it in a responsible way from this Parliament. [More…]
I think it is entirely proper that we should be trying to make a situation of improvement whereby industrial relations covering this Commonwealth area of employment will be materially improved for the general welfare of the people of this country. [More…]
Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]
Royal Commission or other form of public inquiry into Australia’s social welfare structure that Australia may be brought into line with accepted world standards of the most advanced countries. [More…]
Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]
Royal Commission or other form of public enquiry, into Australia’s social welfare structure that Australia may be brought into line with accepted world standards of the most advanced countries. [More…]
Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]
Royal Commission or other form of public enquiry into Australia’s social welfare structure that Australia may be brought intoline with accepted world standards of the most advanced countries. [More…]
When will the Government accept the recommendation made to the Commonwealth in 1968 by the State Health Ministers, who said that there was no justification for discrimination between the physically ill and the mentally ill in relation to health and welfare benefits? [More…]
The Government’s understanding of the needs of the serviceman under today’s conditions, and deep concern for the welfare of members of the Services, are reflected in the many improvements already made in conditions of service, as well as the further improvements which are under active study. [More…]
Most people enrolled in the Subsidised Health Benefits Plan probably have done so as a result of extensive publicity campaigns conducted by my Department and health insurance organisations, and through - contact with social workers and other welfare organisations. [More…]
In this context, my Department is presently examining ways of making greater use of social workers, charitable organisations, and other appropriate welfare groups in motivating and assisting eligible persons to enrol in the Plan. [More…]
Collections of duty on petrol form part of the Commonwealth’s general revenues from which its commitments are financed, including expenditure on defence, education, social welfare and assistance to rural industry. [More…]
Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]
Royal Commission or other form of public enquiry into Australia’s social welfare structure that Australia may be brought into line with accepted world standards of the most advanced countries. [More…]
Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]
Royal Commission or other form of public enquiry into Australia’s social welfare structure that Australia may be brought into line with accepted world standards of the most advanced countries. [More…]
The Oenpelli Mission is to be commended for the very important part it plays in contributing to the welfare of our Aboriginal people, but I was surprised that people at the mission did not show greater keenness towards the construction of the road. [More…]
In contrast, SAASSO caters for the welfare of children in all government schools in South Australia. [More…]
Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]
Royal Commission or other form of public enquiry into Australia’s social welfare structure that Australia may be brought into line with accepted world standards of the most advanced countries. [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to inserting the following words in place thereof: ‘The House condemns the Budget because (a) it breaks the Prime Minister’s pledge to Parliament on taking office to bring into effect for 1971-72 a fundamental review of social services and of methods for adjusting them and, (b) it contains no proposals to balance the finances and functions of the Commonwealth, the States and local government and (c) it produces no programmes for high national objectives of social welfare, economic strength and national security. [More…]
Ten per cent of Commonwealth , revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]
Royal Commission or other form of public enquiry into Australia’s social welfare structure that Australia may be brought into line with accepted world standards of the most advanced countries. [More…]
That there is a crisis in Aboriginal Welfare in the South West Land Division of Western Australia resulting from a population explosion, poor housing and hygiene and unemployment and unemployability. [More…]
Will the Prime Minister cause an investigation to be made into the anomaly to which I have referred so that at least some sort of justice may at last come to the very oldest of Australian citizens who are being denied their proper entitlement to social welfare? [More…]
Does the Commonwealth’s concern with welfare housing suggest that people who do this should be penalised? [More…]
It is an essential element in the totality of measures that is being taken for the improvement of an industry whose welfare is significant to major regions in all States. [More…]
I cannot lead a party which has lost its idealism and which has forgotten that its purpose for existence is to successfully govern for the welfare of all South Australia. [More…]
I will answer that with just one example of the contribution which Labor made to the welfare of Aborigines. [More…]
Are oral or other contraceptives ever provided free or below cost by the social welfare or other branches of his Department in the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory; if so, what is the estimated cost. [More…]
Contraceptives are provided free by the Welfare Division of the Northern Territory Administration to Aboriginal women where contraceptives are required on medical advice or where a woman wishes to plan her family and would otherwise be unable to do so for economic reasons. [More…]
Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]
Royal Commission or other form of public enquiry into Australia’s social welfare structure that Australia may be brought into line with accepted world standards of the most advanced countries. [More…]
By way of passing reference I say that most honourable members know that Assistant Ministers were appointed not to assist the welfare and development of this Parliament but to give the Prime Minister the numbers in an evenly divided caucus; of the Liberal Party. [More…]
Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]
Royal Commission or other form of public enquiry into Australia’s social welfare structure that Australia may be brought into line with accepted world standards of the most advanced countries. [More…]
I can imagine the honourable member’s susceptibility on petitions because day after day he and some of his colleagues and the Ministers are subjected to a lot of embarrassment as the national constituency continues to barrage them with its demands for electoral reform and reform in’ respect of many matters affecting the welfare of the people. [More…]
direct and prosper our deliberations to the advancement of thy glory and the true welfare of the people of Australia’. [More…]
It could be any issue - national or local, trade, commerce, social welfare or something of the kind. [More…]
The proposition that I put before Parliament gives every member an opportunity to consider his own welfare and that of everybody about him. [More…]
I believe that the logical thing for our own personal welfare is to knock off at the reasonable hour. [More…]
But the sensible, commonsense and humane attitude is to consider the welfare of the people who make our work possible - the broadcasting monitors, the dining room staff, the attendants, the car pool drivers, the Library and Hansard officers who are the innocent victims - and knock off at a reasonable hour. [More…]
Section 5 of the National Welfare Fund Act, 1943-52, appropriates moneys required to pay age pensions and associated allowances at the rates authorised by the Social Services Act 1947- 72. [More…]
Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]
Royal Commission or other form of public enquiry into Australia’s social welfare structure that Australia may be brought into line with accepted world standards of the most advanced countries. [More…]
It is quite clear that in the past decade there has been a deterioration in the overall standard of welfare in this country under this Government. [More…]
At page 1754 of Hansard, in the question asked by the honourable member for Melbourne Ports, we find that under the subject of welfare, which covers all the social service benefits, expenditures had fallen from S3. [More…]
So one finds a rather blemished record - to say the least - on the part of the Government in its achievements in welfare. [More…]
That is the sort of justice we receive under the sort of welfare principles that the Government espouses. [More…]
Those are the basic principles that should be the basis on which we develop our whole approach to welfare services. [More…]
The impact of this process of close scrutiny can only benefit a very important area of welfare policy. [More…]
The main problem confronting repatriation assistance in the year ahead is the basic problem that will affect welfare services in all areas of government spending. [More…]
Any welfare policy which aims at a broad coverage is liable to abuse. [More…]
With any welfare system the crucial result is what actually goes into the pockets of the persons receiving the benefits. [More…]
Those who do not will stand condemned for their disregard of their own health, their own length of life, their own family and dependants and the welfare of this country. [More…]
We do not know what salaries they receive or what they do or in any way how they contribute to the welfare of this country. [More…]
Let Government supporters tell us what the position is today in Phuoc Tuy Province and those areas where Australian blood was shed, where Australian money was spent and where we devoted a great proportion of our resources to help establish the sort of administration that we believed should be established in South Vietnam - an honest, forthright administration working for the welfare of the people of South Vietnam. [More…]
The Labor Party gave the primary producer the opportunity to live as he should - as a human being with a good return for his products, a fair return to the worker, and in every way take his place in society not as a debtor but as a proud man adding his contribution to the welfare of this country. [More…]
We realise that we should have their welfare in mind. [More…]
Within the terms of appropriate legislation governmental control seeks to set broad parameters within which a country’s shipping business is to be conducted having regard to the safely and welfare of its participants. [More…]
Will the Prime Minister invite Archbishop Loane to supply him with a report on the degree and nature of hardship suffered by certain sections of the community in the Sydney diocese, derived from the information available through the welfare and pastoral services of his church, with a view to providing appropriate and more adequate aid to those who are suffering hardship? [More…]
In return it imposes regulations concerning safety and other matters, including the welfare of passengers and crew. [More…]
Uniform laws regarding the survey of these vessels would contribute much to the welfare of the fishing industry. [More…]
It was intended that the meeting would discuss the question: Do we need a health, education and welfare authority in the Australian Capital Territory? [More…]
After the discussion was over, the point was made that a number of the participants in the audience were public servants and the fact that they were public servants had hindered and made it difficult for them to participate in discussion on the subject of health, education and welfare. [More…]
This means that laws made by the Assembly will no longer be subject to veto by the Australian Government; that all matters affecting the welfare of the New Guinean people except defence and foreign affairs will be subject to laws made by the Assembly alone; and that those laws will be administered by a public service responsible only to the House of Assembly. [More…]
Australians who remain in the service of the New Guinea government will equally be responsible to the House of Assembly, but the Australian Government will accept responsibility for their salaries and the welfare of their families. [More…]
Will the Prime Minister invite Archbishop Loane to supply him with a report on the degree and nature of hardship suffered by certain sections of the community in the Sydney diocese, derived from information available through the welfare and pastoral services of his Church, with a view to providing appropriate and more adequate aid to those who are suffering hardship? [More…]
Andrew was interviewed by the Child Welfare Department because of truancy. [More…]
The percentage of gross national expenditure devoted by Australia to social welfare has fallen since 1961-62 from 3.84 per cent to 3.2 per cent. [More…]
Whereas at the beginning of the century Australia led the world in the introduction of noncontributory age pensions, she now lags far behind comparable countries in welfare measures of every kind. [More…]
Welfare services in Australia will not operate with maximum effect until their efficiency and relevance are made a subject of public scrutiny and review. [More…]
New welfare needs will not be met until the organisations most closely in touch with those needs are given an opportunity to give evidence publicly and make public recommendations. [More…]
A Labor government will conduct as a matter of priority a thorough inquiry into the extent of poverty in Australia and the adequacy of existing welfare arrangements as a means of eliminating poverty and allowing all Australians an equal access to our great national prosperity. [More…]
I quote from the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare report of May last year on mentally and physically handicapped persons in Australia. [More…]
Sydney: Poverty had increased by nearly 30 per cent in Sydney since February, a welfare officer said today. [More…]
The welfare officer was Reverend Bruce Thorton. [More…]
We would have, people associated with welfare societies and people associated with churches. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition has a rather strange, wholly mystical but understandable Chinese treatment for the social welfare policies of this nation. [More…]
Qualifications for registration as a midwife, as a child welfare nurse or as a mental nurse are similar to those referred to above, but with the appropriate term used in place of ‘general nursing’. [More…]
One of these was our social services and welfare programme which has to be looked at in a complementary way. [More…]
I said then that the Government felt that so far as welfare was concerned it was ‘unfinished business’, to quote my words. [More…]
So, too, in the welfare services do we believe the same. [More…]
Can he say which recommendations for the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare on mentally and physically handicapped children have been accepted by the Government and when these recommendations win be given effect to? [More…]
I could go on giving examples of this, but the fact is that this Bill contributes nothing to the welfare of Australia. [More…]
If the Minister is really interested in and is trying to protect the welfare of the whole community he should have taken steps to initiate action to raise productivity in individual industrial undertakings which, of course, would be the main responsibility of managements. [More…]
There are many areas where increased productvity is vitally necessary for the welfare of the employee and employer, as well as the public generally. [More…]
Let us face the facts: The more difficult the Act, the greater is the collusion to defeat its provisions between the larger unions in the interests of their members and the employers with whom they are dealing, who co-operate in the interests of common sense and the welfare of their employees, who are associated with the unions. [More…]
Without committing himself to any attitude, will he undertake to have the question of Commonwealth responsibility for the welfare of a single mother and her child included on the agenda for the forthcoming meeting of State and Commonwealth Ministers for Social Services and Welfare. [More…]
Is it a fact as stated in the article, that the new arrivals, despite some help from church welfare agencies or close relatives who are virtually new arrivals themselves, live by borrowing money, accepting low-paid jobs, paying lowstandard rentals and on handouts of food, clothes, furniture and hire purchase. [More…]
In keeping with its growing interest in cooperating in the economic development of the area and concern for the welfare of the people of the region, the Government has now decided to make further increases in its economic and technical aid. [More…]
OVERSEAS STUDENTS Mr GRAHAM- Has the Minister for Foreign Affairs seen reports of a survey conducted by the Overseas Students Service at a Victorian university in which it is alleged that many Asian students in Australia have personal and welfare problems and nobody with whom these problems may be discussed? [More…]
I suppose when one has any very large number of students gathered together one will find that some of them have what are described as welfare problems. [More…]
This particular sample, from what is said in the survey, could hardly be representative, because the Overseas Students Service itself, supported by Government funds, is one of the bodies that is supposed to give welfare counselling to students. [More…]
My department has a welfare officer to look after the needs of overseas students in every State of the Commonwealth. [More…]
We are now, as I have argued, on the threshhold of being threatened with a new colonialism, and the immense resources of the sea should not go to the strong; they should go to the corporate welfare of humanity. [More…]
That is why I believe that this Parliament, if it seeks to assert sovereignty and to settle the matter, is contributing to that extent, to the common welfare of mankind. [More…]
The honourable member for Riverina (Mr Grassby) who has just resumed his seat has given a very good example of the general lack of interest or concern of members of the Labor Party for the welfare of people who live in the country areas, including people who operate country radio and television stations and. [More…]
Apart from the value of this industry to the economy of the State it has a real effect on the welfare, progress and development of towns in areas where it is grown. [More…]
Another fully qualified teacher found refuge in the office of Catholic Welfare in Sydney. [More…]
I also ask him to explore the proposal being advanced by a welfare officer with the Catholic Migration Office in Sydney to establish some improved and continuing hostel accommodation. [More…]
I believe that the idea that somebody else is crucial to our defence, our welfare and our strength is an abdication of our sense of self-reliance. [More…]
Results of such decisions will deviate more and more from true human welfare. [More…]
One of the reasons why people who have migrated to Australia are now leaving Australia, and why there are so many leaving, particularly those from the prime source countries, is that Australia does not now compare with those countries in welfare, health and housing standards. [More…]
We shall never retain them in this country unless we discard our pettifogging and begrudging welfare policies. [More…]
Foremost among the points of agitation is the contention that the social welfare system in Australia is relatively inferior to the systems in other parts of the world. [More…]
The whole sorry story, the whole historical cavalcade of events, makes a laughing stock of any sincerity which the Government claims about its concern for the welfare of our migrant community whose desires and interests have been denied. [More…]
I remind honourable members that when we talk of the United Council of Immigrants, the Council whose policy has been embraced today completely and unambiguously by the Australian Labor Party, we are speaking of the Central Council of Croatian Associations in Australia, the Italian Welfare Centre Co., the Netherlands Society of Sydney, the Association of Australian Slovaks, the Swiss Club of New South Wales, the Ukrainian Society of New South Wales, the Federal Council of Polish Associations, the Estonian Society in Sydney, the Hungarian Council of New South Wales, the Maltese Community Council of New South Wales, the Latvian community in Sydney, the Lithuanian community in Sydney and the Australian Romanian Association. [More…]
To have such a cavalier attitude towards the rights of those who have earned their Australian pensions and have received less than justice all their lives is surely the mark of one who has scant regard for the welfare of migrants or pensioners. [More…]
Indeed, I go further than that and acknowledge that the Bill presently before the House, even unamended, represents an important advance in our social welfare thinking. [More…]
This legislation is further evidence of his desire to bring about major changes in our welfare system. [More…]
This is yet further evidence of the very real concern that this Government shows for all aspects of migrant welfare. [More…]
In conclusion, I want to state once again that this Bill represents a remarkable advance in terms both of our national social welfare system and in the special regard which we pay to the interests of our migrants. [More…]
Even today, those of us who have been concerned with migrant welfare and have achieved some assistance for family reunions, find that there is discrimination continuing in the matter of the issue of visas. [More…]
The information refers only to expenditure on Aboriginal welfare as distinct from expenditure on benefits available to all Australians. [More…]
Since June 1969 Aborigines in New South Wales have been the responsibility of the Directorate of Aboriginal Welfare in the Department of Child Welfare and Social Welfare and separate records are not maintained. [More…]
Expenditure which was normally a charge against the Department of Native Welfare in respect to medical and education for Aborigines is now carried by the relevant Departments and not included in the above figures since 1962-63. [More…]
These actions include the lowering of interest rates, providing additional funds for the States, restoring the investment allowance for manufacturers, reducing personal income taxation and increasing welfare payments. [More…]
Overall unemployment has been brought about by the August Budget of the McMahon Government and it is a tragic thing that without any thought to the welfare of the people unemployment should be created like it has been. [More…]
The wellbeing of APPM, which employs about 4,000 people, is of tremendous value not only to the north west but also to the whole northern area of Tasmania and the economic welfare of that State. [More…]
These things are important to the welfare and the living standards of the Australian people. [More…]
I hope that when legislation in respect of social welfare benefits is before this Parliament the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) will remind his colleagues that those who can well afford to put up with the hardship of living on the salaries that they receive today are being granted huge increases which are to be backdated. [More…]
This Government has done nothing to lift the standard of the welfare structure, including child endowment. [More…]
I have said nothing about the people who are kept down under our social welfare structure. [More…]
I also attended a Conference of Child and Social Welfare Ministers held in Tasmania in March 1971 for which the particulars sought were given in my answer to Question No. [More…]
This raises a major consideration, namely, the additional burden which would be placed on the Australian taxpayer who, in 1971-72, is expected to provide some $510m from the National Welfare Fund for health services. [More…]
Did the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare recommend overall planning of rehabilitation for the handicapped to increase efficiency. [More…]
If so, will the Minister take steps to set up a semi-governmental authority for this purpose, including representatives of Departments concerned with education, social welfare and vocational matters, and voluntary organisations. [More…]
The Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare made a number of recommendations concerning some areas of assistance to the handicapped where, in the view of the Committee, further governmental assistance both Commonwealth and State would be appropriate; and also concerning the co-ordination of Commonwealth activities in this field. [More…]
If so, did section 1 of the Bill declare that it is the public policy of the State that, in order to safeguard the life, health, property, and public welfare of its citizens, the production sales and use of motor fuels and the pollution caused by the additives in motor fuels is a matter affecting the public interest, and that a reduced tax on motor fuels containing grain alcohol as a substitute for lead additives is necessary for the reduction of pollution and will further serve as an incentive for the agricultural economy in the State. [More…]
What sum has been (a) available and (b) granted for (i) home care services, (ii) senior citizens’ centres and (iii) welfare officers at senior citizens’ centres under the States Grants (Home Care) Act 1969 to each of the States and Territories in each year of operation of the Act [More…]
The States Grants (Home Care) Act provides for the Commonwealth to, first, pay to a participating State an amount equal to half its expenditure for approved home care services; secondly, to contribute up to one-third of the capital cost of a senior citizens’ centre, on a matching basis with a participating State or a local governing body in a participating State; thirdly to pay half the salary of a welfare officer employed at, or in conjunction with, a senior citizens’ centre. [More…]
When will the House debate the recommendations of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare in respect of mentally and physically handicapped persons. [More…]
The report of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare in respect of mentally and physically handicapped persons is very far reaching in its implications for both the Commonwealth and the States, and the recommendations of the report cover a wide range of issues which could affect questions of major policy in several Commonwealth Departments. [More…]
It is a scheme that has been condemned by the medical profession, by pharmacists, by hospital administrators, by social workers and by welfare organisations. [More…]
Anyone with the slightest understanding of health and social welfare knows that this scheme simply cannot operate effectively; but then, of course, it never was intended to do so. [More…]
other than requiring them, under the conditions of the Child Welfare Ordinance, to be licensed with the Department of the Interior. [More…]
Those who prefer a glib answer to an accurate one, those of our opponents who prefer some personal or Party advantage to the welfare of the people they represent, have come up with quite a simple explanation. [More…]
Western Australia deserves better than this, not on any emotional, much less philanthropic, basis but on the cold hard reality of the State’s contribution to Australia’s welfare and economic development. [More…]
Proportionate to population, Western Australia has contributed far more than its share to the national welfare, and this can be illustrated in all basic areas, including migrant absorption, interstate trade and overseas earnings. [More…]
9, National Welfare Fund, and No. [More…]
Information in respect of the National Welfare Fund can be found in the table published on page 25 of the attachments to my Budget Speech and full details of the war service homes insur- ance account are provided in the report of the Director of war service homes. [More…]
For the last 15 months this Government has had before it the report of a Senate inquiry into the welfare of mentally and physically handicapped children. [More…]
I am told that the annual State budget of the administering authority - the Maternal, Infant and Pre-school Welfare Division of the Department of Health - will be about $5m this year. [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to inserting the following words in place thereof: the House condemns the Budget because it fails to define adequate economic and social goals for Australia; and in particular because it provides no programme for restoring full employment, no means of checking the costs and prices of goods and land, no framework for improving the standards of education, health, welfare and public transport and no national plan for our capital cities and regional centres’. [More…]
Is a small rise in cash welfare benefits, with an actual decline in their value, the answer to poverty, indignity and insecurity among the aged, the widowed, the returned men, the sick and the handicapped? [More…]
Increasingly, he and his family depend on local government to provide a whole new range of basic services in health, welfare, sport, culture and recreation. [More…]
This was the time to start looking after the true welfare of the migrants already here - the people who suffer most from unemployment, most from the pressure in the state and parish schools, most from exorbitant land and housing costs, most from the decline of the quality of our cities. [More…]
On welfare,., we have a concern for the people. [More…]
The question I would have preferred to discuss in this context is this: Considering the sharp increase in the social services allocation and the heavy emphasis on this aspect in the Budget Speech, might it now be possible to discern at last something that we could regard as a Liberal Party plan, scheme or philosophy of social welfare? [More…]
That is, might the Liberal Party at last have moved away from ad hocism as the basis of its social welfare programme? [More…]
Proportionate to population Western Australia has contributed far more than its share to the nation’s welfare and this can be illustrated in all basic areas. [More…]
The defence vote this year is estimated to be $l,323m and social welfare and repatriation are estimated to be $2,529m, making a total of $7,30 lm or about 70 per cent of the total Budget. [More…]
For instance, the social welfare measures will be of tremendous assistance to many people in more ways than one. [More…]
Citizens in South Australia are entitled to ask, as they have done, and as newspaper editorials have done so eloquently in expressing their condemnation of that action which has been taken, whether the law of the land and the welfare of the community can be safely entrusted to a Premier and a Government who treat law with such contempt as honourable gentlemen opposite would have that law treated. [More…]
Is it new thinking which has caused the revision of social welfare? [More…]
In my view, the Treasurer in the Budget presented on the Tuesday before last introduced the most wide ranging and humanitarian series of policy changes relating to social welfare for the removal of poverty, assistance in nursing homes and similar matters that I can remember for many years. [More…]
I should also like to congratulate the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) on his tremendous efforts to reform the social service or welfare area dealt with by the Budget. [More…]
I support the amendment moved by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) which reads in part: the House condemns the Budget because it fails to define adequate economic and social goals for Australia; and in particular because it provides no programme for restoring full employment, no means of checking the costs and prices of goods and land, no framework for improving the standards of education, health, welfare and public transport and no national plan for our capital cities and regional centres’. [More…]
Families throughout the country will be greatly helped by the provisions of this Budget not only in regard to taxation but in the whole field of social welfare. [More…]
These are significant and perhaps more dramatic steps than many of the others which have been taken, but the other measures in this social welfare Budget - and that is what it is - are also sensible and helpful. [More…]
It is a social welfare Budget. [More…]
This Budget is charting a course in social welfare which cannot ever be reversed. [More…]
They have been forced to allocate resources from their budgets for social welfare when this should have been the responsibility of the Commonwealth. [More…]
It is a Budget for the average man; it is a welfare Budget. [More…]
It provides a stimulus to the economy and it includes the biggest welfare packet that has ever been brought into a single Commonwealth Parliament. [More…]
It is impossible in the time available to me in this debate to cover all these aspects, and I intend, if I may, to devote my time solely to the welfare aspects; but even then I will be unable to cover the full range that is contained in this Budget. [More…]
This Budget contains a combination of what can be achieved in the welfare field. [More…]
I have to remind the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) that despite what he has outlined as a wonderful social welfare programme, the simple fact as contained in the Budget papers themselves indicate that this year we will be spending an only slightly higher proportion of our total domestic outlay on social welfare compared with expenditure in the 2 previous years. [More…]
The Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth), who preceded me in this debate, had a lot to say about social welfare programmes, but he did not say what was being done in the Budget about the unemployment benefit. [More…]
Couples with young families are struggling to raise their families and I know that their main demand in social welfare is an increase in child endowment. [More…]
The Budget is aimed at goals of importance to all Australians - growth and development; the adequate defence of our nation; the fostering of industry; the expansion of educational opportunity; and the continued betterment and extension of our social welfare system. [More…]
In the difficult process of determining spending priorities, our welfare programme shows how highly we regard the need to achieve an equitable distribution to upgrade the living standards of those who most need it. [More…]
This could be spent towards the welfare of his family. [More…]
I support the amendment moved by the Leader of the Opposition which states: the House condemns the Budget because it falls to define adequate economic and social goals for Australia; and in particular because it provides no programme fox restoring full employment, no means of checking the costs and prices of goods and land, no framework for improving the standards of education, health, welfare and public transport and no national plan for our capital cities and regional centres’. [More…]
I have read statements attributed to Dr Hecker which reportedly were made in Sydney yesterday when he was making a submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]
What a decline in the philosophy of a once proud Party that its members are more concerned with enabling 2 men to get into bed together than with the profound issues which affect the welfare of the workers. [More…]
Now they place the welfare of deviants above the welfare of the workers. [More…]
I take this opportunity to congratulate the Treasurer (Mr Snedden) on introducing one of the most popular social service welfare Budgets post-war. [More…]
In doing so, I direct my remarks to the field of social services in which some very important decisions affecting the welfare of many of our best aged citizens have been made. [More…]
The amendment seeks to insert the following words: the House condemns the Budget because it fails to define adequate economic and social goals for Australia; and in particular because it provides no programme for restoring full employment, no means of checking the costs and prices of goods and land, no framework for improving the standards of education, health, welfare and public transport and no national plan for our capital cities and regional centres. [More…]
I rise to support strongly the amendment moved by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) which states: the House condemns the Budget because it fails to define adequate economic and social goals for Australia; and in particular because it provides no programme for restoring full employment, no means of checking the costs and prices of goods and land, no framework for improving the standards of education, health, welfare and public transport and no national plan for out capital cities and regional centres. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) has made clear a number of times that in his recommendat.ons in the field of social welfare he was determined to beat the levels which Professor Henderson has described as th: poverty line. [More…]
So, the cost of the schemes that the Labor Party wanted to introduce in 1969 - its national health scheme, its welfare proposals, its education policies and its national development policies - can be met because the money is available. [More…]
So when the Government say that it cannot increase pensions by a few dollars a week or talks about improving its miserable’ welfare programmes it should be remembered that it has been socking away $500m a year into this fund which is to meet only a contingent liability, a liability which will not arise. [More…]
For years this Government has talked about what it has done with social welfare programmes. [More…]
The goals set by the Government of the Liberal and Country parties, on the other hand, in the framing of this year’s Budget are designed to build a better Australia by promoting balanced development as well as the economic and social welfare of all Australians. [More…]
The goals set by the Government, on the other hand, in the framing of this year’s Budget are designed to build a better Australia by promoting balanced development and the economic and social welfare of all Australians. [More…]
The firm agreement to abolish the means test within 3 years means that throughout the Australian community people will .henceforth be able to benefit from the range of social welfare to which they contribute through their taxation payments. [More…]
Consequently hundreds - perhaps thousands - of Australians could be thrown out of work; yet this is a man who claims that he is concerned for the economic welfare of the Australian worker. [More…]
It therefore is quite clear as stated in the Labor Party’s proposed amendment that the Budget provides no framework for improving the standards of health and welfare and no national plan for our capital cities. [More…]
The Minister for Social Welfare in the Liberal Government in Victoria reacted critically to this proposal and said that all that the Government - his colleagues here in the Liberal Federal Government - was seeking to do was to have an inquiry which would shift the responsibility from the Federal Government to State Government authorities because of the imminent Federal election. [More…]
I said that we would set up a wide-ranging committee of inquiry with open terms of reference to inquire into the broad aspect of social welfare that would have special emphasis on the subject of poverty and would progressively report to a Labor government and that we would establish this inquiry, announce its terms of reference and announce the personnel of such an inquiry within 3 months of being elected to the government. [More…]
If it was possible, as in fact it was, with a national campaign to reduce tuberculosis rates among the non-Aboriginal population from 52 per 100,000 in 1947 to 15 per 100,000 by 1970, why have we not shown similar initiatives and resourcefulness and a similar moral commitment to the welfare of Aborigines. [More…]
In proposing that matter for debate I quoted the documents which had been prepared by the Church of England social welfare authorities in the diocese of Sydney - at Redfern and at Mount Druitt. [More…]
The other suggestion which has been made by the Australian Labor Party and by the Australian Council of Social Service is that it is too much for any one man or any one woman to conduct as wide ranging an inquiry into social welfare as this country needs. [More…]
the honourable member for Mitchell (Mr Irwin) and he should know the deprivation which is suffered in many fields of social welfare by the people who live in so far flung an area as his area on the outskirts of the metropolis of Sydney. [More…]
Having obtained such an order, she has to go very many miles to a branch of the New South Wales Department ofSocial Welfare before she can get the forms of assistance available from that Department. [More…]
It was an area similar to the area in the electorate of Mitchell which the Anglican social welfare workers showed to me when I made my visit early in May. [More…]
It may be that in some terms they do not have a low income, but when one takes into account the amount of money they have to pay to buy a block of land, to pay off their house when they get one and to spend on fares to get to and from work, and the amount of time they have to spend in getting to hospitals or to welfare agencies* it can be seen that these are people who are deprived even if they have an income which is larger than that which Professor Henderson regards as the poverty line. [More…]
All that one finds either from the Minister, for Social .Services or members such as the honourable member for Mitchell is that they blame the States for every social shortcoming, every municipal shortcoming and every welfare shortcoming in this country. [More…]
He had always made the excuse that it was not for Federal authorities to inquire into matters of welfare or social services, that these were academic matters which were better discharged by the researchers at the universities such as, of course, Professor Henderson. [More…]
This will break new ground in the field of social welfare in Australia. [More…]
These new nursing home and domiciliary care benefits, taken together with the other initiatives in the field of social welfare announced in the Budget, demonstrate the determination of the Government to correct imbalances of opportunity within the community and to assist those who need it to receive health care and comfort without loss of dignity or independence. [More…]
One cannot help but feel strong objections to the fact that what should be a key public service, as health and welfare in other areas are regarded as a public responsibility, is not regarded in that way. [More…]
In the case of home care services, it will be remembered that in 1969 the Minister for Social Services with some grandiloquence outlined a programme of home care services, paramedical services, senior citizen centres, welfare workers to be provided in these services, plus nursing homes. [More…]
The sentiments of the Labor Party in regard to social welfare and unemployment benefit would ring much more truly if it practised what it preached. [More…]
I quite agree; it is time that the people of Australia realised that this Government is responsible for the introduction of most of the social welfare legislation now in operation. [More…]
In the social welfare area there is so much to be done. [More…]
In the social welfare field it is always a case of too little too late. [More…]
The Government is not really interested in the pensioners’ welfare. [More…]
More importantly, it must take a direct interest in the welfare of migrants who have been brought to this country by private project development firms which have nominated migrants and made promises which cannot be kept. [More…]
The performance to date has been that of a stop-go economy, of stop-go welfare schemes and broken promises, particularly on the means test, and of Federal Government bond rate moves which have caused soaring home loan interest rates that have been passed on by building societies. [More…]
It is the government’s job to control these developments and to direct them towards the social welfare of the people of Australia. [More…]
However, they have overlooked the fact that this finance is required for industries which are vital to the welfare of Australia as a nation and that it could do much to encourage people to remain in areas other than the capital cities. [More…]
It has shown that this McMahon Liberal-Country Party Government is concerned with the welfare of every section of the community, and its concern for the social welfare of all Australians has been clearly demonstrated. [More…]
As I mentioned earlier, the LiberalCountry Party Government has shown a total concern for the social welfare of all Australians in this Budget. [More…]
The Budget will provide for taxation reductions, pension increases, social services, the lifting of the means test, housing, health, education, child welfare, estate duty, Aborigines, defence, shipping, airlines, gift duty, nursing homes, special grants and fares for the unemployed. [More…]
In all 3 areas of which I have been speaking - inflation, growth and social welfare - this is a Budget which deserves the commendation of this House just as it has had the commendation of the Australian people. [More…]
That is the part to which I would like to draw attention - and in particular because it provides no programme for restoring full employment, no means of checking the costs and prices of goods and land, no framework for improving the standards of education, health, welfare and public transport and no national plan for our capital cities and regional centres’. [More…]
The poor need health and welfare services, whilst those in better circumstances do not. [More…]
Infant welfare facilities, pre-school centres, sporting fields and pavilions and public halls command priorities in newly developing areas and must compete with road, drainage and bridge construction. [More…]
The Commonwealth should be entirely responsible for the cost and provision of social services, health and social welfare programmes as advised by local councils and considered by a board or committee. [More…]
Attention is given to the social welfare section in the Budget and to the primary industries which are still vitally important and which in some quarters are still not given the consideration that is due. [More…]
I am extremely gratified by the social welfare provisions in the Budget, particularly the additional assistance to be given for home nursing. [More…]
It is helpful and beneficial in its social services and in the many welfare increases given right across the board. [More…]
The private sector fails the community by being unwilling to spend when the welfare of the community is at stake. [More…]
Looking through the Budget a bit further we come to social welfare, and the first item dealt with specifically is education. [More…]
The rehabilitation part of it is supposed to have been a major social welfare step in rural reconstruction. [More…]
It has no concern for the social and spiritual welfare of the people of this nation. [More…]
That is the measure of its concern for the welfare of the farmers. [More…]
I am sure that many people in the country cities and towns would be very pleased to hear of that lack of concern by the Labor Party for their welfare. [More…]
My colleague the Minister for Immigration has put forward in this Budget a programme for migrant integration and social welfare services. [More…]
That all words after ‘That* be omitted with a view to inserting the following words in place thereof: “The House condemns the Budget because it fails to define adequate economic and social goals for Australia; and in particular because it provides no programme for restoring full employment, no means of checking the costs and prices of goods and land, no framework for improving the standards of education, health, welfare and public transport and no national plan for our capital cities and regional centres’. [More…]
If I remember correctly, the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, that great spokesman on Labor Party matters, quoted defence matters as number 7 on the list of matters which the Labor Party considered as important for the welfare of Australia. [More…]
Increasingly, he and his family depend on local government to provide a whole new range of basic services in health, welfare, sport, culture and recreation. [More…]
There are few aspects of our environment, our culture or our welfare which can be handled adequately without involving local government. [More…]
Today, the municipalities have responsibilities and duties in areas such as infanct welfare, kindergartens, emergency social welfare, high contributions to road and other facilities including, in Victoria, the fire brigade. [More…]
They have embraced these duties because of their acceptance of social responsibility This is particularly so in some areas of social welfare, where the State Govern ment has instructed local authorities that their duties did not extend into those areas. [More…]
because of their experience of the deplorab’e state of affairs which would exist in some areas of social welfare if they did not intrude. [More…]
The increases in pensions and the concern with the means test and with social welfare are greater increases obsolutely and proportionately than have ever been sustained in a previous Budget. [More…]
by leave - It gives me great pleasure to announce that the Commonwealth Department of Social Services with the full support and cooperation of the State departments concerned with social and child welfare has commissioned a family research project. [More…]
The need for such a research project was discussed and agreed upon at the annual meeting of State welfare Ministers and myself held in Brisbane last June. [More…]
Social Services, Mr W. C. Langshaw, Under Secretary of the New South Wales Department of Child Welfare and Social Welfare, who will also be representing equivalent departments from other States, and Mr A. S. Colliver, senior lecturer, School of Social Work in the University of New South Wales. [More…]
The study will have great significance for the long term development of Australian social welfare. [More…]
It is rather remarkable that this should bc so because the Government has been in office for nearly a quarter of a century and until about a fortnight ago had seen little virtue in having inquiries in’.o various aspects of welfare needs in the community. [More…]
Why not inquire into the broad aspect of social welfare in the community into which the needs of the family dovetail very neatly although representing only one section of a vast range of high priority needs in the community. [More…]
If the inquiry into this particular area dealt with by the Minister is to be meaningful, just as an inquiry into the broad aspect of social welfare services in the community is to be meaningful, questions must be raised about fundamental philosophical values, about the role of society, the relationship of people within society, the position of the productive system and what its purpose is within our society. [More…]
After the next election, when Labor is in office and sets up a broad committee of inquiry into social welfare we will do what we hope this Government would do in framing the terms of reference for the matter dealt with by the Minister. [More…]
The welfare of the people was considered with due regard to priorities and in an orderly fashion. [More…]
There is no doubt that the welfare of those in need has been cared for. [More…]
He said that there is no framework for improving the standards of education, health and welfare’. [More…]
Commonwealth expenditure in the field of education for the coming year will amount to $426m and for social welfare about $2,529m. [More…]
We have better government, social, welfare and education services through the whole Australian community. [More…]
It lifts the social welfare horizons of our nation and it clearly shows a path ahead under a Liberal and Country Party Government. [More…]
We also have made great concessions in the social welfare field. [More…]
This year social welfare payments will add an extra $377m to demand. [More…]
We seek to secure the dignity of man by our social welfare policies which provide for all those in need. [More…]
I want to refer to social welfare and then to taxation. [More…]
The Opposition has challenged our policy on social welfare. [More…]
That solution was rejected in deference to the islanders’ known political and constitutional views, to obviate complications as regards social welfare benefits and to avoid imposing tax on the islanders in respect of genuine Island source income and foreign source income. [More…]
If one looks over the range of items necessary for the welfare of blind people in the community one finds that they carry a certain amount of sales tax. [More…]
We cannot expect and get increased social welfare benefits, reduced taxes and other concessions - be paid more and then work less. [More…]
Australians as a whole will see the response of these corporations as a real test of how much they are concerned about the welfare and the stability of the Australian economy and the Australian community. [More…]
As a nation we have far to go and we have much to do in areas such as education, health, welfare and the development of human and natural resources. [More…]
Nobody would deny, I think, that the future welfare of a company such as the Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd, for instance, has a very real effect on the national interests of Australia. [More…]
Was the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare in respect of mentally and physically handicapped persons in Australia tabled in Parliament 15 months ago - in May of last year? [More…]
Did this report recommend a variety of educational, health and welfare measures for the benefit of the handicapped and their families? [More…]
The purpose of the Embassy was to bring to the attention of members of Parliament and others, matters of complaint concerning the welfare of the aboriginal race and in particular their ‘land rights’. [More…]
The purpose of the embassy was to bring to the attention of members of Parliament and others, matters of complaint concerning the welfare of the Aboriginal race and in particular their land rights. [More…]
I presume that in representing the Aborigines of Australia he is looking after their welfare. [More…]
It covers also the Workmen’s Compensation Ordinance, Hire Purchase Ordinance, Advisory Council Ordinance, Child Welfare Ordinance, Maintenance Ordinance, Compensation (Fatal Injuries) Ordinance, Coroners Ordinance, Sale of Goods Ordinance and Lay-by Sales Agreements Ordinance. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to a report in The Review, 27th May-2nd June 1972, (a) that the present manager of the Foundation has abolished the Foundation’s welfare program and cancelled such things as providing amenities for showering and shaving or a free meal for welfare cases who needed help to get back their self-respect and dignity before looking for a job or housing and (b) that the second floor of the building used by the Foundation, once used as emergency accommodation for Aboriginals in need, has been converted into a comfortable apartment for the present manager and his family at an alleged cost of $7,900; if so, will he investigate these allegations. [More…]
If the allegations in parts (2) and (3) are correct, will he take whatever action is necessary to ensure that Commonwealth funds appropriated for Aboriginal welfare are spent as the Parliament intended. [More…]
This Bill represents but one component of a comprehensive programme being introduced by the Government in this session of Parliament to improve the health and welfare of aged persons. [More…]
In fact he is saying that he does not know what the costs are, and that is not an unreasonable situation when trying to calculate the cost of welfare services or many other aspects of public responsibility. [More…]
The Government was supposed to spend $2.Sm a year on a comprehensive programme covering home care, paramedical services, senior citizen centres, welfare work and nursing homes. [More…]
I think that one of the reasons why welfare services in the community have been under-developed in many ways is that the Commonwealth has tended to take the easy way out by tying its expenditure allocations to some sort of formula which requires a commitment from the States in a fixed capacity or in a fixed amount. [More…]
But it is obvious that no one person is able to fulfil all the needs that are so apparent in investigating the areas of social welfare, housing, health and the like as they bear on the aged pensioner section of our community. [More…]
Generally speaking, of course, the problem that we are confronted with today - the inadequacy of the legislation that we are confronted with today - is the inadequacy of the total funds made available for welfare purposes in Australia. [More…]
I do not want to labour this point at all, but in passing it should be mentioned that lots of people, including active people in the aged persons homes organisations, are gravely concerned that in Australia we are spending 5.5 per cent of our gross national product on social welfare. [More…]
In other comparable countries a much greater proportion of the gross national product is devoted to social welfare. [More…]
The European Economic Community countries are expending 15.2 per cent of their gross national product on social welfare. [More…]
I mention now the percentage of gross national product expended on social welfare by other countries. [More…]
The third social welfare objective that these measures will achieve is for these desirable developments to take place at less cost to the Government than would be the case if the alternative development of more and more nursing home beds were adopted. [More…]
I draw attention to this because it must be remembered that the States themselves bear a great deal of responsibility for the welfare of aged people. [More…]
However, there is one such organisation and one such home that I have had something to do with, namely, the Judge Book Memorial Village in Eltham which is run by the Community Welfare Foundation of Melbourne. [More…]
I think this should be borne in mind in view of the comments that come from members of the Opposition suggesting that the Government is not concerned with social welfare. [More…]
This is surely a magnificant contribution to this sector of the social welfare field. [More…]
These 2 Bills will be of great benefit to aged people right across Australia and clearly spell out the Government’s regard and concern for the welfare of the aged. [More…]
It gives me considerable pleasure to speak on the Aged Persons Hostels Bill this afternoon, and at the outset I offer my sincere congratulations to both the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) and the Government for what they have done in this field of social welfare. [More…]
Her opinions conflicted with those of representatives of the Northern Territory Welfare Branch. [More…]
3m and that could be doubled if all the recommendations of the witnesses which conflicted with the views of the Welfare Branch were implemented. [More…]
The Welfare Branch is trying to discourage this practice but I think more vigorous efforts could be employed to abolish it. [More…]
Mr Bill Ryan, who is an Aboriginal Welfare Officer, came along. [More…]
There seems to me to be in the Welfare Division in the Northern Territory a pervading intimidatory atmosphere the like of which is not known in any other government department that I know of in Australia. [More…]
It is far more desirable that they should bring in the experienced people who are educationalists or welfare officers and expose all this business to sensible examination. [More…]
The Government has shown a callous disregard for the welfare of people living in the vicinity of Sydney (Kingsford-Smith) Airport, which is located in my electorate of St George, and people living in the electorates of my colleagues the honourable member for Barton (Mr Reynolds), the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith (Mr Lionel Bowen), and the honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Daly). [More…]
This callous disregard for the interests and welfare of people living in the St George electorate and surrounding areas has to stop. [More…]
The New South Wales Department of Child Welfare and Social Welfare has advised that at the same date State assistance was being paid to 1,257 deserted wives with children. [More…]
The New South Wales Department of Child Welfare and Social Welfare has advised that at the same date State assistance was being paid to 197 wives of prison inmates with children. [More…]
To return to the issue of local government authorities, the document to which I have referred points out quite well that more and more responsibilities, particularly in the social welfare field, are being expected to be assumed by these bodies but that nobody gives any consideration to giving relief in regard to the payment of the sums of money involved. [More…]
Neglect of man’s physical welfare could be disastrous for his future. [More…]
The Senate Select Committee on Health and Welfare which looked at the subject of handicapped people indicated that there was a great need for clear statistical data on the numbers and needs of handicapped people. [More…]
It indicates the concern of the Government for the welfare of soldier settlers in general and particularly soldier settlers in trouble in South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania. [More…]
I welcome the Bill which is a direct result of the progressive policies on welfare that were announced by the Treasurer (Mr Snedden) in the Budget last month. [More…]
The Commonwealth and States housing arrangements under which the Federal Government makes available funds to the States at a low rate of interest for welfare housing works is another. [More…]
When one considers the activities of the Commonwealth Government in regard to war service homes and the provision of low interest finance to the State housing authorities for welfare housing construction it becomes obvious that the Government has played a very important and necessary role in the housing industry of Australia. [More…]
Let me remind him, as he deserves to be reminded, that last year in this House there was passed a Commonwealth-State housing Bill which provided welfare housing for those who were in greatest need. [More…]
The fact is that that legislation has resulted in the greatest drop in interest rates ever experienced in Australia’s history in welfare housing. [More…]
In some States the interest rate on welfare housing has dropped by up to 1.75 per cent, representing a payment of nearly $3 a week less for every week of the mortgage, for 25 or 30 years, than would otherwise have been the case. [More…]
That assistance in welfare housing has been introduced despite the opposition from the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
I can understand, therefore, the reluctance of the honourable member for Reid when dealing with these matters to mention in detail the areas of welfare housing. [More…]
His remarks are interesting because in the whole field of social policy proposed by the Australian Labor Party almost the only area in which it would impose limits in respect of welfare and needs is in some aspects of education - not even in housing. [More…]
It is not reasonable to expect that gross returns to primary producers should remain static and I hope that the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair) and the Government will give consideration to examining the position of the wheat growers to ensure that they too receive their share of the prosperity of this country and that they are contributing generally to the welfare of the community. [More…]
By introducing this measure, the Government wishes to assist Australian woolgrowers further in their efforts to advance the welfare of their industry. [More…]
The Budget contains a far-reaching welfare programme, part of which will be implemented by my colleague, the Minister for Health Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson and part of which falls within my own responsibilities. [More…]
The social services aspects of the welfare programme are covered by 3 Bills. [More…]
The expenditure on social services from the National Welfare Fund for 1972- 73 other than that resulting from this Bill, is estimated to reach $l,327m which is an increase of $119m over the expenditure for the previous year. [More…]
As well as increasing the amounts spent on social welfare, 1 believe we have significantly increased the efficiency of our expenditure, so that each dollar spent provides more real welfare than it would have done if the older system had remained unchanged. [More…]
Denmark has a high standard of living and a very high standard of social welfare. [More…]
Danes will also be discouraged by the less complete social security and welfare system provided in Australia. [More…]
The House will well recollect that the inquiry sponsored by the Department of Immigration into the reasons why such a growing higher proportion of migrants are returning home established the major reason as being that social security and social welfare services - covering the broad conspectus of these things - in Australia are so inferior to what are available overseas. [More…]
It will be an automatic social welfare benefit in the community. [More…]
The present Government has almost $450m of the taxpayers’ money isolated and frozen in the National Welfare Fund paying only one per cent annual interest instead of the long term bond rate of between 6 per cent and 7 per cent per annum. [More…]
Finally, we commit ourselves to developing welfare services in the community, because money alone is no answer to the big welfare needs of Australia at the present time. [More…]
In commercial terms social welfare is the largest service industry in Australia. [More…]
Expenditure by State and local governments and voluntary agencies adds another $400m to the nation’s health and welfare bill. [More…]
Yet this Government has for so long turned its eye away from that obvious approach to the social welfare structure. [More…]
The amount to be spent this year on Aboriginal welfare is up 70 per cent to $53m. [More…]
It is not wide enough to meet the wishes of the Council for Social Welfare which has ardently sought a comprehensive survey into social services. [More…]
I remember the Prime Minister, once removed, having said that he was ardently opposed to abolition of the means test and that a lot more attention should be given to those people on the lower rungs of social welfare. [More…]
Bill to establish a stable relationship between pensions and an index of community welfare. [More…]
It simply means that when people come to your office you have to refer them to the State Welfare Branch to get some kind of urgent relief pending the processing of a claim. [More…]
The Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare furnished a report on mentally and physically handicapped persons about IS months ago. [More…]
This Bill is a major piece of social welfare legislation. [More…]
It is one of several social welfare measures that are in the process of being passed or have been passed by this Parliament. [More…]
Put together these measures provide outstanding and comprehensive social welfare legislation and they make a broad attack on social welfare problems in this country. [More…]
It is an indication to the people of Australia that this Government is concerned about social welfare problems and shows them where this Government stands. [More…]
The Government has thrown out a major challenge to the Labor Party in the field of social welfare. [More…]
With an election approaching it would have been interesting and valuable not only to this Parliament but also to the people of Australia to be told the exact’ policy of the Labor Party on social welfare. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition has also previously promised $100m immediate social welfare advance. [More…]
Apart from the payments which the Commonwealth makes to the States the provision under the National Welfare Fund is the greatest single item in the Commonwealth Budget. [More…]
One of the inquiries to which I just referred is in the hands of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]
The intention of the AMA seems to be to destroy the repatriation system or to water down its welfare provisions to such a degree that it forfeits all meaning. [More…]
All social welfare systems are open to abuse. [More…]
The system contains more checks and balances than any other welfare system operating under any welfare law in Australia. [More…]
According to this approach, repatriation is wasteful and unnecessary - it should be dismantled and the money spent on it diverted to other welfare schemes. [More…]
Many of the exservicemen, widows and dependants getting war pensions would become eligible for existing social welfare benefits. [More…]
Certainly the special rate and intermediate rate pensioners and widows would be entitled to social welfare benefits. [More…]
Of course, the Government reached the situation where it felt that unless something drastic was done in these matters, as in the social welfare programme, whatever possibility - it is a very remote possibility indeed - it had of recovering its lost ground would have gone completely. [More…]
The second way in which we look after ex-servicemen is in regard to their medical welfare. [More…]
This is another example of the Government’s concern for the most seriously disabled TPI and intermediate rate pensioners and its concern for the widows of deceased ex-servicemen as well as its interest in the welfare of that small and very wonderful band of women who served overseas as nurses during World War I. [More…]
Our proud boast has been our interest in the welfare of our ex-servicemen and their dependants. [More…]
If ever there was a member of this Parliament who has the propensity to go from one area to another trying to tell the people in each area what they want to hear, regardless of the welfare of the nation and frequently regardless of the interests of the industries he is referring to, the classic example of recent times has been the honourable member for Riverina. [More…]
I make this point because those Aborigines had been saying to welfare officers for 16 years that they had not been paid. [More…]
Honourable members will realise from reading our amendment very carefully that Aboriginal welfare is very much the concern of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
It can ascertain from the States the number of people in receipt of child welfare assistance. [More…]
As we look around at the deprived areas in Australia and the deprived schools about which We of the Labor Party talk we see that they are, typically, in the working class area - the areas with larger families, the areas where both parents go to work, the areas where there is a greater concentration of migrants, areas where there are more families dependent on welfare payments and areas where more children have to leave school at an earlier age. [More…]
What sum was paid to Queensland from the National Welfare Fund for (a) hospital benefits and (b) payments to public hospitals for pensioners in each of the last 10 years. [More…]
and (b) No payments are made direct to Queensland State authorities from the National Welfare Fund in respect of Commonwealth hospital benefits. [More…]
B. M. Fuller, M.L.C., Minister for Decentralisation and Development, and Vice-President of the Executive Council, New South Wales; The Honourable R. C. Dunstan, D.S.O., M.P., Minister of Water Sup ply and Minister for Public Works, Victoria; The Honourable N. T. E. Hewitt, M.M., A.F.M., M.L.A., Minister for Conservation, Marine and Aboriginal Affairs, Queensland; The Honourable J. D. Corcoran, M P., Deputy Premier, Minister for Works and Minister of Marine, South Australia; The Honourable W. F. Willesee, M.L.C., Minister for Community Welfare and Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council, Western Australia; The Honourable N. L. C. Batt, M.H.A., Chief Secretary and Minister for Transport, Tasmania. [More…]
-It is very gratifying to know that some people of that tender age are interested in the welfare of this House. [More…]
Members of the Opposition said as recently as yesterday that the Government shows little interest in matters such as Aboriginal welfare and education. [More…]
The children falling into that category need more emphasis placed on their welfare by education authorities. [More…]
Already these things are becoming apparent and they are a warning to the rest of the medical people and the patients in this nation that Labor is determined to upset the present scheme, with all the efficiency that is built into it and the proper care and concern given by doctors for the welfare of their patients. [More…]
As in any other profession or occupational group, some members may be grasping or more interested in their own welfare than that of their patients, but in my experience there are very few of them. [More…]
I am also concerned with the welfare of my patients and the patients of my colleagues. [More…]
The AMA and individual doctors have a duty to speak up on matters which affect the welfare of patients. [More…]
Labor’s Health Scheme will seriously affect patient welfare. [More…]
In addition, greater emphasis will be placed on English language training and both the migrant education and the migrant welfare services in Australia will be expanded. [More…]
The Government is placing increasing emphasis on migrant counselling and selection, and also on English language training and migrant welfare services. [More…]
The purpose of the hostels is, rightly, to provide services to assist new arrivals to settle into the community with the minimum of heartbreak and in the quickest possible time, to provide welfare officers to assist them with their problems of education and social services, to provide housing advisory officers and employment services. [More…]
Under Labor’s welfare housing scheme, if a person wanted to build a castle he would receive much more assistance than if he wanted to build a normal dwelling. [More…]
This is a glaring example of failure to give justice in the social welfare field. [More…]
The effective development of Australia’s natural resources of minerals, forests, water and energy is, I believe, of crucial importance to the welfare of our country. [More…]
During this initial period of 6 months, assistance is a State matter and is also closely related to child welfare responsibilities and functions which are solely a prerogative of the States. [More…]
The competing demands of social welfare, health, education, housing come readily to mind. [More…]
I intend to address my remarks to that section of the estimates dealing with Aboriginal welfare. [More…]
It is quite obvious that the present Government has a very scant regard for the Aboriginal people generally and places very little importance upon the urgent need for substantial improvement in their general welfare and conditions. [More…]
Even though the Government has emerged so belatedly, in this pre-election period, with concern about Aboriginal welfare, environmental matters and many other things, it will help to compound the efforts that have been made by the Australian Labor Party to make these real issues for the whole country. [More…]
I call it a lack of planning because it has brought us the major problems of increased crime, vandalism, riots, aud an increase in alcoholism and drug addiction, an increase in emotional and mental disorders and an increase in unemployment, welfare dependency and poverty. [More…]
This Government initiative is a tangible expression of its very real and proper concern for the welfare of children. [More…]
These consultations revealed among other things, that child care which was beneficial to the child’s overall development was prohibitively costly for the large body of parents, and secondly, that the childminding arrangements that most parents could afford fell far short of the quality that was required in the interests of child welfare. [More…]
Second, the Government’s initiative springs from its concern for the welfare of children of working mothers. [More…]
Persons in charge of centres will be required to seek the co-operation of family counselling and other local social welfare agencies including those operated by local governing authorities, especially in cases of family disruption and where parents or guardians are seeking to place very young children in centres; [More…]
Every piece of welfare legislation was put through both Houses on the day it was introduced. [More…]
The honourable member for Deakin (Mr Jarman) has said that Australia should be concerned primarily with Australia’s welfare and that if we are not concerned with it nobody else will be. [More…]
I think it is about time we measured our achievements in terms of people and welfare and not money and statistics. [More…]
We are interested in the welfare of the countries of South East Asia and our neighbours. [More…]
What is the reason for not allowing the Health, Social Welfare and Repatriation Committee of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party to see the video-taped programme. [More…]
I do not know whether the Northern Territory itself should handle Aboriginal welfare or whether this should be a national responsibility handled directly by the Federal Government. [More…]
My own personal view would be that the Commonwealth should have control at all times over the future welfare of these people. [More…]
I would like to see this happen in Queensland and in all States of the Commonwealth because I believe that this would be the best way in which the welfare of Aborigines would be looked after from a national point of view. [More…]
Undoubtedly this is often the result of the activities of left wing socialists and communist union leaders who have little regard for the welfare of the people they represent or the community as a whole. [More…]
The damage that could be caused to :he people’s welfare was demonstrated very strongly in the recent petrol strike. [More…]
Here again we find this problem of industrial disputes causing great hardship, because in that area the wheat harvest, which is very necessary to the welfare of the people in the wheat industry, is just commencing. [More…]
We have the situation now - I am not saying that it is wrong - that the wife of an employee aged over 60 years who is dragging in $100 a week becomes entitled to a form of social welfare pension. [More…]
Expenditure from the National Welfare Fund has amounted to $107,827,000. [More…]
These nurses, who work mainly in maternal and child welfare clinics, said that their survey showed that it was not practical for a family to try to live on one low income. [More…]
I sincerely hope that the Parliament and the Government will take notice of the recommendations that to proceed any further on the site would virtually involve discarding important town planning principles which will have a very great bearing on the welfare of many people. [More…]
The 3 projects which we are asked to approve tonight, in addition to a number of other projects for the Northern territory, indicate the interest of the Commonwealth Government in the promotion and welfare of that area. [More…]
Despite what the Opposition has been saying over recent months, the Government has been interested in the welfare of this industry. [More…]
They are talking about the threat from man-made fibres running counter to the welfare of the wool industry because we now might be pricing ourselves out of the market. [More…]
The legislation subordinates the welfare of wool growers to those who thrive on what we call the free enterprise system of marketing. [More…]
This Government has a record of selling out the interests and the welfare of the Australian wool grower. [More…]
Knowing the members of the Country Party as I do it did not surprise me that they were prepared to ignore the welfare of the wool growers in favour of retaining their comfortable seats in Parliament. [More…]
In other words, it is in fact a social welfare programme of a certain kind. [More…]
People are becoming unviable, so we are talking in terms of a social welfare proposition essentially to get these people into a reasonable operation of one kind or another or, for that matter, as far as fruit growing is concerned, into non-operation if that is in fact their alternative, to get out of the industry. [More…]
I think the Government’s decision, uneconomic as it seems to be, to go into an area of social welfare provision in relation to the fruit-growing industry is probably well taken because the omens are not very hopeful. [More…]
This is the fourth measure that I have been privileged to introduce during the current session of Parliament as part of the Government’s far-reaching programme for the purpose of improving the health and welfare of aged people. [More…]
These organisations, honourable members will no doubt agree, play an important role in looking after the health and welfare of aged or invalid people in their own homes, not only by ensuring that they obtain adequate meals for a nominal charge, but also by providing a necessary contact between people who may be frail and lonely and supportive services such as home nursing, paramedical, housekeeping, emergency transport, shopping, gardening, hairdressing, chiropody, library and general counselling. [More…]
In terms of today’s social welfare expenditure this is not a major item, but the importance of adequate nutrition to elderly people living alone cannot be overstated. [More…]
As I told the House when introducing the Aged Persons Homes Bill recently, one of the most important aspects of this year’s comprehensive programme to improve the health and welfare of aged people is to encourage and assist people who might otherwise be admitted prematurely or unnecessarily to nursing homes or other similar institutions to remain in their domestic environment for as long as possible. [More…]
Australians, as a whole, will see the response of these corporations as a real test of how much they are concerned about the welfare and stability of Australia’s economy, and of the Australian community.’ [More…]
If there is no provision for a clearance to be given, does it follow that Commonwealth welfare officers and others will not be able to give evidence? [More…]
It is where we speak in terms of national welfare. [More…]
People in the community who are associated with school committees, parent organisations and so on do not get one cent in return for the hours they devote to the welfare of children. [More…]
The cost of sustaining a permanently deprived and depressed economy in future years would be immensely greater in social welfare terms than the assistance which should now be given for essential shipping services to Tasmania. [More…]
We are being asked to believe that the Country Party is not just a mouthpiece of the big grazing and farming interests but has always been concerned with the health, education, housing and social welfare of Australians and is dedicated to solving the growing problems of the environment, namely urban congestion pollution, conservation and decentralisation. [More…]
I have no quarrel with the text of this letter; it does make the best of a pretty poor case and it is as sympathetic as a letter about a harsh aspect of social welfare policy can be. [More…]
This, of course, is not a problem exclusive to repatriation pensioners; it affects all social welfare pensions near the margins of permissible assessed income. [More…]
I do not blame the Minister for Repatriation for this; obviously this is a broad matter of social welfare policy. [More…]
This matter comes within the scope of this debate because it is the Department of Social Services which is charged with the task of looking after the National Welfare Fund from which these benefits come. [More…]
They know this so well because they, together with the Society of St Vincent de Paul, the Methodist missions, and also the Church of England welfare associations, are the organisations to which these people must go. [More…]
She receives child welfare assistance but no medical subsidies, which are so essential for any person with young children. [More…]
If she were over 50 years of age she could qualify for a B class widow’s pension, but the ludicrous situation is that the B class pension is less than what would be paid to her in child welfare assistance. [More…]
We should make the welfare of the. [More…]
I am sure that if we were to be as diligent and spend so much money on the welfare of those people better results would be obtained. [More…]
But I think we should do a ‘ number of things to enlarge the provision of health welfare services in a way which will absorb or eat up the enormous amount of accumulated reserves which these funds have, and quite unreasonably have, given the fact that the money has been contributed for the provi sion of health services in the community. [More…]
The proposed scheme is concerned with the welfare of children, with particular emphasis on the welfare of those children in special need of alternative care while their parents are working, sick or otherwise unable to care for them. [More…]
I emphasise again that it is directed towards the welfare of children, especially those who face disabilities which could affect their full development as individuals. [More…]
That has been given away by the simple fact that the Bill was introduced by the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch) rather than by a welfare minister, such as the [More…]
Benevolent trusts, welfare organisations, parent bodies and other groups will be involved. [More…]
Japan’s future course lies in pursuing peace and welfare. [More…]
The traditional course of economic growth through massive private equipment investment and exports should be replaced by one with the key emphasis on public investment and welfare. [More…]
In the present we require a very large degree of it, and in the future it will be equally indispensable for the welfare and the growth of this young Australian nation. [More…]
At the conclusion of his speech he stated that I had not made any speeches on welfare in the time that I have been in this House. [More…]
I would like it noted that I have made the following speeches on welfare: On 5th March 1970 in my maiden speech; on 12th March 1970 on Aborigines; on 3rd June 1970 on handicapped children; on 17th September 1970 on the Social Services Bill in relation to pensioner poverty; on 22nd October 1970 on Aboriginal advancement; on 1st April 1971 on the Social Services Bill; on 15th [More…]
I also asked 4 questions concerning welfare matters on 30th October 1970, 6th May 1970, 9th December 1971 and 17th October 1972. [More…]
Did the South Australian Premier write to the Prime Minister on 27th September 1972 in connection with the Alice Springs-Tarcoola railway, agreeing to a grant of Crown land for the railway without reservations concerning mineral rights and requesting the Commonwealth to keep the existing line from Port Augusta to Marree open whilst necessary for the general welfare of the State of South Australia, subject to arbitration if a dispute arose as to economic viability? [More…]
If so, ‘ will he, when addressing the assembly, justify his Department’s consistent refusal to feed certain categories of deserted wives and their children or, alternatively, explain ‘ why he refuses to ascertain from the New South Wales Social Welfare Department why that Department refuses to succour deserted wives at least to the extent provided by law? [More…]
Pursuant to the provisions of the Services Trust Fund Act 1947-1950 I present the annual reports of the Australian Military Forces Relief Trust Fund, The Royal Australian Navy Relief Trust Fund and the Royal Australian Air Force Welfare Trust Fund for the year ended 30th June 1972, together with the reports of the Auditor-General on the books and accounts of the funds. [More…]
What we ought to do is to see that all the health and welfare facilities of the Repatriation Department and the facilities of the War Service Homes Division are made available for people who are already serving, and they should be made available at least to those who have received an honourable discharge. [More…]
I am also aware that the New South Wales Department of Child Welfare and Social Welfare relentlessly has opposed the granting of maintenance payments to widows who have received consent orders from a court. [More…]
She is receiving $42 a fortnight from the State Welfare Department because of the desertion. [More…]
I appeal to him to do something about the Act in general and to take away from the New South Wales Department of Social Welfare the handling of this type of case. [More…]
We understand that the Department of Social Welfare refuses to accept that the husband’s liability has been established and has asked Mrs X to obtain independent evidence. [More…]
Information has been provided by the New South Wales Directorate of Aboriginal Welfare: [More…]
Is the Welfare Branch of the Northern Territory Administration taking any action to discourage the child bride practice; if so, what are the details and when will the Administration invoke the appropriate laws against offenders. [More…]
If necessary she is placed in the custody and care of the Director of Social Welfare. [More…]
To this end it was recommended by the Public Service (Canberra) Welfare Committee that a Board of Review should be created to investigate the whole question. [More…]
In considering the question of fringe benefits availability, it must be remembered that the War Widow’s pension is free of all means test, whereas welfare pensions at comparable levels are subject to the means test. [More…]
Other Media- 59,000 leaflets and 520 posters were made available throughout the Wollongong/Port Kembla area by enlisting the support of doctors and chemists, and organisations such as health funds, bank migrant advisory services, post offices, trade unions, local, State and Commonwealth Government Authorities, migrant organisations and social welfare groups. [More…]
In addition, kits of information are now being prepared by my Department, and these will be distributed shortly to State Councils of Social Service for redistribution to social welfare agencies throughout the Commonwealth. [More…]
with the colleagues referred to with a view to having the public welfare and the rights of consumers placed before considerations of revenue raising, or docs this herald consideration of further taxes on unprescribed drugs which will then have to be made stronger by manufacturers without regard to the physiological and pathological effects. [More…]
In the first sittings you will be asked to give priority to legislation affecting the immediate welfare of the people, and to matters in which my advisers believe delay would mean damage to the nation or unwarranted neglect of the people’s wishes and mandate. [More…]
Determined as they are to maintain strong defence forces, my advisers are deeply aware that the basic strength and welfare of the nation depends on Australia’s ability to develop the skills and talents of her people. [More…]
An Australian Assistance Plan will be set up to develop and co-ordinate welfare services provided by government and private agencies. [More…]
A National Commission on Social Welfare will be set up to advise the Government on all aspects of social welfare, integrate national programs and to evaluate the success of programs. [More…]
They will insist, however, that the over-riding consideration must be the welfare of the patient and are determined that the mandate given to them will be carried out. [More…]
The welfare of migrants to Australia will receive the closest attention. [More…]
The emphasis of my Government’s immigration policy will be on the reunion of families and the welfare of migrants already in Australia. [More…]
My Government believes that measures to improve the welfare of deprived sections of the Australian community, or to promote equality within the whole community, however far-reaching and valuable in themselves, will ultimately fail unless basic and urgent attention is directed to the places where the people live and must live. [More…]
The extensive program of educational, welfare and urban and public transport reform and renewal planned by my Government can only be achieved on the basis of sound economic growth. [More…]
Apart from Tom Burke’s political work he was active in many fields of community welfare and, in particular, played a major part in, and for many years was the guiding light of the slow learning children’s group of Western Australia. [More…]
A working party of top social welfare administrators and other experts has been appointed by this Government to investigate and report on a suitable programme. [More…]
The social security measures outlined in the Governor-General’s Speech quite correctly emphasise the urgency of welfare provisions. [More…]
These measures represent the basic steps in the development of a national welfare policy, freed of discrimination by sex, age or economic condition - a welfare programme which is a real response to our national conscience and which should be a basic condition in any civilised community that has a respect for its own citizens. [More…]
A national welfare policy should provide a dignified way of life for the minority groups in our community which cannot contribute to the economic processes. [More…]
Given this national welfare policy, it is essential then to provide a flexibility and a mobility in our labour force which gives our people the maximum opportunity to express themselves and the maximum opportunity for the nation to benefit from their skills and intelligence. [More…]
Instead of focusing political debate on the purpose for which we should use our resources for the community welfare we find people concentrating on the use of resources to satisfy short-term political pressures or concentrating on the details of management, for instance by asking where the money is coming from instead of asking whether the priorities are right. [More…]
Unless there is a government that has a concern for the creation of wealth, this country will not have the resources to meet the welfare, the compassionate and the developmental requirements which we all would want to see met. [More…]
The Governor-General’s Speech concentrated on what the Government proposes to do for welfare, the great cities and one decentralised city area, namely, Albury-Wodonga, lt mentioned nothing of what the Government proposes to do for general decentralisation throughout Australia in a sense that will achieve a real decentralisation of effort and initiative throughout Australia. [More…]
There will be a basic reform of the Australian Education system, the development of a schools commission and a pre-schools commission, the abolition of university fees, the overhaul of our social welfare system, the introduction of a universal health insurance system, the establishment of a school dental service, the establishment of Aboriginal land rights and the setting up of a cities commission. [More…]
The Government is building up in the minds of the people of this country a welfare ethic. [More…]
I believe that President Nixon was quite right when he told the Americans during his campaign: ‘We need to build in this country a work ethic, not a welfare ethic’ The Attorney-General (Senator Murphy) told us that he sat alongside Mr McGovern, the Presidential candidate, when he flew from London to Washington. [More…]
whole campaign was built on cutting down the sinews and muscle of America’s defence system and building up a welfare ethic so that everybody gets something for nothing. [More…]
He instilled in their minds the need to build up what I have called and what he previously called, a work ethic - not a welfare ethic. [More…]
However, there is community welfare as well and that means the welfare of the man in the street. [More…]
I ask the Minister: What will he do about the welfare of the men in the street? [More…]
There is a lot to be done for Aborigines but there are a lot of other people living up there as well and we should also see about their welfare. [More…]
Any government which does not seek to inform itself as fully as possible in areas affecting the nation’s welfare is obviously decreasing its chances or possibilities of acting in the most effective manner. [More…]
With all the major questions facing this nation - fiscal matters, international matters and matters of great concern on the domestic front such as housing, education and social welfare - the Parliament has wasted more than an hour this afternoon discussing this question. [More…]
What is iniquitous is that a system of taxation, devised for limited means, is now expected to finance, on an equalityofquality basis, social, health and welfare needs for everyone from all areas, irrespective of their capacity to pay. [More…]
The development of advanced technology is essential for the welfare of Australia and for the development of our economy. [More…]
But, of course, in real terms the economic welfare of people who do not belong to unions often depends upon the action of trade unionists. [More…]
We seek to understand : and recognise that the gross national product is not necessarily an accurate measure of how much the welfare of the community is improving. [More…]
These are some of the factors that ought to be considered in relation to our social welfare because they show inconsistencies and, despite the plea of concern for patients, reveal what the true attitudes are. [More…]
The programme set out in the Governor-General’s Speech provides for welfare benefits which will bring some dignity to many longforgotten sections of the Australian community. [More…]
I have been somewhat troubled in recent years when the Leader of the Opposition - now the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) - made it clear that he believed it to be of vital importance to the welfare of Australia that Papua New Guinea should become an independent country as quickly as possible. [More…]
We have, under the umbrella of our powerful friends, been able to create a society which has developed at an enormous rate - a society which has been prosperous and within which the welfare of the average family is as well developed as can be found in any country on this earth. [More…]
It seemed inconceivable to me at the time that any government could so lightly regard the welfare of hundreds of thousands of human beings as to use their suffering as a means of righting their own economic misadventures. [More…]
After being the Minister responsible for social welfare for nearly 5 years and having failed to abolish the means test he now proposes to move: [More…]
The Speech lists very important matters such as social security which will affect the basic welfare of Australians. [More…]
As with social welfare matters the mark of a good, just, and great society is the way in which that society treats those of its members who are less fortunate than the average. [More…]
As one who has a close association with hospitalisation, social welfare and handicapped people, 1 will be a very keen critic of any change in policy in this field, and again will welcome on behalf of these unfortunate people the assistance that has been promised. [More…]
This means social security and welfare, and public health. [More…]
I commend the intention of the Government to take an energetic part in the great matters affecting the welfare of the whole world and of this country in particular. [More…]
To use the term ‘primary’ is to misunderstand Australia’s national objectives, its future path and the welfare of the Australian people. [More…]
From their contributions, it is apparent that they will play an important part in the deliberations of this chamber and the welfare of this nation. [More…]
Today they have to meet the needs of their ratepayers in the field of community activities and social welfare. [More…]
This new Parliament, the old and new members, have the huge burden in all issues of national responsibility from defence, social welfare to education in plotting the course for the future. [More…]
Our social welfare system must be further expanded to meet all areas of need while not creating a bigger problem where people can and do live in the city whereby initiative is sapped and productivity is reduced. [More…]
Political expediency is the real danger in developing satisfactory and successful social welfare programmes. [More…]
When the sitting was suspended I was pointing out that our social welfare system must be further expanded if we are to meet all areas of need in our community. [More…]
Political expediency is the real danger in developing satisfactory and successful welfare programmes. [More…]
It is born of the relationship between electors and their representatives, the availability of representation, the flow of information and ideas, and response in understanding the interests of the people and relating them to the national welfare. [More…]
Such differentials have no place in a social welfare system which is based on compassion. [More…]
It will result in a lower price level than would otherwise apply and in increased economic welfare for the ordinary people of Australia. [More…]
I was particularly pleased to hear the Governor-General say that the overriding consideration must be the welfare of the patient. [More…]
In both these fields, one cannot but be concerned at those directions which are rather depressing in their familiarity and rather outrageous in their neglect of the welfare of the [More…]
I am greatly honoured and, in gladly assuming the responsibility, I would like to say that the welfare of every person within the electorate shall at all times be my total concern and care. [More…]
The fourth main purpose is to correct an existing anomaly in the war service homes legislation by providing for the extension of eligibility to certain persons who served overseas with the Australian forces in the 1939-45 War or in the subsequent war-like operations as an accredited representative of a welfare organisation. [More…]
However, we consider that there is a strong case on the social welfare grounds for exempting female persons with qualifying service under the Act from this requirement. [More…]
The proposed extension of benefits to members of welfare organisations who served overseas with the Forces will correct an injustice which has been allowed to exist for far too long. [More…]
During the 1939-45 War representatives of welfare organisations served in such areas as North Africa, Greece, Crete, Papua, New Guinea, Malaya and Singapore and there were many casualties including some who died on service or became prisoners of war. [More…]
The enactment of this legislation will ensure that the scheme will go on making its important contribution to the national welfare by enabling eligible persons in all parts of the Commonwealth to obtain a home of their own. [More…]
I therefore call on members of the Opposition to sheath their sabres, forget for a while their profound interest in the welfare of multi-national corporations, get their heads from under the haystacks, and reflect on the plight of the human beings who are recipients of pensions outlined in this Bill. [More…]
For many years I have been a trade unionist and trade union official, and my years of experience in the industrial sphere of this country have demonstrated to me that the present welfare system, after deteriorating throughout 23 years of Liberal mismanagement, is now a crumbling, fragmented and socially unjust patchwork offering no real social security. [More…]
As a member of the new Australian Labor Government I am pleased to have the opportunity of cementing the first brick in the foundation of a social security structure which will put the welfare of the community on a rational, socially-just basis and, for the first time since the last Labor government, offer some hope to the working man and his family. [More…]
However, the trends in this Bill, together with statements made by the Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden), are leading us towards the welfare state and do concern the Australian Country Party. [More…]
One is economic responsibility and the other is the creation of the welfare state. [More…]
The measures announced in the Labor Parry’s policy speech show a complete lack of financial responsibility and indicate that in the long run the interests of the average hard working taxpayer will suffer from having to support the cost of the welfare state. [More…]
How can any responsible person think that the payout on social welfare, involving as it does about one-fifth of the total Budget, can be disregarded when the financial aspects of Australia’s annual Budget are being considered. [More…]
In the same way - to come more directly to the present Bill - we have to understand that in social welfare we now have an altogether different starting point on which to base our judgment of future programs. [More…]
In the past: - as any review of Hansard will confirm - our social welfare debates dealt very fully with all manner of things but very little with social welfare. [More…]
Look at the record of the past 23 years and try to extract what the then Government saw as its social welfare philosophy - its long term aims. [More…]
Indeed, if any social welfare aim at all could be found in the Liberal Government it was the aim to keep social welfare spending to a minimum. [More…]
It is all very well to agree - as most people probably now do - that money payments alone are not the beginning and end of a decent welfare program. [More…]
It is precisely for this reason that the present Bill is important not only for what it provides, but for what it represents - the first step towards a long term commitment to reasonable money payments for welfare. [More…]
The same thing can be said about the so-called poverty line around which so much social welfare discussion has centred in the last 5 or 6 years. [More…]
The opportunity and indeed the challenge will then be faced of tackling questions of greater complexity, such as how to integrate cash benefits with community welfare services and health services, housing policies and education programs, to mention just a few. [More…]
In other respects, a re-allocation of existing welfare expenditure could well be helpful - for example, from tax deductibility for dependent children to increased, child endowment, or from the current housing component of pension requirements to an accelerated program of pensioner housing construction. [More…]
What it will probably mean is the introduction in Australia of specific social welfare contributions to finance the social welfare system. [More…]
But they must not be allowed to obscure what will be far more generally true, namely that the social welfare program which this Bill sets in motion will be regarded by Australians of the future as needed as much for our self-respect as for our comfort, as long overdue and certainly as irreversible. [More…]
For example, the welfare and education of our children and the needs of young families must be of primary importance in establishing pur priorities. [More…]
These are the principles and standards by which we in the Opposition will judge the welfare legislation brought forward by the Government. [More…]
In addition charges are made for rubbish removal, for the attendance of a welfare sister and for a community centre. [More…]
This leads me to the general principle, but a false belief, adopted by some people that, because a country devotes a certain percentage of its gross national product to social welfare payments, the people of that country are better off. [More…]
I think that a distinction must be drawn between a person’s welfare in absolute terms and a person’s welfare in relative terms. [More…]
There is no doubt that if a high percentage of a country’s GNP is devoted to welfare in relative terms it could be said that those people are better off than are other people in the community. [More…]
But if, because of the overall financial policies of the government of a country, that country stagnates and real improvements in standards of living and welfare do not proceed as promised or as hoped, the actual welfare of those people in absolute terms is slipping behind all the time. [More…]
But the comparison was made that the people who were complaining - industrial workers, particularly in the Los Angeles area - in absolute terms were far better off and were achieving an improvement in welfare at a faster rate than were the average workers in Britain. [More…]
I agree that it is important to have relative welfare within a community. [More…]
But this cannot be achieved with complete disregard for absolute welfare and for overall improvements in standards of living in a country which the policy of any government can effectively ruin. [More…]
I think that this story illustrates the difference between absolute improvements in welfare and relative improvements in welfare. [More…]
States who was making the point that an American worker was better off than his British counterpart because America believed in absolute improvements in welfare. [More…]
We have to be careful also that in some areas our social welfare payments are just to all in the community and that the penalties we impose on certain sections of our society do not outweigh the justice we are doing to others or, put another way, that we do not give to one section on the one hand and take away from another section on the other. [More…]
We want to remember and this would worry me very much if it happened - that unless we take into account all these aspects when considering an overall social welfare policy the same thing could happen here as is happening in at least one other country, at the present time. [More…]
There a backlash has developed against social welfare which is now acting to the detriment of those who deserve and need social welfare. [More…]
There are many other aspects with regard to the whole field of social welfare to which I would have liked an opportunity to have addressed some remarks, but the ambit of this Bill is limited to the proposals contained in it. [More…]
I welcome the increase in pensions and the opportunity to speak on the Social Services Bill because it allows me to emphasise the Opposition’s recognition of the importance of social welfare measures. [More…]
It is, in fact, a matter of public record that the most effective and farreaching social welfare initiatives introduced in Australia have been the result of LiberalCountry Party governments. [More…]
The record of the Government is yet to be established but it should note that the Opposition parties will be carefully analysing its initiatives and proposals in the field of social welfare. [More…]
Unless the wealth-producing industries are capable of surviving profitably, the essential social welfare policies that have been announced by this Government - the grand dream of the Labor Party for this grand society - will go by the board because the finances to support the objective will not be available. [More…]
This matter will be dealt with as soon as the national commission on social welfare is established and this should be announced quite soon. [More…]
It was agreed that the Commonwealth pay money to the States, to be allocated through the child welfare departments to provide some assistance to women with children born Outside marriage. [More…]
No doubt the people in receipt of increased payments will be very delighted - I shall deal with that matter in detail later - but their feelings of pleasure could easily be dampened by the overall effect on costs, prices and general productivity caused by the Labor Government’s welfare state policies. [More…]
Of course, they are concerned not only about the welfare policies of the Labor Government but also about its defence and security policies. [More…]
The policy speech delivered by the then Leader of the Opposition in the recent Federal election campaign stated that a Labor Government would be prepared to take the financial aspects of welfare out of budgetary considerations. [More…]
It is a completely irresponsible and even dishonest approach for the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) to claim that his Government will ignore the financial considerations of welfare provisions in the national Budget. [More…]
This Government will revolutionise the community’s approach to the problems of welfare, particularly the problems of the aged, the sick, the handicapped, the retarded and the migrant. [More…]
Even the most enlightened and equal approach to social welfare can only scratch the surface of the basic problems of equality and wellbeing of most of our citizens. [More…]
In the first sittings you will be asked to give priority to legislation affecting the immediate welfare of the people, and to matters in which my advisers believe delay would mean damage to the nation or unwarranted neglect of the peoples wishes and mandate. [More…]
Today we legislate to improve the welfare of the people. [More…]
In the field of social welfare nothing significant has been achieved in the 23 years the previous Government held office. [More…]
This area of social welfare was neglected by the previous Government. [More…]
Even with adjustment assistance, the Government has laid down such stringent criteria that it will be virtually impossible for any industry, except the fruit industry, to qualify and that is virtually a once only welfare payment. [More…]
As a consequence a welfare grant of up to $1,500 is available to growers producing export apples and pears and canning fruits. [More…]
This Government recognises the very important aspect of the principle of identifying the welfare need. [More…]
Inquiries have been set up into national superannuation, national compensation and other welfare matters so that a thorough review of these areas can be made. [More…]
Throughout the 1972 election campaign and again in His Excellency the GovernorGeneral’s address at the opening of this Parliament the present Government has strongly emphasised the needs of social welfare, and in this field possibly one of the greatest needs .s the need to provide adequate care for aged people. [More…]
Unfortunately for the welfare of Australia as a whole, the Labor Party does not appear to agree with the Minister for Services and Property in regard to this matter. [More…]
Suffice it to say that a critical area of social welfare has now been comprehensively examined and flowing from that examination decisive actions have been taken accordingly by a decisive Government. [More…]
This is an area of social welfare that has needed attention and it has now received that attention. [More…]
As far as primary production, the running of this Parliament and the welfare of this country are concerned, they are in good hands. [More…]
It has promised social welfare schemes and improvements in housing, urban development and transport. [More…]
And, finally, the age at which it is appropriate for the country’s welfare to call up young men or women could well vary; the military might decide that they needed them at 15 or at 20 or at 25. [More…]
They are more interested in soft issues such as social welfare, the environment and even inflation. [More…]
Professor Zubrzycki, Head of the Department of Sociology at the Australian National University, who is the chairman of the Committee; Miss Green, Chairman of the Australian Council of Social Service; Mr Hawke, President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions; Sir Arthur Lee, President of the Returned Services League, Mr Lippmann, Chairman of the Migrant Welfare Committee of the Australian Council of Social Service; Air Marshal Sir John McCauley, President of the Good Neighbour Council of New South Wales; Mr McRae, President of the National Youth Council; Mr Nicholas, Executive Officer of the Australian Woolgrowers’ and Graziers’ Council; Mrs Reader, representing the National Council of Women; and Dr Alan Richardson, Reader in Psychology at the University of Western Australia. [More…]
Naturally the Opposition welcomes the Minister’s desire to extend the range of migrant welfare services. [More…]
In addition, the Opposition parties will be submitting positive and constructive proposals and we hope that those initiatives when put to the House will be seriously examined by the Minister in no sense on party political comment but in the context of what can best be done in this country for migrants and the extension of migrant welfare services. [More…]
Perhaps the honourable gentleman does not really care about the welfare of British migrants. [More…]
A recent Swedish study reveals that children born after their mothers have been refused abortions were far more likely than other children to become members of broken families, inmates of public institutions and recipients of welfare benefits. [More…]
Cost benefit studies which were carried out in 1972 by Political and Economic Planning for the British Family Planning Association established that averting the birth of an unwanted child saved in public health and welfare services alone $1,350 in the case of a child born fourth in its family, $1,510 in the case of a child born fifth in its family and $8,728 in the case of the illegitimate child. [More…]
At present there is a very great shortage of trained professional social welfare workers. [More…]
I hope that in the future there will be professional social welfare, workers whose services will be an ordinary, natural, normal addition to the services which will be available to people living in a community. [More…]
I hope these professional social welfare workers will be able to do what they can to relieve the pressures that build up which cannot be handled by some people in the complex industrial community that we live in today, and in which the complexity continues to grow. [More…]
These people, I believe, under professional supervision by the professional social welfare workers and a local professionally qualified medical practitioner should involve themselves with advice on family planning. [More…]
Families who adopt children are screened by profes sional social welfare workers and in most cases are more adequately equipped for parenthood than the natural mother and father. [More…]
I believe that this matter is one in which the Parliament as a whole can make a real contribution to the welfare of the Australian people. [More…]
The matter is a complex one which I do not wish to go into in detail at this time, but 1 believe that the measure to remove the sales tax on contraceptives, as proposed in the Bill, is only one of a wide variety of family support, counselling, education and other social welfare programs which this Parliament should consider and support. [More…]
I am opposed to the pill being on the free list and I would prefer to see these funds of $5m, or S8m from next year, allocated to family planning agencies rather than the present system of subsidising the use of the pill and other devices - and they are being subsidised - because family planning agencies provide counselling and advice across the whole range of family welfare problems. [More…]
Today I want to make a plea for a broader national outlook with an earnest desire to promote the welfare of all and attention to the social needs of all Australians. [More…]
Surely the welfare of a community requires such amenities and necessities and their provision should not be based upon economics alone. [More…]
The Minister and I attended a seminar on housing last year in Adelaide and a strong view was expressed at that time that perhaps the way to approach problems in the area of housing, particularly in the area of welfare housing, is by making subsidies available to the individual tenant or home buyer rather than to the house. [More…]
In the last Budget the amount allocated to Aboriginal welfare rose from $3 1.3m to $53.2m, an increase of approximately 70 per cent. [More…]
Let me return very briefly to the question of Aborigines deciding primarily the conduct of their welfare or future negotiations between themselves and the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
I think that those of us who have been interested in Aboriginal welfare will agree that it is not easy to get the more vociferous Aboriginal spokesmen to work within what might be termed the Public Service structure. [More…]
I say to the Minister in all seriousness that one of the sources of major concern in Australia today is the welfare and the improvement of the lot of the Aborigine. [More…]
In the past a lot of damage has been done by the very sincere efforts of the authorities - I refer particularly to the Welfare Branch of the Northern Territory Administration - by pressure-cooking the job. [More…]
The major portion of that increase, excluding unavoidable increases such as those caused by additional numbers of the social welfare beneficiaries, is due to Government action. [More…]
The Minister for Social Welfare (Mr Hayden) has stood up for the rights of long-haired youths to draw unemployment benefits. [More…]
The final consequences of this situation can only be the diminishing capacity of the economy to pay for higher real wages and the diminishing real benefits derived from social welfare programs. [More…]
But we do not intend to depend on moral force alone, strong though that may be in the new context of a Government concerned with the welfare of the community. [More…]
I mention in this context the effect of interest rates on housing, which is a social welfare area. [More…]
Galbraith who, as I mentioned, is the apostle of the more modern theory I referred to, argues that Budget policies are similarly non-selective - at least as they are practised by non-Labor governments - that they are capable of selection, but in the areas of resource allocation and the setting of appropriate social and welfare priorities these budgetary policies have been remiss. [More…]
The duties of a member of Parliament are very important to the welfare of this country. [More…]
As the honourable member well knows from his own association with and involvement in community welfare services in his home area over many years, we must also provide services. [More…]
We are proposing, I hope within a week or a fortnight at the most, to make an announcement of the people who will be manning a national commission on social welfare. [More…]
Briefly, the purpose of this commission which will be staffed from people of many disciplines, highly qualified in their fields, will be to identify long term objectives and to assist in the development of a rational framework of social welfare programs which will hang together in a balanced, planned sort of way to provide for the evaluation of these programs so that we are continually aware of their relevance or of their need for improvement or redirection in certain areas as community needs and aspirations change from time to time. [More…]
The other matter to which I want to draw the attention of the Goverment is an anomaly which recently was brought to my attention concerning the reason why many people suffer embarrassment in the field of social welfare. [More…]
Mostly, these families are in the low income group, and are severely affected by the delays in workers compensation, insurance, Commonwealth sickness and unemployment benefits, and pensions, and worst of all by delays in initial payments of Social Welfare Department assistance. [More…]
If the Honourable Murray Byrne had the interest in the welfare of Portland that he pretended to have for the purposes of the election campaign, I would have thought that at least he would have replied to my letter to him dated 27th March, but not a word have 1 heard from the Honourable Murray Byrne. [More…]
I am sure that the honourable gentleman as the father of a teenage daughter shows for her welfare the proper solicitude that all Victorian members of [More…]
The honourable member’s accusation that the Government is not interested in the welfare of the workers at Evans Deakin shipyard is typical of the accusations he made during the last Parliament but, of course, then he was criticising his own Government. [More…]
This Bill marks another instalment in the implementation of the Whitlam Government’s progressive policy in the social welfare area and will be followed by many other measures designed to ensure that we resume our rightful place as a pioneer and leader in this field. [More…]
The in-depth evaluation of these sites which will involve also a study of offshore and inland concepts, will then go forward embracing, of course, all the technical needs of a new airport, the economic implication of the investment of money and resources needed, the implications in respect of the natural, cultural and social environments, and not least of all, the implications which this very large investment will have for the future development of Australia’s largest city and the welfare of its citizens. [More…]
is well equipped to handle social welfare and educational problems and various other areas of social activity, it still is true that difficulties are created in the A.C.T. [More…]
represents what could be the lot of every citizen in this country if we were able to bring proper planning into the development of towns and cities and proper consideration to their welfare needs. [More…]
I beg the Minister to examine this criticism, as it comes from a person who has had an active interest not only in the Northern Territory but also in the health and welfare of the committee system. [More…]
These are vital questions that should be considered by the Committee and for that reason, among many others, including the welfare of the people, I consider this as a vital matter. [More…]
Welfare must be taken into consideration - the welfare of the people of the north and of our original Australians, the Aborigines, who have a special claim for attention and consideration by the Committee. [More…]
The Government also looked at the 6 official members of the Legislative Council and, against the backdrop that it thought the Northern Territory should have a much greater degree of attention than it has been given before, the Government decided that rather than have the 6 official members from the Department of the Northern Territory, and as the new approach is specialisation with special attention being given to health, education and Aboriginal welfare, that each of those specialised departments should be represented on the Legislative Council. [More…]
It seems to me, however, that he has relegated this problem of inflation, which is growing in this country, to that of a second class problem because he has made a number of statements, the gist of which is that the Government will not let inflation prevent it from getting on with the welfare programs that it thinks are important. [More…]
I have had to make a judgment between an easy destruction of the Liberal Party and damage to the welfare of this country. [More…]
I have decided to put the welfare of Australia ahead of my contempt for the Liberal Party. [More…]
As with other measures, this Bill cannot be viewed in isolation; it cannot be divorced from overall budgetary considerations in spite of the Prime Minister’s extraordinary statement in his policy speech that social welfare and social security as a whole no longer would be subject to financial or budgetary considerations. [More…]
But the overriding concern of governments should be the interest and welfare of the disabled worker or employee, not the establishment of fault in the causation of the injury which has caused disability. [More…]
I am not one to step in and trample on local investment, but what I say is that I do not believe that the welfare of every beer drinker in Australia who wants to buy a bottle should be put below that of the sectional interests of the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
That citizens of this Division place great value on the sanctity of human life, and on the physical, mental, and social welfare of mothers and children; [More…]
Those organisations are the Central Council of Croatian Associations in Australia, the Italian Welfare Centre Co. As. [More…]
I quote from an article headed ‘Benefits Paid Abroad Under OASDHI’ which is a publication of the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare. [More…]
Nonetheless, I agree with the honourable member for Mackellar that there can always be a backlash in social welfare and social security programs if they seem to be too generous. [More…]
There is always a core of conservative people in the community who resent strongly the provision of what they feel are too generous’ benefits or ‘too generous’ a system of welfare services being established in the community. [More…]
I can assure the honourable member for Mackellar that Australia is a long way short of being too generous either in the provision of benefits or of welfare services or in the philosophy that motivates the development of these things. [More…]
It is making the job of the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Bryant), who is sitting at the table, far harder than it would otherwise be because this program endeavoured to paint a picture and excluded from the scene anyone who happened to be interested in the welfare of Australian citizens whether they be Aborigines or anyone else. [More…]
He could have easily asked one of the members of the committee, some of whom were Europeans, some part coloured, some cattlemen, some welfare people, a cross section of the town of Katherine. [More…]
I will not have time to go through them all but some of them were: The running of educational, health and job opportunity functions of the Department; the running of settlements at Hooker Creek, Beswick and Roper River - these places are in the local area and naturally enough the people would be interested in them; the allocation of funds to the Department and the way they are expended; the questioning of the lack of supervision of the spending of welfare cheques paid to Aborigines for specific purposes. [More…]
But this reporter did not wish to portray this genuine interest in the welfare of the people in the area, not only Aborigines but also whites on the settlements. [More…]
If money is used excessively and unjustifiably in one area, we deprive other areas of need - education, other areas of health, welfare services, community services, environmental factors and so forth. [More…]
The honourable member for Mackellar was Minister for Social Services and has taken a tremendous interest in social welfare over a long time. [More…]
Apparently the Government gives this activity a greater priority than it gives to other areas of government responsibility that it should be attending to, such as social welfare and helping the needy in the community. [More…]
This is a matter that I have taken up in deputations on a number of occasions and through many social welfare organisations. [More…]
I sometimes shudder when elderly people come into my office and tell me that they are re<-c>v -r> n social welfare pension and have to pay $20 or $30 a week to live in some room <.-. [More…]
The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: (1), (2) and (3) Requests for financial assistance which my Department receives from organisations or persons acting on behalf of migrants fall generally in 2 areas - those which relate to assistance in acquiring land or premises for the establishment of ethnic clubs and those which relate to funds to support the employment of persons engaged in welfare work in the migrant community. [More…]
Community agencies engaged in direct welfare service to migrants may apply for a grant to meet the salary costs of a social worker to further expand such work. [More…]
There are a variety of consultative systems concerning such matters as grievance procedures, safety, employee welfare and the introduction of technological and other types Of change. [More…]
He has now moved a motion which, in effect, states that Australia should be solicitous of the welfare of its citizens everywhere and at all times. [More…]
This Bill also extends benefits to accredited representatives of welfare organisations who served overseas with the Australian forces, either in World War II or in warlike operations since the last World War under conditions where their services would qualify them for benefits. [More…]
It seems incredible, Mr Speaker, that to date representatives of welfare organisations such as the Young Men’s Christian Association, the Salvation Army, the Australian Comforts Fund, the Young Women’s Christian Association and the Australian Red Cross Society that served in all theatres of war with distinction, such as North Africa, Greece, Crete, Papua New Guinea, Malaya and Singapore, have not been recognised and given the opportunity to participate and have the same rights as a returned person under the War Service Homes Act. [More…]
Returned men in this House will remember only too well the tremendous job done by the welfare organisations in all theatres of war where Australian troops were fighting. [More…]
It is estimated that 1,000 welfare representatives of all categories served overseas during the Second World War, plus an estimated 100 who served in warlike operations since then. [More…]
The Bill brings in representatives of certain welfare organisations, and I think that is quite proper too. [More…]
As the Minister for Housing (Mr Les Johnson) advised the Parliament in his second reading speech the Bill has four main purposes: Firstly, to make provision for the extension of the war service homes scheme to include those members of the forces who have completed a specified period of defence service; secondly, to make provision for an increase in the maximum loan under the scheme from $9,000 to $12,000; thirdly, to make provision for the granting of war service homes benefits to certain unmarried female persons with qualifying service under the Act; fourthly, to provide for the extension of eligibility to certain persons who served overseas with the Australian forces in the 1939-45 war, or in war-like operations subsequent to that war, as accredited representatives of a welfare organisation. [More…]
This Bill not only gives belated justice to the women in this category, but also gives justice to those members of welfare organisations who served overseas. [More…]
The provisions in this Bill will not only enable the scheme to continue making an important contribution to the national welfare by assisting eligible persons and their families in all parts of the Commonwealth to obtain homes but will also bring the privilege of these benefits and restore justice to many who were previously deprived. [More…]
Nowhere in the debate has mention been made of the welfare organisations that come into the area of eligibility. [More…]
The organisations designated as accredited welfare organisations are the Young Men’s Christian Association, the Young Women’s Christian Association, the Salvation Army, the Australian Comforts Fund, the Australian Red Cross Society, the Campaigners for Christ and the Australian Forces Overseas Fund. [More…]
The increase in graduates in social work will enable the staff of social welfare departments more effectively to regionalise their activities, as in most States they are presently attempting to do. [More…]
The exceptions are: the development and implementation of policies for the advancement and welfare including education of the Aboriginal people in the Territory; land surveys; acquisition, leasing and management of land and property on behalf of the Australian Government and administrative servicing of the Northern Territory Police Force. [More…]
National Commission on Social Welfare (Question No. [More…]
Some of the members of the Commission have been chosen from various professional disciplines so that a wide range of professional expertise and experience could be brought to bear in considering social welfare policy. [More…]
At the same time, the Government is concerned to ensure that the ordinary man or woman who may be a user of welfare services, or dependent on pensions or other income support programmes, would also have a voice in the development of welfare policy. [More…]
There is a growing surge of interest in consumer participation in the planning and provision of welfare services throughout the world. [More…]
The Government considered it more appropriate to invite the ACTU to nominate a member of the Commission, since union membership includes a great many potential or current consumers of welfare services. [More…]
The truth is that all of the social workers trained by these various courses are all pretty well trained for their job, a job which is so necessary these days in the expansion of social welfare services and agencies involved in social welfare. [More…]
I am referring now to welfare officers and the courses, which would probably be described as subprofessional, which train welfare officers. [More…]
These courses are usually at technical colleges as I know is the case in Tasmania, or within social welfare departments such as the certificate courses run by the Victorian Social Welfare [More…]
Tasmania’s Mental Health Services Commission runs a course for welfare officers. [More…]
I believe that we have to look at the relative place of social workers and welfare officers. [More…]
Is a welfare officer just a less welltrained social worker, or is a social worker just a better-trained welfare officer? [More…]
I think that the time has come to make a fairly generally accepted decision about the type of course required for social workers, the sort of level al which they will operate on graduation and the relationship between social workers and welfare officers both in the work they do and in the relative numbers of each, and the relative numbers of each to be trained with governmental support. [More…]
Should the welfare officer qualification be used as a stepping stone to a later qualification as a social worker, if desired? [More…]
A lack of co-ordination in this field can lead to a great inefficiency in the use of resources in training and in the employment of workers in the welfare field. [More…]
I also feel extremely pleased at the action you have taken in relation to social welfare. [More…]
Too frequently, through shortage of qualified applicants, nonprofessional welfare staff has to be appointed. [More…]
At the local level the social worker can provide that human contact which is so essential in any welfare program. [More…]
Close to the grass roots, they can mobilise the voluntary organisations already in existence, they can initiate new programs, and act as the pivot in the development of local social welfare complexes which may well include welfare, officers, youth co-ordinators, home help services, meals on wheels services and so on. [More…]
These Bills support the social welfare concept of this Government’s policy. [More…]
Conversely, a program of financial assistance in the field of education to provide training facilities is a waste if social welfare lacks vision and planning. [More…]
Therefore the aim of Speld is to advance the education and general welfare of children and others who are handicapped by specific learning difficulties. [More…]
In rejecting these reasonable representations and this expression of United Nations opinion, by continuing atmospheric testing in the Pacific and by announcing that further tests are yet to be held, the Government of France has shown what I can only describe as an inexplicable disregard for the welfare, well being and the clearly expressed views of the people of Australia, the Pacific and the littoral states of the region. [More…]
While it is to be recognised that these are possibilities and that the conclusions reached are subject to qualification, nevertheless, it should be selfevident that any pollution of the environment carrying with it the possibility of endangering human life and welfare, should be avoided. [More…]
But we cannot acquiesce in any compromise affecting the welfare or safety of the Australian people. [More…]
Who more than these in our society see the need for better housing, better welfare provisions, better health and better planning for the future? [More…]
He indicated further that there had been some problem in the sense that the Government, since it had taken office, was not showing the interest he would have expected in matters associated with the welfare of those using postal and telecommunication facilities in his electorate. [More…]
But I will give the honourable member this assurance: The Director in Queensland is a first class public servant, interested in the welfare of Nambour and other places. [More…]
Opposition: Do they not think that the price of things that people have to pay for, legislation dealing with social welfare and the numerous Bills that we have before the Parliament are equally as important as this issue. [More…]
The final side of the triangle, as I see it, is the question of social welfare - how the community supports those people who are less fortunate than others and how we tackle it at that level.I think it is appropriate to quote some of the clauses of the Bill. [More…]
They know that single and married women are at times so threatened by the thought of bearing a child that their own welfare - possibly the welfare of a family- is seriously threatened. [More…]
But to confine one’s thinking to this single absolutist principle is to ignore the many other rights inherent in the situation, such as the rights to health and welfare of the mother and her existing family, the rights to choose whether to bear children or not and the right of the child to be wanted. [More…]
It attempts to deal with a question of major social importance - a matter with a wide range of associated questions of medicine, social welfare, the physical and mental health of mothers, basic human rights, and the rights and freedoms of doctors, nurses and hospital staffs. [More…]
I am aware that an attempt has been made to associate my name with calls for such an inquiry, when in fact I spoke some week or so ago about a study of expectant mothers’ economic and social welfare needs. [More…]
It is, after all, the duty of this national Parliament and its members to determine an issue in which civil rights and the welfare of the mother are involved. [More…]
As this campaign for abortion has proceeded, it is notable that concern for child endowment, maternity welfare, reduction of neo-natal, infant and child mortality of Aborigines have all been played off the stage. [More…]
Such concern would be to find why people are pressured towards abortion; how unwed mothers might have proper care and hospital attention to give natural birth to their children; the procedures of adoption; the provision of government subsidised day care and after school centres for children of working parents; payment of equal tax rebates for dependants, rather than the present system of concessional deductions; increased welfare benefits for deserted and/ or unmarried mothers; removal of legislative discrimination and positive action to suppress social and commercial discrimination against unwed mothers, de facto wives and illegitimate children. [More…]
In the Northern Territory these can mean the saving of Aboriginal child life, for children in such centres are seen by infant welfare sisters and, as a consequence, their health problems are treated. [More…]
My attitude is consistent when carried through to capital punishment, sex education, access to professional social welfare workers, child care centres, community assistance programs and so on. [More…]
There are numerous social welfare, economic and industrial problems that cry out for urgent remedy. [More…]
More particularly related to this Bill is the fact that the area is deprived of a great number of other community facilities such as roads, libraries, child care centres, recreational centres, social welfare services and all the facilities which are provided by local governments. [More…]
Finally, do his Government’s policies in favour of the big cities mean that the welfare of the small States which export much more than they import is to be sacrificed in favour of the most populous States? [More…]
I am worried that the Government, in taking this action, may be giving us a further indication of its lack of interest in the welfare of people who live outside the cities. [More…]
Statements by Ministers indicate that they are falling over each other in order to make plain their disregard for the welfare of country people and their anxiety to put country people in their places and do great things for all the Labor voters in the cities. [More…]
The honourable member, who has just resumed his seat, omitted to mention the fact that the truly remarkable achievement of the Minister, and the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) who has worked so closely with him in matters of urban affairs, was to bring about that deathbed repentance of the previous Government over the welfare of the cities of this country of which the National Urban and Regional Development Authority was the first and only expression. [More…]
Inadequate education, health care, social welfare and law enforcement as well as a deteriorating physical environment are the price of our having chosen to move so far so fast within such narrow confines. [More…]
I think it is true to say that for very many years it was believed that it was the responsibility of the Government to reduce or to eliminate freedom from fear and freedom from want and that consequently the pensioner should be entitled to have confidence in the fact that he would in moments of anguish and trial be assured of a base pension that would cover, first of all, the basic necessities and later on the conventional necessities such as housing, food and clothing, health and welfare services and similar types of necessities. [More…]
I want to reply to the honourable member very specifically on one point, namely, that the Department of Immigration of the Australian Government is advised in the basic principle relating to this matter by the various State Departments of child welfare. [More…]
The Agreement provides that, during each of the 5 years commencing in 1973-74, the Commonwealth will make advances at low rates of interest to the States for welfare housing purposes. [More…]
The Agreement therefore provides that not less than 20 per cent nor more than 30 per cent of the welfare housing advances by the Commonwealth to a State in a year shall be paid into a home builders’ account to be lent to prospective home-owners through cooperative terminating housing societies or a lending authority of a State approved by the Commonwealth. [More…]
However, at the request of a State Minister and in respect of a State in which its annual allocation to its home builders’ account in each of the 2 financial years ending on 30th June 1973 has exceeded 30 per cent of total new advances for welfare housing, the Commonwealth Minister may approve an advance to its home builders’ account in a year in excess of 30 per cent of the total Commonwealth advance in that year. [More…]
In line with our policy of ensuring that our housing advances for welfare purposes benefit the more needy, applicants eligible to receive home builders’ account advances will be families consisting of a married or engaged couple, or a single parent or guardian with one or more children, where the average gross weekly income of the main breadwinner, inclusive of overtime but excluding child endowment payments, does not exceed about 93 per cent of average weekly earnings, plus $2 a week for each child beyond the second. [More…]
Coir intention is that our welfare housing advances will not be part of State programs approved by the Loan Council. [More…]
During the process of negotiation of this Agreement, all State Housing Ministers sought certain assurances in respect to borrowing to be approved by the Loan Council and the minimum allocation for works, including any housing other than welfare housing. [More…]
However, as the Government wishes to be in a position to offer the States advances for welfare housing from 1st July next, it is important that the legislation to authorise it to enter into this Agreement, and make advances, be approved by the Parliament during the current sittings. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to authorise the Treasurer (Mr Crean) to make advances totalling S84.6m to the States for welfare housing during the first 6 months of 1973-74. [More…]
The total amount to be advanced to each State in 1973-74 for welfare housing purposes, which is yet to be determined, will be the subject of an authorising Bill to be introduced into Parliament during the Budget sittings. [More…]
As, under the agreement, it is proposed that the Commonwealth Minister will determine the amount of welfare housing advances to a State during the next 5 years, the Australian Government will be able to ensure that an increasing flow of finance will be available to the States to enable them to expand the construction of homes for needy persons and families. [More…]
I believe that the permanent building societies have mushroomed far too fast for the general welfare of housing in Australia. [More…]
I remind the Government and the honourable members here that whatever criticism they may like to make of resource allocation in this country - the Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden) talks of resource allocation with great frequency - and whatever new policies they think ought to be implemented, the wealth of this country today that they have to use to implement their welfare and other policies was created under the climate of Liberal-Country Party governments which were in power, as the House knows, for many years. [More…]
The Government could be given a greater degree of flexibility, not only in social welfare payments but also in other developmental projects in which the State governments are unable to participate because they are beyond their capacity, and greater capacity to finance projects to which private enterprise cannot or will not commit itself. [More…]
It is too serious a matter, but I will not see imperilled to the least extent the name of this nation, its integrity, or indeed the welfare of its people because of the posturing of any State Premier or, indeed, the president of any political party. [More…]
Here we are dealing not merely with the future of the lives of the people and their welfare and happiness; we are dealing with the welfare of generations to come. [More…]
How ridiculous it is to suggest, as some of them have done, that States’ rights and the people’s welfare will be threatened if this Bill is passed by this Parliament. [More…]
They are much more concerned with pre-schools and social welfare, providing sufficient public open spaces and sports ground and community recreation facilities generally. [More…]
The Government has a policy concerning the welfare of handicapped children but it is not always able to implement it. [More…]
Parliamentarians, State and Federal, cannot jeopardise the public welfare by undermining each other’s efforts and duties for cheap political gain. [More…]
At this point, I would like to interpose and say that I am anxious to have all cash social welfare payments made by the Commonwealth in an effort to reduce anomalies. [More…]
Further discussions will take place at a meeting of Commonwealth and State Welfare Ministers expected to be held in June next. [More…]
On the subject of the floor price, I believe that there ought to be, in settling this floor price, two separate components, namely, a commercial component which is the responsibility of the new Wool Corporation and based on commercial decisions and expectations alone and, if necessary, a welfare component which should be the responsibility of this place. [More…]
A welfare component in a commercial operation is a matter of political judgment which should be made in the political environment. [More…]
In fact, all that has come out of this debate from the Opposition side is a clear certainty that what is really worrying Opposition members is not the welfare of the rural industry and the people engaged in it, but the fact that the Government by its well planned, sympathetic and realistic policy on rural matters will further weaken the chances of the Opposition Parties of holding the seats that they now hold. [More…]
Concern has also been expressed by local welfare workers and a host of other people. [More…]
However, the redistribution can contribute to social and welfare progress in municipal areas in terms of halls, libraries, swimming pools, community welfare centres, the community nurse nursing service, the family planning centre and so on. [More…]
A range of community and welfare services is now expected to be provided by local government. [More…]
It has now entered the wider role of providing welfare, which is urgently needed in the Australain community. [More…]
The honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth) made, in his ministerial capacity, direct subsidies available to his own local government area in the form of a subsidy to a welfare officer. [More…]
But the Warringah Shire Council was able to attract from the Commonwealth Government a part subsidy towards the salary of a welfare officer. [More…]
My Department has been in correspondence with Dr LeClair, the Deputy Minister for Health and Welfare in Canada, about this quotation which, incidentally, has been used by those bodies in Australia in reference to the Canadian health insurance program. [More…]
It is a firm policy of the Government that the major aspects of expenditure in its social welfare program must benefit people of relatively low income. [More…]
In its efforts to help such groups, the Labor Government’s social welfare program, as revealed to us so far, is getting to a stage where it is placing impossible burdens on the traditional base of society, the single income family unit. [More…]
It is important also that we take steps to ensure that the standard of a living of a 2 parent family where, the mother, iu the interests of her children, stays at home to care for them, compares favourably with such a family where the mother, due to the age of her children, feels that she can go out to work without prejudice to their welfare. [More…]
This legislation recognises that we must reappraise many of our social welfare measures to ensure that inherent in them are no side effects which will put impossible burdens upon the normal families in the community. [More…]
That we should direct attention to their welfare is urgent. [More…]
My children would not have been taken to infant welfare centres, they would not have been able to find places in pre-school centres, there would have been no open space in which they could roam, no playing fields on which they could participate in team games, no libraries from which they could borrow books, no social workers to advise them and no youth clubs to enrich their recreation, if it had not been for local government. [More…]
Measuring the criteria of particular municipalities against that bench mark will establish how much those municipalities have available for services and facilities such as libraries, road construction, pre-school education and infant welfare, and what advantage those municipalities are taking of the revenue sources available to them. [More…]
Local government undertakes an impressive range of activities in the fields of social welfare and cultural activity. [More…]
Comparatively, the western suburbs are deprived in that they lack a great number of community services such as roads, libraries, child care centres, recreational centres and social welfare services. [More…]
As the responsibilities for welfare work fall more heavily on the shoulders of local government, so the equity of rate collection becomes more distorted. [More…]
The benefit principle of taxation is more appropriate for most local government services but is most inequitable for social welfare services which should be provided from community revenue. [More…]
But the grants recommended by the Commonwealth Grants Commission would he p to equalise the facilities available in richer and poorer, or highly or sparsely populated, local government areas and would provide a financial topping up for the expanding ro’e of local government into the non-traditional social welfare sphere. [More…]
This objective could well be realised as many local councils already co-operate on a regional basis for many services such as regional libraries, social welfare and fire protection. [More…]
The Government’s foreign policy rests upon the belief that Australia, given her resources, her geographical position, her historical and cultural background and the character and aspirations of her people, is well placed to make a serious contribution to the preservation of peace and the promotion of the welfare of our neighbours, while at the same time and by the same path, promoting her own interests and security. [More…]
Their efforts are principally directed towards generating more rapid economic growth, creating wider employment activities, maintaining and accelerating expansion of the agricultural sector, achieving more balanced regional development and greater diversification of the economic structure, and providing improved social welfare. [More…]
Firstly, I share with him his concern for the welfare of the needy. [More…]
The Housing Agreement Bill is designed to obtain parliamentary approval for the Commonwealth to enter into agreement with each State so that the Commonwealth, for the next 5 years from 1 July 1973, will be able to make advances at low rates of interest for welfare housing purposes. [More…]
It is my intention to send a proposal to the National Commission on Social Welfare and to ask it for a complete review of the basis on which the programs so far operated have been established and asking it to consider whether there are in fact better ways of providing such a program of accommodation for the aged. [More…]
He has also said that to relate assistance more closely to needs the annual determination of the amount to be allocated to the Housing Commission for welfare housing could no longer be left entirely to the individual States. [More…]
One of the purposes of welfare housing or subsidised housing surely must be to provide housing for persons who have great difficulty in purchasing a home. [More…]
After consultation with the State Ministers on the requirements of the States for welfare housing, during which regard shall be taken, among other relevant matters, of the numbers seeking assistance, the cost of land and of dwelling construction and the capacity of the State to use advances, the Minister shall determine the amount to be advanced to the State in respect to the financial year as Housing Authority advances and as Home Builders’ Account advances in accordance with clause 9. [More…]
That the Government institute a committee of inquiry to include medical, religious, social welfare and economic representatives with wide terms of reference, to consider fully and advise this Parliament on the manner in which all citizens irrespective of their economic circumstances can be assisted, advised, and helped in such matters as: [More…]
Will he open either an office or an agency of his Department in every community centre throughout Australia so that all people, especially those in rural areas not already served by such facilities, will have easy access to information concerning their social welfare entitlements? [More…]
He would make heart-rending speeches about the plight of pensioners and then oppose amendments proposed by the Opposition and aimed at improving the financial and material welfare of pensioners. [More…]
The systems of social security benefits and health and welfare services will be vastly improved as the Government explores new horizons for the benefit of the community. [More…]
This provision reflects the fact that responsibility for the welfare of Australians of Aboriginal origin has rested since 1967 with the Australian Parliament. [More…]
The welfare officer to whom the Fund entrusts its centre said in the course of that meeting: [More…]
It was to the welfare officer of the Save the Children Fund and not to local representatives of the Victorian Department of Aboriginal Affairs that the Aboriginal children of Nowa Nowa turned yesterday when they were refused admission to school. [More…]
The welfare officer last term was cleaning up the sores of up to 14 pre-school children in a day so that they could go on receiving the benefit of a pre-school education. [More…]
The attitude of the welfare officer is that a vital part of tha process of educating Aboriginal children is beeping them well enough to attend school. [More…]
The very structure of modern society with giant firms on the one hand and, on the other, big unions (and if the Government’s legislation fostering union amalgamation goes through, there will be still bigger unions) and with neither side necessarily or primarily concerned with the public welfare - this very structure of modern society makes government oversight of the economy and government intervention in the economy in some measure essential. [More…]
Yet the major and unrestrained thrust of Government policy is in the field of social welfare. [More…]
The questions df education, health and other welfare problems were clearly defined in the. [More…]
particular commodity but are there quite correctly to protect the welfare of people whose incomes depend on those industries. [More…]
There are a great many middle income earners, single people and wage earners, whose children are self supporting and who will be sacrificed in the name of ‘the welfare state’. [More…]
We all want to provide proper, progressive and adventurous social welfare policies, but we do not want to make Australia a social welfare state in its worst form - as England faced. [More…]
This method easily lends itself to being jacked up again for the welfare state. [More…]
The Government must recognise that a shorter working week coupled with increasing costs of materials and labour and recurrent strikes will cripple us and remove our capacity to improve health, education and social welfare standards in Australia. [More…]
The Minister also failed to indicate whether his Department has conducted any form of needs survey among working women in the Commonwealth Public Service to determine those forms of assistance which they regard as being most important An employer who was concerned about the welfare of his staff would first ascertain what the employees regarded as important priorities, but this the Government has failed to do. [More…]
The totality of this Government’s social welfare program can easily be nullified by the effects of inflation. [More…]
Fourthly, will the Corporation’s operations lead to a net increase in the national welfare to an extent not otherwise possible? [More…]
If this matter is placed on a low priority drafting because it may be thought that the introduction of the present Bill may satisfy our servicemen, the Minister will be regarded as having no concern whatever for the serviceman’s welfare. [More…]
This Administration has had almost 6 months to have this legislation drafted but it has shown its obvious neglect for the welfare of our defence forces. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Social Security: In addition to his comprehensive program for social welfare will he give urgent consideration to the problems of families, and the need to provide increased family assistance so that mothers will not be compelled by economic circumstances to seek employment which would disadvantage her children? [More…]
The Government has already shown that it does not intend to forget mining centres which are already employing many thousands of people and which contribute millions of dollars yearly to the State and national welfare in royalties and taxes. [More…]
High grade ore at Broken Hill is reaching the end of its life but there is a large body of low grade ore. We believe that the Government should be conscious of the contribution that Broken Hill has made to the welfare of Australia and that some assistance should be given towards the exploration for and the mining of this body of low grade ore. [More…]
He says that the Government’s policy rests on the belief that Australia is well placed to make a serious contribution to the preservation of peace and the promotion of the welfare of our neighbours while at the same time and by the same path promoting her own interests and security. [More…]
Foreign policy must serve the interests and promote the welfare and security of the Australian people. [More…]
The total Asian-Pacific partnership is crucial to any efforts we might make to ensure Australia’s full and effective contribution to international stability, progress and welfare. [More…]
It is typical of the ruthless approach of this Government and its disregard for the welfare of the small individual of whom it so often talks so glibly. [More…]
The composition of the cases in the area is as follows: Deserted wives 335; unemployed 193; people on sickness benefits 51; husbands in gaol 11; temporary crises 174; pensioners 302; unmarried mothers 64; advice only needed 273; referrals from other agencies 28; home visits by Smith Family welfare officers 111; migrants 870; food parcels as family hampers 206; food parcels as small hampers 98; clothing issued 694 families; furniture issued to 86 families; and food vouchers for perishables issued to the value of $146. [More…]
While I do not knock that, I point out that because an agency was set up to help people who need social welfare $87,000 was obtained for 26 people. [More…]
In my statement to the press on 11 March 1973 I said that my Department would be seeking approval (from the Public Service Board) to appoint 48 multi lingual welfare officers, some of whom it was proposed would work with migrant children in schools and between the schools and migrants’ homes. [More…]
The intention to make such appointments was first discussed however at a meeting with State education authorities on 12 January 1970, and there is reference to my Department’s intention to assess the need to extend its normal integration services, through the provision of interpreters and welfare officers to meet the requirements of the child migrant education program, in the Ministerial Statement made to Parliament on 23 April 1970 by the then Minister for Immigration. [More…]
States Grants (Aboriginal Advancement) Act 1972 - This Act which is administered by my colleague, the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, provides for financial assistance by way of grants in connection with the welfare and advancement of the Aboriginal people living in the States. [More…]
He saw both as obsolete obstructions to his vision for an Australia united for the welfare of all Australians wherever they may live or wherever they were bom. [More…]
He had a deep concern for welfare, equality and the rights of individuals and he had a great vision of Australia. [More…]
Is the Minister for Immigration aware that there is considerable anxiety among applicants for positions as multi-lingual welfare officers with the Department of Immigration at the delay in finalising the appointments? [More…]
We have the extraordinary situation that on the one hand the Government, by means of this measure, is spending money in providing these benefits- I do not know how much; the Minister did not put any cost on the proposals- but, on the other hand, in the interests of economy and in order to find money to finance the vast welfare proposals which this Government has it is ruthlessly cutting back on defence expenditure as a whole. [More…]
These sorts of considerations lead me to believe that the motivation of the Government is highly suspect and that it is not really interested in the welfare of servicemen at all. [More…]
It is now clear in the total picture that I have presented why he gave these particular undertakings, all wrapped up in the guise of the suggestion that the Labor Party is interested in the welfare of servicemen and in the defence of the country. [More…]
We do not oppose the Bill because we are genuinely interested in defence and the welfare of servicemen. [More…]
Anything that is done to improve the conditions of service and the welfare of servicemen will receive our support but we condemn the Government for its overall approach to defence. [More…]
It is designed both to clear the decks for progress in the years ahead and to ensure that in major areas of concern- social welfare, education, the quality of urban life- real forward moves are made immediately. [More…]
We propose, in addition, to double the Australian Government’s present contribution towards the capital cost of senior citizens centres to $2 for every $ 1 contributed by a State Government or local governing body, and we will increase from one-half to two-thirds the Australian Government’s contribution towards the salaries of welfare officers employed at such centres. [More…]
The Child Care Standards Committee has five educationists qualified as pre-school teachers, an authority on child psychology who was a principal of a Kindergarten Teachers Training College, one eminent psychiatrist, one social worker with special experience in child care and a senior administrator in a State welfare depanment. [More…]
In the finish it is the aggregate that is important and what this Budget does deliberately is to shift the balance in the direction of more public spending which will go on welfare, health, housing and other sorts of things, and less on private spending. [More…]
I have accordingly referred the matter to the National Commission on Social Welfare, which in turn has appointed a Committee of Inquiry into Aged Persons Housing Policies. [More…]
I appeal to people involved in local government to submit their views on measures that could be taken to stimulate the interest of councils, because I consider them to be uniquely situated to play a leading role in this field of social welfare. [More…]
As I explained at the outset, in the context of the Government’s comprehensive welfare plans this Bill represents only a small interim measure, designed to maintain the value, in terms of purchasing power, of the assistance being given to aged persons hostels. [More…]
The Bill before the House today is one of a series of further measures which I will be introducing during this session of Parliament to assist the provision of a comprehensive program of welfare services for the people of Australia. [More…]
This contact ensures that frail or isolated people receive a daily check on the state of their health and provides them with an entree to many other welfare service that are available in the district. [More…]
These seminars enable various aspects of expanding and improving Meals on Wheels and other welfare services to be explored and also provide a forum for varying viewpoints to be expressed. [More…]
The appropriations for the child care program do not appear in the Budget Speech under ‘Education’ but under the functional classification of Social Security and Welfare’. [More…]
Firstly, at the Premiers Conference Loan Council meeting new arrangements for financing the construction of welfare housing were agreed upon. [More…]
Ohe of the greatest difficulties in improving welfare payments has been what was described in the Budget speech as the erosion of the tax base. [More…]
At the same time I wish to point out that the welfare of the nation cannot be maintained or extended without decentralisation. [More…]
Inflation poisons the growth of an economy and robs people of the advances in social welfare and standards of living that would otherwise be achievable. [More…]
This involves striking a proper balance between the demands of the public sector, which distributes social welfare, against the health of the private sector, which creates the means of financing public spending. [More…]
It is not for me to allocate priorities for the Government between one social welfare expenditure against another. [More…]
Thirdly, the figure includes 1,511 Aboriginals in the Northern Territory identified in the Census as being employed by the Commonwealth Government on welfare services. [More…]
What work is Mr Harry Giese, the former Assistant Administrator (Welfare), engaged in. [More…]
National Catholic Welfare Committee of Australia $100,000 a year from 1 April 1973. [More…]
Will the Minister assure the House that the Government’s admirable nationalistic zeal will not be allowed to run so wild that it will be counter productive in its impact on the development of the Australian economy and the welfare of the Australian people? [More…]
Honourable members would be aware, of course, that the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) has already given an undertaking that the recommendations of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare on the mentally and physically handicapped relating to sheltered workshops and other matters, insofar as they are an Australian Government responsibility, will be implemented by this Government. [More…]
The council will have a major responsibility for the general welfare of the handicapped and because of the importance with which this is regarded the council will be reporting direct to the Prime Minister. [More…]
This is the second of 2 Bills designed to open the way for local governing bodies to make a greater contribution to the welfare of handicapped people. [More…]
It effects a substantial transfer of payments from the productive sector of the economy to welfare, social services, health and education. [More…]
The competition can be between government and private expenditure, between wages and profits, between welfare and productive resources or maybe between governments themselves. [More…]
The Government is dedicated to increased welfare, but it does not realise that increased welfare and better provision for the disadvantaged can come only from increased productive resources. [More…]
It is not possible merely to transfer resources from the productive sector to welfare without destroying our capacity to meet national aspirations for the disadvantaged in the areas where compassion must be shown. [More…]
I firmly believe that growth is essential to quality of life in Australia, quality in the environment, quality in welfare services and quality in compassion for those who need assistance and those who need help. [More…]
Growth in fact results from policies that improve welfare because if we want a better life we need greater resources in order to provide for that better life. [More…]
This Budget gives great emphasis to the areas of education, health, social security and welfare, housing and community amenities, culture and recreation, Aboriginal advancement, sport, tourism, aid for States, transport and communications. [More…]
There can be no doubt that although this would become a ghastly situation in the economy and although the dose of medicine would be very intense, it would be absolutely vital to the welfare of the economy that the medicine be taken. [More…]
The major increases in expenditure have been in the field of education and in the field of Aboriginal welfare. [More…]
Whether one examines the fields of health, housing, education, social welfare, conservation, urban development or repatriation, one will have little trouble detecting evidence of our ambition and aim to improve the lot of our people not just in material terms but in every way. [More…]
In the name of human welfare this Budget contributes towards fundamental disequilibrium within the economy and not towards reformist or redistributive objectives. [More…]
Its range and size of social welfare benefits fall far short of its election promises and the increased benefits do not keep pace with the erosion of real money values caused by inflation. [More…]
I make it quite clear that the Opposition welcomes the emphasis placed on education, social welfare and Aboriginal advancement but it is unfortunate that these concessions are acknowledged in the context of the erosion in the purchasing power of disadvantaged groups. [More…]
The major requirement of welfare programs this time is to protect those who suffer most from high rates of inflation and it is always the recipients of social welfare who suffer the most. [More…]
Just as welfare recipients have not been the major beneficiaries of the huge increases in expenditure, the major quality of life issues have been neglected. [More…]
I congratulate the Treasurer (Mr Crean) for an excellent document and an excellent program of social reform in a wide sphere of activity including health, education, urban transport, other urban problems, social welfare and many other fields. [More…]
With those community health services, with heavy emphasis on preventive medicine and with rehabilitation we will make an important break with traditional medical practice in this country and I believe it will be a great breakthrough for the welfare and health of the people of Australia. [More…]
The Budget will create a greatly increased demand for buildings particularly welfare housing and school buildings. [More…]
It found that of all levels of government, local government was least able to hit back so it thrust upon local government all sorts of social and welfare services, things for which local government is geared neither to administer nor to provide in terms of finance. [More…]
Expenditure on social security and welfare is next, and then there is health with an increase of $196m or 25 per cent more than was provided in 1972-73, followed by transport and communications. [More…]
A government which really believes in the welfare of Australia is distributing the income of the nation in the places where it should be distributed. [More…]
Honourable members opposite know that pensioners and people who depend upon social welfare schemes in the country and the city and everywhere else today are receiving the benefits they were denied for so long by those who sit opposite. [More…]
A study undertaken recently by a task force in the United States of America for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare has found that coronary disease is directly attributable to the work style and mode of living. [More…]
But it is wrong to imagine that the community’s needs for welfare are simply met by providing better benefit payments to the individual. [More…]
The community collectively and the people in it individually equally need a comprehensive and adequate system of social welfare services. [More…]
It is strange and disappointing to find though that Australia, one of the wealthiest countries in the world, has one of the most undeveloped systems of welfare services. [More…]
Gauging the performances of past Australian governments it is clear the promotion of social welfare programs was guided by a philosophy that social welfare was for the deserving poor. [More…]
We believe that social welfare services should be available for all and the worth of those services should not be stigmatised by such class prejudiced and antiquated values. [More…]
Conveniently sited health or welfare centres providing a range of integrated services relevant to the community needs in which the centres are set up are as keenly sought by the middle class as the working class. [More…]
Our aim is the provision of a comprehensive range of welfare services designed according to the carefully established needs of communities, developed in response to priorities largely set by local decision making procedures which involve the community served as well as agencies both official and unofficial and free of any taint of last century poor house welfare. [More…]
We assert firmly that the availability of adequate welfare systems which can be brought into operation quickly in response to the needs of individuals or of whole communities, must be seen as a public right. [More…]
That is why we have appointed a Social Welfare Commission with Mrs Marie Coleman as Chairman, whose eminence in this field is well known. [More…]
This Commission is charged with the responsibility of assisting the Australian Government in setting long range objectives in the planning, development and operation of social welfare services. [More…]
Today I have tabled the first report of the Social Welfare Commission and the first discussion paper prepared by the Commission on the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]
In this way the Australian Government aims at developing welfare services according to a new philosophy appropriate to the expectations and needs of contemporary Australian society. [More…]
The aim of a social welfare system is to produce, through a range of social policies, a social environment in which every individual has the opportunity to develop his unique potential and in which various supports are offered to those individuals who, through some inherited or acquired disadvantage or handicap, need special assistance. [More…]
Thus, housing and education policies, policies concerning minimum acceptable income and taxation systems all have social welfare implications. [More…]
In recent years the Australian Government’s policy towards personal welfare services has been to treat them as worthy charitable ventures to be given some assistance by the Government. [More…]
There has not been any recognition that personal welfare services, as well as income support, should be treated as a right or as social utilities. [More…]
However, this does not mean that the Australian Government will take over the provision of personal welfare services. [More…]
The actual welfare services may be provided by a range of organisations, including local government and State government authorities and the traditional nongovernment welfare agencies, or by new groups such as groups of welfare service users. [More…]
The Australian Government has appointed a Social Welfare Commission to advise on the development of integrated social welfare programs, and the first report of this Commission, I repeat, has been tabled today, together with the first discussion paper on the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]
The Social Welfare Commission and the Australian Government have noted with interest the recent changes in personal welfare service systems in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States of America. [More…]
The Australian Government has committed itself to the concept of forward planning - planning of our cities, our health policies, our education policies and our welfare policies. [More…]
The Social Welfare Commission has been allocated funds to carry out a program of careful evaluation of some demonstration programs before recommending on the final legislative form of the Assistance Plan. [More…]
In this way it is hoped to produce some co-ordination of the welfare programs of State and Federal governments. [More…]
The Social Welfare Commission has appointed to its staff an officer widely experienced in community development programs in Canada and Africa. [More…]
The Social Welfare Commission plans to use a number of techniques such as film and video tape to make the details of the various demonstration programs available to groups of interested citizens across the entire world. [More…]
The Social Welfare Commission is making arrangements with a number of academic institutions to carry out evaluations of the demonstration projects which will be established in the initial phase of the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]
In addition, the Social Welfare Commission will arrange for special training programs for staff to work in the regional councils for social development, as well as training in community development techniques for other personnel. [More…]
During the initial phase of the Australian Assistance Plan, the Social Welfare Commission will itself determine, after consultation with the various State government authorities, State councils of social service and other appropriate bodies, which areas of Australia will be used for demonstration projects. [More…]
The Social Welfare Commission has indicated that the final program could cost in the order of $30m a year once established. [More…]
The Social Welfare commission is hoping, with the support of the members of this Parliament and the ordinary citizens of Australia, to find some innovative solutions to meet social needs which will involve the community in the meeting of those needs. [More…]
The 2 reports I have tabled in this Parliament today - the first annual report of the Australian Government Social Welfare Commission and Discussion Paper No. [More…]
1 on the Australian Assistance Plan prepared by that Commission - represent a major step forward in the development of social welfare services in this community. [More…]
Indeed, reviewing the history of social welfare programs in this country, I believe it can be fairly said that to date nothing as important, nothing that can equal the progress which this represents, has occurred in this country before. [More…]
We look forward to a fruitful response from the Australian community and from our fellow parliamentarians and this response will allow us to improve on the very valuable contribution that has already been made and will continue to be made by the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
First Report of the Interim Committee of the Social Welfare Commission - Ministerial Statement, 30 August 1973. [More…]
The aim of a social welfare system is to produce, through a range of social policies, a social environment in which every individual has the opportunity to develop his unique potential, and in which various supports are offered to those individuals who, through some inherited or acquired disadvantage or handicap, need special assistance. [More…]
The next point is that the Commission is advocating a new look at social welfare problems. [More…]
No longer does the Government propose to look at social welfare only in the context of dispensing charity to somebody who happens to be disadvantaged. [More…]
They then will not participate in any social welfare programs and the whole thing is self defeating. [More…]
It is refreshing for a Labor Government and a Labor Minister to be saying that it is not the intention of the Government to take over all social welfare activities and that they want to encourage voluntary community involvement, which, if I can be excused for having a small tilt of my own. [More…]
I make a plea to the Minister and through him to the Commission that in involving voluntary organisations, there is an enormous number of amateurs who could be involved in assisting in social welfare problems. [More…]
I believe that in most activities of social welfare there are great opportunities for the recruitment of such people. [More…]
Therefore, the Commission will give detailed attention to the development in other areas of social policy of an appreciation of the welfare implications of such matters as incomes policy, the taxation system, recreation, housing and immigration policy, urban development . [More…]
We also believe, as the Commission believes, that it is desirable in the long term to establish a welfare system in which the services are planned and provided at the most decentralised level consistent with efficient administration. [More…]
I can think of nothing worse than, in a certain region of a State the Commission not going into the matter thoroughly enough to determine whether the administration in the area is competent to administer this terribly complex and highly sensitive area of social welfare, and the administration in that region collapsing. [More…]
This would be bad for government, bad for social welfare and, I am sure, is a responsibility which neither the Minister nor his Department wishes to undertake, that is, to have to organise and administer centrally every social welfare program in every region of the country. [More…]
What makes it vital for this Commission to look at social welfare - this is why I find its whole philosophy, attitude and recommendations so refreshing and why I compliment the Minister for embracing them - is that we do live in a period of change. [More…]
The Minister referred to the social costs of social welfare. [More…]
It is an approach based on economic rationality and the need for welfare assistance. [More…]
The premises for such a policy also include: That get big or get out is inadequate as a policy for all farmers; that there is no once and for all size of farm business likely to ensure all time viability; that drought, flood and other natural disasters should attract realistic, not confused, financial assistance; that the welfare needs of rural communities and towns must be accurately perceived in social terms separate from handouts; that society, through government, has the responsibility to ensure employment opportunities for every man to earn or to have a minimum income but not to guarantee every man security in the occupation of his choice. [More…]
On the surface, the bounty had only marginally improved the welfare of the small dairy man, when it is considered that the bounty has been a factor pushing up the price of land and other inputs. [More…]
The Budget provides for an increase of $340m in social welfare benefits but it is not in fact a social welfare Budget because its specific benefits will be largely offset by the effects of inflation. [More…]
It lashes out wildly in all directions, making savage attacks on the industries that produce the financial resources on which all advances in the welfare of the Australian people must be based. [More…]
What this Government must understand, and what the Australian people must understand, is that if this nation’s free enterprise foundations are weakened too much the whole structure of the community and all the Government’s welfare and other programs will be endangered. [More…]
No-one questions the good intentions of the Treasurer in rapidly expanding Government spending on welfare services, education, health care and similar matters. [More…]
I suggest that the way this Government is heading, in scrapping defence and putting emphasis on welfare, we will see the day when we will be as ill-prepared to defend ourselves or to honour our commitments as we were in 1939. [More…]
The program of this Government is based largely on welfare matters. [More…]
Certainly this is money which can be well spent because Aboriginal people in many areas have a need for advancement with respect to welfare, health and education. [More…]
In the Budget, $2 19m is made available to assist the States to provide welfare housing. [More…]
I refer to those people in receipt of social security and welfare benefits. [More…]
Under the previous Government - and I take the figures from Hansard of 21 August 1973 - the amount actually spent on social security and welfare benefits rose by $503.5m over the amount provided in the previous year whereas the estimated increase this year over the amount provided last year is only $339.5m - a very serious drop of some $64m or 33 per cent less than the increase provided last year over the preceding year. [More…]
So, through responsibly looking at the needs of the economy and the terrible neglect in the areas of social welfare and education by successive Liberal Party governments, wehave been able to provide for the Australian people and at the same time introduce a Budget that will allow the business of Australia to move along, that will allow our factories to run at peak production, with people at a peak level of employment, with the number of unfilled jobs as high as they ever have been and, at the same time, we have tried to do something creditable about the appalling 13 per cent level of inflation created by the former Government 12 months ago. [More…]
Thirdly, social welfare should be adequate to enable our physically and mentally retarded, our aged, invalid, sick or widowed people to live in dignity. [More…]
I turn to social welfare. [More…]
He renders no service to the community, he contributes nothing to the general welfare, he contributes nothing to the process from which his own enrichment is derived. [More…]
It is certainly a social welfare Budget dealing with the quality of life and with a great deal of public expenditure. [More…]
After all, in one city in America, by using a computer in its social welfare agency it was found that a woman who had been receiving social security payments for 15 years had never had a medical examination. [More…]
In welfare, I commend decisions on Aboriginal advancement, road safety, the increased subsidy to senior citizens centres and Meals on Wheels organisation and assistance to handicapped children. [More…]
I have no doubt that the previous Government would have liked to introduce such a grandiose budget - a budget to advance the welfare, standard of living, education and quality of life of the average Australian. [More…]
We are once more assuming our proper role as a leader in the development of social welfare programs and as a responsible and forward looking member of the world economy. [More…]
In the Australian Capital Territory and to a lesser extent in the Northern Territory, the Australian Government has the power to act directly for the welfare of its citizens. [More…]
There will be increased expenditure on social, cultural and welfare undertakings. [More…]
Expenditure on social welfare will rise by 30 per cent from $518,000 last financial year to $649,000 this financial year. [More…]
In the area of social welfare and culture expenditure is up $166,9 15 or 15 per cent. [More…]
We have budgeted for a record expenditure of more than $l92m this year - clear evidence of our concern for the welfare and development of the Territory. [More…]
Improvements in social security and welfare, if not always parsimonious, under the previous Government often had a tinge of reluctance about them. [More…]
In social welfare, we are doubling the contribution towards the capital cost of senior citizen centres and increasing by one-third the subsidy towards Meals on Wheels, back dated to the beginning of the year. [More…]
This is another Bill in the series being introduced in this session to improve welfare services for elderly people. [More…]
In broad terms the Principal Act provides three forms of assistance: Firstly, for home care service schemes which provide housekeeping and other domestic assistance for aged people in their own homes; secondly, for the building of senior citizens’ centres; and thirdly, for the employment of welfare officers employed by, or in association with, senior citizens’ centres. [More…]
This is in accordance with one of the recommendations made in the First Annual Report of the Interim Committee of the Social Welfare Commission which I tabled in the House recently. [More…]
The third provision of the Bill concerns assistance towards the employment of welfare officers. [More…]
Section 10 of the principal Act provides that where a person is employed as a welfare officer of a senior citizens centre wholly or mainly in connection with the provision of approved welfare services by or in association with the centre, the Australian Government may pay an amount equal to one-half of the welfare officer’s salary. [More…]
In order further to encourage and assist the provision of the welfare services to which I have previously referred, the amending Bill increases the Australian Government’s subsidy from one-half to two-thirds of the salary paid to appropriate welfare officers. [More…]
If I could interpolate one final comment, Mr Speaker, I would like to acknowledge the representations 1 have received regarding the fact that this subsidy for welfare officers is restricted under the terms of the Act to welfare officers engaged wholly or mainly in connection with the provision of welfare services for the aged. [More…]
I am unhappy about the fragmented arrangement where several departments each sponsor welfare services. [More…]
I would prefer to see the welfare services which are at present being provided exclusively for elderly people expanded and made available for everybody in need of advice or assistance, irrespective of age. [More…]
This calls for the development of an integrated program of welfare services, complementary to income support programs and the welfarerelated aspects of health, education, housing, employment, migration and other social policies. [More…]
It is certainly a generously improved program compared to what has gone before but is only a stopgap measure pending the development of more comprehensive integrated and adequately planned measures to ensure that the aged and indeed every other section in the community have easy access to a comprehensive range of welfare services. [More…]
I repeat, this is the purpose of the Australian assistance plan which is undeniably the most significant step taken in the field of social welfare in the history of this country. [More…]
I commend the honourable member for the Northern Territory on his obvious concern for the welfare of the people of Darwin and the very soundly based thoughts that he brought to bear on this proposal. [More…]
Does the Leader of the Opposition suggest that country people do not share in the benefits of improved social welfare or the benefits flowing from our contributions to housing and health? [More…]
In the few moments left to me 1 want to look at the field of social welfare. [More…]
There has been a doubling of the amount provided for senior citizens’ and social welfare centres. [More…]
Funds are available under the social welfare assistance plan and it is possible to get a grant of $20,000 for a regional director and planning staff to draw together the myriad social welfare and health activities which are now run by so many different government agencies without any over all planning. [More…]
Of course, a balance is always needed and advances must continue to be made in fields of social welfare and education but if the source of these advances, the growth and wealth producing areas of our economy, are restricted or hamstrung and if the scourge of inflation is allowed to race on unimpeded, the Government will end up robbing the very people it makes a sham and a pretence of representing. [More…]
Education and social welfare have been given top priority in the Budget, as they should be in any Budget, and while this is not the place to debate fully these 2 vital areas of government responsibility, I commend the government for many of the measures undertaken. [More…]
I repeat that the first objective is rapidly to expand the public sector both by direct spending and transfer payments, increased welfare and social service benefits. [More…]
So I stress again that the Government wants to enlarge the public sector by spending up on social welfare, city development and the rest, and Mr Clyde Cameron, together with, the broad mass of the electorate in a perfectly legitimate way, wants higher incomes and more money for the goods and services they choose to acquire; in short, they want more real private spending power. [More…]
Among the numerous advances in the field of health care and social welfare provided for is the amount of $7,675,000 in grants for the school dental scheme in 1973-74. [More…]
We reject any suggestion that less could be spent on social welfare. [More…]
Those who rely on pensions and social welfare payments would not survive if their payments were reduced or were not increased with increased living costs. [More…]
the provision, adequacy and viability of pregnancy support services, adoption services, counselling and other forms of assistance for families, mothers and mothers-to-be, given the social, economic, medical and social welfare problems in which they may find themselves involved. [More…]
We are faced by a rising tide of human misery for which our present social welfare, health and law enforcement agencies can provide no remedy. [More…]
Since the present Government came into office on 2 December it has provided grants of $225,000 for the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, $125,000 for the International Planned Parenthood Federation, $200,000 for the Family Planning Association of Australia and $100,000 for the National Catholic Welfare Committee of Australia which will be repeated as an annual commitment. [More…]
This inquiry like the royal commission for which I moved in May is not concerned with abortion in particular but with responsible sexual behaviour, the welfare of children and their parents and the shortcomings in fertility control of which abortion is one aspect. [More…]
The problems of working mothers, of single parent families and the need for social welfare support are all highly relevant. [More…]
If these women need help, we should give it to them; if the babies require medical, social or welfare assistance, they are entitled to it. [More…]
The membership should consist of three - a mother experienced in social welfare, a medical practitioner and a criminologist. [More…]
The commissioners should have access to the records of all Federal authorities, including health, social security, matrimonial causes and income tax authorities, and should have power to seek the cooperation of the respective State authorities in these jurisdictions, including the State law enforcement and child welfare agencies; as far as practicable, the commissioners should comprise a mother who is experienced in social welfare work, a medical practitioner and a criminologist; and the commissioners should be assisted by senior counsel and have power to sit in camera. [More…]
His motion provides no machinery and no intent for a really comprehensive inquiry into social, economic, medical and social welfare problems of families. [More…]
That the Commissioners have access to all Federal authorities’ records relating to health, social security, matrimonial causes and income tax and have power to seek the co-operation of the respective State authorities in these jurisdictions and including the State Law Enforcement and Child Welfare agencies. [More…]
As far as practicable the Commissioners to comprise a mother experienced in social welfare, a medical practitioner, and a criminologist. [More…]
They would have been my first welfare priority in the Budget had I remained the Minister. [More…]
Perhaps one day the principle will be extended to repatriation so that no longer from a social welfare point of view will there be the costly and sometimes unfair situation which now prevails. [More…]
I have a respect for the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth) for what he has done in the field of social welfare. [More…]
Commission on Social Welfare headed by that distinguished social worker, Mrs Marie Coleman. [More…]
Pensions and welfare are relative. [More…]
The weekly pension figure tells only half the story of the welfare of a pensioner. [More…]
Without meaning in any way to be argumentative but simply putting it as a fact as I see it, I think it is true to say that the last Government would have divided the provisions contained in this single Bill into at least six or seven separate Bills so as to squeeze out the last drop of public approval and political advantage to which social welfare measures lend themselves. [More…]
Fourthly, it is recognised that a responsible welfare system cannot be based on some simple view that more of everything for everybody will solve all. [More…]
1 have in my hand, to illustrate that it is no dis covery at all, a paper presented to the very first meeting of the Health and Social Welfare Committee of the Labor Caucus held after the last election. [More…]
In my view a proper order of social welfare priorities should give greater emphasis to pension levels than to means test abolition. [More…]
In the meantime let me simply say that this Bill is to be welcomed as a further step in the direction of a decent and comprehensive welfare system. [More…]
Pension increases continue to depend upon political and financial factors rather than on the welfare of the pensioners. [More…]
There is also in the Bill the extension of benefits to members of the regular forces, and there is an indication of the interlocking of repatriation benefits with general health and social welfare services in the community. [More…]
I can only assume that this matter of interlocking repatriation services with other health and social welfare services gave rise to that rumour. [More…]
But there is considerable expertise in the Repatriation Department which has much to add to community health and social welfare services, and I do not .think those with that expertise should be prevented from giving that assistance. [More…]
The very fact of having an artificial limb enabled this man to carry out his normal everyday occupation and therefore he was not claiming any social welfare benefits. [More…]
The RSL is concerned at a spate of rumours drifting round the corridors of power that the Repatriation Department may be absorbed into a Health and Welfare complex, and Repatriation hospitals transferred to either Commonwealth or State control. [More…]
On the one hand the Government is being berated for being a spendthrift government and for causing inflation by the mammoth amount of money it is spending on welfare - welfare includes ex-servicemen in particular - and on the other hand the Opposition is asking the Government why it does not spend more still. [More…]
We are castigated often as not being interested in the welfare of servicemen. [More…]
In one fell swoop the Federal Treasurer cleared the decks, as he put it, to initiate Labor’s great welfare program and at the same time he put the kiss of death on every Union journal in Australia. [More…]
But it is in the registered publications section, which affects newspapers and periodicals, that the biggest slug will come because the abolition of the various categories over 3 years will seriously affect all publications from charitable, welfare and religious organisations as well as from scientific, educational and technical organisations. [More…]
But let it not forget that it is profit that will finance all its geat schemes for the welfare of the Australian people. [More…]
I say that because it is the private sector which generates the wealth on which the public sector relies for its growth and the funding of social welfare programs. [More…]
The aged, sick and infirm who rely on social welfare payments are being denied the right to eat the food of their choice. [More…]
The fact that prices have been allowed to set the pace has created great hardship for those who rely on welfare payments and fixed incomes. [More…]
Its attitude on this occasion indicates that its words have had but a hollow ring, that me quality of life as judged by the Labor Party is something that is measured more by the capacity of a particular area to produce votes and win seats in this House than by a concern for the welfare of the people of that area. [More…]
and (2) As the honourable gentleman will be aware, the Government has determined that new welfare initiatives should be sponsored under the umbrella of the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]
The multi-purpose welfare centres originally proposed for Sydney and Melbourne were envisaged as being of a pilot nature, and would have provided one means of experimenting with ways of rationalising local services. [More…]
The Social Welfare Commission will be examining a great number of proposals for assistance under the Plan and will carefully consider the need for welfare centres in relation to other proposals. [More…]
The House should proceed to discuss what is after all the first consideration of any Government - the security and the welfare of the nation. [More…]
On 3 April 1973 I announced that Cabinet had that day approved the establishment of a Commission on Social Welfare to make recommendations to the Government on the development of social welfare in Australia. [More…]
The need for setting up the Social Welfare Commission is based on the new emphasis we have given to the recognition of adequate welfare systems as being a public right which contributes to the well-being of the total Australian community. [More…]
This new philosophy demands a change of emphasis in government policy and in welfare programs. [More…]
Because of the new dignity which such a philosophy gives to the recipients of welfare services, it is the role of the Commission to evolve strategies which will enable those people in the problem - situation to take part in the planning of immediate objective and long-term goals. [More…]
Moreover it is the role of the Commission to monitor existing programs, institute research projects, conduct public consultations and to ensure that those who use the welfare services are involved in the evaluation of the relevance of welfare programs to their needs. [More…]
In developing new goals, implementing long term planning and setting priorities in the welfare field, the Commission is charged with the task of taking an overall view of social policy, which encompasses such areas as education, housing, health services, emplovment policies and other matters, as well as the more specific issues of income-security payments and personal welfare services. [More…]
The concept and role of the Social Welfare Commission is a most exciting one. [More…]
In future there will be a rational development of welfare programs in the community. [More…]
When the Australian Assistance Plan is fully operational - the Commission is drafting the plan and will test pilot programs and evaluate the need for alternative and supplemental measures - the social welfare needs of Australia will be released from the heavy hand of centralism which defined programs in the past. [More…]
I would assert quite firmly that the development of social welfare programs in this country to date has been blighted by the way in which past governments as a matter of centralised decision-making determined priorities^ - and not many priorites at that either - and then by implication indicated to the community that if areas were either unsuitable or had no need for these particular programs that was tough luck; they missed out altogether. [More…]
Accordingly the response to the welfare needs of these regions has been inadequate and often irrelevant. [More…]
I should also mention that when the Australian Assistance Plan - now being developed by the Government - is fully operational, community based voluntary welfare services will be fostered and stimulated with generous sup- port so that the services provided and the organisations providing them are related to, and are identified with, the community in which they operate. [More…]
The only display of centralism in this exercise is the display of responsible decision-making by the Australian Government which has established the Social Welfare Commission and which in turn directed the Commission to develop the Australian Assistance Plan according to guidelines set down by the Government in order that the administration and operation of social welfare programs and key decisionmaking affecting their direction are very much a local community concern. [More…]
To ascertain, and report to the Minister on, the social welfare needs of the community and to make recommendations to the Minister in respect of those needs. [More…]
To make recommendations to the Minister for furthering the achievement of a nationally integrated social welfare plan, including: [More…]
Recommendations of priorities in relation to social welfare programs. [More…]
Recommendations for the development of social welfare programs on a regional basis with localised administration. [More…]
Recommendations for the participation in the implementation of social welfare programs of representatives of the persons or agencies to be assisted. [More…]
Recommendations for the co-ordination of the social welfare activities of organisations, including State, local government and voluntary organisations, involved in the provision of social welfare. [More…]
Recommendations for the adjustment, from time to time, of social welfare programs in the light of changing community circumstances and attitudes and the state of the economy. [More…]
Recommendations for avoiding the duplication of social welfare programs and for promoting the maximum efficiency and effectiveness of the community social welfare effort. [More…]
To estimate, and report to the Minister on, the likely cost of proposed social welfare programs and to advise the Minister on the relative priorities to be given to the implementation of those programs. [More…]
To keep social welfare programs under constant review and to re-assess and evaluate those programs in the light of experience. [More…]
To propose to the Minister measures to give all organisations, including State, local government and voluntary organisations, concerned with social welfare access to available information and technical assistance. [More…]
To consider, and report to the Minister on, measures designed to provide skilled staff for the successful implementation of social welfare programs. [More…]
Such other functions in connection with social welfare programs as the Minister approves. [More…]
The aim of the Australian Assistance Plan is to assist in the development at a regional level, within a nationally co-ordinated framework, of integrated patterns of welfare services, complementary to income support programs and the welfare related aspects of health, education, housing, employment, migration and other social policies. [More…]
1 prepared by the Interim Committee of the Social Welfare Commission which I tabled in the House on- 30 August 1973. [More…]
These public reports will serve as a standard by which the Australian people will be able to judge the Government’s performance in the social welfare area having regard to the information provided and the recommendations made to it in the Commission’s reports. [More…]
The establishment of the Social Welfare Commission is a further demonstration of the Government’s commitment to introduce democratic participation into national government. [More…]
But we are confident that the work of the Commission - which will facilitate informed public discussion of welfare needs and priorities - will be invaluable in devising new policies and the establishment of a better social welfare system for all Australians. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to authorise the Treasurer -(Mr Crean) to make advances not exceeding $327.975m to the States for welfare housing during 1973-74 and the first 6 months of 1974-75, in accordance with the provisions of the 1973 Housing Agreement. [More…]
65m for welfare housing by the States for 1973-74, to be distributed among the States as shown in the first column of the schedule to the Bill. [More…]
65m to be advanced to the States in 1973-74 represents an increase of 26 per cent on the amount spent by the States on welfare housing in 1972-73. [More…]
Because advances to a State for welfare housing cannot be made until the Agreement is ratified by the State Parliament, funds for this purpose are being provided by way of advances supplementary to the advances made for works purposes under the approved Loan Council program, until such time as the authorising legislation has become effective. [More…]
The Bill, therefore, contains a provision authorising the Treasurer, with the concurrence of the State, to deem any such advances made against a State’s loan program for 1973-74 to have been advances for welfare housing. [More…]
Let the Opposition’s mates, the people like the friends of the honourable member for Stirling (Mr Viner), be put aside because what counts here is the people of Australia, not Woodside Burmah, not a particular company, not interstate rivalries, not inter-party rivalries, but the welfare of the people of Australia. [More…]
Faced with the problem of trying to promote their own ideas against the views of a population which is so centralised in the south-eastern portion of the nation, the States must naturally be most careful not to give away any of the powers that they hold that affect the promotion of their welfare. [More…]
As far as I can see, the welfare of the child is of paramount importance but we must make sure that this sort of thing does not happen again. [More…]
But the honourable member said: Let the rest of the community look after them; fix it up with social welfare payments or let them go without; do not worry about them. [More…]
Indeed in the honourable member’s speech on the second reading he has shown the reasons why, in broad outline, the Opposition is opposing various measures where it is felt that these will inhibit the role of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission in its conciliation and arbitration functions and inhibit the welfare of individual unionists and the employer. [More…]
I have long been aware of the valuable contributions of ICEM to the welfare of thousands of persons who have been displaced over the years, and I wish to thank Member Governments for their active support for the important humanitarian contributions of ICEM. [More…]
Can the Minister for Immigration inform the House what measures are being taken by the Government to overcome the drastic shortage of interpreters to assist migrants with little or no English in such matters as contracts, court cases and government welfare services? [More…]
This is my own view: First of all, the child’s welfare is paramount. [More…]
I said: ‘First of all, the child’s welfare is paramount, but I cannot possibly be asked to solve that sort of question in this sort of situation’. [More…]
My own position is such that I will take every possible step to ensure Nola’s welfare in the future. [More…]
Human rights and the welfare of the people themselves will be mv first concern. [More…]
Such issues as fostering were left to the Northern Territory Administration and the Director of Social Welfare. [More…]
In such cases the Director of Social Welfare operated within the bounds of the Child Welfare Ordinance and in particular, part V of the Ordinance. [More…]
If the proper course had been followed in regard to Nola’s case a children’s court would have granted an order under section 36 (1) (b) of the Child Welfare Ordinance, which would have placed the child under the care of the Director as in paragraph (i), or in the hands of the foster parents as in paragraph (ii). [More…]
So the parents and indeed the Aboriginal Legal Aid Service which advises them could always apply to the same court to revoke an order under the Child Welfare Ordinance. [More…]
Thirdly, was Nola Brown a child in respect of whom an order had been made under section 36 (1) (b) of the Child Welfare Ordinance committing her to the care of either the Director of Social Welfare and Child Welfare in the Northern Territory or foster parents? [More…]
Our real concern should be for the welfare of the child and the right of the court to make a decision in such a matter. [More…]
I query its capability to speak on the welfare of all Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders, seeing that virtually all of this committee was nominated by the Minister and drawn from the ranks of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, except for a few other reputable people, who, in the opinion of a number of people, were appointed for window dressing purposes only. [More…]
I would suggest that in order to avoid any queries regarding the Minister’s administration of his important office he should deal more openly with the public and advise them fully of his intentions and plans for the welfare of our Australian coloured people. [More…]
The honourable P. Howson, as the then Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, in a debate in Parliament on 14 September 1972 set out the number of organisations which had been set up to care for the welfare of the Aboriginal. [More…]
I think that when the investigation is carried out it will be found that the health situation of the child and the actual feelings of the parents for the child at the time were discussed between the foster parents and the Welfare Branch as it then was, of the Northern Territory Administration. [More…]
The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and the committee which works with him are most anxious that the regional presence of the Australian Government should be established as quickly as possible in centres throughout Australia, that we should co-operate with those State agencies which are able to fulfil their function as an agent for the Commonwealth in a particular State, and so that we might be able to gain value from the expertise of the people who have served the States in the role of Aboriginal welfare officers so that these people might be incorporated into the Australian Government organisations in order that we might benefit from the wealth of knowledge that they have available. [More…]
There are other areas of Aboriginal welfare about which the Government is gravely concerned. [More…]
It will be very difficult to convince them that probably the best thing for their welfare is for them to be located where we can provide these opportunities for them. [More…]
The expenditure for this year for Aboriginal advancement is: Education, $4,600,000; health $9,il 34,000; social security and welfare, $3,230,000; housing and amenities, $14,786,000 - a total of $31,750,000. [More…]
The organisational structure of meals on wheels services may well be a particularly fine example of government and voluntary aid combining to provide an effective and extensive social welfare benefit. [More…]
The third provision in the State Grants Home Care Bill concerns assistance towards the employment of welfare officers. [More…]
Section 10 of the principal Act provides that where a person is employed as a welfare officer of a senior citizens centre wholly or mainly in connection with the provision of approved welfare services by or in association with the centre, the Australian Government may pay an amount equal to one-half of the welfare officer’s salary. [More…]
In order further to encourage and assist the provision of the welfare services to which I have previously referred the amending Bill increases the Australian Government’s subsidy from one-half to two-thirds of the salary paid to appropriate welfare officers. [More…]
The Opposition thoroughly supports this legislation but as I said in my speech in response to his statement on the welfare commission I do invite the Minister’s Department to look at the employment of amateurs in this field. [More…]
The Government realised that there were not enough paid social workers or welfare officers to cope with delinquent children and it handpicked with meticulous care adult citizens to act in a capacity of honorary welfare officers. [More…]
I have someone fairly close to me who is an cutstanding welfare officer. [More…]
In conclusion, the Minister says that he is unhappy about the fragmented arrangement whereby several departments each sponsor welfare programs. [More…]
Owing to the fragmented nature of our health and welfare facilities, people needing assistance are often unable to locate the source and they wander through a bureaucratic maze of government, semigovernment and voluntary agencies, becoming more and more distressed as they fail to overcome their emotional or financial problems. [More…]
I do not think many people outside those who are working in this field realise just how fragmented our society welfare structure is. [More…]
If they were to sell their homes for$15,000 or $20,000 and make a contribution by way of outright gift to an aged persons homes organisation to enable that organisation to build further accommodation, it would give them security in retirement, it would give them comfort in small modern self-contained accommodation; it would give them, as an increasing number of these orgainsations do, ongoing care in the event of their frailty or in the event of their sickness, and current care in the event of their immediate welfare need. [More…]
I regard the organisational and administrative responsibilities accepted by these committees as being a most important contribution that they make to the scheme and to the welfare of the aged people who are residents under it. [More…]
The Minister, in his second reading speech, stated that a reassessment of the aged persons homes program is being undertaken at the moment by the National Commission on Social Welfare and pending the receipt of the Commission’s report no major changes are contemplated. [More…]
I agree with previous speakers that welfare workers should accompany these voluntary workers and that the needs of these people should be catered for in other areas additional to the need for a meal. [More…]
We note that since the beginning of this session he has introduced 3 most important social welfare Bills. [More…]
The 3 Bills before the House tonight are all concerned with the welfare of the aged. [More…]
I agree that the increasing of the share of the salary subsidy for welfare officers is desirable. [More…]
I have had experience in my electorate of finding that because, welfare officers are appointed by many departments, their communications are not as good as they should be and there has not been the support and the service given to the community which could result if we had great co-operation. [More…]
If we are to have a social welfare service and if the aged are in need in one area, surely that need is reflected in all other areas. [More…]
This may be the reason for the scarcity of welfare workers in Western Australia. [More…]
I was appalled to find that the subsidy claimed by local government Authorities in Western Australia for welfare workers was only S5.475 for the period from 1 July 1969 to 30 June 1973 and for home care aid for the same period $26,000. [More…]
I refer to local voluntary and service bodies such as Apex, Lions, Rotary, the Country Women’s Association and many other such organisations which contribute manifestly to the welfare of the citizens within their sphere of influence. [More…]
Has the Minister for Social Security seen a report of a statement by Mr Justin Fleming, the President of the Australian Association of Surgeons, in which he associated himself or expressed agreement of his association with the Liberal Party spokesman on health and social welfare, the honourable member for Hotham, who had accused doctors’ organisations of deplorable taste in their attacks on the Federal Government’s proposed national health scheme? [More…]
The honourable member referred to comments by the honourable member for Hotham, the spokesman for the Opposition on health and welfare matters. [More…]
I believe that the community will achieve superior health and welfare services as a result of this sort of approach. [More…]
I suggest that all people who believe in the welfare of every citizen in this country should vote for this proposal that is coming before the Parliament to deal with this matter urgently. [More…]
Here is a chance for honourable members opposite to be statesmen, to stand up and debate this issue today and to allow this Government to implement policies that will affect the welfare of all the people of this country and will safeguard their interests in every possible way. [More…]
These include the employment of more than 120 bi-lingual or multi-lingual officers; the recent appointment of 48 specially qualified multi- ‘ lingual welfare officers, including 16 to work in the education field, and the provision of a telephone interpreter service in no fewer than 42 languages in Sydney and Melbourne and soon to be extended to other States. [More…]
I would pay tribute to those non-governmental organisations and enterprises - in particular Good Neighbour Councils, welfare organisations throughout the community, national groups, and bank migrant information services - which do provide interpreter services. [More…]
1 would like to comment on the welfare officer position. [More…]
No welfare officer has been appointed under this legislation for the Darling Downs and there are none at present in Tasmania. [More…]
We hope that the Minister can make the necessary arrangements to overcome this situation and to allow the number of welfare officers to be increased. [More…]
We therefore request the Minister to have consultations with the colleges of advanced education to make sure that there are plenty of welfare officers available not only for attachment to senior citizens clubs but also to move out into the general public. [More…]
Despite a weak and ineffective attempt to discredit the Budget, they have found it difficult, if not impossible, to launch an assault upon this Government’s imaginative and comprehensive range of welfare provisions. [More…]
All 3 Bills should be seen against the backdrop of the work at present being carried out by the Interim Committee of the Social Welfare Commission and the proposed Australian assistance plan. [More…]
The inclusion of home care services, the building of senior citizens centres and the employment of welfare officers in association with these centres could only be applauded as one of the more enlightened concepts of the previous Administration. [More…]
It is to be tragically observed by all who concern themselves in community welfare. [More…]
I do, however, share the Minister’s concern regarding the restrictive use of such centres and would earnestly hope that practical welfare and paramedical services could increasingly become a major factor in their development. [More…]
Finally, I should like to comment on the amending legislation regarding the Federal Government’s subsidy increase from one-half to two-thirds of the salaries paid io welfare officers. [More…]
I am, however, far from satisfied with the piecemeal manner in which social workers or welfare officers are subsidised within the range of the related subjects of immigration, repatriation, social security and other social welfare needs. [More…]
To obtain a subsidy this municipality must, like all others similarly placed, meet the requirements and restrictions which are appropriate to the various departments sponsoring welfare programs. [More…]
I am, of course, aware that other municipalities have, notwithstanding the difficulties I have mentioned, appointed social workers and welfare officers to work in the general field. [More…]
I must, however, concede that a more integrated program of welfare services, such as that outlined in the Australian Assistance Plan prepared by the Interim Committee of the Social Welfare Commission recently tabled in the House, is likely to be much more beneficial to the municipality I have instanced. [More…]
No doubt the Government brought these measures down because, with inflation raging as it is, it is essential that some assistance be given immediately in the 3 fields of social welfare which these 3 Bills cover. [More…]
I should say that there would not be a shire councillor or alderman who would not desire to participate in this field of social welfare. [More…]
If this extra sitting load is imposed upon members, some consideration must be given to the staffing situation of members in their home electorates, so that persons are available to handle the many problems which occur, whether they concern social welfare, post offices or any of the other general matters that crop up. [More…]
I am requesting that this Government appoint a joint CommonwealthState Committee to ensure we are fully qualified and informed so that eventually we will be able to set up this industry which today I can visualise as being of vital necessity to the welfare of this nation. [More…]
Or are we going to be entertained by the same performance as we have had when Ministers of the Federal Government in the areas of housing, transport and health and welfare have taken proposals to the State Government? [More…]
The residents of the mainland Territories are just as much entitled to be represented in Houses of Parliament where laws affecting their welfare or levying taxes on them can be made as were the people of the United States of America at the time of their War of Independence. [More…]
In supporting it I personally hope that a continuing review is maintained so that the scheme can be further improved with the objective of assisting not only the migrants in Australia in a personal sense but also improving the whole welfare of this country. [More…]
It is apparent to all that the program has been controlled by the motive of securing an affluent economy for the nation and virtually nothing has been done towards securing the welfare of migrant families. [More…]
For many years, previous governments treated the education of migrant children like so many other aspects of migrant welfare - it was ignored. [More…]
However, for almost 20 years the Liberals stuck to this balance, ignoring the fact that gradually over the years the circumstances that originally warranted a target of one per cent had changed drastically and, consequently, in the minds of many economists and others actively concerned with the welfare of migrants and their assimilation into the Australian way of life, the target became economically unjustifiable. [More…]
It is an indication of the attitude that has been adopted generally by this Government in regard to migrant welfare. [More…]
At this time, when so much is being done to give a degree of independence to school communities and so much is being done to involve the parents in school councils or welfare clubs, assistance needs to be given in those deprived schools where there is this cultural gap to enable the school council, welfare club or parent group to ensure that people do not stay away because of a nervousness or fear that they will expose their lack of appreciation and understanding of the education process. [More…]
I had a deputation in Sydney just a couple of days ago from the Turkish Welfare Association which has been newly established. [More…]
I want to remind the honourable member that we are in the course of appointing 48 multilingual welfare officers which will act as liaison officers. [More…]
They must work in conjunction with the welfare bodies. [More…]
In Toowoomba there are 2 welfare organisations - the Spastic Centre and the Endeavour Workshop, the latter incorporating Endeavour Farm and Endeavour Manufacturing which are engaged in the training or employment of handicapped people. [More…]
The Queensland Subnormal Children’s Welfare Association, Darling Downs Branch, controls the Hamewith Day and Boarding School and the Endeavour Farm and Endeavour workshop. [More…]
I am firmly of the view that the best possible service is given and the best outlook obtained by a marriage between government and voluntary welfare organisations. [More…]
The Report of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare on Mentally and Physically Handicapped Persons in Australia of May 1971 noted the absence of accurate data on the numbers of handicapped people’, in Australia. [More…]
Certainly, if this situation could be improved, then it would mean, not only a reduction in the Government’s social welfare commitment, but greater production and higher productivity. [More…]
I rise to join in this cognate debate and to support the Government in its moves to improve the welfare of those who benefit under this legislation. [More…]
The figures given to the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare, dealing with retardation, in 1971 put the number of mentally retarded Victorians at between 70,000 and 71,000. [More…]
The Handicapped Children (Assistance) Bill opens the way, as I prefaced my introduction, **r local government to contribute to the welfare of the handicapped. [More…]
He was not concerned with the interests or the welfare of the people of that State. [More…]
If this is to be the Labor Government’s blueprint for the interests of the welfare of the people of this State then God help Australia. [More…]
He made what I called an excellent statement to this House on 30 August when he tabled the report of the Interim Commission on Social Welfare together with the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]
This Bill is to establish a social welfare commission. [More…]
The Social Welfare Commission is working, people are being paid salaries, letterheads are printed and letters are being written for an institution which purports to be a statutory corporation when the Parliament has not yet authorised its establishment. [More…]
The Interim Committee of the National Social Welfare Commission was appointed on 3 April 1973. [More…]
Since that time a specific number of matters has been referred to it by the Minister, including the Australian Assistance Plan, the Aged Persons Homes Act, the home care program, the Senate Standing Committee’s report on mentally and physically handicapped persons in Australia, emergency relief and multi-purpose welfare centres. [More…]
The plan has as its stated aim ‘to assist in the development, at a regional level within a nationally co-ordinated framework, of integrated patterns of welfare services, complementary to income support programs and welfare - related aspects of health, education, housing, employment, migration and other social policies.’ [More…]
It is also recognised that the suggested composition of these councils - involving representatives of the Australian, State and local governments, trade unions, employer groups, welfare consumer groups and non-government bodies concerned with social welfare - rests on an untried assumption, and more needs to be known about what might be a desirable composition. [More…]
Evaluation of the appropriate population level for the planning and provision of welfare services will be necessary. [More…]
In addressing a recent welfare conference in Melbourne the Minister made the following observations: [More…]
Nor do we want to see a situation in which welfare agencies proliferate and are nationally organised in such a way that there are too many incentives for empire building, demarcation and territorial disputes, and, amongst the personnel, for self-maintenance and career improvement at the possible expense of the rights of the people the system is supposed to be helping. [More…]
Theoretically, a council will have to work in liaison with the Australian Department of Social Security or the State offices of it and up to 13 other Australian Government departments, such as Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-Generals’, Capital Territory, Education, Environment and Conservation, Health, Housing, Immigration, Labour, Northern Territory, Repatriation, Tourism and Recreation and Urban and Regional Development; the State Government in its various departments concerned with welfare services; local governments - there are 900 of them; the Australian Council of Social Services and the State Council of Social Services; various planning boards in existence and to be set up; and local bodies and charities concerned with welfare services. [More…]
The involvement of the local community and local government bodies in the provision of welfare services is not entirely a new concept or one exclusive to the proposed assistance plan. [More…]
In Victoria the State Government has for a number of years, since 1969, provided a subsidy through the Social Welfare Department to pay the salary costs of a full time social worker to promote local government involvement in community services. [More…]
In such pilot programs and the proposed action research the hope can be expressed that heed is paid to the experience, pitfalls and insights gained from similar research conducted in countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom, of which I am sure the Social Welfare Commission is aware. [More…]
Since the Bill was introduced the Minister has indicated that the Australian Government has decided to emphasise support for welfare pro jects proposed by local communities under the assistance plan rather than to proceed with welfare centres operated by the Department of Social Security. [More…]
I presume the reason for it was specifically to cover the position of Mr Tom .Roper, who was a member of the Interim Committee of the Social Welfare Commission and who after joining the Interim Committee was elected as a member of the Victorian Parliament. [More…]
Its purpose is to establish formally the Social Welfare Commission and to set out its powers and functions. [More…]
These reports referred to the preparations for a comprehensive Australian social welfare assistance plan. [More…]
I believe that in this very important area of social welfare for the nation, particularly the provision of assistance at the local level - a concept which is a new and exciting one - it is imperative that this Parliament should give of its time. [More…]
We can work in conjunction with these organisations in regionally planned councils and gain the very best in a social welfare scheme. [More…]
In this way the social welfare needs of Australia will be released from the heavy hand of centralism that for too long characterised the programs of the past Government. [More…]
I know that the social welfare needs of my outer suburban electorate are vastly different from the needs of the electorate of, say, the honourable member for Gellibrand (Mr Willis), which is an inner suburban area. [More…]
sees a danger of domination and possible elimination of State Government and voluntary agency welfare Services’. [More…]
As honourable members know, the Bill is designed officially to establish the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
In the Labor Party’s policy speech there was no mention of this new instrumentality, to be known as the Social Welfare Commission, being set up. [More…]
The second reading speech of the Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden) was vague, as was the first annual report of the Social Welfare Commission which, incidentally, this Bill seeks to establish although it has already produced an annual report, and also the booklet entitled ‘The Australian Assistance Plan’. [More…]
The Minister’s second reading speech, the booklet entitled ‘The Australian Assistance Plan’ and the annual report of the Social Welfare Commission are full of references to links between the Commonwealth and regional areas. [More…]
They are the second reading speech of the Minister for Social Security, who is obviously a strong disciple of Parkinson’s law, the first annual report of the Social Welfare Commission, the Australian Assistance Plan compiled by members of the Social Welfare Commission and the transcript of the comments made by Mrs Coleman on the television program ‘Monday Conference’ a few weeks ago. [More…]
The ‘Mrs Coleman’ to whom I have referred will be the full time Chairman of the Social Welfare Commission - at least, I presume she will be. [More…]
Welfare Commission, which has been operating for 6 months or so without any authority from this Parliament. [More…]
I have in front of me the first annual report of the Australian Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
setting up of the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
As far as I know the position of Chairman of the Social Welfare Commission, which carries with it the status of Permanent Head of a Government department and a salary of $25,000 a year plus allowances, including a $34 a day travelling allowance, was not advertised. [More…]
He has just spent more than Sim of the taxpayers’ money on putting out a pamphlet supporting his health scheme but he would not spend a couple of hundred dollars advertising the position of Chairman of such a far reaching and important body as the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
is there some much bigger, granted social welfare plan quite unlike anything we’ve even known before, that the Government has in mind? [More…]
Well, whether it’s in the mind or whether it’s a gleam in somebody’s eye at the moment I guess is the operative question, but we certainly do not want to try to completely restructure the social welfare system . [More…]
if one is talking there about the network of cash benefits that are paid as income supports for various people, and the range of personal welfare services that are provided f - various people for particular purposes. [More…]
But in addition to that I think the function of the Social Welfare Commission is very much broader than to think in terms of even an amended system which will catch the casualties, so to speak. [More…]
It looks as if every government department is going to have a member of the Social Welfare Commission within its organisation - that is, if they are not all swallowed up by it. [More…]
1 and the Social Welfare Commission Annual Report consist of cliches, vague statements, no expenditure estimates - which is typical of many of the pieces of legislation which recently have been brought into this Parliament - and hard to define technical jargon. [More…]
There seems to be a desire and an aim to encourage more people to involve themselves in a much wider range of welfare activities. [More…]
It is hoped that there will be an increasing feeling of community involvement in areas of social welfare which previously has been lacking in many communities. [More…]
It is clear that an improved quality of life can result only from more people involving themselves with and assisting local welfare programs. [More…]
However, I pose the question: Do we need a huge new national welfare commission to achieve these aims? [More…]
It must be conceded that the objective and concept of improved provision and awareness of social welfare will assist many Australians. [More…]
As my time is almost up I remind the House that I moved the amendment to put on record some of the concerns of members of this Parliament towards the Social Welfare Commission Bill. [More…]
He said that the Social Welfare Commission was set up without parliamentary approval. [More…]
The aim of the Australian Assistance Plan is to assist in the development, at a regional level within a nationally co-ordinated framework, of integrated patterns of welfare services, complementary to income support programs and the welfare-related aspects of health, education, housing, employment, migration and other social policies, having regard to the following matters: [More…]
That local residents and welfare consumer groups are encouraged to participate in the planning and provision of welfare services. [More…]
When he was Minister for Social Services I wrote to him repeatedly and asked for information and statistics about the depth and the amount of poverty that existed, the lack of housing and the lack of welfare services to the community. [More…]
In my State of New South Wales the State departments operating in this field include the Department of Housing, which administers the State Housing Commission, the Department of Youth and Community Services, which was formerly the Department responsible for social welfare, the Police Department and, to name one other State office, chamber magistrates. [More…]
This is what is wrong with the social welfare system. [More…]
He said that his Party believed in voluntary involvement in social welfare services. [More…]
The sight of voluntary workers being forced to beg in the streets to provide basic health and social welfare amenities I find intolerable as, I am sure, do most sections of the community. [More…]
We should not depend on voluntary helpers to provide all needs including the massive finance that is essential to make our welfare system function. [More…]
There is no co-ordination throughout the whole community to analyse and to dissect the welfare and health problems and what is required in a total community program to bring them to fruition over a period to meet the requirements. [More…]
I see the Australian Assistance Plan as the beginning of a program to create a proper integrated welfare system in Australia. [More…]
I do see in this a possible danger - I do not say that it is an actual danger; it is a danger against which we have to guard - that the proposed Social Welfare Commission will cut into the field of the voluntary bodies and to some extent impair their successful operation. [More…]
… for avoiding the duplication of social welfare programs . [More…]
The advance of a social welfare program depends on experiment. [More…]
I would be worried that in the interpretation of the recommendations for avoiding the duplication of social welfare programs there might not be inherent some kind of brake and construction upon voluntary bodies and we might even find the position where worthwhile experiments are not being pursued because they may not commend themselves to the Commission. [More…]
in reply - I should like to commend the Opposition spokesmen on health, the honourable members for Hotham (Mr Chipp) and Mackellar (Mr Wentworth), and the honourable members for Robertson (Mr Cohen) and Holt (Mr Oldmeadow) from this side of the House for their thoughtful contributions to the debate on the Social Welfare Commission Bill which is now before the House. [More…]
In other words, there will be an effort to tie together comprehensively the welfare services which exist and which should and will be developed in the Australian community as a result of the work of this Commission in order to meet the requirements of the people in the community. [More…]
The Opposition spokesman on health and welfare matters, the honourable member for Hotham (Mr Chipp), raised questions about clauses 7 (4) and 17 (4) of the Bill. [More…]
This is a very vital aspect in any consideration of what educational programs can contribute in welfare services. [More…]
Of course this is much more broad than merely the concept of poverty; it covers generally the requirements of people who call upon welfare services where there is some sort of attendant educational requirement. [More…]
I concur with his assertions about the valuable role of voluntary agencies in the maintenance of any community based welfare program. [More…]
It is not a program, as was suggested unkindly by the honourable member for Indi, to centralise welfare programs at Canberra but rather it is a program for the Australian Government to take up responsibility to fund adequately the development of these programs out in the community - out in the regions where people live - but more importantly to have those people, as much as this is possible, identify what are the priorities in those areas. [More…]
In other words we are aiming at a very flexible approach to the development of this program in the community - an approach which will encourage people rather than push them towards achieving the objectives which will best serve the needs of the community in the provision of social welfare programs. [More…]
He said himself that it is the responsibility of the Australian Government to fund adequately the social welfare services throughout Australia. [More…]
For the purposes of this Act, there is hereby established a Commission by the name of the Social Welfare Commission . [More…]
I believe that the people of Australia should have been informed that a social welfare commission would be established if the Australian Labor Party was elected, because this would have indicated that another government department would be established entailing the appointment of the head of the department, deputy heads and various other personnel. [More…]
But the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) made no mention of a social welfare commission in his policy speech. [More…]
He said that an Australian assistance plan would be introduced but he made no mention at all of the fact that it would be necessary to establish a commission by the name of the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
This is going to be a function of the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
It has sent out loose leaf notices telling people to write to the Social Welfare Commission if they want further reports. [More…]
It is actually asking people to write to the Social Welfare Commission, which has not yet been established. [More…]
I scarcely think it is worth delaying the Committee further by repeating the things which have been said by me not only today in this Parliament but also on previous occasions when I have discussed the subject, or the statements of members on the Government side and members of the Opposition, including its spokesman on health and welfare matters, the honourable member for Hotham (Mr Chipp). [More…]
to ascertain, and report to the Minister on, the social welfare needs of the community and to make recommendations to the Minister in respect of those needs; [More…]
to make recommendations to the Minister for furthering the achievement of a nationally integrated social welfare plan - [More…]
I have searched the Bill to see whether there is a requirement for this Social Welfare Commission - that is a rather awe inspiring concept - to report to the Parliament and not only to the Minister. [More…]
Sub-paragraph (vi) of paragraph (b) states: recommendations for avoiding the duplication of social welfare programs - [More…]
This seems to me to indicate the elimination or abolition of some of the existing social welfare programs. [More…]
Sub-paragraph (iv) of the same paragraph refers to recommendations for the co-ordination of social welfare activities of organisations. [More…]
Once again there is no mention of Parliament on, the likely cost of proposed social welfare programs and to advise the Minister on the relative priorities to be given to the implementation of those programs; [More…]
The Department of Housing has officers well equipped and well served wim advice on proposed social welfare programs. [More…]
It has been able to advise the respective Ministers and the governments of the day with great expertise on social welfare programs and problems, aided of course by information obtained from interdepartmental committees comprising its own representatives and those from other departments. [More…]
It seems extraordinary to me to have a provision in a Bill to give a blank cheque to an organisation such as the Social Welfare Commission to set up a committee on any matter and the committee can have any number of members. [More…]
I feel it my duty to point out some flashing red lights and register warnings about what could happen under this particular provision concerning the establishment of the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
While the imposition of any excises or any indirect taxes is a distasteful action for any government to take, the fact of the matter is that additional amounts cannot be spent on education, welfare and in other areas without making an additional collection to see that there is not any more net amount of money moving into the economy to aggravate the inflationary situation and by that factor in fact very much diminishing the value of money going into the pockets of working people throughout the length and breadth of Australia. [More…]
We could not chop back expenditure on education, social welfare and all those other things. [More…]
When we look at the massive additional expenditure on health, social welfare, housing and all these other things, I think that for the man in the street the increased fuel charges, which probably could be absorbed by the petrol companies anyway, and the increase on spirits and cigarettes is only a very small price to pay for the additional services given to him through health services, to his children through better education and all the other facets of Government expenditure in the way that they affect people. [More…]
Now, however, local government is involved in many other activities, such as those of a welfare nature. [More…]
In other words, they should be financed out of the same revenue as other governments use to pay for their welfare services, that is, local councils must have access to Commonwealth revenue. [More…]
In the 9 months that this Government has been in office its record in social welfare, administration, world affairs and presentation to the Australian people stands unequalled in the annals of this country. [More…]
Should we reduce the allocation for Aboriginal welfare or social security?’ [More…]
Although I have had considerable disagreement with him in the past on certain subjects, I am firmly convinced that he - like the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth), who also struck stormy times - is a man who was sincerely motivated in his interest in the welfare of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
When the merger takes place - it will not happen next week, of course, but it will happen as quickly as possible because there is a need to take into account the welfare of the employees - it is likely that the amalgamated department will be called the Department of Construction and Housing. [More…]
I want to know how long it will be before we take the most positive step and employ at least one male and one female Aborigine on the staff of this Parliament and let overseas visitors who come here see that some positive step has been taken to train them in the Parliament that purports to be so concerned about the welfare of these indigenous people of our country. [More…]
The only way that people can gain information as to what the Government is doing in the field of welfare for the coloured people is by reading the newspapers, and one reads that so much money has been allocated for this purpose and so much for that purpose. [More…]
Their efforts are directed towards communal activities, with special emphasis on the welfare of their children and their aged. [More…]
The primary aim of any government is to assist these people, but in my opinion the methods employed to do so must be clearly denned in every area of welfare. [More…]
Another area which could be explored to assist the coloured people is the establishment of community centres, complete with trained welfare staff, again comprising coloured people, who would run these centres and be available for advice on matters dealing with health, hygiene, social welfare and job opportunities. [More…]
I know that this body, an academic body, has a world importance outside Aboriginal welfare. [More…]
But it has also a tremendous amount to contribute to making a successful policy on Aboriginal welfare because, without understanding, whatever money we spend will be wastefully spent. [More…]
This, again, I think is related very much to a successful approach to these problems of Aboriginal welfare. [More…]
Firstly, I wish to take up some of the remarks of the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth), who spoke about the subject of Aboriginal affairs in general and about how in many areas and in many ways one would hope - this is as I understood him - that Aboriginal welfare, Aboriginal advancement and Aboriginal affairs will be treated as non-party issues. [More…]
I have never at any time questioned his sincerity or his intense interest in Aboriginal welfare. [More…]
lt is true that the Department of Aboriginal Affairs is taking over the control of and the responsibility for the welfare of the Aboriginal people, lt will be through that channel that most of the administration will be undertaken. [More…]
Whether a government spends money on pensions, on industry, on welfare or on Aborigines, the department concerned should program its expenditure so that it accounts for its actions. [More…]
I think it is proof that all parties in this Parliament are co-operating for the welfare of the Aboriginal. [More…]
The churches are also heavily committed to assisting Aboriginal welfare. [More…]
The guilt feeling which had been building up for some time found its expression in the referendum of 1967 when nearly 90 per cent of voters supported the proposition that Aboriginals should be counted as Australians and that the Federal Government should have power to make laws for their welfare. [More…]
It is a tragedy that he will not be able to follow these through, but I am sure that the honourable member will never lose his intense interest in the welfare of the Aboriginal race. [More…]
When the legal advice centres begin operating they are expected to be staffed by salaried lawyers working in close co-operation with community welfare organisations, established legal aid schemes, referral centres and the private legal profession. [More…]
It so happens that this is the first place on which the previous Director of Welfare in the Northern Territory Administration, Mr Harry Giese, established a wet canteen for the Aboriginal community. [More…]
I am very pleased with the attitude that has been adopted by the Government to the welfare of these people. [More…]
He has not been prepared to show that he is concerned for the welfare of these people. [More…]
Do not look very much for the welfare of the handicapped children in our community because they are still running chocolate wheels to raise funds to maintain their own schools. [More…]
Does he remember what the previous Government did not do about the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare which was tabled in May 1971 in respect of the welfare of the mentally and physically handicapped children in Australia? [More…]
Look at the legislation on social welfare. [More…]
As a result many of the welfare proposals which were put up in 1969 never got off the ground because the States said: ‘You will not give us the money to enable us to provide the matching grants to go on with proposals and build senior citizen centres or to pay welfare officers and so on.’ [More…]
Here the overwhelming part of the gross product is comprised of wages and salaries paid to government employees in such areas as education, health, law, welfare and so on. [More…]
In spite of this, I notice that the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and now the Opposition spokesman on health and welfare matters are trying to beat up an angle on this action of mine. [More…]
There will be no opposition to this Bill going through the House because there is a definite need for finance for the States to proceed with their plans for welfare housing. [More…]
As I said earlier, the Opposition does not want to inconvenience the States any further with their welfare housing problem, and we support the Bill before the House. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill, as stated by the Minister for Housing (Mr Les Johnson), is to authorise the Treasurer (Mr Crean) to make advances not exceeding $327,975,000 to the States for welfare housing during 1973-74 and the first 6 months of 1974-75 in accordance with the provisions of the 1973 Commonwealth and State Housing Agreement. [More…]
As the Minister for Housing and Minister for Works (Mr Les Johnson) said in his second reading speech, the purpose of this Bill is to authorise the Treasurer (Mr Crean) to make advances to the States for welfare housing during 1973-74 and the first 6 months of 1974-75 in accordance with the provisions of the 1973 Housing Agreement. [More…]
each of the 5 years commencing 1973-74 the Commonwealth would make advances at low interest rates to the States for welfare housing purposes. [More…]
This Bill represents the first real breakthrough in welfare housing. [More…]
This is an enormous increase in the allocation for welfare housing, and it signifies tha great priority which the Federal Labor Government puis on providing housing for families with a limited income. [More…]
The Labor Government, because of its prime commitment to the less privileged, has increased its expenditure on welfare housing. [More…]
The $10.4m allocated to the State Housing Commission of Western Australia will enable welfare housing activity to proceed at about the same level as in 1972-73. [More…]
The honourable member is interested in the welfare of the Services. [More…]
He renders no service to the community, he contributes nothing to the general welfare, he contributes nothing to the process from which his own enrichment is derived. [More…]
The Melbourne Centre will employ- 1 Sessional Psychiatrist 1 Sessional Clinical Psychologist 2 Sessional Remedial Teachers 1 Executive Officer 1 Social Worker (number of positions will be dependent on the size of the case-load) 1 Senior Vocational Counsellor 1 Welfare Officer 1 Workshop Manager 2 Foremen 4 Instructors 1 Storeman 1 Liaison Officer 1 Clerical Assistant 2 Typists 1 Labourer [More…]
The proposed staffing for the Sydney Centre includes - 1 Sessional Medical Consultant 1 Sessional Clinical Psychologist 2 Sessional Remedial Teachers 1 Executive Officer 1 Case Work Coordinator (Psychologist) 1 Social Worker (Number of positions will be dependent on the size of the case-load) 1 Senior Vocational Counsellor 1 Welfare Officer 1 Workshop Manager 2 Foremen 4 Instructors 1 Storeman 2 Clerical Assistants 1 Typist 1 Labourer [More…]
Is it not a fact that negotiations for the transfer were initiated as a result of repeated representation from the pupils, teachers and others interested in the welfare of the school children in this district? [More…]
A Cabinet welfare committee report came before my predecessors in 1970 suggesting that it be phased out in Australia. [More…]
Whenever he is tackled about it, he bleats in an injured way about how much he has done for the material welfare of the servicemen - most of it, I might add in passing, initiated by the Liberal-Country Party Government. [More…]
Secondly, it must allow Australia to satisfy other national objectives such as welfare and quantitative advancement of our national life. [More…]
The Government has major responsibilities demanding its attention in the traditional areas of social welfare, education, defence, and so on. [More…]
I refer to such bodies as the proposed Minerals and Energy Authority, the National Pipeline Authority, the Industries Assistance Commission, the Social Welfare Commission and the Australian Industries Development Corporation. [More…]
The enormous increase in expenditure shown in the trust accounts is equal to one-third of the amount made available as grants to the States for welfare purposes. [More…]
I firmly believe that a royal commission should be established to inquire into the whole area of Aboriginal welfare and administration. [More…]
In the next few years, further increasing local integration with community health, education and welfare services will remove more of the old stigma attaching to those need-, ing help which is not just physical. [More…]
It is a matter which, in the ultimate, is what this Parliament is all about because every action we take, however important in the national field, has one ultimate justification - the welfare of the individual citizen of Australia. [More…]
On the face of it and on the face of the criteria which are proposed, there clearly would have been no justification for assistance, except perhaps welfare assistance and vast reconstruction and dismantling of the industry. [More…]
We are not getting the return we ought to be getting, a return which can be ploughed back into the community in many ways such as investment, as better welfare provision and as better consumption standards for people in the community. [More…]
No assessment had ever been made to establish whether these payments should be provided, whether they should be continued or whether the taxpayer should be required to continue paying to surrender some of his living standards so that in some cases a particular powerful supporter could continue to get what can be fairly termed as a welfare payment at the expense of the rest of the community. [More…]
Originally the advocacy of protection was closely related to the view that national independence and the welfare of wage earners in this country would be promoted by the effect of tariffs in redistributing income from the owners of land to industrial labour and capital. [More…]
If that investment is taking place in the wrong parts - that is, if unwise decisions are being made not according to rational economic criteria but according to the pay-off that can be achieved in the back room deals between the Country Party and the people, who are its backers, or it hopes will be its backers - we will not achieve the sort of growth we should achieve; we will not achieve the sort of progress and prosperity we should achieve; and we will not achieve the living standards that should be provided in the community and the welfare services that should be achieved. [More…]
That just shows the deplorable ignorance of the Minister for Social Welfare of the procedures now available, yet he aspires to the Treasury portfolio. [More…]
I appreciate the fact that the Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden) has acknowledged my representations to him on this matter and has pointed out that a report from his Department on the current maximum subsidy limits has been referred to the Social Welfare Commission for consideration. [More…]
In May 1971 the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare recommended that: [More…]
But I thought a more pointed comment was made by the Opposition spokesman on health and welfare, the honourable member for Hotham, on 21 September in Melbourne at a meeting of the Australian Dental Association when he said: [More…]
This problem is worrying many people, including anthropologists, sociologists and people generally who are concerned about the welfare of Aborigines in remote areas. [More…]
If you take the view that the Country Party style of politics, of using political muscle for a narrow band of special interests, is counterproductive to the cause of optimising resource allocation and maximising economic growth consistent with economic welfare, this new institution might offer an attractive alternative. [More…]
It will be essential for the development of the economy and the welfare of all Australians that it should do so. [More…]
On 1 October I announced jointly with the Minister for Community Welfare of Western Aus tralia, the honourable Ronald Thompson, a major social welfare co-ordinating project in the south-west and southern agricultural region of Western Australia, as part of the development stage of the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]
Funds will be provided for the establishment and operation of a Regional Council for Social Development, which will also be able to recommend financial assistance for a wide range of welfare activities, as listed in the schedule in chapter four of Discussion Paper No. [More…]
This project involves close co-operation between the Western Australian Department for Community Welfare, the Social Welfare Commission and my Department. [More…]
Yet the Government merely continues along its bumbling and arrogant way, caring nothing for the welfare of the people who elected it. [More…]
To make promises and plans for national welfare and growth while neglecting national security is an absurdity. [More…]
But the real issues are what this Government has done on education, cities, health, consumer protection, social welfare and foreign investment, and it is this last subject which is the nub of the matter. [More…]
But let me concentrate for a moment on what I consider to be our most serious immediate economic problem - a problem reaching disastrous proportions - intiation, increasing costs and prices undermining the social welfare of ordinary Australians, families, young and old; inflation with its crippling costs bearing down on industry and services; inflation undermining the morals of the people and leading to inevitable restlessness and industrial troubles. [More…]
I think it is about time we measured our achievements in terms of people and welfare and not money and statistics. [More…]
I want to take up one matter raised by the Minister for External Territories (Mr Morrison) and to compliment him on one portion of his speech in which he said it is time - to use his words I think - that we should measure the effectiveness of aid as it relates to people and their welfare and not merely by statistics. [More…]
He remains, I understand, as Minister for Science and will be looking after Papua New Guinea’s welfare on behalf of the Minister for Foreign Affairs. [More…]
How has this Government conducted its affairs in relation to Aboriginal welfare? [More…]
I commend the honourable member for Grey for his diligence and close attention to the welfare of his constituency. [More…]
Of course I agree that the construction of the Monduran Dam and the associated works and weirs on the Kolan and Burnett Rivers are essential for the welfare of the sugar industry in the area. [More…]
Also, it is no coincidence that the Minister for Environment Control, Mr Beale, was sacked from that office because of his ineptitude in looking after conservation matters as they affect the welfare of the New South Wales people. [More…]
I have visited businessmen and private residents in these places and also in the Lower Nudgee area, and I have no doubt that all these people recognise my interest in their welfare. [More…]
Under the Australian Assistance Plan, special aid will be made available to local government authorities to enable them more effectively to provide welfare and health services to their communities. [More…]
As a welfare measure the bounty was inequitable as the bulk of it went to the larger and wealthier farmers who needed it least. [More…]
If one likes to apply to the dairy industry the principles of social welfare which apply in secondary industry it would be seen that the dairy subsidy has been far cheaper than would have been the equivalent social welfare payments. [More…]
The Government is taking action in other ways through its Social Welfare Commission under the leadership of Mrs Marie Coleman, to look at the causes of drug addiction. [More…]
It is so much easier to deal with a company, to accuse the people in private enterprise of being clandestine conspirators against the welfare of the country. [More…]
In my judgment, whilst there is an attraction of a deadly sort to such a sinister plan, one can more readily assume that what Australia should be doing is proceeding with its proper work of looking into exploration, encouraging it to go forward, inviting people to speculate, taking the risks, and doing a proper job in the hope that when Australia does produce oil and gas fields it will be able to play its part in providing these minerals as needed for the welfare of our own country and the rest of the world. [More…]
I submit that to oppose this Bill at this time and to frustrate the introduction of this Bill is to consolidate further the position of monopolies and cartels within our community at a time when it has long since become apparent that they militate against the general welfare of the community. [More…]
In regard to the vital rail projects further out along the eastern rail route the Victorian Government was insufficiently interested in the welfare of the people of that area to provide the Bureau of Transport Economics with the information on which alone an allocation of funds could responsibly be provided. [More…]
Was Nola Brown a child in respect of whom an order had been made under section 36 (1) (b) of the Child Welfare Ordinance committing her to the care of (a) the Director of Welfare or (b) foster parents. [More…]
Even the Opposition spokesman on health and welfare, the honourable member for Hotham (Mr Chipp) has said - and I have the statement here if anyone wishes to contest it - that our scheme is not nationalisation. [More…]
This expression of deep concern by the Minister for the welfare of employers is intriguing to hear and must be gratifying to the employers in Australia. [More…]
Initiatives of this Government in the fields of health, education and welfare are making heavy demands on the Commission which is actively involved both in the formulation of policy concerning the education of professionals in the areas mentioned, and in the implementation of other decisions and initiatives supported by the Government in respect of the colleges of advanced education. [More…]
There is a welfare problem concerning very low income groups; I grant that. [More…]
I have raised this matter on the adjournment debate not as a matter of party politics or to seek to score any political points whatsoever but to use it as the forum to bring before the Minister what I personally believe to be one of the most glaring areas of need in the whole field of social welfare in Australia. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that there is a widespread distrust - rightly or wrongly - in the Services of the part played by civil servants in matters affecting the welfare of servicemen? [More…]
The Government has made a great point of increasing low interest Commonwealth funds for welfare housing or for those types of dwellings. [More…]
These jobs involve telephone exchanges, defence projects, many great projects that concern public welfare. [More…]
In the past this responsibility has fallen within the provision of the States and their child welfare departments. [More…]
I do not believe, of course, in the welfare state as such. [More…]
The welfare state has - [More…]
Without a doubt, already in a period of only 11 months, they have created a completely new perspective and completely new horizons in the fields of social welfare and health services. [More…]
There was a time when Australia could boast that it was one of the great countries of experiment in social welfare. [More…]
Mr BOURCHIER (Bendigo) <8.>10)- In speaking to the estimates for the Department of Health, the Repatriation Department and the Department of Social Security I would like to mention firstly the community welfare centres that were introduced this year. [More…]
I understand that the Department of Health has received some 500 applications for these welfare centres and that now, unless there has been some alteration, something like 120 applications have been approved. [More…]
I believe that 100 per cent of the funding of these welfare centres is to be provided by the Government in the first year. [More…]
Until recently I was unaware that it had even appointed a spokesman on health and welfare. [More…]
I congratulate the Government for plugging two of the gaps in areas of social welfare injustice in providing for the single or no-parent families with dependent children, the supporting mother’s benefit, which clarified one area, and the double orphan’s pension for the parentless or orphan child. [More…]
I know that I am speaking on the same subject as did the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth) but I am quite happy to do that because I believe that there is one area still outstanding which is the single most serious area of social welfare injustice in Australia, and that is the single male parent with dependent children, the widower, the divorced or the deserted father. [More…]
We shall certainly follow up the work that has already been done by the CSIRO and by the Government Analyst in another part of the Department of Science in ensuring that the health and welfare of the people of Tasmania are fully safeguarded. [More…]
I suggest that Australia has been very well served by the dual system of broadcast ing, and it is my belief that this newly established Department of the Media will serve as the agency that will ensure that broadcasters of this country, whether they be national or commercial, will be encouraged to look forward to another SO years of successful broadcasting in the interests and general welfare of the people of this country. [More…]
The priorities which must be given to other Government programs affecting social welfare, education, and urban development, as well as the heavy demands for Post Office, services, especially in and near the metropolitan areas of the capital cities, are such that there must be a substantial redistribution of and increase in both the income and expenditure of the Post Office. [More…]
This Government has always held the view that the administration of social welfare schemes has been too fragmented and that their operation should be controlled by the one department. [More…]
In Warilla-Shellharbour the objective is to provide facilities for a rapidly expanding area with sparse health and welfare facilities. [More…]
This Government has excelled all others, in my view, in this respect in relation not only to local government but also welfare organisations, industrial groups and just about every kind of community organisation one could think of. [More…]
Our predecessors here and the centralist Government of New South Wales loaded local government with all sorts of new responsibilities in respect of a whole lot of welfare duties but it gave local government very little money with which to carry out those tasks. [More…]
It was interested in the welfare of the sons and daughters of the Australian community. [More…]
At the system level, support will be gwen for innovations aimed at the general improvement of the quality and welfare of the schools within the system. [More…]
If we are to detect need in children we must face the fact that families most at risk are least likely to go voluntarily to infant welfare clinics, least likely to use child care centres, least likely to have the services of competent medical practitioners, social workers or phychological advisers. [More…]
Councils are expected - I believe rightly - to concern themselves increasingly in cultural and social welfare and recreational activities. [More…]
Today we expect local councils to provide facilities over a wide new field, such as infant welfare centres, pre-school centres, libraries, a multiplicity of sporting facilities, meals-on-wheels, family guidance clinics, open space, home-help services, social workers, welfare officers and youth workers. [More…]
Job vacancies filled by migrant workers with little regard for vocational qualifications, language disabilities, housing and accommodation, welfare provisions and adequate eduational facilities for their families, is to create such additional problems as would far outweigh the temporary stopgap policy of manning the assembly lines and filling the less-popular and often lower income vacancies available. [More…]
The estimates under consideration are not merely those of the Department of Immigration because our Department covers not only immigration but also emigration, settlement and welfare, citizenship and population. [More…]
Of course the reason for this is the new emphasis on welfare and settlement services. [More…]
But there is also an increased expenditure on migrant education, a considerably increased expenditure on welfare services and in addition to that we have appointed 48 multilingual welfare officers as another part of the new effort to ensure happier and more successful settlement. [More…]
We live today in a time when the public looks more and more to local government for increased services, particularly in the field of welfare. [More…]
This Government is looking to greater community involvement in the implementation of its social welfare programs by seeking the participation of councils in the decision making process at the local level. [More…]
This access to grants from the Grants Commission will go far in assisting local councils in lesser privileged areas more effectively to provide municipal, health and welfare services for their communities. [More…]
Last week in this House the Opposition spokesman on health and welfare matters questioned the accuracy of a reference in the White Paper on our health insurance program. [More…]
How are we to deal with those inquiries that must be made by State welfare organisations if they are to give relief? [More…]
They will impede the operations of State welfare departments. [More…]
Recently I witnessed an excellent demonstration of marching, counter-marching and quick and slow-marching during the visit to the city by the State Minister for Youth and Welfare. [More…]
I take this opportunity to place on record my respect for a man wise in the affairs of men and genuine in his continuing and active concern for this country’s welfare. [More…]
It can perhaps be questioned whether social welfare will be greatly reduced if we wait another year or two for some steps along the road. [More…]
I base my statement on the incontrovertible fact that our future social welfare, health, environmental and cultural development depend on the extent to which our effective growth and development are expanded to meet the demands of an impatient society, a society entitled to expect to benefit from and to share in the good things of life. [More…]
If recommendations were accepted in full and one result was the establishment of the Australian Universities Commission to oversee the continuing welfare of the universities. [More…]
A review of the existing maximum subsidy limits is one of the matters being considered by a Committee of Inquiry into Aged Persons Housing, set up by the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
The reservations we hold have been caused by the recent allegations of misuse of public funds set aside for the welfare of Aborigines and islanders and by the report of expenditure which was tabled on 11 October last by the former Minister for Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
Expand social welfare program in the Kalgoorlie area, $17,600. [More…]
Are these projects viable and of value for the assistance and welfare of the coloured people? [More…]
I have mentioned before that the Government’s policy on Aboriginal welfare is a piecemeal affair, with no apparent direction or control and I think, the report tabled by the former Minister proves my contention. [More…]
In previous debates I have mentioned what I think is a definite need in the field of Aboriginal welfare. [More…]
On 2 December 1972, the Government established the Department of Aboriginal Affairs incorporating the former Office of Aboriginal Affairs with a large part of the Welfare Division of the Northern Territory Administration. [More…]
Sister Stacey is well known throughout Australia for her magnificent work for Aboriginals at Alice Springs Hospital, where her specific responsibility has been the training of Aboriginal mothers in maternal and child welfare. [More…]
Hence the health of the very small and very delicate infants is very likely to decline and all the good work that takes place at the maternal and child welfare centres is lost. [More…]
This is one of the great problems that everyone interested in the welfare of Aborigines is trying to solve. [More…]
This afternoon the Parliament involved itself in another very interesting debate on the welfare of Aborigines. [More…]
I might say that TAA has genuine concern for the welfare of the people who will be affected by the necessity to withdraw Twin Otter aircraft from the Channel and Gulf areas which currently absorb 3000 hours flying per annum, serve 45 ports of call (37 of which will be eliminated) and costs the Commonwealth in excess of $300,000 per annum in subsidy. [More…]
I should like to outline the municipalities that are sufficiently concerned with the welfare of their citizens to combine voluntarily with their neighbours to form regions. [More…]
It is true that I have received an interim report from the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
Those matters will require subsequent consideration by the Government following a later report which we expect in the early part of next year from this working party set up by the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
Rural poverty should be treated as a social welfare problem. [More…]
People suffering rural poverty should be treated by social welfare measures designed selectively to help those people who are most in need. [More…]
The Committee decided to press the urgent need for an integrated approach to the planning of health and welfare services in Albury-Wodonga; to bring to the notice of the Ministerial Council the acute shortage of social welfare workers in the area, particularly those experienced in youth work; to ask the Cities Commission for a study of the effect of the growth centre on the ecology; to press for the regular release of planning information so that Albury-Wodonga businessmen can plan for the future; and to ask that the Development Corporation consider the need for infant and child care facilities in commercial development and community facilities, as well as providing for the disabled. [More…]
The Opposition is always quick to criticise the social welfare system Labor has developed and the few so-called bludgers who receive unemployment or sickness benefit. [More…]
The whole problem must be related to the Government’s proposals to take account of the fact that invention is a very important contributing factor to overall welfare. [More…]
Does the Minister agree that this mythology that is now common in folklore in Australia that Aboriginals are receiving up to ‘$200 a week merely by going down to the social welfare departments and putting out their hands is injurious to the race relations that we hope to improve in Australia. [More…]
We increased government spending by about 3 per cent to accommodate more people and in addition we greatly extended the social welfare programs, including pensions, education and so on. [More…]
This report was prepared by the Australian Government Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
It will be required to conduct its operations in a proper and workmanlike manner and, in accordance with good industrial practices, to look after the safety, health and welfare of persons engaged in its operation, to interfere as little as possible with navigation, to have regard to conservation of the reserves of the sea and the sea bed, to have regard to operations being carried on by other persons engaged in similar activities and to consider in the exercise of its functions, factors connected with the ecology and the environment. [More…]
Together with the anomaly relating to the single male parent, I think these are 2 basic weaknesses in our present social welfare cover. [More…]
Mr and Mrs King have made representations to me and, as a result of investigations made by my Department, I wrote to the then Minister for Youth and Community Welfare in New South Wales, the Honourable J. L. Waddy, seeking his assistance in this matter. [More…]
Firstly, we have to understand that the worth of the Government’s social welfare programs is being largely negated by the inflation they intensify. [More…]
There is little point in spending heavily on social welfare if that spending is simply going to generate inflation that takes away the increased benefits. [More…]
It has been increasing public expenditure on education, housing and social welfare. [More…]
It will cover low income earners and people in the community who have special need for welfare services and income supplements. [More…]
Indeed, the whole purpose of the survey was to identify these people and the sorts of profiles that they represent for the development of a welfare program as conceived by the poverty inquiry. [More…]
The Government health scheme would benefit only pensioners, migrants, indolents, no-hopers and alcoholics, the Liberal Party welfare spokesman, Mr Chipp, said yesterday’. [More…]
These deficiences need progressive reforms, which have been under intensive examination by the Liberal Party’s committee on social security, health and welfare over the past several months, and I know also by the Country Party’s health and social security committee. [More…]
Some of the major guidelines submitted to working parties by my committee on social security, health and welfare are as follows: We believe as a committee that health care reasonably available is a right. [More…]
For example, excessive attention to the doctor-patient relationship has led, I believe, to treatment of problems which may be psycho-social rather than medical, such treatment being by completely inappropriate means by doctors who do not have training in social welfare counselling. [More…]
The Opposition is just a little late on that because we have put that up, and this is part of our proposals which the honourable member for Hotham (Mr Chipp) and others have acclaimed as one of the good features of our scheme - more than I can say, unfortunately, for the Federal President of the Australian Medical Association who informed us at a meeting of the Caucus Welfare Committee in Canberra some months ago that he could see no good thing in the scheme and there was no point in discussing it. [More…]
We would support a proposal of temporary insurance for those who are unavoidably uninsured, justified on welfare grounds. [More…]
The Queensland Government pushed that resolution through on the grounds that it would be inimical to the welfare of the citizens of Queensland. [More…]
Amongst other things it added some S340m in social welfare. [More…]
We are sorry that Opposition members have so little real interest in health insurance and health care that they have been unable to do more in this debate than to reiterate unproven - and unproveable - assertions that health care will suffer if the means of financing it is rationalised and to demonstrate that they are more concerned about the material self-interest and the private ambitions of a small clique of people than they are about the welfare of Australians generally. [More…]
The electors have inflicted stinging rebuffs at the ballot box to those politicians who have sought to push the welfare state so far that it has become an intolerable tax burden to the people and so that all the other spending in the public sector is constrained by what is going on there. [More…]
Opposition spokesman on Social Security, Health and Welfare. [More…]
I welcome this Commission, as I welcomed the Social Welfare Commission, because it brings the operations of government out into the open but, as the honourable member for Hotham has pointed out, we do have some reservation about the way in which this particular Bill is going to achieve these ends. [More…]
In the Social Welfare Bill passed by this House a little time ago, section 16, referring to the Social Welfare Commission, provides: [More…]
We have the Social Welfare Commission and a number of education commissions. [More…]
Although it was clearly of a psychosocial origin, I believe that in only 2 cases did a doctor refer the patient for social welfare counselling. [More…]
Once we get in to the health centre context in which there is a more ready availability of paramedical services and other supportive services, such as welfare counselling, I think we will find that there will be far less recourse to drugs with the consequent problem of drug induced disease. [More…]
In spite of the large amount of public money that is being diverted to these types of ventures, it appears as though there is not really very much return from them by way of the increased welfare or health of the community. [More…]
Mr CHIPP (Hotham)- by leave - When the Minister for Health (Dr Everingham) is replying will he also answer the question asked by the honourable member for Isaacs (Mr Hamer) as to whether between now and the passage of this Bill through the Senate he will give consideration to amending the Bill to allow for reports under this Bill to be treated in the same way as are reports that are submitted to the Minister under the Social Welfare Commission Bill? [More…]
The fact that the amendments mentioned tonight - those that have been moved and those that have been discussed with me but not moved - were never mentioned in relation to the Bill which led to the setting up of the Social Welfare Commission suggests to me that this is a rather late, panic reaction in the hope that something will be done by the Hospitals and Health Services Commission. [More…]
However, nobody seemed very much afraid that it would happen with the Social Welfare Com mission although, essentially, the functions of the 2 Commissions will run parallel. [More…]
He quoted from the Social Welfare Commission Bill which states: [More…]
But I think it is a little more than ironic for members of the Opposition to start lecturing this Government about the welfare of pensioners. [More…]
Australia should strive to develop its own scientific and technical knowledge to enable it to maintain its defence and welfare standards. [More…]
This Bill sets out in detail to cover the various aspects of petroleum and minerals and assures the Australian people that the welfare of this nation will not be neglected and that we will not sell out our resources to foreign powers merely for a mess of pottage to meet a current situation. [More…]
I could see little point in continuing a confrontation which contained a real possibility of jeopardising the whole education program, and the welfare of all of our school pupils. [More…]
I mention a few - Mr James Oswin in the Department of the Media - Dr Don McMichael in the new Department of Environment and Conservation - Mrs Marie Coleman as head of the new Social Welfare Commission - Mr Charles Halton in the amalgamated Department of Transport. [More…]
Some of the organisations have been given permanent statutory form, such as the Schools Commission, the Social Welfare Commission, the Hospitals and Health Services Commission, the Prices Justification Tribunal and the Pipeline Authority; others have had their statutory charter utterly transformed, such as the Grants Commission, the Cities Commission and the Industries Assistance Commission. [More…]
No Government has done more for the welfare of women - and I do not mean simply women in need or women in obvious hardship. [More…]
The Government accepts its basic responsibility to create for the people of Australia a secure environment in which they can maintain and develop their welfare free from fear, threats or artificial constraints whether internally or externally inspired or contrived. [More…]
30 August: A Report from the Social Welfare Commission - Tabled by Mr Hayden. [More…]
4 December: A Report from the Social Welfare Commission concerning Aged Person’s Housing - Tabled by Mr Hayden. [More…]
a survey of hostel accommodation for young Aboriginals in Perth conducted by the Western Australian Director of Community Welfare has shown that there is sufficient Aboriginal hostel accommodation either currently available or already planned in Perth for the present need and [More…]
This is one of a number of matters at present being considered by a Committee of Inquiry into Aged Persons Housing, set up by the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
What is the (a) membership, (b) time-table and (c) charter of each of the following interdepartmental committees : (i) Arrangements for provisions of advice on ionising radiation, (ii) Assistance to Industries, (iii) Australian Government Office Space, (iv) Australian Investment Overseas, (v) Australian Participation in NASA Post-Apollo Program, (vi) Australian Trade with Developing Countries, (vii) Brussels Definition of Value for Duty and GATT Anti-Dumping Code, (viii) Consideration of First Report of the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission, (ix) Environmental Impact Studies, (x) Freedom of Information Legislation, (xi) GATT Trade Negotiations, (xii) Human Rights, (xiii) Metric Conversion Co-ordination, (xiv) Motor Vehicle Industry, (xv) National Archives Legislation (xvi) National Housing Policy, (xvii) Revaluation Adjustment Assistance for Rural Industries, (xviii) Shipbuilding Industry, (xix) Social Indicators - (Social Welfare), (xx) Soil Conservation, (xxi) Structural Adjustment - (Tariff), (xxii) The Production of Educational Publications, (xxiii) Unified Aid Administration, (xxiv) Urban and Regional Development, (xxv) Urban Transport and (xxvi) Purari River Project. [[More…]](https://historichansard.net/hofreps/1973/19731213_reps_28_hor87/#subdebate-72-31)
In view of his stated determination to take over the responsibilities of the States for welfare and advancement of Aboriginal people, what plans has the Government approved to improve housing, recreation and living conditions in Wreck Bay over which it has direct responsibility and control. [More…]
Section 10 of the Social Welfare Ordinance provides that it is the duty of the Director of Social Welfare, inter alia, to provide such assistance as in his opinion may be necessary or appropriate to promote the physical well-being of persons who, in his opinion, are socially or economically in need of assistance, and to exercise general care in matters affecting their welfare. [More…]
Will he seek details from the Public Service Board of the progress that has been made in implementing the system of reporting on the placement of physically handicapped persons which the Board indicated it was planning to introduce when it gave evidence to the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare in 1971. [More…]
What research projects have been initiated and supported by the Social Welfare Commission, what cost was involved, and who or what institution conducted the research. [More…]
and (2) The Australian Assistance Plan will be developing in response to community reaction to the concepts and procedures outlined by the Social Welfare Commission in Discussion Paper No. [More…]
In accordance with the guidelines laid down in the discussion paper it is required that the composition of the Council be as pluralistic as possible thus widening the cross-section of the community which takes decisions on local social welfare problems. [More…]
Section 2.3 of the Australian Assistance Plan advises* that: ‘Each Regional Council should involve representatives of the Australian, State and Local Governments, trade unions and employer groups, welfare consumer groups and non government bodies concerned with social welfare.’ [More…]
So far within the pilot phase of the Plan the Social Welfare Commission has selected a total of 20 regions to be funded to establish and operate Regional Councils for Social Development in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia. [More…]
Of these, 4 will receive in addition block grants paid on a basis of $2 per capita for the support of welfare programs proposed by the Regional Councils. [More…]
The economies of the islands and the welfare of their people depend on reliable shipping facilities at reasonable freight charges. [More…]
The betterment of Australia’s social welfare system remains a major objective of my Government. [More…]
The Social Welfare Commission will develop the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]
Under the Australian assistance plan special aid is being made available to local government authorities to enable them more effectively to provide health and welfare services in their communities. [More…]
It was something about which civilised men - Australians who have the welfare of Australia at heart - could sit down and say: ‘Here is something we can give to you because it is proper and correct. [More…]
Prime Minister McMahon’s high opinion of Dr Coombs was shown by the fact that under him there was the first considerable increase in the appropriations for Aboriginal welfare. [More…]
I have spent more of my time, since coming to this Parliament, concerning myself with the problems of Aboriginal welfare than with any other specific issue. [More…]
The Government has established the Australian Commission on Social Welfare and through it, the Australian assistance plan. [More…]
Inflation, in essence, reduces the national welfare. [More…]
The increased social welfare payments and other expanded forms of public assistance undertaken this year will, in large measure, be illusory money increases. [More…]
However, I would like to assure the House, as well as those interested in the welfare of the Australian tourist industry, that these examples may be handicaps but they are not absolute deterrents. [More…]
Mr FitzPATRICK (Darling) (8.21)- At the opening of the second session of the 28th Parliament Her Majesty the Queen referred to many measures that her Government intended to introduce for the welfare of our Aboriginal population. [More…]
In fairness to the Aboriginal population, I do not think that I would have to go outside my own electorate to see things which would make any Aboriginal want to protest if he was genuinely interested in the welfare of his own people. [More…]
They seem to indicate to me that the elected parliamentarians, in the discharge of their duties, should have regard to the people of Australia as a whole and at all times endeavour to secure the advancement of the national welfare, including that of our Aborigines. [More…]
I should like to quote the Speech of the Queen in regard to social welfare: It stated: [More…]
The betterment of Australia’s social welfare system remains a major objective of my Government. [More…]
Having in mind the establishment of a Government insurance office and the extended terms of reference of the Woodhouse Committee, especially the words ‘together with the application of the scheme where death results from such sickness or defect’, one wonders how open-ended the Government’s intentions are in this area of social welfare and social security. [More…]
We would commend anything that is humanitarian but I would remind the Government that it is not a bottomless pit from which one funds social welfare payments. [More…]
The social welfare state might be all very well in theory but someone has to pay for these benefits and someone has to fund this so-called Australian Government insurance office. [More…]
For instance, the expenditure on social security and welfare in Australia increased by only 14 per cent during the same time. [More…]
The Treasurer used the argument that if we are to have this payment system we should have it on a welfare basis. [More…]
The one time that this Government has put this policy of welfare into play in agriculture it has been disastrous. [More…]
That was with one of its fruit compensation schemes because of currency revaluation whereby it paid $12 a ton up to the welfare cutoff point on the one hand, and on the other hand took away $10 a ton right across the board. [More…]
Nobody in the fruit industry wants a repeat of that welfare performance. [More…]
The decision to reorganise the administration of our economic aid programs is based on the view that improvements in aid must be affected in almost all aspects of our aid endeavours - in the machinery for formulating policy, in ensuring greater attention to the welfare and distributive effects of our aid, in evaluating the effectiveness of our various schemes, in bringing greater expertise into our staffing arrangements and in more directly associating the community with the program. [More…]
Despite the fact that people are now back at work, rural incomes have trebled, profits are going through the roof, our trade surpluses are embarrassingly high and look like going higher, tariffs have been reduced, the dollar is sound and more realistically valued, we are out of Vietnam, conscription has been abolished and our relations with Asia and Africa have now been brought out of the colonial era, social welfare is now taking its rightful place in our order of priorities, the 2 Jeremiahs of Her Majesty’s Opposition daily pronounce imminent disaster and chaos. [More…]
Two further areas where the Government has taken new initiatives are in the road safety and social welfare fields. [More…]
An amount of $20,000 has been provided for reflectorised markings on the Pacific Highway and for special turning lanes at the Tuggerah turn-off, and $5,000 has been provided for the Central Coast Social Welfare Co-ordinating Council. [More…]
The very real concern in the social welfare field was expressed and translated in the actions of the Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden). [More…]
This Government has taken a number of new initiatives in the health and welfare sector, involving payments to the States. [More…]
By its action the Australian Government prevented the closure of this vital industry on 30 September last and the welfare of hundreds of people was sustained and maintained. [More…]
I “believe that the Aboriginal community ought to be consulted much more than is being done on matters affecting the welfare of that community. [More…]
Before I resume my seat, I would like to bring some welfare matters to the notice of the Government. [More…]
Now, as then, the honourable member and those who sit behind him show a complete disinterest in the reports on conditions in government and Catholic schools which have been prepared by bodies such as the Inner Suburban Education Committee, the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare, various organisations of teachers and parents, the migrant education task force and the Interim Schools Commission itself. [More…]
Everywhere I go I find local government people speaking with excitement and enthusiasm about the functions such as social welfare, health care, conservation and the development of leisure facilities, which they can perform so much better than either the Australian Government or the State governments. [More…]
Obviously, a significant number of people in Australia today live on welfare payments rather than choose to work. [More…]
I hope that very shortly the 48 multi-lingual welfare officers will complete their training and be in the field, bringing to the migrant settlers, particularly those with language problems, therange of help and guidance that is available. [More…]
But speaking generally, I hope that the extension of the emergency interpreter services, telephone services, the appointment of the 48 multi-lingual welfare officers who will shortly be in the field, and steps like these will put the shysters out of business and give the newcomers a better deal. [More…]
I indicate the importance of this matter because many of the policy initiatives which the Minister for Immigration claims to have introduced in relation to the welfare of migrants in Australia were policy initiatives formerly announced by my colleagues the honourable member for Barker (Dr Forbes) or the honourable member for Flinders (Mr Lynch). [More…]
Such policy initiatives, which the Minister claims to have introduced, as the development of new and expanded welfare services, the schools program, the examination of the problems of over 60 inner city schools in Melbourne, the emergency telephone service, expanded facilities for teaching English, the policy of re-union of families - which was announced in 1968 - and expanded migrant counselling services were all announced before the Minister came to power. [More…]
The Government’s opponents say that if the Government wants to have a decent welfare state it will have to encourage increased productivity. [More…]
People need to be paid a wage and a return commensurate with the contribution they make to the welfare and the wellbeing of the community of which they are a part. [More…]
On pensions, social welfare or defence? [More…]
Significantly, the productive sector has to be encouraged if any government is to be able to implement its social educational welfare policies. [More…]
It is no use the Labor Party saying: ‘We can withdraw all those now and leave the rural industry to look after itself, thinking that by so doing if things again fall into a state of decline it will be able to introduce welfare policies and thereby re-establish prosperity. [More…]
This is particularly important because there has been an insufficient output of social workers in this country and as a result of our welfare policies we will need more of them. [More…]
Again it involves community involvement in determining and planning welfare policies at the local level, with everybody, including the recipients of welfare services, being involved. [More…]
What has happened to the appealing pre-election Utopian economic and social welfare policies of this Government? [More…]
The speech also mentioned the setting up of the social welfare commission which will develop the Australian assistance plan. [More…]
The social welfare program has some desirable aims, but it will clearly take a sharp rise in national output to make these objectives feasible. [More…]
The Australian Government is making greatly increased sums available to Western Australia for education, health and welfare, the cities and other areas in line with its national policies in these fields. [More…]
It is one of several Bills which must necessarily be passed through Parliament each year, and that is normal in the sense that funds are required and are authorised by Parliament in a series of Bills for the payment of government services such as welfare, grants to the States, administration, defence and so on. [More…]
It is also claimed that the Australian Labor Government’s plans, its intentions, much of its thinking and its history require it to redistribute resources away from areas of lesser importance towards areas of great national need - areas that include social welfare, the relief of poverty, education, health and the solution of quality of life problems in the cities - and that this will have an adverse effect on business in Australia. [More…]
A strong and growing business sector is one of the keys to achievement of Labor’s social welfare program. [More…]
This is one of the practices of reactionary people in the community who resent any efforts to liberalise social welfare benefits and services. [More…]
I can assure honourable members that the evidence there shows that these sorts of assertions are grossly over-blown and I do not believe that the Liberal Party does itself any credit, if it claims to be a liberal party, by jumping on the bandwaggon of reaction where social welfare benefits and services are concerned and where peoples’ fundamental rights to self respect and dignity are involved. [More…]
These concerned welfare officers, school programs, a special telephone service and expanded facilities for English language teaching. [More…]
I have found that they are in the main - there are probably exceptions to the general rule - completely dedicated to trying to promote the welfare of primary industry and that they do not spare themselves when there is need for a special effort in that direction. [More…]
All of these points have been detailed in that sample survey which has been submitted to the poverty inquiry and I repeat that I hope that very soon I can release that report so that we can kill some of this most obnoxious, unfair and in too many cases thoroughly dishonest misrepresentation which has been broadcast in the community in an effort to discredit the development of a comprehensive system of social security benefits and social welfare services which are based on a truly liberal philosophy in which the dignity of the individual is respected and his right to self-realisation and achievement in society is fostered in every reasonable sort of way. [More…]
Its achievements in social welfare services and benefits to date, in really such a short time, are so significant and are such an advance on what has gone before that the public confidence and respect in identifying the Labor Party in this way is clearly well placed. [More…]
Contrary to continuing and unfounded rumours, the Bill confirms the Government’s continuing and vital interest in the welfare of those who have served their country. [More…]
More money is now being given to more charities because people carrying out the obligation of social welfare work or working with Lifeline do not work within the definition of relief of the poor or afflicted and therefore in the past did not receive the benefit. [More…]
There is the Willoughby Community Aid and Information Centre, which provides counselling service on social welfare. [More…]
The purpose of my speaking tonight is to assist the people of the Kilcoy area and that shire in their appeal to anybody who will help and to Brisbane’s Lord Mayor to consider their safety and their welfare and to open, certainly under control, the flood gates to get the water level down. [More…]
Because these dams supply water to Brisbane and because they are for flood mitigation for Brisbane, it is no wonder that my people are disturbed, alarmed and incensed at the manner in which their welfare has been disregarded and their property damaged and put at risk. [More…]
Whilst this may have meant a few weeks delay, and whilst we have been getting a second opinion on the matter and also asking the Fry Committee to discuss this question with the Social Welfare Commission to see what can be done to accelerate the whole program, the whole intention of the Government is to accelerate. [More…]
It occurs to me that the way to demonstrate real concern for social welfare recipients is not by advancing the implementation of a single increase by a fortnight, hut by ensuring that increases are in fact adequate to the need and directed as quickly and effectively as can be done to areas of maximum need. [More…]
It began in February of last year when the Minister for Social Security said that he had told his Department to adopt a new philosophy towards social welfare payments and gave the direction to his Department that merely because an employer did not find a registered applicant’s appearance acceptable, it was not sufficient reason to debar him from unemployment benefits. [More…]
In fact, a social welfare approach, whether it was in the form of unemployment benefits or a relief program such as the one I instanced, combined or separately, assumed major influence in the local economy and I would suggest that this was rather an unhealthy sort of situation to have occurred. [More…]
They need support from health and welfare services at the community level. [More…]
We need health and welfare services to help many of these people. [More…]
That shows that the Labor Government is concerned about the welfare of exservicemen and their dependants. [More…]
Contrary to continuing and unfounded rumours, the Bill confirms the Government’s continuing and vital interest in the welfare of those who have served their country. [More…]
In considering this matter I am reminded of the report from the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare concerning repatriation. [More…]
The honourable member quoted at great length from the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare which investigated the Repatriation Act, in particular the provisions of the Repatriation Act relating to the payment of pensions. [More…]
Through our related policies on roads, on making up the sewerage backlog, on urban public transport investment, on the environment, on education, on social welfare programmes and on health we are also seeking to bring an end to the isolated and incomplete development of new urban areas. [More…]
Its thin veneer of concern for the welfare of the Australian people has been readily exposed by the honourable member for Herbert (Mr Bonnett) who is the shadow Minister for Housing, and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lynch). [More…]
How does this measure up to the needs of Australian housing and our traditions of social welfare? [More…]
We have to look at the welfare of the total community. [More…]
All reports which the Government has commissioned have been tabled; for example, the Coombs Task Force report; the Priorities Review Committee report; the Green and White Papers on Health Insurance; the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission - First Report; the Protection Commission Inquiry; a report from the Social Welfare Commission concerning Aged Person’s Housing; the First Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Land Tenures; the Re-organisation of the Defence Group of Departments; the Care and Education of Young Children - a report of the Australian Pre-schools Committee; report of the Advisory Committee on CES Employment Statistics, and many others. [More…]
I am sure that this document of Professor Henderson’s will be seminal in its influence and valuable in the contribution which it will make to welfare programs in Australia and to the relief of relative poverty in the nation. [More…]
Mr CHIPP (Hotham) <8.38)- The report which the Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden) has tabled is one for which all honourable members and all parties who are interested in social welfare have been waiting a long time. [More…]
This Parliament spends hundreds of millions of dollars on all sorts of subsidies and welfare benefits. [More…]
That rapid growth in terms of orthodox Western theory does not necessarily produce, and has so far not produced, increased welfare or justice is by now widely recognised. [More…]
He suggested that the proposed agency would ensure that greater attention would be given to the way in which our aid program would be administered in the countries to which it was given - that it would be examined to make sure that the effect of our aid was to promote the welfare of the people of those countries. [More…]
I have clearly indicated that I believe people should be encouraged to use small motor cars and that motor vehicle manufacturers should be required to build into small cars safety features that are necessary to protect the life and welfare of the people who travel in them. [More…]
The decision to reorganise the administration of our economic aid programs is based on the view that improvements in aid must be effected in almost all aspects of our aid endeavours - in the machinery for formulating policy,, in ensuring greater attention to the welfare and distributive effects of our aid, in evaluating the effectiveness of our various schemes, in bringing greater expertise into our staffing arrangements and in more directly associating the community with the program. [More…]
At that meeting the honourable member for Adelaide (Mr Hurford) stated quite specifically that when a Labor government came to power in this country donations to welfare agencies of this sort would be tax deductible. [More…]
I do not think that there is any room for doubt that the Government sees aid as a contribution by the Australian people to the welfare of our less fortunate neighbours and that this is the way in which the people of this country want to see it. [More…]
In fact the speech gave some very important guide lines as to the objectives of the new Agency, such as ensuring greater attention to the welfare and distributive effects of our aid, in improved evaluation of our aid programs, in bringing greater expertise into our staffing arrangements and in more directly associating the community with the programs. [More…]
Schooling for Aboriginal children at Yirrkala, or at any of the schools formerly administered by the Welfare Branch of the Department of the Interior, was not compulsory until December 1973, when by amendment to the Northern Territory Education Ordinance, compulsory education was extended to all Northern Territory children between the ages of 6 and 15, subject to accessibility to school facilities. [More…]
The American Samoan delegate commented that delegates ‘must consider the welfare . [More…]
The economies of the islands and the welfare of their people depend on reliable shipping facilities at reasonable freight charges. [More…]
Firstly, there is the circumstance that fishing is really part and parcel of the sustenance of very many people around the coastline of Papua New Guinea, and in particular it is of great importance to their welfare and their future stability in terms not only of sustenance but also of the gradual development of commercial fishing. [More…]
Certainly the $70m-odd could be well used in social welfare payments because the needs are great, but the concept does not bear close study. [More…]
We would be concerned with social welfare, health and education programs, and we are determined that there would be no better systems of social welfare, health and education in any other country. [More…]
It reduces the national welfare. [More…]
It reduces the national welfare. [More…]
But the increased social welfare payments and other expanded forms of public assistance undertaken by the Whitlam Government are simply illusory money increases. [More…]
When I mention a debate it reminds me of the fact that the honourable member for Hotham, who is the Opposition spokesman on health and welfare matters and who has followed these matters so closely in the last 18 months, would be well enough versed to enter into a debate of this subject without having a copy of what I might happen to say. [More…]
It will create chaos in the industry in the name of social welfare because it was in the name of social welfare - or so-called social welfare - that the Government changed these dairying industry policies. [More…]
But as the people are well aware, the relic Opposition majority in the Senate has continually blocked major items of our mandate - our policies on health, education, social welfare, urban living, land acquisition- [More…]
Members of the Opposition still have the effrontery to express concern for the welfare of the pensioner. [More…]
Over the whole range of social welfare services this Government has acted promptly to improve the lot of the less fortunate and the under privileged. [More…]
After 23 years of Liberal rule, during which time the Minister for Civil Aviation was a Queenslander and so much neglect was apparent in Brisbane, it is astounding to hear these people suddenly take an interest in the welfare of Brisbane and its people. [More…]
Members of the Opposition seemed to become terribly upset, irate and indignant when a document containing the policy recommendations of the Liberal Party’s Committee on Social Security, Health and Welfare, which they regard as confidential, was produced in the House today. [More…]
Very often Australian industry has been accorded too much attention in the changes that have to take place in a world where we have a responsibility to have regard to the welfare of our own people and also to make our contribution to the development of peoples in other countries, especially the lesser developed countries. [More…]
It is gratifying to know that long before these Bills were introduced the Government had shown its concern for the welfare of the people and had provided this help. [More…]
Welfare would be the first place to suffer. [More…]
It has involved local resident groups in area improvement programs, in social welfare activities and in the establishment of community health centres. [More…]
This proposal was examined by the Social Welfare Commission and was later considered by the Annual Conference of Australasian Administrators of Social Welfare held in Wellington, New Zealand in February. [More…]
A Conference of Australasian Ministers for Social Welfare, in endorsing that conclusion, considered there was a need for a conference of the Australian State adoption officers and interested Australian Government Departments to discuss, inter alia, such an agency. [More…]
Whilst the decrease in unemployment figures since the election of the Labor Government indicates an improvement in the economic welfare of the country, does the Minister have any figures indicating whether the reduction in the unemployment figures is the total measure of the buoyancy of the economy and the benefits that flow to those seeking work? [More…]
I noticed today that his program, as has been reported, is: ‘Snedden will cut welfare, schools’. [More…]
These recurrent sums, whether or not the States draw the whole$1 9.62m are 55 per cent to be spent at the States’ discretion and 45 per cent to go for curriculum research and development; the training of professional staff; the development of a central resource centre; publicity to raise the level of community awareness of the opportunities available; counselling services and social work; staff to direct and oversee safety measures - here I might interpolate that the low standards of safety in many technical colleges would not be permitted for one minute in factories - health and welfare of students; in-service training; for the formation of a unit to develop educational specifications for buildings; site plans; and master plans for capital works development and re-development; and for staff for statistical collections concerning student and teacher population and related matters. [More…]
More importantly they can become citizens who are happy in themselves and who contribute to the common good and welfare of society. [More…]
The Government recently accepted a recommendation by the Committee of Inquiry into Aged Persons Housing, set up by the Social Welfare Commission, that homes which have received, or are applying for, subsidy under the Aged Persons Homes Act be required to forward a copy of their rules to the Director-General of Social Security and that any rule which the Director-General considers to be repressive or contrary to normal civil liberty should be the subject of discussion with a view to amendment. [More…]
The position formerly held by Mr Giese was Assistant Administrator, Welfare (Level 2). [More…]
Letter from former Western Australian Minister for Community Welfare (Question No. [More…]
Did he receive a letter from Mr Thompson, former Minister for Community Welfare in Western Australia, requesting that a subsidy be paid to families based on the number of children. [More…]
The answer to the right honourable member’s question is as follows: (1), (2) and (3) I have no record of having received a letter from Mr Thompson, former Minister for Community Welfare in Western Australia, requesting that a subsidy be paid to families based on the number of children. [More…]
The Government is determined to provide adequate finance for an expansion in welfare housing which has suffered severely because of inflationary conditions. [More…]
His period as Minister for Health and Social Services was of particular importance to the Labor Government of the time and of particular significance for the welfare of the people of Australia. [More…]
I recall his very great concern about aged people and it was in the area of social welfare that Joe Sexton made a real contribution to the debates and discussions of this Parliament. [More…]
It is the intention of my Department and, in fact, of the Government to ensure that money made available for welfare housing produces the best possible result and is used effectively to provide housing for low income people. [More…]
One thing is certain, namely, that there is prima facie evidence which enables me to say that some of the land acquired from these companies is to be used for welfare housing under the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement. [More…]
Built in to that system is a second tier which is welfare housing. [More…]
The last thing that motivates it is the welfare of the patient. [More…]
Before I proceed to that point, I might mention that it is interesting that the honourable member for Hotham is basing his opposition to our scheme not so much on the welfare of patients but on the interests of private hospitals. [More…]
That body is a fairly vital element in the field of patient welfare. [More…]
This attitude jeopardises the patients’ welfare, according to any principles of medical practice. [More…]
That so much of Standing Orders be suspended as would prevent the House debating the present problem of nursing home benefits and the Opposition policies on social welfare. [More…]
The Minister for Social Security made an even more serious misrepresentation when speaking of our policies on social welfare. [More…]
The Opposition’s policies on social welfare have been available since about the first or second week of May in a booklet entitled ‘The Way Ahead’. [More…]
I have no doubt that, if the position were to be reversed and the Opposition were to be in government again, it would be equally as austere in what it did in any area of welfare services as it was austere in those areas as a government up to 1972. [More…]
They are consistent with the very generous approach which we have adopted to social welfare. [More…]
While they represent an energetic breakthrough, welfare services have been neglected for far too long for us to rest on our laurels. [More…]
I am pleased to see that this Government is determined to provide adequate finance for the expansion of welfare housing. [More…]
The emphasis running through the Governor-General’s Speech was on social welfare and care and consideration for people. [More…]
We are a nation rich enough to provide for the welfare of our people. [More…]
In the light of these recommendations one would expect that a government which for the time being was custodian of the great social welfare powers of this Commonwealth and which was formed by a Party which has claimed to be the traditional guardian of the poor would have committed itself immediately and irrevocably to a program to rescue them from their worsening plight. [More…]
The social welfare program which the Government has unfolded is one that gives to the haves - albeit in part - at the expense of those who now have more. [More…]
Of course the Government has adorned the Governor-General’s Speech with the old familiar phrases - ‘protection for the weaker section of the community’, welfare housing will be provided ‘as soon as circumstances permit’, the next Budget will make further increases in social security, and it will also provide for increased assistance for the handicapped and disabled. [More…]
Unless the people are to be taxed to an inordinate extent the community just cannot afford the social welfare program, however attractive it may seem to some, which the Government urges upon us and at the same time adopt an effective program against poverty. [More…]
The Social Welfare Commission is not a satisfactory vehicle. [More…]
There is another broad aspect of the Government’s social welfare program to which I would like to refer. [More…]
Let me however make it quite clear that I am not talking about cities, housing, education, nor am I criticising the abolition of the means test or suggesting that there is no need for reform in the social welfare area. [More…]
It is not so much the areas in which the Government’s program seeks to give assistance - such as health, pensions, general welfare and amenities - about which I speak, but the extent to which it would embrace the life of every Australian. [More…]
So I ask sincerely: What does the average Australian who is not poor require in times of economic stability by way of social welfare of his Government? [More…]
I realise that these are basic and perennial questions, but I believe we have to answer them now in this Parliament because of the nature of the Government’s social welfare program. [More…]
Much of the Government’s projected social welfare program offends not only because it affords our poor nothing like effective social justice but also because it threatens to turn us into a dependent people coddled and propped up by the state at every turn. [More…]
Let us not be deluded into thinking that all the Government’s welfare program is humanism at work. [More…]
I ask honourable gentlemen on the other side of this House to reconsider their social welfare program not only because in substance it ignores the poor for the affluent, but because it threatens to set us on a path which, if followed to its logical conclusion, will significantly dehumanise our people. [More…]
His concern for poverty is gratifying and T am sure that we can look forward to his support for our welfare and low income housing policies which have been outlined in the Governor-General’s Speech. [More…]
It is no good the Minister for Social Security being so half smart about the Australian wool industry in its hour of need as he was this morning at question time because he is going to require thousands of millions of dollars to carry out the social welfare ambitions of the Government. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the Regular Defence Forces Welfare Association is establishing a fighting fund to brief senior counsel and obtain a legal opinion on the recovery of the surplus for the benefit of the people to whom it rightfully belongs - pre- 1 959 contributors, retirees and widows as at 30 June 1969? [More…]
As I indicated yesterday during the debate on a matter of public importance, we are concerned that welfare housing is not receiving the attention that it should receive and we are hopeful this year that we will be able also to remedy that situation. [More…]
They must be integrated with related economic and social policies in the areas of industry development, social welfare and education. [More…]
He gave no direct answer to that very great problem which confronts a large number of the elderly sick in our community, and the families who have a concern for their welfare. [More…]
The Australian Assistance Plan, which is a program for community based regional social welfare programs administered at the local level, retains a high priority with the Government. [More…]
I resent and reject strongly the efforts of the spokesman for the Opposition on welfare matters, the honourable member for Hotham, to denigrate this very important initiative- [More…]
I wish to warn the people in those local areas of what they could expect, in the light of the statement by the spokesman for the Opposition on welfare matters, if the Opposition were to become the Government. [More…]
Quite clearly the Opposition has now changed its attitude towards this very worthwhile community based program of social welfare services, and if the Opposition were to be the government it would cut back that program. [More…]
Up to this point of time I have taken the view that it is far better to centralise the Federal Government’s support for welfare housing. [More…]
I think the words I used were that it was one of the most exciting and memorable advances in social welfare ever tabled in this Parliament. [More…]
The Government has also given further .consideration to the welfare of those who will be leaving the industry. [More…]
We also had to take account of our commitments to other programs of high priority such as education, health and social welfare and above all of the general state of the economy. [More…]
There is a need for the national Government to involve itself, not by directly overseeing urban development projects and becoming a giant landlord and developer, but by providing additional funds to local government for capital works programs such as day and child care centres, recreational and care centres for children both after school and during holiday periods; parks, gardens and flora and fauna reserves; family and community counselling facilities, particularly among migrant communities; library and recreational facilities; health and welfare centres, including family planning and infant health centres; sewerage and drainage schemes; and road, street and bridge works. [More…]
With the greater community awareness of social issues and rising expectations of social welfare, local government has been required to provide many of the facilities and services I have mentioned. [More…]
The Minister for Urban and Regional Development has acquired a reputation of being concerned for individuals and their welfare, and I pay him tribute for his concern. [More…]
This matter is supposed to be one of those social welfare needs about which honourable members opposite skite that they wish to take some action. [More…]
All of these actions by the conservationists have been taken with a disregard for the immediate welfare of [More…]
As a representative of a large number of wool growers, I am very deeply concerned about the claim that was made by the honourable member for Eden-Monaro (Mr Whan) that 3 members of the Australian Wool Corporation had stooped to the level of completelydisregarding their responsibilities as members of the Corporation by conspiring with the Leader of the Australian Country Party (Mr Anthony) and the Deputy Leader of the Australian Country Party (Mr Sinclair), and thereby placing in jeopardy the welfare of the people engaged in the wool industry, in order to promote an attitude within the Corporation in regard to price levels for wool that was designed only to embarrass the Government. [More…]
The Social Welfare Commission’s report on the matter will be tabled in due course and we would expect a good deal of public discussion thereafter. [More…]
As a general rule, the free market forces may be effective in generating an adequate degree of economic welfare. [More…]
This was a proper action to take to reduce the demand for housing in the private sector back to the level where supply was able to “cope with demand - for building resources - and also to try to divert resources in into the welfare housing field and through the housing money made available through the Commonwealth and State Housing Agreement. [More…]
I abhor the fact that in doing this in the public interest, at the cost of their own welfare, members of the Builders Labourers Federation found that their organisation was deregistered. [More…]
I would go so far as to say that people would be sleeping in the open, in parks and the like, if it were not for the magnificent work that is being done at present by the voluntary social welfare agencies such as St Vincent de Paul even by professional social workers working after hours and by the churches. [More…]
The need is clearly established when we look at the figures supplied by the welfare groups in my electorate, again using the definition of emergency housing that I used before - meaning a need for housing for the immediate night or the immediate week. [More…]
The investigation that was carried out by social workers and welfare organisations in the municipalities of Springvale, Dandenong and Berwick showed that the groups most affected were, as one might imagine, the one parent families, particularly deserted wives; families who were evicted from their houses; the elderly; and also, in areas like those centred in Dandenong, quite a large group of young people and families who come to those areas in the expectation of easy employment because cities such as Dandenong are reputed to be boom cities. [More…]
In doing so I am well aware that, he as the Minister has been responsible for negotiation with, the States whereby allocations for welfare housing have been higher than ever before. [More…]
The Australian Government has embarked upon what is a most ambitious social welfare program. [More…]
The answer to the right honourable member’s question is as follows: (1), (2) and (3) In my Social Welfare policy speech on behalf of the Australian Government at Melbourne on 1 May 1974, I said ‘the actual time of the introduction of this program will be a policy decision and accordingly will be announced once that decision has taken place.’ [More…]
The Government is constantly re-assessing its priorities in the social welfare field. [More…]
Welfare services catering for the aged could be put out of business because of Federal Government financial restrictions, the director of aged services at Melbourne’s Brotherhood of St Laurence, Mr N. Brooke, said yesterday. [More…]
It promised to set up under a particular Act in 1969 a welfare system that would help to keep these kinds of patients in their own homes. [More…]
What is required is a clear statement of the extent to which the Government sees these services as being instruments of welfare and decentralisation and to what extent it sees them as being business undertakings. [More…]
That is the Labor Treasurer - cleared the decks, as he put it, to initiate Labor’s great welfare program and at the same time he put the kiss of death on every union journal in Australia. [More…]
In that case, there would have to be a cutback on the social welfare scheme. [More…]
Interwoven into the economy is the need for organisations like the Post Office to pay their own way in order that we may be able to assist in avenues of social welfare those who are needy instead of subsidising a service that should pay its own way. [More…]
The proposed increases are an endeavour to make up this leeway and to make available money for social welfare schemes, pensions and other things of that nature. [More…]
It does not have to take from the taxpayers moneys which can be devoted to education and social welfare. [More…]
The rate of interest now, caused by this Government which is allegedly concerned with social welfare and has a social conscience, is the highest on record in Australia’s history. [More…]
The Labor Government has also broken another promise it made in the social welfare area, that is, the promise to remove the means test for persons 70 years of age and over. [More…]
Does the Minister see any justice in a man who has been deserted by his wife and who has been left with 4 children to care for receiving no assistance under the social welfare program of the Labor Government? [More…]
Calling it the Department of Repatriation and Compensation could be the thin edge of the wedge that will eventually mean the disappearance of the Repatriation Department and those 800,000 surviving ex-servicemen and women will see the disappearance of their specialised department which devotes itself entirely to the welfare and treatment of these ex-servicemen and women. [More…]
I assure the ex-servicemen and women of Australia that we in the Country Party and the Liberal Party will continue to show a vital interest in the future welfare of the exservicemen and women of Australia. [More…]
They will play a vital part and will look after their welfare. [More…]
As powers in respect of adoption and related child welfare matters are retained by the State governments under the Constitution, consultation with State governments is necessary and a national conference has been arranged for 24 and 25 July. [More…]
If the Leader of the Opposition and other honourable gentlemen were to read the report of the committee of inquiry into preschool education by Miss Fry which was tabled about 8 months ago, the report by the Australian Social Welfare Commission which was tabled yesterday and the report by the Priorities Review Staff which also was tabled yesterday, they would see that this is a very complex matter; that in fact there are very great difficulties in carrying out a program of care and education of children before they go to primary school, particularly in the light of the varied circumstances in the different States. [More…]
We are rapidly approaching the welfare state. [More…]
That is Orwell’s ‘1984’; that is the welfare state. [More…]
Is the Minister not disturbed about the way costs of social welfare are already rising in Australia? [More…]
The Prime Minister envisaged a time when the total hand-outs or pay-outs for social welfare would represent 12 per cent of gross national product. [More…]
In these days it has become more important than ever for there to be both public involvement - certainly significant public involvement - and private involvement in this area of welfare. [More…]
We wish to assist their vested interests by obtaining and maintaining for the Australian people the best welfare service available by way of a scheme whose application is practical. [More…]
It has education proposals and proposals for pre-school and child care, a superannuation scheme, a compensation scheme and social welfare schemes. [More…]
I believe that the Minister should concern himself not with the amalgamation of unions but with the welfare of unionists. [More…]
1; that is the first report to which the honourable gentleman referred - the Social Welfare Commission, . [More…]
Yet just recently the honourable gentleman, referring to the Social Welfare Commission’s report, said that it was tabled yesterday. [More…]
Does the honourable gentleman also say that the Social Welfare Commission report which was tabled on Tuesday is different from the Social Welfare Commission report of last year? [More…]
When the Prime Minister announced on 18 February that the Government had asked the Social Welfare Commission to examine the Fry Committee report he made this announcement in this House. [More…]
Whilst this may have meant a few weeks’ delay, and whilst we have been getting a second opinion on the matter and also asking the Fry Committee to discuss this question with the Social Welfare Commission to see what can be done to accelerate the whole program the whole intention of the Government is to accelerate. [More…]
There was a demurrer from the Priorities Review Committee and one from the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
If the honourable gentleman wishes to quote from the speech of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), let us go on from the part where he refers to the Social Welfare Commission and the Priorities Review staff. [More…]
The report which the Prime Minister had long before I did, and which I call the Coleman report or the Social Welfare Commission report, refers to the need to spend $130m. [More…]
The Social Welfare Commission report speaks about the areas where it considers priority would be given. [More…]
We have had the Fry report, the Social Welfare Commission report and now, of course, the Priorities Review Staff has recommended that the commencement of the program be postponed so that the Government and the community would have time to prepare for its implementation. [More…]
Only this week have we received the report of the Social Welfare Commission - the Coleman report - and also the report of the Priorities Review Staff. [More…]
Of course, it takes time to arouse interest in the community and some local government organisations are very tentative at the present time in relation to the support that should be given to embarking upon any further projects in the social welfare field. [More…]
The Australian dairy farmer is a quite competent farmer and has contributed in a most meaningful way to the welfare of Australia. [More…]
This will be detrimental to the welfare of the people engaged in the industry and to the industry itself. [More…]
I respect him for his interest in social welfare. [More…]
I wish each level of government to be in a position to perform better its assigned functions for the better welfare of all our citizens wherever they live. [More…]
One of the primary causes of the domestic inflation in Australia has not only been the Government’s misjudgment but its failure to encourage further investment in the productive sector at a time when the Government’s budgetary and welfare policies are injecting excess liquidity into the economy. [More…]
We do not need a cradle-to-the-grave society in which the Government will dictate all aspects of our daily lives, and expect those of us who still want to work to pay dearly for the ultimate welfare state in which the individual will lose all freedom of choice and the capacity to plan his destiny. [More…]
We know that the Health Bills are designed to bring about the nationalisation of medicine in Australia - to bring about a more expensive and less efficient system of looking after the health and welfare of the Australian people. [More…]
Governments have increased social welfare payments, they have become more heavily committed to education, and they have provided services in those areas where free enterprise showed no interest or have taken over those services where free enterprise was unable to make a profit. [More…]
I believe there is a real and pressing case for decentralisation of authority and that local governments will best perform many governmental functions in such critical areas as welfare, culture and the environment. [More…]
Each State has a public and professional education program, a research program and several States have a patient welfare program. [More…]
National cancer control has been seriously inhibited by lack of funds for basic research, for the application of research knowledge to the practical management of cancer, for public education and for patient welfare. [More…]
These include State National Fitness Councils, youth and community services organisations, sporting groups, local authorities, welfare agencies, schools and churches. [More…]
Under these arrangements, the Welfare and Social Services Branch (comprising nine officers) of the Government and Social Affairs Division of the former Department of the Interior was the only branch of that department to become part of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
In his election policy speech he said that the Labor Party’s child care program reflected the recommendations of the Australian Prc-schools Committee, the Australian Social Welfare Commission and the Priorities Review Staff. [More…]
Were the recommendations consistent with those contained in the report of the Social Welfare Commission which advocated an expenditure of $130m in the 1974-75 year? [More…]
The Government’s welfare reforms. [More…]
The people of this nation have to awaken because we are in danger of slipping into a most undesirable welfare state situation. [More…]
We must not have the creation of a huge welfare state. [More…]
In the area of social welfare one section stands out as being in dire need of immediate assistance. [More…]
I would hope that the Australian Assistance Plan or some other agency of this welfare Government would look into this problem which by no means is confined to the country. [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…]
The previous speaker, the honourable member for Gippsland (Mr Nixon), made some very hurtful references to my colleague, the Minister for Services and Property (Mr Daly), and implied that he had no interest in the welfare of country people. [More…]
These are the acts of genuine welfare that the people of the Territories are entitled to expect. [More…]
The entire social security and welfare, and housing expenditure by the Commonwealth comes to $2,975m. [More…]
This health scheme would drag away all of that expenditure on those items of social security and welfare and of housing. [More…]
Doctors are losing the goodwill of the patients- the goodwill that used to exist between them- because, so far as the patients can see, the doctors or, to give them their due, the doctors represented by these associations are much more concerned with their own position and how much money they can earn than with the welfare of their patients. [More…]
The experiment of the welfare state was something new and its consequences were not appreciated. [More…]
I begin my contribution to this very important debate on the Petroleum and Minerals Authority Bill by acknowledging the work of the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor) and of Mr T. M. Fitzgerald who prepared a report on the contribution of the mineral industry to Australian welfare. [More…]
Mr Fitzgerald pointed out that the first economic task of any government is to raise the standards and the welfare of the people, and particularly those sections of the people who have been most disadvantaged. [More…]
Indeed, many of the needs for a better quality of life cannot be charged for at all, and resistance to the further use of these methods- the paying for welfare and the wellbeing of the people- as Mr Fitzgerald points out, have become as strong as the public desire for social improvement. [More…]
For Australia an exceptional opportunity for improving standards of welfare and wellbeing of our people did open out in the 1960s with this great unsurge of mineral discoveries. [More…]
The nature of the foundations laid in the formative years of the mineral revival would have effects on Australian welfare lasting for decades or (as it turned out) for generations. [More…]
small in relation to the big values of high quality mineral resources being extracted and exported, the mineral industry is not contributing to the supreme task of raising welfare. [More…]
The Petroleum and Minerals Authority will not be operating in some declining and unprofitable field, into which public enterprise is normally allowed to function, but it will take a leading part in safeguarding and developing the vast mineral wealth of Australia, as the heritage of the people, and as one of the main sources of the welfare of the people for many generations. [More…]
Only Labor can ensure that our national Wealth is used for the welfare of the people and not for the enrichment of just a few. [More…]
That report is neither a full nor accurate assessment of the contribution made by the mining industry to Australia’s economic welfare. [More…]
This report upon which the Minister for Overseas Trade places such importance takes a narrow, myopic view of the industry’s contribution to Australian welfare. [More…]
It will be required to conduct its operations in a proper and workmanlike manner and, in accordance with good industrial practices, to look after the safety, health and welfare of persons engaged in those operations. [More…]
It should concern itself with the welfare of the country and be as bipartisan as possible, which it is in its committees. [More…]
So that all told it looks as if the mining industry may have made a contribution to welfare during the 5-year period referred to of something to the order of $700m and not, as the Minister has claimed, as if a contribution has been made to the mining industry of $55m. [More…]
The welfare of the Australian people was suffering instead of benefiting. [More…]
Without such orderly development we in the Aus.tralian Labor Party cannot hope to achieve the welfare policies that we are so bent on achieving. [More…]
I refer to the national superannuation scheme, the rehabilitation and compensation scheme and other welfare policies that we want to achieve. [More…]
We want it working for the welfare of the Australian people. [More…]
There is no way- just no way- in which the Government can pretend to be more concerned about Australia, about the development of Australia and about the true welfare of the Aus.tralian people than this side of the chamber. [More…]
The Bills affect the lives and welfare of countless millions of Australians. [More…]
1 ) Have pilot welfare rights projects been introduced. [More…]
) What is a welfare rights officer. [More…]
A number of voluntary organisations and ethnic groups in Sydney and Melbourne have been approached to establish a welfare rights service on a pilot basis for a period of twelve months. [More…]
The organisations concerned have been asked to submit proposals for welfare rights services appropriate to the needs of the people they serve. [More…]
A further nine pilot welfare rights services will be introduced when the relevant organisations have completed the preliminary planning. [More…]
Welfare rights officers will be employed by relevant organisations to assist particular groups of people to be better informed about social welfare and related services and to help those requiring help to exercise their rights to such services. [More…]
Training will be determined according to the particular needs of each welfare rights worker. [More…]
What is the establishment of the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
The Public Service Board has agreed to the creation of a further nine positions and, subject to completion of the necessary formal processes, the establishment of the Social Welfare Commission will increase to 29. [More…]
The Social Welfare Commission has been responsible for the formulation of policy for the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]
Committee and Working Party meetings between the staff of the Social Welfare Commission and the Department of Social Security are held frequently. [More…]
Unlike the traditional concept of a post-secondary or graduate institution providing training of an educational and professional nature towards the granting of degrees to persons of a certain age group, the United Nations University is visualised as an inter-connected world-wide system of academic institutions devoted to advanced research and training, through an interdisciplinary approach, on problems of human survival, development and welfare. [More…]
What was the intended role of the Social Welfare Commission as at 2 December 1972. [More…]
The answer to the right honourable member’s question is as follows: (1), (2), (3) and (4) While no specific mention of the Social Welfare Committee was made in 1972, its principles are implicit in the Government’s pre- 1972 election statements on the need for a total community approach to welfare. [More…]
The creation of the Social Welfare Commission in 1 973 is one pan of the Government’s program to achieve these aims. [More…]
member’s question about the role of the Social Welfare Commission and any changes planned for that role, I would refer him to Section 14 of the Social Welfare Commission Act, which states: [More…]
to ascertain, and report to the Minister on, the social welfare needs of the community and to make recommendations to the Minister in respect of those needs; [More…]
to make recommendations to the Minister for furthering the achievement of a nationally integrated social welfare plan, including- [More…]
recommendations of priorities in relation to social welfare programs; [More…]
recommendations for the development of social welfare programs on a regional basis with localised administration; [More…]
recommendations for participation in the implementation of social welfare programs by representatives of the persons or agencies to be assisted; [More…]
recommendations for the co-ordination of the social welfare activities of organisations, including State, local government and voluntary organisations, involved in the provision of social welfare; [More…]
recommendations for the adjustment, from time to time, of social welfare programs in the light of changing community circumstances and attitudes and the state of the economy; and [More…]
recommendations for avoiding the duplication of social welfare programs and for promoting the maximum efficiency and effectiveness of the community social welfare effort; [More…]
to estimate, and report to the Minister on, the likely cost of proposed social welfare programs and to advise the Minister on the relative priorities to be given to the implementation of those programs; [More…]
to keep social welfare programs under constant review and to re-assess and evaluate those programs in the light of experience; [More…]
to propose to the Minister measures to give all organisations, including State, local government and voluntary organisations, concerned with social welfare access to available information and technical assistance; [More…]
to consider, and report to the Minister on, measures designed to provide skilled staff for the successful implementation of social welfare programs; and [More…]
such other functions in connection with social welfare programs as the Minister approves. [More…]
However, the Department arranged, on behalf of the Social Welfare Commission, for Mr R. Myers of the University of New South Wales to plan and conduct a training course for Social Planners. [More…]
He worked tirelessly to improve and develop New Zealand’s welfare state, already one of the most advanced and humane in the world and largely a memorial to his country’s first Labour Government. [More…]
He was a man whose own goodness and decency were reflected in the quality of his public life, in the greatness of his leadership and in the dedication he showed in all his words and deeds to the welfare of his country and its people. [More…]
The Government’s overriding objective is to get on with our various initiatives in the fields of education, health, social welfare and urban improvement. [More…]
The Government is not prepared to vary its previous decision and allocate more from the Budget to the Post Office because this could only be at the expense of our priority programmes in the fields of education, welfare and health. [More…]
And expressions of the sort that it is reported the Prime Minister used in the Caucus yesterday in relation to artists are quite surprising for people who thought that they could trust his interest in their welfare. [More…]
Beyond the substantial improvements to welfare services many areas of expenditure are specifically geared to maximise benefits for low income earners. [More…]
This is the principle for the allocation of funds for schools under the Schools Commission program, for child care, for local government under the Grants Commission, for community health centres and hospitals, for welfare housing, for area improvement programs, for the Australian assistance plan and for Aboriginal advancement. [More…]
What possible basis for national cooperation would there be if we were to punish the vast majority of Australians who will benefit under our community and welfare program? [More…]
No self respecting government can tolerate the delaying of the business of Parliament by frivolous motions moved for political purposes, in an endeavour to hold up the business of this Government in this Parliament where we legislate for the welfare of all people. [More…]
The Bill enables State and Territory child welfare officers to be used as welfare officers for the purpose of the Act. [More…]
It also enables other persons, including welfare officers employed in the Australian Public Service, to be used or appointed as welfare officers. [More…]
Whether it will be necessary as a matter of good administration to use welfare officers other than State and Territory welfare officers remains, of course, to be seen. [More…]
The Government is not prepared to allocate more from the Budget to the Post Office because this could only be at the expense of our priority programs in the fields of education, welfare and health. [More…]
Whilst we are aware of the fact that the trade union control within the Department is very profound and very significant, whilst we are aware of the fact that that great Department is absolutely vital to the economy and to the welfare of the Australian nation, and whilst we are absolutely sure that we know that this great Department can be strangled by industrial action, we must admit that over these next 9 months the most likely scene in Australia will be that of further disruption and further effects of the inflationary process upon the Postmaster-General’s Department. [More…]
Let us have a corporation representative of people who use the postal service and who are interested in its welfare. [More…]
Yesterday the Family Welfare Bureau in New South Wales had its annual meeting and closed its doors. [More…]
I regard the closing down of the Bureau, a voluntary social welfare organisation in New [More…]
It was formed to provide welfare for ex-servicemen and their dependants. [More…]
The Family Welfare Bureau in fact did receive grants from numbers of Government departments. [More…]
It is a sum which in the social welfare field I believe we cannot afford to lose. [More…]
I know from my own involvement in the Provisional Committee in Parramatta that the social worker from the Family Welfare Bureau was endeavouring to assist in the promotion of that plan in the Parramatta district with a view to participation in it. [More…]
Although the late Mrs Henry, who I understand was one of the senior officers in the department in Sydney, discussed these matters at length with the senior officers of the Family Welfare Bureau, no means could be found whereby money could be made available for social workers to be maintained in their present positions and for this valuable organisation to be able to continue to exist. [More…]
It may well be in the plan of this Government that voluntary organisations should be done away with and should be seen as being no longer important in the plan of things for providing and meeting welfare needs. [More…]
They privide a difference in the style of things in providing welfare needs. [More…]
The Treasurer announced in the Budget that $25m of the money allocated to the States for welfare housing was unused at the end of the 1973-74 period. [More…]
-Last financial year the Government made available $2 18m- I think some 26 per cent more than in the previous year -for welfare housing and of that amount $16m was unspent by New South Wales and $9m was unspent by Victoria, making a total of $25m. [More…]
The Government has been very concerned that funds made available for welfare housing have remained unspent considering that there has been such a large number of outstanding applications for Housing Commission homes. [More…]
It may be that some consideration could be given to this work which is more important than, perhaps, some areas of social welfare that have been undertaken by this Government. [More…]
Our people want employment, not welfare. [More…]
Private investment has been falling away rapidly and in the long term, particularly now that a tax has been placed on people who have made an effort in the past to be thrifty, this will cripple our ability as a nation to meet those payments of scale to our welfare programs, our health care programs and also to education. [More…]
Subsidiesthis is mainly the area in which such a scheme has been criticised- become necessary only to sustain a price stabilisation scheme where the marketing organisation deliberately incorporates a welfare component in its floor price. [More…]
The Whitlam Government’s lack of concern for the welfare of rural industry was demonstrated by its reluctance to back the Wool Corporation’s floor price plan. [More…]
It is absolutely essential to us to have viable export industries if we are to import the capital equipment that we need for our continued economic welfare. [More…]
If we are to increase the amount provided for expenditure by the States, are we to reduce the amount that is to be spent on social welfare measures? [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition, from all the inferences that could be drawn from his remarks, was suggesting that what the Government was doing was not sufficient and that it should also increase its expenditure on social welfare. [More…]
In short, it is a Budget which has attempted to purchase a welfare program at the expense of the economy required to sustain it. [More…]
We recognise that many of its provisions in respect of education, social welfare and urban development are considerable. [More…]
In other words, within the profession itself there is a feeling towards medical services and the practice of medicine in the community which is preventive and which gives continuing care and makes use of all the ancillary services such as social workers, infant and welfare workers, marriage guidance counsellors and the various therapists to whom I could refer. [More…]
It includes general medical practice and aspects of geriatric and rehabilitation services, counselling programs concerned with drugs, alcohol and family welfare, community mental health and maternal and child health services, again outside of hospitals. [More…]
The electors recognised the neglect in every part of the public sector and in every area of social welfare. [More…]
I am particularly pleased to have the opportunity to endorse the expenditure of $235m through the States on welfare housing. [More…]
I am pleased to see that additional advances could be made available, given the increased resources for housing construction and the ability of the States to put further funds for welfare housing to productive use. [More…]
This program recognises the need for education, health and welfare components in child care. [More…]
The implementation of this program will place Australia amongst those countries most genuinely concerned with the welfare of the young. [More…]
No government can meet the great clamour from the people for better services, better education, better welfare services, better defence, better roads and all the rest of it, while it does so many things to damage the nation’s productive capacity, to discourage people from investing their earnings and their savings in producing industries, and to persuade people that they are wrong, if not stupid, to seek to advance themselves and their families through hard work and thrift. [More…]
In regard to the social welfare and the social justice aspects of this Budget I refer to the great strides that are being made to overcome very important deficiencies in the educational and social welfare needs of our community. [More…]
That is why I say that this is a social welfare Budget. [More…]
The Treasurer (Mr Crean) has authorised me to make this announcement: A joint meeting of the Caucus Economic and Trade Committee and the Welfare Committee, of which I am the Secretary, was held today with the concurrence of the Treasurer and with his agreement has recommended to Cabinet variations in the proposed legislation which would ensure that retired people and sick and infirm people earning a moderate income from property will not suffer any hardship whatsoever. [More…]
Inherent in that proposition that the individual’s success is the community’s success is that it is only through the creation of community wealth by the efforts of individuals in the community that it is possible for governments to undertake social welfare and to fund their operations. [More…]
Mr Snedden is on record from the last election as giving an assurance that growth of spending would be maintained in key areas such as health, education, urban improvement and social welfare. [More…]
There is no way he can cut back on the growth of public spending without hacking into education, welfare payments, allocations to the States, urban and regional development. [More…]
The Government has provided in the Budget for a significant increase of funds for social welfare and social services. [More…]
They are so heartrendingly attached to the gospel of State rightism and so viciously opposed to this Federal Government that they put party politics before the welfare of the nation and refuse to give us the powers we need. [More…]
He won because the people of his electorate recognised that he was a strong man, a man who had a lot to give and a man who would represent his electorate and build for himself a career in the national Parliament where he could contribute to the welfare of the Australian people. [More…]
He is remembered by the people of his electorate for his independence of spirit, his devotion to their welfare and the great kindliness and friendliness with which he performed his duties. [More…]
The Treasurer (Mr Crean) has authorised me to make this announcement: A joint meeting of the Caucus Economic and Trade Committee and the Welfare Committee, of which I am the Secretary, was held today with the concurrence of the Treasurer and with his agreement has recommended - [More…]
That is an important initiative which has been welcomed by those who have a genuine interest in the welfare of Tasmania. [More…]
I hope that with this most generous increase in subsidy the welfare of tenants is safeguarded. [More…]
If inflation hits people receiving welfare payments, the Government says: ‘Increase those payments but do nothing about the basic rate of inflation which erodes those same payments and makes them worth less than the lesser amount a year or two earlier’. [More…]
Unlike the year by year ad hoc-ery of Liberal-Country Party attempts, the Budget is drawn up around carefully framed programs- education programs, health programs, social welfare programs, urban improvement programs and others. [More…]
In these circumstances does the Acting Prime Minister believe that the superphosphate bounty to which he referred in Tasmania yesterday might well be seen as a measure by which production and productivity could be encouraged rather than as a welfare measure? [More…]
I do not think that the description of the superphosphate bounty as a welfare provision is a new one. [More…]
In my opinion, it has been a welfare provision for a long time for quite a number of people who did not need it, especially the wealthy farmers who got most of it. [More…]
It was very largely as a result of this welfare provision by which previous governments were willing to make the assistance available to primary industry that we decided to bring an end to the existing arrangement and refer the matter to the Industries Assistance Commission, albeit on a narrow basis. [More…]
The Budget Speech of the Treasurer (Mr Crean) contained a great many items concerned with this country’s welfare services. [More…]
The taxpayer gains through increased social welfare benefits, education, roads, sewerage, and so on. [More…]
Where can we find anywhere in this document at all a comprehensive, internally consistent and effective series of remedies which are likely over the whole field of activities- that is the Budget, exchange rates, monetary and interest rate policies, wages policy and a psychology that can be designed to ensure that all the ingredients are there and are brought together consistently- to ensure the better welfare of the people of this country? [More…]
The Budget introduced by the Treasurer (Mr Crean) on 17 September was a reaffirmation of this Government’s determination to continue its program of social reform, that is, to maintain the momentum and the thrust in the fields of education and social welfare in particular. [More…]
To return to matters of substance, I want to relate most of my comments to the social welfare commitment in the Budget. [More…]
In the social security and welfare field the Government has responded to the needs and the very legitimate aspirations of all pensioners. [More…]
The decision by the Government to recognise the plight of parents with handicapped children is one of the most pleasing features of the social welfare document. [More…]
I conclude with the same sentiment with which I began: The Budget is a document that maintains the thrust and momentum in the social welfare and educational fields. [More…]
Finally, we have also been determined - they showed great courage- to find room for measures having merit on broader grounds of social welfare and equity. [More…]
That amendment expresses the concern of the Australian people for our future and our welfare. [More…]
It is not our responsibility but I would be prepared, as an individual, to suggest and be responsible for a cut right across the board- in expenditure on health, education, welfare, culture and urban and regional development. [More…]
What is proposed in the Budget for social welfare, urban and regional development, culture and recreation are, in the main, worth while and they bring little criticism from me other than in the broad. [More…]
It is from the free enterprise system that the Government obtains the tax revenue to pay for the very desirable social welfare programs that we all support. [More…]
Education, social welfare and hospitalisation are all top priorities in any country similarly situated to Australia. [More…]
We hear them talk about the Budget being a social justice and welfare Budget. [More…]
This Government has shown a consistency of purpose in its adherence to stated and published welfare policy no matter what the opposition. [More…]
Above all the Government has demonstrated to those who had any doubts about what was said to be its lavish welfare program that such program would be implemented despite the desperate methods used within and without the Parliament to prevent its implementation. [More…]
I raise the issue here, for the disgrace is that the funds for the dilapidated buildings, the branch maintenance funds, originally were allocated by the Parliament to the State on the trust that it would look after the welfare of the State citizens- all Australian citizens. [More…]
If the State is not performing the functions entrusted to it the Australian Government should take a closer interest in the welfare of neglected people. [More…]
I am, therefore, pleased that welfare housing will be a priority of the national Parliament. [More…]
In all areas of maintenance work- painting, structural repairs and plumbing- there is sufficient work to ensure a continuity of employment for some time not in the provision of new homes but in making existing welfare homes comparable to the homes supplied by private enterprise. [More…]
Yet, members of the Labor Party go home and say that they have increased welfare benefits and that the people should be happy about that The people will realise, as the months roll on, just what a disaster this Budget has been. [More…]
Areas like the Central Coast where building booms had taken off were already years behind in basic amenities, such as water, sewerage, roads, drainage, kerbing and guttering, welfare, recreational, sporting, health and educational facilities. [More…]
It will bring the people, the community, into the planning stages for welfare programs. [More…]
The economic welfare of the system depends upon the decisions of individuals to invest or not to invest. [More…]
It will mean that the much larger public sector can maintain planned and ongoing investment and welfare expenditures, and thereby reducing the vulnerability of the economy as a whole to the stops and starts of international capitalism. [More…]
There is a huge increase in outlays on education, a large outlay on public hospitals, and more funds for welfare housing. [More…]
The main thrust of the Budget is directed to continuing the programs in social welfare, health, urban and regional development and many other areas. [More…]
Particularly on the expenditure side we welcome the significantly increased outlays, for instance, upon education, health, welfare and urban and regional development. [More…]
Conference believes that the fundamental prerequisite of the co-operation envisaged in this Resolution is full and continuing consultation between the Government and the trade union movement on all matters affecting the level and direction of economic activity and the social welfare of the community. [More…]
For example, there was an increase of 78 per cent in expenditure on education; $7Sm was provided for pre-school and child care programs; $28m was made available to commence the construction of new hospitals in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane; provision was made for home dialysis appliances free of charge; additional funds were provided for nursing homes and for the national drug education program; a further step has been taken in the abolition of the means test for pensioners; increased rent assistance has been given to pensioners; there has been a doubling of the capital subsidy available under the Aged Persons Homes Act; a new handicapped childs allowance of $ 10 a week is to be paid to parents and guardians in respect of a child under 16 years of age who is cared for at home and who, because of the severity of the handicap, is in need of constant care and attention; a 34 per cent increase, which is $67m, is to be made available in grants to the States for welfare housing and there is the possibility of further grants should circumstances warrant. [More…]
I will be largely concentrating on the impact of this Budget and of other Government decisions on agriculture, on country towns, and on the economic and social welfare of rural people. [More…]
I wish to touch on the social and economic welfare of people living in rural areas. [More…]
The United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden, France and Canada are countries which paid more in terms of welfare payments than Australia. [More…]
Our social welfare provisions should ensure that he never will be threatened with poverty or insecurity. [More…]
Section 10 of the Reserve Bank Act states that the Board has the duty within its powers to operate its own policies- I will not go through this in detail- and to operate them in such a way that they contribute to 3 matters, the first of which is the stability of the currency of Australia and the third of which is the economic prosperity and welfare of the people of Australia. [More…]
We have offered them money for a variety of social welfare purposes and again some States, particularly New South Wales and Queensland and to a lesser extent, I think, Victoria, have not taken up these offers and the people go without. [More…]
Such a result could be achieved only by slashing into existing welfare programs. [More…]
Would it cut down on education, on social welfare, on health and on urban and regional policies? [More…]
In these circumstances it is reasonable for the Government to expand programs in this way, particularly programs with a strong welfare element which are so difficult for those conservative and affluent representatives on the Opposition side to understand. [More…]
By contrast, the Opposition would cut back sharply on health, education, social welfare and urban and regional development. [More…]
It ignores the dependence of individual welfare on the welfare of the whole community. [More…]
We have cut taxation by a commonsense $430m, consistent with our economic and welfare programs. [More…]
The fact is that nearly all families will benefit in areas of education, health and welfare. [More…]
Labour and materials that would have gone into erecting city office blocks later to be only half tenanted can be diverted into public programs such as schools, hospitals, welfare housing, local government and regional development, community building and sewerage works. [More…]
Without this we could not hope to achieve our program for housing, social welfare, education, health services and the like. [More…]
Once again in this Budget the Australian people have been asked to believe that, provided the Government spends record amounts, in the short term the quality of life must improve, that opportunities for education must be greater and that better social welfare will result, while all the time the potential recipients of this mythical Government generosity are being asked to pay a greater and greater share of their income in taxation. [More…]
Everyone wants a welfare state provided they do not have to pay for it. [More…]
The Government was elected on a grand design for income redistribution combined with social welfare policies to help the low income earners within our community, but it has ignored the fact that inflation is reducing the real purchasing power of income, that there is a rapidly falling value of money, that prices for goods and services are rising and that there is a lower net income as taxes increase. [More…]
The growth of our welfare services and community advancement programs are desirable- but they must ultimately depend upon our economic prosperity and upon our willingness and ability to pay for additional services through higher taxation. [More…]
It is impossible for any government to continue to spend record amounts on welfare and community services and at the same time seriously attempt to restrain rises in costs and prices. [More…]
In fact, if honourable members will reflect back on the report on homeless men I think they will acknowledge it was one of the better reports that has come out of the social welfare field in recent .times. [More…]
More importantly with a conservative government in the past, spending on education, social welfare and the public infrastructure was inadequate and this was at a time when we were supposed to be able to afford to spend in such areas. [More…]
Care.fully reading through the last one one gathers that the Liberals if they were in government would wipe the Department of Urban and Regional Development, restore a few subsidies and throw aU welfare programs into reverse or hold except in those areas where there might be a few votes. [More…]
Do you want to remain an individualist not only for yourself but also for your children and your children’s children or do you want a giant welfare state where initiative is taken away from you, incentives are abolished and the people of this nation fade into a murky oblivion?’ [More…]
Money that has been given to support mothers and to all other people receiving welfare benefits and who need that money is money well spent. [More…]
Parramatta Branch of the Young Liberal Movement is active in all matters affecting the welfare of young people in the western area. [More…]
It should be compared with what the honourable member for Parramatta says about Mr Eric Butler whom he invited to address the Young Liberal Movement in Parramatta and whom he said would inform it on all matters affecting the welfare of young people in the western area. [More…]
State welfare departments make financial assistance available to people caring for children who are under State control. [More…]
This new allowance should be seen in the context of the broad program of education, training and general welfare for handicapped children being developed by the Government. [More…]
Parents or guardians who care for a handicapped child at home will be encouraged to take full advantage of the facilities that are being made available under the general welfare program and the child’s attendance at a day school or training centre will not affect eligibility for payment of the allowance. [More…]
I ask them: Which of these priorities that we have so far chosen in the social welfare area would they argue should not have been chosen so that some other action could have replaced what we did? [More…]
The Social Welfare Committee of the Government under the distinguished and inspiring leadership of the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) has a working party thoroughly researching a system of guaranteed income. [More…]
We will hold our record in social welfare up against the record of any previous government. [More…]
Finally, to establish beyond any doubt the credentials of this Government, I point out that in the 1 972-73 Budget the previous Liberal-Country Party Government increased expenditure on social security and welfare by 15.8 per cent. [More…]
Secondly, we saw the report of the Social Welfare Commission and more recently and thirdly, the report of the Priorities Review Staff. [More…]
The creation of another commission outside existing departments will further fragment social policy making and the administration of child care and family welfare programs. [More…]
If the honourable member for Darling Downs has read closely the 3 reports that the Government has commissioned on this matter- the report of the Interim Committee for the Pre-school Education Commission, the report of the Social Welfare Commission and the report of the Priorities Review Staff- he will know that the maintenance of standards has been a matter of very great concern to the Government and its advisers and that very properly provision has been made to see that standards are maintained. [More…]
They are now involved in providing a huge range of social welfare services on a very closely integrated basis. [More…]
Reading the publications of the Australian Government Social Welfare [More…]
The principles laid down in the Karmel report and the principles laid down in the Social Welfare Commission’s report on the ways in which these things ought to be done are the means by which the present Government will stay in office. [More…]
Therefore it cannot be either virtually social welfare or education. [More…]
I think it is to these people that we owe a special concern which lamentably has not been forthcoming from the Victorian Department of Aboriginal Affairs to which so far their welfare has been entrusted. [More…]
I raise the question of their welfare tonight because the takeover of the affairs of Aborigines in Victoria by the Australian Government is now so imminent. [More…]
This will allow a very big advance in Aboriginal welfare in all the fields in which it has been assisted in the past. [More…]
The provision of these funds will permit more assistance to be given to the States to provide housing, health, education, employment, welfare and community services for Aborigines. [More…]
Invitations were sent to members of Parliament, to local government leaders, to churchmen and other officials in the local community, and to representatives of community and welfare organisations. [More…]
1 ) and (2) Grants under the Australian Assistance Plan are not made available to local government bodies to the exclusion of all other community bodies nor to a series of separate community bodies including local government Such an arrangement would aggravate the fragmentation of social welfare services, weaken the capacity for co-operation in the social welfare field, and defeat the objective of community involvement in regional decision making on such matters. [More…]
1 distributed by the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
1 ) Has a decision been made on assistance for equipment for the Mandurah Meals on Wheels submitted by the Mandurah Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [More…]
1 ) Has a decision been made on assistance for conversion of a hall for the Mandurah Pensioners League submitted by the Mandurah Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department [More…]
-There should, of course, be preference for programs in the fields of health, social welfare, education and urban improvement. [More…]
It considers other matters more important than the employment and welfare of the community of Australia. [More…]
They should think twice because when they want them next year they may find that some other employer, who has had a little more concern for the welfare of such persons, may have them and their former employers may have to go without. [More…]
The Australian Legal Aid Office will provide a community legal aid service that will work in conjunction with the private legal profession and with other legal aid and community welfare organisations. [More…]
The 2 people in charge of implementing this idea, from the local Community Welfare Consultative Council- Gerry Govier and Arthur Mortimer- were able to entertain these 300 people from Port Adelaide, who came from an area which, as I said, has no library, to have a look at the most up-to-date facilities that can be provided for the public. [More…]
What evidence exists that States have so restricted their social welfare budgets that in order to obtain revenue they have to rob children who have been deprived of their parents? [More…]
The world is well on the way to the acceptance of this profound truth, that the welfare of all the people in all lands depends primarily on full employment. [More…]
I can well remember that in the first couple of weeks of holding the post of Minister for Repatriation I raised with senior officers of the Department this matter of the welfare of people who had been prisoners of war. [More…]
Now it is finding that it is caught with these promises and will have to make huge increases in repatriation and other social welfare votes in order to meet those promises. [More…]
The last matter I should like to turn to relates to the general welfare of the people of Australia. [More…]
In other words, those people have an eligibility for pension at 60 years of age rather than the normal age for eligibility for a social welfare pension of 65 years. [More…]
It has stolen Opposition policy, as expressed in the booklet ‘The Way Ahead’, virtually in every area, including the economy and social welfare. [More…]
The Minister mentioned that in the past his Government has increased social service benefits only to see the State governments reduce their welfare benefits by an equal amount. [More…]
We must look at social welfare in a wider context than that of dispensing charity to the disadvantaged. [More…]
I have been told by every responsible social welfare organisation in the country that this is an area of need. [More…]
The Minister, instead of smirking or smiling, should note that action in the area of child endowment has been recommended by the Henderson Committee and by all responsible social welfare organisations. [More…]
Maybe the welfare organisations could be deputed as agents to pay the money out in trust and then substantiate their claims with the Department of Social Security. [More…]
In the 1973-74 Budget the increase in social security and welfare payments was 18.4 per cent; the overall expenditure in all of the other items was 20.2 per cent. [More…]
No matter how much the Minister comes into this House and says: ‘Look what we are doing in the area of social welfare’, what he got for his Department in Cabinet in the Budget was less than the Minister for Tourism and Recreation got. [More…]
To be fair, in the 1974-75 Budget the increase in social security and welfare payments was 38 per cent, but nevertheless it was less than the increase for education, for urban and regional development, for culture- whatever that means, and we know that there have been massive increases in expenditure in the name of culture in recent times- and indeed for recreation. [More…]
The Liberal Party ought to talk about its social welfare conscience! [More…]
I believe that his association with social welfare and with people in this area has most likely awakened him to the needs, but I do not believe that it has awakened the leadership of his Party to those needs. [More…]
I assume that if what the honourable member for Hotham says is the policy of the Liberal-Country Party coalition were to be carried out, as he said, immediately upon its assumption of office, we can add another $ 1,000m to the expenditure on social welfare because that is the sort of money he was talking about this afternoon. [More…]
This is a social welfare area and some serious examination should be undertaken of the means by which such children can be placed on the same basis as other children. [More…]
If I had time I should like to deal with the general welfare philosophy and the achievements of this Government, the sorts of things we still have to do and so forth, but I shall concentrate on two or three specific things. [More…]
As the Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden) said in his second reading speech, the allowance should be seen in the context of our broad program of education, training and general welfare for handicapped children being developed by the Government. [More…]
At times when I approach a debate on Bills such as the legislation before us I regret that so many divisions in the social welfare field are involved. [More…]
The Minister for Social Security indicated in his second reading speech that we should consider the new allowance in the context of a broad program of education, training and general welfare for handicapped children. [More…]
In fact the Government’s policies as they affect the social and economic welfare of persons on new land farms make a laughing stock of the Green Paper recommendations that the aim of policy should be to reduce disparities in public services and amenities as between rural and urban areas. [More…]
Or is it the job of the Government to try to equalise opportunity and take out the ups and downs in income and provide basic levels of social welfare for farmers along with every other person in the community? [More…]
Although I do not think breeding herds would be sacrificed, farmers would not get any cash flow and assistance would have to be made directly on welfare grounds unless in the meantime some form of credit can be instituted. [More…]
Indonesia is having to face up to problems of making genuine improvement in the welfare of the vast island country’s huge and fast growing population- some 123 million people. [More…]
The answers received have been more concerned with legalistic matters and an alleged reluctance to legislate for a small distinct section of the community than with any essential approach to the considerations of human welfare. [More…]
He is well known to you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for his research and his dedication to the welfare of retired miners. [More…]
trade unions, employers, welfare organisations and interested community group have not had an opportunity of presenting their views ‘. [More…]
It is a social welfare assistance scheme. [More…]
I would hope that now it has been shown by the Opposition that the Bill is not a compensation Bill but a new social welfare Bill the Government will consider the consequences of that and consider how a proper compensation scheme could be developed in this country so as to take away the anomalies and inadequacies of the present approaches to compensation throughout this country. [More…]
Those who do not need compensation very often would be afforded assistance that would in fact be to their detriment, not to their welfare. [More…]
I see in this bypassing, as I see in other legislation, evidence of another example of what I think is a disturbing trend in social welfare legislation and something about which I intend to speak in this House on the estimates for the Department of Social Security, that is, the tendency to institutionalise our social welfare services. [More…]
Under the Chifley amendment to the Constitutionsection 51 placitum(xxiii) and placitum (xxiiiA)- there is no doubt that responsibility lies with this Government to initiate this type of legislation which is one of the greatest welfare proposals that has ever been introduced by this or any government for the people for which it is responsible. [More…]
On that basis, Mr Justice Woodhouse met IS members of the Liberal Party and the Liberal Party Welfare Committee some time ago. [More…]
This legislation is one of those fundamental changes in the structure of our social welfare system which cannot be lightly accepted. [More…]
The first and most important is the welfare and wellbeing of the men, women and children of Australia in the future who are going to be entitled to the benefits which this Bill is designed to provide. [More…]
On 3 October departmental officers and 2 statisticians briefed the Opposition Welfare Committee. [More…]
Flat accommodation was freely available at competitive and relatively low rentals and housing commissions were able to make a positive contribution in the so-called welfare housing section of the community. [More…]
The integration of all housing policies with urban, regional and social welfare policies in such a way as to ensure that every family can secure accommodation of its own choosing, appropriate to its own needs. [More…]
So we need this welfare housing and we need it desperately. [More…]
If the restraint comes to housing I guess it will be in the field of welfare housing because this is the area which those opposite have consistently neglected. [More…]
There is an absolute and urgent necessity for welfare housing. [More…]
Far from the States not spending their allocations under welfare housing provisions as happened last year when they returned to the Treasury an amount of $25m, I am pleased to see that the builders are now co-operating and tendering for the construction of welfare houses. [More…]
They are: Welfare housing, changes in the Defence Service Homes scheme, housing for the aged, indicative planning, the Australian Housing Corporation, the Australian Housing Research Council, the housing information and advisory service, modern housing techniques, uniform housing standards and housing tax relief. [More…]
These measures are designed to bring to fruition our aims in the field of welfare housing . [More…]
The Government intends to bring to fruition policies in the field of welfare housing. [More…]
These matters include such aspects as economic affairs, health, social welfare and whatever a member’s interests may be, particularly in dealing with certain aspects of legislation. [More…]
Provision is made here for the general welfare services and community activities of $1.5m to provide for the maintenance of State wards and other children, assistance to missions for the care of children, maintenance of mental patients and the care of those people in necessitous circumstances. [More…]
It is symptomatic of the state of debate in this chamber and the community at large that there has been little intelligent analysis of the Fitzgerald report on the contribution of the minerals industry to the welfare of Australians. [More…]
With the Government determined to identify national interest in this whole area it was necessary to examine the real contribution to the welfare of Australia- hence the Fitzgerald report. [More…]
They have failed completely to realise that the private business sector, particularly the manufacturing group, involves the people who produce the goods, the wealth, the employment and the revenue which pays for the non-productive spheres of our society such as education, health, social welfare, industrial amenities and funds for Government housing programs. [More…]
But the Deputy Leader of the Opposition then went on to say that health, education and social welfare expenditure would be excluded. [More…]
So, in fact, the policy of the Opposition in regard to social welfare represents a very severe cutback in the wideranging programs administered by the Department of Social Security. [More…]
I think he is the spokesman for the Opposition on welfare matters, although one can never quite detect who is really the spokesman for the Opposition on such matters. [More…]
The purpose of the States Grants (Housing Assistance) Bill is to authorise the Treasurer to pay the States this year the sum of $3 10m for welfare housing in accordance with the provisions of the 1973 Housing Agreement. [More…]
This authority will enable the Treasurer to continue payment to the States for welfare housing in the period from 1 July 1975 until an appropriation measure for 1 975-76 is passed by the Parliament. [More…]
At the June Premiers’ Conference we agreed to advance $235m to the States for welfare housing in 1974-75. [More…]
At the same time, however, the Prime Minister stated that the Government stood ready to consult with the States on the provision of additional advances this financial year in the light of developments in the housing industry, the availability of resources for housing construction and the ability of the States to put further funds for welfare housing to productive use. [More…]
Honourable members will be aware that I have since had discussions with the States about progress on their welfare housing programs in the current year. [More…]
At a conference in Canberra on 1 1 October, I announced to State Ministers that the Australian Government would provide an additional $75m to the States for welfare housing in 1974-75. [More…]
These additional funds will enable the States to take advantage of the present situation in the housing industry to increase their welfare housing activities in a substantial degree. [More…]
We can do all that is required for the welfare of the people of the Communist countries, ourselves and other democratic countries by promoting trade which is an important aspect of our relationship with other countries. [More…]
The legitimacy of the proposition that welfare is a right for everyone is, in my opinion, a theme of paramount importance. [More…]
Prior to the previous Federal election the Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden) outlined the policy in respect of social welfare in the community. [More…]
In both of these areas I have realised the importance of social welfare and health programs. [More…]
If I recall aright, in the Budget Speech the Treasurer (Mr Crean) said that Australia must be restored to a position of leadership in the provision of welfare services, and I do not think that anyone would deny assistance to people in need. [More…]
The social security and welfare budget is something like $3,44 lm of a total budget of $ 16,274m, which is 21 per cent of the total budget. [More…]
The honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child) endeavoured to make out a case that this Government in its 2 years in office has been the only government that has ever done anything in the field of social welfare. [More…]
He and his predecessors did have a very humane approach to social welfare. [More…]
Our standard of living improves, so obviously we must improve our social welfare benefits. [More…]
Of course, no one can seriously suggest that since Federation the parties to which honourable members opposite belong, irrespective of what they have called themselves, have given the depth of thought to the people in receipt of social security payments or social welfare payments that the Australian Labor Party has given. [More…]
So I suggest that honourable members opposite were only using social welfare as a hobby because they had to accept it as part of their responsibility when they formed a national government. [More…]
Think of social welfare recipients throughout Australia. [More…]
I wish to confine my remarks to one small section of the estimates for the Department of Social Securityindeed, it accounts for only about 0.2 per cent of the Government’s proposed expenditure on social security and welfare in this current financial year- and I refer to the Australian assistance plan which, in my opinion, is one of this Government ‘s most constructive and exciting initiatives. [More…]
The Australian assistance plan was formulated by the Social Welfare Commision. [More…]
The basic objective of the plan is to involve people in regional social welfare activities and to assist them in the development of integrated patterns of welfare services within their community. [More…]
To achieve this aim, the Social Welfare Commission, in its Discussion Paper No. [More…]
The regional council was expected to involve representatives of the Australian, State and local governments, trade unions and employer groups, welfare consumer groups and non-government bodies associated with social welfare. [More…]
All this represented a very substantial break from previous government involvement with social welfare because here it was being recommended that residents within a region would determine their own social welfare priorities rather than have those priorities determined for them by a remote government. [More…]
They would also be handling and allocating Australian Government funds to meet these welfare needs in their community and this was probably an even bigger break with the past. [More…]
The Social Welfare Commission recognised these difficulties and recommended that a pilot program be undertaken with one regional council in each State being given administrative finance and also funds for allocation for social welfare purposes; the amount of these funds for allocation to be determined on the basis of $2 per person living in the region. [More…]
A government which was not genuinely interested in community involvement or in overcoming the welfare deficiencies most acutely concerning the people would not have taken the chances that this plan clearly involves. [More…]
I say this with some feeling because my electorate is in the western suburbs of Melbourne and this region of Melbourne was chosen by the Social Welfare Commission as the area in which to have a full scale trial of the plan within Victoria. [More…]
The reasons for choosing this region presumably were that it is a lower income region with pressing needs in all areas of social welfare and that in recent years an active group of concerned people had come together within the region to assess the needs of the area, to draw attention to the deprived nature of the region and to press for action to overcome these social deficiencies. [More…]
By the time the Australian Assistance Plan was first mooted in August last year there was therefore already in existence in this region a body which included many persons interested in or working in the social welfare area who had already done a lot of work on assessing welfare needs in the region and who were willing and eager to become involved in such a plan. [More…]
The members of the general committee covered a wide spectrum of occupations and interests in social welfare. [More…]
Once the Council was formed it had then to set about the process of allocating the $700,000 of capitation money to various social welfare projects in the region. [More…]
It has been used to extend and initiate Meals on Wheels services, to provide a full-time co-ordinator of social planning for the regional committee on the ageing, to establish community centres, to conduct social research and to assist a variety of migrant, youth and welfare groups to maintain and extend their services. [More…]
In summary, it has provided a tremendous fillip to welfare services in the region and, importantly, has raised enormously the level of community interest and activity in social welfare. [More…]
I should mention also that under the Australian Assistance Plan there is provision for community development officers who will have the principal task of stimulating involvement of people in social welfare activities and assisting welfare groups in the region. [More…]
There is an actual effect on the welfare of the migrants in this country. [More…]
In my view he has very little interest in their welfare and is merely using them as a means of attracting attention to himself. [More…]
The budget for the study, sponsored by the Social Welfare [More…]
The 1971 data are now available and Professor Harris will shortly be submitting a report to the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
$14,400 has been paid to the James Cook University, Townsville, towards the cost of evaluating the role of local government throughout Australia in providing personal welfare services. [More…]
Members however do come from all three levels of government, from service organisations, from members of churches and professional social worker groups and from welfare consumer groups. [More…]
1 ) The Mackay Council of Social Welfare is presently working towards the formation of a Regional Council for Social Development and at present the names of the members are not listed. [More…]
Mackay Council of Social Welfare was approved to receive administration grants only in the pilot period of the Australian Assistance Plan of $17,410 in 1973-74 and up to $40,000 in 1974-75. [More…]
The Citizens Advisory Service also acts as a focus for other welfare services. [More…]
Central Coast Social and Welfare Co-ordination Council (Question No. [More…]
(a) In November, 1973 the Social Welfare Commission requested the Queensland Council of Social Service to study and make recommendations on the implementation of the Australian Assistance Plan in the Brisbane Metropolitan’ area, particularly in relation to suitable boundaries for Regional Councils for Social Development. [More…]
Copies will be distributed to anyone interested by the Queensland and New South Wales Councils of Social Service, and will be available from the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
As individuals the delegates are associated with Service Clubs, Educational Bodies, Sporting Clubs, Church Groups, Local Government and various community welfare bodies. [More…]
A capitation gram of $244,000 per annum is available for welfare projects and the Regional Board estimates that on the current rate of project expenditure, 9 per cent of total funds available would be spent on administrative costs, i.e. [More…]
Staff to comprise of a full-time Project Welfare Officer and total budgetary requirements are for administrative purposes. [More…]
I think the commission which has been announced is indicative of the interest that we have taken in this matter because its administration in both the education and welfare fields will be undertaken by representatives of all the States. [More…]
Because the Victorian Attorney-General has claimed that the activities of the Australian Government contravened the law, will the Minister tell this House in what areas the Australian Government’s initiatives are contrary to the Constitution and whether he expects a High Court challenge by the Victorian Government to Australian Government policies relating to education, health, welfare, legal aid and/or financial assistance for municipalities? [More…]
This Government seeks to give effect to its policies of greater social justice, more expenditure of money on education and increased spending on welfare and social services, within the constitutional framework. [More…]
Can the Minister inform the House what measures have been taken to stimulate the expansion of the Australian assistance plan so that more people have the chance to be involved in developing welfare facilities in their own community? [More…]
It is rather curious that the spokesman for the Opposition on welfare matters, the honourable member for Hotham, seems to have been selected for this role not because of what he can contribute constructively on welfare matters but for what he can do for the Opposition in either containing commitments in the welfare field or destroying worthwhile programs. [More…]
Only this week I received a letter from a person who is a constituent of the honourable member for Hotham, and is involved in the welfare field, bemoaning the fact that, as he put it, ‘Don Chipp has changed from being a reason- able small ‘1’ liberal to becoming a quite reactionary and repressive person where the issues of social welfare are concerned’. [More…]
Frankly, I sincerely regret that the policy of the Opposition as articulated by the Opposition spokesman on welfare matters, seems to be one of destruction where community development is concerned in welfare services, [More…]
to examine the awareness of specific learning difficulties among the community generally and among the medical, health, teaching and social welfare professions in particular; [More…]
The committee of the parliamentary Labor Party in September 1972- again before the Labor Party was in government- made certain proposals on schools commissions, for which we had agitated for some years, to provide equality of opportunity, to investigate inequalities, to recommend programs, to advise the Government, to be the organ of intelligence and insight, to sponsor and conduct research into all aspects of education, and indeed into all aspects of child care and welfare, including the economic, mental and moral well being of children, to sponsor experimental schools and programs, to educate teachers, assist student teachers, foster in-service and continuing education, to consult pre-school authorities, town planners, pediatricians, child psychiatrists, to provide for child minding and pre-school centres and so on. [More…]
provides for a Welfare Fund Payment to the ITF which is used by the ITF to support welfare facilities for seafarers throughout the world and which replaces the contributions made by National Flag carriers either by donation or taxation to maintain such centres. [More…]
These measures, however, are only an interim step pending receipt of the report of a Committee of Inquiry into Aged Persons Housing, which was set up by the Social Welfare Commission about twelve months ago at my direction. [More…]
-That means there will be a slashing of expenditure on education and on social welfare. [More…]
They said: ‘Let us spend it on welfare and cut down defence expenditure’. [More…]
Go your hardest and spend all the money you want on welfare and forget about the Services’. [More…]
In the current rather difficult financial situation, with a Labor Government keen to develop its social welfare programs, I would have hoped that the Cabinet would be a little more sympathetic to the claims of the defence forces in this year and in the years ahead, because we all accept that there is a need for a long lead time in these matters. [More…]
I point out also that, as in the case of that other area of social welfare, the Australian Assistance Plan, the Minister’s policy almost falls upon barren ground because of disputes that have arisen over the boundaries that are being forced upon local committees under this plan for regions that was put before the Parliament last year. [More…]
The Government decided that improvements must be effected in all aspects of our aid endeavours- in the machinery for formulating policy, in ensuring greater attention to the welfare and distributive effects of our aid, in evaluating the effectiveness of our various programs, in bringing greater expertise into our staffing arrangements and in more directly associating the community with the Government’s aid efforts. [More…]
For example, service clubs, local government, health, religion and social welfare. [More…]
What is his attitude to the view of the interim committee that a regional structure for social welfare should be combined with the already established regional structure for the Grants Commission. [More…]
Because social welfare responsibilities involve all levels of Government and a large variety of voluntary organisations, the development of the pilot stage of the programme has sought to involve representation from all of these sources. [More…]
Frequently, the major initiative in preparing a submission for funding under the Australian Assistance Plan has come from municipal social workers or from social welfare advisory committees attached to municipal bodies. [More…]
Regional councils for Social Development are expected to relate to other regional planning bodies but will require the capacity to undertake independent examination of social welfare proposals and to make recommendations on such proposals for the allocation of funds under the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]
We know that we can plan and we can organise systematically to ensure that Australia, at least in respect of coal exports and within the limits of its known reserves, can make a very notable contribution to the welfare and the prosperity of Japan and quite a number of countries in Europe. [More…]
Only yesterday I was discussing this proposed measure with a local association of school welfare clubs of various primary schools in my electorate and the neighbouring electorate of Barker. [More…]
But in response to a letter I arranged to meet the school welfare clubs for a discussion and an exchange of views on the question of children’s television, particularly in regard to the advertising that takes place. [More…]
I told the women representing the welfare clubs not to underestimate the power of commercial television operators to put pressure on certain people to prevent teeth being put into this legislation. [More…]
I mention that the Government has already approved no less than $3 10m for welfare housing purposes in 1974-75 and, after carefully reviewing the situation in Queensland, we have now agreed to provide a further $8m for welfare housing in that State. [More…]
This, they say, will be brought about by the present Government, particularly with assistance to local government for such services as social welfare measures, including child care and those sorts of things. [More…]
Is the welfare of pensioners primarily a Commonwealth responsibilty [More…]
1 ) It is considered that there is a responsibility for the welfare of pensioners at all levels of Government. [More…]
Has a decision been made on assistance for the construction of toilets at Katanning Arts and Crafts Society submitted by the Katanning Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to the Australian Council for the Arts. [More…]
Has a decision been made on assistance for improvements to be made to the Murray Music and Drama Club submitted by the Murray Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to the Australia Council for the Arts. [More…]
This Bill, which repeals the Sheltered Employment (Assistance) Act and the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act, consolidates and extends the Australian Government’s programs of assistance to voluntary organisations that have assumed responsibility for the welfare of handicapped people. [More…]
The broad details of the new measures were contained in an announcement I made earlier this year, when I outlined a 1 5-point program for the welfare of handicapped people. [More…]
Although the Australian Government provides for the general economic welfare of the disabled, it is the voluntary organisations that are able to help, in a way not always possible for a Government department, in the personal day-to-day care of many mentally or physically handicapped people. [More…]
It is now becoming obvious to anyone with half a brain that with a rising long-term bond rate the pegged concessional rate of interest is producing serious inequities and the benefits of those obtaining welfare housing compared to the rest of the community, especially including those without any house at all, are staggering. [More…]
I believe that this Agreement has also created serious social problems because of its discriminatory effect upon those persons in the community unfortunate enough to have to pay the market rate of interest, which may be perhaps 11% per cent or 12 per cent It seems to me to be totally unfair that the action of this Government has forced the majority of home buyers and home builders to pay 4 per cent or 5 per cent more in interest than the select few who will be able to purchase a home as a result of this so-called welfare housing agreement. [More…]
The Labor Party ‘s housing policy states: … the integration of all housing policies with urban, regional and social welfare policies in such a way to ensure that every family can secure accommodation of its own choosing appropriate to its own needs. [More…]
This Bill involves advances by the Australian Government of $3 10m for welfare housing in 1974-75, almost double the amount spent by the States in the last year of the Liberal-Country Party Government. [More…]
In the field of welfare housing, the result was that part of the record amounts made available by this government were left unspent. [More…]
If this Government had not taken responsible action, if it had not introduced restraints, there would have been little hope of stepping up activities in the welfare housing area and as well most homeseekers in the private housing market would have been permanently excluded by rising costs from ever purchasing their own home. [More…]
On that occasion the argument was, and I believe that the argument remains now, that money spent through these sources is spent more efficiently than money spent through the other sources of funds that are available for welfare housing. [More…]
The Minister for Housing and Construction pointed out in his second reading speech that the purpose of these 2 Bills is, firstly, to enable the Treasurer (Mr Crean) to appropriate $3 10m for welfare housing in 1974-75 and, secondly, to make certain amendments to the 1973 Housing Agreement. [More…]
Yet even now the Liberals still want to return to the days when welfare housing was accorded a low priority. [More…]
If the Opposition had its way the States this year would receive $102m less for welfare housing than they will in fact receive. [More…]
Adjustments of this type have already occurred as a result of the Commonwealth taking over the responsibility for financing tertiary education and welfare housing and, at the recent Premiers’ Conference, the Prime Minister announced that the Financial Assistance Grants would be further reduced as a result of Commonwealth initiatives in the fields of Aboriginal Affairs and assistance to deserted wives. [More…]
These local government bodies are becoming heavily involved in social welfare, conservation, child care and the provision of pre-school facilities. [More…]
Under a separate Bill a record amount of money is being provided to the States for welfare housing. [More…]
Therefore, a tax originally introduced to finance a particular welfare expenditure has simply become a further element of a complex revenue raising system. [More…]
I am glad to see that the Opposition spokesman for social welfare and related matters is at the table because I believe he would agree wholeheartedly with this view. [More…]
I believe that every possible consideration has been extended to the welfare of the residents there. [More…]
Second, local government is playing an increasing role in the provision of social welfare, recreational and cultural amenities. [More…]
If local government is to provide an increasing measure of our community’s physical amenities and welfare services, as opposed to the more traditional forms of basic economic assistance clearly it requires greater recourse to the nation’s general revenue resources. [More…]
The regional organisations of Councils were set up exclusively for the purposes of the Grants Commission Act, but it now appears that the Australian Government favours these organisations accepting at least some degree of responsibility in relation to other programmes in the field of Urban and Regional Development and social welfare (Australian Assistance Plan). [More…]
Land purchase for recreation, erection of community buildings and several much needed welfare and youth programmes that would involve the appointment of staff. [More…]
Let us hope that this sort of attitude is gone forever because it should be obvious to anyone interested in the welfare of local government, which is related to the welfare of disadvantaged citizens and_ areas, that the Liberal-Country Party coalition Government and its counterparts in the State governments had no intention of giving any real assistance to local government. [More…]
It will link all levels of government with local communities in the provision of a greater range of welfare services. [More…]
For all this time the city has waited for an answer because it is in dire need of the funds so that it can maintain its program and continue its employment of its employees, let alone provide all those welfare services for which the people of Stirling are clamouring. [More…]
In fact, the Seaman Committee of the Social Welfare Commission estimated that the cost of building an aged persons home in Rockhampton- my friend from Kennedy (Mr Katter) might support me in this- is 40 per cent higher than the cost of building an aged persons home in Brisbane. [More…]
The appointment of social welfare workers under the Aus.tralian assistance scheme will no doubt overcome the problem eventually [More…]
All of these aspects need looking at by a trained welfare worker, and here again shires could provide the solution. [More…]
Under the 1973 Housing Agreement the Australian Government provides substantial financial assistance to the States for welfare housing and the Agreement specifically provides that the advances may be used for the purpose of providing accommodation for couples of which the main breadwinner is an invalid, and for single invalid persons as well as for families in receipt of low incomes. [More…]
The Minister for Social Security, through the Social Welfare Commission and the Australian Assistance Plan, also is assisting local government. [More…]
The amount payable to New South Wales for welfare housing is $96.41 lm, not $46.41 lm, the figure shown in the Hansard report on page 3041. [More…]
Low and middle income earners who need houses now know by how much the waiting period for welfare housing and co-operative building society loans will be increased. [More…]
The Treasurer himself, who did not have the good grace to come into the chamber and listen to his colleague this morning, has had to admit that he does not believe in the typical type of Budget, that he does not believe in a Budget setting out the program for the future and in giving the guidelines and the limits within which business, social welfare and other kinds of operations can work in the fiscal year. [More…]
He did say- I admit this- that there would be an across the board cut but he went on to say as well- I believe that this must be stated as a matter of accuracy and truth- that priority would be given in the fields of education, social welfare and health. [More…]
He was supporting what one leader writer called Labor’s ‘cherished program for lavish expenditure on education, health, transport and social welfare generally’. [More…]
The findings showed an overall desire to double education expenditure, health and foreign aid, increase social welfare outlays by one-quarter and slash- by two-thirds- defence spending and spending on economic development. [More…]
This kind of luxurious waste of Government funds to prove a touch of social welfare sophistication, sits sadly atop a welfare system which barely provides adequately for the financial day-to-day needs of the needy. [More…]
That obviously means that there will need to be a cutback on the present increase which this Government has budgeted for and, if necessary, of course that will mean a cutback of 8 per cent across the board, but necessarily there will be very high preference and priority given to programmes in the fields of health, education, social welfare and urban and regional development. [More…]
Government has assaulted the welfare and the prosperity of the Australian people. [More…]
Surely the Government, with its social welfare scheme, will not be able to generate the sort of capital that is necessary to dig trenches, to build drains, and to service blocks of land. [More…]
Some of these are employed in the provision of direct casework service to the public whilst others are involved in national welfare policy and program matters. [More…]
Social Welfare Workers employed by the Department of the Capital Territory are involved in the following functions: General family casework; adoption, preventive and remedial work with juveniles, including services to the Children’s Court and supervision of probationers; adult probation and parole services; foster care; child care; and institutional services. [More…]
Questions relating to the functions of Social Welfare Workers employed by other Government Departments in the A.C.T. [More…]
The purpose of the U.N. Security Council Resolutions on Rhodesia is the welfare of the presently disadvantaged coloured majority of that country’s population. [More…]
Of course industry is important; industry is important for reasons of employment, for reasons of welfare and for reasons of exports. [More…]
Labor will not cut the standards of the people in social security, health and welfare because of economic pressures. [More…]
We support the suggestion made to the Minister by that group and by the Regular Defence Forces Welfare Association that a new committee be constituted to make recommendations in relation to servicemen who retired prior to October 1972. [More…]
If the Government is fair dinkum in its expressed concern for the welfare of these exservice pensioners it would have that joint committee on the job now. [More…]
There are no longitudinal studies at all that I know of that have been conducted in Australia to determine the welfare and the progress of the exnuptial child. [More…]
We must accept totally the principle that the long-term welfare of the child should be the first and paramount consideration. [More…]
That bureau will provide a central source of input to a committee of Ministers concerned with specific aspects of the welfare of children. [More…]
I have asked Senator Greenwood and Mr Chipp- the shadow Minister for Social Welfare- to examine this matter as soon as possible. [More…]
Children’s problems encompass health, education, social welfare, recreation and cultural development. [More…]
By contrast, the Children’s Bureau under the LiberalCountry Party Government will provide a central source of input to a committee of Ministers who will retain the responsibility for the administration of programs within their specific portfolios- e.g., health, education and social welfare. [More…]
If one looks at the same subject of Aboriginal welfare and the determination of this Government to remove all forms of discrimination from its legislation, that also gives support to the disadvantaged. [More…]
The same can be said of the Government’s policies on pensions, welfare housing and social services generally. [More…]
It is my personal hope that the States will be generous in allocating amounts to that purpose in clause 14 which is concerned with the provision of staff to promote safety, health and welfare in individual colleges. [More…]
From my experience in Aboriginal welfare I am bound to say that there is such a diversity in the level of advancement of Aborigines and in the levels of their living conditions that there is no simple common answer to the problem. [More…]
There was an opportunity to say to the unions, ‘We are prepared to do many things, for example, to alleviate pressure in the area in welfare and to help with other areas if you will moderate your demands’ but it threw it away and it will not come again as easily as it did before. [More…]
The States Grants (Aboriginal Assistance) Bill seeks to advance moneys to assist the welfare of Aborigines. [More…]
I think it is a great pity that it has used Aborigines and the welfare of Aborigines to chastise the Queensland Government on a matter that can only be an opinion. [More…]
I think it is true to say that most of the blame- if ‘blame’ is the right word- for that rests with his colleagues rather than my own because one can look at the record of the Tonkin Labor Government in Western Australia and see that long before there was a massive provision of federal funds in the field of Aboriginal affairs the Tonkin Labor Government had managed to make great strides in terms of Aboriginal policy and Aboriginal welfare. [More…]
Most of the welfare activities of that Department were taken over by the Department of Community Welfare. [More…]
Alongside this welfare network was set up the Aboriginal Affairs Planning Authority, which anticipated or at least pre-dated the approach that the Australian Government is taking in trying to regionalise Aboriginal affairs. [More…]
The Conference of Child Welfare Administrators. [More…]
The Conference of Ministers of Child and Social Welfare. [More…]
(a) The Conferences of Child Welfare Administrators have been held since 1939. [More…]
Originally only State Welfare Departments and the Department of the Interior (as the body responsible for welfare in the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory) were involved. [More…]
The Conference of Ministers was first suggested in April 1967 in an invitation to the then Minister for Social Services from the New South Wales Minister for Child Welfare and Social Welfare. [More…]
The conference was first held in 1970 and was originally restricted to State Government Welfare Ministers and the Minister responsible for welfare matters in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory, (formerly Minister for the Interior, now Ministers for the Capital Territory and the Northern Territory). [More…]
Administrators- Senior Officers of the Australian Department of Social Security, State Government Welfare Departments and the New Zealand and New Guinea Welfare Departments. [More…]
Officers from the former Department of the Interior, (now Department of the Capital Territory and the Northern Territory), as the body responsible for welfare matters in the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory have also attended. [More…]
Ministers- The Australian Minister for Social Security, State Government Welfare Ministers and Welfare [More…]
Administrators- Generally, to allow for an exchange of ideas between the participants on matters of common interest in the field of child welfare. [More…]
Ministers- Generally, to allow for an exchange of ideas between the participants on matters of common interest in the fields of child welfare and social welfare. [More…]
We know also that should such disputes have occurred in Australia under a Liberal-Country Party government there would have been cuts in education and cuts in welfare. [More…]
No matter how much one tries to get the Leader of the Opposition into a corner he cannot deny that his policy would result in cuts not only in social welfare but also in education, health and all the other essentials that make up the greater part of government expenditure in this nation. [More…]
He was saying this in the days after the Second World War when the welfare state was proposed around the world and was being discovered in the United Kingdom and in Australia. [More…]
The reality of the situation is that the Government is expected to provide certain services for its citizens- things like education, health services, welfare, payments to the States, cash transfer payment to citizens and so on. [More…]
In some countries the proportion goes nearly as high as 40 per cent when the different provisioning of welfare arrangements is taken into account. [More…]
The scheme covered in this Bill is additional to the measures already taken by the Government to increase substantially the volume of finance provided by the savings banks for housing and the action to increase the funds for welfare housing purposes. [More…]
Another factor which concerns me considerably is that the lack of efficient public urban systems puts at greater risk the welfare of the motoring public. [More…]
1 ) How many social welfare workers are there in each State and Territory. [More…]
What is the ratio of population to social welfare workers in each municipality of each State and in each Territory. [More…]
What is considered a desirable ratio of population to social welfare workers. [More…]
The Australian Labor Government established the Social Welfare Commission in 1973 with a broad range of responsibilities in the social welfare area. [More…]
The Commission, in turn, set up on 12 November 1973, a Working Party on Social Welfare Manpower under Section 1 4 (f) of its Act- to consider and report to the Minister on measures designed to provide skilled staff for the successful implementation of social welfare programs. [More…]
The right honourable member’s questions are being considered within the general context of the Working Party’s examination of welfare manpower issues. [More…]
Various studies have been undertaken on particular aspects of welfare manpower, e.g. [More…]
The use of the term ‘social welfare workers’ can be interpreted as inclusive or exclusive of many occupations depending on the parameters one cares to accept. [More…]
In the 1971 Census the occupational classification of social worker included, for example, counsellor, moral re-armament worker, welfare officer, refuge worker, youth worker and social worker. [More…]
It would include expenditure on education, health and social welfare. [More…]
I believe the Commission’s approach will leave the Government free to deal with questions of long term assistance in a way which promotes the long term welfare of the community. [More…]
The present, therefore, is not a suitable time for implementing significant structural changes- however necessary such changes may be to improve the welfare of Australiansbecause the immediate cost would be further temporary disruption to employment and a resulting increase in deprivation for employees. [More…]
This will leave the Government free to deal with questions of long term assistance in a way which promotes the long term welfare of the community as a whole and in accordance with the industry assistance policy expressed in the Commission’s statutory guidelines. [More…]
This will provide the Government with advice on the availability of general measures to support the complementary policies being developed to facilitate structural changes, to ease their private adjustment costs, and to develop those low cost industries which contribute most to efficient use of the community’s resources and, thus, its general welfare. [More…]
Having in mind the balance which the Government must hold between the national welfare and the effect of changes on individual welfare, I should like more attention to be directed to this general approach which appears to provide a sound base upon which to encourage at a. manageable rate the greater efficiency, and with this the greater prosperity, of Australian industry in the interests of the community as a whole. [More…]
I ask: Will the Deputy Prime Minister now give the House an unequivocal assurance- as his predecessor, I understand, did- that when he does become the Treasurer he will not recommend the withdrawal of taxation deductibility of donations to voluntary welfare organisations? [More…]
The proposals contained in this Bill are a further indication of the Government’s concern for the welfare of nursing home patients. [More…]
Honourable members will be well aware of the emphasis placed by the present Australian Government on all aspects of social welfare, especially those involving the more socially disadvantaged people in our society. [More…]
In delivering the Government’s welfare policy speech on 1 May 1 974, 1 gave further details of the policy the Government had endorsed. [More…]
The Bill offers a subsidy of up to 50 per cent of the salary of a suitably qualified or experienced social welfare worker employed at a homeless persons centre. [More…]
The term ‘social welfare worker’ includes a social worker, welfare officer, psychologist, occupational therapist or other person providing a service or treatment for homeless people. [More…]
The funds for these subsidies will be provided from the National Welfare Fund and provision has been made for expenditure of up to $550,000 for the remainder of the year 1974-75. [More…]
The Government’s belief in social justice, which has been demonstrated by massive inputs to our social welfare program, opens up the possibility of programs such as this leading to a diminution of the problem through the rehabilitation of this group of the socially disadvantaged. [More…]
It is my intention to establish these committees as quickly as possible, ensuring that all involved in the welfare of the homeless participate in the work of the committees.This then is the substance of the Bill. [More…]
There is, however, an understandable reluctance on the part of many firms- and also of employees- to leave areas of activity with which they are familiar, even if those activities may be costly to the community or may not be contributing fully to national welfare. [More…]
The evidence of this need for increased assistance is obvious to anybody who has some involvement with voluntary welfare organisations. [More…]
I think it is indisputable that the States have both the historical and practical background in broad social welfare functions which is simply not going to be utilised. [More…]
The AAP, to my knowledge, does not provide financial assistance to State government welfare bodies and this Bill specifically excludes it. [More…]
It seems to be most incongruous that States should be able to receive financial assistance for education and health programs for handicapped people but not for social welfare programs. [More…]
They want their services delivered by local welfare organisations. [More…]
While it is vital to increase the effectiveness of voluntary organisations, it is also important to increase the effectiveness and build on the experience and practical wisdom of the State welfare departments. [More…]
I know the limitations of State welfare departments. [More…]
I doubt that local government bodies in Australia have the historical or the practical background or framework upon which to build hastily complex welfare service structures. [More…]
Secondly, as I understand it, it is departmental policy to insist that programs for handicapped people be funded by the handicapped persons welfare section of the Department of Social Security and not through AAP funds. [More…]
The 2 previously mentioned Acts recognised that to establish health and education welfare services is a major undertaking and too great for some communities to initiate at all or to initiate within a reasonable period. [More…]
In his second reading speech the Minister spoke in most glowing terms about the relationships between the statutory and the private and voluntary sectors in welfare. [More…]
I consider this Bill to be another step forward in the Government’s 15 point program for the welfare of handicapped people. [More…]
It is with great regret that I look back on the years that this scheme has been operating and that an overall plan for the welfare of handicapped people was not one of the prime objectives of this Parliament when it first sat. [More…]
As it is, our welfare program for all kinds of handicapped people has been like Topsy; it has just grown. [More…]
It consolidates and expands the programs of assistance to voluntary organisations that have assumed responsibility for the welfare of handicapped people. [More…]
Although the Australian Government provides for the general economic welfare of the disabled, it is the voluntary organisations that are able to help, in a way not possible for a government department, in the personal day-to-day care of many mentally or physically handicapped people. [More…]
I feel that there is not a member on either side of this House who would not desire to assist in providing welfare for handicapped people. [More…]
It aims to consolidate and to extend the help which is given to voluntary organisations which undertake the task of looking after the welfare of handicapped people. [More…]
In many spheres of welfare the States have said that they have had to fill in the gap which, in the past, has been left by Commonwealth legislation. [More…]
I have read articles by the Sub-Normal Children’s Welfare Association which state that it is all very well to subsidise the establishment of buildings but it is another matter to keep up with the running costs of those institutions. [More…]
We saw that happen last week in the debate on the concessional rate for what is called the ‘low income earner’ in relation to the welfare housing agreement. [More…]
I would like to challenge the Opposition to state exactly what is its pension policy and exactly what areas of social welfare would be savagely cut back under its proposals consistent with its statement. [More…]
Specific documented cases can be produced by local general practitioners, church organisations, community welfare groups, the Royal District Nursing Service and the East Bentleigh police concerning emotional difficulties, suicide, chronic illness, psychiatric disorders, mental retardation, alcoholism, drug abuse, marital disruption, one-parent families, physical handicap, school drop-outs, juvenile delinquency, preventable criminal behaviour and multiple psycho-social economic and family problems associated with many common physical ailments, whose needs are not being met by the existing general practitioner service or by the public or voluntary community agencies. [More…]
We will get 6 doctors on a feeforservice basis and they will share the functions of family counselling, emergency treatment, immunisation and infant welfare. [More…]
The Department of Aboriginal Affairs, through its Northern Territory Division, inherited overall responsibility for the self-help housing scheme from the welfare division of the former Northern Territory Administration which as we know was part of the Department of the Interior. [More…]
The evidence shows that suitable arrangements had not been made by the Welfare Division of the Northern Territory Administration for the delivery and storage of these houses at the settlements and that damage and deterioration had resulted. [More…]
The allocation of at least $3 18m to the States for welfare housing- an increase of $ 1 50m over the amount actually spent in 1973-74- will have a great stimulatory effect. [More…]
After all, in its own way this is a welfare measure. [More…]
This is appropriate because in many cases these are welfare funds and they are designed to go to the area where they are needed most. [More…]
I submit that the methods we have before us, whilst they go part of the way, will not relieve this situation that resulted from the Government’s own actions, which were designed to bring to fruition in the Treasurer’s words the Government’s aims in the field of welfare housing- that is, by stifling private building in Australia. [More…]
On the other hand, there is no reason why we should discriminate against it especially as, as has been pointed out by many of my colleagues, we are dealing with a social welfare question- the right of every Australian citizen, regardless of his income, or whether married or single, to have a decent house and to make decisions which are to their advantage and therefore to the advantage of the community. [More…]
However, it was the experience and expertise in the areas of social welfare and family law possessed by the persons - and bodies that have expressed support for the proposed ground of divorce, as well as the strength of their numbers, that convinced the Attorney-General of the desirability of this reform. [More…]
To protect the welfare of the children, who are the real victims of broken marriages. [More…]
There will be attached to the court a specialist staff, notably marriage counsellors and welfare officers, to assist the parties at any stage- and even independently of any proceedings. [More…]
Parties will not be driven to the court by their own despair as a last resort; they will be encouraged to come to the welfare and counselling staff of the court whenever they have a matrimonial problem, even if they are not contemplating proceedings of any kind. [More…]
There is to be a director of counselling and welfare and such other counsellors and welfare officers attached to the court as are necessary. [More…]
The director of counselling and welfare will be required to make the counselling services of the court available to any persons who request it, whether or not they have instituted any proceedings. [More…]
The counselling and welfare facilities of the Australian Family Court would be available to State Family Courts thus created. [More…]
He or she will merely file a notice in the Family Court, which will bring in the director of counselling and welfare. [More…]
I would like to turn now to the provisions of the Bill concerning the welfare and custody of children who, as I said before, are the real victims in family disputes. [More…]
The most significant innovation in the Bill is the provision for a compulsory conference with a welfare officer between the parties to custody or divorce proceedings to discuss the welfare of a child of the marriage, with a view to resolving any points of difference between the parents. [More…]
The court will also have the power to order supersivion of custody and access orders by welfare officers and where necessary, it will have the power to enforce compliance with such orders. [More…]
a public institution or public fund established and maintained for the comfort, recreation or welfare of members of the armed forces of any part of His Majesty’s dominions, or of any allied or other foreign force serving in association with His Majesty’s armed forces; [More…]
The first was education, the second was social welfare and the third was health. [More…]
I suggest that it has been a serious defect, which persisted until this Government came into office, that there has been a total absence of monitoring the evaluation of the progress of various types of programs in the field of welfare. [More…]
I think honourable members would recognise from what I have said in this House from time to time that this Government has been developing systems of monitoring an evaluation of many of its welfare programs and intends to expand this activity to a comprehensive stage. [More…]
I commended the Bill because it sought to allow voluntary organisations, welfare organisations and people interested in philanthropy to transfer their entitlements and to receive money or assistance from the Government if they had an entitlement under the Aged Persons Homes Act. [More…]
It increased the subsidy or the grant to which these welfare organisations were entitled. [More…]
Every welfare organisation with which I have spoken has supported the stand on this matter by the Opposition in asking for an extension of the Act for another 2 years. [More…]
This Bill transfers entitlements to welfare organisations running aged persons hostels as distinct from aged persons’ homes. [More…]
Nobody in any of the welfare organisations with whom I have spoken says that it can be done. [More…]
The Minister just said, and put doubt into the minds of all welfare organisations, that perhaps this working committee of inquiry will recommend against the extension of this Act. [More…]
The Bill is an extension of the policy propounded by the previous Liberal-Country Party Government and an extension of the policy outlined by the then Prime Minister, the right honourable member for Lowe (Mr McMahon), in his well known Australia Day address on Aboriginal welfare. [More…]
The importance of these 2 Bills should be looked at in relationship to the Government’s total welfare program- schemes such as the Australian Assistance Plan, community health centres, child care, recreation and the like. [More…]
Material support is obtained as social service benefits and pensions, from welfare agencies and missions, by begging, by ‘borrowing’ from other men, and by residence in hospitals, prisons, sanatoria and homes for the aged. [More…]
Also, the Bill allows for recurrent expenses to be paid, sometimes up to 50 per cent of the salary of a social welfare worker. [More…]
The Bill defines a social welfare worker as someone qualified or not necessarily qualified. [More…]
That, I believe, would present enormous problems to welfare organisations. [More…]
A subsidy of up to 50 per cent of the salary of a social welfare worker employed at one of the centres will also be provided. [More…]
The Bill is a conglomeration of four or five separate health and welfare proposals. [More…]
Last year Australian Government grants to Queensland for primary and secondary education were up 145 per cent on the year before; for tertiary education they were up 165 per cent on the year before; for technical education they were up 1 10 per cent on the year before; for welfare housing they were 20 per cent above the previous year and for Aboriginal advancement they were nearly 30 per cent above the previous year. [More…]
For welfare housing the Queensland Government was assured of a blank cheque by me on 7 June last, as all State governments were. [More…]
Health and welfare, roads and urban and rural development in Queensland are. [More…]
This application is before the Social Welfare Commission for consideration and recommendation. [More…]
He simply said that there were 36 social workers and welfare officers employed by the Department whose services were available to all members of the community. [More…]
After the Premiers Conference in June we gave the States a virtual blank cheque for the construction of welfare housing. [More…]
One thing is clearly implicit in our opponents’ proposals- the slashing of basic public expenditure on schools, welfare, health and cities. [More…]
I seek leave to have incorporated in Hansard the details of the achievements which I have summarised and a list of committees, commissions of inquiry and task forces established since 13 December 1973 and reporting to the Government; reports tabled in the Parliament in 1974 on inquiries instituted by (a) the present Government and (b) the previous Government; statements arising from meetings of Australian Government and State government Ministers tabled in the Parliament in 1974; the text of treaties and so on tabled in the Parliament in 1974; the Government’s welfare reforms; the 28th Parliament-Government legislation program, and the 29th Parliament-Government legislation program. [More…]
I reflect the concern that was expressed for my welfare in a number of speeches from honourable members opposite because at the moment I am on the receiving end of lobbyists who exert enormous pressure. [More…]
1 ) What is the function and composition of the Research Grants Advisory Committee established by the Social Welfare Commission under section 1 7 of its Act. [More…]
The Research Advisory Committee assesses all research proposed under the aegis of the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
Has a decision been made on assistance for park improvements at Kojonup submitted by the Kojonup Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department [More…]
1 ) Has a decision been made on assistance for the purchase of a mobile van for use by service groups catering for shows and sporting, civil defence and other functions submitted by the Dumbleyung Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department [More…]
1 ) The function of the community development officer is to facilitate the development of cultural, recreational, welfare and social groups in Tuggeranong. [More…]
and (2) Australian Government assistance for the redevelopment of Launceston General Hospital and for the construction of a new women’s hospital in Hobart have been the subject of correspondence between the Tasmanian Minister for Health, Social Welfare and Road Safety and myself. [More…]
Tutors and prospective pupils are listed following personal enquiry, through contacts notified by members of the Good Neighbour Movement and the voluntary organizations and through departmental resources (such as welfare officers working in the community). [More…]
The Committee comprises five members- The Assistant Director of Welfare Branch, a representative of Women’s Electoral Lobby, National Council of Women and A.C.T. [More…]
I am informed that the answer to the right honourable member’s question is as follows: (1), (2) and (3) The Government has accepted the recommendation of the Working Party established to examine the question of the distribution of certain functions previously carried out by the former Department of Immigration that a Standing Interdepartmental Committee should be established to ensure a continued, co-ordinated and integrated approach to all matters relating to immigration and the welfare of migrants. [More…]
Who will be legally responsible for the welfare of the refugees following arrival in Australia. [More…]
Young girls sponsored for unaccompanied movement will be accepted only subject to parental consent and provided that acceptable arrangements exist with regard to their accommodation and welfare. [More…]
-A Darwin trust fund has been set up consisting of the Administrator of the Northern Territory, His Honour J. N. Nelson; Harold Brennan, the Mayor of Darwin; Paul Everingham, the Deputy Majority Leader in the Legislative Assembly; Mr McDonell, who is an executive member of that body; Dr Stack, representing the women of Darwin; Bishop O ‘Loughlin of the Roman Catholic Church; Mr Trower of the Red Cross; Reverend Bence of the United Churches of Darwin; Mr Robertson of the welfare organisation; Mr Alec Fong Lim representing the business sector; and Bernard Valadian representing the Aboriginal community. [More…]
These apologies and excuses expose the sham of the man who claims that he is genuinely interested in the welfare of the ordinary working man and woman. [More…]
I turn now, Mr Speaker, to some account of the restoration and problems associated with matters such as communications, accommodation, transport, health, Aboriginal welfare, port facilities, works and services, education, business, social welfare services and sports and entertainment. [More…]
The Minister’s method was to combine in one Bill these measures related to voluntary health insurance with certain welfare measures which have a strong emotive content, including provisions for benefits for handicapped children and for the sufferers of kidney disease. [More…]
In the manner in which government is conducted Australia faces a parting of the ways between those who believe that one can go on and on expanding the public sector and those who believe that the constant emphasis upon the use of general taxation revenues and the expansion of the public sector will lead to a collapse of public service such as social welfare in this country. [More…]
We in the Liberal and Country Parties take the view that what is needed in Australia is a mix of public and private expenditure in all these crucial areas of social welfare which are so near to the hearts of Australians. [More…]
The community will lose control over the services it is receiving and individuals will cease to have sufficient responsibility for their own care and welfare. [More…]
I agree that domestic matters, inflation and unemployment, have a greater priority in our thinking and are more important to the nation ‘s welfare than any of the matters with which I had to deal overseas. [More…]
I realise that unrestricted growth could eventually result in a situation where a union’s officials cease to have rapport with the union’s members and lose awareness of their needs and aspirations, where the energy and devotion of union officials could become absorbed in the material advancement of their union as an institution to the detriment of its members ‘ welfare. [More…]
There are also possibilities of using beef in domestic welfare programs. [More…]
Here I must pause and single out for special mention the Royal Australian Air Force aircrews and maintenance staff who kept their planes flying continuously; the RAAF medical teams who did not falter in their duties; the Navy disaster force which hurriedly assembled for duty, brought needed supplies and swung immediately into action bringing urgently needed assistance and undertaking unpleasant tasks often during times of supplementary volunteered duty; the Army which currently is undertaking a similar task as that of the Navy in the same spirit of commitment; the journalists who reported objectively the situation that Darwin faced; the churches which organised relief efforts through their own social welfare agencies; the people who organised funds for those financially wanting to help the people of Darwin; the personnel of Qantas Airways Ltd, Ansett Airlines of Australia, Trans-Australia Airlines, Connair Pty Ltd and SAATAS Pty Ltd, as well as members of the general aviation industry who collected together to make the great evacuation program a success; the men and women of the Royal Air Force, the United States Air Force and the Indonesian Air Force who contributed magnificently; the people down the track from Darwin who gave food and shelter to road evacuees; the personnel of the Commonwealth and [More…]
The Government, in certain quarters, will be aware of those objections and I would suggest respectfully to the Minister, who has the welfare of the Northen Territory at heart, that upon reflection the validity of the points made by the Opposition in this debate, as well as the objections put forward, should meet with Government acceptance and would make this a better Bill. [More…]
As we know selfless generosity of individuals and welfare organisations all over Australia was overwhelming. [More…]
Moreover, I am convinced from the experience of welfare workers that it is far better for children to a broken marriage to be reasonably content with one parent and to see the other occasionally than to be tormented by the strain of living with 2 parents who find that they are not compatible. [More…]
The National Parliament is an integral part of the general philosophy of the country and has a very special responsibility to promote the general welfare. [More…]
All laws on marriage and divorce ultimately affect the welfare and happiness of everyone in the community and, indeed, the welfare of the whole society. [More…]
I refer to the separation of Family Court matters from those courts which necessarily deal with criminal offences; the provision for divorce proceedings to be conducted in closed court; the emphasis on the paramountcy of the child’s welfare in custody proceedings; the attempts to improve counselling and reconciliation faculties; the proposals for a continuing study of matters affecting family stability, the working of divorce law and legal aid- provided, of course, this study is conducted in a genuinely representative way. [More…]
I believe that on this relationship the very stability of family life rests and most particularly does the welfare of the children rest. [More…]
She may be more cautious about making a home and providing for the home care of her children- or in having children at all- if these interfere with the anxiety of ensuring her own financial welfare. [More…]
She can have little confidence that under this Bill the law will protect her dignity, much less her financial welfare. [More…]
There is an increasing number of requests from national social welfare co-ordinating bodies for grants to establish and maintain a Federal headquarters. [More…]
The Department does, however, provide financial assistance to three national welfare organisations: [More…]
a capitation grant calculated at $2 per head for the support of welfare projects. [More…]
Broadly, press statements are distributed to media organisations, members of Parliament, Government departments, embassies, political party organisations and members, welfare organisations, libraries and individuals from whom requests are received. [More…]
Working Party on Social Welfare Manpower (Question No. [More…]
I ) What progress has been made by the working party on social welfare manpower, established by the Social Welfare Commission under section 17 of its Act. [More…]
A survey of social welfare manpower in Western Australia and Queensland. [More…]
The lack of a registration requirement for some welfare personnel presents difficulties in data collection. [More…]
Reports of the Social Welfare Commission are tabled in the Parliament. [More…]
1 ) Did the Minister receive advice from the former Minister for Immigration that it was proposed to establish in the City of Parramatta an office of the Depanment of Immigration to assist particularly in the fields of local migrant welfare, information, education and the issue of passports. [More…]
I challenge it to state unequivocally whether abolition of the means test is or is not one of the casualties of the rather massive public expenditure cuts which it is proposing as part of its economic administration of this country in which major welfare fields, such as education, welfare housing, urban and regional development, welfare services, hospitals and community health services will all be cut back substantially according to a secret document circulating among a small number of senior members of the Liberal Party. [More…]
We have seen too the splendid endeavours by many organisations and service clubs to make a contribution to their welfare. [More…]
But I pledge the Australian Government to continue to support to the limit of our capacity State efforts to build for welfare housing. [More…]
But if one looks at past policy one will see a curious policy lack; because our predecessors praised home ownership, they entirely neglected any positive rental policy in the non-welfare area, leaving private enterprise to struggle on as best it can in the provision of rental dwellings as a despised second best. [More…]
It introduces people with other qualificationsI am sure the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) would appreciate my point- in the humanities and social sciences and welfare work to try to bring about conciliation in a less rigid, less legalistic, less frightening way than under the present system. [More…]
It is this, that subject to proper and satisfactory arrangements being made for the welfare of children, and particularly if there are no children, what adult people do is primarily a matter for themselves as long as they do not break the criminal law, do not offend their neighbours and are not guilty of breaking the law of torts. [More…]
Then, of course, there are provisions for the welfare and custody of children and the general requirement that proper arrangements in all the circumstances have to be made for the welfare of the children before the decree nisi becomes absolute. [More…]
A determination by the Remuneration Tribunal relating to positions in the Health Insurance Commission, the Hospitals and Health Services Commission, the Law Reform Commission and the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
Mr Hayden, the Minister for Social Security, in answer to a question a little while ago about pensions, referred to what was obviously a report in the ‘Australian Financial Review’ last week of an interview with me concerning social welfare. [More…]
These conciliation and arbitration measures are vital to the welfare of employees. [More…]
That’s because Medibank, like other social welfare services, will be financed by money from tax revenue. [More…]
In addition, appropriations amounting to $225,260,000 are sought to give effect to the arrangements agreed upon at the Premier’s Conference on 14 February for the provision of additional funds to the States to assist employment and to meet certain other commitments for financial assistance to the States, particularly in respect of welfare housing, the Tasman Bridge and other disasters. [More…]
This table also includes the distribution of additional amounts to be provided for welfare housing, to which I shall refer in a moment. [More…]
An additional $65m is being provided for payment to the States for welfare housing activities under the 1973-74 Housing Agreement. [More…]
With the additional $6 5m now provided, the total allocation to the States for welfare housing in 1974-75 will reach $375m, an increase of $156m over the 1973-74 allocation. [More…]
It provides for the welfare, over a short period, of thousands of people and it involves tremendous sums of money. [More…]
Are they telling us that they are so lacking in interest and concern for Australia’s welfare - [More…]
These must soon damage the whole structure of industry, commerce, banking and finance and social welfare activities in this country. [More…]
The Social Welfare Commission has appointed 6 independent evaluators of the Australian Assistance Plan who will be producing separate reports evaluating the AAP in the 6 States. [More…]
Did he receive advice from the former Minister for Immigration that it was proposed to establish in the City of Parramatta an office of the Department of Immigration to assist particularly in the fields of local migrant welfare, information, education and the issue of passports [More…]
If so, what proposals does his Department now have to provide a specialised service for migrants in the Western Suburbs in the special field of migrant welfare. [More…]
At the present time, despite the absence of an office of the former Department of Immigration a welfare team comprising social workers and bi-lingual welfare officers speaking the languages of the major migrant groups operates in the Parramatta area as the need arises. [More…]
The final report of the Committee will be submitted to the Social Welfare Commission and it is expected that a report and recommendations will be presented to the Government before the end of May. [More…]
If a company’s shares stand at close at their par value on the marketshareholders, like investors, are loath to pay 50c for an item if they can get it for 45c- both the company’s welfare and even possibly the directors job may require that shares stand at a healthy premium on the market if the new issue of capital is to be raised. [More…]
The only alternative would be to savagely prune other government expenditure, for example, education, social welfare, defence or development [More…]
Such action would not duplicate Australian Government welfare housing assistance which is presently provided under the housing agreement with the States. [More…]
It will open up new concepts of welfare care with far less rigidity than we have seen previously. [More…]
Their role is properly in the field of welfare housing. [More…]
Some welfare housing has been built by the housing commission but there has not been this particular type of low rental housing that the legislation before us provides for. [More…]
Certainly in the need area, that of welfare housing, the Minister, in his speeches but certainly not in the Bill, is abdicating responsibility for providing that form of housing- except in the sense that the Commonwealth will make moneys available to the State housing authorities, and those funds are welcome. [More…]
The low income earner has been protected by the provision of welfare housing and by schemes such as that instituted in my own State of Western Australia by the State Liberal-Country Party Government to provide support in hardship cases and of course there is limited financial capacity on the part of State governments to provide for all hardship cases. [More…]
The low income earners, the people who need welfare housing- hardship cases- have been provided for in these hard times of high interest rate policy but it is the middle income earner who has been caught in the squeeze and there is nothing in this legislation that the Corporation can do to assist those middle income earners who are already buying their home and who are caught by the continuing high interest rate policies of this Government. [More…]
That agreement has led, I believe, to the construction of about 280 000 homes, mainly for those in the area of welfare housing. [More…]
The correct and proper responsibility for the States is in that area of welfare housing. [More…]
It is an indictment of the previous Government that no national policy such as this was introduced earlier, but now those income groups above a welfare level but not in a high enough income bracket to be able to fend easily for themselves are offered a new opportunity to protect their homes. [More…]
Welfare and counselling services are attached to the family court created by the legislation under debate. [More…]
proper arrangements in all the circumstances nave been made for the welfare of those children . [More…]
The Bill has been denounced as unchristian, a marriage breaker, a nation destroyer, one which neglects the rights and obligations of women and men and the rights and welfare of children. [More…]
They have completely ignored clause 114 which allows an appeal to a court before proceedings commence so that she may bring about an injunction for physical protection, mental protection or welfare protection for herself or the family. [More…]
the need to protect the rights of children and to promote their welfare. [More…]
Likewise, the welfare of the family depends on that relationship and not simply on the law. [More…]
The future of the children of a broken marriage needs consideration by the best possible tribunal assisted by the skills of welfare officers and other counselling staff wherever needed. [More…]
Fault should rightly be removed from the basis of divorce proceedings, but it is impossible for the court not to consider needs and welfare without it. [More…]
The new examination of fault is to evaluate the future welfare and concern of all members of the family. [More…]
This Bill outlines the principles of the family court- not the old court which was highly legalistic and argumentativebased on reasonableness, discussion and welfare principles, and takes into consideration the needs of each member of the family and their capacity to contribute to continuing welfare outside that existing marital relationship. [More…]
It is only when we consider the needs of people rather than the legalistic rights of people, and base those rights on needs and contribution, that we can say we are preserving marriage, not as an outmoded institution but as a family unit of welfare which will lead to a better and stronger nation. [More…]
There are provisions for the welfare and custody of children and a requirement that proper arrangements are to be made for the welfare of children before divorce becomes absolute. [More…]
Sub-clause (c) provides for the need to protect the rights of children and to promote their welfare. [More…]
This brings me to the next 2 fundamental provisions of the proposed legislation- Parts VII and VIII relating to the welfare and custody of children and to maintenance and property, which are the 2 areas where so much litigation now takes place and Part IV relating to family courts. [More…]
The passage of time and the Standing Orders for debate prevent me from expressing my opinions on each of these matters, but I do want to say something about the welfare and custody of children, the family court and the proposed amendment to Parts VII and VIII of the Bill which should be made. [More…]
In proceedings with respect to the custody or guardianship or access to a child of a marriage the Family Court shall, under clause 64, have regard to the welfare of the child as of paramount importance. [More…]
The court will take a more active part than under the present law in supervising arrangements for the custody and welfare of a child, and a support staff of welfare workers will be provided and will be available to the court to assist both the court and the children who are subject to custody orders. [More…]
My continuing worry in relation to the power and operation of the Family Court is to ensure that its decrees and orders, particularly with regard to welfare and custody of children and maintenance of property, are observed and that responsibility for compliance with and observation of the court’s decrees remain a function of the court itself, or one of its agencies. [More…]
The right honourable member for Lowe referred to children and the need for welfare workers. [More…]
Welfare workers have their place, but there is no substitute anywhere for parents, home and the love and affection which may come from a well adjusted and well organised home. [More…]
It states that the Family Court, which I concede may need looking at from time to time, shall have regard to the need to protect the institution of marriage and family life generally, the need to protect the rights of children and to promote their welfare, and the means available to assist parties to the marriage to consider reconciliation and the improvement of their relationship to each other and to the children of the marriage. [More…]
the need to protect the rights of children and to promote their welfare; and [More…]
The emphasis placed on the paramountcy of a child’s welfare in custody proceedings is important. [More…]
If the honourable member listens to what the benevolent organisations such as the Brotherhood of St Laurence and many others which have an orientation towards social welfare matters have to say, he wil come to understand that there is a need to provide this faculty. [More…]
It has been called for especially by the welfare oriented bodies. [More…]
In 1970 the South Australian Council of Social Services conducted a survey through the various social welfare agencies on what was termed ‘emergency housing’. [More…]
As a result a priority housing assistance scheme was established and a referral system devised in agreement with social welfare agencies. [More…]
As I said in my second reading speech, there are a number of people outside the scope of the present welfare housing assistance programs run by the States who are unable to make satisfactory financial arrangements to purchase a dwelling. [More…]
Second there is a tendency for even the most representative organisation to become inward-looking and to get out of touch with the people whose welfare it is supposed to serve. [More…]
But to return to this Appropriation Bill, this is a very clear and tangible expression by this Australian Government of its concern for the welfare of thousands of my own electors, some 45 per cent of them, who have been so severely hit by this bridge disaster and the consequences that followed. [More…]
Twenty-three of his friends, a newspaper announced, had persuaded him to do this so he could devote more time to the welfare of NSW, a task of dedication that was already placing a great strain on him. [More…]
The whole modernisation of Australian welfare services and community activities will be brought down if the State governments succeed in their attempts to preserve such activities on a centralised State basis. [More…]
Welfare housing, roads, and the question of various council programs for employment are adequately covered. [More…]
But he was given the doubtful responsibility as a Minister of giving guidance on the welfare of the people. [More…]
People’s rights are better protected when the people themselves are involved, particularly in policies for their own welfare. [More…]
We recognise the need for social welfare. [More…]
We say in our advertisements that that is because Medibank, like other social welfare services, will be financed by money from taxation revenue. [More…]
We state unequivocally that Medibank is free in that sense because like other social welfare services it will be financed by money from tax revenue. [More…]
It is now allowing takeovers by multinational corporations, a practice which it claimed and has claimed consistently over the years to be detrimental to the welfare of the Australian people and to this country. [More…]
They have won formidable support from many Christian and other authorities intimately interested and experienced in matrimonial law, marriage guidance and family welfare. [More…]
Nothing in the field of human relations could be so calculated to damage what residue of good feeling remains between the marriage partners or to jeopardise the future welfare of their children. [More…]
I fully support the presumption that both partners to a marriage are equally responsible for the physical welfare of the children of the marriage. [More…]
Is he considering the United States Department of Health Education and Welfare Secretary’s Advisory Committee Report on Automated Personal Records Systems as a basis for licensing data banks under Government control. [More…]
The Committee has made a comprehensive examination of legal aid and has sought submissions from and has had discussions with legal professional bodies and welfare organisations throughout Australia. [More…]
In the latter category are 1041 staff for the Department of Social Security- 913 for processing unemployment benefits and other social welfare payments and 128 for Darwin re-settlement activities. [More…]
The Government has a callous disregard of the welfare of beef producers, the workers engaged in the industry and in towns servicing areas where beef production is largely or partly responsible for the existence of these towns and the jobs they provide. [More…]
It seems to me that the Bill places the welfare and custody of children on a reasonably enlightened basis. [More…]
As passed by the Senate, the major provisions of the Family Law Bill provide for the establishment of a family court in Australia for the first time; the establishment of State family courts for the first time; the ability to seek matrimonial relief in the family courts, the State supreme courts or the magistrates courts without first proceeding for divorce; the abolition of all fault grounds for divorce; joint custody of children and joint responsibility for their maintenance; widely increased use of welfare officers to help in custody disputes and in the ongoing relationship between parents; the financial responsibility of each party to a marriage and to maintain the other; criteria for the provision of maintenance for spouses and children based on the applicant’s need; the establishment of a family law council and an institute of family studies; and greatly increased counselling opportunities relating not merely to divorce and reconciliaton but also to the on-going problems of divorced persons, particularly in relation to their children. [More…]
The provisions in the BUI governing the welfare, maintenance and custody of children are important because the protection of children is probably the strongest justification for intervention by the state to regulate the dissolution of marriage. [More…]
The existing law prevents a divorce decree from becoming final until the court is satisfied that proper arrangements have been made for the welfare of the children so does the BUI. [More…]
In addition to continuing these measures and introducing uniformity where the existing law is State or Territory law, the Bill contains some additional provisions such as those for separate legal representation of children in proceedings, enforcement of custody and access orders and greater use of welfare officers. [More…]
Clause 64 ( 1 ) of the Bill requires that, in regard to custody or guardianship of or access to a child of a marriage, the court shall regard the welfare of the child as the paramount consideration. [More…]
Without wishing to be offensive to anyone, I suggest that the Bill in its present form is pretty much a playboy’s Bill and does not pay much concern at all to the welfare of women. [More…]
Many members of the Services will recall with respect and appreciation the great contribution that such people made to the morale and welfare of the Services, often in dangerous and difficult circumstances. [More…]
The experience includes environmentally relevant work relating to water, sewerage, soil conservation, transport, industrial wastes, air pollution, biological ecosystems, urban planning, mathematical modelling, welfare economics, health physics, radio-activity, agriculture, forestry, fishing, plant pathology and natural history. [More…]
a Special Provision of Capital and Recurrent Financial Assist?ance for Community Welfare Agencies experiencing serious financial difficulties. [More…]
An amount of $2m has been set aside to provide ‘emergency’ assistance to voluntary welfare agencies. [More…]
My Department has notified each of its State Head” quarters and requested them to advise details of community welfare agencies in their State which come within the category of agency to be assisted under this program. [More…]
Financial assistance under the provisions of this fund is an interim measure only and in the longer term, it is envisaged that the Australian Assistance Plan will provide a source of financial assistance for community welfare agencies. [More…]
The major purpose of the fund is to provide financial assistance to worthwhile existing welfare community agencies in serious financial need. [More…]
But much of this increase, like that on pensions and social welfare and education- much more than half of the total- was essential if the poorer members of the community were to be kept up with inflationinflation, I remind honourable members, with which the present Government had nothing to do- and if real standards in education were to be maintained, let alone advanced. [More…]
Many community services are under-utilised in the fields of law, consumer protection, public service and social welfare simply because of ignorance by individuals who have to use this machinery to enable them to get the best out of the society of which they must form a part. [More…]
It is partially an education commission and partially concerned with health and welfare and family care for children at the pre-school stage. [More…]
The employment of staff to be responsible for matters of safety, health and welfare and to provide student counselling services at institutions of technical and further education; [More…]
As the Professor points out, the Committee believes that the membership of the Advisory Council should consist of an independent Chairman, the Statistician, 2 members of the Statisticians Conference- the body of all the Deputy Statisticians in Australia- a member appointed from within local government, 3 members from industry, commerce and finance, 3 members from employee unions, associations or councils, a member from a primary producing section of society, a member appointed from organised consumer interests, a member appointed from non-official social welfare organisations, somebody with statistical knowledge from within civil liberties organisations, somebody with a capacity for research in economic and social sciences, and another member with knowledge in research on communications, sciences and technologies. [More…]
Other information required is the source of the water supply, the place of residence one year ago in addition to the place of residence 5 years ago, whether the person has been away on a holiday for one week or more in the last year, the languages he uses, the range of his weekly or annual income, the effect of any physical handicap, the age at which he left school, the means by which his child is regularly minded during the day, whether he is a member of any retirement or benefits scheme or the recipient of any social welfare benefits, whether he is covered by a life insurance policy, whether he is licensed to drive a motor vehicle or motor cycle, and the method of travel to work. [More…]
People will be asked the range of their weekly or annual income, the age at which they left school, and the social welfare benefits received. [More…]
It is very important for the social welfare and benefit of those people. [More…]
I would have thought that that council should include people such as those interested in social welfare who would know the needs and the wants of people who at this time in Australia do not appreciate the niceties of a classical painting or a classical graphic drawing but who can be stimulated to satisfy their minds more in a way in which would add to their enjoyment of life. [More…]
This national Government has a responsibility to ensure that every level of government will be in a position better to perform its assigned duties for the better welfare of citizens wherever they live. [More…]
In addition health centre workers undertake a wide range of community health and welfare activities, other than consultations, which are not usually found in general practice and for which no deduction has been made in the above cost estimates. [More…]
Other workers include District Nurses, an Infant Welfare Sister, Dentists, Social Workers, a Social Health Visitor, a Psychologist, a Physiotherapist and Pharmacist. [More…]
In contrast we have seen the present Government produce policies which have almost a complete disregard for the welfare of the people in northern Australia. [More…]
It was a political decision; it was not even an economic decision nor a decision in favour of social welfare. [More…]
Increases in overall national welfare, however desirable, cannot proceed at a pace beyond the economy’s capacity to sustain them. [More…]
Before we look at what assistance they need and what the Opposition is now saying about them, let us look at some of the hopes to which honourable members opposite have referred that the Government has raised and consider whether it is a legitimate exercise to raise the hopes of people in Australia and to attract a greater community participation in government enterprises, in government initiatives and in being able to see that government moneys are spent in welfare areas. [More…]
Let us look at other social welfare programs, such as the programs for single mothers, deserted wives, women’s shelters, women’s clinics, nursing homes and so on. [More…]
Of course, it is relevant to what the Opposition is saying about Government expenditure in the fields of social welfare and education to bear in mind what the Australian Country Party, with the support of the Liberal Party of Australia, is saying about primary industry. [More…]
In the social welfare sphere, the present Government has carried on many of the policies which were instituted by us when we were in government. [More…]
In the social welfare field, we raised the pension right across the board when it was necessary. [More…]
I repeat: Which proposition would the electorate choose: Selling $4 billion of Australian assets or printing $ 1,700m in order to make sure that the economy is maintained at a reasonably productive level in order to ensure that the facilities so long denied education, child welfare- one can go on- are supplied to the community? [More…]
Spending on social security and welfare is up $2 10m on the Budget estimate. [More…]
I cannot accept, for instance, that pensioners or people dependent on welfare services should be those who should bear an unreasonable burden in the economic management of this country. [More…]
In some States we find that local authorities take a particular interest in social welfare programs; in other States they do not. [More…]
Trade unions are becoming increasingly involved in welfare services for their members, in credit unions and in travel schemes. [More…]
We have heard of Utopia and the welfare state; but this is ridiculous. [More…]
One wonders how far we will go with this ridiculous welfare state. [More…]
Of course it is true that in any system of 1 social welfare- the honourable member for Hotham is aware of this- there will be a percentage of people who will abuse that system. [More…]
What is not so obvious- but what should be clearly understood- is that this is a continuation of the record of the Whitlam Government, to seek out constantly new ways of making a life of dignity for those who receive any form of welfare payment. [More…]
Since then not only has the social welfare system been rationalised; benefits and pensions have increased at a far greater rate than increases in prices and wages. [More…]
So I could go on citing these striking examples of the Whitlam Government’s continued progress in the area of social welfare and how this contrasts with the inactivity of the Liberal-Country Party governments when they were in office for 23 years. [More…]
They have outstanding debts which have accumulated while they have been in prison and many are left to rely on handouts from churches and welfare and voluntary charitable organisations. [More…]
They know full well that the philosophy of this Government is founded on a floor of welfare and that our every effort is towards guaranteeing them the right to a living income that has regard to the cost of living. [More…]
I wish to make the point constructively and sincerely that much of the administration of areas of our social welfare services, be it unemployment benefits, NEAT applications or other forms of pensions, is in a mess. [More…]
I think that the average person feels that damage is being done in social welfare areas particularly in a time of need. [More…]
Generally people in country areas are of a higher average age than elsewhere and it has been pointed out that unemployment and other problems in relation to welfare are generally greater in the country than in the city. [More…]
The major argument against the Government, its attitude to welfare and its so-called concern with the ordinary Australian is none of the points that I have made, valid though they are. [More…]
No matter what this Government does by this Bill or any other piece of legislation, the overall result of the Government’s actions to ordinary Australians is a dangerous reduction in the welfare of the people of this country. [More…]
In 1963 the total cost of all expenditures under the Social Welfare Act was $590m. [More…]
In other words, the increases in this Bill, for all practical purposes, equal the entire cost of the pension program as recently as 7 years ago and the entire cost of all Social Welfare Act benefits as recently as 12 years ago. [More…]
Secondly and more uncomfortably, the sheer scale of the finance involved again serves to remind us that social security accounts for such a large proportion of Commonwealth expenditure and the growth of social welfare expenditure represents such a large proportion of growth overall that it is impossible to ignore social welfare as an aspect of the more general economic debate in which the Parliament is involved. [More…]
I believe that this social welfare debate provides a useful and appropriate occasion to take the matter at least one small stage further. [More…]
We should ask ourselves, for a start, whether social welfare programs have any role to play as part of the general case for wage restraint. [More…]
In company with my friend from Lilley I hold the view that the problems which are coming up and which must be dealt with in the Budget for 1975-76 are problems which will affect the welfare of all Australians, and in their direct capacities they must be able to withstand the impact of the policies that will be introduced. [More…]
The Social Welfare Commission in its report entitled ‘Project Care- Children Parents Community’ put greater emphasis on the urgent need for good quality custodial care and other childhood services, especially for those in greatest need. [More…]
As pointed out by the paper on family welfare published by the Social Welfare Commission, Australia lacks a coherent family policy. [More…]
No doubt my area already has similar welfare workers. [More…]
This situation, for that matter, applies to any area of community welfare spending. [More…]
Use could be made of a police and citizens welfare club which stands idle all day or of a disused community building such as a shire office, a fire station or like buildings of a semi-industrial or office nature. [More…]
Let us face it, in the past the State housing commissions, particularly in Western Australia, have been prone to erect homes over large areas without providing for community welfare in the area. [More…]
In October 1972 the Child Welfare Grants Act was passed. [More…]
That was followed by the Social Welfare Commission report of July 1974. [More…]
These reports were directed at trying to overcome the very real problems which were faced both by the Fry committee and by the social welfare committee in this context. [More…]
In 2 years living in Israel I had the opportunity of seeing at first hand the effective operation of a well integrated system of community welfare organisations under the control of local government. [More…]
In my opinion, this will create a number of major problems as the Prime Minister’s Department to date has had little, if anything, to do with the areas of specific education and social welfare which are obviously the 2 major fields related to pre-school education. [More…]
The Opposition is of the view, and will certainly carry it into effect when we return to the Treasury bench, that there should be established a Children’s Bureau which will provide a central source of input to a committee of Ministers who will retain responsibility for the administration of programs within their respective portfolios such as those of health, education and social welfare. [More…]
In other words, the Children’s Bureau will act as a collector of information and a disseminator of trends and information to the Departments of State responsible for various aspects of social welfare matters. [More…]
I would prefer the Government to reject the recommendations of the Priorities Review Staff on administration and adopt those put forward by the expert working party of the Social Welfare Commission in this regard. [More…]
The important factor which we need to emphasise, however, is that social welfare programs at this level must emphasise the need for local participation at the grass roots level. [More…]
That emphasis was towards the establishment of a government which was representative of the people and which took responsibility for the growth of the people and the welfare of its citizens. [More…]
There was, however, some criticism of the report to the effect that it had concentrated on the educational aspects of pre-school services and had neglected to deal with adequate provision for welfare or custodial-type day care. [More…]
It depends very heavily on skilled and expert knowledge in the social welfare area. [More…]
The statistics that are uncovered and reported in the report of the Social Welfare Commission for 1972-73 are worth considering. [More…]
Matters relating to adoptions fall within the social welfare responsibility of State and Territorial administrations, consequently the answer to the right honourable member’s question has been delayed because of the necessity to obtain the information from those sources. [More…]
b) Due to the priority that had to be given to the development and implementation of the Handicapped Persons Assistance Act and related measures affecting the welfare of handicapped people, no special procedure has been developed as yet for Government contracts to be awarded to sheltered workshops. [More…]
The Government’s initiative springs from its concern for the welfare of children of working mothers. [More…]
We feel that, under the Constitution, we have the right to make provision for welfare programs. [More…]
But the present interim committee includes people who are interested in social welfare work, people from every State who are virtually working in close consultation with the various State departments. [More…]
An amount of $185,000 is included for the establishment, development and conduct of an associate diploma course in welfare studies at North Brisbane College of Advanced Education, Caulfield Institute of Technology and the South Australian Institute of Technology. [More…]
He was talking about the crisis in the building industry and about pumping money into State housing authorities for welfare housing. [More…]
He said that the Government is maintaining welfare housing as its top priority. [More…]
The postscript is not quite so healthy because the Master Builders Association of New South Wales, in the article to which I referred, said that there is a shortfall of $ 18m in loan funds for welfare housing by the New South Wales Housing Commission and this has meant that the programmed additional 6000 houses will be reduced to 5000, and that is not quite the same way as the Minister put it. [More…]
Housing is vital to the welfare and happiness of the individual family. [More…]
This Government preens itself on what it terms its dedication to social welfare. [More…]
For them Labor’s social welfare dream has become a social welfare nightmare. [More…]
It has become increasingly obvious with the development of modern technology, the changed way and pace of life and the increasing acceptance on all sides of the welfare state that there has been increasing government involvement in the citizens’ daily life and a dramatic expansion of the Executive ‘s power. [More…]
I am concerned at the ramifications of the Government’s proposed social welfare program. [More…]
It is quite clear that the AMP Society, the largest of the life societies in Australia, is conducting a campaign against the whole social welfare proposals, not only of this Government but also of previous governments. [More…]
It appears that the insurance industry, through its leaders, is now undertaking a program against the whole of the welfare programs which the Australian people enjoy or which they expect. [More…]
It presented a case for an expanded chaner to the Senate standing committee on health and welfare. [More…]
-During the second reading debate it was unfortunate that the gag had to be applied to someone who knows something about the life assurance industry, someone who has made his living as a salesman in that field and someone who had the welfare of the policy holders of the company for which he worked at heart. [More…]
I see it as an intrusion into the rights of the individual who has a right of free choice to protect his life’s savings and his welfare in his declining years. [More…]
So, let us dispense with this mockery of the Government’s when it says that it is caring for the welfare of Australians. [More…]
This is the procedure allegedly adopted on environmental matters, on welfare matters and on matters concerning the trade union movement. [More…]
Millions of Australians now rely on the life insurance industry for their long-term security and the welfare of their families. [More…]
It is based on offering the Australian people more and more in the way of welfare and making them more and more dependent upon government. [More…]
They do not understand that this strategy has led to the weakening and undermining of the whole private enterprise structure on which our prosperity and all our welfare programs are based. [More…]
They do not realise that if we allow the productive base of our society to be damaged by this Government, we are allowing our chances of a better standard of living and real advances in social welfare to be damaged also. [More…]
The Australian Mutual Provident Society’s pre-printed message cards to Federal members urging a ‘modifying of this Government’s social welfare programs’ are in reality a campaign urging a reduction in unemployment and sickness benefits, age, invalid and widow pensions, a postponement of the abolition of the means test for age pensions and an attack on all less privileged people who receive any kind of social welfare assistance from this Government. [More…]
Has the Minister for Social Security seen draft letters circulated by the Australian Mutual Provident Society to its employees urging them to write to members of Parliament attacking what it describes as ‘luxury social welfare programs’? [More…]
They were obliged to admit that those considerations had to be included when one looked at the welfare and custody of children and appropriate amendments to that effect were made during the course of the Senate’s deliberations on the Bill. [More…]
The amendment to be proposed by the AttorneyGeneral in regard to the definition of ‘welfare officer’ seeks to insert after ‘children’, the words ‘being an organiation that has been approved by the Attorney-General ‘. [More…]
1 32 1 in which I sought details of the workings of the Social Welfare Commission, in the interests of open Government will he review the answer he gave to that question and provide the information sought. [More…]
the parties have considered a reconciliation with the assistance of a marriage counsellor, an approved marriage guidance organization or some other suitable person or organization nominated by the Director of Counselling and Welfare; or [More…]
(Mr Enderby)-In sub-clause (6) (a) after ‘Welfare’, insert’ of the Family Court’. [More…]
I would ask honourable gentlemen to take into account as well that there are any number of qualified people in the community who might not satisfy the test of having been a judge, or having been enrolled as a legal practitioner of the High Court of Australia or of a supreme court of a State or a Territory for not less than 5 years, who would be suitable through experience in welfare work, counselling work or social work. [More…]
the need to protect the rights of children and to promote their welfare; and [More…]
It refers to ‘the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage’, ‘the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society’, the responsibility for the care and education of dependent children, ‘the need to protect the rights of children and to promote their welfare’, and ‘the means available for assisting parties to a marriage to consider reconciliation or the improvement of their relationship to each other and to the children of the marriage ‘. [More…]
Of that increase, $2 10m was for social security and welfare. [More…]
Is there any member of the Opposition who says we should not have provided $2 10m in the field of social security and welfare? [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present a report prepared for the Social Welfare Commission by David Griffiths of the Brotherhood of St Lawrence with recommendations by the Commission, entitled Emergency Relief. [More…]
the Attorney-General, the Director of Counselling and Welfare or their officers; and [More…]
( 1 ) Where a party to a matter before a Family Court or a court discharging the functions of a Family Court so requests, the Director of Counselling and Welfare shall assign an adviser to him. [More…]
We did not give those concessions to the industry because we liked the insurance companies; we gave them because we wanted to encourage saving and to encourage people to make provision for their own cover and for their own protection in order to relieve the Government of the need to make available some of the welfare provisions it would otherwise have to make available and to assist in the raising of loan funds for government, commerce and industry. [More…]
If there are any members of the Treasury here tonight, particularly, as I said earlier, those who are interested in economic affairs, they would know of the report that was released yesterday by the Australian Institute of Applied Economics and Social Welfare, located in Melbourne. [More…]
I had hoped today that I would have been able to ask the Treasurer (Dr J. F. Cairns) how he could explain the inconsistency between the answer the Prime Minister gave to me in answer to a question I asked in the House on Monday and the report today of the Australian Institute of Applied Economics and Social Welfare in Melbourne. [More…]
Public benevolent institutions- and these include many institutions that look to the welfare of blind persons- are entitled to exemption from sales tax on goods purchased for their use and not for resale. [More…]
As a general principle, concessions granted through the taxation system are regarded as being an inefficient and inequitable way of providing welfare assistance. [More…]
It is quite clear that the Australian Government has a mandate for the welfare of children. [More…]
It has the constitutional facility to provide welfare opportunities to children. [More…]
This motion calls for expenditure in respect of social welfare benefits. [More…]
This Government has been accused of spending too much, particularly on social welfare. [More…]
Of course the simple fact of the matter as everybody knows is that more has been done for social welfare beneficiaries under this Government than was done under any previous government. [More…]
In my view our whole scheme of social welfare needs to be much more flexible. [More…]
But at the same time we are getting various calls not only in the matter of social welfare but also in relation to education, primary producers, secondary industry, the promoting of exports, the building of houses and in the alleviating of problems of those people who suffer from natural disasters. [More…]
The greatest gift that all Australian Labor Party members could give this nation would be to give up their seats, but I do not see them rushing in to make what would be their sole valuable contribution to the welfare of the Australian people. [More…]
It proposes to cut welfare and education expenditure; it would encourage Australia to be involved in another war in South-East Asia; and it would destroy national government by referring national responsibilities to the States. [More…]
It does not matter whether this Government is concerned with the welfare of primary industry or not, it should have the courtesy to reply to a telegram sent to one of its Ministers. [More…]
Accordingly one could fairly say that this in itself represents a form of welfare benefit. [More…]
If it is now its proposition that there should also be a substantial commitment through the Budget to this sort of financial outlay, which involves a very large amount of money, I repeat the challenge to the Opposition: If that is the sort of welfare program it wants, where is it going to get the money and at whose expense in terms of cuts in programs affecting the rest of the community? [More…]
One would think that all the initiatives in the health and welfare field had come in actual fact from the Australian Labor Party Government. [More…]
So these social welfare benefits- pensions to the aged, the disabled, deserted mothers and their dependants, unemployment benefits and sickness benefits- were increased in proportion to what the nation could actually afford. [More…]
I want to stress this point: The Opposition in government has intentions to provide for those people who are in need not to create a giant welfare state. [More…]
One of the dangers of the massive welfare programs that are, as I see them, the aims of the Labor Government, is that they will tend to create in this nation people who do not care or who do not have any incentive. [More…]
The honourable member for Petrie mentioned that there are very many lazy people in our community who are taking advantage of the welfare services that this [More…]
There are provisions in the Bills for the further funding of the Deakin University at Geelong, for the establishment of a central office of the State College of Victoria, for the establishment of diploma courses in welfare studies at one or two colleges of advanced education and for the further expansion of the study centre of the Albury-Wodonga centre of the Riverina College of Advanced Education. [More…]
Now it is sour because the Labor Government makes positive decisions and has made more positive decisions for the benefit and welfare of the wool industry in 2 years than the Country Party-dominated coalition government did in 23 years. [More…]
It can negotiate without any of those other pressures of social welfare and goodness knows what else. [More…]
In answer to a question earlier this week, the Minister stated that Government support for the reserve price scheme for wool was a welfare payment to wool growers. [More…]
Will the Minister say which other welfare schemes of the Government require repayment of the funds provided and have an interest rate of at least 1 1 per cent? [More…]
In the rather general way in which one talks about welfare support programs, that is a welfare support program. [More…]
My concern- I repeat this because it is an important factor which I want to stress- is that in an endeavour to get a balanced budget, or close to a balanced budget, the Commissions will reduce those services which are not profitable to them without regard to the contribution made by the less densely populated areas; and without regard to the national prosperity through increases in gross domestic product and the increase in national export earnings which, in themselves, are essential to the welfare and the prosperity of Australia and, through that, to all Australians. [More…]
-I enter this grievance debate because I am concerned about the welfare of the people of Australia and particularly about the welfare of the people of my electorate of Stirling. [More…]
As I have said, I fear for the welfare of the people of my electorate of Stirling because I fear that the coming Budget will be a harsh one. [More…]
But that fruit has now gone bad and the people of Australia at last have woken up to the fact that we cannot buy for example, better education simply by spending more money; we cannot buy all the other social welfare programs, which of course we want to have and which any government would want to give to the people, unless the people, through their taxation, are able to carry the cost and the economy is able to carry the expenses involved in such policies. [More…]
It is foolish to ignore the very real problems of the poor people in Bourke and to think that they are as close to attention and to social welfare as the poor people in Bondi are. [More…]
They would effectively exclude the Australian Government from the whole of the child care program which is a social welfare program as well as an educational one. [More…]
The committee includes Dr Mccloskey, of the Victorian Department of Health; Mr A. McVeigh, of the Victorian Department of Health; Mr E. Ryan, of the Victorian Department of Education; Mr H. McPhee, of the Victorian Department of Social Welfare; Mr D. Neville, of the Victorian Department of Youth, Sport and Recreation; Councillor Portingale, a local government representative; Mrs Mccaughey, a community representative and Mrs Witney King a community representative. [More…]
Bennett, of the Victorian Department of Social Welfare. [More…]
Why is the Opposition against a welfare program that assists people who are in need? [More…]
We spoke to another Minister, a very reasonable man who has an interest in the welfare of children. [More…]
The returns which are coming in from the various States indicate that the number of housing commencements to be undertaken in the current financial year will represent the highest level in any year since any Australian Government assisted States with the public or welfare housing program. [More…]
We are the only 2 countries to which the people of South-East Asia can look for their future development and welfare without the oppression of the rich nations of the world. [More…]
In view of the fact that the Australian Automobile Association considers that the proceeds of the 22.3c a gallon tax on petrol should be allocated solely for the use of highways and roads, will he consider an extra tax for motorists to pay for the deaths of 3500 Australians killed on Australian roads and for the costs that some 90 000 Australians injured on our roads each year impose upon public hospitals, workers compensation and social welfare benefits? [More…]
Of course, the Government has some obligation to any people anywhere in Australia on welfare grounds to see that they and those who depend on them do not suffer too greatly because of market crises or through circumstances which are no fault of their own. [More…]
On the broader issues, I would hate anybody to think that this is a welfare program. [More…]
The issues are vast and the welfare and prosperity of most of the Australian people one way or another is involved. [More…]
The Department of Social Welfare there is the one which seems to be given the most attention. [More…]
1 ) What decisions have been made on assistance for projects submitted to the Southern Regional Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department, in respect of (a) Boddington Tennis Club, (b) Mandurah Soccer Club, (c) Broome Hill Cricket Club, (d). [More…]
The other projects were received too late to be considered within the 1974-75 capital assistance program for recreation facilities but have been referred by the Social Welfare Commission to the Community Recreation Council of Western Australia and will be considered for assistance in the context of the 1975-76 program. [More…]
Finally, would he be prepared to receive some members of the deputation of the Welfare Committee for Refugees from Indo-China who I understand are in Canberra today? [More…]
I seek leave to have incorporated in Hansard details of achievements, which I have summarised; details of legislation resulting from recommendations of parliamentary committees, Government established committees and commissions of inquiry, as an additional feature to those I have had leave to incorporate in Hansard at the end of the earlier sessional periods in the middle of 1973 and at the end of 1973 and 1974; a list of committees, commissions of inquiry and task forces established between 5 December 1974- when I made the last statement- and 31 May this year to report to the Government; a list of reports tabled in the Parliament between 5 December 1974 and 31 May 1975 on inquiries instituted by (a) the present Government and (b) the previous Government; a list of statements arising from meetings of Australian Government and State government Ministers, tabled in the Parliament between 5 December 1974 and31 May 1975; a list of treaties tabled in the Parliament between 4 December 1974 and 4 June 1975; details of the Australian Government’s welfare reforms; and the Government’s legislation program for the 29th Parliament to 4 June 1975. [More…]
The Standing Interdepartmental Committee on Rehabilitation (SIDCOR) comprises representative from the Departments of the Special Minister of State (chair), Education, Health, Labor and Immigration, Repatriation and Compensation, Social Security and the Treasury, and the Hospitals and Health Services Commission and the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
Financial Assistance to Community Associations for the welfare of private and sponsored overseas students in Australia. [More…]
The Australian Development Assistance Agency is reponsible for the welfare of private and sponsored overseas students in Australia. [More…]
The Agency co-ordinates its community welfare arrangements through Co-ordinating Committees comprising representatives of regional community associations and overseas students. [More…]
The broad purposes of the welfare program, which is an important adjunct to the training of overseas students, are to foster good-will towards Australia and to contribute to the growth of understanding between Australia and the various developing countries concerned. [More…]
The welfare program includes such activities as the reception and induction of new students; host family schemes; the arrangement of accommodation and hospitality; and the provision of counselling. [More…]
Student associations seeking assistance must have a significant and appropriate membership; objectives compatible with the purposes of the welfare program; and a capability to assist their members. [More…]
The Australian Government accepted responsibility for the welfare arrangements for sponsored overseas students with the inception of the technical co-operation program in 195 1 and has since extended this responsibility to all overseas students. [More…]
Since the establishment of the Agency as an autonomous statutory authority, one of its functions has been to look after the welfare arrangements for overseas students in Australia. [More…]
Under Division 256/5-Bilateral Training Programs, provision is made for expenditure on the welfare of overseas students in Australia. [More…]
In order that welfare funds may be applied for the benefit of as many overseas students as possible, it has been general policy to make grants to organisations rather than to individuals. [More…]
In this way, an awareness of the overseas student welfare program is extended to a wide cross-section of the community. [More…]
The total amounts paid or to be paid to voluntary organisations for the welfare of overseas students over the last three years were $85,236 in 1972-73, $85,736 in 1973-74 and $35,605 in 1974-75. [More…]
The total amount allocated to meet the welfare needs of private and sponsored overseas students studying in Australia in 1 974-75 is estimated at $360,000. [More…]
The location of the overall responsibility for providing assistance to overseas students with the Australian Development Assistance Agency, and the specific nature of the welfare programs for overseas students, safeguards any possible duplication of expenditures on this purpose. [More…]
Aged or Disabled Persons’ Welfare Program which provides assistance to [More…]
Welfare Rights (Pilot Program) [More…]
Grants to National Welfare Organisations (0 Financial Assistance for Community Welfare Agencies [More…]
To assist State and Local Government bodies to provide supportive welfare services which will enable aged persons to continue to reside in their own homes. [More…]
To make grants to eligible organisations providing welfare advice and information to minority groups. [More…]
To make grants to eligible national welfare organisations to assist in their operations. [More…]
is to establish Regional Councils for Social Development whose function is to stimulate interest and activity in the broad field of social development, to give added impetus to initiatives within the region, to provide a wider range of welfare services and to test innovative programmes for service delivery. [More…]
To extend direct migrant welfare services to areas of need within the community which could not readily be covered by the Department’s resources. [More…]
) the salaries of welfare officers of Senior Citizens ‘ Centres employed wholly or mainly in caring for the aged. [More…]
As set out in the Homeless Persons Assistance Act grants and subsidies are payable to approved non-profit, local government non-profit organisations and government bodies providing approved services (meals, accommodation and social welfare services), at a centre wholly or mainly devoted to homeless persons. [More…]
Grants have been made available under a pilot program to five organisations in Sydney and five organisations in Melbourne for the appointment of a welfare rights officer to provide ethnic and other disadvantaged groups with information, referral and advisory services. [More…]
Grants are payable to community based welfare organisations to assist in the establishment of 12 new community information centres. [More…]
Financial assistance is available to community welfare agencies in financial need due to increased administrative costs or decreased revenue from other sources. [More…]
Under the AAP, Capitation Grants (at the annual rate of up to $2 per head of population in the region) are available to twelve Regional Councils to fund approved social welfare projects in their respective regions. [More…]
Projects proposed by individual groups or people in the community are required to be of a social welfare nature and to be recommended for my approval by the relevant Regional Council. [More…]
already engaged in migrant welfare or prepared to undertake this work; [More…]
unable to extend otherwise its welfare service because of existing financial limitations; [More…]
The AAP was proposed by the Social Welfare Commission as a Discussion Paper ‘pilot’ program, funds for which were included in Appropriation Bills No. [More…]
(a) The Aged Persons Welfare Program is widely publicised by way of information booklets, brochures, various other governmental publications and promotional drives by Departmental officers, backed in some cases with publicity films. [More…]
I tabled in the Parliament the Social Welfare Commission’s Discussion Paper No. [More…]
Regular consultation has been maintained between the migrant welfare staff of the State Offices and voluntary agencies active in providing a welfare service to the migrant community. [More…]
Migrant welfare staff in the normal course of liaison work with ethnic groups have made known the provisions of the scheme. [More…]
(a) Applications lodged under the Aged for Disabled Persons Welfare Program are as follows: [More…]
School submitted by the Katanning Community Committee to the Southern Regional Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [More…]
It is, however, contributing to discussion of the Government’s social welfare policies and no doubt this contribution could touch on any of the above topics. [More…]
Reports from the Pre -School Committee and the Social Welfare Commission were examined. [More…]
It is almost as much as total government spending on welfare. [More…]
Incomes have risen, not only in terms of real personal disposable incomes but in terms of facilities provided to the whole community in health, in education, in social welfare. [More…]
Almost $2000m will be sliced off education, welfare, housing, transport and urban and regional development programs. [More…]
Of course, the latest step which we announced last night towards the abolition of the means test will be a substantial contribution to their welfare. [More…]
The views of Professor Henderson and of many other worthy people who are involved in and committed to the welfare field and who have expressed their concern about the less well off in our community were vastly influential in the decision-making which resulted in the personal tax measures announced last night. [More…]
Funds that could have been spent on so many other aspects of community welfare and administration have been sunk into this project, which could have been undertaken by private enterprise. [More…]
It also includes responsibility for the welfare, morale, and discipline of personnel under command.’ [More…]
It also includes the responsibility for the welfare, morale and discipline of personnel under command. [More…]
Is the Minister for Housing and Construction aware of Press reports of the criticism by the New South Wales Minister for Housing of the Budget allocations for welfare housing? [More…]
Is it a fact that New South Wales will receive from the Budget this financial year only $90m for welfare housing? [More…]
Finally, what is the allocation to New South Wales for welfare housing in the current Budget, and what was the allocation for welfare housing in the last full year of the previous Liberal-Country Party Government? [More…]
I can well appreciate the honourable gentleman’s concern about the reports because I suppose that nobody has illustrated greater concern for welfare housing than he has. [More…]
New South Wales will receive for welfare housing in this financial year an amount of $123,41 1,000. [More…]
So the criticism of this Government’s provision for welfare housing has come about as a result of an increase of 122 per cent in the amount actually allocated as compared with 1971-72. [More…]
Last year the Australian Government advanced amounts to the States for welfare housing that were consistent with their capacity to spend the funds; in other words, every cent that they could spend was allocated to them. [More…]
In 1973-74 the New South Wales Government had to carry over an amount of $ 17m which had been allocated for welfare housing because it did not have the capacity or the ability to spend it. [More…]
The New South Wales Government has shown over a period of time that it has severely neglected the people in need of welfare housing, particularly in respect of community services. [More…]
It has become clear that the Arab bloc- the greatest beneficiaries, along with the Third World nations, of UN aid and expertise- is willing to risk destruction of the specialised agencies even if this means depriving millions of people, including its own, of health, welfare, educational and other direct assistance. [More…]
That also includes the responsibility for welfare, morale, discipline and personnel under his control. [More…]
The Government acknowledges that those who have put forward these views have been motivated by genuine feelings of concern for the welfare of the Timorese. [More…]
In addition we believe that beef producers, like any other section of the community which has lost its means of livelihood, should be eligible for welfare payments, which even this Government denies them. [More…]
But the present Government has not adopted this course of action and we must accept the continuing high growth of government spending at the expense of the real welfare of the people of Australia. [More…]
If $406m of welfare housing or $306m of educational building is engaged in, as is provided for in this Budget, are there no private builders who are employed in these constructions? [More…]
Australia’s finance, the future security of Australians, their employment opportunities and their welfare. [More…]
Will it enable or induce the private sector to turn its attention once again to growth, development and new horizons, with all that that means in terms of providing jobs for Australians and a higher standard of living and the very capacity the better to meet those aspirations in the education, health, welfare, defence and other fields where community demands have outrun the ability to provide? [More…]
Its welfare and national development programs presented to the people in 1972 were predicted on the promise of a 6 per cent or 7 per cent growth rate. [More…]
Nobody could criticise the welfare payments which are being made to people who are in need. [More…]
The system has evolved and will continue to evolve but it is the one which we have now and it is the one which will provide a larger gross domestic product from which social welfare programs may be funded. [More…]
The means adopted is that which underlies the welfare state in Britain and is really a form of outmoded government paternalism. [More…]
The welfare state mentality is irrelevant in Australia today. [More…]
The old-fashioned welfare mentality with its paternalism and centralism has usefully focused public attention upon economic and political philosophies relevant to the last quarter of the twentieth century. [More…]
He mentioned welfare housing but did not mention the amount of the reduction in expenditure on welfare housing in Tasmania. [More…]
Public housing or so-called welfare housing allocations in the Budget have been reduced by $69m. [More…]
Some time before the Budget the Minister for Housing and Construction announced that there would be no cutback to the States for their welfare housing purposes. [More…]
The cutback in welfare housing therefore will affect very seriously those on low incomes and those presently without accommodation. [More…]
The purpose of welfare advances to the States is to assist in this area, and the reduction in these advances in the Budget has meant that the housing commissions will be unable to continue at the same rate to build housing or rental accommodation for low income earners. [More…]
6m for welfare housing in accordance with the provisions of the 1973-74 Housing Agreement. [More…]
Welfare housing is an area to which the Government attaches high priority. [More…]
They will also be some 2% times greater than the allocations for welfare housing from State loan funds in the last 2 years of the previous Government which were $16 1.5m in 1971-72 and $ 163.2m in 1972-73. [More…]
This is the real measure of the importance attached to welfare housing by the present Government in comparison with our predecessors. [More…]
The decision to limit the welfare housing advances for 1975-76 to the 1974-75 level has been a difficult one for the Government to take. [More…]
It was appropriate for public housing activity to be stepped up above the original allocations in order to increase the output of welfare housing and also to use resources that otherwise may well have remained idle. [More…]
Although the allocations for 1975-76 are limited by the budgetary constraints aimed at achieving greater economic stability and the control of inflation, they by no means reflect an intention to divert from a course that will ensure further improvements in welfare housing standards. [More…]
Nevertheless, although it may not be possible to maintain commencement of government dwellings at the same level as in 1974-75, the still substantial advances to be provided in 1975-76 will allow the completion by the State housing authorities of a much higher number of welfare dwellings than has been the case for many years and this will be occurring along with the recovery in private housing now in train. [More…]
In other words, the Treasurerwill be authorised to continue payments to the States for welfare housing in the period from 1 July 1976 until an appropriation measure for 1976-77 is passed by the Parliament. [More…]
There is an urgent need for welfare housing for people who live in Griffith, Leeton, Narrandera, Deniliquin, Hay and West Wyalong as well as in most other towns. [More…]
But the difference is that the priorities of the Labor Party and the Government lie in the area of quality of life, in the area of education, in the area of welfare services and in the area of community health. [More…]
I suggest to the Government that it look at some of the articles that have been published dealing with its own social welfare program and the comments of people like Professor Downing on its proposals for compensation schemes and expenditure on a national superannuation scheme and on whether we can justify that sort of expenditure when there are other people in the community with real needs. [More…]
This provides a clear indication to young Australians that this Government has a concern for their welfare and that it will not put a mortgage on their future opportunities just to solve our present economic problems. [More…]
It is a case of pontics before the welfare of the nation. [More…]
The Treasurer has striven to dispel the illusion that public goods, such as welfare and urban improvement, need not be paid for. [More…]
1 ) Who is conducting the research into community welfare needs in the Mount Morgan area. [More…]
to (6) A suitably qualified worker was appointed to conduct research into community welfare needs in the Mount Morgan area but was unable to take up the appointment. [More…]
Purchase, modification and running costs of a media van to be made available for use throughout the region to communicate to the community in the area on social and community welfare services. [More…]
The post-arrival welfare of migrants is no longer the resonsibility of the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
Who is conducting the research into community welfare needs in isolated parts of the Jericho Shire. [More…]
Mrs M. Nott who is suitably qualified, conducted the research into community welfare needs in isolated parts of the Jericho Shire. [More…]
The research program was to ascertain the social welfare resources and needs of Shire residents. [More…]
What action has the Government taken to ensure that the welfare of these citizens is protected? [More…]
Private companies are to be given assistance and beef producers are to be given increased eligibility for welfare payments. [More…]
It was the prime motivation for expediting the program for self-government and independence rather than any thoughts of the welfare of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Our responsibility for the welfare of the new nation changes after independence on 16 September. [More…]
The preservation of the security of Australia as a free and democratic nation and the welfare of the Australian people, promoted through a sound economic policy with justice to all sections, are the paramount responsibilities of this national Parliament. [More…]
The social welfare vote has increased from $1.1 79m to $1.595m. [More…]
Social welfare is here and will stay, but no one has invented a way in which it does not have to be paid for. [More…]
-Mr Deputy Speaker, I do not want to be rude, but the speech of the right honourable member for Bruce (Mr Snedden) was just crammed full of meaningless generalities, such as the statements that social welfare must be paid for and that the health scheme is not free. [More…]
The right honourable member said that social welfare must be paid for. [More…]
They want a fortune to be pumped into companies, they want social welfare to be improved and they want government spending to be cut, but when we ask them to get down to the kernel of the matter and provide details as to what they would do they are not able to do so. [More…]
As I outlined to the House before, because of the contingencies which arose and because of the shocking neglect of 23 years of ineffectual government before we came to power, the amount of spending in the social welfare, education and urban development areas in particular had to be massive; the expenditure outlays had to be massive to overcome the anomalies that were present in the Aus.tralian community. [More…]
He would wreck the social welfare system of Australia [More…]
It is a compromise between competing loyalties- our loyalties to the welfare of the people and our concern for the economy. [More…]
The Government had desired on the one hand to maintain its program to increase social welfare and on the other hand to meet the urgent need to curb inflation and unemployment and at the same time to stabilise the economy. [More…]
A lack of response now surely brings into question whether we should continue to subordinate our aims regarding the welfare of the people to big business priorities. [More…]
The health, welfare and comfort of the Vh million people in this country who depend on pensions and benefits could have been enhanced if we did not have to hold the hand of big business. [More…]
Treasurer has modified or ignored well presented and reasonable submissions from teachers, parents, social welfare groups and pensioner organisations. [More…]
Business must be aware of the fact that many hold it responsible for what they see as the castration of Labor’s social welfare program. [More…]
The Government’s insistence on exploiting inflation to finance its extravagant social welfare programs will lead inevitably to the movement of income earners to high tax brackets. [More…]
It does not matter to the Prime Minister whether welfare policies work so long as all power is in his hands. [More…]
What concerns me is the lack of perspective about the role of public spending in promoting the increased welfare of our community as shown in the responses of the Opposition. [More…]
Last year, 1974-75, much of the increase in public spending against the economic cycle was on increased employment benefits, the Regional Employment Development scheme, finance for housing paid through the banks, some $ 150m paid as special advances, an increase in the expenditure on welfare housing between 1973-74 and last financial year of $200m, the payment of a loan of more than $400m to the Australian Wool Corporation, and the extra money provided to the States for employment purposes. [More…]
In their minds there will never be a time for welfare. [More…]
I emphasise the problem in Launceston by telling the House that welfare agencies report that on average a family comes to them looking for emergency housing once a day. [More…]
Opposition has clearly indicated that the Opposition’s intention if it ever came to government would be to restrict and to reduce welfare payments. [More…]
In hospital and health care in the central coast electorate of Robertson over $6m has been spent in education it has been $3m; in welfare $1,650,000; in seen and telecommunications work almost $3m; in sport and recreation facilities $2.3m; in tourism $3.3m, with the acquisition of shares in the Old Sydney Town project; in major drainage works $1.5m; curbing, guttering and footpath paving- a lot of these projects carried out through the Regional Employment Development scheme- in excess of $lm; in water reticulation, $1,124,000; and in recreation, council parks and gardens, nearly $700,000. [More…]
We are following up every possible avenue such as in the fields of postal services and telecommunications, education, sewerage and social welfare. [More…]
The great paradox of socialist governments is that, from the time they assume power, they undermine the foundations of the private enterprise sector and deprive themselves of their capacity to implement their expensive social welfare policies. [More…]
Its fundamental tenet supposedly is the freedom of the individual, but it is highly noticeable that in its application it would not only preserve but also would greatly extend the welfare and influence of the most privileged sections of our society. [More…]
There can be no denying that the Fraser philosophy is more concerned with corporate welfare than with social welfare, more concerned with preserving the economic system than with preserving the people it victimises, more concerned with the promotion of selfish acquisitive values than with the humanitarian values such as concern for one’s fellow-man. [More…]
The relatively low incidence of direct taxation in Australia was reflected in government expenditure on such items as education and welfare, or was until this Government came to office. [More…]
The same picture emerges in relation to welfare. [More…]
In a scathing attack on Australia ‘s appalling disregard for social welfare, the London Financial Times of 10 March 1971 showed that the proportion of Australia’s gross domestic product expended on welfare was appallingly low in comparison with other developed countries. [More…]
His program, in order to have any semblance of economic responsibility, would have to tear the heart out of the Government’s education, welfare, health and urban development and recreation programs that are designed to provide equality of opportunity, income security, good health and a more pleasant environment for all. [More…]
The destruction of programs which have this aim would substantially impair the living standards of the overwhelming majority of wage earners, welfare recipients and their families in Australia. [More…]
But it has been hell bent on centralism and duplicating almost every social welfare program which exists in this nation. [More…]
Much of what he- had to say is very vague, but millions of people who have been aided by Labor’s welfare and education programs would, in my view, have a lot to worry about. [More…]
There have also been great increases in the field of social welfare to meet the ravages of poverty that exist in our community and that are inflicted chronically- not just for a time- on one and a quarter million people if we are to believe the survey on poverty which the Opposition, when in government, reluctantly set up at our behest. [More…]
The recent report of the Henderson inquiry points to 3 important principles which should guide the Australian approach to welfare. [More…]
We all know that this Government does not give any thought at all to the vital role our exports play in this nation’s economic welfare. [More…]
However, the Leader of the Opposition is opposed to public expenditure and is opposed to Government intervention in the provision of welfare services. [More…]
In the Budget Speech the Treasurer proudly said that since coming to office the Government had taken a great stride forward in the field of social security and welfare and that now it must take stock of its progress and consolidate its gains. [More…]
The suggestion I have made no doubt will conflict with the ambition of the Government to create a welfare State where the majority of the people are dependent on handouts from a socialist government. [More…]
Leven District of the Boy Scouts Association in which they state that they would like: … to make known to you and the Australian Government that our particular project has been extremely successful both from the point of view of employment and at the same time contributing to the welfare of the young people in this Municipality, not only for the present generation but for generations to come. [More…]
However, as the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser) pointed out, there are areas in which we could cut the Budget expenditure further in the non-productive areas without affecting the welfare of the country. [More…]
I should like to see the welfare services of the country extended to cover nursing home benefits. [More…]
Despite what the people opposite say about our not being interested in welfare my Party will introduce a system of automatic increases on a twice-a-year basis fixed on a proper system so that there will be no way that the people will miss out on the amount they are entitled to get as a pension. [More…]
Also it acts as the normal community welfare office and provides most of the community needs of the people in the area. [More…]
We are strongly and resolutely opposed to the Labor Party’s preference for social welfare and wealth redistribution instead of production and productivity, and to its preference for irresponsible Government spending instead of the meaningful and rewarding jobs which we plan to give to the Australian people. [More…]
The Government has a solemn duty to fund part of any communications deficit because those who pay taxes and live outside the metropolitan areas can in all justice expect the national government to contribute to their welfare. [More…]
We aim to curb it, but we do not aim to throw away the great program of reform and change that this Government introduced into our community starting in 1972- the programs we have been following through steadily since in education, in community health, in social welfare. [More…]
The only honourable members who so far have mentioned social welfare are the honourable member for Bendigo (Mr Bourchier) and the honourable member for Wide Bay (Mr Millar) who commented on this Government’s insistence on financing an extravagant social welfare program. [More…]
It is aU too clear when we look at its track record and it is all too clear when honourable members opposite did not bother to mention welfare matters in their reply to the Budget. [More…]
The new system of tax is simpler, fairer, more flexible, more efficient and is in keeping with the Government’s social welfare programs. [More…]
The Labor Party stands where it has always stood- firmly on a platform of social welfare and firmly in support of the principle that the people’s needs come first. [More…]
I suggest to the honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child) that any government, insofar as social welfare benefits are concerned, should sharpen up where the handouts are made. [More…]
The Whitlam Labor Government is concerned with the welfare of the people of Australia. [More…]
On 23 July 1975 the Prime Minister announced that the Australian Government had decided to initiate a special survey of Vietnamese refugees who had settled recently in Australia He announced that the survey would take approximately 5 years, would be conducted by Dr Jean Martin of the Australian National University and would encompass such things as the refugees’ reasons for leaving their own country; their social characteristics; their aspirations in their new homeland; what Australian Government assistance in maintenance and welfare they requested, or needed and received; the problems they thought they might have to face in settling in Australia and how these compared with the problems actually encountered; the problems of culture and language difference that they had to face; what happened to their cultural identity in the process of resettlement; and to what extent, if at all, they suffered from racism. [More…]
Only in this way can the true needs of welfare of the people of Australia be met. [More…]
In relation to handicapped persons’ welfare, we have announced major new initiatives to improve services to the handicapped people and voluntary, religious and similar organisations caring for them. [More…]
In the electorate of Bonython the Handicapped Person’s Welfare Act has benefited greatly 2 caring services. [More…]
What the modern socialist theory does is to make each one of us ever more dependent on public welfare handed out by the government. [More…]
The Kelso plan is completely the reverse because it enables individuals to rely on private welfare; that is, welfare which they can provide for themselves during their working life, and after that in retirement, from the second income they may earn by sharing the ownership of the productive enterprises of Australia. [More…]
The result of this economic philosophy of providing people with more income- an income beyond what they earn by way of wages- is less welfare required from government and therefore less welfare costs by government. [More…]
-In the short time at my disposal I wish to make a couple of references to the type of hypocrisy which we have just heard from a once parasite on the trade union movement, who made a lot of money in living off the unions and who now talks glibly about private welfare. [More…]
The honourable member for Stirling spoke today about private welfare. [More…]
My illustration demonstrates the view of the Liberal Party about private welfare. [More…]
If the economy continues its downward trend, there is every expectation that unemployment will increase and, therefore, the requirement for social welfare payments in particular will increase. [More…]
It is more in keeping with the Government’s social welfare objectives and programs. [More…]
What is more important- good roads or the arts, the alleviation of poverty or increasing the bureaucracy, welfare housing or payments of $120 a week to unemployed Regional Employment Development scheme workers? [More…]
Incomes have risen, not only in terms of real personal disposable incomes but in terms of facilities provided to the whole community in health, in education, in social welfare. [More…]
I want to speak first of all about 3 features of the Budget, namely, social welfare, education and the taxation proposals. [More…]
I turn now to the social welfare program, so often denigrated by our opponents. [More…]
They have such a brilliant record in this field that they should be embarrassed even to mention the words ‘social welfare’. [More…]
I turn now to the social welfare program in which total direct outlays on social security and welfare are estimated to increase from $3,703m in 1974-75 to $4,772m in 1975-76. [More…]
(Quorum formed) I thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, and I also thank the honourable member for Bendigo (Mr Bourchier) for lowering the curtain on Act I. I was referring to the social welfare program of the Government and the absence of any statement by the Opposition on what its attitude would be. [More…]
Therefore direct outlays on social security and welfare in 1975-76 will be equivalent to 21.8 per cent of the estimated total Budget outlays. [More…]
Honourable members would be fascinated by the attitude of the Leader of the Opposition to pensions and social welfare. [More…]
They include an equitable distribution of the nation’s wealth, an optimum rate of growth, a healthy balance of payments and a concern with the quality of life or community welfare. [More…]
The alternative Budget proposals of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser) show that he has a concern neither for accuracy nor for welfare. [More…]
Apart from welfare considerations we must ask which measures- the Government’s Budget or the Opposition’s proposals- are more likely to stimulate the economy. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lynch), who has just spoken, talks of poverty and the Henderson inquiry yet will not admit that the roots of that poverty he in the 23 years of Liberal neglect of welfare. [More…]
One could go on with many examples, but the people would prefer the Opposition to come clean and to own up to where it would make the cuts in government spending which provides the community welfare. [More…]
Government spending on hospitals, schools and roads, government purchases and welfare payments ends up in the private sector. [More…]
In the speech on the 1973 Budget I identified inflation as being the product of deliberate policy by the Government because this was a government which was feeding off inflation, financing its welfare out of inflation. [More…]
What we have then is a conversion from dependence on public welfare to individual responsibility for private welfare. [More…]
We all know that this Government does not give any thought at all to the vital role which exports play in the nation’s economic welfare. [More…]
Cultural and General Welfare Services [More…]
Further to that the Government has established offices of the Department of Social Security, offices of the Department of Labor and Immigration, welfare offices and community centres. [More…]
What is needed in Hobart now are not ferries, terminals, new telephones and social welfare services which the honourable member for Franklin (Mr Sherry) so proudly enumerated, but a bridgeeither a temporary bridge, repairs to the old bridge or a newly constructed bridge. [More…]
As a result of the work of these men a community health service has been provided, an office of the Department of Social Security has been established, new roads have been put in to service the area- I will deal with the Old Beach Road at a later stage and will tell the House just what did occur in regard to that road- grants have been made to the Clarence Council, an office of the Department of Labor and Immigration has been set up as well as Social Welfare offices. [More…]
There is need for a reallocation of the work of parliamentarians, for more committees of the Parliament and less social welfare and diplomatic work in the community by parliamentarians unless further aid is forthcoming. [More…]
It has a long history of public welfare activities and, I believe, of mobilising the nation, often in good causes. [More…]
We feel that there is a need for a stronger and better sustained medical research effort in Australia for economic as well as humanitarian and welfare reasons. [More…]
But, when Opposition members have to debate a specific issue- whether it be medical research, defence, the welfare area, education or anything else- they say that we should have given more money. [More…]
The ARGC covers the areas of engineering, the physical and biological sciences, agriculture, energy, economics and social welfare. [More…]
It is division 873 and refers to assistance for welfare housing under the 1973-74 Housing Agreement. [More…]
When one looks at that advance and at the Budget Speech of the Treasurer (Mr Hayden) it is quite clear that the Budget Speech indicated that the advances to the States for welfare housing were to be kept at the same level as they were in the previous year. [More…]
Bearing in mind both of those facts, the Advance to the Treasurer and the Budget Speech which reflected the advance for welfare housing, an error has been made. [More…]
What has happened clearly is that for this year the $ 10.4m has been taken off the advances to the States for welfare housing. [More…]
In campaigning in that election, he said that the Queensland Government was assured of a blank cheque for welfare housing for all those contracts that it could let. [More…]
8m from the amounts available to the States in respect of welfare housing. [More…]
States in terms of the welfare housing commitment of this Government What has happened is that well over 2500 fewer homes will be able to be built as a result of the subtraction of money. [More…]
I believe that there has been a double subtraction of that amount from the amount due to the States in toto for welfare housing. [More…]
There has been no significant upturn in housing activity which would compensate for what is to be done in the public welfare housing field. [More…]
The circumstances which require that there be no reduction even of the money amounts for welfare housing, I believe, are rather overwhelming. [More…]
The Deputy Prime Minister will find, if the bookkeeping is analysed, that an error has been made which can have quite grievous consequences for those people on low incomes who require welfare homes, housing commission homes, and home builders’ account advances. [More…]
Of course there are things like payments to the States and payments out of the National Welfare Fund which are automatically appropriated. [More…]
It has been calculated that in 1967 there was one Aboriginal welfare worker for every 70 Aboriginals. [More…]
One of us (Lovejoy) has estimated that, if the 1973-74 expenditure on Aboriginal welfare of $1 1 7.4m had been given directly to Aboriginals (estimated to be 140 000), there would have been about $838.00 for every man, woman and child. [More…]
In the process, it is becoming a lucrative business- for professional welfare workers, administrators, researchers and consultants. [More…]
During his period in Parliament, the Minister has been active in many areas of social reform including housing, health, social welfare and education. [More…]
I believe it should be stated that there has been criticism that increases in the number of departmental staff have led to a lucrative business for welfare workers and administrators. [More…]
A report tided ‘Rural Poverty in Northern New South Wales’ by the Poverty Commission of Inquiry noted that if the 1973-74 expenditure on Aboriginal welfare of $1 17.4m had been given directly to Aborigines, then estimated at 140 000, it would have meant $838 for every man, woman and child. [More…]
Government welfare programs must not be allowed to become a lucrative business either for professional welfare workers, researchers or consultants. [More…]
But the unfortunate aspect of this approach is that it seems to generate a greater resentment towards Aboriginal welfare. [More…]
We have tended to cut back on the material services but we have maintained and not cut back our priorities for welfare services and projects concerned with physically handicapped people, hostels for young people, women’s refuges and programs of this type. [More…]
The first is in connection with the appropriation by the Government for what is erroneously, I think, described as welfare housing. [More…]
I should not like anybody in this Government to say to anybody in the Australian Capital Territory that this Government is spending more on welfare or government housing. [More…]
The way I work it out is that in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory there will be a loss of 600 dwellings this year in the so-called welfare section. [More…]
He should look at the situation of people on low incomes who are waiting for welfare homes. [More…]
It is because the previous Government neglected any social welfare housing. [More…]
Last year, we made available approximately $370m and we have made available a similar amount again this year to try to catch up the backlog of welfare housing for those people on low incomes. [More…]
I believe that people in defence service homes are getting a good deal, particularly those who have been on the welfare homes list for so many years. [More…]
Would it be the end of community welfare services that have been developed? [More…]
Would it be a severe excision of expenditure in welfare housing? [More…]
The spokesman for the Opposition on health and welfare services, Mr Chipp, has been roundly rebuked and disowned by the Leader of the Opposition for suggesting that Medibank would be dismantled. [More…]
I say to the people, particularly those who live in the State and Federal electorates around Kingsford-Smith Airport, that while ever Jones is Minister for Transport they Will sleep peace.fully at night knowing full well that he Will stand by them and see that the aircraft operators do not manipulate flights to keep people awake and profit at the expense and welfare of the people. [More…]
I thank him also for directing to other States those aircraft that would interfere with the welfare of people in my electorate and other electorates. [More…]
I think I can give his assurance as well as mine that whilever he is Minister he Will see that the people’s interests are protected, in contrast to what people like the honourable member for Lilley- a future Minister for Transport in the far distant timemight do, and that is put profits before the welfare of people. [More…]
It is the welfare problem. [More…]
There can be no question that a welfare problem exists in the beef industry. [More…]
Certainly, when the Opposition was in Government it never faced up to the problem of rural poverty and rural welfare payments in this situation. [More…]
They did nothing at all about rural poverty or welfare payments to the rural sector when the situation became crucial. [More…]
The Minister has also broken his promise to the State governments that this year they would receive for welfare housing not less than they received last year. [More…]
The social welfare agencies in Launceston, such as the Salvation Army and the City Mission, report that each week more and more destitute families are seeking relief. [More…]
The cut-back in what are called welfare housing grants to the States will further enlarge the ever-growing number of homeless Australian families. [More…]
He told the States that they would receive the same money for welfare housing as before. [More…]
In fact he is on public record in 2 speeches as having guaranteed the States that their allocations for welfare housing would not be cut back. [More…]
Advances by the Australian Government for the States’ welfare housing programs will not be less than in the previous financial year - [More…]
I think in those short words in this Estimates debate I have shown the vital significance of the policy of interdependence for the welfare of Australia’s overseas trade. [More…]
The speech of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in response to the Budget Speech proposed the lifting of these levies and the payment of welfare payments to beef producers in critical financial situations. [More…]
The Opposition’s system would lead to duplication and waste and to no advance at all in the welfare of local government. [More…]
Let us look at the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
-On 18 February 1973 the proposed establishment of the Social Welfare Commission was announced by the then Minister for Social Security. [More…]
The Victorian Government this year will receive the same total amount of funds for welfare housing as it received last year. [More…]
I contrast that with the $36.5m which was handed over to it in 1 97 1 -72- the last full year of the Lib- - eral Country -Party Government -Y-et-the-.fact_ that Mr Dickie has received for welfare housing in Victoria an increase of $6 1.6m in comparison with 1971-72 apparently eludes him. [More…]
I must say that I am flattered that the Government of Western Australia seems to care so deeply for my welfare that it provides 16 police for this sort of demonstration. [More…]
I am not decrying their importance but I am yet to hear any member of the National Country Party rise to his feet and take an interest in technical education, immigration or social welfare. [More…]
We hear of the question mark over the Broken Hill Pty Company Ltd steel expansion program and the new exploration and development, private investment generally which sustains and creates for the future the capacity for the greater production of goods and services to meet all our national goals in the social welfare and other fields that we wish to pursue. [More…]
It is incredible that no State or Federal government, or indeed the present Federal Government, has a special section of a department which is responsible for the welfare of small business in this country. [More…]
Loans made under Section 12/2E of the Social Welfare Ordinance; [More…]
Child Welfare Council operating subsidy; [More…]
Regional Councils for Social Development are required to ensure that where any of the organisations funded by them are dissolved at some future date, or are unable for any reason to continue to apply the assets for purposes for which and in accordance with the terms upon which they were provided, the property, in any capital assets, funded under the Australian Assistance Plan should revert to the Council concerned so that, subject to the Australian Government approval, it may be recycled for other welfare purposes, within the region. [More…]
The Regular Defence Forces Welfare Association can see it. [More…]
-Recently the Coleman Social Welfare Commission tabled its report in this House. [More…]
It is the official recognition of that view by the Social Welfare Commission which has pleased many concerned members of our society. [More…]
It was with sincere regret that we heard the recent statement made in the Senate by the Minister for Social Security (Senator Wheeldon) in which he announced, in response to the recommendations in the Coleman report, that the Government could not afford any significant reforms or developments in social welfare within the foreseeable future. [More…]
I will be watching with great interest when the Opposition’s social welfare policy is tabled to see whether the matter which the honourable member raised is included in the policy. [More…]
One of the items of expenditure which the previous Minister, I presume, recommended and which was agreed to referred to John Paterson Urban Systems Pty Ltd, who were asked to study this question- ‘Time as a social indicator-study of time allocation and preference as an indicator of social welfare.’ [More…]
I repeat: ‘Time as a social indicator-study of time allocation and preference as an indicator of social welfare’. [More…]
John Paterson Urban Systems Pty Ltd was asked to study: ‘Time as a social indicator-study of time allocation and preference as an indicator of social welfare’. [More…]
It would not be like this mumbo jumbo that we are fed with about preference as an indicator in a study of social welfare. [More…]
Social Welfare Ordinance 1964-1974. [More…]
In it the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Senator Willesee) has this to say about our aid policy objectives: they are to promote through social and economic development, the welfare of people in developing countries. [More…]
Of that number some 400 are employed on labour intensive training and welfare services for some 12 000 foreign students in Australia. [More…]
What has been the Government’s performance in the field of social welfare? [More…]
That is the net sum total of its performances in social welfare. [More…]
It seems to have realised that over-using the money pump or the printing presses will not cure welfare problems. [More…]
The dispensing of welfare under this Government has been centralist. [More…]
The Budget gives no indication of the stance or direction of social welfare. [More…]
The Henderson Report again clearly documents the failure of the welfare policies of this Labor Government and clearly documents over pages and pages of its report the dissatisfaction of recipients of those policies. [More…]
What was supposed to be an experiment and a pilot scheme they have made a permanent feature of welfare and possibly have set back this exciting area of human progress a number of years. [More…]
I will have the honour in a few weeks to unveil the Opposition’s social welfare policies. [More…]
I believe that these policies will correct the mismanagement and the chaos into which this Government has turned this most important area of welfare. [More…]
Medibank will gallop away with such a proportion of gross national product that there will not be sufficient funds available for the other important health and welfare services that the people need. [More…]
Whilst it is true that no government would be foolish enough to claim that it is not guilty of mistakes, on the other hand it is absolutely true that we are a trading country which for its economic health is interdependent on the welfare of other nations. [More…]
It has been able to maintain payments also to those in receipt of social welfare benefits at a rate ahead of the cost of living. [More…]
That Department has direct outlays in the field of social security and welfare for this year estimated at some $4,772m. [More…]
Direct outlays on social security and welfare in 1975-76 are equivalent to 21.8 per cent of the estimated total Budget outlay. [More…]
Because of that huge responsibility to our genuine areas of welfare and because of the costs involved, it is most desirable that stringent procedures be developed that remove existing anomalies and also remove the abuses that are being perpetuated in the system. [More…]
I believe that only by close scrutiny can we ensure that the welfare areas are supported fully and adequately and can be broadened. [More…]
May I just say in closing my remarks that the success of any social welfare program is dependent not on the Government but upon the ability of taxpayers to fund the necessary schemes. [More…]
I am sure that the end result of this will be a real improvement in human welfare in the form of better dental health for the next generation of Australians. [More…]
It is not just that we have more dental therapists and it is not just that we have more buildings; the benefit is a tangible one in human welfare. [More…]
Recently I discussed this problem with the welfare officer at the Dandenong and District Hospital and she showed to me a number of case studies which she had carried out on elderly people in the hospital which demonstrated the desperate plight faced by those people who virtually have nowhere to go. [More…]
The honourable gentleman will be aware of widespread demands from the Opposition and elsewhere in the community for a curb on the rate of increase of social services and welfare services provided by this Government. [More…]
Of course we give these matters high priority- higher priority than any previous government ever gave any of the matters in the field of welfare. [More…]
These things have suddenly come forward and the number of applications for assistance under this wide-ranging program of benefits in capital and recurrent services for not only the handicapped but also generally in welfare has led to a great upsurge in demand for assistance from the Australian Government. [More…]
Without our interest in the field of welfare and in the field of need of the handicapped, the psychiatrically disabled or ill dominating our decision making the Minister for Health would not have undertaken a most extensive program of community psychiatric health centres. [More…]
I think these innovations have been of great benefit not only to the building industry throughout Australia but also in all fields of welfare housing. [More…]
It is not true that a drastic cutback has been made in advances this year to Victoria for welfare housing. [More…]
Certainly the entire welfare housing advance this year to Victoria is the same as last year- it is $98. [More…]
What will happen to the welfare housing money? [More…]
How will the smaller States then make up the amounts which they are going to need for their welfare housing if the money will have to be raised through extra taxes by the States themselves? [More…]
I hazard a guess that welfare housing will come a pretty bad last if it is to be left in the hands of the States to raise the money. [More…]
In the short time available to me I want to refer to the dishonest approach that has been adopted by the Queensland Government in respect of the amount of funds available to it this year for welfare housing in Queensland. [More…]
The Queensland Government on this occasion this year has also complained that it has not received the same amount of money that it requested for welfare housing. [More…]
It asked for a sum vastly greater than that allocated by the Australian Government and complained that Queensland’s position in the field of welfare housing in comparison with that of South Australia was such that it was being unfairly treated. [More…]
It is interesting to see the statistics and to compare the effort made by South Australia in the field of low cost welfare housing over a great number of years. [More…]
In Queensland in 1972-73 the total number of dwellings in the welfare housing field that were completed, under the arrangements of the State housing authority and the home builders account, was 1973. [More…]
In that year South Australia completed almost three times the number of houses in the low income welfare housing area than Queensland did. [More…]
However I doubt that the Queensland Government could live up to its claim that it will complete in the vicinity of $80m worth of housing in the welfare housing field this year. [More…]
The Queensland Government has received a very fair deal in welfare housing from this Government. [More…]
Advances for welfare housing for Queensland per head of population have increased under this Government from $8, when this Government took office, to over $15 in this Budget. [More…]
How is this a justifiable proposition from a government purporting to be concerned with family reunions and with the welfare and successful integration of migrant people? [More…]
This is how the total expenditure was broken up: Major drainage works, $1,477,220; kerbing, guttering and minor drainage and foot paving, $1,015,510; water reticulation, $1,124,486; council parks, gardens, reserves and public amenities, $656,327; electricity, $39,021; Gosford hospital and ancillary work, $575,869; welfare projects, $454,794; servicing the RED scheme, $88,869; miscellaneous, $89,600; and sporting and recreational facilities, $2, 1 54,7 1 4. [More…]
This has been of serious concern to those interested in the welfare of migrants. [More…]
If we get that sort of co-operation, with the Government acting as a catalyst, I think it can make a massive contribution to national welfare and development. [More…]
1 ) Grants are available to Aboriginal communities and groups from funds voted to the Department of Aboriginal Affairs by the Parliament for a variety of purposes, including Welfare, Housing, Education, Health, Community Amenities, Aboriginal Land Fund Commission, Loans Commission and Legal Aid. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Minister for Social Security has appointed Ms Eva Learner to the Social Welfare Commission as a Welfare Education Consultant to provide advice on curriculum in the context of educational programs developed within institutes such as universities, colleges of advanced education and technical colleges, concerning training for social work. [More…]
The Minister for Social Security has informed me that Ms Learner was appointed on 27 May 1975 as a consultant to the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
Her appointment is for a period of two years to establish whether there is a need for a body such as a National Council for Social Welfare Education in Australia to co-ordinate welfare education. [More…]
Would the Opposition increase social welfare payments as well? [More…]
If it involved further cutbacks in areas like education and social welfare, this would mean there would be more unemployment in those areas as well. [More…]
But their attitude towards the welfare of this country and mine are I hope in a state of utter coincidence. [More…]
We on this side of the chamber believe that the welfare of all sections of the community is important. [More…]
When there is some sort of all-consuming monster, like we believe Medibank will be, which will take that much of the welfare cake it may well pre-empt a government from doing anything for other people in the community who are poor, sick or injured. [More…]
We want an inquiry which will enable State governments, welfare agencies and the legal profession to put their views to a committee, preferably of both houses of Parliament for once. [More…]
No one can argue that those with a need for legal advice, or with rights to be asserted or defended, should not have access to able lawyers and to the courts but the means of providing, within the welfare state, a legal social service is a matter of some debate. [More…]
Be that as it may, legal aid must now be seen as an integral part of Australia ‘s social welfare program. [More…]
In a situation where the assistance which is provided by the legal profession itself and the particular State governments are inadequate, and law as a social tool continues to remain unavailable to a whole segment of society, it becomes the obligation of the Federal Government under its social welfare program to step in. [More…]
There shall be a representative of the Attorney-General, 2 private lawyers and a number of other people involved in legal aid and welfare work. [More…]
Its rebuff to the Amnesty International mission, which visited Indonesia in January 1975 a predominantly Australian mission including Senator Peter Baume and led by Mr Dick McGarvie, Q.C., President of the Victorian Bar Council was in marked contrast to the co-operation which its leaders have shown to the 3 previous International Amnesty missions to Indonesia in 1966, 1969 and 1970.I appeal to the Indonesian Government to relieve the plight and increase the welfare of the Tapols. [More…]
I appeal that it allow independent observers to inspect the prisons so that their improved welfare can be verified. [More…]
It seems to me that all we are doing is taking into consideration the welfare and working conditions of those people we are employing in the polling booths and in the electoral offices throughout the country. [More…]
b) Mr Bornstein has had considerable experience in the fields of health and social welfare research and policy as well as a close involvement with various projects and studies concerned with social, economic and physical dislocation. [More…]
These have included close liaison with Australian, State and local government authorities and voluntary welfare organisations and community groups. [More…]
There is no doubt in my mind that since 1972 the Australian Labor Party Government has demonstrated far more readily its interest in the welfare of our returned service men and women than did the previous government. [More…]
There is no doubt that they will see that the Australian Labor Party Government since 1972 has demonstrated that it is interested in the welfare of ex-servicemen and ex-servicewomen. [More…]
The prosperity of the country and the welfare of its people should be the concern of the Government. [More…]
(a), (c) and (d) Financial assistance in the form of Direct Grants is available to incorporated Aboriginal groups and organisations in a variety of fields such as housing, health, education, employment, welfare, economic enterprises, town management, recreation and agricultural activities and legal aid. [More…]
Appeals Regulations, the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, the Trade Practices Act, the Family Law Act, the Social Welfare Ordinance, the Legal Assistance Ordinance and the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
Of course it should involve people who are concerned at the social welfare aspects of legal aid and who have had experience in the needs of people in the legal aid area. [More…]
It is clear that welfare housing would have to be cut back critically. [More…]
It would all be terribly entertaining and it would even be enjoyable if it were not for the fact that its consequences have already been so damaging and are so potentially disastrous to the welfare of this community. [More…]
Let them judge the Senate for its extraordinary and reprehensible lunge for power; taken regardless of national security as exemplified by its rejection of this defence Loan Bill; taken without regard to national political stability, without regard to the national economy and without regard to individual welfare either; as exemplified by the salaries which will not be paid to the armed forces, nor to the Public Service; as exemplified by pensions which will not reach pensioners and social welfare payments which will not reach social welfare beneficiaries. [More…]
If the honourable member for Bendigo wants to complain that that is not true let him explain, given the admitted, special appropriations for social welfare payments, how he will ensure that those pensions and social welfare payments will reach the beneficiaries given that the requirements of Public Service manpowereven the very postage amounts to something like $100,000 per week- will be met without appropriations. [More…]
This madness, this adventure with the nation’s welfare has gone far enough. [More…]
Extension of welfare payments to beef producers. [More…]
I do not think we will ever get to the stage when we will be able to eliminate all areas in which people will be able wrongfully to take revenue from the welfare system. [More…]
I think everybody who is interested in welfare would agree that those pensioners who have essentially no other income than the pension and who pay rent are the people for whom we should feel most compassion and to whom we should give most help. [More…]
This is the whole sad story of the welfare picture of the Labor Party. [More…]
That this House views with concern the failure of the Government to take action to restrict the effect of inflation on people with low incomes receiving superannuation or receiving welfare payments and believes the Government should take urgent action to ensure that these people are not adversely prejudiced by its economic mismanagement. [More…]
The attention of the Government should be directed also to its lack of action in endeavouring to do what this motion suggests, that is, that the Government should take urgent action to ensure that those people who are dependent on superannuation and welfare payments are not adversely prejudiced by the economic mismanagement of this Government. [More…]
This Government should take action to restrict the effects of inflation on people on low incomes, people on superannuation and people receiving welfare payments. [More…]
People receiving welfare payments are in many instances in an even worse position than those on superannuation. [More…]
We know that the amounts paid in welfare benefits have increased but it is what those dollars buy that really counts. [More…]
So it is not a matter of just gradually increasing the actual money value of these payments that are being made to people receiving welfare benefits and superannuation payments. [More…]
Large scale unemployment brings about the need for welfare payments to be made. [More…]
It is directly related to the number of people who are forced into receiving welfare payments. [More…]
When these people erode their savings, when they use them up, they simply have to go on to welfare benefits. [More…]
This will involve both direct measures to increase the incomes of.poor people and welfare services to prevent poverty, which should be fitted into a long-term policy for the distribution of the growth of national income. [More…]
During this period of very rapidly rising inflation has the Government even considered trying to restore the purchasing power of the pension by adjusting pensions and welfare payments more regularly? [More…]
If inflation gets up to around 20 per cent adjustments will have to be more frequent in order to make it possible for recipients to come closer to preserving the real level of income required over a long term for them to have some sort of stability in their welfare and superannuation payments, but particularly welfare payments. [More…]
However, there should be no real problem in the Australian Government’s obtaining the funds required to finance welfare programs and to meet their high costs due to inflation because in the economy as a whole money incomes tend to rise rapidly in line with the inflation rate. [More…]
Let those people on welfare payments and superannuation benefits remember that point. [More…]
This Government pretends that it is interested in the welfare of the people. [More…]
The honourable member for Griffith has asked the Government to ‘restrict the effect of inflation on people with low incomes receiving superannuation or receiving welfare payments’. [More…]
Let us consider the level of welfare payments made by the Labor Government. [More…]
I believe that this is something that the Opposition must squarely and responsibly face in the near future if it is not to cause not only problems affecting welfare payment recipients but also problems which will cause the widespread unemployment of people who are employed by government or who are dependent on government purchases and contracts for their incomes. [More…]
In those circumstances one would expect that the Opposition Parties would have a better welfare policy to put in the place of our policy. [More…]
I would briefly like to cover some ground in respect of the relative performances in the field of welfare payments. [More…]
In other welfare areas the increases have been even greater than 80 per cent. [More…]
I think that here the Leader of the Opposition has let the cat out of the bag by making repeated statements which clearly show that it is his aim if he ever, God help us, becomes Prime Minister of this country to take government out of the field of providing services and just completely confine any welfare activity to transfer payments. [More…]
I think it is quite clear that the payment of pensions and other benefits is the most important part of a welfare policy. [More…]
I think there is something to fear in a pernicious doctrine which has now crept into the Liberal Party’s philosophy of the voucher system which has been espoused by the Opposition’s spokesman on education in another place who talks about an education voucher policy and by the honourable member for Hotham who talks about welfare vouchers. [More…]
I hope that if we ever see the day when our political opponents are restored to government they will not allow the Leader of the Opposition to proceed with their absolutely reactionary and archaic policies which would result in a retreat into the 19th century and a reliance on market mechanisms to provide welfare services or any other basic services for people. [More…]
resources and no end to the chronic welfare problems that the capitalist system has to face. [More…]
The main thrust of my argument will be directed at showing that inflation and inadequate increases in welfare benefits are causing intolerable hardships for people in these groupings. [More…]
In the Department of Social Security they include the Australian Assistance Plan funds, which I have already mentioned: the grants to organisations under the Disabled Persons Homes Act, the Handicapped Persons As:sistance Act and the Aged Persons Hostels Act: and funds for various community welfare organisations such as the Australian Council for Social Service and the Australian Council for Rehabilitation of Disabled. [More…]
Yet the Opposition claims to be concerned about the welfare of the disadvantaged groups in our community. [More…]
The welfare housing provisions of the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement now make housing available to those earning up to 85 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]
Now the honourable member for Hotham (Mr Chipp), who is the Opposition spokesman on social welfare, is saying that we should also have a Medibank levy. [More…]
Members of the Opposition do not have any real interest in the Government’s economic programs at the moment which are designed to provide better educational opportunities for the ordinary children in Australia, better welfare, better urban development and a better environment. [More…]
All we have to take into consideration is, firstly, that there would be a federal income tax levy; secondly, there would be a State income tax levy, the amount of which the States would determine; thirdly, there would be another tax for local government; and fourthly, if we can place any credence on the suggestions of the Opposition spokesman on social welfare matters, there would be a separate tax for Medibank. [More…]
The result was that the demand for welfare services grew and the taxable or revenue capacity of the city dropped. [More…]
-Mr Deputy Speaker, the Bill now before the House seeks to authorise the Treasurer (Mr Hayden) to make advances to the States for the purpose of welfare or government housing. [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to substituting the following words: ‘whilst not declining to give the Bill a second reading the House is of the opinion that the reduction of $20.8m for welfare housing is a breach of the undertaking given by the Australian Government not to reduce the advances to the States below the 1974-75 level and that many low income families will be needlessly disadvantaged as a result’. [More…]
There is no concern for the people who are on low incomes, who are underprivileged or disadvantaged and who will seek what is commonly known as welfare housing. [More…]
The amendment deals with the reduction amounting to $20.8m in welfare housing. [More…]
But the cutback in the area of welfare housing, which is what we are talking about today, amounts to $20. [More…]
2913 on the notice paper which asks whether he had said that advances for the States welfare housing programs will not be less than in the previous financial year. [More…]
The point is that we are saying that in this Budget assistance for welfare housing has been decreased. [More…]
In his second reading speech the Minister said that in 1974-75, the year just ended, advances were 2 ‘A times more than was spent on welfare housing in 1971-72 when we were in Government. [More…]
However, in 1971 when we were in Government we produced 15 337 homes with welfare money and this Government has produced only 15 228. [More…]
Advances by the Australian Government for the States’ welfare housing programs in 1975-76 will not be less than in the previous financial year . [More…]
The initial problems began when the Prime .Minister, at the Premiers’ Conference on 19 June 1975 broke with past practice and declined to disclose the amount of welfare housing funds being made available to the States, indicating at that time that the details of fund allocations would be announced ‘in the Budget context’. [More…]
Equally I have no doubt that he would like to be able to get more funds for welfare housing but he has some pretty tough nuts to crack in the Cabinet. [More…]
1 should also say that, in the light of development in the industry as a whole as the year unfolds, including the availability of resources for housing construction and the ability of the States to put further funds to productive use in welfare housing, we stand ready to consult further with the States on the provision of additional advances. [More…]
Because the Commonwealth Government supported the proposition that we should pull all stops out and spend to the limit of our ability, we are now geared through the Housing Commission to expend Slum a month on welfare housing . [More…]
But the position is that the State of Victoria now has $ 1 2m left for welfare housing and at the rate of $ 10m the State is not going to be able to keep going for very long. [More…]
Welfare housing, to use that general term, has probably nowhere else in Australia been promoted as successfully as it has been in South Australia. [More…]
The Government has maintained its spending on welfare housing. [More…]
This Government attaches great importance to welfare housing. [More…]
The amount of $364m- it is really $374m- has been allocated for welfare housing in accordance with the 1973-74 Housing Agreement. [More…]
The Government is looking for further improvements in the provision of welfare housing. [More…]
More money will not cope completely with the welfare housing problem. [More…]
That Government did not even get down to the basic problem or the need for providing welfare housing. [More…]
It has also been the practice in Victoria that enormous tracts of land are bought by the Housing Commission out of taxpayers money at greatly inflated prices and the only people who make any profit out of this are certainly not the people who should be benefiting from the welfare housing but the developer. [More…]
Much more welfare housing should be available. [More…]
If the past governments, State and Federal, had set their sights on the provision of welfare housing in their long terms in office we might now be able to hold our heads up as some of the Scandanavian countries can and say that we can provide housing for those who cannot afford to provide it for themselves and we can provide it at a rent they can afford to pay. [More…]
We need to provide a diversity of welfare housing to suit all age groups and all aspects of living. [More…]
We, as representatives of the Australian electorate should maintain our concentration on making welfare housing available. [More…]
-This is a very sad measure because the Government has decreased in a significant way the amount of funds which it will provide for welfare housing. [More…]
Let it be quite clear: The amount of real assistance to housing and to the area of welfare housing, which is only part of the market, has been decreased by an effective 20 per cent. [More…]
While there may be argumentation by the Government that it has in fact kept up the level of assistance in welfare housing to States, the States obviously do not feel free enough to be able to keep up the level of approvals at which houses will be commenced and at which houses will be completed as in the previous year. [More…]
So there has been a real and a calculated drop in welfare housing. [More…]
That scheme, put up by a party bent on welfare, was designed to assist those who built the most expensive houses, who saved the least and who negotiated the highest interest rates on money. [More…]
It is nonsense for any government to talk about welfare and say that it is a welfare government when these 2 very basic social obligations have been forgotten. [More…]
If we look back at the advances made to the States for welfare housing by the Australian Government we find a dramatic jump in the year 1973-74, the first financial year this Government was in office. [More…]
The last 2 years’ allocation will be 2lA times greater than the allocation for welfare housing from State loan funds in the last 2 years of the previous Government, which were $161.5min 1971-72 and$163.2min 1972-73. [More…]
There are of course, very good reasons why the amount of money allocated for welfare housing this year does not follow the dramatic increases of the past 2 years. [More…]
I think we can go back to the track record of the previous Government to see what concern it had about welfare housing. [More…]
We can be fairly sure that one of the casualties would be welfare housing. [More…]
In spite of this, the substantial advances in the 1975-76 financial year will allow State housing authorities to complete more welfare dwellings than has been the case for many years. [More…]
Time and time again we have seen that the people who are benefiting from this are the developers and not the people whom we are aiming to help with welfare housing- the poorer people in this community whom we are trying to assist to get homes. [More…]
This whole matter of welfare housing is of considerable importance to me. [More…]
I welcome this Bill because it approves more than $364m for welfare housing. [More…]
It has the housing problems and social welfare problems that unfortunately often attend those communities. [More…]
How were the various objectives emphasised by the Australian Labor Party prior to the 1972 election, and shared by this side of the House, in the field of social welfare, in education, urban development and in assistance to the poor to be achieved? [More…]
What assistance is being provided for these refugees in the area of (a) housing, (b) employment, (c) welfare and (d) language training. [More…]
The assistance being provided for these refugees in the areas of housing, employment, welfare and language training is the same as that provided for other non-English speaking new arrivals. [More…]
The shadow Minister for Social Security and Welfare, Mr Chipp, flew from Canberra to Sydney yesterday to give a press conference because he claimed the Opposition was being gagged and guillotined into silence by the Government. [More…]
It is extremely clear to anyone in this Committee that there is a necessity to ensure that if an Aboriginal group of people is to conduct an activity of the kind that is spelt out in the provisions of subclause (3) of clause 1 1- including such things as community amenities, welfare, garbage collection, roads, relief work, education or training, communications, electricity supply, water supply, sewerage, health and housing- it is our responsibility, since the States are ceding it to us and since we have in any case acquired it as a result of a referendum, to provide legislation which will make certain that such an organisation operates as legal entity. [More…]
In respect of the silent ravages of child malnutrition the Committee considers that all services in the fields of community health, welfare and education should be given and should accept prime responsibility to ensure that all children under their notice are receiving suitable and sufficient food. [More…]
For instance, yesterday I had to reject a proposal that I should allocate a little over $ 1 lm from the Treasurer’s Advance to provide grants for various community welfare agencies responsible for providing accommodation for the aged and the handicapped. [More…]
This Labor Government will not take the same callous attitude to the welfare of the people of Australia which the Opposition has already demonstrated. [More…]
Can he say what is the comparative staffing in the field of other Departments working in social and welfare fields with Aboriginal people. [More…]
As part of this approach the Government will place great emphasis on directing welfare assistance to those in real need. [More…]
It is believed by the Government that voluntary welfare organisations are a critically important part of the Australian welfare system. [More…]
It favours the provision of migrant advisory services and assistance schemes in industry and will encourage industry to take a greater responsibility for the welfare of migrant workers. [More…]
Let me say one thing: Another element is involved in this question- I will deal with it quite separately- and that is that when a government is providing funds for welfare housing I believe there is some obligation on the Government to do so in a way that will provide the best housing for the greatest number of people and not in a way which, because of the expense involved, will heavily restrict the number of people who can be accommodated in such welfare housing. [More…]
At the outset I certainly want to record the long-time and effective interest which the honourable gentleman has shown in matters of social welfare in general and in relation to pensioners in particular. [More…]
I mention only briefly that of course it is the Government’s total objective to put value back into the welfare dollar and at the same time to recognise that, so far as social welfare groups are concerned, the overriding objective in their interest and that of the balance of the Australian community must be firstly to wind down the present rate of inflation. [More…]
There was a commitment to people in the welfare area who through some misfortune become the have-nots. [More…]
Medibank, pensions, education and social welfare will all be strengthened by honest responsible government. [More…]
Mr Fraser said that education and social welfare would be strengthened. [More…]
There would be no cutback in the essential areas of education, social welfare, health and assistance to local government, he said. [More…]
It is a waste if a government, in building welfare housing- in all cases when building welfare housing the value of the land has to be taken into account; it cannot be excluded- spends sums in excess of that required for the type of home for which one would reasonably expect to provide as welfare housing. [More…]
When governments are building welfare housing they do not have a responsibility to provide luxury waterfront accommodation at a welfare rate at the expense of other Australian people. [More…]
If honourable gentlemen opposite would like to take the sort of approach they are taking now, to provide half the accommodation for the same amount of money, let them come and see some of the people in my electorate who are on waiting lists for welfare housing and tell them what they are saying tonight. [More…]
I am ashamed that those people who say they care about the welfare of other people want to be so extravagant about spending the money that they raise from Australian taxpayers. [More…]
I am reliably informed that the honourable member for Hotham (Mr Chipp), the only man in the Government ranks who really understands the issue of health insurance and health services, has washed his hands of any association with debate on welfare and health because of the unfortunate experiences he has had at the rather ruthless hands of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
There are within St George a great many charitable organisations, benevolent associations, the Red Cross and a large number of similar groups working for the welfare of the community. [More…]
Welfare bludgergets $700 a week. [More…]
I believe there is a special requirement on this side of the House to represent those views in this House, to stress to those people that this is the home of liberalismliberalism with a small L- not the home of authoritarian do-goodery, not the house of determined pressure on the society, where they will do what is good for them whether they like it or not, not the forced enema approach to welfare. [More…]
He was mesmerised into thinking that it was about Budget deficits which are now being diverted not to welfare but to pad the pockets of wealthy graziers and mining corporations. [More…]
I now leave you in the faith that Divine Providence will always guide your deliberations and further the welfare of the people of Australia. [More…]
I have been interested in that field and I have been chairman of the previous Government’s social welfare committee for the last 3 years. [More…]
As pan of this approach the Government will place great emphasis on directing welfare assistance to those in real need. [More…]
I hope that the Government will direct its welfare assistance to those people. [More…]
I think that when one deals with policy questions in the field of social security one has to pay tribute to the Department of Social Security and also, to my mind, to the Social Welfare Commission which was set up by the previous Government. [More…]
The present Government has now announced it will abolish the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
For example, the Government proposes to abolish the Social Welfare Commission and therefore Mrs Marie Coleman, who is the Chairman of that Commission, as I understand it, is left without any sort of recourse against the Government. [More…]
The most important aspect of the Social Welfare Commission, which I would have thought would appeal to the present Prime Minister and the people behind him- it certainly appeals to me, although I do not share many of the Government’s views, but I hold the view, and I am glad that the Government at least expresses the view- that it is important for the welfare dollar or whatever it might be calledthis applies not only to welfare but to education and health etc.- to be spent in the most efficient and the most appropriate manner. [More…]
I think that the Social Welfare Commission did a lot of policy analysis work and I think that work is one of the most important aspects of the Commission. [More…]
One is in the form of a speech by Mrs Marie Coleman which deals with priorities in social welfare; the other is a social policy reference paper which also includes all the other Social Welfare Commission publications, of which there are many. [More…]
It is very attractive to be able to say that we do not want means tests, stigmas and so on attached to social welfare payments and that therefore we opt for universalism. [More…]
Unless there is a government that has a concern for the creation of wealth, this country will not have the resources to meet the welfare, the compassionate and the developmental requirements which we all would want to see met. [More…]
Being an electorate primarily of migrants, old people and employees it received great gains under our policies allowing huge increases in pensions, migrant services, housing for the aged and general social welfare. [More…]
I firmly believe that the federalism policy which has been outlined by this Government is one with a great deal of application in the social welfare area of our activity. [More…]
It is my firm belief that local government is capable of undertaking and is eager to adopt the responsibility for more social welfare programs. [More…]
Whether social welfare programs include supporting mothers benefits, handicapped children allowances, grants to community organisations, day care centres, the appointment of social and community planners or child catalysts, local government is the tier of government better able to spend the welfare dollar for full value. [More…]
The artificial creation of regions by the convenience of groupings on a map does not offer an ideal basis for an efficient and creative social welfare regional scheme. [More…]
An electoral system is already established and there is a traditional involvement by people in local government and in welfare which gives an historical head start to community participation. [More…]
There are in our towns and in our cities people who will work on committees or welfare and charitable programs without any personal gain except for the feeling of satisfaction that they are doing something for their fellow man or woman. [More…]
In whole areas of public policy- schools, health, the environment, industrial conditions, the National Estate, social welfare, local government- no body of fact or evidence existed. [More…]
A wholly misconceived strategy for dealing with inflation has become a pretext for attacking public welfare and social reform- the real targets of the Prime Minister’s vengeance and contempt. [More…]
Where do all these economies- these real and illusory and foreshadowed cuts in welfare programs and public spending- leave the States? [More…]
As part of this approach, the Government will place great emphasis on directing welfare assistance to those in real need. [More…]
Honourable members, I put it to you that this coalition Government sitting here today is not one that is concerned with the welfare of the people of Australia. [More…]
Rather it is concerned only with the welfare and interests of those few among us to whom poverty is unknown. [More…]
The problems facing my constituents are common throughout Australia: The care and attention of the aged; the handicapped and the under privileged; a reduction and review of crippling taxes; a reduction of inflation; a return to full employment; a transfer of emphasis from the public to the private sector; the opportunity to own a home; a return to a society based upon freedom in all respects, not a socialist welfare state. [More…]
Translation and welfare services for our other ethnic groups were woefully inadequate but for the Turks they were non-existent. [More…]
During that period the Kensington group, which represents a wide spread of Turkish migrants, formed their own social welfare group, hired their own premises and conducted a survey of their community. [More…]
The Government will place great emphasis on directing welfare assistance to those in real need. [More…]
Whereas the cost is important, the health and the welfare of the nation are of paramount importance. [More…]
But in my view the Government has to adopt a basic position, and that is to ensure, firstly, that the system provides drugs essential to life and the welfare of every person regardless of his financial position, secondly, that pharmaceutical items are of the highest quality- I am sure that the Department of Health has done a tremendous job in that area- thirdly, that they are available at a reasonable price- nobody can claim that the Department of Health has not done a good job in that area- and, fourthly, there is also the necessity for the maintenance of a viable pharmaceutical manufacturing industry which has sufficient resources to carry out research and to keep pace with the needs of the community. [More…]
The world is well on the way to the acceptance of this profound truth, that the welfare of all the people in all lands depends primarily on full employment. [More…]
What we can see, in any case, is that neocapitalism, with its pretensions to have found the answer to Marx, was the expression of a temporary situation, borne along not by its own dynamic but by the upwards wave of the economic cycle; but the vision of a society dedicated to welfare, not to power and profit- the only vision that makes sense in today ‘s circumstances- still eludes us, and will do so until another crisis, even more crippling than the crisis that is brewing today, brings home to the whole world the perils it faces. [More…]
He also believes that until we begin to think about it we will not solve the problems of dealing with inflation or the problems of welfare because there is a jack-up on welfare. [More…]
In the Governor-General’s Speech His Excellency said: … the Government will place great emphasis on directing welfare assistance to those in real need. [More…]
One would have thought that by now some of the lessons of the old fashioned, outmoded welfare state paternalism would have got through to the Opposition, especially as the Wilson Labour Government has clearly learnt this lesson and is carrying out a very stringent program of across-the-board cuts. [More…]
It is believed by the Government that voluntary welfare organisations are a critically important part of the Australian welfare system. [More…]
Here is the clearest and most far-reaching kind of concept which has so far been ignored by the Opposition, the transferability of staff between the government and the non-government sector, especially in the social welfare area. [More…]
These tribunals normally consist of two independent members, usually a lawyer and somebody qualified in the social welfare field, and a person seconded from but not acting for the Department of Social Security. [More…]
The Fraser Government inherited chaos stemming from the old welfare state paternalism with handouts for all regardless of need and regardless of cost to the taxpayer. [More…]
Social welfare payments depend largely on the well-being of that sector. [More…]
First, we propose to supplement Consolidated Revenue Fund receipts, and thereby reduce the size of the prospective Consolidated Revenue Fund deficiency, by paying into that Fund unrequired balances held in the National Welfare Fund Trust Account. [More…]
Under the provisions of the National Welfare Fund Act the balances held by the National Welfare Fund Trust Account cannot be spent directly from the Fund. [More…]
The 1952 amendment to the National Welfare Fund Act provided a standing appropriation for the automatic replenishment of the National’ Welfare Fund Trust Account in respect of any moneys paid from the account for social services. [More…]
I intend that the internal treasury bill holdings of the National Welfare Fund Trust Account be redeemed. [More…]
This generosity to the States demonstrated the real concern of the Labor Government for the financial welfare of the States. [More…]
For instance, social security and social welfare programs may best be administered by local government instead of by the Federal Government or a State government; it may well be that programs conducted by State or local government could best be conducted federally. [More…]
It must be very distasteful for him to have to cover up for the problems that are being created for the unemployed and the disadvantaged, and the problems in the welfare area. [More…]
Profit making and profit taking is the essence of the exercise, whilst welfare and full employment objectives are only considered if they are compatible with and subservient to the profit objective. [More…]
These are the special considerations they have been given: A 50c increase in prescription charges; the delaying of a legitimate pension increase; and for pensioners who do not survive without the increase the abolition of pensioner funeral benefits; a reduction in welfare services through the imposition of staff ceilings; and a heavy reduction of overseas aid programs to deprived countries. [More…]
Its policies represent a desperate effort to restore profits at the expense of jobs and welfare. [More…]
In the social welfare field pensioners have been deprived of several million dollars because of delay and refusal to pay a benefit which they had been receiving for some time. [More…]
It is concerned with the welfare of people and with keeping our cities as attractive and exciting places in which people can live, not stunning them into concrete jungles. [More…]
We increased the expenditure on welfare housing from $167m in the last year of the McMahon Government to $365m for this financial year. [More…]
It will come from the cancellation of various welfare programs, the deferring of the pension increases, the introduction of subsidies to rich farmers, the tax allowances to increase company profits, the inconsistent behaviour in relation to the money supply and the haste to get out of public participation in development and exploitation of our mineral and energy resources. [More…]
The Labor Government endeavoured to pursue its economic policies in such a way that wellintentioned and idealistic plans for a welfare state resulted in a political and economic catastrophe. [More…]
These areas are in government expenditure, wages and salaries, and social security and social welfare. [More…]
His last Minister for Social Security conducted an attack on voluntary welfare agencies and took away the basic support which they need to do work which is invaluable in the social security and welfare areas. [More…]
The Government’s approach to social welfare is based on the Government’s commitment to the value of each person, to each person’s right to dignity and self-respect and to his right to make his own decisions. [More…]
It is based also on the Government’s recognition that there are limited resources to devote to the general welfare area and that those resources that are available must be devoted, first of all, to helping those who are disadvantaged. [More…]
Have their personnel officers gone out and negotiated with the employment officers and social welfare officers in the area in an endeavour to help the young people? [More…]
All sections of the community have a role to play in this processunions, employees, employers, both large and small, industry groups, consumers, representatives of welfare and social organisations, academics, the Public Service and the Government. [More…]
In so doing, it introduced such a degree of capriciousness and incompetence into government policy making and administration as to destroy confidence throughout the entire community and to destroy the ability of the private sector- large and small business alike- to produce the real resources needed if Labor’s social welfare and other programs were ever to be fulfilled. [More…]
It is not only welfare and social services to which this situation applies. [More…]
The reasoning behind them have no sound basis, they are prejudicial and reveal an appalling lack of thought given to the value of the services provided by civil aviation to Australia ‘s economic welfare and development. [More…]
However, he is concerned with the progress and welfare of his locality and was persuaded to continue another 12 months. [More…]
We supported education initiatives, advances in social welfare responsibilities, the increasing demands of our people in conservation and environmental matters. [More…]
An estimated 4000 people in my electorate are waiting for welfare housing. [More…]
The honourable member for Bowman complained about housing in Queensland and welfare housing. [More…]
In the last year of the McMahon Government $ 167m was made available throughout Australia for welfare housing. [More…]
As a consequence of the inflationary problem the Government is putting measures in train to overcome the fundamental economic problems, and provide a more sound basis for improvements in social welfare. [More…]
One of the great attributes of the Australian Labor Party Government was that it introduced into this nation a very effective early childhood welfare program. [More…]
Its establishment meant that there would be new initiatives and programs for the care and welfare of young children. [More…]
This is a tragedy for rational and reasonable development of a welfare program for the benefit of all Australians. [More…]
The Fraser Government is concerned about the welfare of children. [More…]
I want to make it perfectly clear to honourable members in this House that the Government is committed to the welfare of children and is concerned with their problems. [More…]
It was Sir Winston Churchill who once said, I think in 1938, that one of the great paradoxes of socialist governments is that from the day they assume office they tend to erode the foundations upon which private enterprise functions and thus destroy their own capacity to implement their ambitious social welfare programs. [More…]
Its social welfare programs had plenty of merit, but in trying to implement them the former Government practically destroyed the whole foundations and the fabric of the Australian economy, which would have rendered impossible the discharge of even the most paltry assistance to areas of need. [More…]
The Minister for Social Security has an obligation to the Australian community and to people interested in child welfare to spell out the answers to the questions. [More…]
2) 1976- and by an accountant’s fiddle with the National Welfare Fund balances. [More…]
We raise no objections to the transfer of the National Welfare Fund balances to the Consolidated Revenue Fund. [More…]
First, we propose to supplement Consolidated Revenue Fund receipts, and thereby reduce the size of the prospective Consolidated Revenue Fund deficiency, by paying into that Fund unrequired balances held in the National Welfare Fund Trust Account. [More…]
It is the transfer of funds from the National Welfare Fund to the Consolidated Revenue Fund. [More…]
I hope that in transferring funds from the National Welfare Fund to the Consolidated Revenue Fund no opportunity is taken to give a false idea of what the deficit would actually be. [More…]
Insofar as the funds which go into the National Welfare Fund were originally revenue, they have been invested in treasury bills at some modicum of interest- one per cent or so. [More…]
We have $3, 000m on the statement of the Treasurer (Mr Lynch); we have $470m-odd from the National Welfare Fund; and $700m will be available under the defence loan procedures. [More…]
He referred to the National Welfare Fund. [More…]
The National Welfare Fund was established by the National Welfare Fund Act 1943 as a Trust Account for the purposes of section 62A of the Audit Act. [More…]
Moneys standing to the credit of the Fund are applied under the National Welfare Fund Act in making such payments as are directed by any law of the Commonwealth to be made from the Fund in relation to health, social services and other welfare services. [More…]
I would like to begin by asking the Minister Assisting the Treasurer, how closing the Welfare Fund off in the way suggested by the Government can be said to be serving the legal purposes of the Fund which are supposed to relate to health, social services and other welfare services. [More…]
Broadly, the National Welfare Fund was built up in years when we collected more in taxes than we were able to find purposes to spend, so in one sense there now is a logic in doing the oppositewhen we have more expenditure than revenue we simply transfer. [More…]
Maybe the greatest stimulus to consumer demand is more Government expenditure on welfare or the reduction of taxes. [More…]
The second point I make is in regard to the National Welfare Fund which was mentioned by my friend the honourable member for Lilley (Mr Kevin Cairns). [More…]
In Australia 30 per cent of taxes go to education and social welfare. [More…]
I also want to comment on the remarks of the honourable member for Melbourne Ports with regard to the National Welfare Fund balance. [More…]
In 1952 an amendment to the National Welfare Fund Act provided a standing appropriation for the automatic replenishment of the NWF from the Consolidated Revenue Fund in respect of all moneys paid from the NWF. [More…]
Given the standing appropriation provisions for automatic replenishment of all amounts paid from the National Welfare Fund for social security, the balance of the Fund, of course, has been continually replenished. [More…]
In these circumstances there is no need for any working balance in the National Welfare Fund and in fact the balance serves no useful purpose. [More…]
Pursuant to section 16 of the Social Welfare Commission Act 1973 I present a Social Welfare Commission report on the Australian Assistance Plan, together with a statement by the Minister for Social Security relating to that report. [More…]
Shortly after the Australian Labor Government came to office it commissioned a report from the Australian Government Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
In the Governor-General’s Speech mention is made of the critical importance of voluntary welfare organisations. [More…]
They are quite open about their declared policy of phasing out all government welfare schemes. [More…]
Those advertisements tersely state its objective and urge support for what it calls voluntaryism and private welfare. [More…]
Like the Government, its spokesmen attack the middle income groups as the main recipients of welfare benefits, the bureaucrats and welfare workers. [More…]
The Workers Party spokesmen are more frank than the Government in their attitude to the recipients of welfare. [More…]
Politicians, too, are identified by the Workers Party as persons having a vested interest in a burgeoning and inefficient welfare system. [More…]
It is argued that new and elaborate welfare systems buy popularity and votes. [More…]
There may well be an electoral backlash against public servants, social workers and social welfare which is not wholly unjustified, but it extends also to the more vulnerable people who depend on welfare to survive, and that is wholly unjustified. [More…]
It is not inconceivable that cuts in welfare spending could become extremely popular. [More…]
To set these communities against one another and to set out cynically on an electoral strategy to destroy the welfare system because of short term political ends is an ignoble purpose. [More…]
There should be arguments in this House about the effective delivery of welfare services. [More…]
He talked of the different views on providing welfare- whether it should be a universal or a selective basis. [More…]
With increased community wealth governments can spend more on pensions, schools, roads, health and other welfare programs and on government administration. [More…]
I welcome the Government’s emphasis on directing welfare assistance to those in real need. [More…]
I am delighted that it is recognised that voluntary welfare agencies are a critically important part of the welfare system. [More…]
Despite a hostile Senate and a media partial to the Liberal-Country Party coalition, the Labor Government after assuming office on 2 December 1972 had a magnificent record of achievement particularly in regard to social welfare, child care, education, health, legal aid and direct monetary grants to local government. [More…]
Firstly, I will mention social welfare which has top priority because many age and invalid pensioners reside in my electorate of Sydney. [More…]
It will be recalled that previous LiberalNational Country Party coalition governments saw fit to discriminate against various recipients of social welfare benefit. [More…]
I also welcome those aspects of the Governor-General’s Speech relating to immigrants as being essential to any successful and humane immigration program and I also urge the Government to give serious consideration to the suggestions in the Henderson report directed at eradicating some of the deficiencies and prejudices which our social welfare system presently contains regarding migrants. [More…]
Because I live in and represent an electorate in which there is a great deal of poverty and personal hardship, particularly in the inner suburbs of Penh, I intend to devote much of my time in this House to welfare matters. [More…]
In making what I hope will be constructive suggestions for welfare management in this country, I must express my concern at the way in which honourable members opposite keep insisting that we are a businessman’s government. [More…]
That is why I see a mutual compatibility of interests between my support for a government which espouses the cause of free enterprise and my personal desire to become involved in both economic and welfare management matters. [More…]
I simply suggest that existing welfare payments be disbursed in a way which will not add to total expenditure but which, if done on a more selective basis, will ensure that more assistance will go to those whose needs are greatest. [More…]
I hope that in the future, when circumstances permit, it will be possible to restrain total expenditure and still preserve the rights and privileges of the disadvantaged people in Australia by ensuring that the whole spectrum of welfare payments is applied more selectively and less universally. [More…]
The application of universal welfare payments in place of selective benefits is an inhumane strategy in a country in which resources are limited and in which poverty still very obviously exists. [More…]
In certain circumstances there is much to commend the universal provision of such welfare benefits; it is in accord, in my opinion, with the best interests of a democratic society. [More…]
If the ability to pay is used as the basis of collecting revenue then the logical corollary is to support a criterion of need as the basis for welfare disbursement from that revenue within our present social welfare system. [More…]
After all, progressive taxation has a much greater redistribution effect than either regressive levies or proportionate contributions in the funding of welfare schemes. [More…]
Can anyone deny that those increased welfare benefits did other than increase the freedom of the recipients to live a normal life rather than the poverty stricken existence that was their lot under previous coalition governments? [More…]
Will members of the Opposition never learn that they are here in this place not as an official Opposition to the Governor-General but as duly elected representatives of the people, to make some significant contribution to their welfare and prosperity? [More…]
I think it is necessary to put the Australian Assistance Plan into some sort of perspective and to point out the extent of government outlays that are involved in social security and welfare as functional groupings in the Budget. [More…]
It is interesting to note that in 1972-73 the Government allocated $2, 102m to social security and welfare and that in 1975-76 this amount had risen to an estimated $4,772m, which is an increase of over 100 per cent. [More…]
This amount of course will be significantly higher because our allocations for social security and welfare are running at a rate of about 20 per cent of our total Budget. [More…]
It is also interesting to note that the Budget Papers reveal that about $87m of the almost $5 billion allocated for social security and welfare is to go towards the cost of salaries and administration of the Department of Social Security. [More…]
Commonwealth Government to the State Minister for Community Welfare, to the State committee for the implementation of the Plan, to the social planning secretariat thence to advisory committees and regional councils which in turn deal with local committees or projects. [More…]
The first was the need for regional social planning and the regionalisation of welfare services. [More…]
He says that he now supports the approach based on the localisation of welfare services and social planning. [More…]
A lot of areas need to be looked at in terms of social security and welfare in Australia. [More…]
This covers areas such as a uniform income benefit, inquiring into proposals for a minimum family income, looking at ways and means of wiping out the multitude of individual programs which now exist in the social welfare system and implementing a single program for which people could qualify in a multitude of different ways. [More…]
I am suggesting tonight that the Government should look seriously at the recommendations in the report of the Social Welfare Commission on the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]
-Pursuant to section 34 of the Services Trust Fund Act 1947-1973 I present the annual reports of the Royal Australian Air Force Welfare Trust Fund, the Australian Military Forces Relief Trust Fund and the Royal Australian Navy Relief Trust Fund for the calendar year 1 974, together with financial statements and the report of the Auditor-General on those statements. [More…]
to examine the awareness of specific learning difficulties among the community generally and among the medical, health, teaching and social welfare professions in particular; [More…]
It would have no pensions and no welfare of any kind, perhaps just a small defence force and a police force as well, which is being just slightly socialist. [More…]
We may some day reach the stage in Australia- we are certainly not there yet- when we have all the schools, hospitals and welfare institutions we want. [More…]
I should like the honourable member and the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry to know that the Government is concerned for the welfare of that industry. [More…]
Perhaps some well-meaning Fabians believe that we should spend the money on welfare and other matters. [More…]
They place on the Committee a responsibility to inquire into the incidence of specific learning difficulties throughout Australia, to examine measures that are being taken at the present time to overcome these difficulties- the Committee will be reporting on the success of present measures- and to examine the public awareness and knowledge of learning difficulties and the awareness in the medical, health, teaching and social welfare areas. [More…]
It is a fact that in areas which have no relationship to Aboriginal Affairs but which impinge upon the welfare of Aboriginal people States have responsibilities. [More…]
I wish to pay tribute to the work of Manfred Cross, the former member for Brisbane, as I believe, as would all members who had the privilege of serving with him, he had a tremendous interest in the welfare of Aboriginal people. [More…]
The reports that we brought down before the Parliament were not our only contribution to the welfare of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
The inquiry was commenced in 1963 and was a longstanding commitment of members of Parliament to the welfare of people who were affected by mining development. [More…]
It assumes that NEAT is some kind of welfare scheme in which the beneficiaries receives a little extra for doing some retraining instead of just waiting for a job to turn up. [More…]
It was conceived not as a welfare program but rather as a crucial part of an active manpower program in which the principal aim is to ensure that the labour market is well balanced; that is, that the numbers offering for employment in each occupation are as nearly as possible equal to the job opportunities available for each occupation. [More…]
Given that the scheme’s objective is to overcome structural imbalances in the labour force, it is far more appropriate to set the allowances on criteria that reflect the labour market nature of the program rather than on an irrelevant welfare concept. [More…]
In doing so, it observed that allowances payable in some of the then existing training schemes were based on the appropriate welfare benefit plus a supplementary training allowance. [More…]
In view of what is now happening, it is extraordinarily interesting to note that the Committee decided nevertheless to reject the welfare approach and did so on the advice of then Department of Labor, which Department recommended not only abandonment of the welfare approach but also that the allowance be based on the average adult male award wage. [More…]
The purpose of the States Grants (Housing Assistance) Bill is to authorise the Treasurer to advance to the States this financial year the sum of $364.6m for welfare housing in accordance with the provisions of the 1973-1974 Housing Agreement. [More…]
We are maintaining this level of spending for welfare housing despite our overall policy of stringent restraint on public sector spending. [More…]
Some States are currently experiencing difficulties in maintaining their welfare housing programs- difficulties, I might add, that are a direct legacy of the previous Government. [More…]
Funds available to the States for welfare housing increased from $ 169.8m in 1972-73 to $2 18.7m in 1973-74. [More…]
The funds made available for welfare housing escalated even further in 1974-75. [More…]
In other words, the Treasurer will be authorised to continue payments to the States for welfare housing in the period from 1 July 1976 until an appropriation measure for 1976-77 is passed by the Parliament. [More…]
The Bill provides that interim payments may be made for welfare housing under the authority of section 5 of the Financial Agreement Act 1928 as advances supplementary to the advances under the approved Loan Council program. [More…]
A far better method of increasing individual participation in the community would be via the Labor Government’s community welfare centre program- the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]
That program contained 2 necessary facets of community welfaregovernment guaranteed services and local decision-making. [More…]
For all the faults of the Whitlam Government, two vital threads ran, albeit imperfectly and inconsistently, through the fabric of its policy program: that welfare spending Should be based on need and that the nation’s resources should be used as efficiently and beneficially as possible in the community’s interest. [More…]
We have heard only in the last few days that as a result of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade discussions these expectations can no longer be realised because it is believed there has been a block and that that block will mean, of course, that international trade will not be generated at the predicted figure of 7.5 per cent but will fall to an ever much lower figure with a consequent impact on commodity prices and the welfare of the people of this country. [More…]
By doing this we will not only be able to produce more resources and provide more services to the community but also we will be able to provide for the welfare of pensioners and those who might be regarded as being in the disadvantaged sections of the community. [More…]
I should like to thank the many folk who campaigned so resolutely to have the seat of Cook returned to the Liberal Party, not merely as part of the Fraser coalition team, but to support the principles, platform and policies of the Liberal Party of Australia which we have seen from the elections in December are clearly regarded by the vast majority of Australians as the only way to safeguard the future welfare of all Australians. [More…]
Who among us hi this Parliament has not been exposed as a daily event to the work and interests of community groups concerned with the welfare of the less fortunate or the less able? [More…]
It is believed by the Government that voluntary welfare organisations are a critically important part of the Australian welfare system. [More…]
A broader look at social welfare activities quickly reveals that the role of voluntary organisations was being downgraded very noticeably at the time of this Government’s return to office. [More…]
I was pleased to see such a strong mention in the Governor-General’s Speech supporting the role and function of voluntary welfare organisations in the community and the strong assertion to continue financial assistance in this area as well as ‘placing Public Service resources at their disposal through improving opportunities for transferability of staff between the Government and the non-government sector’. [More…]
I trust that the Government will view the Surf Life Saving Association not merely as an activity for the welfare of its members but as a self-helping voluntary welfare organisation totally deserving of this Government’s support. [More…]
We on this side of the House are concerned with the welfare of all Australians and I remind honourable members opposite that it was a LiberalCountry Party Government which instituted the Inquiry into Poverty. [More…]
It has been LiberalCountry Party governments which have moved into all new areas of social welfare and concern and I am confident that in the years ahead it will still be the Liberal and National Country Parties, with their concern for the individual Australian and for his or her welfare, which will lead-and here is the great difference between our parties and the Opposition parties- in conjunction with community organisations to achieve the most effective welfare and advantage for’ all Australians. [More…]
I suppose the most crying need in my.electorate in social terms and in terms of public debate concerns the child welfare scheme, and I compliment some of the actions taken by the previous Labor Government in this regard. [More…]
However, the people of Australia should be constantly reminded that even after 3 years of Labor Government and the criticisms we have heard about child welfare and its implementation, we are still operating under a Liberal Government’s legislation. [More…]
It would be an interesting exercise if honourable members went through all our social welfare programs to see to what extent we are operating under legislation instituted by the Liberal-Country Party Government parties. [More…]
As has been said, you are bringing great dignity to that office and I am certain that the welfare of Parliament itself will be enhanced by your occupation of that most important chair. [More…]
Fortunately, however, the people could see the dangers of a socialist government and the welfare state. [More…]
That is based on clear statements made by men engaged in welfare services in this country. [More…]
These religious organisations draw their funds from their members’ donations- money given for welfare and humanitarian aid. [More…]
Under this Scheme, now administered by the Department of Social Security, a voluntary welfare agency may, if it meets certain criteria, be given a direct grant for the employment of a social worker to work among immigrants. [More…]
So over the last 2 financial years, an average of $3 75m has been spent on welfare housing. [More…]
The provision of funds for welfare housing was one of the major achievements in the changing of resource allocation in our economy. [More…]
This matter was discussed within the Cabinet of the previous Government and it was thought that if it was necessary to make more funds available to the public sector in the field of welfare housing those funds would be made available if resources, men and material were available. [More…]
But of course we know that the last thing that the present Government would ever do would be to increase government expenditure, particularly in the field of welfare housing. [More…]
I think that in the long term, if money continues to flow from the Australian Government to the State Governments, the welfare housing program will receive a much better deal. [More…]
It is my personal view that the sector that will suffer greatly under the present Administration will be not only the public sector but also the welfare sector which is a most needy sector in our community. [More…]
The Bill provides that interim payments may be made for welfare housing under the authority of section 5 of the Financial Agreement Act 1928 as advances supplementary to the advances under the approved Loan Council program. [More…]
I believe that a stimulus to the public sector, particularly in the welfare area, would provide a stimulus to the economy. [More…]
To that extent it is a valuable welfare measure and one that ought to be supported. [More…]
He fails to understand that welfare housing cannot be used and ought not to be used as the principal compensating agent for a downturn in the level of housing activity in Australia. [More…]
This Bill authorises the Treasury to advance to the States for the current financial year $364.6m for welfare housing. [More…]
Some States are currently experiencing difficulties in maintaining their welfare housing programs- difficulties I might add, that are a direct legacy of the previous Government. [More…]
The Housing Agreement was a great milestone in the history of welfare housing in this country and I hope to see a lot more Government enthusiasm about its future than we have seen today. [More…]
The States Grants (Housing Assistance) Bill which is before us deals predominantly with what is known as welfare housing. [More…]
Welfare housing is important. [More…]
There are large backlogs of applications for welfare housing, of course. [More…]
Welfare housing is only a part of housing; housing is only a part of the building industry; and the building industry is only one section of the general Australian economy. [More…]
We have to see welfare housing, which is the subject matter of this Bill, in relation to the whole of the building industry. [More…]
If we can get interest rates down we will be helping the housing industry, not only in the welfare sector with which this Bill is concerned but also in the general sector with which the Government is, and should be, concerned. [More…]
A big attack upon the interest rate structure is essential for a revival in non-welfare housing. [More…]
I hope that the Government’s current obsession with the mythical deficit will not preclude in the future a further advance to the States for welfare housing which will enable at least the current level of real activity- I do not speak of activity in terms of money- to be maintained and, I hope, even increased. [More…]
The Bill we are debating today, the States Grants (Housing Assistance) Bill 1976, devotes attention to just one aspect of housing, namely what we call ‘welfare housing’. [More…]
So this was an important determining factor when the hard decisions were made by the Labor Government in the last Budget about the sums of money to be available for welfare housing in this Bill. [More…]
Let me lead on from this to say unequivocally that if Labor were in power and the same economic conditions prevailed as they do today, a third instalment of funds for the welfare housing field would be in the pipeline right now. [More…]
So the valid point is this: If Labor were in power there would have been a third instalment of funds for welfare housing, but that instalment would have been less than is necessary under this Liberal-National Country Party Government right now. [More…]
Under Labor, the amount of the third instalment for welfare housing would not have needed to be so great as it is today. [More…]
The tragedy is that there is no such prospect for a third instalment for welfare housing from the Liberal and National Country parties. [More…]
I understand that only about 5 per cent of the housing needs of Australians are satisfied through welfare housing Bills. [More…]
More and more of our people are turning to this welfare housing sector as the access point to housing mortgage loan funds moves up the income scale. [More…]
Welfare housing will never satisfy the existing demands, leave alone satisfy new demands. [More…]
Another point that I should like to make is that at the moment welfare housing, in such short supply, is going to a lot of people who do not need it. [More…]
I was disturbed to note that Queensland is to receive only 8.5 per cent of the total amount of $364m for welfare housing. [More…]
One wonders why the Labor Government in framing its Budget saw fit to cut the allocation for welfare housing in respect of Queensland, Tasmania, and Western Australia. [More…]
That is very important because with welfare housing we are looking in the main to the disadvantaged and low income groups. [More…]
He overlooked the fact that to buy a house anywhere- even welfare housing- requires some accumulation of capital by the intending buyer. [More…]
This Bill provides $364.6m for the various States for welfare housing. [More…]
This whole Bill is supposed to be about welfare housing. [More…]
If honourable members are going to talk about welfare housing, surely they will be talking about people who have limited resources and people who are least able to defend themselves. [More…]
Indicative of our concern in this vital field of housing is that, notwithstanding our statesmanlike decision to curtail government expenditure, we have maintained the level of expenditure for welfare housing at that which was appropriated in the 1975-76 Budget. [More…]
It is essential in debates such as this to analyse some of the history associated with welfare housing agreements, so that we can learn from the mistakes that have been made and initiate reforms which will allow the system to function to the best advantage. [More…]
It is true that there have been changes in details in welfare housing agreements over the years. [More…]
We witnessed many classical attempts to hoodwink the Australian people and nowhere was this more prominent than in the welfare housing group. [More…]
Before the suspension of the sitting for dinner I was pointing out the disadvantageous position of Queensland under the welfare housing arrangments. [More…]
Queensland was ready to build more houses for needy people, as it indicated by seeking more money for welfare housing in March 1975, but the inept and lazy Labor Government did not give Queensland the money until June, after months of delay. [More…]
An analysis of the per capita advances for welfare housing shows that the Australian average is $56.70 and the State averages are as follows: Tasmania, $119.50; South Australia, $91; Western Australia, $63.30; Victoria, $53.50; New South Wales, $51.40; and Queensland, only $37.50, notwithstanding the application by the Queensland Government in April 1975 following the challenge of the then Prime Minister in December 1974. [More…]
Production of welfare housing is virtually at a standstill and there will be very little in the pipeline after 30 June 1976. [More…]
Indeed, the Queensland Housing Commission, as my friend the honourable member for Petrie (Mr Hodges) said, has built up a good team of contractors who specialise in welfare housing. [More…]
An injection of Queensland’s rightful share of welfare money would be quite appropriate to absorb a lot of this unused capacity and also make allowance for the expected shortfall in funds following the problems associated with building societies in Queensland recently. [More…]
The people who used the accommodation provided were people who on account of their incomes were not able to participate in welfare housing, but housing had to be provided as part of the general scheme of the development. [More…]
We had therefore a development of private industry which had special expertise in the construction area but which now has nowhere to go and nothing to do because of the drastic cutback in developmental exploration and the shortfall, in comparison to the Australian whole, of welfare housing being allocated in Queensland. [More…]
Although the purpose of the States Grants (Housing Assistance) Bill is to authorise the Treasurer to advance to the States this financial year the sum of $364.6m for welfare housing, in fact those who have contributed to the debate have ranged right across the spectrum of housing and those aspects applying to it. [More…]
The Commission believes that problems of adjustment and welfare are, in general, best dealt with by specific measures rather than by input subsidies. [More…]
Let me emphasise, in closing, that these Bills are not welfare measures, an idea which the Labor Party chooses to promote. [More…]
I think members of the Opposition have proved conclusively that they view them as welfare measures by referring to them in relation to limited tonnages. [More…]
Those references indicate clearly that they regard them as welfare measures. [More…]
In fact the minority report of the Industries Assistance Commission proves conclusively that in their opinion they are welfare measures. [More…]
In terms of welfare- and the Labor Party seems to use this area as its argument- I admit that we do not really have very much to say. [More…]
But in terms of national benefit the welfare argument probably would be better sorted out by the provision of other funds in other ways to the primary sector. [More…]
The welfare factor does arise but it is not an important one from our point of view. [More…]
Our soil is looking for welfare; our farmers are not. [More…]
Of course there is a case for measures of assistance to primary producers, particularly on welfare grounds. [More…]
It was supported on the limited ground that the bounty would help farmers adjust to higher superphosphate prices and would provide some temporary welfare relief. [More…]
All 3 commissioners agreed that the adjustment and welfare benefits of the bounty would be achieved by more direct measures at lower cost. [More…]
The Government cannot see that welfare measures which assist those least in need are irrational and self-defeating. [More…]
There are many people in the farming sector in real need of welfare assistance. [More…]
Whilst we do not say that these measures are welfare measures, they in part will put some confidence back on the one hand and on the other put some life back into the economy in a financial sense. [More…]
Did members of the Opposition tell us how they would solve the problems of rural welfare? [More…]
These not only have adverse effect on the welfare of rural producers, on their employees and on the rural people and institutions dependent on agricultural industries but they have adverse resource allocation effects. [More…]
It would make good economic sense, on both efficiency and welfare grounds, to distribute these incomes more evenly over time. [More…]
By analogy, a hypothetical distribution of compensatory assistance over time, to make it countercyclical, would consequently improve economic efficiency in the rural sector and would remove one area of potential conflict between economic efficiency and welfare. [More…]
I think that in any proper debate on this subject we always have to remember that there is a relationship between the manufacturing sector, the primary industry sector and, as I have said, the welfare area of those in need in the country. [More…]
I look forward to an examination by the Government in the period that this bounty is in force until 30 June 1977 so that we can have a good look at what is happening in rural Australia, so that hopefully we can develop welfare policies to assist those in need in those areas and so that we can develop reconstruction policies in certain sections of the industry. [More…]
There is really no good rational economic, social or welfare argument why we should subsidise the users of superphosphate any more than we should subsidise orchardists who use expensive chemicals or poultry farmers who have to purchase very expensive feed. [More…]
difficult to justify on the basis of welfare or efficiency. [More…]
It may be that some form of income support scheme would be preferable, both on economic and welfare grounds, to a subsidy on one input such as superphosphate. [More…]
Australia’s history is characterised not by examples of people seeking more and more dependence on government but by people with the courage, the ambition and the common sense to improve their lot, and in so doing play their role in contributing to the national resource- the fund from which general standards in health, education, welfare and other avenues can be improved. [More…]
Every time we give massive increases in pensions and benefits under Medibank and other social welfare programswhich it is our bounden duty to do- we are in fact depriving ourselves of the capacity to help underdeveloped nations. [More…]
It can cover civil rights, environment, welfare, consumer protection, anti-trust, security law and the like. [More…]
Government policies which influence mortality are posited primarily on the desire to enhance the health, safety and welfare of the community and their effect on population growth is incidental. [More…]
This applies both to policies involving government services to the Australian people, such as education or social welfare, and to policies in which population is treated as a resource, such as the gearing of manpower to economic development. [More…]
The fellow who lives in rented accommodation and who for environmental reasons- say, for the sake of argument, the presence of a noxious industry or an airport, which is affecting his family-and who can obtain alternative rental accommodation only in an area where, in the opinion of the Commonwealth Employment Service, there are little or no employment prospects is rewarded for caring for his family’s welfare by having his umployment benefit terminated. [More…]
The House of Representatives should have the courage and the power to make decisions on these matters which are so vital to the welfare of the people we represent. [More…]
We must reestablish the economy of this rich and vigorous country and then carefully press forward with social welfare, health and education policies which will ensure that this country is second to none. [More…]
We find this unacceptable and indeed incomprehensible coming from this Government or indeed any government claiming to have a mandate from the community, claiming to have a moral commitment for those more dependent than most upon actions of government for their welfare. [More…]
I should like the House to compare that record with the Labor Government’s record in 3 years of government, 3 years in which the most significant achievements were made in the field of social welfare. [More…]
I should have thought that the honourable member for Oxley would have been better engaged if he had made some constructive criticisms of the legislation and of the future of the social welfare policies because that is what we are dealing with and that is why we are here. [More…]
We are here to try to assist the Government or to criticise the Government about improvements in the social welfare policy and not to live in the past. [More…]
I will concede, as the honourable member for Oxley seemed to have some pleasure in pointing out, that the Labor Party did do some good things in the area of social welfare when it was in office. [More…]
I would also like to read into the record just 4 points in the social welfare policy which was unanimously adopted by the Liberal and Country parties. [More…]
The third part of our social welfare policy is this: [More…]
To some extent those grants are now provided by State government welfare organisations. [More…]
For that reason we have put into our social welfare policy that we will remove from voluntary organisations the burden of providing emergency cash assistance, without infringing their ability to provide it. [More…]
Even if one dismisses the humanitarian grounds on which I am speaking, surely on a hard, economic, cost benefit analysis the Government’s case is unanswerable because that woman would have then gone off social welfare benefits and would have been earning wages and paying taxes. [More…]
I realise that in a Liberal-National Country Party Government, social welfare does not always enjoy the highest priorities. [More…]
Another misconception is that a Labor government is the only government which can possess an enlightened social welfare policy. [More…]
I had referred to the magnanimity of the previous Government in matters of social welfare and I was asking how magnanimous was it when it created the highest level of unemployment since the Depression. [More…]
Further, how enlightened was the Labor Government’s social welfare policy when that Government’s permissiveness caused the highest level of inflation in this country’s history. [More…]
Where is the enlightened welfare policy in a government which imposes that rate of inflation on pensioners? [More…]
That figure was expressed in 1973-74 money terms and did not include all Labor’s welfare programs. [More…]
I am prepared to admit that in the past both Liberal and Labor Governments have not treated welfare recipients as well as they might have. [More…]
Surely that is a desirable economic and welfare objective. [More…]
Even the nature of the pension itself should be considered periodically and outside the constraints of contemporary or conventional welfare thinking. [More…]
I am pleased to support both Bills and the thrust of the Government’s social welfare policy generally. [More…]
The thrust of the policy is, firstly, to concentrate resources on areas of need and secondly, to preserve the real value of pensions and other major welfare benefits. [More…]
How the House must miss the former honourable member for Perth, Mr Joe Berinson, who was steeped in a genuine understanding of social welfare and social security matters and who worked assiduously to formulate Labor’s policy in these areas which the honourable member for Perth had the temerity to disparage. [More…]
Great initiatives were taken in rehabilitation training allowance, supplementary rent pension, abolition of the means test, assistance to the handicapped, home care for the elderly, support for senior citizen centres and subsidies for the welfare officers who service them, Meals on Wheels, assistance for homeless men and matters of that kind. [More…]
One of the things that happens- this is a criticism of State governmentsis that every time there is an increase in the pension, the tenants of Housing Commission houses or flats, welfare housing, in Victoria at any rate, always have their rentals raised and this generally absorbs most of the increase. [More…]
The commitment was contained in the Government’s social welfare policy. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development aware that under the direction of the former Federal Labor Government 70 per cent of welfare houses built by the States and funded by the Commonwealth were available on only a rental basis? [More…]
Social welfare worker Graeme Brewer of the Brotherhood of St Laurence has found that the ratio of jobless people to job vacancies stands at 1 1 to one, and for young people it is even higher. [More…]
I speak with some sorrow and some unabated anger on this occasion: Sorrow at the decision, but determined to accept it, and unabated anger at the cant and hypocrisy that we have seen from honourable members opposite who, once again, turn the welfare of the pensioners of Australia, which I regard as a most serious matter, into yet another debate which has been prostituted by their treating the pensioners of this country as a political football. [More…]
Pensioners or people needing assistance were getting $ 1 out of every $4 spent on the social welfare program. [More…]
It is an issue that in my own electorate has caused those constituents who are pensioners to be concerned about our social welfare objectives and our direction. [More…]
I too have felt that the withdrawal of this benefit may cast doubts on our overall aims in social welfare policy, but I know that the Government faces severe economic problems. [More…]
Although I support the decision now I have this to say: I urge the Government in its next review of social welfare benefits to look very closely at the gap that has been left by the withdrawal of this benefit. [More…]
I have to say that I believe it is only the first bite at achieving our social welfare objectives. [More…]
Certainly the States, with their access to their welfare organisations, police forces and so on, are in a better position to take a spot judgment than is the Commonwealth. [More…]
Speakers on both sides of the Houses have made observations and suggestions on social welfare matters which I have noted, and I will make sure that the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) in the other place is made aware of them. [More…]
He accused us of dismantling and distorting the social welfare program, of breaking promises and of dealing coldly and harshly with pensioners. [More…]
Previously the Social Welfare Commission was also represented; but, in view of the abolition of the Commission in the near future, it will not have continuity of representation in that Committee. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, these 2 Bills represent the first step of the Government in achieving its social welfare and repatriation policy objectives. [More…]
On 13 September 1974- in the heyday of the former Administration- the then Minister for Housing and Construction, who interjected a moment or two ago, said that so far as welfare housing was concerned he would provide a bottomless pit of funds. [More…]
In fact, in the Hayden Budget of last August welfare housing funds were cut back by $20.8m which, having regard to the rate of inflation, certainly was a very much larger figure then than it is now. [More…]
This area has now been covered by the present Government, which is determined to look after the welfare not only of the building industry but of the young home builders and the industrial builders of this nation. [More…]
I have to say that I believe it is only the first bite at achieving our social welfare objectives. [More…]
The honourable member said that this was the first step towards the Government achieving its social welfare objectives. [More…]
He said that this was the first step toward achieving the Government’s social welfare objectives. [More…]
I take it that the honourable member’s social welfare objectives are exactly the same as those of the honourable member for Denison and those of all other honourable members on the Government side now. [More…]
But what an admission on the part of the honourable member for Denison and the honourable member for Franklin- this step was only the first bite at achieving the Government’s social welfare objectives. [More…]
What benefit received by pensioners is this Government going to abolish next as the second bite of its social welfare objectives? [More…]
We appointed the social welfare commission and did other things. [More…]
I too have felt that the withdrawal of this benefit may cast doubts on our overall aims in social welfare policy, but I know that the Government faces severe economic problems. [More…]
For interest sake I add that the Regular Defence Forces Welfare Association has communicated with my constituent saying: [More…]
They are of the mistaken view that their own welfare would be best served under a 95 per cent content plan. [More…]
He tells us he is going to put value back in the welfare dollar, whatever that may mean. [More…]
People from the Social Welfare Department, which is a State organisation in Victoria, visit there regularly. [More…]
It is called the Dallas Welfare and Youth Services [More…]
There is really no primary responsibility on the Commonwealth, apart from and distinct from that which is the responsibility of local government, State government, State government welfare agencies and the like, to do anything differently in respect of Aboriginals than it would do in respect of other members of the community who, by their anti-social misbehaviour, bring themselves into ill repute with their neighbours. [More…]
There are programs within the welfare agencies of government and there are activities which local government can undertake to help Aboriginals who are housed under this national housing program embarked upon by this Government as it has been embarked upon by previous governments. [More…]
I preface my question to the Treasurer by saying that he would be aware that in the last year of the McMahon Government $167m was made available to the States under the Commonwealth and State Housing Agreement and that over the last 2 years of the Whitlam Government the average amount for welfare housing was $375m. [More…]
He mentioned the figure of $375m and I assume he was referring to welfare housing. [More…]
Joint planning, and even conduct, of schools by educational, health, welfare, cultural and sporting agencies could provide additional facilities for the school, allow the community access to its resources, and thus generally increase its fruitfulness. [More…]
We heard from a former Minister for Education, the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley), one who has had a long-standing, and in many respects a passionate interest in the educational welfare of Australian children. [More…]
All tentative planning activities in the welfare field will be affected seriously by any definitive, comprehensive and authoritative statements concerning population projections. [More…]
Firstly many eminent demographers would contend that the population size and the ultimate population size is only going to be of relative consideration- relative to the standards of living we want, relative to productivity, relative to what governments do to ensure the welfare of their citizens and relative to economic strategy in relation to unemployment and inflation. [More…]
The Labor initiatives in the social welfare field at one stage made Australia attractive to immigrants but the Government has now, I believe- I think we can be critical of this-attempted to dismantle the Labor initiatives in that social welfare area. [More…]
That means that payments to people on social welfare in those countries are far in excess of what we can offer. [More…]
Staats, former consultant to the Social Welfare Commission, of the changing composition of the Australian workforce. [More…]
Family unity, growth centres, welfare and other requirements, representations on bodies that affect the welfare of their own future and representations throughout the occupational structures that give a voice to the individuals are some of the matters to which I make reference. [More…]
Then with the increase in these interest rates we saw a growing demand for welfare housing. [More…]
Sir, it would not be inappropriate to conclude on this note: You, as the honourable member for Herbert, my honourable friend the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean), the honourable and gallant member for Isaacs (Mr Hamer), Senator Devitt and Senator Maunsell- 3 honourable members from this place and 2 senators from the other placehave continued to show a very lively and a very compassionate interest in the welfare of exservicemen and in particular in securing the appropriate adjustments to the pension entitlements of ex-servicemen. [More…]
I hope that the Minister will be looking at a number of the practical effects of the legislation concerning the regulatory bodies that he has responsibility for in his portfolio and ensure that in the coming review of the trade practices legislation and any other reviews he might be conducting of other regulatory bodies, he will seek to ensure that they are acting consistently and in the best interests of efficiency and the welfare of the community. [More…]
These include: the views of Regional Councils for Social Development the Report of the Social Welfare Commission on the AAP reports from independent evaluators appointed by the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
comments by the Department of Social Security which has been responsible for the administration of the program over most of the pilot period comments from State Governments comments from Local Government Authorities and their Associations comments from voluntary welfare organisations and private citizens. [More…]
It is planned to hold conferences with representatives of State Government Departments concerned with welfare matters and also with representatives of Local Government Associations in April 1976. [More…]
Until that happens, there can be no confidence in the industry, there can be no advance in the employment opportunities and there can be no reversal of the present trend towards the dismantling of one of the industries which is basic to the welfare of this country. [More…]
Even though my financial interest in the industry and in the company is not very great, I will admit, I do feel a great degree of commitment to the welfare of the Australian beef industry. [More…]
It is unfortunate, however, that some of the matters raised by you don’t seem to have been properly answered by the Social Welfare Commission’s ‘Green Paper’. [More…]
The Western Adelaide Regional Council for Social Development has at its disposal $456,000 to be given to the community in grants to support community welfare activities. [More…]
1.3 The AAP should be seen as complementing other planning mechanisms which may be established between the Commonwealth Government and State Governments within the social welfare sector. [More…]
1.8 The AAP provides some financial resources to be allocated by the Regional Councils for Social Development by way of grants for community welfare activities. [More…]
However, this is not the major source of welfare grants. [More…]
Other specific Commonwealth Government programs such as Community Health, Child Care, Community Arts, Tourism and Recreation, and the Aged and Handicapped Persons programs, for example, are the main source of funds for particular aspects of community welfare. [More…]
The Western Adelaide Regional Council of Social Development is fortunate to have amongst its members such notable people as 3 local Mayors, a number of Aldermen, several medical practitioners, a Regional Director of the Department of Community Welfare, a member of Parliament, Chairman of Community Councils for Social Development, a Superintendent of Police, a Baptist Minister and other activists in the community. [More…]
May I quote further from the same statement: ‘The Liberal and National Country Parties reiterate their commitment to supporting and enlarging participation in the decision-making structures relating to the AAP and reaffirm their commitment to the on-going nature of the Plan as a means of assisting individuals, groups and areas in greatest need of social welfare assistance at the community level . [More…]
‘We are in favour of increased funds for social welfare projects and agree that the AAP is, basically, a suitable vehicle through which social welfare funds may be channelled to the community . [More…]
May I on this occasion also quote from the official Liberal and National Country Parties Social Welfare Policy Document: ‘We welcomed the introduction of the Australian Assistance Plan, because we believed that provision of some Commonwealth funds and assistance would act as a catalyst for citizen involvement in positive community service. [More…]
Let me stress once more that due to the representation of all three levels of government and non-government voluntary community welfare agencies the Western Adelaide Regional Council for Social Development serves very well the role of a co-operating and liaising body which does not impose its views on the community but is representative of community opinion. [More…]
Most importantly, it cuts across what now is becoming increasingly clear- the aspirations and the welfare of the East Timorese. [More…]
On the contrary, a scheme like the current one which is production orientated gives the larger grower a larger proportion of the funds available and the smaller grower receives only a small amount of the funds available which, in many cases, just becomes a form of welfare assistance rather than viable support to take growers over the hump of any particular crisis. [More…]
As Commonwealth social welfare benefits are not available to growers because of the work test, the stabilisation payments in many cases are just a substitute for this kind of benefit. [More…]
Therefore, as a welfare measure, the scheme has not been at all satisfactory. [More…]
This is welfare in another form, is it not? [More…]
Quite frequently their only regret is that they did not make the decision much sooner and that they delayed the decision for far too long, to the detriment of the welfare of their families. [More…]
There are also pockets of depression within our rural industries and, I suppose, not only within our apple industries, where one must suggest that some sort of a welfare payment be considered. [More…]
He criticised the form of support in this legislation, which is on what I call the productive unit basis, as not being as advantageous as what he called welfare assistance. [More…]
If this form of assistance is not the most beneficial and somehow or other the claims of the Australian Labor Party that welfare assistance is better are true, could members of the Opposition suggest what they would do? [More…]
In the time they were in office they did not introduce any successful welfare measure for agriculture, including a most important one, that is, the provision of unemployment benefits for self-employed people. [More…]
To our discredit we also have not introduced any measure to overcome this most unjust provision in our social security legislation that self-employed people are automatically deprived by regulation of any form of assistance through the welfare system and, in particular, unemployment benefits. [More…]
By and large, it was my clear impression from comments of people in the voluntary welfare area who were committed to the provision of accommodation for the aged, that they believed that we had been a particularly generous government in the provision of assistance in this area. [More…]
I note that a former Minister for Social Welfare has returned to the chamber in the backbenches of the Government. [More…]
Another aspect I wish to raise is the overall achievement in the field of social security and welfare by the Labor Government. [More…]
I do not believe that we created a soft society by taking so many initiatives in the field of welfare and providing more generous benefits in the field of welfare. [More…]
It is not the sort of welfare initiative which gets votes but it is the sort of welfare initiatives which satisfies one greatly because one realises that one has discharged a very important moral obligation in society to do something for the very serious social casualties that we do have in our community, and to help the very worthwhile people who dedicate their lives to helping the men and women who are homeless and who are drifting in the community, often in a situation of that nature because of some sort of crisis that has occurred in their life. [More…]
In 197 1-72 when we came into office the percentage of gross domestic product spent on social security and welfare was 4.4. [More…]
I think it is a very harsh, a very brutal and very insensitive society that does not accept the point of view that there are people in this community who, in spite of all we did, are still not being reached by the programs of welfare which are available, and that more needs to be done, not the least of which is the introduction of some sort of guaranteed income concept. [More…]
-The honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden), who just spoke, referred to the great achievement of the Labor Government in increasing the percentage of gross domestic product spent on social welfare. [More…]
He also referred to what he believed was one thing that the Labor Government had done; it had not made Australia a soft society in spite of this increase in social welfare. [More…]
Also, if one looks at the increase in the percentage of GDP spent on social welfare one sees that a significant percentage of that increase was spent on unemployment benefits which was made necessary by the massive increase in unemployment through the maladministration of that Government. [More…]
So one can agree with the honourable member but still look for the real cause of soft societies which spend a great percentage on unemployment benefits and on social welfare. [More…]
In many cases government expenditure has not achieved the same degree of welfare assistance that could be achieved by a closer look at people going into the homes and by the proper priority of capital expenditure in the first place. [More…]
I believe that it represents an isolated element of benevolence on the part of the Government in the area of social welfare- a government which in other respects is mounting an assault on social welfare. [More…]
We stand at the cross-roads in many respects in the provision of welfare services. [More…]
One of the by-products of the Labor Party’s unfortunate difficulties was that much welfare housing was cut back and that in turn helped to cut back some of the building industry activity itself. [More…]
Nowadays we need to ensure that we spend our money on welfare matters in the best way. [More…]
It has a massive problem facing it in getting the economy going and directing welfare to areas of need. [More…]
The total welfare package is being developed by this Government to ensure that compassion is maintained. [More…]
I do not accept the proposition that welfare agencies in the Australian community or the aged people who are dependent upon this program are representative of the soft society, that this measure is necessary so that people will be saved from the moral degradation which flows from being victims of the soft society. [More…]
The community welfare agencies which very grandly and proudly maintain these sorts of services, will find that financial assistance which we would have provided- we would have guaranteed that the program would have been finished in less than 3 years- in fact may not come within 5 or 6 years. [More…]
It is significant that the first welfare initiative by the Government was to reintroduce the superphosphate bounty for wealthy graziers like the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
When I was Minister for Social Security I used to sit on the front bench at question time and wonder why I received so few questions from the then Opposition- the LiberalNational Country Parties- on such a range of important welfare issues for which I was responsible. [More…]
In all these welfare issues that have been debated in the Parliament, I have noted that he has derived great hilarity from the concern expressed by the members of the Opposition about people affected by the discrimination and the unfairness of the burden which has been imposed on these sections of the community. [More…]
I believe that the report fully justifies the stand taken by the then Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Senator Cavanagh, who, against great odds and despite the reluctance of the Western Australian Premier, despite the reluctance of the Minister for Community Welfare in the Western Australian Government and despite the opposition of the Police Commissioner and the Deputy Police Commissioner, persisted with the idea of probing this unfortunate incident. [More…]
Indeed, since there has been large scale evidence of bad treatment of Aboriginal people by the courts, the police, institutional people and many others associated with justice, I sought at the request of the Aboriginal Legal Service and a large number of other legal people and persons involved with social welfare organisations to extend the terms of that inquiry past the Northern Territory on to a Australia wide basis. [More…]
We must provide country residents, wherever possible, with basic services (education, welfare, health, culture and recreation). [More…]
That was the Social Welfare Commission- for an outstanding document and I extend my appreciation to the Minister for embracing it and its philosophies. [More…]
A commitment to continue the AAP was in the social welfare policy of the Parties. [More…]
I am particularly concerned that Australia may be in for a period of open ended welfare funding. [More…]
The demands on the welfare vote are showing signs of increasing by very large amounts. [More…]
The amount allocated for the function of social security and welfare in 1965-66 was $933m. [More…]
So the amount of Commonwealth Government outlays for the social security and welfare function was about 18 per cent of the total outlays. [More…]
In the present financial year, under the last Labor administration, the amount allocated to the social security and welfare function is close to $5,000m. [More…]
The figure for the social security and welfare function is approaching 25 per cent of total expenditure. [More…]
So in 10 years the outlays on the social security and welfare function have risen from 18 per cent to an amount roughly equivalent to 25 per cent. [More…]
Welfare spending increased steadily in the 1960s. [More…]
The trend, rather than getting better, is expected to get worse, barring a sudden and drastic overhaul of the whole welfare state. [More…]
I believe that Australia needs to look at welfare and at the emotional and extreme demands on Federal Government outlays in this direction. [More…]
I think we must determine a level of welfare spending which is acceptable to the community and to the Government. [More…]
Then we must allocate that amount of money among all our competing welfare functions, in much the same way that there is an acceptable figure for the amount of money that ought to be spent on defence. [More…]
I am horrified at the prospect of the politically sensitive area of welfare putting increasing pressure upon the Parliament and upon the Government m relation to the expenditure outlays which the Parliament is called upon to allocate. [More…]
We must accept the fact that we cannot allow to develop in Australia a situation which would be anywhere near similar to the American experience where something in excess of 50 per cent of the federal Government’s outlays are going one way or another into the area of welfare. [More…]
Often it is increased by political activity, by bidding up and by the creeping welfare. [More…]
I do not use that word disparagingly, but the welfare commitment tends to creep. [More…]
I think it is particularly important that we take note of it in this welfare area. [More…]
One of the factors which has affected the American experience has been the collapse of the capacity of the city to carry its welfare programs, which was the historical means by which welfare was financed in that country. [More…]
In Australia a not dissimilar situation has occurred in recent years with regard to State welfare programs being substantially taken over by Federal funding, in some instances- I would think significant instances- without a greater expenditure of actual funds on welfare services. [More…]
If you were to say to these people who find a burden the amount that they are now paying in rates out of their weekly wage that they should in turn provide themselves with their own social welfare programs it would seem very incongruous. [More…]
So it is very important for the whole welfare of Australia that these industries be kept on a sound basis. [More…]
First of all, there are the ordinary welfare payments, which took up about $6,000m in the last Budget. [More…]
Then there are the socially oriented enterprises, such as health, education and general welfare. [More…]
What a curious idea particularly when even the Opposition must by now recognise that it was a failure of the private sector in Australia to earn profits- this was under the Labor Government’s profit bashing activitieswhich brought about a diminution in the pool of resources from which we were trying to pay for welfare, from which we were trying to meet all the demands of our society. [More…]
If you do not replenish that pool, if you do not provide the money or the national wealth from which to meet the demands of welfare, if you keep paying with non-existent Hayden cheques on a nonexistent bank account, then you simply destroy out society. [More…]
It is the extent to which any government’s capacity to make welfare payments to the needy in the society is being diminished by the massive cost of making those payments, the huge rises in administrative costs. [More…]
An increasing amount of its moneymoney that should be going in welfare payments -is now going in administrative costs. [More…]
There were massive increases and, I would submit, to a large degree inefficient increases in the actual methods by which welfare was handed out. [More…]
We are seeing money that we would have hoped might have been available for welfare ending up in the hands of the postal authorities which are now, of course, in a separate organisation. [More…]
It strikes me that this is a most unfortunate feature of what inflation does to our capacity to pay welfare to the community of this nation. [More…]
As a result, $100m of the social welfare vote is to go into the area of administration and salaries instead of to pensioners. [More…]
It is obvious that a large proportion of this amount would have to go to the administrators anyway no matter how well organised the payment of welfare was in this nation. [More…]
What I do say is that many of the welfare benefits that over the years have made up a large part of the spectrum of welfare in Australia are inefficient. [More…]
Many welfare payments, particularly small once off payments for special historically sound but now economically unreasonable benefits, simply cost too much to administer because of the massive rise in wages that has taken place, particularly over the last 3 years of uncontrolled and irresponsible inflation. [More…]
It strikes me that when we are looking at ways of saving money, or conversely of increasing the proportion of the welfare vote that actually goes to pensioners or to others in receipt of welfare, surely we should be examining how to make certain that these inefficient benefits can be replaced by efficient ones. [More…]
In other words, I am suggesting that there are many opportunities for looking at the efficiency of welfare payments, many of which could well be removed because they involve single one off payments or are expensive to issue. [More…]
In other words, although not taking anything away from welfare we should make certain that the bulk of the welfare money goes to the people who should be receiving it. [More…]
We cannot afford, and the pensioners of this nation cannot afford, to see such ever increasing proportions of the welfare dollar going in salaries and administrative costs. [More…]
When talking about the pool from which welfare money is distributed- that is, the pool of accumulated profits of the society and wages earned in the society as a result of active profitability and an active private sector- the PA Consulting Services Pty Limited report on business profitability showed that almost three out of every four industry groups in Australia suffered a lower return on shareholders funds after tax and interest in the latest year. [More…]
It has attacked our capacity to have the resources to pay welfare. [More…]
Let us now look at ways by which we can improve our payment of welfare, within the constraints that have been set upon us by the chaotic and inefficient economic policy of the last 3 years. [More…]
They are churned through the National Welfare Account, I believe it is called. [More…]
More than a quarter of the money allocated for the Migrant Social Welfare Advisory Council-$4,000 out of $14,000-has been cut. [More…]
Grants to organisations for welfare rights services have been cut by one-fifth. [More…]
A cut of $127,000 is to be made in the allocation of $437,000 for research on special projects for the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
I have said repeatedly that essential programs in health, education, welfare and urban development will be maintained. [More…]
Medibank- intended as a full, automatic free service for all Australians, the birthright of all Australian citizens, the entitlement of every migrant to Australia- will become a second-best welfare scheme for a minority only. [More…]
They mean reduced services to the public in health, social welfare and education, and reduced employment opportunities both in the private and public sector at a time when hundreds of thousands are out of work. [More…]
system does not result in a minimisation of social costs there will be a welfare loss to the community. [More…]
As the convention says in its preamble, it is a convention concerned with the health and welfare of mankind. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention also been drawn to the statement of the Prime Minister, that the needy should not rely on welfare; if so, will he elaborate on this statement. [More…]
The Waterside Workers Federation in particular saw it as an additional hindrance to its aim of improving the welfare of its members and were, indeed still are, particularly resentful at the role the ASAI played in inflicting penalties on wharfies that were harsher than any that applied to other workers throughout the nation under the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
Members of the Labor Opposition are always mouthing platitudes about social priorities in welfare, education, urban renewal and so on, but from the way they talk one would think that they want to dissipate the recovery in a consumer boom. [More…]
If there is one source in this country which has more information about our nation, our people, our national resources and our economic welfare at any moment of time that source is the Bureau of Statistics. [More…]
Soil and water are ultimate resources on which much of the nation’s economic activity and welfare depend. [More…]
The losses caused by soil erosion are: Firstly, to the land itself; secondly, to other lands; thirdly, to public utilities and public authorities; and fourthly, to the national economy and the welfare of the community as a whole. [More…]
This action did malicious damage to the wine industry and has placed the future viability of wine makers and the welfare of many producers at risk. [More…]
Maybe the featherbedding will be at the expense of a lot of other general welfare in the community. [More…]
The expression ‘child of a marriage’ has been limited to the natural or adopted children of both parties to the marriage, although the existing, wider meaning has been retained for the purposes of section 63, which prevents a divorce becoming absolute unless the court is satisfied as to the welfare of children of the marriage. [More…]
This would make sure, for example, that the Department for Community Welfare in South Australia may continue to take maintenance proceedings on behalf of persons to whom it pays pension. [More…]
Two amendments in the child welfare area have been included in the Bill at the request of the former New South Wales Government. [More…]
One of these ensures that a child who is under the guardianship of a State or Territory Director of Child Welfare while awaiting adoption cannot be the subject of a maintenance or custody order except in special circumstances. [More…]
At present the Act confines this exemption to children who are under the care and control of a Minister pursuant to State or Territory child welfare legislation. [More…]
Health and Welfare programmes will be protected against inflation. [More…]
So far as the major point of the honourable gentleman’s question is concerned, that is to say the family allowances and the major increase in child endowment, if I may say so, Mr Speaker, that is one of the most significant measures of social welfare introduced in this country by any government. [More…]
The vast improvements to the lives of so many Australians brought about by the intervention of government in Health schemes, social security programs, welfare housing and so on are ignored. [More…]
It is determined to put some limit on the blank cheque that has been signed in relation to Medibank because it knows perfectly that if the expenditure on Medibank is allowed to grow at its present rate it will grow so fast that the money needed for it can come only from future education and welfare. [More…]
The Government is also providing an increase- a large increase- in child endowment, which will be paid to the mothers of children in areas in which there is real need and in which the private welfare agencies have said that such payment is so necessary. [More…]
On television last night he was asked about his undertaking that education, health, welfare and urban programs would be retained. [More…]
By promising that health, education, welfare and urban programs would not be curtailed in the present financial year the Government was able to disguise its intentions for subsequent years. [More…]
I believe that there is a prospect- a little prospect perhaps, but growing into a bigger one as the days go by- that those wise men in the trade union movement will help the Government to succeed in achieving goals that will improve the national development of this country and the welfare of most Australian people. [More…]
The so-called mini Budget has been presented to the man in the street as some great advance in welfare. [More…]
The package presented to the wage earnerthe plus items of wage indexation and increased endowment, combined with the minus of the Medibank levy and the loss of deductibility for children- was presented as a ‘sensible policy’ that would add to his, the wage earner’s, welfare. [More…]
This redistribution of social welfare assistance will not be as costly to the community as many people may think. [More…]
To sum up, it means that the new approach to social welfare will go where the need is greatestthat is, to the lower income group and to the disadvantaged. [More…]
In this way it is much more effective and much more equitable than any single social welfare measure introduced by the former Labor Government, despite the fact that that Government claimed a great deal of credit for what it did in this direction. [More…]
Admittedly, most of them will not be much worse off but there has not been an increase in their welfare. [More…]
Let us talk about the other advantages that will flow on and that will allow us, as a government, to be generous in relation to social welfare, as we have shown in the statement made by the Treasurer the other night, and that will help the Government to be most generous in relation to social welfare in the Budget next August and in subsequent years. [More…]
We will gain additional revenue without having to overtax the people and the additional revenue that we gain will go out to the people in the form of increased social welfare payments, increased pensions, better health services and better education. [More…]
But the Government has not introduced this measure because of any welfare motive. [More…]
The 2 Government parties have never been interested in welfare. [More…]
The Labor Party said during that period that what it would do was introduce pensions that were indexedour motivation was social welfare- so that they always kept their value. [More…]
I believe that the average Australian is concerned about national welfare and the overall interests of the nation. [More…]
We are one of the governments in the world which have acted to reduce their spending, to cut the size of the Public Service and to cut down on the open ended claims which people can make on welfare and other services. [More…]
It introduced the Medibank scheme, community health centres, welfare rights officers, and translator and interpreter services. [More…]
The family allowances plan obviously, therefore, has a dual benefit for the country: Firstly, it introduces a very real measure of social justice into our welfare system and, secondly, together with the impact of” personal income tax indexation, it will redirect resources to people in the community who have a much higher propensity to consume. [More…]
Only the remainder will be provided as a new direct subsidy to social welfare. [More…]
Secondly, I believe, and my Party believes, very strongly in the principle of a right to welfare benefits according to need and not according to any pompous and selfrighteous moral judgment as to the cause of a person’s deprivation or disadvantaged position. [More…]
He said that the Government is ignoring health schemes, social security programs, welfare and so on. [More…]
The new scheme of family allowances which benefits those worst off families the most is a major advance in social welfare in Australia and is recognised as such by all Australians. [More…]
That was never put more bluntly than it was in last Sunday’s Adelaide Sunday Mail in an article, under the heading ‘Welfare Minister ‘ ‘ shocked ‘ ‘, ‘ which said: ‘Shocked and bitterly disappointed’. [More…]
That was the reaction yesterday of South Australia’s Community Welfare Minister, Mr Payne, to the announcement by the Social Security Minister, Senator Guilfoyle, that the Federal Government would cease to provide funds for the Australian Assistance Plan after 12 months from 1 July. [More…]
[Under AAP, introduced by the previous Labor Government, the Commonwealth provided financial help for community welfare programs through the Regional Councils in which there was considerable local community participation.] [More…]
I believe that the new system is a real advance in our social welfare program, bearing in mind that it provides that the taxpayer no longer has the right to claim tax deductions for his dependent children. [More…]
I was one of those who participated at great length in the introduction of Medibank when I was Chairman of the then Government Members Welfare Committee. [More…]
The new family allowances are probably the most far-reaching welfare step taken by any government since Federation. [More…]
I say to all Australians, particularly to social workers and to people in the welfare field, that we really care. [More…]
I say that we are more concerned about real welfare than any other Parry in Australia. [More…]
Our social welfare policy and approach seek to enhance the security, dignity and self-reliance of each individual. [More…]
We therefore welcome the substantial moves in recent years by several States into the provision of more comprehensive family and community welfare services . [More…]
much of the administration of welfare should be carried out by local communities under the leadership of local governments, but the responsibility for ensuring that no one in any locality is neglected is a State responsibility. [More…]
Senator Baume, the chairman of the Government supporters welfare committee, or whatever it is called, gave an assurance that none of the Government senators would cross the floor. [More…]
It is designed basically to restore the pool of wealth from which this nation can pay its welfare, from which it can pay for all the things that it should be doing in the total welfare area. [More…]
The simple proposition is that if we do not have an economy that is in fact stimulated, an economy that is working hard, an economy that is producing revenue and gross domestic product, we do not have the surpluses available to put back into welfare. [More…]
It is not simply a question of saying ‘too much of the cake is going to the business sector, let us put some into welfare’. [More…]
As I see it the problem we now face is how to make certain that we replenish the pool with funds so that we can in fact go ahead with many of the welfare initiatives that I believe were quite properly supported by the Labor Government. [More…]
My complaint with those welfare initiatives is that the Labor Government endeavoured to pay for them with non-existent money. [More…]
My complaint is that the Labor Government destroyed our capacity to pay for those welfare initiatives. [More…]
Having built up the expectations of the people of Australia those initiatives must now be deferred until we can restore the wealth of society- the wealth of this nation- sufficiently to be able to pay for those welfare projects. [More…]
It will lead us to a far better economy and a far better nation- a nation that can afford more and more welfare that is real rather than illusory. [More…]
In studies sponsored by the United States Department of Health Education and Welfare, comparisons between Federal employees who are covered by Blue Cross (where doctors receive a fee for service) and those enrolled in a prepaid group health plan (where the physicians are paid the same amount whether they operate or not) showed that - [More…]
This coutry has been witness to, some of the most severe and, in many cases, quite unjustified expenditure cuts on very worthwhile community programs, in such areas as health, welfare, education and urban improvement. [More…]
One of its first and highest priorities when it came into government in the welfare field was to reintroduce the $30m superphosphate bounty. [More…]
At the same time, a whole range of important community welfare programs-health services, health benefits- were cut back and made more expensive because they were given a lower priority in the eyes of the Prime Minister. [More…]
Under the arrangements of the Queensland Government some royalties are payable into a welfare fund for all the Aborigines of Queensland as a result of mining at Aurukun. [More…]
When it was pointed out to the Minister (a) that nobody would regard it as compensation for the owner of a property if that owner were European to inform him that his property was being disposed of for the benefit of all the people of Queensland and he would have his share in that, and (b) that it would be perfectly easy to use the royalties in a welfare fund as a means of reducing the payment of other consolidated revenue into the fund, to no ultimate real benefit to Aborigines, the Minister made a priceless reply. [More…]
The authors also wish to pay tribute to Sister A. Cameron of Aurukun mission and Sister I. C. Black of Doomadgee mission, the results of whose dedicated work in health and infant welfare over many years are recorded in this paper. [More…]
Last Tuesday, I think it was, the honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Antony Whitlam) and I, as members of the Opposition’s welfare committee, met with delegates of the Australian Hospitals Association. [More…]
The final report of the Social Welfare Commission noted this very attitude when it said: [More…]
In making choices we have been concerned to protect areas such as welfare payments where people are affected as individuals or areas especially important to opportunity, such as education where real growth in expenditure will be encompassed especially in areas related to the trades which have been so much neglected even under the previous Administration. [More…]
Look at the social welfare area. [More…]
In future every mother will be able to plan for her family’s welfare, more confident in the knowledge that a Reserve Bank cheque will be paid direct to her in accordance with the scale. [More…]
Probably the most devastating effect of the mini-Budget proposals in that rentals on government welfare housing will be increased to the level of rental charges in the private sector. [More…]
There are still many thousands of people in Canberra waiting for adequate housing and there is no justification whatever for cutting back on the welfare housing program or on funds available for Commissioner for Housing loans. [More…]
Despite the difficulties the Fraser Government has introduced the most radical social welfare reforms since the introduction of the old age pension. [More…]
Incidentally, these are all groups which the previous Labor Government of compassion and concern, to use its own well-known phraseology, ignored and oppressed even further because of inflation of its own making and because of its construction of a welfare bureaucracy which ensured that the minimum of money, in fact, reached those most in need. [More…]
Let those honourable members and others in the community who are concerned for the Aborigines in Australia take note of this: Of every dollar spent on Aboriginal welfare only 13c ever reached the Aboriginal people. [More…]
We have pruned Government spending by a projected $2 billion without disturbing essential welfare programs, as we promised in the campaign of last December. [More…]
In the 3 years Australia laboured under a Labor Government there was an unprecedented transfer of resources- from profits to wages and welfare; from the private to the public sector. [More…]
One of the Henderson reports on Aboriginal welfare stated: . [More…]
In the process, it is becoming a lucrative business- for professional welfare workers, administrators, researchers and consultants. [More…]
The very young and the very old had become a greater charge on the taxpayers along with the army of professional welfare workers, administrators, researchers and consultants, child minding centres and staffs and nursing homes. [More…]
I also believe that social welfare programs such as the Australian Assistance Plan must be pruned to realistic levels before the Australian people lose their initiative and independence altogether and settle for a way of life based on handouts, as they were encouraged to do by our predecessors. [More…]
Such welfare payments as are required to help the genuinely needy should be made in some way that will ensure that they get directly to those who need them, without passing through a chain of bureaucratic middlemen. [More…]
I would like to see the Government do the same with all other welfare policies. [More…]
In practice the power and responsibilities of that guardianship have been delegated to the Director-General, the Department of Community Welfare in South Australia, and to the principal officers of the relevant child welfare authorities in other States and Territories. [More…]
Hence the welfare and status of these children will continue to be protected. [More…]
The Minister, in association with child welfare authorities, is concerned to do whatever is possible within her powers to facilitate the adoption of the many children such as these and in fact already has signed some 90 orders which have the effect, by exempting the children from the provisions of the Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Act, and hence the guardianship of the Minister, of permitting the due legal processes in the States or Territories to determine whether adoption applications may be approved. [More…]
Exhaustive enquiries are made by the child welfare authorities and considerable delays can occur before the Courts or, in the case of Queensland, the Director of Children’s Services, who is the approving authority in that State, can consider these applications. [More…]
Delays can occur because of the sheer volume of work imposed on social workers and other staff in the offices of the State and Territory child welfare authorities, or in getting the matter before the court. [More…]
Any enquiries about these matters should be directed to the relevant State of Territory child welfare authority. [More…]
The addresses of the principal officers of the child welfare authorities in each State and Territory appear at the end of this statement. [More…]
For the above reasons, people interested in sponsoring a child from overseas for the purpose of adoption or who are proposing to adopt a child overseas, should in the first instance, seek advice from the child welfare authorities in their State or Territory of residence. [More…]
It is for this reason that people contemplating adopting a child overseas should seek the advice of the child welfare authority of the State or Territory in which they reside before initiating any adoption action overseas. [More…]
Additionally, those people who have adopted a child overseas should similarly consult the child welfare authorities in the State or Territory where they reside, as otherwise problems for that child may occur in the future if the adoption is not recognised. [More…]
Since 1952, by agreement with the State and Territory authorities, those powers and functions of guardianship of the Federal Minister for Social Security under the Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Act, have been delegated to the principal officers of the relevant State and Territory child welfare authorities excepting the power of delegation. [More…]
In the case of adoption, the preparation of a recommendation by a State or Territory Child Welfare authority involves a careful examination of the situation which can be a lengthy process. [More…]
This will enable child welfare authorities to take all the necessary action in connection with adoption, marriage or departure from Australia without the necessity of referring the matter to the Federal Minister for Social Security unless there are exceptional circumstances. [More…]
To ensure that the children’s welfare is safeguarded, the Minister for Social Security has requested that child welfare authorities continue to refer for attention, matters of an unusual nature or where malpractices occur, and has asked to be kept informed on a regular basis of the number of children in their State or Territory who are known to come within the provisions of that Act or are exempted therefrom. [More…]
At the conference of the Council of Ministers of Social Welfare at Darwin on 24 May 1976, it was agreed that a standing Committee of Australian Adoption Officers be established to assist States and Territories to liaise with the Federal Government and to consider matters affecting intercountry adoptions and other related issues. [More…]
The addresses of the relevant Child Welfare Authorities to whom all enquiries regarding adoption should be addressed, are as follows: [More…]
The article said that according to an analysis of the Friedman thesis- which has been followed to a great extent by this Government- welfare states with a high ratio of government expenditure are more prone to inflation than others. [More…]
I also have great pleasure in indicating, if the House is interested, that Mrs Marie Coleman, the Chairman of the Social Welfare Commissionwhich the previous Administration indicated that it wished to abolish- will be the first Director of the Office of Child Care. [More…]
Basically, the reasons were ones of enlightenment, progress and concern for the welfare of our fellow man- sympathies which the present reactionary forces opposite only glimpsed uncomprehendingly in the previous 3 years. [More…]
What a desperate collection of measures for a government that had the management of this industry for such a long period, and finds that it now must promote policies with a single purpose of a rapid contraction of production and welfare assistance. [More…]
If the provision of assistance to dairy farmers becomes a matter of choice between welfare measures such as unemployment benefits and a floor price for skim milk powder or the alternative, that is, imposing heavy taxes or levies on the viable parts of the industry such as the whole milk sector, then I would hope that the Minister would continue to favour the welfare measures rather than rob Peter to pay Paul. [More…]
She applied for welfare assistance and had to wait 6 months in order to qualify for social security benefit. [More…]
Having qualified for the social security benefit, she found that the Department took into consideration her welfare payments and the $15 a week. [More…]
Again it is suggested for future consideration that perhaps the Department of Social Security might pay the welfare benefit or the social security entitlement plus the amount awarded by the court on the basis that the Department of Social Security could recover that amount from the person compelled to pay the award and not have the unfortunate wife trying to enforce this arrangement. [More…]
1 believe it is important that at the very commencement of the proceedings it should be the duty of any judge, if he were satisfied that even the slightest possibility of reconciliation existed, to forthwith bring into operation the relevant section, as a good, permanent marriage and the security and the welfare of the children thereof is paramount to the wellbeing of any State. [More…]
It is quite apparent from Dr Lopert’s statement that she was very disturbed, not only that it embarrassed her but she was concerned for the welfare and safety of the patient. [More…]
We have to be diplomats and social welfare workers, and of course we have to make a contribution to this chamber as well. [More…]
The money is allocated to the States for purposes of housing, health, education, employment, welfare, enterprises, management, public utilities and recreation. [More…]
As the Minister said in his second reading speech, this is an anomalous situation which discriminates against people acquiring homes from the welfare housing authorities when people acquiring privately built homes with Commonwealth finance are not disqualified. [More…]
The Labor Government did build up enormous goodwill among people who benefited from welfare housing under the Commonwealth-States Housing Agreement. [More…]
It would seem that despite the action of the previous Government to solve the problem of welfare housing, that was impossible. [More…]
It did seem from the very limited information from the very limited number who were interviewed that a large proportion of those who said they would comply identified themselves as low income earners or people who were in receipt of welfare payments in some way, or could be in receipt of welfare payments, and who believed that the purpose of the census was to allow the Government to get better information on which to base policies which would be of help and assistance to them. [More…]
I want to use that example to urge that honourable members respect the program of community health and welfare centres started by Dr Everingham when he was Minister for Health in the last 2 Parliaments. [More…]
West Heidelberg is a good example of the success of these community health and welfare centres. [More…]
When the opportunity was given to them to say what they wanted for medical treatment and social work and residents of the area, who apparently were downgraded in this report, actively formed their own committee, got expert advice and put up a case to the Federal Government under the community health and welfare centre scheme for such a centre. [More…]
There too, despite the fact that social workers and the like would say that this is an area of great deprivation and with not a great initiative, the residents took the opportunity to ask for and receive from the last Government an appropriate health and community welfare centre which they are helping to manage and which they are using. [More…]
I feel that the aircraft- certainly the passengers- are constantly under threat from anything from did.geridoos to French umbrellas which, in the hands of a person deranged or with malicious intent, could imperil the welfare of the aircraft. [More…]
It is only through trying to develop that level of co-operation that we can effectively as a nation safeguard our national interests and the welfare of our people. [More…]
A. Staley, M.P.Minister for the Captal Territory; Senator the Honourable M. G. C. Guilfoyle- Minister for Social Security; the Honourable R. I. Viner, M.P.-Minister for Aboriginal Affairs; the Honourable R. Payne, M.P.-Minister of Community Welfare, South Australia; the Honourable B. Dixon, M.P.-Minister for Social Welfare and Youth, Sport and Recreation, Victoria; the Honourable J. Herbert, M.L.A.- Minister for Community Welfare Services, Queensland; the Honourable D. J. Baldock, M.H.A.- Minister for Housing and Social Welfare, Tasmania; the Honourable N. E. Baxter, M.P.-Minister for Community Welfare, Western Australia; the Honourable R. F. Jackson, M.P.-Minister for Youth and Community Services, New South Wales; the Honourable R. J. Walker, M.P.-Minister for Social Welfare, New Zealand. [More…]
(a) At the Conference of the Council of Social Welfare Ministers in Darwin on 21 May 1976 I outlined the Commonwealth Government’s decision on the Australian Assistance Plan as follows: ‘In the light of our consideration of all that has been done to evaluate the Plan, we believe that it is a worthwhile experiment in social planning and local action in determining welfare priorities. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government does not propose to make funds available for new community welfare projects but commitments on projects already approved, but not totally funded, will be met. [More…]
Beyond this, the Commonwealth does not propose further funding for the Australian Assistance Plan either for community welfare projects or for administration or development. [More…]
1 ) Has any ( a ) financial or ( b ) other assistance under the Australian Assistance Plan been received by (i) Australian Red Cross Society, (ii) Catholic Family Welfare Bureau (Victoria), (iii) Salvation Army, (iv) The Childrens Protection Society (Victoria ) and (v) International Social Service. [More…]
Has the Commonwealth Government extended to these descendants of the Kanakas the same welfare rights given to Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in the areas of health, education, housing and legal aid. [More…]
If revenue constraints are to be respected- as they will be by a responsible Government- gainers and losers will emerge whenever substantial changes are made to major welfare programs: it is not practicable for the law to take account of each and every variant in personal or domestic circumstances. [More…]
A further relevant point is that it is not possible to draw meaningful conclusions from such comparisons as to the ‘efficiency’ or ‘welfare ‘ of particular sectors of the Australian economy. [More…]
The terms of this recommendation are now receiving priority attention from the Aboriginal Affairs Co-ordinating Committee Health sub-committee which includes representatives of the Alcohol and Drug Authority, Community Health Services and the Department for Community Welfare. [More…]
Agreement has been reached between the State Housing Commission and the Department for Community Welfare to give priority in towns where reserve closure is planned and applicants appear to have potential. [More…]
Houses for use as training centres have been offered to the Department for Community Welfare by the State Housing Commission. [More…]
The Department for Community Welfare has indicated its intention to appoint as many homemakers as are required subject only to the availability of suitable personnel. [More…]
The Commission does obtain views of other agencies, including the Department for Community Welfare but does not accept that any other agency can determine standards for tenants. [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that while reports are being issued in relation to cut-backs in social welfare and the public service an additional $660 million is to be spent on the Army during the next 5 years. [More…]
If it has any concern for the welfare of the Australian people, it will admit its mistakes and think again. [More…]
I would despair if the health insurance field were left to a government monopoly because I am vitally interested in social welfare. [More…]
I have been publicly critical of some of the cutbacks that this Government has made in social welfare because I believe that from humanitarian and cost benefit points of view cutbacks in some areas are not sound common sense. [More…]
As honourable gentlemen will be aware, the States can spend those funds as they wish to increase their Public Service or to provide additional funds for welfare housing, sewerage or for whatever purpose they like. [More…]
As the honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Antony Whitlam) pointed out, if some honourable gentlemen were to take the trouble to talk to some of the deserted wives and supporting mothers who are being covered by our social welfare system, they would find that a lot of marriages break down through pressure of economic circumstances and through other pressures which have nothing to do with the period for which couples knew each other before they were married. [More…]
I have personally gathered information from housing commissions and housing trusts interstate and I have found that the provisions for government welfare housing in Canberra are in line with or better than those in the States. [More…]
On every front our measures in the area of social welfare have assisted the disadvantaged. [More…]
As one who has supported this addition strongly, and one who has supported an 87.75 per cent increase in social welfare funding in the Australian Capital Territory, I felt obliged to rise tonight to answer this partisan and propagandist statement. [More…]
But it is not just our economy or our social welfare programs that are at stake in this. [More…]
Land prices will go on soaring and social welfare and security programs like Medibank are under threat. [More…]
Unemployment does not matter; social welfare does not matter; depressed and needy industries do not matter. [More…]
There is no increase in welfare housing funds. [More…]
This is how it responds to the clearly expressed wish of the Australian people in 1967 that this Parliament should have responsibility for the welfare of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
The Government’s claim that the increased expenditure on social security will improve social security benefits and welfare services is simply untrue. [More…]
The Budget contains no funds for the social policy planning units established in the States to develop social welfare initiatives. [More…]
This Government would have us believe that the sole test of our prosperity, the sole measure of our personal welfare and security, and the sole limit of our individual aspirations, is in having money in our pockets. [More…]
Those governments ensure, not only that private enterprise prospers, but that individuals and families have a minimum standard of living and social welfare and that the private sector accepts its share of the cost of providing it. [More…]
4 reveals that the increase in personal income tax is comprised practically wholly of these 3 items: A rise in the work force of VA. per cent; higher incomes of 12 per cent provided by the Conciliation and Arbitration Commissionthe honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) who is interjecting encouraged the Arbitration Commission on, a number of notable occasions to grant larger increases- and, of course, as is well known, a dramatic increase this year in child endowment rates in response to those many private welfare agencies which have been advocating that as the greatest area of need. [More…]
It forgets that the revenues raised by governments from direct and indirect taxes in the private sector give governments the money needed to finance education, social welfare, health, roads, sewerage and so on. [More…]
It gives real increase in dollar terms in such priority areas as defence, which is up by 17.6 per cent, education, which is up by 15.3 per cent, and social security and welfare, which is up by 23.5 per cent. [More…]
Members of the Opposition must have been quite shattered last Tuesday evening- I am quite sure they still have not recovered- when they realised that all their verbal garbage during recent months, particularly during the last election campaign, about cuts that the Liberals would make in pensions, education and social welfare- (Quorum formed). [More…]
The honourable member referred to the 87.75 per cent increase in social welfare funding in the [More…]
This Bill will give effect to the Government’s decision, as announced by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) on 2 February 1976, to abolish the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
In reviewing the activities of over 50 bodies of various kinds which had been conducting inquiries for the Commonwealth, the Prime Minister said: … the Government has decided that the Social Welfare Commission and the Australian Housing Corporation, should be abolished while the functions of the Australian Development Assistance Agency and the road Safety and Standards Authority should be taken over by Government Departments. [More…]
The Social Welfare Commission was established as an interim committee by the Labor Government in early 1 973, and the Social Welfare Commission Act received the royal assent in November of that year. [More…]
In reaching its decision about the Social Welfare Commission the present Government was mindful of the fact that in June 1975 the then Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) had announced the Labor Government’s intention to abolish the Commission. [More…]
It is clear to the Government that the Social Welfare Commission is not required in a situation in which the Government, through its Ministers, will be determining priorities and maintaining direct communications on social welfare issues with State, local government and voluntary agencies and representatives of consumer groups. [More…]
For example, there are many voluntary welfare organisations which are playing an important role in commenting on the formulation of social welfare policy. [More…]
I will say a little more about our plans for improved consultation with the voluntary welfare sector in a few moments. [More…]
The Australian Council of Social Services (ACOSS), the Australian Council on the Ageing (ACOTA) and the Australian Council for the Rehabilitation of the Disabled (ACROD) Will receive- in 1976-77 grants totalling $0.45 m. In addition to the funding of these national bodies the Government supports a variety of other organisations in the welfare field. [More…]
The Social Welfare Commission did not directly administer any Commonwealth welfare programs. [More…]
The Government fully recognises the importance of social welfare in the life of the Australian community. [More…]
Accordingly,’ in order to ensure that adequate data is available for policy and planning purposes and that the best use is made of available resources, it is proposed to establish a social welfare research centre within the University of New South Wales. [More…]
As mentioned earlier, the Government is taking steps to fulfil its commitment to provide effective mechanisms for co-operation and interchange of ideas with interested groups in the social welfare field. [More…]
A national consultative group on social welfare is to be established to meet with the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) and her officers to discuss and advise on current issues in social welfare which come within the responsibility of the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
I envisage that the consultative group will have a membership of about 12 people comprising academics from relevant disciplines and other suitably qualified people active in the social welfare field, together with possibly one or two distinguished people with appropriate experience. [More…]
It will include representatives of national welfare bodies and voluntary social welfare agencies, and will be serviced by the Department of Social Security. [More…]
The basic welfare needs and problems of people are, in the main, similar throughout Australia but there are differences between States and, indeed, within the States. [More…]
It is accordingly proposed to establish a social welfare consultative committee in each State and Territory. [More…]
These committees will provide an input, in relation to the situation of people in each State, on problems or difficulties encountered in the administration of Commonwealth social security or social welfare programs at the State level. [More…]
This will ensure that the very valuable contribution which these groups can make in relation to the special needs of women is available to the Government in formulating its social welfare policies. [More…]
Further details of the consultative mechanisms proposed will be announced shortly but at this stage I can assure honourable members that our proposals will greatly strengthen our links with people and groups active in the welfare field. [More…]
In addition to the continuing involvement of the Department of Social Security in income security issues, routine monitoring and evaluation of welfare programs are being developed and upgraded within the Social Welfare Division of the Department. [More…]
The Government will continue to support independent inquiries which examine various aspects of the social welfare field. [More…]
These inquiries, of which the Poverty Inquiry and the National Superannuation Committee of Inquiry are examples, are particularly important in contributing to the development of social welfare policy. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that in 1972 the Liberal-Country Party Government commissioned, with the support of the State Ministers responsible for child and social welfare, a family research project within the University of New South Wales to undertake a series of studies directed towards understanding and documenting family disruption and breakdown and changing family patterns in Australia. [More…]
The Government has given undertakings that an examination would be made of activities of the Social Welfare Commission to ascertain the extent to which existing research projects and tasks would be continued. [More…]
We have also agreed to the funding of 2 additional research projects and 4 fellowships in welfare studies. [More…]
Two major areas into which a number of these projects have a substantial input are the development of services relating to families and social welfare manpower planning. [More…]
These studies are complementary to the work of the commission’s Family Services Committee on which is represented relevant departments at Federal and State levels, and the voluntary welfare sector. [More…]
In relation to social welfare manpower planning, present statistics concerning the workforce in the welfare field are not satisfactory. [More…]
The meeting of State Social Welfare Ministers held in Darwin on 2 1 May 1976 identified social welfare manpower planning as of vital importance and the Minister for Social Security has agreed to the Minister’s request that the work initiated by the Social Welfare Commission in this area be continued, with more direct involvement of the States as they are major users of welfare manpower. [More…]
Investigation will continue on the need for a national body to co-ordinate education in social welfare in Australia. [More…]
At the Darwin conference of Ministers there was also strong support for standardisation of social welfare statistics. [More…]
It was noted that there was great difficulty in arriving at priorities in social welfare or making any meaningful comparisons of welfare programs without having an adequate data base. [More…]
The Minister for Social Security agreed that her department should undertake work immediately in this area seeking the co-operation of the Australian Bureau of Statistics in setting up a working party, comprising representatives of relevant Commonwealth and State government departments, to examine questions of the standardisation and adequacy of social welfare statistics and the desirability of convening a national conference on these matters. [More…]
The staff of the Social Welfare Commission now occupy Public Service Act positions which are included on the establishment of the Department of Social Security. [More…]
Action will be taken to transfer commission staff to the unattached list of the department on repeal of the Social Welfare Commission Act. [More…]
Some officers will be used in activities, such as administering research projects and fellowship awards, servicing the Family Services Committee and undertaking work in the area of social welfare manpower planning, responsibility for which will be absorbed by the department. [More…]
The Government is mindful of the work which the Social Welfare Commission has undertaken but, for the reasons I have outlined, it is now considered opportune to consolidate advice on and research into social welfare matters within the appropriate departmental structures. [More…]
The previous Labor Treasurer said in his Budget Speech- this is something that might appeal to honourable gentlemen opposite- that to introduce tax indexation without cutting education and social welfare commitments would be ‘to ask the impossible’. [More…]
We have made real increases in education funds and even greater increases in social welfare funds; yet we still managed to increase full tax indexation. [More…]
We allocated $5,389m for our continuing commitment to maintain and improve social security benefits and welfare services. [More…]
I hope it will provide the Government with a new mechanism to make welfare housing sensitive to the needs of the users rather than those of the planners. [More…]
The Government will be closely monitoring the progress of this important welfare reform. [More…]
Let us look at the whole history of moneys paid by the Australian Government to the States for welfare housing. [More…]
Since 1973-74 the Commonwealth, under a new Agreement applying for the 5 years from 1973-74 to 1977-78- this was commenced under a Labor Governmenthas advanced funds to the States for welfare housing outside, and in addition to, Loan Council arrangements. [More…]
The truth is that welfare housing has been a political football for many years for honourable members opposite. [More…]
55m to provide rent rebates and welfare housing for deserving people. [More…]
In the last year of the McMahon Government an amount of $ 167m was made available for welfare housing under the CommonwealthState Housing Agreement. [More…]
In other words, $375m will have been spent on welfare housing this financial year and in each of the last 2 financial years. [More…]
The difference is that the former Conservative Government charged interest rates of 7 per cent on welfare housing whereas when Labor came to power that interest rate was reduced to 4 per cent. [More…]
In other words, the money was made available to improve the situation of public or welfare housing which was an extremely short commodity. [More…]
At that time something like 100 000 people were on the waiting lists for welfare housing. [More…]
The Government stands condemned because it has reduced expenditure on welfare housing and urban and regional development, particularly in Sydney and in Melbourne. [More…]
As the Economist records, f stg500m has been cut off the social welfare budget. [More…]
This brought about a marked decrease in social welfare expenditure. [More…]
We have not made cuts in the social welfare area. [More…]
Money incomes rise to preserve purchasing power and the Government can adjust social welfare payments to protect lower income earners, pensioners and so on. [More…]
If honourable members look at the family allowance scheme, about which the honourable member spoke at length, I am sure that they will realise that the welfare of people is uppermost in the minds of all Government supporters. [More…]
When a wife and mother is deserted and left without maintenance the community, through welfare benefits, makes provision to take over the breadwinner’s role. [More…]
They were 5 men who had a lifelong interest in the welfare of exservicemen. [More…]
2) 1976 is to authorise the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) to advance to the States this financial year the sum of $375m for welfare housing in accordance with the provisions of the 1973-74 Housing Agreement. [More…]
The 1976-77 advances are high in real terms compared with earlier years when the States themselves allocated welfare housing funds from their overall loan council works-housing program. [More…]
At the time the Agreement was negotiated the States were intended to receive an interest concession of 2 per cent to 2.5 per cent on their welfare housing funds because the long-term bond rate was then 6.5 per cent. [More…]
This in itself was significantly more generous than any previous financial arrangements for welfare housing. [More…]
The Commonwealth has borne the entire increased cost of the loan funds from which the welfare housing advances are made. [More…]
The level of interest rate concessions on welfare housing funds to States is currently about 6 per cent. [More…]
The level of real assistance for the States’ welfare housing programs has therefore increased considerably as the interest concession has become greater. [More…]
We believe that the only sensible course, particularly within the present objectives of budgetary policy generally, is to seek to restore activity in the welfare housing area to an even keel. [More…]
The welfare housing sector is a small but important part of the total housing sector; in recent years government dwelling construction has amounted to something like 12 per cent of total dwelling construction. [More…]
Premiers and housing Ministers of those, and other, States have called for larger welfare housing advances than this Bill provides for. [More…]
In the Commonwealth’s view, large advances for welfare housing are not the way to ensure a robust housing industry. [More…]
In other words, the Treasurer will be authorised to continue payments to the States for welfare housing in the period from 1 July 1977 until an appropriation measure for 1977-78 is passed by the Parliament. [More…]
This allowance is not taxable and is designed to assist with the education, training and general welfare of all handicapped children. [More…]
In other words, that sector of the economy which does not produce wealth but tends to consume it took an increasing proportion of this nation’s capacity to refill the pool from which welfare payments must be drawn. [More…]
Unless we have a prosperous nation, we cannot afford the levels of welfare that honourable gentlemen opposite, in many cases quite rightly, sought to achieve. [More…]
It was said in a leading daily this week that Australia’s future development, Australia’s wealth, the money that we get to spend on all of the other items contained in the Budget whether they be welfare, education or whatever else, comes from the pastoral and mining industries. [More…]
It is a kick in the teeth for all those groups of concerned people, the people who set up the child minding collectives, the members of the residents associations, the people working in the area of social welfare, the Aboriginal groups with their legal and medical services and their housing projects. [More…]
The community health programs, the community information bureaus, the welfare rights and the area improvement programs all directly affect our ethnic communities. [More…]
Huge government spending in Great Britain in socialist welfare experimentation and interference in supply and demand through buying into industry have left huge deficits and enormous industrial losses. [More…]
There is to be no increase in funds for welfare housing. [More…]
The Government this year will be spending a massive 25 per cent of its total outlay in social security and welfare. [More…]
The social security and welfare provisions in the Budget follow the major restructuring and improvement of the family allowances scheme. [More…]
That the Government is one that has regard for the social welfare of the nation has been proved by the legislation that it intends to bring down and that has been provided for in the Budget. [More…]
Now they are deliberately depressing the real living standards and limiting the opportunities of ordinary people by maintaining high unemployment, holding back wages and cutting back public services and welfare while enhancing the profits of big business. [More…]
Their confidence must be sapped and it would scarcely be surprising if they became rather bitter and anti-social, particularly when the Government that is doing nothing to alleviate their position also adopts a suspicious, if not hostile attitude to them and treats them as bludgers on the welfare rolls rather than as people in need of help. [More…]
The welfare of the country and its people have been placed second to the personal spleen of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and many of his Ministers and advisers. [More…]
At a time when unemployment is expected to climb dramatically unemployment benefits are to be cut by nearly $34m; Aboriginal welfare is to be cut by $33m; migrant education by $ 10m; urban and environmental improvement programs by $ 142m; while wealthy mining corporations are given rich bounty. [More…]
I suggest to this Parliament that the help thus given is more meaningful than any single social welfare measure introduced by the Labor Government notwithstanding its claim- its usual hollow claim- to have a monopoly of concern in this area. [More…]
I stress that measure, first, because it highlights the concern of the Government in this its first Budget to push ahead with its social welfare program notwithstanding the difficult economic climate and, secondly, because it links up with the second major initiative I referred to, the indexing of personal taxation. [More…]
In the Budget we should be able to read about the Government’s concern, or lack of it, for the long-term health of the individual sectors of the economy and we should find reflected the Government’s priorities in regard to the welfare of the different sectors or groups in the community. [More…]
There is only one measure in this Budget which could be regarded as a positive step towards improving the welfare of the farm sector; that is the introduction of the income equalisation deposits scheme. [More…]
After 3 disastrous years he still does not recognise that the people’s welfare rests upon the welfare of businessespecially when 75 per cent of employment is created by the private sector. [More…]
Precisely this: The Prime Minister came up with the idea of buying off legitimate criticism of his Government’s shabby record in the migrant welfare field by making $50,000 available to the Greek community in Melbourne and $50,000 available to the Italian community in Sydney. [More…]
The same situation applies to one of the commitments of the Minister for Social Security, Senator Guilfoyle, who went to the Italian community in Melbourne and made a great play of donating $5,000 to FILEF, which is an Italian welfare organisation. [More…]
The FILEF organisation has been told by way of correspondence that the grant for the employment of a welfare rights officer will terminate on 1 January 1977. [More…]
It has to be realised that there is little the Australian Government can do, other than to check on the welfare of these people and their well-being within the prisons or wherever they may be incarcerated, when Australian citizens are apprehended overseas on drug charges; just as there is little that foreign governments can do within Australia if any of their nationals are arrested in Australia on similar charges. [More…]
I would hope that a longer term effect will be to cause all registered organisations to attempt to manage their operations with greater economy and efficiency and to be mindful of their principal objective which must be the welfare of their contributors. [More…]
Today, even with a record number of houses built under the welfare housing system, there are 108 000 people waiting for houses. [More…]
Funds for the construction industry have been cut, sewerage programs have been cut, as well as allocations for the Australian Assistance Plan and welfare housing. [More…]
This year the grant for welfare housing is a measly $98m. [More…]
New fields have been opened up, whether they be in the provision of welfare, social services or paramedical services, or in the field of recreation. [More…]
Under the States Grants (Home Care) Act, funds are provided to State Governments to assist towards housekeeping services for the aged, senior citizens’ centres and the salaries of welfare officers employed in association with senior citizens’ centres. [More…]
There have been broken promises on welfare and social security. [More…]
I have said repeatedly that essential programs in health, education, welfare and urban development will be maintained. [More…]
Recent litigation has thrown some doubt on the extent of the provision enabling a court, in special circumstances, to make a maintenance or custody order in respect of a chile who has been put into care under State welfare legislation. [More…]
In this respect it is noteworthy that of an estimated outlay for 1976-77 totalling $24,320.9m almost half is made up by health expenditure of $2,908.7m, education $2,204m, social security and welfare $6,187.1m- and I might mention that constitutes 25 per cent of total outlays- and culture and recreation $253. [More…]
Our welfare is a matter of considerable concern. [More…]
That is not a blanket condemnation of welfare programs. [More…]
There is perhaps a parallel to be seen in the treatment of government funding over several years in the field of Aboriginal welfare where all too often we find that, notwithstanding the expenditure of unbelievable sums of money, the immediate problems of the ultimate beneficiaries appear unrelieved. [More…]
He moved that the Budget be rejected, for 5 reasons, among them: because it produces no programs for high national objectives of social welfare, economic strength and national security. [More…]
It is nonsense to talk about economic welfare unless one remembers what is the real escalator of economic welfare. [More…]
When there is a total growth situation in the economy it is possible to begin to do something in respect of economic welfare or social welfare. [More…]
Unless that growth occurs it is impossible to do anything real in terms of social welfare because one is merely substituting one form of expenditure for another. [More…]
I can well remember a former honourable member for Barton, the late Dr H. V. Evatt, during the election campaigns in 1954 and 1955 talking about the need for Australians to spend vast sums of money on social welfare and decrying the standards of education in the community. [More…]
That the Labor Party Government set out to do, and the impact upon the Australian economy and upon the welfare of the people in Australia was inevitable. [More…]
I can assure honourable members from experience of years ago that this sort of threat to trade lines has a vital effect on welfare of the nation. [More…]
Senator Bonner said the Federal Government had broken a promise before the December election that Aboriginal welfare spending would be maintained. [More…]
This in turn provides a major component of government revenue so that government can provide services in the areas of education, health and welfare and the other multitude of services that a government is expected to provide. [More…]
It will help to stimulate business whilst protecting the needy and protecting also the key areas of expenditure, health and welfare, including pensions of all kinds, education and defence. [More…]
I mention in particular social welfare. [More…]
In view of the combined impact of personal income tax indexation, increased pension and other welfare benefits, and in particular the effect of the family allowances scheme. [More…]
While the rate of increase in government expenditure has been cut, government expenditure on social security and welfare has increased by 23 per cent. [More…]
I think the item that has received the most generous comment is that relating to social welfare. [More…]
Total expenditure on social welfare is $6, 187m- almost 25 per cent of the total Budget outlay, and a 23.5 per cent increase on last year’s budgetary item. [More…]
The increase alone is greater than the total allocation for social welfare just a few short years ago. [More…]
In fact the amount allocated for social welfare in this Budget makes the amount allocated for it only 5 years ago look like petty cash. [More…]
As with social welfare, we have generously recognised the continuing need for a high priority for education expenditure. [More…]
Both funds provided to the States to meet their obligations for educating our children and funds provided to colleges and universities to ensure increasing facilities for our young men and women, tike the allocations for social welfare, make allocations a few years ago seem like petty cash. [More…]
This makes even more amazing the fact that the present Government, a government which is portrayed by its opponents as having been heartless, has managed to increase expenditure in the field of social welfare from the previous Labor Government expenditure of $5,000m to more than $6,000m. [More…]
That means that this so-called heartless Liberal Government, in times of great economic difficulty, has through good management been able to increase the expenditure in the field of social welfare by some 25 per cent to over $6,000m. [More…]
Pensioners or people reliant on social security or welfare payments equal almost one-third of the work force. [More…]
In the field of social welfare it has already been announced that we would fund the Australian Assistance Plan for another 12 months and that it would then be handed over to the States for them to decide the future and for them to fund it. [More…]
Even the Government’s own inquiry, which the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has used selectively to justify his apparent disregard for Aboriginal welfare has made comments on this matter. [More…]
Irrespective of whether it is in relation to infant welfare, the care of the aged or the supplying of hospitals and services, we still do not perform to the same standard in respect of Aborigines as we do in respect of the rest of the community. [More…]
The Government has now abandoned the most innovative and effective self-help social welfare program developed in Australia. [More…]
In regard to housing for Aborigines it means a 15 per cent reduction in cash terms; in regard to housing loans by the banks it means a 30 per cent reduction in cash terms; in regard to welfare housing payments to the States it means a 13 per cent reduction in real terms. [More…]
We will maintain welfare. [More…]
What did we see in relation to welfare? [More…]
The Minister for Social Security, Senator Guilfoyle, pointed out that welfare payments have been increased by 23 per cent under this Budget. [More…]
One of my colleagues has pointed out very effectively that if the family allowance, which was placed there at the expense of the rebate deductions available for dependants, is removed, the expansion in welfare payments is only 9 per cent, with an inflation rate of 12 per cent. [More…]
So the expansion in welfare payments is, of course, a reduction in real terms. [More…]
The amount of money expended this year on welfare payments does not equal the rate of inflation. [More…]
It has not kept its promises in respect of the abolition of the means test, welfare or the reintroduction of fees for students at universities and centres of tertiary education. [More…]
The Australian people are entitled to expect a Budget which enshrines the principles of economic security, education opportunities, equality through social welfare, security of employment, and wage and income levels commensurate with skill. [More…]
They have promised that the wicked Government will cut expenditure on education, legal aid, Aborigines and on childhood, old people, and other welfare services. [More…]
But they know and the people of Australia know that even in times of severe budgetary restraint we have, by our allocations in the Budget, indicated to the people of Australia that we are committed to restoring economic sanity while improving education, health and welfare programs. [More…]
There are very few people in Canberra who cannot get help and assistance from excellent cooperation between welfare, housing and community based organisations. [More…]
We also recognise that only a healthy and vibrant economy can provide the resources our welfare agencies so properly call for. [More…]
The young people are also taking over the production of a community newspaper, run previously by the Rockhampton Social Development Council and directed at social welfare readers. [More…]
by leaveRecent publicity has been given to situations where residents of Australia have proceeded overseas to arrange adoptions of young persons without obtaining the necessary support of Australian child welfare authorities. [More…]
to promote the welfare of the child; [More…]
This sort of situation was considered in May 1976 by a conference of Australian State and Territory social welfare administrators which recommended that immigration policy should be reviewed for children subject to foreign adoption orders to allow entry only of those who have been subject to orders likely to be recognised by an Australian Court; who have been subject to orders considered unlikely to be recognised in Australia but where the adopting parents have been approved as suitable to adopt by the adoption authorities in their State or Territory of normal residence; or who have had a child-parent relationship of long standing and where refusal of entry of the child would not promote his or her welfare and best interests. [More…]
In accordance with those principles and subject to sound health the entry to Australia of an overseas child is normally approved where the adoption proposal has the support of the child welfare authorities in the State or Territory of residence of the proposed adoptive parents, and the authorities in the overseas country in which the child is living are agreeable to the adoption being arranged. [More…]
In all adoption procedures the welfare of the child is of paramount importance and so far as inter-country adoptions are concerned the Australian Government will be guided by the views of the State or Territory child welfare authorities. [More…]
It is due ultimately to excessive wage increases and these in turn arise from the selfish, if not anti-social, behaviour of militant trade unionists who are prepared to put the economic welfare and the job opportunities of their fellow workers at risk in a narrow minded attempt to increase their own real income. [More…]
I quote the following from a booklet entitled, Towards a New Australia, containing an article attributed to the honourable member for Oxley and entitled New Horizons in Health and Welfare Services: [More…]
For example, it would be a higher priority to spend money on school dental health services and on the development of community health services- a whole range of community health and welfare services and other areas of responsibility of public office- rather than plugging benefits into a system which will just incite more utilisation because of the nature of the fee for service system and the sort of benefits that can be derived from that system because of the absence of adequate restraint on it. [More…]
Are they concerned about the welfare of the workers or are they engaged in a political confrontation with the Federal Government? [More…]
A particular fantasy relates- and it should be seen in this context- to the fact that the Government is endeavouring to divert welfare to the needy. [More…]
That is a curious concept to the honourable gentlemen opposite who felt that welfare was something you bought votes with rather than looked after people with. [More…]
We do not have as our basic god, as our basic gaol, the purchasing of votes through the welfare system which was the sole motivation in assisting the middle class twoincome family at the expense of the worker in this kind of situation. [More…]
I also asked the Union whether it would favour a situation in which the needy benefited from welfare payments and whether welfare should be redirected to the needy. [More…]
I simply suggest to the House that the attitude held by this group of people, many of whom may well be very dedicated and may well be very good pre-school and day care teachers, that welfare is a bottomless pit to be sucked dry is one which cannot be allowed to persist. [More…]
Taxes pay for welfare. [More…]
I would urge members of the Storemen and Packers Union to think of the welfare of their fellow workers in the present circumstances. [More…]
Popular though those concessions were with so many people in the community, the really important acceptance of this Lynch Budget related to the tax indexation of personal incomes, together with the decision to increase social welfare in real terms, to accept a greater financial responsibility in the field of education, again in real terms, and to bring back some realism in the field of defence spending. [More…]
It should be seen as a culmination of much effort that has been put into the welfare of the aged by members who sit in this House today representing such electorates as Mackellar, Sturt and Oxley. [More…]
If effective government geared to the needs of the 1980s and beyond is to be achieved … if the great issues of national and local concern such as education, health, social welfare, housing and urban development are to receive maximum intelligent attention … if all our resources including human talents and local knowledge are to be effectively harnessed … if innovation, diversity and imaginative reforms are to be encouraged . [More…]
It is implicit in the application of the federalism policy that local government must play an added role to better serve the communities in the areas of health, social welfare, housing and urban and community development. [More…]
For a long time our sorts of societies, that is, Western democratic societies, have accepted the principle that those services that are seen as a necessity- services that in short we recognise as social services, such as unemployment and sickness benefits, social welfare payments of all sorts and so on- are not paid for by imposing a fiat rate tax on everybody in the same way as the contributions to the voluntary funds. [More…]
If one accepts that then, in my view, one has to accept the thesis that that sort of service or that sort of welfare function, if you like, should be provided out of taxation revenue and based on a sliding scale, as we accept for all other forms of social service. [More…]
So the Liberal and Country Parties have immediately sought to revert from that system, which does represent social equity- it does, despite the honourable member for La Trobe ‘s interjection, and he recognises it for every other sphere of social welfare that he can think of- to the private enterprise system, which in essence is going to weigh far more heavily on the poor compared with the rich. [More…]
It came in because it knew that deficit financing, financed by a bank for social welfare benefits, was disastrous so far as inflationary pressures were concerned. [More…]
If we have a deficit of this kind not for productive services but for welfare services, that amount of money- it was $2,648m or a lesser amount according to the amount that is properly attributable to Medibank- must have inflationary consequences for us. [More…]
He seems to take the attitude that whereas Australian people generally accept the proposition that many things that are important to individuals and to the nation at large should be financed on a capacity to pay principle- I am referring to such matters as social welfare benefits, child endowment, widow pensions, age pensions, even the defence of the country and many others that come under the administration of State governmentswhen it comes to health we ought to depart from that principle and revert to a philosophy whereby people have to look after themselves and whereby a levy ought to be paid. [More…]
In addition, the Bill clarifies certain provisions of the principal Act- the Family Law Act- relating to maintenance and custody where the child or children concerned are in the care of State welfare authorities. [More…]
I appreciate that position, but what I am saying is that there is Treasury interference in what is virtually a social welfare matter. [More…]
It is clear from discussions that I have had with many of the councillors in the McMillan electorate and with representatives of the Municipal Association of Victoria that there is a belief that local government will take on greater responsibilities in the areas of social welfare and community planning provided it has the necessary financial resources properly to administer and implement such programs. [More…]
In our situation profits of course contribute very greatly to all aspects of our government expenditure and, through it, to areas such as health, education and social welfare. [More…]
Not one Opposition spokesman has mentioned those policy measures of the last 9 months which have done more to restore economic stability and to improve equity and welfare in Australia than any other government has achieved in a full term of office for very many years. [More…]
A budget that sets out to achieve the welfare and the best objectives for the individual will be a budget which proves that at a government level the security of those individuals has best been effected. [More…]
I do not think that the Keynesian approach would apply today because it is obvious that the author of that approach never anticipated in his time that we would have spending by governments on such a massive scale on welfare projects and other areas that might be for the good of the people but were not productive as such. [More…]
The National Country Party stands deeply committed to this objective and to the interests and welfare of all the people who live outside the capital citiesMelbourne and Sydney in particular. [More…]
1 ) The assistance provided under the Homeless Persons Assistance Act is not payable direct to homeless men and women, but to the eligible organisations that provide assistance to homeless persons by way of food, accommodation or a social welfare service. [More…]
Further, will he urge the same Minister to ensure that the appointment of welfare officers by such organisations, as is proposed in the same annual report, is funded by the Government in addition to, and not in lieu of, assistance under the existing migrant social worker grantinaid scheme? [More…]
-The Fraser Government is notorious for its many broken promises affecting the lives and welfare of the Australian people. [More…]
But we are concerned also as employers for the future and welfare of our employees and our own children. [More…]
At the same time we have maintained an overall program of social welfare. [More…]
I also asked the Union whether it would favour a situation in which the needy benefited from welfare payments and whether welfare should be redirected to the needy. [More…]
They struck fear into the heart and they stuck a skewer into the body of every Australian as far as the economic welfare of this nation is concerned. [More…]
In government we indicated that we were intending to abolish the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
One of the many reasons, and I shall not canvass them all, which prompted the Labor Government to establish the Commission was that we felt that for far too long the community’s attitude to social welfare had been determined in large measure by politicians and bureaucrats, prompted perhaps by pressures arising for support or assistance for a particular group in the community which was perceived to be suffering some severe disadvantage. [More…]
Advances in social welfare usually arise because during election campaigns politicians decide that it might be a good thing for the purpose of winning votes to make this, that or the other promise in terms of social welfare. [More…]
I cannot complain too much about that because perhaps I, as much as many other members, am in this place due to the social welfare promises made over many years by the Labor Party. [More…]
But I still do not have to accept it as the best or ideal way to ascertain what are the real social welfare requirements of the community. [More…]
Its purpose was to look more closely at the whole network of social welfare in the country, a network which, if I might continue the image, had a hell of a lot of holes which allowed a lot of people who were in real need to fall through and not be supported in the way a modern community such as ours should support people like that. [More…]
When a government, and then a department on the direction of the government, establishes some form of social welfare support, no one in the bureaucracy or even the politicians in the Government likes to acknowledge that there may be deficiencies. [More…]
That is fair enough, but it often proves to be insensitive to the needs of many people who slip through, who are not in fact caught in the protective device that was the point of the exercise of setting up the particular welfare service in the first place. [More…]
Another facet of the Commission’s activity in the process of trying to better understand the social welfare needs of ordinary members of the community, apart from the pressures of politics, was to get more local community involvement, to seek the active co-operation of the various voluntary welfare agencies which are set up by concerned citizens because they recognise that governments are not looking after a particular area. [More…]
Far too often, if something is being done in that area, it is too easy for politicians and the bureaucrats advising them to say: ‘It is being dealt with by some nice social welfare group, religious organisation, or what you will. [More…]
I suppose that the fundamental point the Labor Party perceived, and I like to think accepted, was that social welfare is not a privilege. [More…]
Welfare services provided to the underprivileged members of a community are not a form of charity. [More…]
When we do have unfortunate members of the community who are unable to sustain themselves- and the Social Welfare Commission investigated a whole range of things- we are all the poorer for their suffering and misery. [More…]
Often they were people who, quite apart from moves made by the Government, were actively engaged in helping the voluntary social welfare groups in their local areas. [More…]
Inevitably, because of the nature of its actions, the Social Welfare Commission was going to come into conflict with the bureaucracy at all levels and whatever political persuasion. [More…]
He mentioned that social welfare benefits in this country were the rights of certain people. [More…]
I think it is also incumbent on any society, regardless of whether it is affluent or not, to sharpen up in the provision of its social welfare benefits, because otherwise we are in danger of creating a welfare state. [More…]
I want to look particularly today in speaking to the Social Welfare Commission (Repeal) Bill at the role of the Commission and its association with government and also its association with the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle). [More…]
I want also to look at where the Social Welfare Commission went wrong. [More…]
The honourable member for Maribyrnong mentioned some of the background to the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
Some of its activities in the social welfare context were referred to the Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration. [More…]
A little later I would like to refer to the Coombs Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration in the context of the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
I remind the House that it was the decision of the Labor Government to abolish the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
This should not be underestimated in understanding the rationalisation of establishing bodies such as the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
Significantly, although the Leader of the Opposition mentioned the Australian Assistance Plan which was generally associated with the Social Welfare Commission, he made no mention of the Commission at that stage. [More…]
It should be noted also that the Social Welfare Commission was established as a statutory body, and it must be differentiated from the numerous other advisory committees or task forces. [More…]
I turn now to the Social Welfare Commission Act 1973 which outlines the basic functions of the Commission. [More…]
1 ) To ascertain the social welfare needs of the community and report these to the Minister. [More…]
To make recommendations for the establishment of a nationally integrated social welfare plan including: [More…]
Co-ordination of welfare activities- State, local, voluntary [More…]
It is significant to note in the Social Welfare Commission report covering the period to 30 June 197S that the Commission chairman, Marie Coleman, said at page 10: [More…]
However, unlike the Universities Commission and the Schools Commission, the Social Welfare Commission has only advisory powers and cannot exercise executive powers. [More…]
The Social Welfare Commission was directly responsible to the Minister for Social Security. [More…]
The report reads: … the Social Welfare Commission regards social welfare as a basic integrated institution in society ensuring not only the provision to all of primary material needs, but also genuine opportunities for social and cultural satisfaction. [More…]
I think it is quite pertinent to quote from page 21 of the report of the Social Welfare Commission: [More…]
If one looks at the reasons for the abolition of the Commission I think they can be pin-pointed to two main areas: Firstly, the Minister for Social Security may have found the Social Welfare Commission dysfunctional and duplicating work done by the Minister’s department, and may have found its reports contributing little to the area of social welfare. [More…]
Indeed, the Commission instead of rationalising social welfare, only contributed further to the fragmented nature of social welfare. [More…]
Although the Commission talked a great deal about regionalisation of social welfare, it was the Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration which conducted practical experiments into this procedure, which were done at Ringwood, Victoria. [More…]
It was not the Social Welfare Commission which did them. [More…]
Thus, the Social Welfare Commission received a charter which apparently was intended to give it authority to review the whole field of welfare programs and to advise on their rationalisation both from the point of view of policy content and administration. [More…]
It proposed an amalgamation of the Social Welfare Commission and the Health Services Commission. [More…]
I think that the quotation from Sir Robert Menzies’ speech is very pertinent to this debate today for the repeal of the Social Welfare Commission Act. [More…]
-The Social Welfare Commission (Repeal) Bill entices one to engage in the kind of philosophical discussion that we have been listening to and I would like to proceed along those lines for a short time. [More…]
This Commission, which was established by this Parliament 3 years ago, was a concept that was related to the need to evaluate social welfare provisions in Australia. [More…]
It was part of the Labor Parry’s enterprise and interest in upgrading the whole emphasis on social welfare and maybe it has proved to be other than the best structure or the best way to approach this problem, but it was a most laudable objective indeed. [More…]
They were very great hopes and were held not only by the Commission but also by wide-ranging groups of organisations and individuals involved in social welfare programs throughout Australia. [More…]
If the House accepts, as it did in 1973 when the enabling legislation was passed, that there does exist a need for an independent body to examine critically on a continuing basis social welfare requirements of government, we should note that the Budget allocation of a mere $75,000 to establish a policy research unit at the University of New South Wales is just not enough. [More…]
No one questions the effectiveness and efficiency of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, for example, in its independent research and analysis capacities, and I suggest no one could question the establishment of a similar bureau to oversee social welfare programs. [More…]
Clearly in times of economic constraints the wide and ambitious plans of the Social Welfare Commission would have to be modified in the short term, but what must be retained, whatever the cost, is the capacity for such a bureau to offer the Government and the public independent analysis of Government programs and areas of need of a high quality and standard. [More…]
In addition, the membership of such committees is to be hand picked by the Minister rather than made up of delegates representing the organisations involved in social welfare undertakingsorganisations which have national, State and regional status. [More…]
Obviously there is a need to have such a counterpart in planning objectivity in respect of social welfare, in respect of the social needs of communities. [More…]
It had associated with it some 74 affiliated organisations, service clubs, welfare agencies and sporting organisations. [More…]
It organised the preparation of the regional social welfare directory and in general terms it rendered a very great community service. [More…]
Finally, mention must be made of Government attempts to kill the Social Welfare Commission before the repealing legislation was even drafted. [More…]
I believe that in the short term at least it will provide some kind of on-going program- a link to what might be another Social Welfare Commission in a different form, a more effective organisation than the one contemplated at the moment. [More…]
Rather than criticise some of the aspects of this Government’s alternative initiatives to the Social Welfare Commission, he should remember that, after all, it was the Labor Government that abolished the Commission. [More…]
It was stated by the Labor Government when the Commission was established that it was to be a bold step in policy formulation, evaluation and accountability of social welfare programs. [More…]
I want to quote another reason that was given by the Social Welfare Commission in its final report. [More…]
In relation to the coordination and evaluation functions of the Commission, it was not kept informed of policy program initiatives with social welfare implications prior to government decisions; it was never given the power to enforce co-ordination nor was it given an automatic right of access to Cabinet submissions on policy proposals affecting social policy, thus placing the Commission’s independent review role at serious risk. [More…]
The Social Welfare Commission’s criticisms of those grandiose proposals, to my way of thinking, brought about its abrupt and untimely end. [More…]
This Government, to its credit, has accepted the need for evaluation and criticism of social welfare programs. [More…]
The first step has been to establish a social welfare research unit at the University of New South Wales. [More…]
Secondly, the Government is to establish national consultative groups on social welfare so that people with special interest at the consumer level or in the private sector generally have an ability to get through to the Minister and senior officials their opinions, views and criticisms. [More…]
I mention ACRODThe Australian Council for the Rehabilitation of the Disabled, ACOSS-The Australian Council of Social Services and the Council for the Aging, all of which play an important role in policy formulation, evaluation and criticism of Government welfare programs. [More…]
The Social Welfare Commission (Repeal) Bill before the House repeals the Social Welfare Commission Act 1973. [More…]
I should like to look very briefly at one of the more important tasks of the Social Welfare Commission which was the evaluation of the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]
The Plan was an experimental program under which the Government funded community welfare projects and the employment of community development officers who were quite often used in projects themselves funded under the Plan. [More…]
The Social Welfare Commission evaluated these projects and the effectiveness of Federal funding for local initiatives by them through a variety of voluntary bodies and local government authorities. [More…]
The evaluations carried out by the Social Welfare Commission have shown the hollowness of that kind of statement. [More…]
But the clear message of the Social Welfare Commission’s work is that Federal funding is essential to the continuing viability of the community welfare projects initiated. [More…]
The reports of the Social Welfare Commission established in my own area the need for many of the projects. [More…]
Many projects funded by the Federal Government under the Australian Assistance Plan and evaluated by the Social Welfare Commission obtained a large part of their costs from other Federal programs some of which are still on foot even though the appropriations for them have been cut considerably. [More…]
Those kinds of grants were essential; the work of the Social Welfare Commission clearly established that. [More…]
The reports of the Social Welfare Commission established that the worthwhile local initiatives and locally administered projects which were encouraged as a result of the grants from the Whitlam Labor Government are now in grave jeopardy. [More…]
The reports of the Social Welfare Commission established quite clearly the overlap in indentifying low income families in old, established inner city areas and new settlers in this country. [More…]
The work of the Social Welfare Commission which is now to be abolished clearly established this. [More…]
The idea that there is a massive duplication of sources of funding available for welfare projects is just not true. [More…]
in reply-I thank honourable members for the contribution they made to the debate on this Social Welfare Commission (Repeal) Bill. [More…]
I join honourable members in paying a tribute to the members of the Social Welfare Commission for the work they have already done. [More…]
I believe there has been great value to the Parliament and to all those interested in social welfare from the research work and the organisational work that members of the Commission have done to date. [More…]
The honourable member for Murray drew attention to the Government’s decision to set up the research unit at the New South Wales University and also the Government’s intention to establish consultative committees on social welfare. [More…]
The Government is taking steps to fulfil its commitment to provide effective mechanisms for co-operation and interchange of ideas with interested groups in the social welfare field. [More…]
A national consultative group on social welfare is being established to advise the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) on current issues in social welfare which come within the responsibility of the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
Membership of the group will consist of about 12 people including academics from relevant disciplines and other suitably qualified people active in the social welfare field, together with representatives of national welfare bodies and voluntary social welfare agencies. [More…]
Of course in each State and Territory a small consultative committee on social welfare will be established to advise the Director-General of the Department of Social Security, through the appropriate State Director of the Department, on administration at the State level. [More…]
It may well be that there is one and I have missed it, but I still believe that this is one of the most critical areas of need in social welfare. [More…]
It either comes from relatives, from some welfare organisation, or, as in the majority of instances, it comes from the pension of the patient’s spouse. [More…]
The West Heidelberg Community Health and Welfare Centre has been operating for some time in temporary premises. [More…]
The other point I wish to make is the Government’s failure to appreciate that these community health centres are not just treatment centres but are out-reaching organisations for the community that deal with many social welfare aspects as well. [More…]
A Preston-Reservoir employment action group has been formed with the support of such organisations as the Intra-Church Council, a whole range of welfare organisations in the area, the unemployed themselves and local service clubs. [More…]
In speaking to these setimates which deal with social security, welfare and health, I want to remind the Committee and the people of the nation that of the $24,32 lm estimated total Budget outlay, social security and welfare will account for $6, 187m or 25 per cent of the amount. [More…]
That is a tremendous amount of money for any nation to spend on social welfare and health, particularly when we compare it with the education expenditure of $2, 204m and the defence expenditure of $2, 178m both of which represent approximately 9.6 per cent of the gross national product. [More…]
I realise that we are debating the health and social welfare areas. [More…]
Lone fathers and their children have been discriminated against in welfare legislation for many years by all governments. [More…]
This prejudice is reflected in the way welfare benefits are provided automatically for fatherless families but not for motherless families. [More…]
But there is no question that improved income support, improved domiciliary care, improved child minding facilities and a more equitable disbursement of welfare funds between lone fathers and lone mothers would go a long way towards relieving some of the pressures on these families. [More…]
I implore the Government to take decisive action in this area of welfare as soon as possible. [More…]
Because I work in a capital city electorate I have many constituents with problems in the area of social welfare. [More…]
I do not think we could choose any better field than that of health and social welfare in which to put so much money. [More…]
The health appropriation works out at just on 12 per cent of the total Budget outlay; social welfare expenditure represents a massive 23.5 per cent of the total Budget outlay. [More…]
We realise, and the people of Australia are going to realise, that we have the welfare of all the people at heart. [More…]
As for the other matter that he raised about unemployment benfits, should the Budget estimate prove to be inadequate, additional funds will automatically be made available to make payments to those qualified by reason of the automatic appropriation provisions in the Social Services Act and the National Welfare Fund Act. [More…]
Some areas are still subject to examination- for example, by the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health. [More…]
This concern was expressed by the present Government when in Opposition, as well as by many Aboriginal groups and organisations interested in Aboriginal welfare. [More…]
It is all the more important then for the Government to have the benefit of a report like Mr Hay’s to provide a sound administrative foundation on which to build its liberal reform and welfare policies. [More…]
The Australian Parliament and the people can now see the justification for the allegation by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) of waste, extravagance, duplication and over utilisation in the expenditure of funds on Aboriginal welfare. [More…]
The people and the Parliament can now see the justification for the slashing of expenditure on Aboriginal welfare of $33m in the Budget and the abrogation of the election commitment given by the Attorney-General (Mr Ellicott) in December last year. [More…]
Engage in ancillary activities such as welfare, adoption agencies etc., but may refer clients requiring help in these areas to appropriate agencies, and undertake such liaison as is necessary to ensure access to such agencies comparable to that available to other Australians. [More…]
-Speaking in the debate on the estimates for Aboriginal Affairs last year I made the point that the whole question of the welfare of Aboriginal people should not be allowed to become a party political issue. [More…]
Much has been achieved for the welfare and training of the Aboriginal population. [More…]
Funds in the crucial areas of employment and welfare have not been cut. [More…]
In the welfare field, funds available to the Aboriginal Legal Service have been maintained at $7. [More…]
In view of the statement I made to the House today about the additional $2 5 m to be provided for Aboriginal affairs in pursuance of the undertaking by the Treasurer, I think all Aborigines and others interested in their welfare can be well satisfied with the commitment of this Government to their advancement. [More…]
It is being translated into seven or eight foreign languages and will be of interest to people concerned in the field of migrant welfare. [More…]
At the same time, the strict conditions laid down in that scheme whereby only social workers can be employed and not welfare workers have meant that many of the positions have not been filled and many useful people who could be employed by the agencies have not been employed. [More…]
Welfare among migrants, which is a very important area and which requires attention even more now than it possibly did in the past, is neglected and, I am sorry to say, appears to be administered on the basis of political patronage at the moment. [More…]
The organisation concerned indicates that this gentleman has provided a valuable service in the field of migrant welfare. [More…]
He also mentioned in some detail the situation of welfare workers and social workers in relation to grants administered by the Department of Social Security. [More…]
The honourable member mentioned the matter of welfare workers but he should understand that until recently the rules of the scheme did not permit welfare workers to be employed. [More…]
However, if he reads the statement made by the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) on Budget night he will see that agreement in principle has now been obtained for welfare workers to be employed under this scheme. [More…]
It is expected that a small number of grants for welfare officers will be possible this financial year. [More…]
It is my view that the office of Governor-General must always be occupied by a distinguished Australian who must now, because of the complexities of that high office, be absolutely conversant with every section of the Constitution and ready to implement it fearlessly whenever the overriding consideration of the national welfare arises. [More…]
Will the Opposition never learn that it is here not as an official Opposition to the Governor-General but as the duly elected representatives of the people to make some contribution towards their welfare and prosperity, a task which continues to elude the Opposition? [More…]
If the Premier of South Australia chooses not to spend his much greater amounts of money on specific things like welfare, that is his responsibility and the voters can judge him on his performance. [More…]
That is fine; that is the State’s priority, but if it had wanted to put those moneys into welfare housing it could have done so. [More…]
We would have no quarrel with that.- But the State made a judgment to abolish State death duties instead, and therefore it placed that particular policy item higher than welfare housing. [More…]
It may well be that the Government is having second thoughts about student allowances, but perhaps the question which arises is this: Are those allowances still good enough in the context of welfare generally? [More…]
We should get rid of the phrase ‘welfare housing’. [More…]
We saw the change of the very generous Commissioner for Housing loans scheme from a general incentive scheme for relocated public servants to a welfare scheme aimed predominantly at helping the people who are most in need of assistance. [More…]
We have seen rents on government housing increased to ensure that it is a welfare scheme for those who need help rather than a handout to some people who have no claim to subsidised accommodation. [More…]
But there have been increases in essential community service areas such as servicing and caretaking of government dwellings, recreational, cultural and community services, fire brigade and bus services, maintenance of parks and gardens, lighting and cleaning, police and- of very great importance- social welfare. [More…]
In the area of housing we have introduced a policy which has a fundamental welfare orientation which no one who believes in assisting those in real need could ever object to. [More…]
I urge him to do that because the people of Australia must think that he is more interested in propping up those private funds than in the welfare of the people and, more importantly, the real intelligence behind the Act which is to stop this sort of nonsense going on where false advertising can mislead the people and encourage somebody to do something against his better interest. [More…]
Without that there is no way in which they can learn what their working conditions should be, what welfare conditions there are and what health conditions there are. [More…]
These measures illustrate the Government’s concern for the welfare of the handicapped and the high priority afforded the provision of adequate facilities and care to meet their needs. [More…]
I point out to honourable members that the Government has responded to the wishes of the Government of a small country whose welfare was formerly a special responsibility of Australia. [More…]
Under the existing eligibility test for pensions, which applies to all pensioners under 70 years of age except blind pensioners, it is obvious that the ‘means as assessed’ system of combining income and assets or property into a single figure for means test purposes involves anomalies and the Liberal-National Country Parties social welfare policy provides for this to be altered to an ‘income only’ eligibility test. [More…]
All these changes indicate the Government’s interest in the welfare of those who have served their country in the Defence Force in war and peace. [More…]
The Prime Minister is wedded to concepts of federalism that pre-date Federation, that will entrench State bureaucracies, that will strengthen the domination of local government by State bureaucracies to the detriment of true regionalism and the welfare of the Australian people. [More…]
In that case, the Prime Minister does not think that States should choose between spending the money on welfare housing or on rural roads. [More…]
It is depressing, but not especially surprising, to learn that the Fraser Government’s attitude towards public funding and support of culture and the arts in Australia bears the same shortsighted, cynical and ultimately irresponsible hallmarks as do the Government’s other policies such as those to do with the economy, the social welfare structure, education, migrant welfare and so many other areas. [More…]
Farmers really do have to ask themselves whether their welfare and their future have been discounted by their organisation leaders in the interests of Country Party politics. [More…]
The honourable member for Werriwa (Mr E. G. Whitlam) consciously led Australians to believe that they were entitled to welfare irrespective of whether they were in need of it. [More…]
It is a variation of the attitude which led him to tax and deficit the Australian economy into stagnation in order to provide welfare for the middle class. [More…]
So that component of funding is quite irrelevant to their welfare. [More…]
We can contend, as honourable members do from time to time, and not only on the other side of the chamber, that we must have more welfare provisions and more care for the aged, that we must have more expenditure on education and a wide range of welfare requirements. [More…]
We must have a base on which to introduce the proper, decent and sincere feelings that we all manifest in regard to welfare provisions before we can bring them into effect, and one of the first things that this Government has to do is try to remove some of the hindrances, to try to gear rural industries to a totally new situation, because there can be no going back to the cost structure of days of the past, and to try to help these constructive industries, dollar earning industries, to get back on their feet. [More…]
If the granting of these conditions threatens to cut off the very lifeblood overseas earnings- on which we found all our expenditure in the welfare state, we should look carefully at them. [More…]
Already we have looked at welfare provisions. [More…]
Should this policy be pursued recklessly, as I fear that it may be, the ultimate benefit to the people of New South Wales- the employment situation, the welfare of many employees within the State- will be greatly damaged by that Government’s policy. [More…]
When we consider that 25 per cent of our Budget goes to health and welfare and that another $2,000m goes to education- all these areas are pressing, probably quite rightly, for more and more Government expenditure- we must be conscious of some responsibility for austerity or certainly there must be a lack of extravagance in doing ail that we would like to do. [More…]
1 ) As the Acting Prime Minister announced in his press statement of 23 July when releasing details on the establishment, including the Terms of Reference, of the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health, the members of the Task Force are: [More…]
Against the background of the Government’s Federalism policy and its concern at the proliferation and overlap of Commonwealth services and programs in the health, welfare and community development fields, the Task Force shall examine and report on- [More…]
the identification of particular services and programs, currently being undertaken by the Commonwealth, in the health, welfare and community development fields, which could be better delivered by a State, local government or voluntary agency and the administration of which could be transferred to the States; [More…]
the possibilities for elimination of individual programs and consolidation into broader based programs in a manner which enables more efficient and economic delivery whether by the Commonwealth or the States, and the establishment of appropriate consultative arrangements with the States, local government and voluntary agencies on future policy planning, administration and service delivery in the health, welfare and community development fields; [More…]
take account of views expressed by consumer groups and voluntary agencies, noting the Government’s support of the concept of maximum realistic community participation in health/welfare programs funded by the Commonwealth. [More…]
His very frequent visits to our State amply demonstrated to us his genuine affection for us and his commitment to the advancement and welfare of our State. [More…]
Secondary teachers need to take greater responsibility in the corrective teaching of students and in their welfare. [More…]
There is clearly room for administrative improvement in the delivering of services particularly in those areas where medical, educational and welfare services overlap. [More…]
In the period during which the Labor Government was in office many initiatives were taken in the field of social welfare and many improvements were made. [More…]
Overall, responsibility for social welfare loomed much larger than was the case with any previous government of the previous two decades. [More…]
It is interesting to note that some 25 per cent of total outlays go to social security and welfare. [More…]
Something like 37 per cent or $9 billion of a total Budget outlay of $24.3 billion- a lot of money- is spent in the area of social security, welfare and health. [More…]
It demonstrates that the Government lacks real philosophical objectivity in the area of social welfare. [More…]
Spending on essential education, health and welfare programs will be protected against inflation. [More…]
It is significant and important for the Australian community to realise that the total outlay on social security and welfare in this Budget has been increased from $5,0 12m in 1975-76 to $6, 187m in 1976-77. [More…]
Naturally the maintenance of existing handicapped persons’ welfare services became of paramount importance to the Department and full attention was given to this essential pan of the program rather than, with a few well deserved exceptions … [More…]
I wish to congratulate the Minister for Social Security and the Government for responding rapidly to the welfare needs of our community. [More…]
I believe that they will mean significant improvements in social welfare and social security protection for the Australian people. [More…]
No one doubts the intense interest of the honourable member for Oxley in social security and the welfare of pensioners and disadvantaged people. [More…]
-This Bill, which gives effect to the budgetary initiatives in the welfare field, continues the principle which this Government has enunciated since taking office, that is, that welfare should be based on need. [More…]
Members of the Opposition often accuse this Government- indeed all Liberal-Country Party governments- of neglecting the welfare aspects of governmental responsibility. [More…]
This does not mean that the ideal welfare goal has yet been achieved. [More…]
For that reason, I support the thrust of this Government’s policy to implement its welfare programs according to a ‘needs’ rather than a ‘rights’ basis. [More…]
I believe that the family allowances scheme, which was introduced earlier this year, provides for the most massive redistribution of income in our recent welfare history. [More…]
In October 1975, the Liberal and National Country Parties’ welfare policy stated the need for ‘protecting benefits from erosion by inflation through automatically adjusting benefit levels every 6 months, according to movements in the consumer price index’. [More…]
This question of pensioner tax liability is one of the lesser known and unfortunate aspects of the previous Labor Government’s welfare policy. [More…]
The Fraser Government, after almost completing its first year in office, appears to have set a strategic course designed to make welfare a dirty word in the community. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that there has been a multi-pronged assault against the concept of welfare since this Government has been in office. [More…]
I have been astonished to hear some of the speeches made by members of the Opposition, who clearly are to trying create the impression, when we are on air, that the Fraser Government is making the word ‘welfare ‘ a dirty word. [More…]
We are all aware that the family allowances scheme is one of the most significant changes in the social welfare system ever made in this country. [More…]
Both areas covered by this Department are critical, now and in the long term, for the planning of any government and for the welfare of the community at large. [More…]
Payments to the States for welfare housing are up by 10.4 per cent. [More…]
In the last Budget of the previous Government there were massive cuts in welfare housing. [More…]
There has been an increased commitment to the States for welfare housing. [More…]
Finance for State welfare housing programs has been reduced in real terms by 13 per cent in this Budget. [More…]
All decision makers, legislators and administrators, as well as citizens, are coming to recognise the importance of these interrelationships between economic policies, social policies, social security policies and welfare programs and those decisions which appear to have a direct spatial implication. [More…]
No nation can operate efficiently or develop high standards in commerce, industry or welfare without a speedy and efficient communications system. [More…]
The bases of this Government’s policies are our rejection of the use of force as a proper means of solving international problems; our belief in the democratic process and the rights of people to determine their own institutions; and our deep concern for the welfare of the underprivileged anywhere in the world. [More…]
-This Government has demonstrated nothing less than a masochistic attitude to the Australian shipbuilding industry which ignores the welfare and well being of all its employees and their dependent families. [More…]
Our economies are the most prosperous on earth: our technology and productive genius have proven indispensable for all countries seeking to better the welfare of their peoples, be they socialist or developing. [More…]
It manifests itself in a denigration of ex-servicemen ‘s organisation, which have already made their contribution to the welfare and development of Australia. [More…]
One concerns what goes into the National Welfare Fund, mainly for the payment of social services, which aggregate nearly $6 billion. [More…]
The States now have the capacity to choose their own priorities, be they welfare housing, sewerage or other services. [More…]
I have discussed these matters with Mr Knox at a Liberal Party convention in Queensland where I made it quite plain that if the Queensland Government wanted to devote more of its own funds to public works and welfare housing it had the capacity to do so and it could have done so. [More…]
But if the Queensland Government believed that it was a higher priority to put more funds into welfare housing or other public works, it was entitled to make that judgment. [More…]
What are the factors in the friendship and relations between Australia and Indonesia which are more important than the principles involved and the welfare of the people of East Timor? [More…]
Furthermore, even if the reason for this policy stands up to scrutiny, it is my hope that all members of this House who have the welfare of migrants at heart will demand that the state of affairs which necessitates this callous policy be rectified forthwith. [More…]
it does not pay due regard to the nature and extent of the welfare housing needs as between the various States’. [More…]
But the Australian Labor Party does intend to demonstrate that the Government’s proposals for allocating welfare housing funds are inadequate. [More…]
It is exactly the same amount as has passed to the States for the provision of welfare housing in each of the last 2 years. [More…]
In the first year of the Labor Government we allocated $2 18m to welfare housing. [More…]
We had agreed that if the overall situation had not improved in the second half of the financial year we would increase the allocation for welfare housing to those States where there were large resource surpluses. [More…]
The provision of funds for welfare housing was one of the Labor Government’s major achievements in changing the resource allocation in our economy. [More…]
Yet the Australian Government deliberately aggravates the problem in Western Australia and Tasmania by increasing the amounts given to those States for welfare housing, thereby adding further to the strains on the dwelling sector in those States. [More…]
There has been no increased allocation for welfare housing in that State which needs industry assistance, needs more employment opportunities and needs more welfare housing. [More…]
In Queensland additional welfare housing funds are justifiable on both human and economic grounds. [More…]
That is possibly why there is a waiting list for welfare housing in New South Wales of 32 000 people whereas in Victoria the figure is only 21 000. [More…]
-The affluent and uncaring honourable member for La Trobe (Mr Baillieu) has demonstrated his complete indifference about the needs of welfare housing in Australia. [More…]
I think he should be reminded of the fact that the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Uren) moved an amendment, the purpose of which was to indicate that there was a deficiency in funds for welfare housing. [More…]
When one takes into account the fact that something like 106 000 people around Australia comprise the waiting lists of the various State housing authorities and that many more would be added to that list if people thought they had a chance of getting a house in a reasonable time, one does not need much more evidence of the need for additional funds for welfare housing. [More…]
The third point stated that the distribution does not pay due regard to the nature and extent of the welfare housing needs as between the various States. [More…]
I understand that last year 2004 homes were completed under the terms of the homes savings welfare legislation. [More…]
Side by side with welfare housing, let us not forget about the welfare housing needs of our pensioners, the grand old people who have been the pathfinders and the trail blazers of yesteryear. [More…]
Quite obviously, any refinement of the welfare housing system under the States Grants (Housing Assistance) Bill 1976 is to be applauded. [More…]
We must be cognisant of the fact that at the last census for which figures are available, that is 1971, well over 41 000 families were living more or less permanently in tents, huts caravans and house boats, and that at present, according to the latest statistics, some 1 10 000 families in Australia are waiting for welfare housing. [More…]
What responsibilities do the States have in the area of welfare housing? [More…]
Recently the States requested the Commonwealth Government to make available to them $75m more for welfare housing. [More…]
It is easy to offer criticism, but, as the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development quite rightly stated in his second reading speech on this Bill, the States are able to make money available for welfare housing from their own funds. [More…]
The States have the right to make money available for welfare housing out of their own funds. [More…]
An analysis on a per capita basis of the funds made available for welfare housing under this Bill will indicate that Queensland obtained only $18 per head against the Australian average of $28 per head. [More…]
The distribution of Commonwealth funds for welfare housing is a highly emotional area. [More…]
But, despite the need to constrain public expenditure and the severity of the economies that the Commonwealth Government has imposed upon itself, the amount appropriated in this Bill for expenditure by the States on welfare housing is, whatever semantics the honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson) might indulge in, slightly higher than the allocation made last year by the previous Government. [More…]
In passing, in talking about the need to restrict government expenditure, the honourable member for Hughes must remember that in his Government’s time it also saw the need for some restraint on the rapid increases that had occurred in the allocation of funds for welfare housing. [More…]
It was pointed out by the honourable member for Darling Downs (Mr McVeigh) that the ability of the States to finance welfare housing is not restricted by the amount of money appropriated in this Bill. [More…]
One pan of the amendment was to the effect that the Government is not paying ‘due regard to the nature and extent of the welfare housing needs as between the various States’. [More…]
In the public welfare area, I have already agreed to proceed in consultation with the States towards developing a new arrangement for financing this activity in the States. [More…]
Can the Minister confirm or deny widely published reports that his Government intends to renegotiate the Commonwealth and States Housing Agreement with a view to increasing interest rates for welfare housing, raising interest rates for defence service homes, selling off land for defence service homes estates and doubling the period of service to establish eligibility for defence service homes? [More…]
In speaking to this matter I think it relevant that I should read from the social welfare policy of the Liberal and National Country Parties. [More…]
Our social welfare policy seeks to enhance the security, dignity, self-reliance and well-being of Australians We recognise different levels of need and base our priorities on them. [More…]
Our desire to give power and responsibility back to individuals and groups in order to effectively meet the requirements of social welfare, distinguishes our policy from alternative approaches. [More…]
Ensure that the real value of welfare programs is not eroded by inflation. [More…]
The National Consultative Committee on Social Welfare is a token body giving advice only and taking only single references. [More…]
There is no suggestion that it will take the place of the Social Welfare Commission, which the Labor Government set up and which was in a position to take a continuing over-view of policy. [More…]
He referred to the Bailey Committee, which is a health and welfare task force and about which there are a certain number of rumours. [More…]
We all know from experience the uneven standards which will result from that and the neglect that will occur in the non-Labor States where welfare rates a poor priority by State governments. [More…]
The Government did that because it had to pay for another welfare benefit, the reintroduction of the superphosphate bounty- a bounty to subsidise the wealthy graziers like the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) at the expense of the aged in the community. [More…]
The Queensland Sub-normal Children’s Welfare Association operates a school for sub-normal children at Ipswich where I live, in a very old building called Claremont, an historic building, a building totally unsuitable for use as a school for sub- normal children. [More…]
The money provided from the purchase would enable the Queensland Sub-normal Children’s Welfare Association to build a new school suitable for subnormal children, who are probably the most disabled and most disadvantaged children in our community. [More…]
Now that the subsidy has been reduced to $2 for $1, the Ipswich committee of the Queensland Sub-normal Children’s Welfare Association cannot afford to erect a school building. [More…]
As a member of the Government’s health and welfare committee I can assure the people that we show deep concern. [More…]
One has only to look at the current outlays to see that this Government places a great deal of importance on social welfare. [More…]
Twenty-five per cent of total outlays of this Government of $24,32 lm, namely $6, 187m is being spent on social security and welfare. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party, on the other hand, is concerned about the welfare of the people and the families involved in this section of the horticultural industry. [More…]
It has been the Australian Labor Party only which has made significant contributions to the long term welfare of Australian agriculture. [More…]
While many problems have faced fruit growers in the areas where their industry is dependent upon export markets, other welfare problems have become evident in non-export areas due to the fact that stabilisation schemes distort the pattern of production. [More…]
The Labor Party talks about the welfare of the people. [More…]
In spite of what the honourable member for Blaxland said, the Government is concerned for the welfare of fruit growers and dairy farmers throughout Australia and their ability to gain unemployment benefits. [More…]
I believe this Government has demonstrated that it is genuinely concerned about social welfare. [More…]
The people find themselves in a situation in which their families represent a social welfare insurance policy for the future. [More…]
1 149 on the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health (Hansard, 12 October 1976, pages 1784-5). [More…]
the relationship between programs for the aged and the infirm and other health and welfare programs. [More…]
I am sure that honourable members will agree with me that the Australian airlines have made a very significant contribution to the development and welfare of this country, with an air safety record equal to the world’s best. [More…]
There are demands for social and welfare services. [More…]
The Council will advise the Government on responsibility and revenue sharing as well as provide a medium for consultation and co-operation between Federal, State and local governments in vital areas such as health, welfare, education and community services. [More…]
Let us look at another area: Grants made direct to local government authorities for expenditure on aged and disabled persons homes, a social welfare subject very dear to my heart and an area in which many people in my electorate of Barton have need. [More…]
I believe the Bill will provide in the future the vehicle by which environmental protection and conservation of our natural resources can all be achieved in balance with our needs for productivity and for the nation’s economic welfare. [More…]
These projects, one for the South Sydney Municipal Council and the other for the Leichhardt Municipal Council are for welfare centres. [More…]
The South Sydney Municipal Council has an architect’s estimate of the cost of one project- the renovation of the Reg Cope Welfare Centre which has been in existence for approximately 20 years. [More…]
There is a plan indicating the location of the Reg Cope Welfare Centre. [More…]
The project is designed to provide dining and welfare facilities for approximately 130 persons daily. [More…]
The Council is already operating 4 other welfare centres within the municipality. [More…]
The 4 centres are the Ron Williams Welfare Centre, the Gordon Ibbett Welfare Centre, the Harry Burland Welfare Centre and the Cliff Nobel Welfare Centre. [More…]
It will help the Reg Cope Welfare Centre in South Sydney. [More…]
There are 2 welfare centres in Leichhardt. [More…]
One is the Harry Hannaford Welfare Centre. [More…]
The City of Sydney has 5 welfare centres. [More…]
Can the Minister give an assurance that the Cabinet’s decision will take into consideration the social and welfare implications of any economic adjustment to the industry and the decentralised communities it supports? [More…]
It is highly erosive of the confidence essential for the creation of wealth in this country so that we can afford all our laudable programs for social welfare, education and health out of our earnings and not further deplete our capital. [More…]
I think the Federal Government must indicate clearly that it will bear the full burden of caring for the welfare and the relocation of anyone whose livelihood is at stake as a result of this decision. [More…]
The health and welfare of the community must be safeguarded at all costs- even at the risk of making a Labor Government look like strike-breakers. [More…]
Because this Government has a deep concern for the welfare of pensioners, particularly after 3 years of massive inflation which did more to damage pensions and more to damage the position of pensioners than can be conceived by people who have not been in that situation. [More…]
Has the Government received the interim report of the Bailey task force on co-ordination in welfare and health which was due at the end of last month? [More…]
Will he table the report in the Parliament so that State governments, local government bodies and the many organisations engaged in federally funded health and welfare programs are given the opportunity to examine its recommendations prior to any action the Government takes upon it and, in case the recommendations in the report do not command universal support, make representations upon them? [More…]
It will certainly deserve the most serious consideration not only by the Commonwealth Government but also by this Parliament and by other people involved in the delivery of welfare services. [More…]
This includes such categories as linguistically disadvantaged migrant children, in whose welfare I have a particular concern, the economically disadvantaged and so on. [More…]
The broad objective of the dairy research scheme is to raise productivity and improve and advance the welfare of the industry. [More…]
I want to raise a matter before the House concerning a voluntary group carrying out effective social welfare work in my electorate which has been thwarted in its progress by the inability of 2 government departments to decide on a definition. [More…]
Is it the intention of the Attorney-General to hand the legal welfare of Victoria to the legal society there which has, if I may say so, an appalling track record when it comes to legal aid, selfinterest being the main motivation? [More…]
Nowadays, child endowment or family allowances are part of general welfare expenditure and payroll tax is just another revenue item. [More…]
-Every honourable member in the House will be aware that the employment and development opportunities and the general welfare of regional centres are largely dependent on a few of the most vulnerable manufacturing industries and the general wellbeing of the national economy. [More…]
The Government will continue to take a very close interest in the economic welfare of regional centres which are of such importance to the nation’s welfare. [More…]
There has been some minimal activity in the area of roads, preschools, child care and welfare facilities. [More…]
This will have a major effect on the fishing interests of Aboriginals, and will also affect their overall welfare if minerals are discovered within this limit. [More…]
The legislation then provides that they shall be able to perform functions or services in respect of such matters as housing, health, sewerage, water supply, electricity, communications, education, relief work, roads and associated works, garbage collection and disposal, and welfare and community amenities. [More…]
Honourable members may recall that the Home Savings Grant Act 1964 provides that grants under that Act are paid from the National Welfare Fund under a special appropriation. [More…]
The have encouraged members of Parliament to go out amongst the forces and to attend exercises to show to the Australian community that members of the Government- I know that members of the Opposition have done this also- are vitally interested in the welfare of the Services. [More…]
-Today we are faced with one of the most difficult decisions ever to be made by the Parliament, because upon this decision will rest the welfare of millions of people. [More…]
Indeed, the welfare and standard of living of a vast majority of the people on earth could rest upon this decision. [More…]
This man was tearing around the country saying that the Government was doing absolutely nothing about the health and welfare of Aboriginal children. [More…]
There are more and more parents who are concerned about the direction of education, about the fact that some of the basic skills which we in Australia for many years have taken for granted as part of the education system are not being taught and that some of the other factors to which I have referred tonight are being stressed to the detriment of the welfare of the students of Australia. [More…]
Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health (Question No. [More…]
1 ) Has the task force into health, welfare and communitybased programs sought submissions from all amateur and professional sporting organisations on the role of the Australian Government in the development of sport from the base to the peak of the sporting pyramid. [More…]
The Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health sought submissions from persons or organisations willing to contribute to its work. [More…]
Will he consider moves to assist the industry against this situation which militates against the welfare of people employed in the eucalyptus industry in Australia. [More…]
community health and welfare, and [More…]
In short, the many facets of this important and growing industry contribute to the Australian economy through: Urban and rural development; decentralisation; new and expanded employment outlets; contribution to foreign exchange earnings; avenues for profitable short and long term investment; a contribution to education; new avenues for improving community health and welfare, both physical and mental; a deeper understanding of different cultural standards and community attitudes; and a wider base for international understanding and goodwill. [More…]
There are already certain limitations upon the right of entry on to Aboriginal land which are administered through the Social Welfare Ordinance of the Northern Territory. [More…]
I also point out to the 2 honourable members opposite, both of whom are former Ministers for Aboriginal Affairs and ought to know- if they do not, I will tell them now- that there is in existence the Social Welfare Ordinance of the Northern Territory which presently controls entry to Aboriginal land. [More…]
Mr Justice Woodward said, in effect, of these people- I will not quote all the provisions because I do not have time- that their problems were urgent and important and that they related to social welfare and urban development issues. [More…]
The Priorities Review Staff Report on Early Childhood Services tabled on 30 July 1 974 refers to ‘ a scheme for classifying local government areas according to need’ developed by the Social Welfare Commission, and went on to give some examples of local government areas for the three categories of highest priority as put forward in that scheme. [More…]
The table below sets out by State and by time period of the initial approval related to each particular centre, the number of centres approved for assistance under the Child Care Act 1972 in each of the three categories of highest priority of the five-point rating scale developed by the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
A decision on programs and projects in the community development area will be reached after examination of the report of the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health which is expected to be available to the Government in November 1976. [More…]
A decision on programs and projects in the community development area will be reached after examination of the report of the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health which is expected to be availabel to the Government in November 1 976. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the final report of the Darwin Disaster Welfare Council dated March 1976, together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Social Security relating to that report. [More…]
many of Australia’s newspapers ran sensational stories about young and healthy ‘dole dollies’ who collect numerous welfare cheques under a variety of assumed names and pool the proceeds to live in splendour along Australia’s gold coast or used their dole money to maintain comfortable existences as surf bums. [More…]
Firstly, it approved the establishment of 2 experimental migrant resource centres- one in Melbourne to be operated under contract by the Australian Greek Welfare Society, and one in Sydney at a total cost not exceeding $70,000 in the current financial year. [More…]
Thirdly, it agreed that the Departments of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and Social Security should draw up a formal agreement between the Commonwealth and the Australian Greek Welfare Society setting out the basis of the provision of services by the Society for and on behalf of the Commonwealth. [More…]
They will be expected to provide a multi-lingual reference and information point for migrants, particularly in respect of services provided by Commonwealth, State and local government intrumentalities, and a range of resources which would be accessible to social workers and welfare officers working with migrants, to ethnic community leaders, welfare administrators, teachers and students interested in migrant problems, and so on. [More…]
The Government believes however that it has a responsibility to assist the adjustment process by providing the financial means to ensure that resources continue to be used in those industries, where their earning power is greatest and, at the same time, provide welfare assistance to those farmers so seriously affected by circumstances that they are unable to remain in the industry. [More…]
Those reservations principally relate to the welfare of officers who will be transferred out of the Commonwealth Public Service into the Northern Territory Public Service. [More…]
In many cases what the Government has on its hands is an urgent welfare problem. [More…]
They are concerned about the welfare of the industry. [More…]
The very recent establishment of this Department is evidence of the Government’s interest in the welfare of those who have served this country in the armed Services. [More…]
However, behind the scenes, patient negotiation did continue between the Minister, members of the Government Members Health and Welfare Committee and members of the Pharmacy Guild. [More…]
It contains a report of a recent seminar held in the United States organised by the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare in which the national health schemes of 6 countries were discussed. [More…]
I thank the members of the Health and Welfare Committee, particularly the honourable member for Murray (Mr Lloyd) and the honourable member for Petrie (Mr Hodges), who have been most interested in this area, for the assistance that they gave to me as the Minister and to the Department. [More…]
We recognised that housing was an important part of policy directed towards achievement of our equity and welfare objectives. [More…]
It is an essential responsibility of a Federal government because of the vital political importance of housing for the general welfare of the nation and because the main factor in achieving housing policy objectives is the supply and price of money for public and private housing purposes. [More…]
This money could be used to provide more welfare housing. [More…]
The pressure on welfare housing is enormous and this present scheme is going to put even greater pressure on this sector. [More…]
Referring now to the problem of welfare housing, when we came to power this question was tied up with the moneys made available under the CommonwealthState Housing Agreement. [More…]
The longterm bond rate was 9.5 per cent when we went out of Government but we were making money available for welfare housing at 4 per cent. [More…]
In the last year of the McMahon Government $167m was made available for welfare housing but in our last year of office we made $375m available. [More…]
In 3 years we had increased the amount from S167m to $375m and the terms and conditions under which we made that money available were of great assistance to the States in trying to overcome the backlog of welfare housing. [More…]
People earning up to 85 per cent of average weekly earnings were able to apply for welfare housing. [More…]
But funds in the welfare housing field were cut from $175m down to $2 5m. [More…]
As I mentioned, we are continuing our agreements with the States to provide welfare housing. [More…]
I hope that, in the next year or so, the discussions and negotiations that we are having with the States will result in a much more effective delivery of welfare housing through StateFederal co-operation. [More…]
Adjustments to the personal income tan system which ostensibly gives individuals greater ‘ independence ‘ in spending power to meet their own needs do nothing to assist those who are not wage earners and those whose income (be it wages or a pension) is inadequate to enable them to live decently and disguises the fact that important welfare and human services are either not available or become effectively inaccessible to the public who need them. [More…]
At least three of the provisions I have mentioned were the subject of investigation, report and recommendation by the Industries Assistance Commission; that is, expenditure on mineral petroleum development to be deductible from income derived from any source, allowable capital expenditure by petroleum companies to be deductible from income derived from any source, allowable capital expenditure to be extended to cover expenditure on ports and related facilities including housing and welfare facilities located at the port site. [More…]
The welfare measures announced under the household support provision also receive the support of the Opposition. [More…]
Having seen more than 2000 farmers on the dole in its time of tenure or office, the Government is duty bound to provide suitable welfare proposals to maintain the income of farmers who are judged to be nonviable, up to the level of unemployment benefit prevailing in the community at large. [More…]
Finally we found that they had a welfare problem on their hands. [More…]
The Department of Social Security has recently conducted a staff utilisation review of its social welfare division. [More…]
That division has been decimated by the Government’s abandonment of the Australian assistance plan and the remnants of the Social Welfare Commission, and further changes are mooted. [More…]
Yet, incredibly, the staff utilisation review of the Social Welfare Division of the Department of Social Security is in the process of recommending that the branch be disbanded and absorbed into a new structure not recognising a specifically migrant oriented branch. [More…]
As tomorrow’s Hansard will show, Senator Guilfoyle, in answer to a question from Senator Mulvihill in another place, today expressed her unqualified opinion that an identifiable migrant-oriented welfare service needs to be maintained. [More…]
I can think of no reason for it, unless migrant welfare is deemed a less important consideration than minor administrative convenience. [More…]
Is this really a ploy to take migrant welfare out of that Department without the Minister’s knowledge, so that the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, with its four or five relevant officers, can establish a monopoly over ethnic affairs? [More…]
Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health (Question No. [More…]
As part of the Commonwealth Government’s review into health, welfare and community development programs, including sport, I reconvened members of the former Sports Council Tor a meeting in Melbourne on 16 August 1976. [More…]
Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health (Question No. [More…]
When did the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health present its interim report and to whom (Hansard, 12 October 1976, page 1784 and 1 1 November 1976, page 2594). [More…]
I am advised that the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health is working towards presenting me with its first report before the end of the year. [More…]
Human dignity and the exercise of free choice consistent with over-all public welfare are basic rights which must be assured in every society. [More…]
Such policies must be an essential component of an over-all development strategy, linking and harmonising them with policies on industrialisation, agriculture, social welfare, and environmental and cultural preservation so that each supports the other in a progressive improvement in wellbeing of all mankind. [More…]
Timely government intervention can provide welfare assistance to seriously affected farmers as well as providing the financial means to ensure that resources continue to be used in those industries where their earning power is greatest. [More…]
The second aspect of a complete package of agricultural policies is welfare policy. [More…]
In the past, Liberal and National Country Party governments have not placed sufficient emphasis on welfare policy, and I acknowledge the criticism that has come from Labor spokesmen in this regard. [More…]
But, even though the Labor Party said that it would do more in regard to welfare policy in agriculture, it did not do it. [More…]
In our 12 months in government we have introduced 2 significant policy proposals for welfare in agriculture. [More…]
Those who live in rural communities, whether they live on farms or in country towns, need such things as communications, telephones, transport, fuel prices equalisation, reasonable educational opportunities and special health and welfare services. [More…]
Household support is one of the major welfare innovations- it does not matter whether it is agricultural or non-agricultural- of this country. [More…]
As such it is an innovation of major importance to general social welfare policy not only in this country but also in the Western world generally. [More…]
I compliment the Minister and the Government for putting together what I consider to be a great improvement in adjustment measures for the agricultural sector of our society and for some very important innovations and developments in social welfare policy. [More…]
I think it is important always when discussing what may be the problems of high tariff in Australia also to discuss the welfare and the wellbeing of the people who are involved and affected by decisions which are taken by governments [More…]
It is so much hogwash for the Government continually to use the 25 per cent tariff cut as the basis for saying that the Opposition does not think about the welfare of industry or the people who work in it. [More…]
The Minister has informed me that the Australian Telecommunications Commission intends approaching the various social welfare departments- the Department of Social Security, the Department of Health and the Department of Veterans’ Affairs- to investigate whether or not they will be prepared to assist possible users financially by subsidising purchases or rentals of these devices. [More…]
However, research is continuing under the auspices of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in the United States of America. [More…]
This fall in living standards- this slide in personal incomes and individual welfare and security- is so novel and dramatic a phenomenon that the Australian people have yet to grasp its implications. [More…]
It is in his own interest and for the welfare of the people with him that he do so. [More…]
Factors to be considered in this regard go well beyond the grant of assisted passages to Australia and include placement in employment in Australia which is significantly difficult at present and an assessment of the degree of reliance which any group may have on continuing social welfare payments and services. [More…]
Public benevolent institutions, including those concerned with the welfare of blind persons, are entitled to exemption from sales tax on goods acquired for their own use and not for resale. [More…]
At the heart of the problem is a conscious and planned assault on living standards, a wilful contempt for the welfare of the people and those most in need. [More…]
No government with such a record can win the people’s confidence in the struggle to restore our economic welfare. [More…]
The economy cannot recover only by the stripping down of funds provided by Government for basic services such as transport, sewerage and welfare housing. [More…]
The article in the AGP Journal, contributed by Dr Kerry Burrow headed ‘Rent a Digger for Two Bucks’ is false, untrue, publicly mischievous, misleading, unprofessional, in bad taste and capable of damaging the reputation and future financial welfare of the Home. [More…]
The welfare people, the fire organisations and the Red Cross were all on the scene very quickly indeed and behaved magnificently. [More…]
Can any honourable member tell me that the social welfare POliCY of the Labor Party is not different from the social welfare policy of the Liberal Party? [More…]
On behalf of actual beneficiaries, involved individuals, agencies and organisations, such as the Commonwealth Employment Service offices at Preston and Heidelberg, Preston Employment Action Group, Program for Unemployed SelfHelp (West Heidelberg), the 2 community health centres situated in the large Housing Commission estates of Preston/Reservoir and West Heidelberg, Preston and Northcote Community Hospital, Austin Hospital and North Eastern Suburbs Regional Office (Social Welfare Department), we request that you give your most urgent consideration to the relocation of an unemployment and sickness benefit component at the Preston regional office. [More…]
However, I do wish to speak about the management of money and particularly of welfare funds by the Federal Government. [More…]
It is my unfortunate duty to draw to the attention of the House this evening the very critical position in which an innovative welfare project in my electorate has been placed as a result of a Government decision communicated to that group today. [More…]
The project also serves as a communication facility for the parents, to put them in contact with each other, to help them plug into the welfare services which are so puzzling. [More…]
-My grievance is that the Fraser Government unilaterally is trying to force the State governments of Australia to agree to the changing of the existing CommonwealthState Housing Agreement in a way that will create hardship for many existing tenants of welfare housing and will create inequity between the needy poor and other less affluent people in our country. [More…]
The Fraser Government is intent upon forcing the States to pay the long term bond interest rate of 10.5 per cent per annum on loans for welfare housing. [More…]
As a consequence, the tenants of welfare housing will pay rents at the current market level. [More…]
Rather than attacking the Labor Premiers who have these and other doubts over the end result of the Fraser Government’s proposal, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development would be more productive if he ensured that studies were undertaken correlating the cost benefit and social welfare implications of alternatives to the existing scheme. [More…]
This proposal to increase interest rates on welfare housing loans has caused intense anxiety and alarm throughout Australia. [More…]
They have always kept interest rates for the welfare housing program at a high level, generally providing only a one per cent advantage against the bond rate. [More…]
Mr Neilson of Tasmania accused the Federal Government of turning its back on welfare housing for low income earners generally. [More…]
Mr Hayes, the Victorian Government’s spokesman on housing, said that the adoption of the proposal would mean State governments paying 10.5 per cent on money borrowed for welfare housing. [More…]
I remind the honourable member that welfare housing is for those who need it- the low income group. [More…]
I table 2 reports: The report of the Committee on Care of the Aged and the Infirm and the first report of the Task Force on Coordination in Welfare and Health entitled Proposals for Change in the Administration and Delivery of Programs and Services. [More…]
In June and July 1976 the Government established 2 inquiries in the health and welfare fields. [More…]
The second, the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health, chaired by Mr P. H. Bailey, was announced on 23 July. [More…]
The relationship between programs for the aged and the infirm and other health and welfare programs. [More…]
Honourable members will recall the decision to establish the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health arose out of the Government’s concern at the proliferation, duplication and overlap of Commonwealth programs and services in the health, welfare and community development fields. [More…]
The report also contains a range of other recommendations relating to specific programs including, for example, pathology laboratories, rehabilitation centres, and the immediate post-arrival welfare of migrants. [More…]
In proposing various administrative changes, both reports make suggestions as to how the Commonwealth can safeguard the role of local and voluntary agencies delivering health and welfare services in the community. [More…]
Our view is that these reports raise important issues in the health and welfare fields which merit serious consideration, not only by governments but also by all those involved. [More…]
The Committee on Care of the Aged and the Infirm and the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health are to be commended for their efforts. [More…]
Task force on Co-ordination in Welfare and HealthProposals for Change in the Administration and Delivery of Programs and Services’- Ministerial Statement, 17 February 1977. [More…]
The terms of reference of the Task Force directed it to look at ways of co-ordinating welfare programs ‘having in mind that coordination could be effected at the State and local government level without Commonwealth involvement’. [More…]
The fact is that new ventures in social welfare or security, as in housing, higher education or transport, have, ever since the Second World War, always come from the Federal GovernmentLiberal or Labor- and the original funding for them has come from the Federal GovernmentLiberal or Labor. [More…]
Already there have been a number of social welfare programs amalgamated or transferred to the States by the Fraser Government. [More…]
After consultations with interested groups and a report from the Social Welfare Commission recommending its retention, the Minister for Social Security announced on 21 May 1976 that the Government would not continue to fund the program beyond June this year. [More…]
It is perfectly clear that the Fraser Government is obsessively concerned with administrative arrangements and with reducing federal expenditure rather than with providing effective social welfare services. [More…]
Overlap and duplication can be eliminated with planning and goodwill, but without a commitment- a sharing- by the Federal Government it is much harder to close the gaps in health and welfare services. [More…]
Ever since the Second World War every new initiative in health and welfare services in Australia has been taken by the Federal government. [More…]
Although many millions of dollars are being spent on welfare housing, thousands and thousands of people on or below the poverty line do not receive the benefit of this money and aU the honourable members who spoke today well know it. [More…]
At the Premiers Conference last year the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) outlined the Government’s concern for welfare housing and the broad guidelines that it intended to adopt to build a new agreement. [More…]
Although many millions of dollars have been spent on welfare housing, thousands upon thousands of people on the poverty line or below do not receive the benefit of this money. [More…]
In other words, last week I indicated that the Government made representations to the Ugandan authorities about the Archbishop’s safety and welfare, shortly after his arrest. [More…]
I do not think there is any doubt that the cost of health care will grow much faster in the future and that as a result resources will be taken away, from other major areas such as education and welfare where they would otherwise be used. [More…]
For Preston our 5 000 ratepayer pensioners would be contributing to a social welfare payment to the unemployed. [More…]
The trust will give consideration to giving financial support to any proposals put forward by community organisations which are designed to involve young people in the life and welfare of the community. [More…]
What ought to be a measure of social welfare has become a commercial procedure dictated by calculations of profit and loss. [More…]
Where society should be primarily concerned with the welfare of the accident victim and his family it is more concerned with legal concepts of evidence, negligence and fault. [More…]
Treasury, the Social Welfare Commission and the Departments of Prime Minister and Cabinet and Repatriation and Compensation. [More…]
A social welfare policy administration will assess claims and provide benefits and allowances. [More…]
It will set safety and health standards and co-ordinate activities across the full range of the social welfare area. [More…]
That principle is the need to establish the most rational, just, humane and efficient procedures to administer any social welfare scheme from which the whole community benefits and to which the whole community is obliged to contribute. [More…]
What the Fraser Government has sought to do is reverse the historic consensus of a generation of Australian politics, the principle adhered to by successive Labor and Liberal governments, ever since the Second World War that the prime responsibility for social welfare and security, and for all reforms and initiatives in this field, rests with the Federal Government. [More…]
As I pointed out last week, that was the underlying motive of the Government in appointing the Bailey and Holmes inquiries into aspects of social welfare. [More…]
At the same time as consultations were being held with the States, discussions took place with the private insurance industry, employer organisations, trade unions, the medical and legal professions, welfare organisations and motorists’ organisations. [More…]
What was the breakdown of Regional Employment Development Scheme expenditure in terms of ( a ) welfare facilities, (b) sport and recreation, (c) tourist facilities, (d) water reticulation, (e) major drainage, (f) kerbing, guttering, footpaving, minor drainage, (g) hospital and ancillary services, (h) servicing the RED Scheme and (i) other expenditure. [More…]
That where rebates are transferred to social welfare payments the transfer compensates for the value of the rebates for each taxpayer or the household supported by the taxpayer; and [More…]
We are also becoming a welfare orientated hand-out society. [More…]
The welfare philosophy is making huge demands on our budgets, on our national finances and on our prospects for economic recovery. [More…]
This, in my opinion, is most commendable and should be the basis of any social welfare system. [More…]
So I support the view that greater emphasis should be placed on anti-poverty measures as a basis for welfare action. [More…]
Not only does Australia according to a recent World Bank survey have a more equal distribution of income than almost any other country in the world but also I believe there is merit in the suggestion that Australia’s adoption of a basically selective approach to welfare is largely responsible for the fact that the incidence of poverty in Australia is lower than in any country with the possible exception of the Scandinavian countries. [More…]
This approach to welfare allows a greater degree of flexibility for the Government to address itself to new areas of need as they arise. [More…]
These and other areas of need I feel sure can be better catered for by the flexibility which is inherent in the Government’s needs based welfare policy. [More…]
Members of the Opposition wish to place on record that the Labor Government was elected to promote the welfare aspects of our society. [More…]
One of those welfare aspects was the abolition of the means test for age pensioners. [More…]
I believe there is evidence to sustain my belief that at this time in our nation’s history there is a great opportunity for the major political parties, ibr management and for unions in particular to reach a consensus that the future welfare of our citizens will depend to a large extent on giving them the opportunity to work and thereby to live productive and useful lives. [More…]
Despite the enormous achievements of our nation in the last 25 years and despite our extremely high standard of living compared with many countries, the Henderson report identified areas of major concern and deficiencies in the social welfare structure, This was despite the universal philosophy of spending money on welfare. [More…]
In 1976-77 all levels of government spending reached $2,339 for every man woman and child in this country, out of which social welfare alone accounted for over 30 per cent. [More…]
As Australians we must continue to be vitally concerned about the welfare of our neighbours. [More…]
The Government’s aid programs are but one manifestation of our continuing interest in the welfare of these peoples. [More…]
Increased unemployment benefits and relaxed eligibility regulations began to foster a welfare mentality which is still with us today. [More…]
Perhaps the most poignant example was welfare for the sadly disadvantaged remnants of the AboriginesAustralia’s native race. [More…]
Aboriginal welfare became a self-sustaining bureaucracy with a huge share of the Government money going to social workers, administrators, researchers and consultants. [More…]
I was interested in his early comments in which he stated that the former Labor Government was elected in December 1972 because of the appeal of its welfare program. [More…]
Whilst one can understand that people will support a welfare program, I assure him that one of the reasons that his Government was elected in December 1972 was that it had been out of office for 23 years and the Australian people had forgotten what it would mean to have a profligate socialist government on the treasury benches. [More…]
The new family allowance scheme places in every mother’s hands an allowance to spend as she thinks is best for the welfare of her family. [More…]
When all is said and done, we should not be staggered or surprised if this Government were to bring the rate of interest for welfare housing to a level near that of the bond rate, because that is what was done for 23 years under a Liberal-Country Party government. [More…]
He is also known as ‘cut Johnson’ because it was during this period that he cut by 19 per cent the Federal Government’s contribution to welfare housing in Australia. [More…]
Instead of private members being active in the Parliament to examine legislation, to discuss reports, to discuss ministerial statements and so on, there is a tendency for them to want to be back in the electorate serving the social worker or welfare worker functions there. [More…]
community health and welfare, and [More…]
That social problem is one of a welfare society. [More…]
That is getting back to the welfare society to which I referred earlier. [More…]
In plain terms we have a dishonest and discredited Government, a Government of lies and broken promises, a Government that is driving Australia into deeper recession and decline, a Government that is wilfully neglecting the urgent needs of the Australian people, a Government renouncing all responsibility for national welfare and national progress. [More…]
In all of it there was not one novel, constructive or creative idea, not one initiative for the welfare of the people, not one serious proposal for economic recovery, not one example of imagination or vision or endeavour. [More…]
Every government program for the people’s welfare and security, every State and federal and local initiative for better cities, health care, transport and community advancement will be starved and strangled. [More…]
It will destroy once and for all the right of the trade unions to organise their own affairs and to work fearlessly for the welfare of their union members. [More…]
Above all, it is an ideology which strikes at the economic welfare of the Australian workers and one which we must resist. [More…]
The Community Youth Support scheme may have some benefits as a social welfare scheme because it is designed to provide unemployed young people with an orientation to work and make them more acceptable to employers but it will have absolutely no benefit in combatting unemployment. [More…]
I think that eventually we will have to move to a system of proper welfare based on need. [More…]
The Congress will bring from 1500 to 2000 visitors to Australia, including Ministers, judges, academic and other leading figures in the field of law, criminology, police, corrections, social welfare, mental health, sociology, education and related areas and disciplines. [More…]
If we can bring these people under notice very early and not put them away behind bars in prisons but restore them to the work force, under surveillance, with the necessary support from welfare societies and educationalists, it would save an enormous amount of money and a lot of human material. [More…]
The people of Australia must understand that it is not to their welfare that they should have coming in to the parliaments more people from the country areas than from the city. [More…]
Unlike the Opposition I and others on the Government side of the House are genuinely concerned for the welfare of fruit growers as people. [More…]
I repeat that I and my colleagues have fought hard and will continue to fight hard for the welfare of the apple and pear export industry in general and the fruit growers of Tasmania in particular. [More…]
The IAC report reflects a complete lack of optimism about the future of the industry, it ignores confirmed market potential, it proposes a costly, complex and ill-considered welfare system for individuals rather than product assistance to stabilise the industry itself . [More…]
The same honourable member for Blaxland had this to say: … a scheme like the current one which is production orientated gives the larger grower a larger proportion of the funds available and the smaller grower receives only a small amount of the funds available which, in many cases, just becomes a form of welfare assistance rather than viable support - [More…]
That social problem is one of a welfare society. [More…]
The honourable member for Blaxland, who poses as the great friend of primary industry, who stands in this Parliament and claims to have a vested interest in the welfare of primary industry, is on record as having said last year that he regarded this sort of stabilisation scheme as a form of welfare assistance, a dole for the fruit growers, a hand-out. [More…]
Senator Gietzelt, the Opposition spokesman on primary industry matters in the Senate, made a magnificent contribution to the welfare of the fruit industry when last year he said that the Opposition would not oppose the legislation- not that it supported it, but that it would not oppose it. [More…]
It proposes a costly, complex, cumbersome and ill-considered new bureaucratic welfare system for individuals in the industry, rather than providing assistance for real stabilisation of the industry itself. [More…]
just becomes a form of welfare assistance. [More…]
It is only a substitute for social welfare benefits. [More…]
Their demands are much less on the public purse than those of the shipbuilding and car manufacturing industries and those unproductive welfare areas where relief is a greater reward than theirs for working 50 to 60 hours a week. [More…]
Professional welfare recipients account for, I believe, some 60 000 of the total number of unemployed in Australia today. [More…]
For some of these unemployed welfare payments are permanent. [More…]
There are others that might have been, such as the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
The Social Welfare Commission went very wrong. [More…]
Those who reflect on the history of the Social Welfare Commission will be able to see how, if I am right as to the structure that these bodies ought to have, the Social Welfare Commission was wrong as it was put forward originally. [More…]
-When speaking tonight in the debate on the Address-in-Reply to Her Majesty’s Speech, the honourable member for Chifley (Mr Armitage) discussed a wide range of issues, including inflation, unemployment and social welfare. [More…]
Availability of welfare grant monies- or ‘capitation’- is not an essential requirement for the functioning of Regional Councils. [More…]
It should not be used to make people increasingly dependent on welfare systems. [More…]
Availability of Welfare Grant monies- or ‘Capitation’- is not an essential requirement for the functioning of Regional Councils. [More…]
It should not be used to make people increasingly dependent on welfare systems. [More…]
It aims to slow the rapidly escalating welfare budget through activities that: [More…]
4 Availability of Welfare Grant monies- or Capitation- is not an essential requirement for the functioning of Regional Councils: 4.1 Three year experience by Regional Councils that failed to gain capitation funding has indicated that this in no way precluded effective functioning. [More…]
It is proposed that a fund of $500,000 be established for Community Welfare projects. [More…]
-The honourable gentleman is seeking to confuse comments I made last weekend in relation to the question of social welfare. [More…]
I stated that Commonwealth expenditure on education, housing, social security and welfare will amount to almost $12 billion or about one-half of expected total outlays in this financial year. [More…]
The dramatic expansion of welfare programs over recent years is a very important, if not the principal, reason why such a heavy burden has been placed on Australian taxpayers. [More…]
Quite contrary to what I said, the program sought to give the impression that the Government would be looking to cut out those programs that are fulfilling an important role in the area of social welfare. [More…]
What must be understood is that the Government has an obligation to ensure that welfare programs are not rendered inefficient by excessive administration and delivery costs, such as those that occurred under the former Administration, and that they are not directed towards those in the Australian community who have a capacity to look after themselves. [More…]
The quality of life we enjoy, the structure, the efficiency of our manufacturing industries, the distribution of and the demand for welfare services, the role that Australia will play as a member of the international community- in short, Australia’s population policies-are central to the population decisions of government. [More…]
Concern for social justice and social welfare and respect for human freedom are fundamental to American values. [More…]
In any event, incentives to have larger families could be very costly, even to the point of drawing resources away from other welfare programs. [More…]
That would mean that our allocation of resources to education, health, social welfare, and urban and regional development could be planned without risk of dislocation. [More…]
The facts are that there are not viable plans for solving inflation, that there is not a solitary care for unemployed people, that there is no semblance of planning or concern in the fields of social welfare, health, urban planning, Aboriginal affairs, the aged or education. [More…]
I now leave you in the faith that Divine Providence will always guide your deliberations and further the welfare of the people of Australia. [More…]
In view of his address to the Victorian State Council of the Liberal Party in which he foreshadowed further reductions in expenditure on health and welfare services in this year’s Budget, I ask: Will he assure the House that the Government will not restore the means test on pensions for persons over the age of 70 years or reintroduce university fees and loans in breach of the 1975 election commitments? [More…]
If we had allowed the situation to go on unchanged, the cost of universal health insurance would rapidly have consumed the social welfare dollar in this country. [More…]
The lesson to be learnt from any universal health insurance system around the world is that unless there are proper inbuilt cost constraint mechanisms- I know that the honourable member for Oxley agrees with this- clearly the cost will get completely out of hand and will consume the social welfare dollar. [More…]
Let me assure the honourable member for Oxley that Sweden is in deep trouble with too much social welfare being at the root cause of its troubles. [More…]
When are the champions of social welfare in the Labor Party going to realise that there is nothing free in this world? [More…]
Those State Ministers do themselves, their State and their country a disservice by their supercilious, and callous statements of disregard of the nation’s welfare. [More…]
Gone are the extravagancies of the Labor Administration; rapidly disappearing over the horizon, thank goodness, is the handout mentality associated with the socialist philosophy of the welfare state. [More…]
The only matter which could possibly be referred to as an initiative was a clear indication that social security and welfare programs which were initiated by the Labor Government would be axed still further and that people who were deserving of assistance were to be deprived still further of a reasonable degree of assistance. [More…]
Livestock-Rural Development Sponsorship and Child Welfare Australian-Asian Livestock Society Ltd. 18 March 1977. [More…]
But a healthy and growing economy is a necessary condition for an effective social welfare program. [More…]
The breach of our promises to continue the Australian Assistance Plan, wage indexation, the value of the currency, the Social Welfare Commission, increased research on solar energy, are matters which have disturbed me greatly. [More…]
It applies also to social welfare policies. [More…]
I ask the honourable member for Melbourne (Mr Innes) who will follow me whether he would care to explain how as a government they would increase dramatically spending on education, social welfare, housing, local government, and grants to the States, and how they would give indirect and direct tax cuts. [More…]
That is a figure which has no regard for the present economic and employment situation in Australia and which certainly has no regard for the way in which we will see to their welfare once they get here. [More…]
Certainly we did not do enough but we were working on significant new directions in migrant welfare and community relations when the present Government conned its way into office on the pretext that it could run everything much better. [More…]
The Government is going through a public relations exercise of establishing concurrently 2 experimental migrant resource centres, one in Melbourne, which is to be operated under contract by the Australian Greek Welfare Society, and one in Sydney. [More…]
Those centres are supposed to provide all sorts of services to migrants, to assist social workers and welfare officers, and to draw attention to the particular problems of ethnic communities and individual migrants requiring government action. [More…]
They tended to form tightly-knit communities but they were diligent and thrifty, and they had an uncommon regard for the welfare of their children. [More…]
Instead of some indication that the Government will assist the many children and adults with learning difficulties the Treasurer offers the prospect of further massive reductions in social welfare expenditure. [More…]
It is very easy for a government to win electoral appeal by increasing education spending, by increasing health spending, by increasing social welfare spending or by increasing subsidies to a number of industries and concessions to many employment areas in the community. [More…]
There is a need today more than ever before for people themselves to be their own initiators, for people themselves to strive to become independent, for people themselves to become less dependent on governments, but at the same time, there is a need today for governments to keep out of people’s lives, except of course in those cases of extreme hardship where the society as a whole accepts a responsibility for welfare. [More…]
As honourable members will be only too well aware, the cost of transport in a country as large and as isolated as ours is important to the welfare of the nation. [More…]
As we all know, the Australian Assistance Plan was an initiative of the former Labor Government to bring social welfare and so forth into the hands of the people. [More…]
These facts effectively counter the unfair criticism from some people whose proper concern for the welfare of refugees has led them to the wrong conclusion that Australia is not doing enough. [More…]
In the main this is being provided by the Federal Department of Social Security, backed up by valuable assistance from State and local governments and welfare organisations and service clubs. [More…]
Labor’s policies in these fields are policies for women; they are part of our program to improve the welfare and widen the rights and opportunities of the whole community. [More…]
Mr Fraser constantly talks about restricting social welfare payments to those in genuine need. [More…]
Every statement of this kind from Mr Fraser is a threat to the security of women and everyone on social welfare benefits. [More…]
It is wrecking creative programs for the health, security and welfare of women and children just as it is wrecking those for men. [More…]
The wrecking of Medibank is an attack on women; the neglect of the cities is an attack on women; the Fraser Government’s onslaught on social welfare, urban transport, sewerage programs, area improvement, environmental and recreational programs are attacks on the living standards of everyone, men and women alike. [More…]
Third, the health and welfare of their families. [More…]
Why did the Government not appoint somebody who has some understanding of social welfare issues and an understanding of social problems? [More…]
The reform that was introduced last year, to change the basis of family allowances, I believe, was probably the most significant single social welfare reform since Federation especially to help women. [More…]
The view that I have just expressed on the basis of the recommendations of the Poverty Commission was further supported in the paper by that Commission entitled The Welfare of Migrants. [More…]
Instead we are asked to believe that a Government that runs down the aid program, that fails to spend even the meagre funds on foreign aid allocated in its own Budget and dismantles the expert, independent body set up to administer foreign aid is somehow committed to the welfare of our neighbours and the needy countries of the world. [More…]
It is our objective to increase our aid commitment as far as we can possibly do so, keeping in mind the fact that we have to run the Australian economy, deal with the numerous social welfare problems that we have in Australia, as well as pull our weight internationally and assist those countries, many of which are far worse off than ourselves. [More…]
The low foreign exchange earnings of those nations and the huge foreign debts which they have regrettably had to run up since independence will continue to remain a major difficulty in their overall economic welfare. [More…]
The decision to recognise the administration of our economic aid programs is based on the view that improvements in aid must be affected in almost all aspects of our aid endeavours- in the machinery for formulating policy, in ensuring greater attention to the welfare and distributive effects of our aid, in evaluating the effectiveness of our various schemes, in bringing greater expertise into our staffing arrangements and in more directly associating the community with the program. [More…]
The Bureau provides assistance to the sponsored students in various matters relating to their education, training and welfare. [More…]
I suggest that money spent on aid is much more conducive to the peace and future welfare of this nation than money spent on defence in many respects. [More…]
The point is that we cannot just seek to push for our own development in this selfish fashion, recognising that we have a lot of unemployed that we cannot accommodate, that we have an increasing aged population, that somehow they will have to survive on social welfare and that we will have to maintain our own productive sections of the community by bringing in trained migrants. [More…]
Is that the sort of thing that a nation like ours should be doing when it claims that it is trying to promote the welfare not only of its own citizens but also of the whole world, because we are part of the world? [More…]
Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health (Question No. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to recommendation 15 and paragraph 171 of the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health. [More…]
The orientation of our society towards the qualitative aspects of growth and towards broad aspects of welfare, however, does require a close integration of science policy with social and economic policy, especialy in relation to long range human objectives of social development. [More…]
We must constantly keep in mind that the proper aims of technology and applied science are the welfare of the consumers and the betterment of the human condition. [More…]
It should remind us that other matters besides our economic health are important to our welfare and can be forgotten only at our own peril. [More…]
Immigration is the second major component of population growth and it is here that the rate of growth should be regulated to allow the maximum welfare of the present community and those who make their homes here. [More…]
I refer to the telephone interpreter service, the ethnic radio organisation, the provision of specialised migrant social workers and welfare workers. [More…]
Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health: Second Report (Question No. [More…]
1 ) Has he set a date for the transmission to him of the second report of the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health in which it is proposed to concentrate on the development of proposals for the more effective coordination of social policy development at the Commonwealth level. [More…]
The new federalism means dual taxation; it means double taxation; it means the end of the system of uniform taxation which has served Australia well since World War II; it means the withdrawal of the Federal Government from all creative programs and all responsibilities for the people’s welfare and the nation’s advancement. [More…]
Under the Fraser federalism the real creative co-operation between State and federal governments- the co-operation that has been the basis of all new initiatives and all constructive ventures for the people’s welfare since the War- would be destroyed in reality and in spirit. [More…]
Every initiative in public welfare or national development since the war has been taken by the Federal Government or with its participation. [More…]
There was no welfare housing in this country before the Federal Government made it happen. [More…]
Uniform taxation was introduced in this country because we recognised, as a nation, that the States were so disparate and diverse, so unequal in their populations and their tax resources, that without a coordinating and overriding Federal responsibility for growth, welfare and development, the very ideal of federation would be at risk; pressures and disparaties among the States would produce a grossly unequal and therefore divided nation. [More…]
If effective government, geared to the needs of the 1980s and beyond, is to be achieved … if the great issues of national and local concern such as education, health, social welfare, housing and urban development are to receive maximum intelligent attention … if all our resources including human talents and local knowledge are to be effectively harnessed … if innovation, diversity and imaginative reforms are to be encouraged . [More…]
If the Government believes that some forms of welfare ought to be reviewed- and there may be a case for such reviews- it should at least have the decency to wait for the findings of its own inquiries. [More…]
One of the fundamental requirements of efficient administration of social welfare and unemployment benefits is to ensure that eligibility for benefits is determined. [More…]
Unemployment benefits, social welfare benefits and other benefits are designed to relieve people of hardship and suffering and are paid for by the taxpayers and the community generally. [More…]
The Government is closely studying the reports of the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health and of the Committee of Inquiry into the Care of the Aged and Infirm. [More…]
A lot of the need for this sort of legislation and the need for the Temporary Assistance Authority to examine a wide range of industries and their welfare today in terms of export competition of course was caused by the actions of the Australian Labor Party Government in the last three or four years. [More…]
By the devlopment of our uranium, we may be able to safeguard significantly the welfare of mankind. [More…]
In particular, they are detrimental to the welfare of the women who are dependent on this shelter. [More…]
The South Australian Community Welfare Minister, Mr Payne, said in State Parliament: [More…]
Some of those benefits have been seen increasingly by governmentsvery much by State governments as well as others- as welfare payments. [More…]
We come therefore to a very important principle, namely, to what extent is the insurance industry to be tied in terms of either its short term obligations or its long term obligations to the welfare principle? [More…]
My friend opposite, the honourable member for Lilley, thinks that he could somehow separate the welfare part from the rest. [More…]
It has a legal- in fact, a constitutional- responsibility for immigration and the welfare of migrants and their families. [More…]
Its sole concern is with recruiting, vetting or deporting migrants, it has no responsibility for migrant welfare, health, education, housing, employment. [More…]
The welfare and settlement prospects of the individual migrant will take priority over the immediate needs of the employment market. [More…]
Special arrangements within the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs will be made by a Liberal/ National Country Party government to provide both a reference point for individual migrants problems and assist the many migrant welfare organisations. [More…]
A Liberal/National Country Party government will actively support and encourage the activities of regionalised Good Neighbour Councils and other migrant welfare organisations. [More…]
A Liberal/National Country Party government will assist and encourage industry to provide migrant advisory services and assistance schemes within their own structure and generally take a greater responsibility for the welfare of migrant workers. [More…]
The Bill does raise some important questions about the future of the Government’s welfare and housing programs. [More…]
The Bailey report recommended that it be included in a comprehensive welfare housing scheme. [More…]
The Government might use this program to reduce the criticism which very substantial changes to the long accepted welfare housing policies will bring. [More…]
It may well be that the recommendations in the Bailey and Holmes reports are sounder in welfare terms than what the bureaucracy is proposing and the Minister should not cut off these options. [More…]
The efforts that this Government will be putting into getting a satisfactory, worthwhile solution to the various problems in the welfare housing field shows that the Government regards this as an absolute top priority. [More…]
The Government believes that many people enjoying the benefits of the welfare housing programs in the various States are in a financial position to make more of a contribution towards either the rent or the repayments on the homes they are occupying. [More…]
It is all very well for members of the Opposition and State Labor Party Premiers to mischievously claim that the Government is determined to increase the rents for people in welfare housing. [More…]
What this Government believes determinedly is that the people who should have first access to the welfare housing units and the people who should be paying nothing more than the minimum repayment or the minimum rent should be the people who have the greatest need. [More…]
We have heard nothing in this regard except abuse in the Press from State Premiers who are taking cheap political points on welfare housing by claiming that the Fraser Government is seeking simply to increase the repayments and other dues of people who are in needy circumstances. [More…]
I also reinforce the point that this Minister and this Government are interested in both the welfare housing and private housing sectors. [More…]
We are determined to see that in the course of this Liberal-National Country Party Government and the next one, that the percentage of people who can get into a position of home ownership increases dramatically and that the benefits to be obtained from welfare housing programs go to those people in the greatest need. [More…]
-As one who has been genuinely committed to the welfare of pensioners and the under-privileged since I first came into Parliament 1 1 years ago, may I say that I support the legislation and I congratulate the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) on the manner in which he is performing the duties of his portfolio. [More…]
They are complaining because the Minister has arranged and the Government has commissioned the preparation of some very important reports on the future of this type of welfare housing. [More…]
I believe that the subject of welfare housing is above and beyond party politics. [More…]
Contrary to what Mr Holgate has said in Tasmania, namely that ‘in my opinion the Federal Government is progressively trying to opt out of government housing leaving the States to accept the financial burden’ and ‘that is why Mr Newman wants to cut off our supply of low interest money which we depend upon so much to charge reasonable rents’ this Government, under this Minister, is determined to get better value for its welfare housing dollar. [More…]
As I said, the Bill will extend the scheme from 3 years to 4 years and will pump $10m into welfare housing for single pensioners. [More…]
I mentioned 2 reports- the Task Force on Coordination in Welfare and Health, known as the Bailey report, and the report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Care of the Aged and Infirm. [More…]
In the field of health and welfare it offers a new hope to an Australian marching towards the twenty-first century. [More…]
Sixthly, towards the end of this century Australia will need to spend relatively more on such things as aged pensions and other age related welfare schemes and relatively less- I am sad to say this- on such things as child endowment, education, creches and the like. [More…]
The Bailey Task Force has proposed the establishment of a SHACC- that is, sheltered accommodationprogram as one of 4 programs in the welfare and health area. [More…]
Indeed, I believe, in the approach and the commitment of our Government that we have demonstrated to the pensioners of Australia, to the poor of Australia, and to the under-privileged of Australia that we have a genuine commitment to their welfare and to their betterment, that we are determined that they shall be properly and appropriately housed, and that they shall be cared for in the twilight years of their lives. [More…]
The Government is closely studying the reports of the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health and of the Committee of Inquiry into the Care of the Aged and Infirm. [More…]
The Government, quite wisely, has extended the thrust of the legislation in time to give the States the opportunity to continue their uncompleted programs while a reappraisal of housing on a welfare basis is being carried out. [More…]
I support the Bill to extend the period of operation of the States Grants (Dwellings for Pensioners) Act 1974 for 12 months to 30 June 1978 because self-contained units for pensioners entitled to supplementary benefits are an urgently needed health and welfare facility. [More…]
The Minister informed the House that the Government was studying reports of the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health and of the Committee of Inquiry into the Care of the Aged and Infirm. [More…]
The Social Welfare Commission’s report in August 1975 adopted certain approaches. [More…]
We have before us a report from Peter Bailey’s Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health and the report of the Holmes Committee of Inquiry into Care of the Aged and Infirm. [More…]
I suppose that would be a hope that many of us here would share because if he read the article and understood it he would realise that it dramatised and pointed out the significant and magnificent social welfare reforms that this Government has introduced. [More…]
-I know the honourable gentleman to be most solicitous of the welfare of his constituents. [More…]
Since the inception of the North West Regional Council for Social Development over the last 3 years or so activity in the welfare field has increased dramatically to the benefit of the people in such areas as the development of the central services and the raising of the quality of life in the area. [More…]
It has successfully initiated many programs in the fields of health, welfare, child care, education, ethnic affairs, recreation, youth, environment and community information and media access. [More…]
There are neighbourhood centres, community health centres, municipal welfare committees, a legal service and ethnic culture activity officers have been appointed. [More…]
The Council has also taken up issues where they arose and has worked in areas that have not been covered by other organisations in the welfare field. [More…]
Some time ago in one of his regular articles he was pointing out that no really worthwhile tax cuts could be made without a corresponding cutback in welfare services. [More…]
1 per cent of government outlays; health, 2 per cent of government outlays; social security and welfare, 25.4 per cent; and payments to the States and local government authorities, 21.1 per cent. [More…]
I hope that the Government does apply the same cnterion when it is thinking of cutting expenditure on education, health and social welfare and when it is increasing the problems we face by ensuring that the numbers of students at our schools and tertiary institutions are maintained at much higher numbers than is necessary because of the lack of opportunities it creates for them. [More…]
This will recentralise activities in social welfare which had been decentralised very effectively into the control and operation of the local community in a number of” areas, especially in my electorate. [More…]
These concessions have been paid for by reductions in the welfare area and community expenditures. [More…]
So far the Tribunal has no jurisdiction in the welfare field. [More…]
The economic welfare of the Australian people deserves better than this sort of charade. [More…]
They affect people in receipt of social welfare benefits, pre-school education and migrants. [More…]
They affect the services provided by welfare programs which depend on supplementary advances from the Government. [More…]
We know that the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health Services specifically recommended in its first report that if devolution of Commonwealth programs to the States was to be successful the basic arrangements as to capital and operating expenditures should be outlined clearly in an agreement. [More…]
1 ) What has been the total expenditure on welfare in each financial year from 1965-77. [More…]
) How is welfare defined in the answer to part ( 1 ). [More…]
What proportion of total welfare expenditure was required for administration and delivery costs. [More…]
) Expenditure by the Department of Social Security (and its predecessor, the Department of Social Services) on welfare is shown in the following table: [More…]
That has occurred in a budgetary position in which the Government claims that enlarging the Budget deficit is impossible, in which it refuses even to discuss the possibility of a tax cut and wage rise trade off, in which recession has stretched welfare services to the limit with threats being made to cut them even further, in which unemployment has been deliberately created through cuts in capital works expenditure and inflationary pressures have been exacerbated through increases in government charges. [More…]
Can the Minister assure the House that these restrictions will be lifted immediately so that non-English speaking migrants are guaranteed equality of access to medical, legal and social welfare services regardless of what language they speak? [More…]
As the report says, we raised that matter with some trepidation because inevitably when the issue of facilities for members of Parliament is raised in any context the accusation, of course, is made that members of Parliament are interested only in their own comfort, welfare or convenience. [More…]
We ought to pay less attention to committees and more attention to the welfare of Australia. [More…]
Australia to which refugees wish to go; the background of refugees to be accepted- their capacity for early integration or otherwise; the availability of special post arrival services- language instruction, education, training, accommodation, health and welfare; and the numbers of refugees for which voluntary agencies can care. [More…]
It is typical of the Government’s patronising view of migrants and their welfare that they will not be consulted. [More…]
Unfortunately, the areas in which the standard of service declined most dramatically were those which were concerned most closely with dispensing welfare to people in most need such as pensioners, the sick, the handicapped people and, above all, the people who were made unemployed by the Government’s ill-advised economic policy of cutting back government expenditure. [More…]
The field services and counselling services of the child welfare branch have been delayed. [More…]
Is the Opposition seriously proposing that $4.5m to the States in the welfare housing area is a significant amount of money? [More…]
The Government will be able to provide, more sympathetically, welfare housing. [More…]
Henderson, in his report on poverty, has demonstrated that probably only a small fraction of those people in welfare homes have the capacity to pay for such cheap housing. [More…]
It has seen the need for a good program, a large program, albeit an experimental program, which will lead to lasting results in the welfare housing area. [More…]
The proposals that I know he is dealing with and the discussions that he is having with State Ministers will also reflect his capacity to bring forward effective programs in housing and welfare for the home builders, the home buyers and the home renters of Australia. [More…]
The list of responsibilities of the shire are planning roads, sewerage, drainage, pre-school and infant welfare, libraries, social services and recreation. [More…]
For these and other reasons the proposed publication has been listed, amongst others of a developmental nature, for consideration as part of a long-term welfare services directory program. [More…]
In the short-term a factor which inhibits any immediate prodduction of such a directory is that the manner of provision of welfare and health services by the Commonwealth Government is currently the subject of a major review following the report by the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health. [More…]
Good Neighbour Councils, ethnic organisations, schools, legal aid, Consulates, State libraries, information and inquiry centres, bank and church migrant services, courts, national groups in the National Groups Directory, Councils of Social Service, voluntary welfare organisations, State and Federal Government Departments. [More…]
The ban on saccharin in the United States and Canada is based on toxicological investigations carried out by the Health Protection Branch of the Canadian Ministry of Health and Welfare. [More…]
However, the Orana Regional Rehabilitation and Social Welfare Council which is located at Dubbo, in the Electorate of Darling, was provided with the $2,000 Initiating Grant in 1974-7S under the Plan. [More…]
It is important for us, through our welfare programs, to develop crime prevention. [More…]
However, the extension of those standards to Commonwealth Government contractors, employees engaged in the Territories and interstate trade and commerce poses jurisdictional questions, but with the co-operation of the State Ministers for Labour, considerable progress is being made in the development of uniform safety, health and welfare legislation. [More…]
On 5 October last year the Minister tabled the Hay report, fully 4 months after the Government had received it, and announced that an additional $25m was to be appropriated for expenditure on Aboriginal welfare in this financial year. [More…]
Day by day we see the efforts that are made in respect of this and other matters of social welfare. [More…]
There is one other matter which I think is a crying shame when we consider social welfare requirements. [More…]
Token advances were made to 2 bodies to be established for the purposes of dispensing social welfare to migrant people in this country. [More…]
The emphasis of the AUS, despite the fact that it is supposed to be orientated towards the welfare of Australian students, has in recent years become more clearly identified with the interests of people and groups who have no affinity whatsoever with Australian university students, their interests or the interests of this nation. [More…]
Broadly speaking the objectives of the Union are to promote the educational welfare and political objectives of students. [More…]
Nevertheless, I emphasise the point I made earlier: I wonder precisely what responsibility this should be for the AUS which is, ostensibly, in terms of its own charter, responsible for the activities and the welfare of Australian university students. [More…]
Through this machine the executive informs students of their own private political opinions on questions not related to student welfare. [More…]
First, the great bulk of students are committed to high academic achievement which will enable them to make long term contributions both to Australia’s and their own welfare. [More…]
The executive ‘s pre-occupation with itself, and the promotion of its extreme political views and its lack of concern for the welfare of average students is clearly demonstrated in a breakup of this budget. [More…]
Against this expenditure only $1,000 was applied to the solution of a problem such as the tertiary education assistance scheme, an issue, of course, which affected the welfare of most students. [More…]
It can effectively represent students in the genuine needs which they have and not be purely an extremist political organisation concerned with promoting extremist political views in the community to the detriment of the overall community and, of course, to the detriment of students who depend on that body for their welfare. [More…]
It reflects the decrease in tax receipts and the increase in welfare payments arising out of a recession. [More…]
In the Liberal scheme of priorities the welfare, the security and the future happiness of Australian youth are subordinated to an obsession with corporate profits and a heartless manipulation of the Federal deficit. [More…]
If, on the other hand, taxpayers increased their spending, the national income would increase, Government revenues would grow and expenditure on unemployment and welfare would decrease. [More…]
In assessing whether the Australian Government should continue to provide assistance for the consumption of phosphatic fertilisers, the Commission has considered both the economic efficiency and welfare implications. [More…]
Any suggestions to that effect from the gallant Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Uren) or the previous speaker, the honourable member for Hughes, would be slightly unfair and perhaps reveal that they are not as informed on the matter of the welfare of the ex-servicemen of this country as they might well be. [More…]
I preface it by reminding him that the Bailey inquiry which examined the proposed transfer of a large number of health and welfare services from the Federal Government to the State governments specifically commented that this transfer could be implemented successfully only if agreements were entered into concerning financial and other administrative arrangements. [More…]
They could be described as the rejects of a welfare system supposedly set up to care for them. [More…]
If we look at the amount of money provided to a man with 2 children- the figures have been frequently quoted by various people in this place- and at the amount of money which it is claimed by various people in this place is the cost of protection, we find that it is far more expensive to pay a person unemployment benefit, service his family with the $7.50 allowance per child, and supply the free services which are provided under the social welfare program than it is to have a protected industry. [More…]
Of course, in addition to that social welfare costs another $6 billion or 25 per cent of Government expenditure. [More…]
Therefore Australians really pay very dearly for their health and social welfare. [More…]
I particularly thank the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman), the honourable member for Maribyrnong (Dr Cass), the honourable member for Petrie (Mr Hodges), the honourable member for Cook (Mr Dobie) and those members of the health and welfare committees on both sides of the House who have no doubt given due attention to the legislation. [More…]
He will have to be pretty active to cater for his own welfare and earn his own income from the point of view of work in the courts or elsewhere. [More…]
Those who seek to share the nation’s resources should clearly indicate the priorities of government expenditure in the fields of roads, transport, communication, social security, welfare, health, defence and education. [More…]
The Bureau is not asked to consider comparisons between transportation, education, health, welfare and other priorities of government. [More…]
Last week my Party’s welfare committee had a lengthy and very interesting discussion with Mr Justice Toose and Mr Kingsland, who is Secretary of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs. [More…]
State Child Welfare Authorities have advised that adoptions of the Vietnamese children have been completed as follows: [More…]
It is understood that in Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia the processing by Child Welfare Authorities of adoption formalities for a number of other children has been completed and the applications are awaiting processing by the Courts. [More…]
In practice, the Minister delegates the function of guardianship to the Chief Welfare Officer of the competent State or Territorial authority, who in turn arranges for the custody of the children with foster parents with the view to adoption. [More…]
Even if there were, a policy that subordinates jobs and individual welfare to corporate profits and investors ‘ dividends is an inhuman policy. [More…]
What sort of economic recovery is it that requires hundreds of thousands of Australians to go without work and to sacrifice their dignity and self-respect and the welfare of their families? [More…]
No government can ignore the immediate challenge it poses to human welfare. [More…]
Darwin Disaster Welfare Council: final report (5 copies). [More…]
Surely there is nothing wrong in a government’s thinking ahead for its own revenues on which social development and welfare payments may well depend. [More…]
They are people who are interested in the welfare of mankind and in the preservation of this planet. [More…]
You put wealth before the welfare of the people. [More…]
History shows that the Labor Party has always been concerned about the welfare of people in preference to money. [More…]
She said that the people of the world are not as interested in the welfare of their fellow-man as they should be. [More…]
Where the appointment is not made by the pensioner, the Depanment of Social Security satisfies itself that the proposed warrantee has taken and will continue to take an interest in the welfare of the pensioner. [More…]
Since that time we have continued to make inquiries about his welfare, not only in Hanoi but also with the Vatican. [More…]
Australia’s embassy to the Holy See recently sought further information from the Vatican about the welfare of Monsignor Thuan. [More…]
a concern shared by the Government, I have written in my ministerial capacity to the Vietnamese Charge d ‘Affaires in Canberra about the welfare of persons under detention in Vietnam and of Monsignor Thuan in particular. [More…]
He is making no contribution towards the common welfare of the community. [More…]
and (4) A doctor providing any medical procedure should have regard to the laws of the State or Territory in which he practises, professional ethics and the patient’s interest and welfare. [More…]
I should have thought that any measures the Government might want to introduce or announce which would improve post-arrival services for migrants in Australia would have had the support of the honourable gentleman if he were concerned with the real welfare of migrants. [More…]
In the long run, if we removed these barriers- physical, social and economic- that exist, perhaps we would have far less need to have defence expenditure as the biggest item in our Budget after social welfare expenditure. [More…]
Party politics prevailed and the welfare of the people became secondary. [More…]
It realised that 1 8 000 people in Victoria were on the waiting list for welfare housing. [More…]
Too often in Australia recently in too many ways we have seen a few people disadvantage by prejudicial and intransigent attitudes the welfare of the entire community. [More…]
In this case they are even prejudicing the welfare of their colleagues. [More…]
He embodied what it meant to be Australian, the best kind of Australian- a man quietly and passionately devoted to the welfare and future of his country. [More…]
In every field- secondary and tertiary education, sport, recreation, the club movement- he was an active and forceful promoter of the interests and welfare of Wollongong and all its residents- those who were born there and those who had come there from other parts of Australia as well as from overseas. [More…]
Nobody hearing or reading the Treasurer’s Budget Speech could realise that there has been a tremendous squeeze on the States and local government; that the Government has broken its promises on education spending; that spending on health programs is down; that the provision for pensioner dwellings is down by 18 per cent in real terms; that funds for Aboriginal advancement are down 16 per cent in real terms; that provision for urban public transport has been cut by 25 per cent in real terms and funds for leisure and recreation facilities by 60 per cent in real terms; that urban programs have virtually disappeared; that the national sewerage program has been abandoned; that all migrants’ special serviceseducation, welfare, housing, health, languagehave been cut; that the growth centre agreements with the States have been unilaterally repudiated; that environment programs suffered cuts ranging from 24 per cent to 99 per cent in real terms; that the area improvement program has been abolished. [More…]
We have achieved that without reducing expenditures across the areas embraced by the Budget in the more significant fields of health, welfare, education, transport and industry. [More…]
When one looks at the anatomy of the Budget one finds that over two-thirds of total Federal expenditure is accounted for by education, which takes 8.9 per cent; health, which takes 10.6 per cent; social security and welfare, which take 27.2 per cent, and payments to the [More…]
For social security and welfare, government expenditure has increased by 13 per cent. [More…]
It is obvious that a community of some 14 million people cannot be expected to support such a welfare state indefinitely. [More…]
With that objective in mind, we have ensured that all essential social welfare programs have been continued. [More…]
All welfare programs have been linked in with indexation so that when the consumer price index increases due to inflation people in receipt of the welfare dollar lose nothing. [More…]
This is because we believe it is fundamentally important, even in these difficult times, that the people of Australia should be made to believe that this Government is concerned for their welfare. [More…]
So much productive and useful work could be done in that area in the public sector rather than having people paid out in social welfare benefits. [More…]
In the field of welfare housing, in Victoria there are waiting lists of 1 8,000 people who have to wait four or five years for such housing. [More…]
It has flowed from four fundamental considerations: the need to reduce the risk of nuclear proliferation; the need to supply essential sources of energy to an energy deficient world; the need to protect effectively the environment in which mining development will take place; the need to ensure that proper provision is made for the welfare and interests of the Aboriginal people in the Alligator Rivers region and of all other prople living in the region and working on the development projects. [More…]
In accepting the responsibility of further uranium development we will ensure that that development will be very strictly controlled, with the fullest and most effective protection for the environment and the welfare of the Aboriginal people as recommended by the Ranger Inquiry. [More…]
We will have specific arrangements to ensure Aboriginal welfare; [More…]
It is completely in accord with the recommendations of the Ranger Inquiry and will provide a proper and adequate basis on which uranium development will proceed so as to harmonise the interests of development, environmental protection, National Park values and Aboriginal welfare. [More…]
According to the Ranger Inquiry’s report ‘the principal threat to the welfare of the Aboriginal people, and the one they most fear, is constituted by the large numbers of people who can be expected to enter the area’. [More…]
The nursing home benefits arrangements for which the Bill provides represent a major advance in the Government’s health and welfare program introducing a new era of financial security for nursing home patients. [More…]
Out of my concern for the welfare of nursing home patients, I have written a letter to all patients to reassure them that the proposed changes to the nursing home arrangements will advantage them as patients. [More…]
There were many cuts in the welfare field. [More…]
So we can see that the Government has nothing to boast about in its welfare program. [More…]
The arguments relating to the environment and the welfare of the Aboriginal people are tremendously compelling. [More…]
The excessive consumption of alcohol by a large proportion of Aboriginal people is having a deleterious effect on general welfare . [More…]
I would dearly love to have the opportunity to speak about other aspects of this report which relate to Aboriginal welfare. [More…]
-Recent express decisions by the Government have callously disregarded the welfare of rural people and rural producers. [More…]
For example, expenditure on social welfare is up 12.7 per cent. [More…]
Assistance to the States which contribute so much in the administration of the services essential in welfare, education, health, employment and all the rest of it, has increased by 14 per cent. [More…]
Their propaganda was so effective that many of the small businessmen did not stop to ask what was going to replace the sudden stoppage of public works when hospitals, schools, preschools, aged persons accommodation, welfare housing, growth centres, sewerage works and employment creation schemes were stopped or cut back. [More…]
They are the need to reduce the risk of nuclear proliferation; the need to supply essential sources of energy to an energy deficient world; the need to protect effectively the environment in which mining development will take place; the need to ensure that proper provision is made for the welfare and interests of the Aboriginal people in the Alligator River region, and of all other people living in the region and working on the development projects. [More…]
These are the need to reduce the risk of nuclear weapons proliferation; the need to supply essential sources of energy to an energy deficient world; the need to protect effectively the environment in which mining development will take place; and the need to ensure that proper provision is made for the welfare and interests of the Aboriginal people and all other people working on development projects. [More…]
In the iterim we have seen an extensive media campaign mounted by the Uranium Producers Forum in an attempt to convince people that there are no real dangers involved in the use of uranium, that it is just another energy source, or in the disposal of nuclear waste: that the mass of the people will benefit from uranium by increased employment opportunities, by social welfare benefits and economic activity. [More…]
They have expressed their very serious concern for the welfare of their children and their grandchildren and for the future of humanity. [More…]
Economically, the export of uranium is of great importance to the future prosperity and social welfare of this country. [More…]
He was later asked to return to Australia for a certain period to assist in establishing a welfare office for the Italian communities in the areas of Coburg and Brunswick and also to establish a newspaper in the Italian language so that these people would be assisted in their integration into Australia society. [More…]
So in February 1974 Mr Salemi came back to Australia and helped to establish a welfare office in Coburg. [More…]
They developed a pride in the centre for it was a free welfare agency which they had established themselves. [More…]
Even when the Labor Government, in cooperation with the State Government, started the north west one-stop welfare shop, commonly known as NOW, they continued to throng to the FILEF welfare centre. [More…]
Of course we would like to see more money going into all sorts of areas- education, local government, roads, social welfare and soon. [More…]
Social security and welfare spending will increase by 12.7 per cent in 1977- 78 following an increase of 27 per cent last year. [More…]
They have to fall back on social welfare if they can get it. [More…]
Funds for welfare migrant facilities and welfare rights services have been reduced by 12 per cent in real terms from a miserable $800,000 last year to an even more miserable $750,000 this year. [More…]
We urge the Government to grant extensive government assistance to migrants in housing and welfare areas. [More…]
The reports make numerous recommendations on migrant welfare but they are too numerous for me to mention here. [More…]
This area is also extensively covered in the Bailey report on welfare and health and in numerous other reports which have been prepared for the Government in recent years. [More…]
I think that future restraint should be exercised more heavily on transfer payments, by adhering to the principle that resources in the welfare area should be more heavily concentrated on areas of need. [More…]
Tax cuts, justifiable on equity and welfare grounds, will not have their desired expansionary impact on the economy unless two things happen. [More…]
I would like to spend my remaining time discussing some of the welfare aspects of this Budget. [More…]
In the area of welfare this Government has a fine record. [More…]
Firstly, its objective of reducing the inflation rate has very substantial advantageous welfare implications for pensioners and all elderly, retired people. [More…]
There are other more direct ways in which this Government has protected disadvantaged groups through its welfare programs. [More…]
There are two areas in the welfare field which concern me particularly and on which I urge the Government to take action. [More…]
I simply say that this is a major anomaly in our welfare system. [More…]
The other welfare matter relates to the problems experienced by some pensioners who are in receipt of a part pension and some additional income, whether it is derived from superannuation or from some other source, and who are entitled to receive certain fringe benefits. [More…]
At the moment, because of this problem many pensioners are having their welfare determined less by changes in their basic income levels and more by the absence of change in their entitlement to fringe benefits. [More…]
At the same time as the Government was pruning back community services, welfare payments and wages, it was doling out money to big business. [More…]
There has been a great slashing of migrant services in terms of education, welfare, health and language training. [More…]
The belief that government expenditure is evil or wrong or has an insidious effect upon the community’s welfare is totally wrong. [More…]
This is the very basis of the supply of all our social needs- education, health and all welfare services. [More…]
Goods came into the country which had been manufactured by a work force getting $A 1 2 a month, with no workers’ compensation and no social welfare benefits at all. [More…]
I hasten to add that local authorities in the United States and Canada have responsibility, of course, for functions such as police and justice, health and welfare, housing and urban renewal and in some cases, education which Australia does not have. [More…]
I refer firstly to the Municipal Association of Victoria and its approach to the first Bailey report from the Commonwealth Task Force on co-ordination in Health and Welfare. [More…]
I respectfully agree with the Municipal Association m its conclusion that the implications of the Bailey report recommendations are wide-ranging and of substantial significance to the delivery of health and welfare in this country. [More…]
Local Government is now involved with planning for welfare of the whole community. [More…]
An increasing range of grants from Commonwealth and State sources nas expanded the role of local government in social welfare. [More…]
It works from the general policy position on local government encompassed in its Federalism and social welfare policies. [More…]
Some other social welfare benefits are indexed. [More…]
It has become unfashionable for the fact to be recognised that the middle income and higher income earners are bearing the greatest proportion of tax in each dollar earned, which goes towards our welfare program and towards the total federal revenue. [More…]
They were not looking for handouts, the method adopted in the social welfare area. [More…]
It can be seen from the statement that the transfer covers a wide range of important functions such as primary industry, child, family and community welfare, payroll tax and stamp duties. [More…]
It is vital to the welfare of thousands of whole communities in Australia and to decentralisation. [More…]
-The provisions of the two Bills fulfil the stated aims of the Government in regard to this area of health and welfare. [More…]
Of course, what he fails to tell this nation is that most of the health and social welfare advances in this country were instituted by a Liberal-Country Party government. [More…]
-The honourable gentleman is well known in this House and in his electorate for the particular interest that he takes in social welfare matters generally and I welcome the interest which he has again expressed in the taxation position of elderly citizens, particularly age pensioners, throughout the Australian community and especially in the electorate of La Trobe. [More…]
All I can say is that it is an ostrich attitude for people to bury their heads in the sand if they really believe in the welfare of South Australia and the development of opportunities in that State. [More…]
There should be a co-ordinated approach to the welfare of the working people in terms of jobs which may be lost as a result of lowering protection. [More…]
They are more concerned with pursuing their philosophy than with looking after the welfare of Australians. [More…]
The proposals envisage the delegation of wide policy and executive responsibility for important functions such as health, education and welfare services, public transport, the Australian Capital Territory police, municipal services, the present government housing operations and many other services of government in the Territory. [More…]
It should be expected that the Government would be looking to the same general processes of refinement in high expenditure areas here including education, welfare and health. [More…]
It demands that unless we become greater producers of other natural assets we as a Government and as a people will have to transfer financial resources from some of our priority areas- these could well be in the welfare sectors- towards greater costs of the basic fuel research and development of and providing for alternatives. [More…]
Using the fact that in a recession government expenditure automatically rises through increased welfare payments, and receipts fall through lower tax receipts, calculations are made to obtain what the budgetary position of present expenditure and receipt patterns would be at the position of full employment. [More…]
The absence of both parents from the home leads to increased demands for child care facilities and welfare services which are provided as a matter of course in the traditional one income family. [More…]
The family allowance system introduced last year was a significant social reform but many of the social welfare activists in our community have not given sufficient credit to the Government for that reform. [More…]
It has cut back on education, on welfare housing for Aborigines, on child minding centres and on a host of other things on which it cannot properly justify cutting back. [More…]
It has tailored health and social welfare policies so that they cater for the needy rather than for those who can more easily provide for themselves. [More…]
What would be the position if we adopted a user pays principle in respect of many other fields in which the Commonwealth has a responsibility such as railways, education, water supply, social welfare and health? [More…]
Without the ability to make a worthwhile contribution to general welfare, which is so important in the world today, we soon could find ourselves becoming a second rate nation. [More…]
Labor’s welfare programs were meant to be on a continuing basis. [More…]
There is increased social security and welfare spending. [More…]
This principle was supported by Professor Henderson’s Commission of Inquiry into Poverty and by the Priorities Review StaiT report on social welfare policy. [More…]
I hope to see an expansion of investment in enterprises which will provide employment and generally increase the welfare of the community as a whole. [More…]
There was less spent on health, social security and welfare in real terms. [More…]
We have the situation that the Housing Department, the Department responsible for welfare housing in our State, had to spend $4m in the last month of the financial year. [More…]
Provides for cuts in real terms in expenditure for traditional federal areas such as welfare housing, hospital and health services, pre-school and child care centres, legal aid, school dental schemes, growth centres, sewerage and other programs; [More…]
If we look at living standards- a fundamental indicator of the welfare of people in this country- we see that in the 12 months to June 1975 real household disposable income, that is the real income which people had in their hands to spend, went up by 5.1 per cent. [More…]
In December 1976 the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace published a report expressing grave concern for the welfare of over 500,000 East Timorese. [More…]
I shall talk further on the estimates for health, welfare and social security, but I make the point that much still has to be done by this Government for country people. [More…]
Despite these cuts in revenue, the funding of health, education, transport, defence and welfare has been maintained at very adequate levels. [More…]
The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs will be meeting with various State Ministers including Mr Ron Payne, the South Australian Minister for Community Welfare, in Sydney this Friday to discuss matters pertaining to the Australian Aboriginal Affairs Council. [More…]
When a conclusion is reached this will involve funding for education and other aspects of Aboriginal welfare related to the outstation movement. [More…]
In it they will find that in real money terms the money allocated to the States for housing assistance- that is, for low cost or welfare housing for people on low incomes- this year has been reduced by $22.5m. [More…]
There are 6,000 people on the waiting list of the Housing Commission of Victoria anxiously waiting for welfare housing, and this Government has cut back funds to that extent. [More…]
We should also involve counsellors and people interested in family welfare concepts, such as social workers, and even representatives of family units, so they can determine what they can do together. [More…]
It is the people of the world and their health and welfare that are at stake. [More…]
It took place in this Parliament at 1.14 a.m. because even then the Government of the day, which was of the same political complexion as the present Government, had no idea at all of and no interest in the national welfare of Australia or, indeed, of the world. [More…]
Fourthly, there is the need to ensure that proper provision is made for the welfare and interests of the Aboriginal people in the Alligator Rivers region and all the other people living in the regions and working in the developmental projects. [More…]
This Bill provides for the payment to the States in 1977-78 of the sum of $390m as advances for welfare housing under the provisions of the 1973-74 Housing Agreement. [More…]
Over the five year period, 1973-74 to 1977-78, the States will have received concessional interest rate advances totalling $ 1,734m for welfare housing. [More…]
This Government’s aim, however, continues to be to maintain activity in the welfare housing area on an even keel. [More…]
Information on welfare housing activity in 1976-77 provided by the States indicates that loans made from Home Builders’ Account moneys were responsible for completion or purchase of 9,475 homes and, in addition, the State housing authorities commenced 9,420 dwellings and completed 8,530 dwellings in the year. [More…]
This provision will enable the Treasurer to continue payments to the States for welfare housing after the expiration of the current Agreement on 30 June 1978 until legislation for a new agreement, and an appropriation measure for 1978-79 pursuant to the new agreement, are passed by the Parliament. [More…]
Another matter to which I refer is the Northwest One Stop Welfare Centre in my electorate. [More…]
Indeed, we seek to have more government information centres, such as the Northwest One-stop Welfare Centre which is covered in the estimates for the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet made available in country areas. [More…]
Why is the Government showing such sudden interest in the welfare of the ethnic communities after two years of consistent and distressing cutbacks by his Government in migrant programs? [More…]
The director of the Link-Up welfare group in Melbourne, Mr John Dickinson, said recently that his group’s telephone service for desperate people was averaging a suicide call every 30 hours. [More…]
Health and Welfare Committee this year by the director of the New South Wales Health Commission’s central drug and alcohol advisory service, in which he stated that substantial groups of heroin addicts had been detected recently in three parts of Sydney- areas with high youth unemployment levels. [More…]
No doubt when that scheme was first thought up it was a very desirable initiative, but at that stage when I was not in this House but was an ordinary member of the community it seemed to me that a large number of people at public expense were learning macrame work, attending pottery classes and social welfare courses and a few other things which no doubt in an ideal society might be desirable things for them to pursue. [More…]
The major areas of government expenditure are as follows: Defence, 8.7 per cent; education, 8.8 per cent; health, 10.5 per cent; social security and welfare, 27.2 per cent; and States and local government, transfer of payments, 21.8 per cent. [More…]
We should direct funds to the needy in the public expenditure areas of health, education and welfare. [More…]
There is no point in handing out government welfare benefits to those who do not need them. [More…]
It was abundantly clear, as it has been for a number of years, that the one sign of Australia’s genuine commitment to the welfare and stability of the ASEAN countries would be a liberalisation of Australia’s trade with them. [More…]
When the historic appeal was made by John Curtin to the United States of America, he was speaking with fear in his heart for the welfare of his country. [More…]
Considering the importance of international relations to the future welfare of this country, the contributions made tonight by the leaders of the Opposition have been, to say the least, pitiful. [More…]
Above all, the Government is responsible for the future welfare of our own people and has demonstrated that at all times it is prepared to support the interests of the people of Australia. [More…]
It is not my intention to enter in any detail into the multitude of aspects that apply in these particular areas of health and welfare. [More…]
-In past years there has been a continuing growth in Federal legislation aimed at providing an ever widening range of community facilities in health, welfare, sport, cultural and recreational areas. [More…]
Honourable members will be aware that the Bailey task force found that the total expenditure in the health and welfare areas of Commonwealth government responsibility exceeded $8,800m in 1975-76, or 40 per cent of the total government outlay. [More…]
A report submitted recently to the Government by its Health and Welfare Committee referred to this matter in the following terms: [More…]
The Senate was conceived as a House where men of experience could contribute to the national welfare without too rigid adherence to 1>arty lines. [More…]
It needs to examine decisions that are taken for the allocation of funds, whether they be in welfare payments, in tax rebate systems or in the provision of capital grants. [More…]
Its penny-pinching, austere way of going about things is indicative of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) except when the matters affect his own comfort and welfare. [More…]
It is tremendously significant to improve the flexibility, the reduction in overlap or duplication and the position generally in a whole range of health and welfare services of a federalist nature, as I believe some of these recommendations are, which may be implemented by the Government. [More…]
The Government has made a decision which, as far as I can make out, has not led to the executive of the Returned Services League, the main body representing the welfare of ex-servicemen and women in Australia, appearing to complain to the Parliament. [More…]
In the opinion of some experts in the child welfare field this mother had little chance of leading a normal life. [More…]
I have had reports from people involved in the welfare areas which state that apparently dogs can be affected if they are in a room where marihuana is being smoked. [More…]
The Prime Minister also demonstrated his total disinterest in the welfare of Aborigines when he announced that the Government would not insist on sequential development of uranium mines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The Holt, Gorton, McMahon and Whitlam governments all accepted the basic responsibility for the welfare of Aboriginals that the 1967 referendum conferred on this Parliament. [More…]
I was there as Chairman of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs as we were interested in the welfare of the Aboriginal people involved. [More…]
-Is the Prime Minister aware that Mr Dixon, the Victorian Minister for Social Welfare, has called on the Federal Government to pay unemployment benefits to men and women who have been stood down because of the power dispute and stated that any decision to abolish these payments would cost the Victorian Government $7.6m a week. [More…]
Can he assure the House that the Government will heed Mr Dixon’s plea or has he once again put his policy of ‘salvation through stagnation’ ahead of the welfare of the unemployed? [More…]
I believe the States, which are now $640.5m better off as a result of the Fraser federalism policies, should be playing a greater role than they have played in the past in looking after the health, education and other welfare aspects of the people who live within their States. [More…]
That is where all the money to provide all the social welfare programs comes from. [More…]
Without company profit and profitability there would be no tax by which programs of social welfare, health and education can be provided. [More…]
The Government must not be trapped into deferring decisions which are necessary for the long-term welfare of the motor vehicle industry and for the growth of the Australian economy by short-term problems and immediate decisions which are needed to overcome those short-term problems. [More…]
Unless the Government fully accepts that responsibility we will have problems not only in employment in the rural industry but also in the provision of export income which is vitally important to the economic welfare of this country. [More…]
The conservative government which followed watered down the great welfare scheme and scrapped the other proposals designed to reinforce it. [More…]
The provision of welfare housing was thrust upon the States. [More…]
The end result has been the gradual collapse of welfare housing and the serious plight of the housing industry which is revealed by an analysis of the measure before the House. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) would like us to believe that the Government is maintaining the level of spending on welfare housing. [More…]
It is a part of a government’s total welfare program. [More…]
There is no reason why poorer families who are being looked after under welfare housing should be forced to pay more for their shelter than is paid by the rest of the community. [More…]
It wants to claim credit for getting higher income tenants out of welfare housing and it wants the States to pay for it. [More…]
This shift to the private sector ignores the basic fact that the provision of welfare housing is a public responsibility. [More…]
The financing of welfare housing should not be considered in a way which contributes to profit in the private sector. [More…]
This Bill moves into the area of the CommonwealthState Housing Agreement and the relationship between the Commonwealth and the States for the provision of welfare housing and assistance to the States in the housing area. [More…]
Mr Newman claims that welfare housing benefits are being misused and the whole system exploited. [More…]
The traditional form of welfare housing in Australia is that the Federal Government channels money to the States, which then use housing commissions as construction and allocation agencies. [More…]
Many of these tenants are reliant upon Commonwealth social security and welfare payments and, indeed, are in need of assistance in providing a home for their families. [More…]
The allocation of $39.8 lm to Queensland is for the provision of welfare housing. [More…]
Therefore the Government that he supports has provided less money this year for welfare housing that it provided last year. [More…]
Apart from the fact that this Bill does not make sufficient funds available for welfare housing in any of the States, it does not make funds available that are comparable with those of last year. [More…]
He reduces by $22.5m this year the amount of money that should be made available for welfare housing. [More…]
I have already mentioned that in Victoria, government approvals for welfare housing declined by 22.9 per cent. [More…]
He can also tell us why there has been a real reduction of $22.5m in the amount of money made available to Victoria this year for welfare housing. [More…]
We have heard much about grants-in-aid and money for housing, health, education, employment, welfare and so on for Aborigines. [More…]
For welfare, the expenditure last financial year was $2.6m. [More…]
This decision mirrors the Shire Council’s concern for the welfare of all families living in its district. [More…]
There needs to be a greater degree of consultation and a greater degree of flexibility in the way in which it administers its social welfare responsibilities. [More…]
It is amazing to hear cases of people who have endured so much hardship for so long simply because they did not know that some welfare assistance was available to them from the Government. [More…]
In the third largest Greek speaking city in the world there is a migrant service welfare section eroding away in the Department of Social Security. [More…]
The two specific matters to which I wish to refer are the migrant services welfare section and the migrant English classes conducted at the Church of All Nations in Carlton, in my electorate. [More…]
Migrant welfare courses were begun under the Labor Government and proved extremely successful. [More…]
We know who else is losing in this tug of war- the working class migrants whose welfare has been long forgotten. [More…]
Whenever the Minister for Social Security and the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic affairs are challenged they quote figures for the whole branch rather than for the migrant welfare section. [More…]
There is also concern among trained migrant welfare staff about new staff replacements. [More…]
It is a reflection on the Government in reiterating its disregard for migrants by placing their welfare in the hands of unqualified staff. [More…]
For instance, the migrant services outreach program has been taken from a competent migrant welfare officer and placed in the hands of a woman with no casework or community work experience with migrants. [More…]
As there is a greater influx of clients to migrant welfare there is a decrease in welfare personnel and services are impaired. [More…]
It is reflected in the section’s channelisation into the benefits and pensions issue of welfare, rather than the integration and settlement areas which are the section’s responsibility. [More…]
This is apart from concern about the amounts of money which have been set aside for social welfare. [More…]
The honourable member made the point about what he called migrant welfare courses begun under Labor. [More…]
I have been checking to find out about these migrant welfare courses and I find that the reference is probably to a course of training for bilingual welfare officers who were to be recruited to the Department of Immigration. [More…]
I am told that no further training took place during the Labor Government’s term of office or since December 1975 because no new group of bilingual welfare officers has been recruited. [More…]
I will be delighted if he can get up in this chamber and say that the provision of services, the provision of Arabic speakers, has been adequate within the welfare services of this country. [More…]
They are demanding welfare services, as the Minister knows. [More…]
As the honourable member for Melbourne (Mr lnnes) said, there are far too many bureaucrats here in Canberra and far too many people in supervisory roles in the State offices of the Department of Social Security who are responsible for the provision of migrant welfare services and who are not familiar with what is going on in the field. [More…]
The Minister will be aware of the great dissatisfaction among ethnic organisations with the administration of the grant-in-aid welfare workers scheme. [More…]
He will know that it is the traditional, establishment welfare organisations which have grabbed that money and which have not geared up in order to provide services to migrants. [More…]
The welfare of whole communities depends on the well-being of the world sugar industry. [More…]
The Department has got itself into a situation in which the migrant welfare section of the Department is a rank failure. [More…]
It ought to be adopting the recommendations contained in the Bailey report, the report of the health and welfare task force and other reports which talk about cohesive services that need to be coordinated in the interests of migrants in general. [More…]
One is to be operated by the Australian-Greek Welfare Society in Melbourne and the other is to operate in Sydney. [More…]
It is futile to believe that only one side of this House has concern for the welfare and well-being of those Australian residents who have come to live here permanently from overseas. [More…]
These guys work their hearts out for the welfare of migrants. [More…]
Less will have to be spent on education and more on the social welfare system. [More…]
I object to the term ‘welfare housing’. [More…]
Why do we include the word ‘welfare’? [More…]
In the area of social welfare there is an increase of $ 1.1m. [More…]
I refer now to the welfare budget. [More…]
The welfare budget has increased predominantly because of the need for higher rental rebates. [More…]
The Government believes that all housing rentals should go up to pretty close to market value but that those people who cannot afford to pay that value should be subsidised on a welfare basis by a rental rebate system. [More…]
Dealing further with the welfare Budget, in the Territory at the moment the welfare branch is under extreme pressure. [More…]
The welfare branch needs more assistance. [More…]
The local members of the Assembly know where money should be spent and so we see that the expenditure on consumer protection is up by approximately $12,000, on social welfare by $150,000, on the Arts Council by $45,000, on recreation reserves by $140,000 and on Alice Springs mosquito protection by $5,000. [More…]
For the information of the honourable member for Fraser, I point out that the Minister for the Capital Territory attends almost all conferences of Federal and State Ministers because, not unnaturally, he represents the Territory in almost all portfolios, whether it be transport, social welfare or other areas. [More…]
He particularly raised the question of welfare housing. [More…]
Is it a generally accepted fact that Aboriginals in Australia have poorer health, education, employment and other welfare prospects than non-Aboriginal Australians. [More…]
Her next of kin in Australia have been kept informed on her welfare. [More…]
Mr Acting Speaker, education has joined the long list of broken promises by the Fraser Government, but unlike the broken pledges about employment, Medibank, hospitals, wage indexation, growth centres, water projects, Aborigines, legal aid, migrant welfare, urban transport, which were given under the pressures of the last election campaign, education has suffered a double breach of undertaking. [More…]
We are all in this chamber because we are vitally concerned about the welfare of our State. [More…]
Broadly, the publications in the Department’s library cover the subjects of immigration, emigration, the education, health and welfare of migrants, automatic data processing and demography. [More…]
Spending on essential education, health and welfare programs will be protected against inflation. [More…]
Special migrant welfare services have been reduced by 12 per cent in real terms. [More…]
If we add the other social welfare item, health, amounting to almost the same figure, it is about time we began to realise that, when we say that government expenditure ought to be cut, certain rigidities are involved. [More…]
The share of Budget outlays spent on the urban sector has fallen from almost 71h per cent in the last Australian Labor Party Government’s Budget to 5 per cent in this Budget In this Budget welfare housing payments to the States have been cut by Vh per cent in real terms. [More…]
Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health (Question No. [More…]
1 ) How many meetings have been held between Federal and State representatives to discuss the implementation of the Bailey Report on Social Welfare. [More…]
1 ) There have been eight meetings held between Federal and State officials to discuss the possible implementation of recommendations in the first report of the Task Force on Coordination in Welfare and Health and the report of the Committee on the Care of the Aged and the Infirm. [More…]
This is the Prime Minister who said in his policy speech two years ago: ‘We have a comprehensive strategy to restore prosperity’, and who said: ‘Spending on essential education, health and welfare programs will be maintained’. [More…]
As is the case with all social welfare programs since 1975, this allocation is reduced in real terms. [More…]
I believe that any system of legal aid should have funds to devote to law reform and preventative law, through working arrangements with social welfare agencies of the shop front style of legal aid to bridge the gap between those who understand the maze which is the legal system and those whom the system abuses and ignores. [More…]
It is certainly not the view of this Committee based on the evidence it received, or of the Senate Select Committee on Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in its report ‘The Environmental Conditions of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and the Preservation of their Sacred Sites’, and the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare in its recent report ‘Drug Problems in Australia- An Intoxicated Society?’ [More…]
Indeed, the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare voiced its concern when it said: . [More…]
In redistributing that profit back into this country we provided benefits for people in a myriad of areas where we took up responsibility, such as school dental services, community health services, better roads and improvements in urban environment, Aboriginal welfare and education. [More…]
By the end of 1976 the Utah Foundation had distributed the princely sum of $668,551 in donations within Australia in various welfare, research and cultural areas. [More…]
It also enables the Commonwealth to pay 50 per cent of the salary of a social welfare worker employed at a homeless persons assistance centre. [More…]
In accordance with our policy of concentrating welfare assistance on people in the greatest need, the Government is in favour of making the Act more effective in meeting the needs of a wider range of homeless people. [More…]
At this stage, however, the Government has not yet reached a decision on the proposals of the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health, one of which is that the homeless persons assistance program should become part of a wider ‘Sheltered Accommodation Program’, administration of which might be devolved to the State governments. [More…]
Expenditure under the National Welfare Fund on accommodation and meal subsidies for the period from 13 December 1974 to 30 June 1977 amounted to $1.7m. [More…]
Salary subsidies were paid for 34 social welfare workers. [More…]
I believe the Government’s action in this matter has again shown its concern for the welfare of the Australian communities suffering adverse effects from international economic conditions. [More…]
The Committee recommends that the RAAF carries out a comprehensive survey throughout the Service and in consultation with Service welfare officers to establish what recreational facilities are suitable to a modem integrated defence force. [More…]
There is a tendency for many people in Queensland to believe that we lead the Commonwealth in the provision of community health, hospital and welfare services. [More…]
Labor governments in the 1940s and 1950s gave primacy to the development of community health and hospital services and displayed a great concern about welfare services. [More…]
There is a lingering belief that, because a system of free hospitalisation was preserved in Queensland, that State still leads in the provision of community health, hospital and welfare services. [More…]
That is the level by which standards in that important area of community health, hospital and welfare services have fallen short of those provided in States like South Australia [More…]
I believe the Government’s action in this matter has again shown its concern for the welfare of the Australian communities suffering adverse effects from international economic conditions. [More…]
Furthermore, this House endorses the view that support for the continued viability of the family remains an integral prerequisite for the future welfare of this nation. [More…]
There is no hard evidence available as to the benefits of holidays to community health and welfare. [More…]
The first two paragraphs of the Labor Party’s policy on uranium state that we recognise that the provision of Australian uranium to the world nuclear fuel cycle creates problems relevant to Australian sovereignty, the environment, the economic welfare of our people, and the rights and well-being of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
5 ) arrange for .community stations to receive advice and assistance from the various federal departments involved in social welfare and community or regional development. [More…]
We called it the Special Broadcasting Service because it may well prove desirable for the Government, in the years ahead, if there is a request, to provide some special broadcasting service for example, to the Aborigines throughout Australia or to the social welfare area. [More…]
What has happened now, in fact, is that the Government feels, because of the calling of the early election, it has not been able to come to a decision on the recommendation of the so-called Bailey report- the report of the Task Force on Co-ordination in Health and Welfare- in which it is suggested that there be a much wider homeless persons assistance program incorporated in what is called a sheltered accommodation program and some re-organisation, with the help of the State governments. [More…]
However, the Government is still considering the Bailey task force recommendations in the general health and welfare area. [More…]
Therefore, it is only sensible that since the Government has not yet reached a decision on these matters, including the future of the Homeless Persons Assistance Act, in relation to health and welfare generally, the existing legislation should continue for a further 12 months. [More…]
For instance, Hanover Welfare Services in Melbourne runs an extensive organisation including Gordon House, a very large institution with 200 or 300 beds. [More…]
Perhaps a welfare committee of this House or an appropriate Senate committee could examine the matter so that we can provide money in such a way as to fulfil the initiatives taken three years ago. [More…]
I draw the attention of the House to these figures to indicate the enormity of the burden of the cost of social welfare to the community. [More…]
When a wife and mother is deserted or widowed and left without maintenance, the community, through welfare benefits, makes provision to take over the breadwinner’s role. [More…]
First of all, there is the Commonwealth State Housing Agreement which has recently been renegotiated and which will offer the States the most generous terms ever offered for welfare housing. [More…]
The issue is the safety of the consumer and the welfare of the community. [More…]
It is probably true, as the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare said recently, that it is not just limited to narcotics and amphetamines. [More…]
The Government is going to the people confident that it has achieved the first stage of new policies and new directions for the welfare of Australia. [More…]
All organisations and governmental authorities which deliver family welfare services will advise and assist lone fathers. [More…]
Most of the Department’s expenditure is in the form of payments to the States for specific purposes, the bulk of it being for welfare housing. [More…]
Grant made under the Commonwealth Government’s program of Grants to Community Welfare Agencies (Special Assistance Scheme) in 1976-77 in the Federal Electorate of Banks. [More…]
Will he provide the names of all persons currently employed in Tasmania, full or part-time, whose salaries or stipend are paid out of Commonwealth funds and whose responsibilities relate primarily to the welfare of Aboriginal people. [More…]
Welfare Department (State)-Mesdames M. Mabb, L. Dixon, L. Chris tensen, D. Brown, F. Gardner, M. Thomas, R. Mansell. [More…]
Welfare (State)-Mesdames M. Mabb, L. Dixon, L. Christensen, D. Brown, F. Gardner, M. Thomas and R. Mansell- part-time Aboriginal Homemakers providing personal assistance and liaising with other agencies to assist Aboriginal families who are unable to cope due to social pressures, imprisonment of breadwinner and other related circumstances. [More…]
Welfare (State)-Mesdames Mabb, Dixon, Christensen, Brown- Hobart. [More…]
What was the amount of welfare services provided through the Department of Social Security within the electoral divisions of Leichhardt, Herbert, Kennedy and Dawson during each of the years 1973-74 to 1976-77, inclusive, and what were the categories in which they were paid. [More…]
This process has begun, as may be seen in my Government’s reforms in the areas of taxation, social welfare and its constitutional and legal reforms. [More…]
Her abiding interests throughout her career were to uphold and maintain the dignity and the importance of the Parliament, to further the people’s claims in the area of social welfare and to contribute to the planning and development of Canberra as the nation ‘s capital. [More…]
One can find similar impressive achievements in the area of social welfare: Family allowances, the supporting parent’s benefit and the indexation of pensions and benefits. [More…]
The first interest of any government must be the welfare of its own people. [More…]
Let us turn for a moment from welfare policies to industrial planning policy. [More…]
But judging from the non-specific nature of the proposals for action and worse the indication that even more dependence will be placed on ‘non-government migrant resource centres’ any migrant with any insight can only conclude that little or nothing will be done for 20 per cent of the population suffering disadvantages through barriers of language, in areas or health, welfare, education and job opportunities, just to name a few. [More…]
If this is so, why has the Government changed the whole administrative arrangements for migrants by once again concentrating all power in all areas of migrant welfare in the most centralised department of all, the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs? [More…]
The advantages of administrative arrangements instituted by the Labor Government- advantages in the dispersal of welfare services, support for the migrants, health services, education and so on provided for all Australians, many of whom are migrants, some of 50 years standing- now have been destroyed. [More…]
Voluntary welfare agencies will be assisted in their emergency relief programs. [More…]
For a start I wish to read a few extracts from the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare entitled: Drug Problems in AustraliaAn Intoxicated Society? [More…]
It is said that Ministers, in their various capacities, have at heart the welfare and prosperity of the nation as a whole. [More…]
I think that success in the areas of inflation, of general recovery and of dealing sympathetically with some of the problems of unemployment, but at the same time having regard for social welfare and the aspirations of individuals who cannot help themselves, has been recognised by the electorate. [More…]
Migrants received assistance via welfare rights programs and were able to establish more effective communication through ethnic and community radio. [More…]
Real wages are down because the Government has transferred the cost of health, welfare and other traditional public expenditure programs to the individual. [More…]
Real wages are down and living standards have been reduced by the cutting of funds in real terms for community programs- for health and welfare, transport, road, sewerage, housing, migrant services, education programs and the like. [More…]
Discussions with welfare officers and unemployment officers suggest that the actual number of unemployed in the electorate totals at least 5,000. [More…]
There are many dedicated public servants working in the field of unemployment and welfare benefit payments. [More…]
It will make a very real contribution to the economy of Queensland and to the welfare and the betterment of the people of Brisbane. [More…]
Along with social security, pensions, benefits and allowances, the tax structure forms part of the welfare transfer system. [More…]
The social impact of both the tax structure and the welfare transfer system must be looked at to find out the extent to which families need more support. [More…]
Clearly, whilst in some areas such as health services, welfare services or education, the cultural background of an individual is relevant throughout life, in the case of employment that should not be so. [More…]
Is there a future for many of the innovative programs started during Labor’s term of office- programs under the Department of Social Security such as welfare rights, the Outreach program, telephone interpreter services and so on? [More…]
The ever increasing casework books of organisations dealing with migrant welfare amply illustrate the need for greater funding. [More…]
In other words, despite the increasing clamour from various migrant welfare organisations for more funds, for reasons best known to itself the Government has inhibited the Department of Social Security- now it is the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs- from distributing the funds theoretically available for grantsinaid. [More…]
-On occasions such as this when we have a general debate before the House, I always try to make some constructive suggestions to the Government about the direction of its economic policies or its social welfare policies. [More…]
The Government is reducing the public sector so that the people no longer will be able to obtain a reasonable ‘social wage’ in the form of public transport systems, urban renewal, regional development, housing, education, health, and welfare assistance for the disadvantaged and the unemployed. [More…]
Pursuant to section 34 of the Services Trust Funds Act 1947 I present the annual reports of the Royal Australian Air Force Welfare Trust Fund, the Australian Military Forces Relief Trust Fund and the Royal Australian Navy Relief Trust Fund for the calendar year 1976, together with financial statements and the report of the Auditor-General on those statements. [More…]
I believe that the Committee served a very useful function in the previous Parliament and I believe that it can contribute a great deal towards the welfare of our Aboriginal people in the future. [More…]
Yet for two years- for the life of a parliament- the Committee was steered off into inquiring into that very important but only sectional facet of Aboriginal welfare. [More…]
It can make them work longer hours, give them minimal conditions and break down any welfare benefits that they have achieved over generations of union effort. [More…]
I have been approached by the Federal Council of Polish Associations in Australia, supported by the Polish branch of the RAAF Association, the RSL Polish Branch, the Polish Club Ltd, the ExServicemen’s Association of the Polish Home Army, the Polish Association in New South Wales and the Polish Educational Society in New South Wales about the welfare problems facing the Polish community in Australia. [More…]
They want a detailed survey of their needs; the establishment of a Polish-oriented psychiatric unit; the urgent appointment of an interpreter to the New South Wales Health Commission as an interim measure until the establishment of the psychiatric unit; the appointment of a full time Polish speaking social worker under the GIA scheme and funding for the Polish Welfare and Information Bureau in New South Wales. [More…]
Because they were independent people, they generally looked after their own welfare problems. [More…]
But, at the same time as they are looking at the problems of the Polish people within Australia, they might as well look at the welfare problems of the whole of the ethnic communities because most ethnic communities here face problems similar to those faced by the Polish community. [More…]
That is why they have this incredible paranoia about the Prime Minister, the man who brought this country out of the mire into which the Labor Government had plunged it and the man who has ensured its economic future and the welfare. [More…]
It will allow for a more sensitive application of funds for social welfare benefits and the more efficient use of our huge resource of dedicated volunteers in the charity field. [More…]
My electorate is one of the first to feel the chill of a government which puts social justice at the tail end of its priorities- a government whose harsh policies are actually fermenting social disorder, a government which directs its public servants in the welfare area to stick to the letter of the law and to throw compassion and decency to the wind. [More…]
As far as I know no one in Australia has come up with scientific evidence on the relationship between an intangible, such as work incentives, and the way it is affected by the availability of welfare benefits. [More…]
The general conclusion is that for other than a minimal number of people there is little data to suggest that there is a strong link between nonparticipation in the work force and the provision of welfare benefits. [More…]
In 1 976, because of the flow-on of enormous amounts of money allocated to welfare housing by the Whitlam Labor Government, 12.2 per cent of housing was built by the public sector. [More…]
In 1977-78 only 1.46 per cent of the Budget was allocated for welfare housing. [More…]
We need to upgrade the provision of welfare housing. [More…]
More houses must be built in the welfare section, and there should be an immediate increase in the allocation of funds to the State housing authorities. [More…]
The long term policy should be to put more money into the public sector, because the welfare housing sector needs money more urgently. [More…]
Welfare housing policies of the previous Labor Government ignored those within the community who were in greatest need. [More…]
The honourable member for Reid mentioned welfare housing. [More…]
It is simply a Fraser Government device to get welfare housing out of the custodial care of the corporate caring process of governments and into the hands of the private sector. [More…]
If we look at the public housing area- the area of welfare- we must recognise the Government’s sympathy for those people who do not have the capacity for home ownership and who need shelter, encouragement and provisions for the growth of their families. [More…]
In taking a decision, the union executive must take into account the business situation of the firm concerned, the general economic situation, and the public’s welfare. [More…]
I have been referring only to the economic benefits of tourism, but what of the benefits to the health, welfare and education of our people, not to mention the goodwill and understanding gained from international visitations. [More…]
In the area of social welfare, are we really doing much to encourage self-reliance by the way the social services system is structured, with a claim being made, an examination of the claim, followed by a straight payment of money? [More…]
We have become so preoccupied with the need for social welfare and support of one means or another that we find now that there is virtually a social welfare establishment. [More…]
We have now given such an impetus to the social welfare establishment that we run the risk of encouraging a dependent mentality. [More…]
We should be examining, for instance, why it is that almost every day in this place- at least in my case- we are deluged with reports and surveys of one sort or another on matters of social welfare. [More…]
We should be examining the subjects of health care, social welfare, education and many of the other sacrosanct areas of government expenditure to see whether there is a better way of achieving the same desirable end- a method of helping those who really need help, yet at the same time encouraging their self-reliance. [More…]
We have come no longer to debate whether social welfare ought to be directed to the needy and how we ought to do this, but to take as established the notion that social welfare is a universal right that should be paid to everybody, irrespective of need. [More…]
They are overwhelmed by more important reasons that argue that we should apply social welfare to need. [More…]
There are memories of the ‘poor laws’ and of the unnecessary, extreme and hard-hearted discretion that needlessly withdrew the dignity of the recipients of welfare assistance, much of which was in kind. [More…]
It is not necessary to behave in such a way that dignity is withdrawn if welfare is applied to need. [More…]
There are compelling reasons why we must adopt a needs approach and direct our social welfare of all kinds to those who need the succour of the community. [More…]
It so happens that at the moment I am discussing welfare benefits. [More…]
We cannot afford to ignore the areas of health, education, welfare and welfare housing. [More…]
So we ought to look very carefully at these transfer payments areas and the welfare area- I am using the word ‘welfare’ in its widest sense- to see where we can cut them without hurting the needy. [More…]
Is it sensible that the people who occupy welfare housing are not among the needy? [More…]
I think it was Professor Henderson who pointed out that the majority of those in welfare housing were not the poor and that the majority of the poor were not in welfare housing. [More…]
Its failure after more than two years to come to grips with what is fundamentally wrong in the economy is the reason why so much else is wrong in the areas of employment, social welfare, education, health, migrant welfare, farm industry, mining, manufacturing, the motor industry, and Aboriginal programs. [More…]
Provisions exist for the entry of persons for retirement purposes but it is a firm requirement that they should be selfsupporting without recourse to social welfare payments. [More…]
Without consulting the land rights body in Western Australia and without consulting the Commissioner for Aboriginal Planning, the Western Australian Government intends to hand over to the Minister for Health and Community Welfare the absolute control of entry by diamond prospectors, including the De Beer group from South Africa. [More…]
The Minister for Health and Community Welfare would be one of the most racist people in any government in Australia. [More…]
The Government also has significantly improved welfare benefits. [More…]
In visiting various offices of the DSS, the Inquiry noted that the standard of accommodation provided for the delivery of welfare services is, in general, second rate in comparison with accommodation occupied by organisations such as [More…]
The Inquiry finds that the standard accommodation which greets DSS clients is depressing and believes that persons seeking welfare support should be provided with facilities equal to those provided by private enterprise. [More…]
Greater public demand for expenditure in the welfare state, coupled with more demands for lower taxation- in other words, spend more but give me more- is not the way of this country. [More…]
As I announced on 2 March, the Commission is to be wound up and Dr Sax is to head the new Social Welfare Policy Secretariat which will have responsibilities ranging over the wide field of health and welfare. [More…]
I am therefore pleased that Dr Sax has been transferred to head the new Social Welfare Policy Secretariat. [More…]
I believe very strongly that there is an overlap between the fields of health and welfare. [More…]
We can often push costs away from health but all we are doing is pushing them on to welfare. [More…]
He tried to say that this Government had no interest in the welfare of the Aboriginal people in Queensland and to suggest that the Government had taken no part in the action that was brought by the people of Aurukun to challenge the exercise of the position of trustee by the Director of Aboriginal and Islanders Advancement in Queensland. [More…]
The honourable member for Leichhardt put the matter into perspective when he discussed the welfare of the people involved and the need for them to be consulted. [More…]
We will miss his presence in this Parliament for, as an honourable gentleman and a man interested in the welfare of his fellow Australians, he was certainly without peer in this place. [More…]
New initiatives will be undertaken concerning Aboriginal health, alcohol abuse and juvenile welfare, and the Government looks forward to the fullest consultation with the National Aboriginal Conference and the Council for Aboriginal Development on these and all other issues affecting Aboriginals. [More…]
But because of its attitude of arbitrarily taking from one section to hand to another section it created a void in the economy with the consequence that it did not have the capacity to carry the extensive and lavish social welfare programs which were introduced. [More…]
Nevertheless, we are able to hold our heads high and to show very clearly that we can sustain at least the levels of those essential social welfare programs which are indispensable in this period of high costs and at this time of uncertainty. [More…]
This decision does not mean, of course, any diminution in the Government’s interest in the welfare of those who made sacrifices in the defence of our country. [More…]
If only the community bodies in this great country, the small businessmen, mayors and chairmen in our cities and towns, Aboriginals, education and welfare bodies, and so on- the little people- could galvanise such a response from the Prime Minister with one simple uncomplicated letter, as IBM cares to describe it. [More…]
They are not interested in the welfare of those particular people. [More…]
Ten years ago, in 1967, the amount outlaid for social welfare was about 17 per cent of a Budget of about $6 billion. [More…]
Today social welfare payments exceed 27 per cent of the Budget outlays. [More…]
Whilst it is very easy for the electorate to take the view that in matters of health, education and social welfare, for example, governments should be prepared to spend whatever is necessary, it is extraordinary that when we start to debate matters of defence, suddenly we hear the cry from the Opposition: ‘What is the Government doing about it? [More…]
Appropriations for defence represented 8.8 per cent of Government outlays, education represented 8.9 per cent, health represented 10.6 percent and social security and welfare- wait for it- 27.2 per cent. [More…]
We are moving now to things such as community health centre committees and the various community welfare organisations which have an interest in a particular kind of disability and an interest in setting up a service for persons with particular diseases and handicaps. [More…]
I wish him well with the new social welfare policy secretariat. [More…]
We are currently reviewing the whole health insurance system to see whether there are other ways to ensure that the rate of acceleration of health cost in this country does not crowd out our capacity to spend essential resources on other important areas in the economy such as social welfare, the need for job creation, the need to assist industry to employ people and so on. [More…]
They should be envisaged in the broader context of knowledge and social welfare in which information is regarded as a fundamental resource. [More…]
In all the States, education, health and community welfare departments, for example, provide services to Aboriginal communities in the same way as they do to other citizens. [More…]
How can we be expected to trust the Government on its record in regard to Aboriginal welfare? [More…]
We were forced to introduce it as a response to the unreasonable and totally unacceptable racially discriminatory laws in regard to Aboriginal welfare in Queensland. [More…]
The authority of that legislation, in conjunction with the Racial Discrimination Act of 1975, the Aboriginal Land Fund Act and the Aboriginal Councils and Associations Act of 1976 gave the Government, if those authorities were taken up, a great deal of clout in its relations with the Queensland Government in the matter of Aboriginal welfare and rights. [More…]
While the Prime Minister was giving those assurances his representative in Aboriginal welfare matters, the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner), was going about the community conveying the impression that he was an unyielding, dedicated defender of the rights of the Aboriginal people in the community. [More…]
It is totally unacceptable that we have a government presenting itself to the Aboriginal people of Australia and suggesting that so much of this legislation should be taken on trust when its record, insofar as matters of trust are concerned, in regard to Aboriginal welfare is so appalling. [More…]
The Queensland Government in its policies on Aboriginal welfare has established a nasty racist record. [More…]
For instance, in the area of expenditure it has slashed by about $60m in real terms the amount of money being provided very broadly for Aboriginal welfare this year compared with the provision in our last Budget in 197S. [More…]
It has cut back expenditure in health, education, housing, generally in the welfare area, and in all of those areas in which it is well established that Aboriginal people have distinct disadvantages, not through their own fault but because of generations of neglect which has been imposed upon them by the dominant white culture of this society. [More…]
The Prime Minister has asked the Opposition for bipartisan support in Aboriginal welfare. [More…]
We want him to step up to those which we expect should be applied for the welfare of Aboriginal people. [More…]
As this debate has proceeded over the past few weeks, I have become increasingly concerned that the welfare of the people who are caught up in the middle of the wrangle that is going on between the Commonwealth and the State- that is, the Aborigines- is in some danger. [More…]
The welfare of the Aborigines is of paramount importance. [More…]
So the welfare of the Aborigines is of paramount importance. [More…]
In those seven decades governments, State and Federal, took little interest in the welfare of those people. [More…]
So we are just trying to present some public relations per se for the benefit of this benevolent Prime Minister who is suddenly seeking to appear to be concerned about Aboriginal welfare. [More…]
Under those regulations it is possible for the Minister- in this case the State Minister for Community Welfare- to amend regulations of the Aboriginal Affairs Planning Authority Act to allow for all classes of people to go on to reserves with or without the consent of the local Aboriginal community. [More…]
1 ) The National Health Services Advisory Committee is chaired by Dr Sidney Sax who heads the Social Welfare Policy Secretariat. [More…]
I am informed that State and Territory child welfare authorities have stated that 1 96 of the children in question have now been adopted and the adoption of the majority of the remaining children is pending. [More…]
The welfare of whole communities depends on this industry. [More…]
In my view- I have to admit that I do not have a degree in biology, but I have a great interest in the welfare of my electorate- the present regeneration of our native forests is being very well managed, especially in the area of wildlife and some of the areas mentioned in the report of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation. [More…]
It is important that these mills do continue in existence and do remain viable operations because the whole welfare and, indeed, the economy of quite a section of that part of the State depends upon the continuing operations of the New South Wales sugar industry. [More…]
If one looks at what has happened over that period of 10 years, there was an extraordinary increase from 1 7 per cent to over 27 per cent in social welfare expenditure, health expenditure almost doubled, and education expenditure trebled. [More…]
The misleading statements on Aboriginal welfare by the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
Mi HAYDEN (Oxley-Leader of the Opposition) (2.15)- The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) is an agreeable man- so agreeable, in fact, that he is able to agree at the same time to two conflicting policies on Aboriginal welfare. [More…]
On the one hand, publicly, he pretends to support Aboriginal welfare programs which are of the same nature as those which the Aboriginal movement presents and on the other, privately, he enters into sleazy, secret deals with the Queensland Government, allowing the Government of that State to maintain raciallybased policies on Aboriginal welfare. [More…]
For instance, the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations has reported scathingly about the racist attitudes permeating the Queensland Government’s Aboriginal welfare policy. [More…]
It went on to point out that the whole administration of Aboriginal welfare in Queensland by that State Government is infected with these racist overtones. [More…]
These thoroughly unacceptable and outmoded racist principles have been enshrined in the legislation and policies on Aboriginal welfare of the Queensland Government. [More…]
The penalty it is going to pay arises because it is not prepared to stick to the elaborate fiction that the Minister likes to broadcast that we have a government concerned about Aboriginal rights and welfare. [More…]
I do, however, assert that some of the schemes which have been practised, and are the subject of this Bill, are clearly at odds with the general welfare of the community. [More…]
They are good at advocating things like the picketing of ships loading sheep at the cost of the welfare of thousands of unionists and non-unionists. [More…]
It is not interested in the welfare of the working people of Australia or in sound Budget planning or in the interests of the aged, the young, the business people, the people who make the money so that we as a government can afford the programs we are trying to implement as regards greater social justice. [More…]
This Bill, together with the related Bills which are being introduced today, is a further earnest of the Government’s determination that the development of uranium mining in Australia will be carefully controlled and proceed in a responsible manner with full regard to the need for the protection of the environment and the welfare of all Australians. [More…]
The six Bills just introduced underline our determination to proceed with uranium development in a carefully-regulated and responsible fashion with full regard for proper environmental control and for ensuring the welfare of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
We have set ourselves a policy of carefully regulated and controlled development, paying due regard to proper environmental control and ensuring the welfare of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
July 1977- The Western Australian State Departments for Community Welfare and Mental Health Services; [More…]
ofthe 1959 Annual Report of the Western Australian Depanment of Native Welfare, on 20 March 1979, as a result of it being quoted in the report mentioned in (c) below; [More…]
of the 1976 report by the Western Australian Department for Community Welfare, on 18 November 1976. [More…]
If we do not achieve this we will crowd out opportunities for expenditure in other important social welfare, education and job creation areas. [More…]
There is one guarantee that I can give the House and the nation and that is that the Government will not sit idly by and watch the mounting health bill in Australia consume our social welfare dollar to the extent that it has done over the last six years. [More…]
In answer to an interjection of mine he said that he received his information from the Government members Health and Welfare Committee. [More…]
I suggest to the honourable gentleman that the Health and Welfare Committee does not know what the Government is going to do. [More…]
We have provided subsidies for welfare workers. [More…]
I call upon those persons who are running this Croatian Embassy to realise that they have now gone as far as they can go with their public display, that the game is over and that they should peaceably and sensibly close their Embassy and continue to go about their business of assisting, if they wish, the Australian Croatian community by the ordinary activities and ordinary means by which they look after the welfare and the problems of their members in Australia. [More…]
Finally, I make it perfectly plain once again that the Croatian community in Australia is amongst the finest of the communities that have contributed to our national welfare. [More…]
But we call upon the specific persons running this Embassy to take heed of Australia’s obligations, to close its activities and to allow members of the Croatian community in this country to continue to develop and contribute to the welfare of Australia as a whole. [More…]
It was with these humanitarian problems in mind that I announced on 22 March that a shipment of canned meat that had already been sent to Lebanon for special welfare programs was being diverted to emergency programs established by the Lebanese Government to feed people who had fled from southern Lebanon. [More…]
One could reasonably expect in these circumstances some transfer of social welfare costs back to the public as a direct responsibility, as this Government is now doing. [More…]
Also a reduction in welfare provisions will throw an added cost burden back onto the average wage earner. [More…]
It appears to me by the way in which Government supporters have sought to absent themselves from the chamber today in this debate in such obvious, organised large numbers that they either do not understand the serious and disturbing implications of reduced export income on the Australian economy and the very worrying effects it will have on business and the welfare of people or- I believe this is the more likely explanation- they find themselves totally ill-equipped to present a defence to the way in which they are handling the economy in the light of this development, reinforcing the general decline in the level of economic activity in Australia. [More…]
The whole prosperity and welfare of Australians depend upon a continuing strong export performance. [More…]
At least he has increased expenditure in this field although expenditure on welfare housing under the Commonwealth State Housing Agreement has been pegged over the last three years at the same static amount. [More…]
We did much to decentralise health and welfare services. [More…]
It can deal with matters relating to housing, health, sewerage, water supply, electricity supply, communications, educational training, relief work for unemployed persons, roads and associated works, garbage collection and disposal, and welfare and community amenities. [More…]
Mr FitzPATRICK (Riverina) ( 1 1.30)- It is a sad state of affairs when an important mining Bill such as this is brought on for debate in this House at this hour of the night, particularly when one considers that the welfare of the nation depends to a large degree upon the successful development and extraction of our minerals. [More…]
More specifically, as Minister for Social Security, he initiated massive increases in health and welfare expenditure which the nation could illafford. [More…]
In 1972-73, expenditure on health and welfare was $2.88 billion. [More…]
Of more significance, expenditure on health and welfare, as a share of total government expenditure, expanded from 28.3 per cent in 1972-73 to 36.7 per cent by 1975-76. [More…]
I speak on the Commonwealth Banks Amendment Bill with real pleasure because I believe that the enactment of this legislation will add another form of government action which will reflect the real concern of this Government for the welfare of active small business people. [More…]
Any proposed changes would of course take full account of the rights and welfare of the employees involved. [More…]
At that meeting, was there a frank and forceful exchange of views and should this meeting lead to a more humane understanding of the welfare and, indeed, the future of the workers at Derwent Park? [More…]
The Governor-General in his Speech when opening the Parliament this year mentioned that the Government would be proceeding with the development and export of Australia’s uranium resources in a carefully regulated and responsible fashion with full regard for the population, environmental control and the welfare of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
It would seem to me to be reasonable to expect an honourable gentleman, so critical of his own Government, so mindful of the welfare and the safety of his own people, to point out that these industries have been developed to a great degree by potential adversary governments. [More…]
Further widening of access to the concession would raise issues of social welfare policy and, in so doing, prompt the question whether the sales tax law is the proper channel for providing social welfare benefits. [More…]
Turning to the Standing Committee’s significant contribution to the subject of service accommodation, I would like to commend the members for their obvious concern for the welfare of servicemen which is evident in the report, and which I share. [More…]
An important issue is therefore whether this far reaching change in established policy would adversely affect the ready deployment of the Defence Force or the morale and welfare of Service families. [More…]
The Northern Territory regulations provided for the vote for serving or former defence force members but not for wards declared under the Welfare Ordinance, which was another paternalistic provision. [More…]
They have a feeling that they are making decisions in relation to their own welfare and community. [More…]
There is no greater threat to the welfare of the aged than that the aged are part of a population which is at zero rate of growth or less than zero rate of growth, because their own benefits inevitably will be reduced under those circumstances, as has occurred in every country. [More…]
The honourable member for Perth and I are concerned about the welfare of Australian people and a new sense of dynamism - [More…]
I am thinking of the social welfare area, the health areas and goodness knows what other areas. [More…]
Some considerations must be borne in mind: For example, the development of the uranium industry in the Northern Territory and the need for the Government to be concerned about the health and welfare of the workers in the field. [More…]
It has also been pointed out to me that when it comes to the implementation of programs to fund community health centres, Aboriginal welfare programs and the like, the Labor Government had full consultation with the States. [More…]
The enormity of this haemorrhage of national funds can be understood when one considers that in the last Budget a total of only $390m was made available to the States for welfare housing which funds State housing commissions and terminating building societies. [More…]
What has been his response to representations made to him on 28 October 1977 by the NSW Local Government Community Workers’ Association in which concern and dismay was expressed about the drastic curtailment of funding for the following Government responsibilities: (a) welfare workers under the States Grants (Home Care) Act, (b) Family Law Court Counselling Service, (c) education programs, including after school care, child care and other family care programs, and migrant classes for adults, (d) health care services including community health centres, domiciliary care services and women’s health centres, (e) unemployment and unemployment relief schemes, (0 housing, in particular housing for the aged and invalid people, (g) pension and benefit reductions in real values and proposed transfers of responsibility for these, (h) 470 community programs funded under the Australian Assistance Plan, (i) programs for the handicapped, (j) the Legal Aid Commission Bill, (k) Aboriginal affairs, (1) grant in aid services for migrants and interpreter services, (m) Australian Government printing services, (n) national co-ordinating bodies for youth affairs, (o) women ‘s refuges subsidies reductions and (p) Australian Bureau of Statistics processing. [More…]
1 ) On 19 December 1977 I announced the establishment of the Social Welfare Policy Secretariat which will be responsible for the development of plans and policies and review of existing policies and programs in the broad field of health and welfare. [More…]
Australia has one of the highest nursing home bed to population ratios in the world and the domiciliary nursing care program is probably one of the best social welfare initiatives that the Government is pursuing to try to deinstitutionalise the care of aged people. [More…]
No nation can support some of the welfare schemes that have been put forward. [More…]
The Government should look also at the question of social welfare payments. [More…]
Their numbers have been increasing rapidly over the past two or three years and welfare workers believe that situation will continue to deteriorate as unemployment worsens. [More…]
The Western world was developing the welfare state and upper limits on the total tax takes by government were rejected by many governments. [More…]
Perhaps he could be invited to open the new Community Welfare Centre, one suggested. [More…]
Let us see what people who are involved very closely with Aboriginal welfare and the aspirations of the people of these two communities say. [More…]
Whilst the Constitution makes specific provisions for the welfare and benefit of Aboriginals to be the responsibility of the Commonwealth there are many matters of a constitutional nature which have not been determined and there are many aspects of this matter which, if pursued to the final point of confrontation, would end with us in litigation in the High Court of Australia from which there would be no solution and no worthwhile result for the Aboriginal people involved. [More…]
There are some who see the objective as not one of self-management, of the ability of people to make decisions for their own benefit and welfare, but rather of land rights. [More…]
It sees equity as reducing everyone to a base level, all subservient to a massive, inefficient, money gorging welfare bureaucracy. [More…]
It is clearly related to the quality of services that the community wants to see provided by governments; in other words the standards of community health, education and welfare. [More…]
It could be argued that those countries within the OECD group that have higher percentages of their gross domestic product absorbed in taxation very often have higher standards of community and welfare services. [More…]
What they did was shift the burden of community and welfare services in this community from the people who can damned well afford to pay for them to the backs of the people who cannot, to the people who need and ought to live in a community which is able to provide the full range and quality of services. [More…]
Private investment is essential for the welfare of the economy and the maintenance of full employment. [More…]
If there are to be any social welfare measures for the wool industry they cannot be introduced through the back door of the Corporation. [More…]
However, there are many other things apart from the market price that are detrimental to the woolgrowers’ welfare. [More…]
It also provides a very important welfare function especially for people who live outside the capital cities. [More…]
All members of this Parliament will be fully aware of my longstanding concern for the welfare of the people of East Timor, not merely because of Australia’s debt of gratitude to them for their stalwart and loyal support in the dark days of World War II, but because I believe, and all Australians believe, in the sanctity of basic human rights, including self-determination and, of course, all of us would be concerned about the threat to Australia’s integrity and national security posed by the continuation of major military action involving all forms of conventional warfare in an area that is less than half an hour flying time from Darwin. [More…]
Secondly, welfare relief offered for a week’s subsistence, which amounts to probably ten times more than the average monthly income of people in [More…]
We are a party to international covenants on social welfare and the like. [More…]
It is certainly not true where the contestants are powerful industrial organisations whose activities can affect, for good or ill, the welfare of all Australians. [More…]
I do not doubt his sincerity, I do not blame him for being a strong advocate in support of the welfare of the workers in the industry and for the general welfare of the town of Albany. [More…]
Some amendments had already been made through placitum (xxiiiA) of section 51 of the Constitution, the Evatt amendment which dealt with social welfare and health services. [More…]
Was the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare in 1976 informed of the intelligence, surveillance and legal enforcement work carried out by the preventative section of his Department; if not, why not. [More…]
Commonwealth and State Ministers with responsibilities for health and welfare matters are currently being consulted on appropriate terms of reference for such an inquiry. [More…]
In addition, there is one position of Clerical Assistant, Grade 6, Welfare Officer, at Alice Springs Hospital in which at least 10 per cent of the occupant’s time is spent dealing with clients in a language other than English. [More…]
The Western Australian Minister for Community Welfare has communicated with me about proposals to amend the Regulations made under the Aboriginal Affairs Planning Authority Act in relation to the authorisation of entry to Aboriginal reserves in Western Australia. [More…]
3 ) Any current or future planning for the further development of Commonwealth rehabilitation services and facilities on a regional basis would have regard to the existence of all health, education and welfare services and facilities within the region. [More…]
It can come only from health, education and welfare spending which together make up nearly half of the Budget expenditure. [More…]
Certainly the Royal Flying Doctor Service does a marvellous job, but if that service can be added to by this form of communication, when a government of this nature is concerned with the welfare and the health of the people of the outback areas, so be it. [More…]
Similarly in social development it is quite clear that if the national Government had had more authority in this area many more important social welfare programs would have been developed on a national basis. [More…]
I am talking about social development in its broadest context, not just social welfare programs. [More…]
that the new orientation of our societies towards the qualitative aspects of growth and towards broader concepts of welfare will require a much closer integration of science policy with the totality of economic and social policy. [More…]
He says that in Japan the employers virtually regard their employees as people whose welfare has to be safeguarded, people to whom there is to be a continuing and enduring obligation. [More…]
I turn now to the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare entitled Drug problems in Australia- an intoxicated society? [More…]
Has his attention also been drawn to comments by the Victorian Minister for Social Welfare, the Honourable Brian Dixon, M.P., that the scheme suffers from lack of recognition under Federal awards which could make employers liable to pay full award rates to students participating in the scheme; if so, have any steps been taken to overcome this difficulty. [More…]
Yes; this matter has been condered in detail by the Conference of Ministers for Labour and the Departments of Labour Advisory Committee, and the views of members of the National Labour Consultative Council are being sought on possible approaches fore dealing with the difficulty to which the Victorian Minister for Social Welfare referred. [More…]
Increased offences mean an increase in the number of prison visits, arrangements for bail and legal representation, attendances at hearings, communications with family and, if the person arrested is imprisoned, a continuing interest in his or her welfare, sometimes for many years, under arduous prison conditions. [More…]
This assistance includes: Inquiries relating to the welfare and whereabouts of Australians; repatriation and financial relief of distressed Australians in the form of a repayable loan as already mentioned; welfare visits to persons in gaol, hospital or in an asylum; assistance in natural disasters or emergencies; and making available to Australian citizens who have been arrested a list of local lawyers who may be able to assist them. [More…]
The standards to be applied may differ from country to country depending on such factors as language and cultural differences, the opportunity for self-help and the local availability of social, charitable or welfare services. [More…]
Social welfare, I suggest, is a right and a privilege not to be taken lightly or abused, extended or increased only when the nation can sustain the cost. [More…]
We will make extensions and increase social welfare in this country but only within the context of the ability of the people to meet that cost. [More…]
Such a situation will lead to considerable effects in relation to the provision of welfare housing. [More…]
More rental accommodation is needed, not less, if the waiting lists for welfare housing are to be reduced on an overall basis. [More…]
There is a need to establish a uniform minimum standard for welfare housing, regardless of the State in which a person in need may live. [More…]
Housing costs account for a large proportion of the income of tenants of welfare housing. [More…]
The cost of the rebate would be paid by the Commonwealth Government, just as it now meets the cost of other uniform welfare payments. [More…]
Why cannot the Commonwealth meet the same situation across the board as it does in relation to welfare payments. [More…]
In 1974-75, $385m was advanced to the States by the Commonwealth for welfare housing. [More…]
I have shown in written form the real value of the money for welfare housing this financial year. [More…]
Mr Newman apparently recognises, but the State Labor Premiers do not, that welfare housing aid should be separated from Government assistance to other forms of housing. [More…]
There has been no Government commitment to any increase in funding welfare housing in real terms. [More…]
The Budget deficit of the Fraser Government is expected to exceed calculations by a mammoth $800m yet no extra spending has gone into housing to reduce the waiting lists for welfare housing and to create new jobs. [More…]
That shows the arrogance of the people who do not live and have not lived in State welfare housing. [More…]
They have little understanding of the serious problems that exist in welfare housing. [More…]
If we are to overcome the serious problems faced in welfare housing then the Government itself must make more money available. [More…]
There has been a decrease in the purchasing power of the money that is being made available for welfare housing as can be seen by comparing the amounts made available for the year 1974-75 and the amount being made available under this legislation. [More…]
Based on the real value of money today the amount that is being advanced for welfare housing is a deplorable situation. [More…]
The serious problems facing welfare housing will not be overcome unless this Government makes more money available. [More…]
1 believe also that the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development should give us the right under clause 15 to debate this issue every year so that we can illustrate the shortcomings that exist in welfare housing. [More…]
This Government’s priority in respect of all government spending and all public sector spending has been one of cutting back and the area of welfare housing is no exception. [More…]
If you like to go back even further and look at the relevant figures when this Administration was previously in office, in 1970-71 some $142m was made available for welfare housing and that was then 1.74 per cent of government expenditure. [More…]
I am trying to bring out the fact that this Government has downgraded its contribution to welfare housing as a proportion of public spending even though public spending overall has been cut by this Government. [More…]
I am moved to suggest that the honourable member was giving a diatribe, not on the Schedule but on some strange philosophical attitude that he has to the issue of welfare housing. [More…]
The point of this legislation which the Opposition has refused to acknowledge, and which during the course of this debate, it has consistently contested, is that the legislation introduced by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) in this session provides for the most flexible, the most logical and the most innovative approach to welfare housing that this Parliament has ever seen. [More…]
Last December the Government put to the people in its policy speech the undertaking that it would negotiate a new welfare housing agreement with State governments. [More…]
I think his remarks can be summarised in this way: A great deal more money should be spent on welfare housing. [More…]
Above all else, interest rates made it so extraordinarily difficult for people on lower incomesthat is, the people who find support through welfare housing programs- to meet the demands made by housing authorities for interest and capital repayments. [More…]
I congratulate the Government, and I am pleased to support this legislation because once again it gets us back on the path by which more and more people will have access to welfare housing programs on just terms. [More…]
There are many anomalies in the present welfare housing arrangements. [More…]
It is a fact that the people who were the beneficiaries of welfare housing programs have in some instances been in a position to make repayments in excess of that required by existing contracts. [More…]
We should remember the remarks made by the Henderson Commission of Inquiry into Poverty regarding the approach to welfare housing. [More…]
That Commission’s report made it abundantly clear- as did the report on housing of the Priorities Review Staff- that there were a great many instances of people in welfare housing - [More…]
In relation to this Bill the Opposition is saying that State housing authorities apparently cannot be trusted to execute satisfactory, meaningful and efficient welfare housing programs. [More…]
It is because they can be trusted that provision has been made for very considerable flexibility to be given to State housing authorities in the approach they will take to welfare housing. [More…]
Who, other than a socialist, would take the attitude that all decisions regarding welfare housing programs should be made in Canberra? [More…]
Who else would take the attitude that there should be no flexibility between States or within States on how welfare housing funds can best be utilised. [More…]
This Government takes the view, and will not swerve from it, that present circumstances require the most efficient use of funds and the most innovative approach to welfare housing that can. [More…]
As my friend has said, the Victorian approach to home ownership in welfare housing leads the States without exception and has done so for many years. [More…]
This legislation is the most far reaching reform in the approach to welfare housing that this country has seen. [More…]
The care of the aged involves providing a wide range of accommodation and ensuring integration with health and welfare services. [More…]
Certain local government areas in Australia dc provide housing and we now have a situation where voluntary welfare bodies can participate in the allocation of funds. [More…]
I suppose we must wait until Budget time to find out just how much further the States will be squeezed in this area that the Government chooses to call welfare housing. [More…]
If the young couple is on a wage at about $165 a week, the situation would be that the take-home pay would be $125 a week of which $45 would go to so-called welfare housing, leaving them with a miserable $80 a week. [More…]
Interest paid on money lent to purchasers for the purchase of welfare housing will increase by half of one per cent a year until it reaches one per cent below the long term bond rate. [More…]
Let us bring some common sense, some ordinary commercial nous to the business of supplying houses for people and forget such terms- I hope I am not offending anybody when I say this- as welfare housing and things like that. [More…]
It points out that, since about 20 per cent of our community are currently ‘migrants’, a similar proportion of the Commonwealth’s general expenditure on education, health, social security and welfare and other areas should be for the benefit of migrants. [More…]
Honourable members will be aware of the current Commonwealth programs and services directed specifically to migrants, covering migrant education, migrant welfare, interpreting and translation and other programs and services. [More…]
The Review found that the main areas of need -such as for fluency in English and for better communication and information- are common to virtually all areas such as health, welfare, education, employment and the law. [More…]
They concluded that the ethnic communities themselves and the voluntary agencies can meet the welfare needs of migrants more effectively than government agencies. [More…]
There will also be an increase in the numbers of ethnic welfare workers through an extension of the grant-in-aid scheme. [More…]
We will introduce a special program to provide ‘once only’ grants of up to $5,000 to assist voluntary groups to introduce new approaches to welfare service delivery or to restructure existing welfare services. [More…]
Similarly, the welfare and cultural activities of the nongovernment sector have grown considerably in recent years. [More…]
Training scheme and the Community Youth Employment Training programs, but also, importantly, to a big rise in social security and welfare payments. [More…]
He nominated social security, welfare programs, health and education. [More…]
These are the trends: Commonwealth expenditure on social security and welfare programs has increased from less than 1 7 per cent of the total outlay in 1 967-68 to more than 27 per cent today, 10 years later. [More…]
Conference recognises that the provision of Australian uranium to the world nuclear fuel cycle creates problems relevant to Australian sovereignty, the environment, the economic welfare of our people, and the rights and well-being of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
It seems that the Commonwealth Parliament has insufficient legislative power to make proper provision for the protection of the health and welfare of the community as a whole from dangers which can arise from the use of radioactive materials and isotopes. [More…]
Putting that to one side, at least we could agree that if uranium is to be mined the best possible codes governing the safety and welfare of workers in the industry ought to be produced. [More…]
This Act details provision to be made in welfare and housing, premises open to the public, university and school buildings, to ensure the representation of the disabled in a wide range of activities, and it covers special cases of deaf, blind and autistic persons. [More…]
The Government’s policy is one of carefully regulated and controlled development having full regard to the protection of the environment and the welfare of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
The development of those resources, while serving the objectives just mentioned, must also be regulated and controlled so as to ensure full protection of the environment and the welfare of the Aboriginal people, and yield the economic benefits to Australia and its people that were described in the report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]
I present the Second Report of the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health entitled ‘Consultative Arrangements and the Co-ordination of Social Policy Development’. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) tabled the First Report of the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health on 17 February 1977. [More…]
This second and last report of the Task Force covers those terms of reference not reported on in the First Report and makes recommendations in these major areas: Firstly, it recommends a new approach to consultative arrangements across the fields of health, welfare and community development involving the establishment of a new national consultative council; secondly, better co-ordination of social policy development through a small social policy unit for a separate department under a senior Minister and a Cabinet committee with a supporting officials committee; and finally, the need for a review of co-ordination of health, welfare and community development services in the mainland Territories. [More…]
On 19 December 1977 the Prime Minister announced that a social welfare policy secretariat would be established and that it would work through a Committee of Permanent Heads to the Social Welfare Policy Committee of Cabinet. [More…]
The Government has decided that the new Secretariat should be responsible, through the Permanent Heads Committee to the Cabinet Committee, for follow-up, as necessary, of any outstanding matters on the First Report of the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health. [More…]
Given the current moves towards selfgovernment in the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory and the key involvement of the two Territory Legislative Assemblies, the Government will draw to the attention of the two Assemblies the Second Report’s recommendation on the need to review coordination of welfare-health services in the Territories. [More…]
They were broadcasters, actors, writers, film makers, producers, trade unions, representatives of home and school associations, co-operatives, advertisers, churches, welfare and voluntary groups, students- but all members of the public. [More…]
I believe that apart from conducting that review we should ask the new social welfare policy secretariat, under Dr Sax, as its first and most urgent job as part of an overall review of income security, to look at this great gap which exists in our income security net for all self-employed people and, particularly in this case, for farmers. [More…]
Those areas referred to the whole of the social infrastructurethe need to build up education, health services, urban and regional development, welfare housing, social security and welfare. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) is endeavouring foist onto the States responsibility for his policy of reducing government expenditure in various fields of welfare and so on. [More…]
Furthermore, many of the specific purpose grants in relation to welfare merely made the States the disbursing agents for areas of activity in which the States have long had an interest, or which resulted from State requests. [More…]
It is not possible to package and compartment the population of the Northern Territory into Aborigines and non-Aborigines and to say that these are the health, education, welfare, transport and other services for Aboriginal people, and those are the services for nonAboriginals. [More…]
I have been interested in listening to the honourable member for the Northern Territory (Mr Calder), having spent many many days with him in the Northern Territory, probably in some 30 to 40 visits to the Northern Territory over the years as members of committees associated with Aboriginal welfare and public works. [More…]
Other of the Senate Committee’s recommendations dealing with follow-up welfare work, English language training, welfare benefits, family reunion, et cetera, are being carried out under the supervision of the Standing Committee, and the Determination of Refugee Status Committee. [More…]
In the new arrangements there will be important roles for all people within the community who have the welfare of migrants at heart. [More…]
Honourable members will be aware of the Government’s determination to bring about a greater coordination of health and welfare programs. [More…]
This determination was illustrated by the recent appointment of the Social Welfare Policy Committee of Ministers and its supporting Permanent Heads Committee. [More…]
These Committees have been established to ensure the integrated development of plans and policies and to review existing policies and programs in the health and welfare field. [More…]
The social welfare policy secretariat will be physically located in the Department of Social Security. [More…]
It will have responsibilities ranging over the whole field of health and welfare and will in fact absorb some of the ongoing activities of the Hospitals and Health Services Commission. [More…]
Let me summarise by saying that Dr Sidney Sax and his secretariat will cover the whole range of social welfare and health programs, with a far-ranging brief that will support the planning and programming activities of many departments, but primarily, of course, those of the Department of Social Security and those of my own Department. [More…]
For the mining companies to launch the massive public relations campaign that they have is not only dishonest but also must be treated by this Parliament and by the people of Australia as indicating that their major concern is not the welfare of the people and the interests of the Northern Territory, and least of all their concern for the traditional Aboriginal occupants of the Territory, but their main concern in this situation is to make profit. [More…]
-I thank the honourable member for asking the question and acknowledge his continuing interest in ASCO- in fact, in the welfare of the Services as a whole. [More…]
In other words, it is more difficult for the new immigrants to find jobs and often they have to depend upon our social welfare system. [More…]
We must remember that the Australian Council of Social Services is an organisation of welfare people who are involved with the poorer sections of the community. [More…]
Dr Sax, who was the head of that Commission, did an excellent job and has now been appointed as the head of a new social welfare policy secretariat. [More…]
That emphasises the relationship between health and social welfare. [More…]
We are talking about the relationship between health and social welfare because we know that ill health is one of the main contributing factors to persons finishing up on invalid pensions and on other kinds of pensions and benefits, including unemployment benefits and special benefits. [More…]
However, that excuse which some honourable members seem to wish to offer for the Minister neglects utterly the widespread and cogent criticisms directed at his announcements of 24 May 1978, criticisms not made simply from the Opposition but from the Australian Medical Association, the private health insurers and many social welfare groups. [More…]
We have seen that throughout social welfare services and other services in this country. [More…]
They have been urged in particular to give attention to ensuring that Aboriginals, especially juveniles, obtain appropriate legal representation in criminal matters; to meet the needs of rural and remote area Aboriginals; to improving Aboriginal /Police relations; and to the possibility of using the services and resources of other agencies, where these are appropriate and accessible including those of Aboriginal and community welfare organisations, the Australian Legal Aid Office, the Law Society and the Public Solicitor. [More…]
There would be clear welfare implications as a result of such a change, especially in the housing area. [More…]
In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society. [More…]
The former Chairman of the Commission, Dr Sidney Sax, has taken control of the Social Welfare Policy Secretariat which is to coordinate and absorb most of the functions of the Commission and its relationship to the Department of Social Security. [More…]
Dr Sax’s ability, expertise and great capacity have been acknowledged by his increasing involvement in the field and he has now been appointed to a completely new policy secretariat dealing with health and welfare. [More…]
They include public works and services, recreation facilities, council properties, car parking, health and welfare, fire prevention, town planning, inspection licensing, tourist promotion, libraries, et cetera. [More…]
In addition, the Government ‘s continued support for the education and welfare of Aborigines and migrants is contributing significantly to combating learning difficulties within those groups. [More…]
Child Welfare Ordinance 1958 [More…]
As a proportion of (a) Gross Domestic Product and (b) Gross National Expenditure, what was the expenditure by OECD countries on (i) health, (ii) social welfare and (iii) education in each of the last 10 years. [More…]
For example, in the case of social welfare expenditure, there is a whole range of policies concerned with social welfare objectives or affecting the distribution of income which require appraisal before valid international comparisons can be made. [More…]
Account would also need to be taken of social welfare expenditure financed through the private sector, especially where this is organised or subsidised by governments. [More…]
Both Parts have been referred to the recently established Social Welfare Policy Secretariat for advice; aspects of the Report are also under consideration by my Department. [More…]
Foreign policy concerns of the Holy See under Pope Paul included: Disarmament and the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons; improvement of social welfare; assisting the development of the poorer countries; evolution of relations with Marxist regimes; and a desire to expand official communications with the communist, Islamic and Asian world to ensure maintenance of freedom of Christian observance. [More…]
He fought for the improvement of social welfare and development. [More…]
It also enables the Commonwealth to pay 50 per cent of the salary of a social welfare worker employed at a homeless persons assistance centre. [More…]
Expenditure under the national welfare fund on accommodation and meal subsidies for the period from 13 December 1974 to 30 June 1978 amounted to $2.6m. [More…]
Salary subsidies were paid for 37 social welfare workers. [More…]
The purpose of the Bill is to provide for direct matching grants, with the States for a range of home care services, and for the salaries of approved welfare officers employed at or in association with senior citizen’s centres. [More…]
As announced at the Premiers Conference, the new subsidy arrangements are to have effect on and from 1 July 1978 in respect of home care services, and for welfare officer salaries for a salary period commencing on or after 1 July 1978. [More…]
Firstly, for home care service schemes which provide housekeeping and other domestic assistance to aged people in their own homes; secondly, for the building and equipping of senior citizens’ centres; and thirdly, for the employment of welfare officers employed by, or in association with, senior citizens ‘ centres. [More…]
The importance of locally based home care and welfare officer services for aged and infirm people is fully recognised by the Government. [More…]
Because of the need for continuing constraint in the Government’s expenditure, it has not been possible recently to approve new welfare officer positions or new home care services. [More…]
The fact is that the Commonwealth will continue to match every dollar allocated by the States for approved welfare officer and home care services. [More…]
Provided that State governments act responsibly within the framework of the federalism policy, there is no reason to believe that there will be any reduction in the level of welfare officer and home care services. [More…]
There are currently 1 12 welfare officers whose salaries are being subsidised under the States Grants (Home Care) Act. [More…]
The main function of a welfare officer is to provide a link between aged persons living in their own homes and domiciliary and other supportive welfare services. [More…]
The activities and responsibilities of welfare officers vary according to local needs and priorities, but in general include determination of the needs of the aged population and the development of services and facilities to meet these needs; liaison with committees of senior citizens’ centres and service clubs for the purpose of establishing or extending the centres’ services and facilities; supervision of the services provided; fostering co-operation and liaison among various welfare activities for aged persons and encouraging interest in these activities; and providing an education program which will encourage senior citizens’ centres to promote purposeful activities. [More…]
Home care services which can be subsidised under the legislation include home visiting, laundry and shopping services, home handyman and related home maintenance schemes, housekeeper and other services which complement health or welfare programs designed to enhance the independence of aged and infirm people living at home. [More…]
Has he replied to a letter of 4 May 1978, from the Western Australian Minister for Community Welfare indicating an intention of the State Government to remove from the Commission under the Aboriginal Affairs Planning Authority Act, the final authority to approve Aboriginal reserve entry permits and to confer this authority by regulation on the Minister. [More…]
It is trying to cut back expenditure in the same way as it did with every other subject which was dealt with in the Budget, including welfare. [More…]
When on 7 August the Queensland Cabinet made critical decisions to the effect that local government functions in the two communities should be funded through the Department of Local Government, that health functions should be funded and be the responsibility of the Department of Health, that education likewise should be the responsibility of the Department of Education and that welfare should be the responsibility of the Department of Aboriginal and Islanders Advancement, it appeared that at last these difficulties had been overcome. [More…]
I do not want to develop it, as one could so easily, but we are sick and tired of this Government’s deference to the great business corporation instead of being primarily concerned with the welfare of the people of Australia. [More…]
I know how lack of information is restricting the welfare of these producers. [More…]
The Australian Government has direct responsibility for the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement under which welfare houses are built as well as for defence service homes. [More…]
I mention the decisions on welfare housing, pensioner housing and the home savings grant. [More…]
Under the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement we are providing to the States an amount of $3 16m for welfare housing and of that amount $ 130m will be by way of matching grants. [More…]
Mr Weir was one of the early appointments to the Legislative Research Service where he was in charge of education and welfare research from early 1968 to mid- 1973. [More…]
Some are concerned with the internal audit and some with welfare and other operations. [More…]
The welfare role adopted by the Department of Veterans’ Affairs and the Defence Service Homes Corporation is notable and one that should continue. [More…]
Those categories included the personnel of the Australian Comforts Fund, the Australian Red Cross Society, the Salvation Army and similar welfare organisations whose personnel served after 3 September 1939. [More…]
I cannot recall his ever being accused of lacking in compassion and interest for the welfare of ex-servicemen. [More…]
Of course, there always will be a small percentage which imposes on a social welfare benefit. [More…]
So much for the new deal in health and welfare. [More…]
Honourable members can see from that that the honey industry is very concerned about the welfare of this plant. [More…]
They sit on committees- more often than not they are unpaid for this- which deal with employeremployee relations and on countless other organisations in the community that are interested in the social and economic welfare of our society. [More…]
The provision of these services in a welfare state through public spending is motivated by a desire to reduce inequalities in our community. [More…]
I am anxious that we concentrate on how we can best solve the problems of the family with less legalism and at the minimum of cost and how we can support the parties in coming to an agreement in advance on the property distribution, the maintenance problems and the welfare of the children. [More…]
We thought that the committee could have comprised people who had experience in counselling and in matters relating to welfare and who generally had expertise in practising in this jurisdiction. [More…]
It goes on to refer to the need to protect the rights of children and to promote their welfare. [More…]
It is not fit to administer the welfare of this country if it cannot be honest and open. [More…]
The second category of support, which again was on a two for one basis, is given to local government to pay the salaries of welfare officers at senior citizens centres. [More…]
The welfare officers employed by local government under the grants play an important role in preventive medicine by assisting the elderly to remain socially active and in touch with community health facilities. [More…]
The present cuts mean that local government councils will have to find several hundred thousand dollars or sack their welfare officers. [More…]
At page 383 of Hansard the Minister incorporated a table suggesting that expenditure for home care services and welfare officers has been increased significantly this year. [More…]
Subsidies to welfare and home care workers have been reduced by one-third. [More…]
It will teach them that once they get involved in welfare work with the Federal Government, when the Federal Government originally finances something quite significantly, perhaps to the extent of 90 per cent, its contribution will drop to 75 per cent and finally to 50 per cent. [More…]
Under this Bill funds for home care and welfare workers will be cut by one-third even though in many cases local council budgets have been planned on the assumption that the Commonwealth would not renege on its obligations. [More…]
In commenting on this decision by the Federal Government, Professor Henderson, who is well known to members of this House, said that the Government had been leading local councils up the garden path by offering subsidies for welfare services and then not continuing their level of funding once these services were operating to the obvious benefit of their recipients. [More…]
Because of the increasing costs to the Labor Government of that time, the 1975 Budget of that Government froze the number of welfare officers who could be employed under this Act. [More…]
At that time there were 112 welfare officers employed around Australia. [More…]
I understand that there are 67 outstanding applications for additional welfare officers. [More…]
By going back to a $ 1 for a $ 1 basis, which applied prior to 1973, we have done one other thing, that is, we have lifted the freeze on the employment of welfare officers under this Act. [More…]
That means that we have opened up the possibility for all these organisations with outstanding applications, and possibly some others as well, to employ welfare and home care officers. [More…]
When the Opposition was in government it froze the employment of welfare officers. [More…]
I challenge its members to say which they believe is more equitable: To continue the freeze on a $2 for $ 1 basis with, as the honourable member for Prospect made the point, the 1 12 welfare officers already employed being placed perhaps in the more fortunate middle class type local government areas and not in any of the other 67 areas to be serviced, or to give everybody who is prepared to do something in the provision of these welfare services and who believes that they are necessary the chance to take advantage of the scheme. [More…]
The Government’s decision to cut its contribution towards home-help services and the salaries of welfare officers employed by local councils would not save money. [More…]
Professor Henderson accused the Government of leading local councils ‘up the garden path’ by offering subsidies for welfare schemes and then not continuing to pay for them once they were operating . [More…]
‘Local government is going to stop providing welfare services because it has become fed up being left holding the baby’, he said. [More…]
One would have to say that we are a country which, particularly in the welfare area, has developed highly complicated and complex structures. [More…]
But we know that in this specific area, the co-ordination of welfare services, it is very difficult, for example, to define a homeless population. [More…]
The Minister explained to Parliament that ‘the Government is in favour of making the Act more effective in meeting the needs of a wider range of homeless people (but) has not yet reached a decision on the proposals of the Task Force on co-ordination in welfare and health, one of which is that is that the homeless persons assistance program should become part of a wider ‘sheltered accommodation program’, administration of which might be devolved to the State governments’. [More…]
There will be a 57 per cent increase in the coming year for subsidies for welfare officers. [More…]
I point out to the honourable gentleman that, as I recall it, the Council on the Aging was not too happy when the Labor Government froze the funds available for subsidies to welfare officers. [More…]
The report on the survey conducted recently by the Department of Social Security- I refer to the booklet entitled ‘A Place of Dignity’ which is the report on a survey of homeless people and homeless persons assistance centres- opened with the comment that an estimated 10,000 homeless men and women in Australia were being assisted by welfare agencies. [More…]
I think that this is something that the capital city councils cold have a good look at, not necessarily with a view to administering the programs but with a view to encouraging local charitable organisations under their jurisdiction to involve themselves in this area of welfare. [More…]
As to social contact there was a high usage of church or welfare shelters and a virtual absence of family ties. [More…]
Also, the community, through its elected representatives, should accept that governments must pursue welfare policies directed towards areas of real need, such as homeless persons. [More…]
It seems ridiculous to me that governments should succumb to the political temptation to adopt concepts of universal welfare benefits for egalitarian reasons rather than to use selectivity as the proper basis for welfare expenditure. [More…]
This ‘needs’ approach to welfare is supported by the Henderson Commission of Inquiry into Poverty in Australia, and the Government has indicated its support of this concept. [More…]
What is needed, of course, is the courage of government to implement this concept in all of its welfare programs. [More…]
This Government is committed by its own platform to administering welfare programs in a decentralised, dignified, unobtrusive and sympathetic manner rather than through impersonal bureaucratic agencies. [More…]
The Government must ensure that they are not forced to leave this area of welfare. [More…]
If the purpose of these centres also is to provide some scope for rehabilitation rather than just mounting a salvaging operation, additional suitably trained staff, quite apart from welfare officers, may be required. [More…]
For these reasons I was surprised when the subsidy arrangements were changed with respect to home care services and the salaries of approved welfare officers. [More…]
Subsequently, when the full story came out, we realised on a closer inspection of both these areas that it is clear that the financial commitment of this Government will increase substantially- by 14 per cent with regard to home care services and by 57 per cent with regard to subsidies for welfare officers. [More…]
I also point out to those honourable members who seem to think that the Government should stay in every area of welfare for all time that the very title of this Bill is the States Grants (Home Care) Amendment Bill 1978. [More…]
They covered rent, furnishing and equipment, with subsidies for welfare staff members and a subsidised meal allowance. [More…]
As I said before, only a small amount of money has been set aside for expenditure in this area of social welfare. [More…]
They have to depend for their welfare on charity from organisations such as the St Vincent de Paul Society, the Salvation Army, the Uniting Church in Australia and the Brotherhood of St Laurence. [More…]
This sort of welfare assistance should be above politics, if possible. [More…]
The amendment to section 10 of the Act reduces the amount of money payable to the States for the salary of a welfare officer of a senior citizens centre from two-thirds to one-half. [More…]
Welfare officers employed by local government under these grants play an important role in preventive medicine by assisting the elderly to remain socially active and in touch with community health facilities. [More…]
No new grants have been given in the time of the Fraser Government and the present cuts mean that local government bodies will have to find several hundred thousand dollars, sack their welfare officers or put up their rates. [More…]
We want increased technology to advance the welfare of the whole of the country, but we have to plan for its introduction. [More…]
But at the same time our task would be very much easier if we could be sure that there was a degree of cooperation from the State government which should have some interest in the welfare of its people. [More…]
This Budget also engages in the dangerous tactics of cutting expenditure on welfare and pennypinching in its expenditure on socially disadvantaged groups. [More…]
The Government’s mentality and priority in relation to welfare housing demonstrate clearly that it has set out not only to create great problems within the housing sector but also to aggravate severely the enormous suffering and social problems within the Australian community. [More…]
Its attack is so brutal that it can be understood only by examining the amount of expenditure on welfare housing as a percentage of all Government outlays. [More…]
In the 1974-75 Budget $385m was spent on welfare housing, or 2.16 per cent of Government outlays. [More…]
This year, $330m will be spent on welfare housing, representing 1.1 per cent of Government outlays. [More…]
Those countries seem to be moving as fast as they can towards the development of nuclear industries and they do not seem to be very concerned about the welfare of their citizens during that process. [More…]
The welfare cuts, the tax changes and the Government expenditure cuts all have as a basic element a redistribution of income from those who are not well off to those who are. [More…]
For example, at present the following programs are among those being evaluated: the Family Day Care Scheme of the Children ‘s Services Program the role of the Aged Persons Hostels in the Aged Persons Welfare Program the pilot Welfare Rights Program the pilot Citizens Information Centre Program. [More…]
The Assistant Secretary, Welfare Services Branch, Welfare Division has been nominated as the Department’s Ethnic Liaison Officer. [More…]
The Trustees of the Royal Australian Air Force Welfare Trust Fund; [More…]
1 ) Under what policy and machinery guidelines do officers of the Department of Social Security determine the existence of a domestic arrangement between, among, or involving recipients of single rate welfare benefits or pensions. [More…]
I know that the Minister for Social Security is most concerned about the overpayment of benefits to social welfare beneficiaries. [More…]
This year in New South Wales there has been a reduction of $33m in the allocation to that State for welfare housing. [More…]
Accordingly, a valuable and desirable contribution could be made to welfare housing. [More…]
Also, $100m ought to be provided by the Government for welfare housing. [More…]
In the Budget Speech of the Treasurer (Mr Howard) and in speeches made by the Minister, the Government has stated that in relation to welfare housing the amount of money made available this year is equivalent to the amount made available last year. [More…]
-Nearly 100,000 families are waiting for homes from the Housing Commission and at least half a million people are living in sub-standard housing, and this Government has not only increased the social problems of those elements in the community which need housing and reneged with regard to welfare housing, but it has also reneged on the home savings grant scheme. [More…]
The new agreement is ordered to allow the States a greater capacity, as homes are turned over and sold, to reinvest in their own right for the provision of welfare housing. [More…]
Let me comment on one particular category of Budget expenditure, namely, social security and welfare. [More…]
Again, despite the cries that we have heard about cutbacks in social welfare expenditure, it must be pointed out that this area of the Budget has been the subject of a 7 per cent increase in expenditure in this financial year. [More…]
The Budget proves that the Government is concerned about the welfare of the oil companies. [More…]
It is concerned about the welfare of Utah. [More…]
It is concerned about the welfare of multinational automobile companies. [More…]
But what does it care about the welfare of low income families? [More…]
What does it care about the welfare of the unemployed youth suffering a reduction in the value of his social service benefits through this Budget? [More…]
This is something which is long overdue, which the Australian Labor Party never even thought of doing but which this Government has done as a result of its consideration for the welfare and health of people who live in areas such as that which the honourable member for Riverina represents. [More…]
Then, with a slightly more relaxed Budget in 1980- relaxed in terms of welfare provisionsthe Liberal Government will go to the polls at the end of that year hoping that the false start in the economic recovery and a little more money in the pockets of the poor, before the added availability of funds induces a rise in inflation, may fool many people in the community to vote again for the Liberals. [More…]
As for those who need social security and welfare payments, it is interesting to note that the Budget provides $8 billion to help the family, the handicapped and the aged. [More…]
It would be quite wrong if I did not say that I was deeply impressed with the work of the principal of the High School, Mr Ronald Knox, and his staff, particularly the Aboriginal teaching aides, and the sisters and nurses from the Queensland Government who work in the hospital as well as those in charge of welfare. [More…]
Government leaders are constantly stating that welfare should be based on need. [More…]
Continued adherence to universal welfare payments is bad welfare policy. [More…]
This Government should have taken the opportunity in this Budget at last to adopt selectivity based on need as the basis of expenditure on welfare which at present costs taxpayers in excess of $8 billion per annum. [More…]
First of all, the ability of governments to move constantly towards lower taxes is limited by universal welfare payments. [More…]
Finally, of course, if governments did decide to base welfare payments solely on need there would be the opportunity for governments to introduce tough budgets such as this one without, at the same time, being forced to implement penny-pinching measures involving social injustices such as reverting to annual adjustments of pensions. [More…]
I hope that the Minister for Special Trade Representations (Mr Garland), who is at the table, will convey my suggestions to the Government on this particular philosophy of disbursing welfare payments. [More…]
So in all these areas I think all the members of this Parliament should recognise that social welfare payments should be based solely on need. [More…]
As evidence of its all-pervasive cruelty, the Government has imposed on these people new and regressive taxes, crippling new charges on lump sum leave payments, the abolition of the maternity allowance, the destruction of the concept of universal health and massive reductions in welfare housing. [More…]
This is a very mean measure which will have serious consequences for some of the most disadvantaged recipients of social welfare payments in Australia. [More…]
The Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare published a report entitled ‘Drug Problems in Australia- An Intoxicated Society?’. [More…]
In conclusion, I refer again to the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare entitled ‘Drug Problems in Australia- an intoxicated society?’ [More…]
I cannot find too much evidence of the Government’s good intentions and we may well ask this question: Is it good intentions which prompted the Government’s decision to tax social welfare beneficiaries such as accident victims who are being rehabilitated? [More…]
They are the very simple things to which aged people who are the recipients of these programs and whose welfare will be affected by the implementation of this clause can relate and they are the things they cannot understand. [More…]
Providing the State governments act with responsibility within the framework of the federalism policy there is no reason to believe that there will be any reduction in the level of welfare officer and home care services. [More…]
We are talking about $5m in the one instance and a considerably lesser sum in the other instance, the welfare officer situation. [More…]
The purpose of the Bill is to provide for direct matching grants for the States for a range of home care services and for the salaries of approved welfare officers employed at or in association with senior citizen centres. [More…]
The Act broadly provides three forms of assistance: One, the home care service schemes which provide housekeeping and other domestic assistance to aged persons in their own homes; two, the building and equipping of senior citizen centres; and three, the employment of welfare officers by or in association with senior citizen centres. [More…]
The legislation also enables the Commonwealth to pay 50 per cent of the salary of a social welfare worker employed at a homeless persons assistance centre. [More…]
The intensely political nature of the lobby and political groups concerned about old people’s welfare is one of the things that strikes the politician. [More…]
I think the whole philosophy of our approach to social welfare and the security of human beings is under discussion here today. [More…]
I think it is nonsensical that people can make millions of dollars and remit them overseas and then make a very small contribution to this country’s welfare. [More…]
In some areas of social welfare Queensland lags. [More…]
One of the disastrous effects of continuous changes in policies and depression of government action is the impact that has upon the professional people who have committed themselves to the social welfare area. [More…]
States for approved welfare officer and home care services. [More…]
So far as welfare officers’ salaries were concerned, $900,000 was allocated in 1977-78 and $ 1.1m was allocated in 1978-79. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that when the honourable member for Murray (Mr Lloyd) was speaking to this measure he mentioned that the Government was now in a position to lift the embargo on approvals of new welfare officer positions in home care services which has been in force since October 1975. [More…]
In the run-up to the last Budget we were informed in no uncertain terms that the business community of this country wanted drastic cuts made in social security payments, health and welfare. [More…]
I think it is fair to say that this is one of those difficult areas in relation to taxation and social welfare policy. [More…]
I say to the honourable gentleman, secondly, that if indeed the community believes that some amongst its number, by reason of their disabilities, should be deserving of additional assistance, the right method of doing that is by direct support and social welfare payments. [More…]
During the last 33 months the Government has presided over the deliberate erosion of financial support for Aboriginal welfare and development programs. [More…]
During these months before the more active and official negotiations commenced a series of documents on environmental, conservation and social welfare matters was prepared. [More…]
Moreover, the very substantial increase in the national welfare which could be derived from development of the [More…]
It provides data for economic and social planning and for assessing the need for and the impact of housing, education, welfare and taxation policies. [More…]
A vocal spokesman in America recently said: ‘In America we tax work, growth, investment, employment, savings and productivity, while subsidising non-work, consumption, welfare and debt.’ [More…]
There are still far too many welfare programs which involve transfers of tax from poor people to rich people and these are many of the areas in which the Labor Party seems to be standing up in support of well-off people. [More…]
Transfer payments through the welfare system should be directed entirely to people in need and an enormous proportion of them are still not being so directed. [More…]
Funding for the Melbourne resource centre which is run by the Australian-Greek Welfare Society has been provided only up to 3 1 January. [More…]
I think that one ought to recognise that for 23 years there was a Liberal Party government in this country which certainly did not talk about multi-culturalism, which certainly did not introduce programs on migrant education, which certainly did not support centres like the Ecumenical Migration Centre or the Migrants Clearing House and which left voluntary agencies with limited resources to fight alone in the whole field of migration welfare. [More…]
But, having said that, one ought to recognise that migrant welfare cannot be separated from the whole question of the welfare of the community in general. [More…]
I can inform the honourable gentleman that the Government has decided not to proceed with the taxation of the welfare payments enumerated on page 22 of the Budget Speech. [More…]
This country depends very, very significantly, for its internal security and its economic welfare on international trade. [More…]
The officers of the Department of Social Security and of the Commonwealth Employment Service also deserve considerable credit for their understanding of the situation and the fact that they were able to operate within the changes made to various parts of the welfare legislation, which for the first time enabled selfemployed persons to benefit in times of stress from the social welfare system. [More…]
The net incomes of people in other sectors of the community, whether they be doctors, people in industry or social welfare workers, are higher than those of the farmers. [More…]
Severe cutbacks in areas vital to the realisation of equal opportunity- education, child care, retraining, health, welfare, legal aid, et ceterahave been the order of the day under the Fraser administration. [More…]
We have been able to give more money to welfare. [More…]
Following the increased allocation in the Budget for expenditure under the States Grants (Home Care) Act, all outstanding applications by State governments for new welfare officer positions and new home care services could be approved. [More…]
It also will need increased money to pay for the city’s welfare worker. [More…]
She said that the cutbacks would mean that councils would have to raise rates to maintain the quality of existing services and that the Federal Government was paying lip service to the needs of welfare while taking money away from it. [More…]
The basis of the Government’s policies is Australia’s belief that the welfare of the inhabitants of the Islands is paramount. [More…]
Under the provisions of the States Grants (Home Care) Act, the Commonwealth pays a subsidy to the States of up to half the salary of approved welfare officers who are employed at, or in conjunction with, senior citizens’ centres and who are employed wholly or mainly in providing a welfare service to aged persons. [More…]
At present the Commonwealth subsidises a total of 1 12 welfare officer positions throughout Australia. [More…]
Since October 1975 financial constraints have precluded the approval of new welfare officer positions for subsidy under the Act. [More…]
With additional funding provided in the 1978-79 Budget I was recently able to announce that the Commonwealth support could be extended to an additional 79 welfare officers bringing the total to 1 9 1 positions. [More…]
In addition the Government has accepted the recommendations of the Galbally Report regarding the appointment of ethnic welfare officers to work specifically among the ethnicaged. [More…]
The Government has appropriated $0.1 lm for the salaries of 1 0 new ethnic welfare officer positions in 1 978-79; to be followed by five positions in 1 979-80 and 1 980-8 1 . [More…]
Some local government authorities in Victoria have been under a misapprehension that the welfare officers whom they employ in accordance with the Act must devote their full time to the welfare of aged persons. [More…]
The flexible use of welfare officer staff is possible and no change to the guidelines used by my Department is seen to be necessary. [More…]
The report also identifies potential improvements with communications associated with defence, transport, health, welfare, and education. [More…]
On the subject of meeting community needs, the Task Force also highlights the possible value to isolated communities in health care, education and general welfare from improved communications which could be facilitated by satellite. [More…]
Of course the Minister made other points in relation to the sorts of services which can be contributed to the community in health, welfare and a range of other areas. [More…]
I think that it is highly fortuitous that he has come into this portfolio to administer a matter which is very important to the welfare of ex-servicemen and indeed servicemen who, as a result of initiatives taken by the Labor Government referred to by the honourable member for Reid, are also eligible for assistance under the Defence Service Homes Act. [More…]
As a citizen of the oldest State of the Commonwealth of Australia, I make it quite clear that I am gravely concerned about the future economic and social welfare of that State. [More…]
Insofar as the State governments’ public welfare housing is concerned, nearly 100,000 families are on the housing commission lists, waiting for homes. [More…]
Let me illustrate in more detail the Draconian cuts that this Government has inflicted on the welfare housing programs of the State governments. [More…]
The new Agreement gives the States more flexibility to direct welfare funding to those in real need and to those who can best use those funds. [More…]
It is important to recognise that we are dealing with welfare housing, with public housing. [More…]
The problem with previous agreements, and in particular the agreement which existed between 1973 and 1974 and which was supported by the then Labor Administration, was that a significant proportion of money available for welfare housing went to people who did not need it. [More…]
A substantial amount of additional money over and above the base amount provided by the Commonwealth is available for welfare housing in Australia in the current financial year. [More…]
We believe that there is clearly an opportunity for the States, if they so desire, to increase the funds flowing to welfare housing in Australia. [More…]
Additional State funded programs in the area of welfare housing amounted to $60m. [More…]
The States have an opportunity to provide at least the same level of activity in welfare housing in the current financial year as they provided in the last financial year. [More…]
It is quite wrong of the Opposition to paint deliberately a false picture of the very real support that is being provided by this Government for welfare housing. [More…]
As I said, the funds available should at least equal those provided by the Commonwealth last year, so long as the States play their part and co-operate in providing welfare housing. [More…]
We know what the reality is in relation to welfare housing. [More…]
This Minister is a weak Minister and the result is the situation which we have in welfare housing. [More…]
So we have the Shelter organisation in New South Wales talking about what is a vast and overwhelming need for emergency accommodation, 100,000 people around the country are on waiting lists and the Minister is attempting to defend what is a massive reduction in funds for welfare housing. [More…]
He speaks about the recent Commonwealth-States housing finance agreement as representing some kind of progress in a sense that it will now be possible under the agreement to remove- from housing commission accommodation people who he says are well over and who I would say usually are marginally over the criteria that have traditionally been provided in relation to welfare housing. [More…]
The sooner that he can be removed from the Ministry, the sooner the people in welfare and public housing will get a reasonable deal in this country. [More…]
It ill-behoves any member of the Opposition to take out figures in isolation and to say that, because fewer dollars were made available in this particular year, the total funding for welfare housing is less than it was in the previous year. [More…]
Under that legislation we find that the States, as co-operators in federalism and as sovereign States in their own right, are to contribute in certain circumstances on a dollar-for-dollar basis in the area of welfare housing. [More…]
If the honourable member for Reid takes time off to do his mathematics and adds up the figures, he will find that money is being made available in the welfare housing area for those people who are in need. [More…]
I should explain that the Service pension is a social welfare payment, broadly equivalent to the age pension under social services legislation. [More…]
The care of the sick and the aged, and the protection of the welfare of the needy in the community, is becoming a difficult and extremely complex task. [More…]
I plead once again with people who, for one reason or another, are deriving social welfare benefits unlawfully, to think carefully of those elderly people who are living in what could only be termed shocking conditions. [More…]
to the creation of a society which offers equality of opportunity, security and assistance to those who suffer from special disabilities … we want to create a system of welfare services and benefits which is not class tainted and whose provisions are not stigmatised as charitable concessions to the deserving poor. [More…]
I must confess to some difficulties in understanding what the basic aims and goals of the present Government are in the fields of social welfare, health, and related areas. [More…]
The record of this Government during a period of nowprolonged recession portrays an incredible insensitivity to the social consequences of Government economic decisions and has been marked by the beginning of the process of running down welfare services, which honourable members will remember was the characteristic trait of the Menzies years, of the 23 years of Liberal rule which preceded the Whitlam Government. [More…]
It cannot be stressed often enough in this chamber that in 1972 Australia was one of the poorest served countries in the developed world in terms of access to health, education and welfare services. [More…]
According to a publication of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development entitled Public Expenditure Trends, published in June this year, in the early 1960s Australia was spending 9.6 per cent of its gross domestic product on public welfare, compared with the average for OECD countries of 13.2 per cent. [More…]
At that time no other countries, with the exception of Greece and Japan, were spending less on public welfare, which included health, education and social security expenditures. [More…]
In the early 1970s, despite the so-called ‘extravagance’ of the Labor Government, Australia was spending only 12.8 per cent of its GDP on public welfare expenditures, compared with an OECD average expenditure of 18.8 per cent. [More…]
I want to comment on general health and welfare policies for country people and on some of the things which have been done and on those which remain to be done. [More…]
I refer in the broadest terms to the welfare aspects of Federal Government assistance as distinct from commodity or industry policy, that is, assistance which attempts to alleviate the day to day problems encountered by country people to a greater degree or to reduce the cost disadvantage of those country people compared with city people. [More…]
It was not aware that general welfare principles would exclude country areas. [More…]
I am talking about welfare which I believe comes under the heading of social security. [More…]
Another tremendous welfare problem concerns education in country areas. [More…]
Many problems and disadvantages in this broad aspect of welfare remain- I believe that it is tremendously important to talk about broad aspects of welfare in debates such as this- but I am confident that this Government is the first government since Federation which is genuinely trying to do something for the welfare problems in country areas. [More…]
I do not share his optimism about the Government’s actions in the field of health and welfare services. [More…]
They need a welfare officer to deal with the welfare cases in that area. [More…]
I am delighted to have the opportunity of speaking to the estimates for health and welfare. [More…]
In the area of social security, health and welfare, this socially irresponsible ad hoc decision making is most pronounced. [More…]
However, I know, as I think other honourable members know, of particular examples which indicate that some savings can be made in the proper administration of welfare services. [More…]
Similarly, where people have been able improperly to receive unemployment benefits, we need to have a system that is capable of catching those people who take advantage of our welfare systems. [More…]
I do not think that anybody can logically disagree with that, although the very nature of the way in which we approach these matters demands some sensitivity particularly for the people who are in the unfortunate position of having to need welfare payments. [More…]
We will see demographic changes in Australia which will necessitate a much more fundamental review of our welfare systems. [More…]
I believe that greater regard has to be had to the needs and the aspirations of those who have to pay the welfare benefits- the taxpayers. [More…]
I think that they demand that we look responsibly at the welfare programs that we undertake in Australia and set about reaching the needy people as distinct from those who are able to get in on the act. [More…]
I heard the honourable member for Batman (Mr Howe) tonight arguing about principles in relation to welfare payments, equality of opportunity and need. [More…]
He really did not apply the principles but used them as a basis for arguing for a much wider welfare system than the one we have. [More…]
In the broad areas we need to come to grips with the total situation of the people who are claiming welfare benefits. [More…]
In considering programs as a Government and as a Parliament we have to look at need not with a broad brush approach adding a little to the lot of everybody who happens to be a welfare beneficiary but, as has been done in this Budget, we have to be prepared to look much more conscientiously at the needs of people. [More…]
Instead of increasing broadly across the range of welfare benefits, we have to develop specific programs to meet those needs. [More…]
Nor is he really concerned about cuts in welfare programs. [More…]
He talked about welfare programs but he did not analyse where there had been cuts in expenditure. [More…]
I urge the Government, in its assessment and reexamination of the social welfare system, to get a co-ordinated plan to ensure that retention rates for people on low incomes are increased, that the tax system and the social security system are harmonised, that one department is used to administer the test to be applied, and that the heavy burden placed on low income earners is removed. [More…]
We note also that there have been backdowns in other significant areas, particularly with regard to the taxation of some social welfare payments to handicapped persons. [More…]
One of the great difficulties for any government is trying to ensure that the social welfare allocations go to those in greatest need. [More…]
The fact is that in social welfare policies the great difficulty has been to identify in some circumstances those people who require assistance and those who require it more than others. [More…]
-In this important discussion of the estimates for the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, I take the opportunity of pointing out to the Committee the very positive advances effected in very difficult times by a very competent Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) and by a government that has demonstrated its concern and compassion for the needs and welfare of Aboriginal people. [More…]
I spoke earlier this evening in the discussion on the estimates for the Department of Social Welfare. [More…]
I mentioned in the general comments that I made in that area the different needs of Aboriginals and the fact that one cannot apply the normal sorts of criteria for determining the way in which welfare requirements and community development needs of Aboriginal communities can be accommodated. [More…]
It is disappointing to me to have to follow the honourable member for Capricornia (Dr Everingham) when he merely sees the welfare of Aboriginals in terms of the provision of funds and the provision of such funds in greater amounts. [More…]
I do not believe that it has any concern for, or knowledge of, the welfare of the Aboriginal people, or for some of the destructive elements that have caused this unique scheme to be developed in consultation with Aboriginals. [More…]
We people who are given by our colleagues in the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party shadow ministerial responsibilities in the economic area have few opportunities to follow our interests in social welfare. [More…]
The philosophy of taxation is based on how much incentive a person has to earn income in order to produce the revenue that government- the Labor Government particularly, and this Government proceeds to follow suit- needs to pay for fairly lavish welfare and social programs. [More…]
What I would like to see the Government moving towards is a resource tax raising $ 150m; to eliminate the crude oil levy windfall gain to the oil development companies of $340m; to impose a capital gains tax on gains in excess of $200,000, raising $300m; to adjust the highest levels of personal income tax to raise $200m; to abolish the investment allowance, $400m; to abolish tax avoidance through family trusts, $100m-$l,490,000 as against the imposition of the direct increases in personal tax and denying pensioners and employment beneficiaries and other social welfare beneficiaries of benefits amounting to about $l,140m. [More…]
Nevertheless, I congratulate the Government on dropping everything contained on page 22 of the Budget Speech, which dealt with the proposed taxation of social welfare payments. [More…]
1 ) What was the Commonwealth Government’s (a) appropriation for and (b) expenditure on Aboriginal welfare in respect of (i) grants to each State and (ii) grants-in-aid during 1977-78. [More…]
What is the Commonwealth Government’s appropriation for Aboriginal welfare in each of these categories for 1978-79. [More…]
Did the Queensland Supreme Court on S October 1976 decide that Mr Killoran as trustee of an Aboriginal reserve must account for all moneys in respect of mining on that reserve, keep properly audited books and devote the proceeds to the reserve, not to the Aboriginal Welfare Fund. [More…]
None of us can treat this matter lightly, because the welfare and well-being of this nation depend very much on sustaining a strong export performance. [More…]
They are not interested in the welfare of Australia, they are not interested in the system of Parliament and they are not interested in the Westminster system of government. [More…]
They should not come in here three years later and complain, because when they were in Government, when they had the responsibility for the welfare of the Australian people, they demonstrated a total incapacity to carry it out. [More…]
This Bill continues the Government’s curious notion of welfare reform. [More…]
This Bill represents miserable welfare policy. [More…]
It displays social welfare thinking at its most primitive and least caring. [More…]
All of this ‘grand design of social welfare reform’- that is placed in inverted commas to indicate the clear sarcasm- comes from the same man, Fraser, the man who promised tax cuts at an election eight months ago and this week introduced substantial tax increases in their place. [More…]
This Bill turns the clock back- a long way back- on social welfare reform in Australia. [More…]
Everything that it has done in the welfare field, including the effects of the taxation adjustments, erodes the position of the family, and especially the position of the middle and the modest income families. [More…]
I have to observe that on the basis of the evidence available, the Fraser social welfare policy is a policy of a mean tightwad. [More…]
Let me reiterate what this Government has done for persons covered by the social welfare budget. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition talked about welfare housing. [More…]
I well remember and I should imagine that honourable members remember that in about October 1975 the Labor Government froze all outlays for welfare housing. [More…]
Many people were forced to leave their homes and had no welfare housing to go to thereafter. [More…]
Members of Parliament have to face the tremendous dilemma of choosing between committing themselves to statements that have been made and the matter of directing welfare to areas of need. [More…]
We must seek as much as possible to direct welfare to areas of need. [More…]
If persons who are not entitled to welfare and who can well look after themselves are given assistance from the public purse we will find that the whole economic structure will be in peril. [More…]
In general, the Government is expending large sums of money on welfare and it to be supported for the massive outlays that it has undertaken in very difficult economic times as part of its overall humanitarian program in assisting the underprivileged in our community. [More…]
When in due course the pensioners of Australia read Hansard they will be interested to learn that during the debate on these social welfare Bills tonight three quorums were called by the Labor Party. [More…]
We are talking about an appropriation of $8,0 15m, an increase of $524m on the actual expenditure last year for social security and social welfare, which amounted to $7,490m. [More…]
The numbers on the Labor Party side have increased slightly on this occasion but once again it demonstrates their absolute contempt and their absolute lack of concern for the welfare of the pensioners of Australia. [More…]
It is extraordinary that a Minister who began her career in the Ministry speaking about the need to fine down bureaucracy has moved to add further and further to that bureaucracy by adding thousands of additional employees and increasing the emphasis on surveillance powers while, doing little to make any contribution towards solving the fundamental problems which are giving rise to an ever-increasing social welfare bill. [More…]
We need to give all Australians access to adequate welfare services, on the assumption that they contribute to people’s real income. [More…]
The total outlay on social security and general welfare items is 27.8 per cent of estimated total Budget outlays, an increase from $7,490.3m last year to $8,0 14.7m this year. [More…]
Social welfare and economic policy are two subjects which are too often discussed in isolation from each other even though it is common for discussions of either subject to pay lip service to the importance of the other. [More…]
The result is that very often economic policy and social welfare policy are perceived as being antagonistic when in fact they are necessarily complementary. [More…]
The least of his interests is the welfare of Aboriginal people. [More…]
It is a demonstration that the Labor Party believes that the interests of the people lie not in the welfare of the people but in their organisation of power for their own aggrandisement. [More…]
Clause 8 stands as pan of that general pattern and that general principle which has been enunciated right throughout the Bill and which limits the existing standards and conditions of those who are receiving social welfare payments. [More…]
The provisions of this Bill and the social welfare policy provide for an expenditure of $6, 602m this financial year, which is an increase of $399m over that of the previous year- a record expenditure. [More…]
Even if one took the most optimistic view of inflation, the reality is that over the course of the next 12 months prices will rise and, as they rise, the standard of living of those people relying on social welfare benefits will decrease. [More…]
I am not one of those who suggest that we should keep a social welfare benefit simply because it is there and has been there for some time, but I am not compelled to think otherwise by the arguments of the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt). [More…]
Sometimes people on this side of the chamber are presented as being raving radicals who, when they argue for the rights of the unemployed, for example, are somehow taking a position which cannot be defended on rational grounds, a position which is not supported by groups which have status and standing and which represent all the welfare interests in Australia, certainly in the voluntary sector and partially in the government sector. [More…]
I want to quote at some length from a statement issued, after the introduction of the Budget, by the Australian Council of Social Service, a body which represents welfare organisations throughout Australia. [More…]
I draw the Minister’s attention to the remarks of the Liberal Victorian Minister for Social Welfare, Mr Brian Dixon, on 30 July last. [More…]
I commend the approach of my colleagues, who have taken a very proper and legitimate point- a point that I commend to all honourable members in this place- that it ill-behoves this nation at this time to create a separate category for the unemployed in terms of social welfare payments because, as has been pointed out, of all the groups in this community the unemployed are in many cases, through no fault of then- own, in quite desperate economic circumstances. [More…]
If we are serious in saying that they must be assisted to find work it is perfectly proper for unemployment benefit payments to be indexed in the same way as every other social welfare payment has been indexed. [More…]
The debate is catalysed by irregular but frequent changes to health financing arrangements by the Commonwealth Government of the time, sometimes for reasons of community health and welfare and sometimes to help balance the books. [More…]
I take the opportunity of thanking the honourable member for Murray (Mr Lloyd), the Chairman of the Government members Health and Welfare Committee, for his very constructive speech and for the work that his Committee has done in assisting the Government in the formulation of its policy in the health insurance area. [More…]
The Bill should go a long way to assure responsible members of the Public Service that both this Government and, I think, governments in general are concerned for the welfare and better management of the Commonwealth Public Service and that they are not about putting down their own employees. [More…]
Mr Les Johnson said: the vast substantial increase in the national welfare which could be derived from development of the Ranger project could not lightly be overlooked. [More…]
Upon welfare programs last year expenditure by way of grants-in-aid and State grants totalled $2,994,000. [More…]
Instead of playing a role in using Australian resources in manufacture, they become part of the pool of unemployed, depending on the support of social welfare payments. [More…]
For that reason, I was pleased to read the speech given by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden) to the Western Austraiian Mining Club on 30 March 1978 when he made the statement that the mining industry has made a significant contribution during the last decade or so to the welfare of Australia. [More…]
The Broken Hill mines have made a very significant contribution to the welfare of Australia since that time. [More…]
I support these remarks because I believe that nothing holds greater promise for the nation ‘s future welfare than the development of our mineral resources. [More…]
Although government policies for the most part have been responsible for sending large numbers of the population to join dole queues and welfare lines, the Government has consistently avoided or denied its responsibility for caring for these people, preferring instead to capitalise on their misfortunes and victimise them by referring to them as dole bludgers or welfare fat cats. [More…]
It has been allotted to the Army and the Air Force for use in their welfare and amenities programs. [More…]
These programs are administered through funds such as the Army Central Amenities Fund and the RAAF Welfare Trust Fund. [More…]
They will accumulate all of the funds and leave the rest of the community to struggle along on social welfare. [More…]
10) What alternative source of welfare funds for servicemen will replace the distributed profits of the Organisation. [More…]
1 1 ) On what occasions has he withheld the distribution of profits to servicemen ‘s welfare and for what reasons. [More…]
1 7) Is he able to say whether the equivalent organisations in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom make a contribution to service staff welfare funds; if so, what provision is made for this purpose. [More…]
Despite laws regarding compulsory education and threats from social welfare agencies that children who could not be fitted into schools were truants, it was some time before 25 forlorn kids at Enterprise were permitted to go to Springvale South High School, and then the school council had to pay $550 for one term ‘s bus fares. [More…]
Among the problems increasingly referred to are the growing alienation of the young to the community and its institutions, increases in vandalism and more serious forms of anti-social behaviour, loss of incentive and work motivation, increasing incidence of personal psychological problems, pressures on welfare services and the loss of skilled manpower resources. [More…]
Ten years ago spending by the Federal Government on health, education and social welfare used to make up one-quarter of the total Budget outlays. [More…]
Every school above kindergarten looked as though it would be promoted to a degree conferring institution in order to meet the political requirements of the Victorian Government without any consideration at all of the educational status and standing of the degrees which were conferred or the welfare of the students who were subjected to this type of economic or political expansion of these facilities. [More…]
It outlines a common task which is achieved only in close partnership with the State, the schools, the parents, the churches, the political parties and all other social organisations serving man and the common welfare. [More…]
I make the point that as far as funding under the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement is concerned there will be as much available to the States this year to fund welfare housing as there was last year, but it depends upon State effort. [More…]
If the States make the effort and the contribution that I believe they will make, then in no sense will welfare housing suffer during this financial year. [More…]
I must point out to him that these funds are an important part of welfare housing funding in Australia. [More…]
All of us in this place seem to have the idea that unemployment is an economic problem and that we have to get these kids into the work place so that they can be earning money, paying taxes and alleviating our social welfare bill. [More…]
The only result will be the betterment of the welfare of all Australian people. [More…]
If the OECD experience is to be followed- I recommend that it should be followed- what we will need and will see over the next year or so is an increased number of community-based schemes which would have incorporated in them a close affinity with community groups, social welfare organisations, local government, et cetera. [More…]
But in this particular industry in the last few months, what we have seen has been an almost co-ordinated approach by members of various unions to sabotage the future welfare of the entire Australian people. [More…]
Marine sciences will become far more significant to the long-term welfare of this country. [More…]
In the meantime however, it means that in the field of science, at any rate, we can get the degree of co-operation between nations which is so desirable and for the welfare of all. [More…]
While tourism is unlikely to have a dramatic effect on community health and welfare, it is in a unique position to foster and develop the community’s knowledge of Australia and the Australian heritage. [More…]
I am sure that honourable members will agree with me that the Australian airlines are making a significant contribution to the development and welfare of this country, with an air safety record equal to the world ‘s best. [More…]
The Bill is an integral part of the Government’s comprehensive program for the advancement and welfare of the Cocos people. [More…]
However, a number of Government members- quite a small number- members on the Government parties’ Health and Welfare Committee brought this matter to my attention. [More…]
The principal threat to the welfare of the Aboriginal people, and the one they most fear, is constituted by the large numbers of people who can be expected to enter the area. [More…]
He has placed mining ahead of Aboriginal welfare and well-being. [More…]
Welfare housing has felt the axe and the allocation for that has been cut from $400m last year to $330m this year. [More…]
However, if one believed that governments should be responsible for the welfare of its citizens- all its citizens- and that governments should show the way in job creation programs, in providing health services, education, transport, et cetera, one would agree that this government is a miserable failure. [More…]
What steps has the Government taken to develop a program to implement the recommendations of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare in its report ‘Drug Problems in Australia-an intoxicated Society’. [More…]
He is assisted by an unsalaried, live-in welfare worker, and a youth being paid under the NEAT scheme. [More…]
Referrals come from a vast number of sources, including general purpose voluntary welfare bodies, churches, government bodies and youth oriented programs such as CYSS centres and the Brisbane Youth Service. [More…]
This sort of conflict is worth noting, as religiously based organisations are by far the bestestablished in the welfare area. [More…]
We all know, whether it be in respect of tax laws, social welfare legislation or whatever, that there will always be a small minority that will abuse the system. [More…]
The budgetary cuts to pensions and the unemployment benefit reflected this attitude in social welfare. [More…]
I well remember Artie Fadden saying when I was Minister for Social Welfare, and doing well: ‘Bill, we can’t bloody well put up with you any longer. [More…]
The Commonwealth ‘s general support for the aims and philosophies expounded in the article is further demonstrated by the Government’s continued funding, under the Community Health Program, of the national secretariat of the Association for the Welfare of Children in Hospital which prepared the document and has, with the aid of the Commonwealth’s financial assistance, vigorously promoted these principles and philosophies. [More…]
Whilst we agree with the Minister’s comment that Australia’s airlines are making a significant contribution to the development and welfare of our nation and have an air safety record equal to the world’s best, there are fundamental differences between the approach of the Opposition to civil aviation and the approach of the Government. [More…]
Greater capital advances for large companies operating in Australia do not mean a thing for the welfare of the people of Australia unless we have humane manpower policies running parallel with the sort of assistance that is being given to industry. [More…]
Alamgir, ‘Poverty, Inequality and Social Welfare: Measurement, Evidence and Policies’, Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. [More…]
Philippines- M. A. S. Abrera, 'Philippine Poverty Threshholds' in Measuring Philippine Welfare, Development Academy ofthe Philippines, Manila, 1975. [[More…]](https://historichansard.net/hofreps/1978/19781115_reps_31_hor112/#subdebate-44-0)
However, the Commonwealth in the administration of the Children’s Services Program recognises that the basic responsibility for the regulation, licensing and provision of child welfare lies with State governments. [More…]
Bearing in mind that impartiality between the communities in Lebanon is very important, but that humane and timely aid to the people is even more important, will the Australian Government encourage and even support nonGovernment welfare organisations to dispatch medical teams to Lebanon, to work in any areas where they are needed and welcomed, as recommended in the report entitled ‘The Lebanon Crisis- Humanitarian Aspects’ tabled in December 1976 by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
The student is usually selected by the sponsoring organisation in his own country and the Australian organisation accepts responsibility for his welfare in Australia. [More…]
In fact, the variety of programs shows an active involvement in the welfare of the people in the developing nations. [More…]
As appropriate, the results of the survey will be made available to other Commonwealth and State Departments and authorities, and to voluntary organisations, which provide information intended to facilitate the settlement, welfare and integration of migrants. [More…]
The precise level of each grant will depend in part on the classification of the social worker or welfare officer employed. [More…]
In real terms, spending on Aboriginal housing has fallen by 28.5 per cent since the last Labor Budget; on Aboriginal health by 28.7 per cent; on Aboriginal education by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs by 20.3 per cent; on Aboriginal employment programs by 5.9 per cent; on Aboriginal welfare by 4.9 per cent; on Aboriginal enterprises- that is, selfmanagement by 70.5 per cent; on town management and public utilities by 50.5 per cent; on cultural and recreational funding by 33.8 per cent; and on legal aid by 15.8 per cent. [More…]
He has placed mining ahead of Aboriginal welfare and well-being. [More…]
The penalties are not too great for people who jeopardise the welfare of the Australian nation by this sort of action. [More…]
Private investment is essential for the welfare of the economy and the maintenance of full employment. ‘ [More…]
Departmental Social Workers, Welfare Officers and field staff also explain the services available from the Department and how to use these in their contacts with migrants, refugees, ethnic groups and welfare workers employed by other Government Departments and voluntary organisations engaged in migrant/refugee welfare activities. [More…]
It is envisaged that these Units will have welfare staff who possess multi-lingual skills, and they will work in close liaison with regional and district offices of the Department especially those located in areas of high migrant concentration. [More…]
The income test on unemployment benefit will be subject to review as part of the Government’s overall Budget examination of social welfare programs and policies. [More…]
State Ministers who criticise the level of advances provided by the Commonwealth for welfare housing conveniently ignore the range of funding sources provided under the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement. [More…]
The total Commonwealth advances of $3 16m this year, would make possible total State expenditure on welfare housing of the same order as in 1 977-78. [More…]
I am just as concerned as the States are about housing, and about welfare housing, but let us look at the facts and see what capacity the States have. [More…]
So the States themselves do have the capacity to direct further funds to housing, and to welfare housing in particular. [More…]
I want to indicate briefly that the total amount of funds available for welfare housing in the States is at least as good as last year, on the figures we have. [More…]
Quite frankly, what has been done by Nkomo and Mugabe proves that they are not interested in the blacks in Rhodesia or the welfare of the people in Rhodesia. [More…]
The Bill would provide for the Minister for Mines to have authority to consent or withhold consent from mining activity taking place on Aboriginal reserves after consideration of a recommendation from the Minister for Community Welfare. [More…]
The Western Australian Government has indicated its intention to amend the AAPA Act to give the Minister for Community Welfare final authority on the issue of reserve entry permits. [More…]
Welfare pensioners and the unemployed are denied indexation of their payments, but people at the Prime Minister’s salary level and companies in the super-profit category get the benefit. [More…]
Here, the Government might think of increasing capital funds available for welfare housing, freeing up savings bank funds even more for private home building, and look at ways of increasing investment in public facilities such as sewerage services, bridges, highways and hospitals. [More…]
Despite the imposition of external pressures on the negotiations, particularly on the Aborigines, by people who were pushing their own barrow and who had no interest whatsoever in the welfare of Aborigines but only in their own hysterical opposition to uranium mining, I think it certainly says a great deal for all sides that the negotiations were successfully completed. [More…]
I agree with the honourable member for Capricornia (Dr Everingham) who recognised and who stated in this House, albeit indirectly, that many people who were interfering in the Aboriginal negotiations had no basic interest whatsoever in the welfare of the Aboriginal people and were involved in this matter simply to further their own particular cause. [More…]
If therefore the Government proceeds to act on the basis of an agreement made under duress, by the Northern Land Council or by an arbitrator, without it being subjected to the processes required to develop a consensus, the Government and its partners in the ventures are likely to encounter situations in which individual Aborigines or groups of Aborigines who feel their rights are being infringed will, in all good conscience, act in conflict with the terms of that agreement Such situations can be productive of grievance, hostility, and, potentially, violence and will damage further the already eroded confidence of Aborigines and their friends among white Australians in the Government’s expressed concern for Aboriginal welfare and undertakings to protect their interests. [More…]
We will implement our policy of preventing the exploitation of Australian uranium while its use poses unsolved threats to the environment, human health and welfare and to international security. [More…]
I know that the honourable member for Dawson is concerned for the welfare of the people in his area. [More…]
The appointee needs to be a sound administrator and possess the appropriate social welfare background. [More…]
If so, will a condition of these payments be that expenditure, employment, housing and other local government, community development, welfare and commercial activities so funded be under the control of the representatives chosen by the communities concerned at ballots where voting and the custody and counting of votes are supervised by scrutineers appointed by the local communities, assisted by appropriate legally aware persons chosen by them after full information as to voting and scrutineering statutes is given to his satisfaction. [More…]
Management, unions and government departments should use migrant self-help agencies and involve such ethnic welfare and community agencies in the development of safety and health initiatives on the job. [More…]
By a vote of 197 to 163 the conference also decided to repudiate its Premier Mr Hamer, the Deputy Premier, Mr Thompson, the Minister for Social Welfare, Mr Dixon, and call for the restoration of the death penalty. [More…]
The Government believes that, in order to make decisions about such matters as the Island’s revenue potential and the nature and level of social welfare benefits, it is necessary to have much more information on the economic strengths, weaknesses and potential of the Norfolk Island economy. [More…]
The Commission found that, because Queensland has a higher proportion of its population in the age group of 0 to 18 years than New South Wales and Victoria, it has need for a greater per capita expenditure on child welfare, for instance. [More…]
With regard to health, hospitals and welfare for public health, Queensland spends 41.1 per cent less per capita than the average of the six States. [More…]
On child welfare, Queensland spends 18.6 per cent less than the average of all the States. [More…]
In this total area of health, hospital and welfare, Queensland spends 21.5 per cent less than the average of the six States for such per capita expenditure. [More…]
It is a factor which should be borne in mind by the people of Queensland that they are getting a level of service in these very important areas of education, health and welfare which is far below that being provided by the other States, despite the fact that their own government is being funded by the Federal Government specifically with funds designed to enable the Queensland Government to provide services which are of the same standard, quality and range as those provided by the other States. [More…]
In Queensland there is clearly a desperate need to expand the services in the health, education and welfare area. [More…]
2326 (Hansard, 17 October 1978, page 1982), will he provide a detailed list of the welfare and amenities programs of both the Army and Air Force, which have been assisted by the $10m profit made by the Australian Services Canteens Organisation since 1959. [More…]
The following is a list of the Army and Air Force welfare and amenities programs which have been assisted by the disbursement of ASCO profits since 1959: [More…]
Particular regard is given to the welfare of the Australian fishing industry in the assessment of proposals for foreign access to the Australian Fishing Zone. [More…]
Professors S. B. Hammond and R. F. HendersonMacquarie University-The role of local authorities in the provision of welfare services’ (1971 $26,500). [More…]
Downing and Mr W. J. Byrt- University of Melbourne- ‘Use of manpower in social welfare services’. [More…]
The growing alienation of the young from the community, increases in vandalism, the increasing incidence of unemployment, related health problems and the associated pressures on health and welfare services must also be taken into account. [More…]
There is the tempting path of increasing activity levels through increased Government spending, but on closer examination that can be seen to be an irresponsible way which no Government concerned for the medium and the long term welfare of the community would follow. [More…]
We are genuinely concerned about the welfare of the people and will continue to be. [More…]
The Cocos (Keeling) Islands will obtain revenue from these operations, primarily from philatelic sales, and the revenue so derived will be retained on the islands for the welfare of the inhabitants. [More…]
These were two of the factors which prompted me to initiate the establishment of a committee of officials, under the chairmanship of Dr S. Sax, Chairman of the Social Welfare Policy Secretariat, from the Departments of Education, Health, Employment and Youth Affairs and Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
To name but a few the Government has introduced tax indexation, export incentives, family allowances, automatic indexation of pensions, abolition of estate and gift duties, lowering of Division 7 taxation on private companies, a major improvement in the facilities for migrants and improved social welfare services. [More…]
When we get an opportunity to correct the matter that he will consult those of us interested in the public welfare and in the Parliament. [More…]
Commonwealth expenditure on health and welfare has increased from $1.4 billion in 1967-68 to $10.2 billion in 1977-78. [More…]
In the current financial year, 1978-79, expenditure on health and welfare is expected to rise to $10.9 billion- almost $800 for every man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]
So this Government is meeting a very substantial commitment for the health and welfare of the Australian people and, in particular, for the aged population of Australia. [More…]
In a year of budgetary restraint- this year- the welfare budget rose by 7 per cent. [More…]
So, let that fact give the he to those honourable members who claim that this Government is responsible for substantial cutbacks in social security benefits and welfare expenditure generally [More…]
I repeat that in a year of budgetary restraint there has been an increase of 7 per cent in the total welfare budget. [More…]
I want now to comment on some of the remarks that have been made from time to time about so-called cutbacks by this Government in the provision of social security and welfare benefits. [More…]
They have the main meal of the day in a welfare centre. [More…]
He is about more unemployment; he is about imposing sacrifices on people; and he is about cutting back on important welfare programs and neglecting many areas of need. [More…]
It is obvious that welfare payments of this nature must be coupled to a means test of some order so that the people who really need the assistance in fact really get the assistance. [More…]
There has been talk about welfare, of people on low incomes, and of pensioners. [More…]
We can justify our actions in the welfare area even though we have had to try to constrain public expenditure where possible, and we have been able to strike a healthy balance between meeting the needs of the people and, at the same time, trying to stabilise the economy after the chaotic period when Labor was in office from 1972 to 1975. [More…]
We should put our principles, we should put the welfare of the people in our region ahead of the demands of corporate trade. [More…]
I have sought to highlight that the welfare of Australia as a whole and Australia’s capacity to care for the social and welfare needs of her people increasingly will depend on the economic prosperity of northern Australia. [More…]
Therefore in matters which concern wages policy, social welfare policy, government legislation arrangements, industrial policy and general policy, members of the Ministry take decisions as part of a team without the Prime Minister’s presence. [More…]
In fact, we are seeing a pronounced deterioration in the relative strength of the United States and its allies visavis the Soviet Union and its allies, a pronounced deterioration in the capacity of the Western alliance to present a united face, and a deterioration in the capacity of the Third World to feel that in the West it has a group of states which are reliable, can be depended upon to make decisions and have the courage to carry them out for the welfare of mankind. [More…]
But what is the good of magnificent hospitals, schools, universities and welfare programs if we are at war and have nothing with which to fight that war? [More…]
In recent years the greatest pressure has been for increased expenditure in the areas of health, welfare and education, for example. [More…]
The question of promotion of dairy products is one which must be pursued vigorously by the Australian Dairy Corporation and by anybody who has any interest in the welfare of dairy farmers in Australia. [More…]
I notice that in the Oxford English Dictionary the definition of altruism is ‘devotion to the welfare of others; regard for others, as a principle of action; opposed to egoism or selfishness’. [More…]
We have the responsibility for exports and an overriding responsibility for the social welfare of Australia. [More…]
Some corporations might very well find that an enormous project involving millions of dollars and the welfare and livelihood of thousands of Australians could be placed in jeopardy because if a breach of section 82KH or section 82KJ of the Act were discovered the entire tax deductibility would disappear. [More…]
The problem is not the rate of tax but the growing expenditure on health, welfare and education with which the Government and the country are faced today. [More…]
In 1967-68, ten years ago, this Government had a total commitment to health, education and social security and welfare of $ 1,571m. [More…]
So, the rate of taxation is not keeping pace with the amount of expenditure in these welfare areas. [More…]
In 1967-68 the expenditure on those three items of health, education and welfare represented 72 per cent of personal income tax collections. [More…]
On reading through the report of the Australian Taxation Office and associating it with social security payments and other such expenditures, I found that in 1978-79, of every dollar that the Commonwealth collects in excise, indirect taxation and other sources of revenue, 42c will be spent on health and welfare and 23c will go to the States and local government. [More…]
I invite honourable members who complain about the insufficiency of welfare commitments compared with commitments to other government initiatives to look at the fact that if we do not have a healthy economy, if we do not have incentives for taxpayers to get out and earn money productively, we will have no support for the standard of living which we currently enjoycertainly we will have no income from which to make welfare payments to enable recipients of welfare benefits to continue to enjoy that standard of living. [More…]
It was a rather muted statement but he did say that the Public Service of Canberra is important to the welfare of Australia. [More…]
Accordingly, I arranged for a professional welfare person from an outside organisation to approach this centre to request a breakdown of the reasons why women visit the centre. [More…]
Perhaps the most substantial of these amendments concern the welfare and custody of children. [More…]
The Bill will extend the range of circumstances in which a court can order the parties to confer with a counsellor, or can order a counsellor to report to it, on the welfare of children of the marriage. [More…]
These powers will become available to the court in any proceedings in which the welfare of children of a marriage is affected. [More…]
All parties should be concerned about the future health and welfare of our people. [More…]
But as soon as this Government came in it decided that of that $18m, $1 1.1m in the 1975-76 Budget was too much for the general welfare of the community of Australia. [More…]
In July of that year he had established the Task Force on Coordination in Welfare and Health. [More…]
If not, can we forecast possible future problems for the health and welfare of the Australian people? [More…]
We also want to ensure that proper provision is made for the welfare and interests of Aboriginal people in the Alligator Rivers Region and of all other people living in the region and working on the development projects. [More…]
This imposes on the Government a responsibility to ensure, so far as it can, that passports are not issued to persons likely to threaten the national security and public order of another country or the rights and welfare of its citizens. [More…]
In brief, these are, with certain exceptions, persons who are not married and who have not reached the age of 18 years, unless the consent of persons having custodial rights has been obtained; persons in respect of whom the authorised officer has reason to believe that there is in force a warrant for arrest issued in Australia; persons whom the authorised officer has reason to believe are required to remain in Australia under a court order, or under a condition of parole or of recognisance, surety or bail bond; persons who owe money to the Commonwealth as a result of circumstances arising from previous overseas travel; persons whom the authorised officer believes already to be in possession or control of an Australian passport in force- unless there are special reasons- and persons in respect of whom the Minister has decided that issue of a passport would threaten security or welfare in another country. [More…]
In conclusion, I wish to assure honourable members that substantial effort has been expended to produce a Bill which provides just and equitable treatment for Australians wishing to travel overseas; which provides the maximum protection for the welfare and convenience of those travellers; which nevertheless pays due regard to our responsibilities toward those countries to which they travel, and which brings passport legislation into line with the modern and liberal philosophies of this Government. [More…]
In common with, I suppose, other honourable members, I rose to take part in the debate in order to give servicemen an assurance that this House and the Parliament are concerned about their welfare. [More…]
I am sure that everyone in the House has listened very carefully to, and is in agreement with, the sentiments expressed by my friend the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) and others about the concern of honourable members on both sides of this House for the welfare and well-being of ex-servicemen. [More…]
As a community we have an obligation to look after, wherever it can be done and needs to be done, the welfare of exservicemen and of their families. [More…]
What a ruthless, callous, abandonment of interest and responsibility for the health and welfare of urban dwellers! [More…]
Government programs in the health, education and welfare fields are actively seeking to assist these persons. [More…]
Surplus capital funds remaining after responsibility has been transferred will be distributed to the Army and Air Force central welfare funds in suitable proportions. [More…]
In particular I would like to mention the current Chairman of the Board, Mr G. J. Betts, whose advice and experience have been of much assistance to me in arriving at the present result, I would also like to pay tribute to ASCO which has been the source of over $10m for Army and Air Force welfare programs since it began trading in 1959. [More…]
We must look to co-operation with the States to ensure the proper use of federal money given to the States for the welfare of the Aborigines. [More…]
Thus we have a series of changes to the PJT, tax laws, controls on mineral exports, protection, social welfare measures and so on. [More…]
One of the most significant amendments being made by this Bill is the amendment to section 62 of the Act, which deals with conferences and reports by counsellors and welfare officers. [More…]
This provision will be amended so that a conference can be ordered with counsellors or the court can order a report on the welfare of children to the marriage. [More…]
The court can make these orders whenever the welfare of the children to the marriage is affected. [More…]
In my view, it is extremely difficult to get away from that feeling of involvement with both parties, particularly where the welfare of a child is concerned. [More…]
Quite obviously, the welfare of the child is the most important issue. [More…]
I am pleased that in most of the decisions that have been brought to my attention the judges who have been appointed to this jurisdiction have shown a great degree of objectivity in deciding what is to be done for the welfare of the child. [More…]
Unfortunately, departmental officers are acting under the direct instructions of Government ministers who have made it quite clear that they expect the toughest possible interpretation to be placed on every set of regulations and welfare provisions. [More…]
I appreciate the particular concern of the honourable member for Franklin and his deep interest in the welfare of the people living in those areas. [More…]
Let me return to the claim that it is the responsibility of members of this Parliament to spend the nation’s revenue for the welfare of the nation. [More…]
At what stage will he consider that there is a danger to the welfare of the nation? [More…]
I claim that with 60,000 abortions a year there is already a danger to the welfare of the nation, and the taxpayer who believes that this is so should not be forced to pay for a practice that is destroying the welfare of our nation. [More…]
Indeed, the principle that in the health and welfare area those who can afford to pay should do so, and that public funds should be reserved for those in need, and only those in need, I submit is a valid one. [More…]
I hope that this Parliament will look at the matter from a moral point of view and from the point of view of the welfare of the Australian community and the moral standing and future of this nation. [More…]
There is a role of the law to influence opinion on matters of right and wrong, matters that affect the welfare of the community. [More…]
My Department is currently assessing applications for further grants for social welfare workers for fiscal year 1978- 79 and others for commencement in fiscal year 1979- 80. [More…]
We had the Social Welfare Commission’s report of about 1975 and a year or so later this Government appointed a task force to comment on that. [More…]
I resent very much the accusations that are often thrown by the Opposition at members of my party, in particular that we lack appreciation of the needs and welfare of the working people in country electorates. [More…]
It is one of the absurdities of our society that representatives of an industry which is exposing its workers and the community to the risks of asbestos-caused diseases are advising governments on issues of public health and welfare. [More…]
The Committee, under the chairmanship of Dr Sidney Sax, Chairman of the Social Welfare Policy Secretariat, included representatives from my Department and from the departments of Education, Employment and Youth Affairs, Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and from the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
There is a range of justifiable reasons for abortions- matters like the physical and mental health of the person involved and their social welfare, which is not unimportant. [More…]
The contrary argument, expressed by the honourable member for Hume (Mr Lusher), which I support, is that a pregnant woman in fact must consider not only her welfare but also that of the child to be. [More…]
Because the motion and many of the amendments fail to take account of the long term physical and mental welfare of the potential mother I can support only the Baume and Simon amendments and nothing else. [More…]
No one will be disadvantaged because the welfare system- in this case the public hospital system- guarantees that no one will be disadvantaged. [More…]
The only contribution to abortion this Parliament will be authorising will be through the welfare system where the legality and administration is a State and not a Commonwealth responsibility, and is therefore beyond the control of this Parliament, or where there is a legitimate medical necessity through the medical benefits system. [More…]
It should be distributed for the welfare of the whole community through general wage adjustments, by lower prices or improved standards of service. [More…]
The FACS program, established in April 1977, is administered by the Department of Community Welfare Services in Victoria. [More…]
If they do not, then I have to say that, despite the requirements laid down under conventions for us to check on their welfare from time to time, the blunt reality is that they must bear the consequences of their own behaviour. [More…]
The understanding of the productivity and maintenance … of ecosystems will enable them to be manipulated scientifically for the welfare of mankind. [More…]
He has acted as a volunteer house father for the Elizabeth Family Home which cares for disturbed children and is organised by the State Department of Community Welfare. [More…]
He acts as a handyman in a handyman’s scheme run by volunteers through the Department of Community Welfare. [More…]
In this financial year $750,000 has been allocated to the States for the family planning associations within the States, including the Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission for educational programs. [More…]
It accords also with the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare. [More…]
It did not introduce family allowances as a welfare program. [More…]
The greatest contribution that any government can make to the welfare of the average Australian at present in the economic area is to create a more stable, more predictable and less inflationary economic climate. [More…]
Essentially in a debate about the welfare of the average Australian and comparative economic policies, we have to compare fundamentals. [More…]
Unemployment is not simply a welfare matter that is irrelevant to the whole question of productivity and the question of getting the economy moving; it is integrally related to the problems of Budget deficits. [More…]
This Government has been a recessive government which has driven the country into a recession which is having massive welfare consequences. [More…]
One can look at what has happened in terms of national housing policy and the attempt to eliminate welfare housing. [More…]
One can look at the kinds of cutbacks that have occurred in almost every public sector activity that affects the welfare of average people. [More…]
This imposes on the Government a responsibility to ensure that, as far as possible, passports are not issued to persons who are likely to threaten the national security and public order of another country, or the rights and welfare of its citizens. [More…]
The new provisions of the Bill seek to deter the activities of people who may prejudice the security and welfare of other countries. [More…]
It is a reflection upon the Government’s lack of concern for human welfare in its over-riding attempt to make cut-backs in expenditure. [More…]
It is less relevant today because of the increased scope of government expenditure which is directed at assisting individuals or organisations; for example, health, education, social security and welfare programs. [More…]
He should have talked about the welfare of Victorian people rather than the Victorian elections. [More…]
One of the better services provided by the Parramatta City Council- a similar situation applies in almost every other local government area- is a mealsonwheels setup which is of course organised through the old people’s welfare establishments. [More…]
In the last 12 months the Council has been continuing to exchange correspondence with the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle), protesting about the fact that the subsidy which has traditionally been paid by the Commonwealth Government towards the salary of the welfare officers has been reduced from twothirds to one half, which seems to me to be a fairly penny-pinching sort of operation, anyhow. [More…]
I would think that there would be a reasonable argument that could be made out to try to coerce the Minister for Health to do something about his sister department, the Department of Social Security, seeing whether some good sense could be brought to bear to ensure that subsidies- as low as they were before with two-thirds of the salary of welfare officers being found by the Government- were restored to a reasonable level and also with a view to seeing that the 50c a day pittance paid to Meals on Wheels was increased to a figure more in line with the actual cost. [More…]
The provisions concerning the safety, health and welfare of employees in the asbestos industry are covered by State legislation. [More…]
Those States are responsible for a balance of payments and an export market which provide for the welfare and health requirements of southern Australia. [More…]
Every other citizen is entitled to an age pension, to a family allowance, to unemployment benefit and to the full range of Australian social welfare benefits; but that is not the case for those Australian citizens who are unfortunate enough to live on Norfolk Island. [More…]
The merest concession to the islanders’ welfare has been made by the Government. [More…]
If the Government has the welfare of the people of Norfolk Island in mind, it will accept the Opposition’s amendment. [More…]
It is argued that social welfare benefits should be available to the islanders. [More…]
This raises the very vexed question of the extension of welfare provisions to the island and the concomitant extension of taxation laws. [More…]
In our view, this can be done only if we extend the Australian welfare system to the island. [More…]
Once the fairly elaborate welfare system which exists in Australia is extended to Norfolk Island, then the unavoidable consequence is that we must also extend to the island the taxation laws which apply on the Australian mainland. [More…]
Again we have a situation on Christmas Island where there are no welfare provisions for residents, except a very unsatisfactory ad hoc arrangement. [More…]
Again, we find that the Government baulks at the question of the extension of taxation and welfare provisions to Norfolk Island, still leaving it with a no-man’s land relationship with Australia. [More…]
But there are on the island a group of people who have not accrued those rights in some other country and it is proper that this Parliament and the Government here in Canberra should be concerned about the welfare and the security of those people. [More…]
from the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare. [More…]
For instance, if we take the question of welfare, which the Minister seems to believe is an area which can develop over a number of years, it seems to me that the welfare of the people of Norfolk Island at this time is of major concern to the people of Australia. [More…]
That is another area in which I think we have to assert that Australia as a whole must insist that at least a minimum standard of welfare should apply on Norfolk Island. [More…]
A similar situation exists in relation to the police, corporate affairs, prices and rent control, industrial safety, mining and minerals, public and private land, environmental protection, child, family and social welfare. [More…]
But when the social welfare system is being worked out no doubt the question of those who might temporarily be in need because of unemployment will be considered in the context of that sort of system. [More…]
His creed was based on two fundamental principles: The Catholic Church tended one’s spiritual welfare; the Australian Labor Party protected one’s temporal welfare. [More…]
2 IBM 370/168 computers- Details of medical insurance claims, financial data, statistical data, bibliographical data and personal data pertaining to welfare systems. [More…]
Since the tabling of the Report there have been many important changes in health and welfare benefits available to the Australian community. [More…]
2, 1978, that the Social Development Branch of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs has consistently refused to provide residual welfare services on reserves as distinct from services at Darwin, Katherine, Gove, Alangula, Tennant Creek or Alice Springs; if so, is there any substance in the allegation. [More…]
The Phoenix Welfare Association Limited- R. A. Bender, W. T. Schacht, R. Stobbs, R. Pettigrew, J. [More…]
After all in our capitalist society- it is a system which has proved quite conclusively when one looks around the world that it is the best system for all people- it is tremendously important to keep money within the system so that the producers and the service industries, the productive people, can have that money for investment so that the welfare of our people can always be on the increase. [More…]
As I said, those enterprises after all ensure the welfare not only of the people in the work force but also of the underprivileged and of all those other people who are referred to in the amendment moved by the honourable member for Gellibrand. [More…]
In the light of the results of the elections held in 1975 and 1977 I wonder whether the Australian people want ever-increasing handouts or socalled middle class welfare? [More…]
Or should we not be looking more to a sensible welfare policy that looks after disadvantaged people or, as referred to in the amendment, the underprivileged; so that we tax the rich to look after those people but not to look after themselves? [More…]
In two areas- health and welfare- the cost to this nation approaches $ 1 1 billion. [More…]
In other words, about 85 per cent of all personal income tax collected in Australia is spent on health and welfare. [More…]
It will not be possible to initiate welfare initiatives such as family allowances to a satisfactory level and it will not be possible to index such benefits regularly in order to preserve the real value of those benefits. [More…]
This anomalous situation occurs when selectivity based on need is ignored as the basis of disbursing welfare funds. [More…]
So we have a situation where I consider it quite necessary, if we are to preserve equity and indulge in responsible budgetary management at the same time, for welfare payment to be more closely associated with a needs basis than is presently the case. [More…]
It is possible to tackle the big items of health, education and welfare in a way that will not do anything to disadvantage the needy but in fact will improve their position- by placing means tests on benefits paid to those who are not needy. [More…]
It exiles a significant minority from the benefits of prosperity though they are placated by welfare. [More…]
For example, the honourable member for Moore talked about the need for the Government to concentrate its welfare spending in relation to the very poor. [More…]
They are critical areas in terms of welfare priorities. [More…]
There has been too much glib talk about what has been described as the escalation of allocations to the social welfare budget. [More…]
I have been interested to observe the way in which a large number of countries in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development have tended in recent years to move in a similar direction in their social welfare policies. [More…]
We have to be very careful when we transfer hidden or disguised social welfare payments that are delivered through a reduction of tax liability that would have been payable but for the concession to a particular category of person. [More…]
It has become quite clear that it is very difficult to compare the position of one country with another in terms of percentages of public expenditure as against the gross domestic product when one country pays social welfare benefits not only to the needy in the sense that they are poor, but to the needy in the sense that they have dependent children whatever their level of income. [More…]
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development is finding that it is terribly difficult to compare the position of one country this year with its situation last year because countries are changing the proportions of their social welfare packages which they deliver by way of explicit payment as compared with those that they provide through a tax rebate or tax concession. [More…]
Because there is not an adequate realisation that one can achieve the same social welfare goals through these alternative means, we sometimes find that governments through their income tax system pursue policies which are contradictory to those that are pursued through their social welfare system. [More…]
I suspect that one of the grave problems that confronts many families in Australia is that that very paradox exists in Australia today where, through the social welfare system, we are seeking to do one thing and we are undermining the attainment of the goals we are trying to achieve by the sort of tax system that we are operating. [More…]
Therefore, I presume that when the honourable member for Perth said tonight that he agreed with welfare payments being made to people who were poor, who were in need, then he takes a very narrow definition of need. [More…]
Is it not better to expose the whole social welfare program so far as children are concerned by paying cash benefits. [More…]
The point I want to make is that we have a confused debate about the quantum of resources being spent on welfare. [More…]
) is of the opinion ( a ) that the membership of the Committee is too closely involved with the Capital market to provide a completely detached analysis of its imperfections and (b) that the terms of reference of the Committee (i) are couched in a way to justify claims of political overtones and (ii) give insufficient attention to the social welfare implications of the financial system, particularly its impact on the housing market. [More…]
b) is of the opinion (i) that the membership of the Committee is too closely involved with the capital market to provide a completely detached analysis of its imperfections and (ii) that the terms of reference of the Committee (A) are couched in a way to justify claims of political overtones and (B) give insufficient attention to the social welfare implications of the financial system, particularly its impact on the housing market. [More…]
Not only are social welfare and equity considerations completely absent, but also no mention is made of the use of the capital market for the purpose of government policy, especially monetary and balance of payments measures. [More…]
In considering regulations of the market, the committee may overlook the important role of regulation in achieving both social welfare goals and the objectives of government measures, particularly those dealing with monetary and balance of payments policies, as I mentioned earlier. [More…]
That is the question I raise in this debate, particularly as social welfare and equity considerations have not been explicitly referred to in the terms of reference. [More…]
The second part of the motion moved this morning deals with social welfare implications and housing. [More…]
I think it demonstrates that the proposer of the motion misunderstands the question when he brings forward social welfare aspects of a capital market inquiry. [More…]
As I see it, social welfare aspects and housing are political questions which must be determined by the political parties and by the Government of the day. [More…]
Another major criticism which the Opposition has regarding this committee of inquiry relates to the insufficient attention which is given in the terms of reference to the social welfare implications of the financial system. [More…]
Perhaps the only section of the terms of reference relating to social welfare can be found in paragraph (d) which recommends that the committee investigate: [More…]
The terms of reference should clearly state that the committee of inquiry must give special attention to the effect of any changes in the Australian financial system on disadvantaged community groups and the functioning of social welfare policies. [More…]
Nor should I have to spell out again that a referendum in 1967 overwhelmingly gave the Commonwealth the responsibility of ensuring the welfare and rights of Aboriginal Australians by giving it power to make laws concerning those rights- a responsibility which this Governnent continues to evade, with the excuse that the States also retain such legislative powers. [More…]
This is an important question and essentially I am one in this Parliament who, on matters relating to Aboriginals, seeks to develop to the broadest possible extent the consensus that I believe is possible in matters relating to the welfare and advancement of our Aboriginal people. [More…]
This legislation is directed at those unscrupulous operators and not at their victims who are being actively assisted by government programs in health, education and welfare. [More…]
-I suggest first of all that the honourable member for Bendigo (Mr Bourchier) read the report on drugs by the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare in which it recommended the decriminalisation of marihuana. [More…]
Government programs in the health, education and welfare fields are actively seeking to assist these persons. [More…]
As a member with an electorate that depends so much on the wool industry for its economic health and welfare, I have some satisfaction in knowing that this Government is introducing machinery amendments to carry on the worthwhile and nationally accepted floor price scheme introduced by the Labor Government. [More…]
Because of that it contributes greatly to the progress and economic welfare of country towns and the people who reside in them. [More…]
There are not too many people in Australia who are unduly concerned about the difficulties faced by the people who live in these areas and who contribute so much through the wool industry and other primary industries to the welfare of Australian people. [More…]
For example, it had considerable exposure to the education system, to other churches, to the American political system, to the media generally, to the social welfare organisations, to the legal system generally and to lawyers, and somehow it never failed the test. [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that many religious, service, welfare and country-based organisations are unable to continue publication and distribution of essential literature as a result of postal increases effective at the beginning of 1 979. [More…]
greater emphasis on special procedures to identify claimants and to detect abuse; personal interviews of new claimants of unemployment benefit; additional staff and counter facilities in response to increases in workload; upgrading of managerial resources and the granting of wider discretionary powers to local managers; advance payment of the initial benefit cheque in cases of hardship to avoid recourse to welfare agencies; and greater readiness to issue counter cheques to persons in need. [More…]
I am serious when I say that because, down through the years, most of the significant reforms in the social welfare area have been initiatives taken on this side of the House by Liberal and National Country Party governments. [More…]
It is a carefully regulated and controlled development, having full regard to the protection of the environment and of the welfare of the Aboriginals. [More…]
He said that all Territory residents eventually would have sufficient income to live without work or welfare if they so chose. [More…]
These include the closure of store and health facilities for Aborigines, a refusal to employ Aborigines on station work, a refusal to sell them petrol or to cash welfare cheques, threats to close roads to Aborigines and to drive them from the station. [More…]
In addition to the categories I have already mentioned, from 1 July 1979 the following groups will also be eligible to apply for the free issue of the National Flag: Community service groups including ex-service, Apex, Lions, Rotary, senior citizens’ and the Country Women’s Association; benevolent and welfare organisations including Red Cross and Legacy; homes for handicapped persons. [More…]
In general, the Bill ensures that the Wheat Board, and through it the wheat industry, sustains no extra costs through undertaking alternative financing arrangements for the 1978-79 season’s crop and so contributing to the economic welfare of the nation as a whole. [More…]
The fact that the Australian community is now barely reproducing itself must recommend an effective immigration policy and program to all persons who genuinely have the future welfare of this nation in mind. [More…]
Quite frankly, as one who has taken a great deal of interest in Aboriginal welfare, I believe that it is quite proper for money received from that source- namely, royalties- to be taxed. [More…]
It is to apply to Aboriginal organisations, nonprofit welfare organisations. [More…]
It is taxing welfare organisations that have miserable income far less than is needed for Aboriginal welfare in the Northern Territory. [More…]
We have now uncovered where the honourable member for Dundas stands in relation to the welfare of Aboriginal families in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Bauxite was discovered on their property and, without much regard at all for their welfare, agreements were made with a mining company to mine it. [More…]
This Government believes in encouraging people in the community to try to help those less fortunate than themselves rather than leave all welfare on the shoulders of big brother government. [More…]
A reduced level of economic growth in turn makes it more difficult for the community as a whole, generally working through the Government, to provide those welfare, education, health, and other services that modern communities seem increasingly to demand. [More…]
I am very worried as to whether our welfare organisations are capable of handling the situation that we face. [More…]
Both the church community and the welfare authorities in my area have said that there seems to be some misunderstanding as to who is responsible for action in this field. [More…]
As long as this malaise occurs I believe that those who work in the welfare field will be at a disadvantage. [More…]
Therefore, I would recommend to the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle), the Government and the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) that upon the agenda of the forthcoming Premiers Conference there shall be placed without fail, at my request and that of this Parliament, an item requiring that a decision be taken as to who is in fact responsible for the support and funding of family welfare organisations in the States. [More…]
Until this is done some people will say that the responsibility to support family welfare lies with the Federal Government. [More…]
The following ‘Job Description’ for community advisers located on pastoral properties was drawn up when the scheme was originally established in1969 by the Welfare Division of the Northern Territory Administration, and would have been given to Mrs Tapp on her appointment: [More…]
school welfare associations in which both groups can participate equally. [More…]
No, oversight and assessment has been carried out during periodical visits to Killarney Station by officers of the Welfare Division and latterly the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
My Department is negotiating with the NT Government on alternative arrangements to meet the welfare needs of people living on pastoral properties. [More…]
I think the record of this Government over the past three and a half years in paying regard to the welfare of Australian families in its Budget decision-making and in looking to the interests of Australian families compares very favourably with the record of any government since Federation. [More…]
It is expected in a civilised society that he or she must be taken care of by some form of payment or social welfare benefit. [More…]
Discussion with any of the non-government welfare agencies confirms that it is single parents supporting children who are most deeply in poverty in Australia at present. [More…]
Shortly after arrival, the daughter was brought to my Department to speak to some social welfare workers in the Department in relation to continued entry in Australia. [More…]
This Parliament is not the Santa Claus as far as the welfare and health systems of Australia are concerned. [More…]
So there is a very close relationship between taxation on the one hand and welfare on the other hand. [More…]
In the last few years the Government has been put into a straight jacket situation due to the welfare schemes put forward by the Labor Government at a time when the expectations of the people to receive more were very readily grasped. [More…]
The Public Service was not going to be slashed, Medibank was to be maintained and essential health, social welfare and education programs were to be preserved. [More…]
My electorate is an electorate of young people and unfortunately it is now becoming a welfare electorate. [More…]
The debate is catalysed by irregular but frequent changes to health financing arrangements by the Commonwealth Government of the time, sometimes for reasons of community health and welfare and sometimes to help balance the books. [More…]
We have been in constant discussion with the Australian- Jewish welfare societies and the Federal Catholic Immigration Committee. [More…]
The Government of this country almost went bankrupt in the process of trying to find money from people to pay for some of its expensive social welfare and health policies. [More…]
The Labor Government raised health and welfare payments to such levels that some people in the community began to believe that it was their God given right to receive a benefit from the government. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party’s philosophy is expressed in its health and social welfare policy. [More…]
The Government makes no apology whatsoever for its changes to the health insurance system or for its ideological approach to health and welfare which, as I said earlier, is vastly different from the approach of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
The Liberal-National Country Party Government’s fundamental social welfare philosophy rests on its commitment to channel scarce resources- they are scarce enough; they are taken from the people’s pockets- into the areas of need. [More…]
We are all concerned for the welfare of the pensioners and to ensure that they get health services that perhaps they may not be able to pay for. [More…]
I suggest to the Opposition that ensuring the welfare of the needy is a worthwhile and a just objective. [More…]
Social welfare and economic policy are two subjects which are too often discussed in isolation from each other. [More…]
Australia’s social and economic objectives- rising living standards and adequate provision of proper welfare services for the disadvantaged and the poor- together with the acceptance of our responsibilities on the world scene, in terms of aid to developing countries and fair trade in their products, and in respect of defence- we have to pull our weight in these matters and not just look to our friends for help- require a sound economy with inflation under control. [More…]
The recently publicised proposal of the Government’s health and welfare committee is one such possibility. [More…]
Health and welfare payments alone account for almost 40c in every dollar of Federal spending. [More…]
There is a growing realisation in our community that if spending on health, welfare and other areas continues to grow at recent rates the nation will be crippled economically. [More…]
Personal income tax receipts are decreasing whereas social welfare payments, which this Government, unlike the previous one, has indexed, are increasing. [More…]
We are told that welfare expenditure is creating a community in which people are waiting for handouts, and that too is rubbish. [More…]
This provision enables Commonwealth medical benefits payments under the Health Insurance Act 1973 to be paid out of the National Welfare Fund, as are similar type commonwealth benefits, such as pharmaceutical benefits, and covers unforeseen circumstances such as large-scale epidemics. [More…]
How does he equate the reduction in staff to carry out research into the housing industry with his and the Government ‘s professed concern for the welfare of the industry. [More…]
In addition, within the welfare society, we needed to establish the circumstances, particularly in relation to health, in which people would do for themselves what they could properly do for themselves, pay what they could be expected to pay for themselves and be protected by government only when the situation was likely to get beyond an individual’s or a family’s resources. [More…]
In general, the Bill ensures that the Wheat Board and, through it, the wheat industry, sustain no extra costs through undertaking alternative financing arrangements for the 1978-79 crop and so contributing to the economic welfare of the nation as a whole. [More…]
At the same time as this Government has given massive handouts to companies in the form of industry assistance totalling around $5,000m, it has reduced savagely social welfare spending in the last three Budgets. [More…]
It is prepared to cut back ruthlessly on social welfare spending such as health, education, housing and protection of the environment, to make room for greater handouts to the corporate sector. [More…]
We saw the cutting back even further of social welfare spending. [More…]
The approvals have been the subject of joint press releases by the Minister for Social Security and the former Victorian Minister for Community Welfare Services, the Hon. [More…]
It appears that this Government has discovered a new and brilliant mathematical formula for drawing up its social welfare and manpower programs. [More…]
If individuals have access to appropriate training facilities thereby acquiring social and industrial skills, not only is the welfare of the individual greatly enhanced but also when the economic upswing is underway there is room for a smooth expansion of demand and output without the inflationary cost pressures caused by skill bottlenecks. [More…]
I referred to the recently publicised proposals of the Government’s health and welfare committee as one such possibility. [More…]
In my view, this philosophy could and should be extended to the welfare area. [More…]
Unlike the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman), whose recent criticism of me seems to indicate that he favours more income support for the wealthy, I regard the needs approach to welfare as being equitable and compassionate, for three main reasons: Firstly, it permits greater budgetary flexibility, thereby enabling governments to respond more quickly and more generously to newly emerging areas of poverty. [More…]
Secondly, it permits a greater concentration of welfare resources on the needy and may allow those resources or benefits to be paid at a higher level and also to be protected from inflation, which often cannot be done with universally paid benefits because it is too costly. [More…]
When I refer to the need for having another look at our method of welfare resource distribution, I acknowledge that we are looking at a complex problem with no straightforward solution. [More…]
The committee specifically points to health and welfare benefits. [More…]
We can see that this particular committee, of which the honourable member for Perth is a member, is not interested in maintaining the indexation of welfare benefits, or else it is not interested in maintaining the indexation of personal taxation. [More…]
It was popular once to pour money into education firmly in the belief that money would solve all problems but I think that we have found in this area and in a number of other areas such as welfare and health- in fact, just about any field we have had anything to do with recentlythat money is not the answer. [More…]
Rather than income support for people on welfare, they tend to provide programs like the food stamp program where literally billions of dollars of aid per year are transferred to the individual in terms of that kind of benefit. [More…]
I do not believe that education is a matter of a welfare benefit. [More…]
In the last two or three years I have seen a continuing attack upon this whole attitude, and in listening to my colleagues opposite I find a continual denunciation of education expenditure and welfare expenditure. [More…]
It was known as the NOW Centre-the North- West One-Stop Welfare Centre. [More…]
It was established within the city of Coburg and was designed to bring together the full range of welfare services- the services of the Federal Department of Social Security, the services of the State Department of Social Welfare and the services provided by some of the voluntary agencies in that area. [More…]
One of the most difficult problems for people receiving various forms of welfare is that they are shunted from one to another among a whole variety of officers who deal with various types of allowances or various aspects of what very often is part of a human problem which ought to be dealt with as a whole and not separately. [More…]
My proposition is simply that the Government should consider the establishment in the city of Northcote of a Commonwealth Government centre which brings together the Commonwealth Employment Service and the Department of Social Security, possibly in some type of working relationship with welfare services provided by the Northcote Municipal Council and some of the voluntary agencies which exist in that city. [More…]
This has been compounded by the fact that under the Labor Government’s program not only were funds provided via the Grants Commission but also funds were provided directly to local government for specific projects, such as employment generating initiatives, welfare assistance programs and so on. [More…]
As a consequence, those municipalities which have the greatest need for welfare services, child care services and employment projects have been affected, in Western Australia at least, in two ways. [More…]
The honourable gentleman has displayed a consistent concern about the welfare of those people since he has been a member of this House. [More…]
In 1979, three years after the Horton committee reported, and after some months of letter writing, the Minister of Community Welfare in South Australia received the following incredible epistle from the Minister for Home Affairs. [More…]
This would cover such areas as welfare, culture and sporting grants, civil works programs and growth of the Public Service to include the defence services. [More…]
When one looks at the system of welfare payments in this country one might well ask whether that publication should not have been entitled ‘Australian Taxpayers Ripped Off. [More…]
Commonwealth expenditure for health, welfare and education has risen from 25 per cent 10 years ago to nearly 50 per cent at present. [More…]
If the expenditure on health, welfare and education has doubled in the last 10 years, how much further can it go? [More…]
In raising this matter of public importance I call on the Government to take further measures to ensure that those most deserving in the community receive most of the welfare dollar and, conversely, those least deserving or not deserving receive less or nothing from the welfare dollar. [More…]
Inherent in this proposition is that the proportion of Commonwealth expenditures attributable to welfare must be contained and that a more equitable reallocation within the welfare appropriation be made. [More…]
Let me remind the House that 10 years ago every 10 workers supported 1% welfare recipients. [More…]
Now the same 10 workers support 2% welfare recipients. [More…]
Further, the average income earner in Australia is contributing nearly $2,000 a year to welfare services- $35 a week from the average income earner’s taxes. [More…]
They are, firstly, the whole area of welfare abuse and, secondly, the incidence of political strikes and disputes instigated by a small militant minority. [More…]
Why should other more needy people in the community be penalised when single parents are living in de facto relationships, often both being supported by the welfare dollar? [More…]
How does the family man earning $212 a week and paying $40 a week in tax react when he sees moving in next door four single people who, by pooling their welfare payments, live as well as he does and who do not pay any tax at all? [More…]
Why should not welfare abusers be tracked down with the same diligence as tax evaders? [More…]
The welfare dollar must be more effectively and efficiently administered. [More…]
The findings ofthe Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare, which indicate that the welfare system is out of hand and largely unaccounted for, must be considered very seriously indeed by this Government. [More…]
It is also looking for equity in the welfare system. [More…]
I believe that we must look seriously at the whole area of welfare to ensure that the taxpayer’s dollar is more efficiently and effectively and equitably used. [More…]
At the same time, we must acknowledge that there are some serious gaps in the delivery of welfare services. [More…]
There are many other examples where welfare payments, particularly allowances, have not been indexed to account for inflation and remain at the same figure as many years ago. [More…]
At the same time, from my own experience I know of many other instances where welfare dollars are being grossly wasted. [More…]
I am, however, calling on the Government to ensure that welfare payments are equitable and fair, that those in greatest need receive the greatest benefit. [More…]
I suggest that, if substantial savings are made within the welfare appropriations as a result of these and other suggestions, we should seriously consider redistributing those savings to welfare recipients in greater need rather than sending them back to the Consolidated Revenue Fund in the Treasury Department. [More…]
I am not castigating those people who receive welfare benefits. [More…]
I strongly support the proposition that abuse and wastage, whether it is in relation to welfare or any other government expenditure, must be restrained or eliminated, if that is at all possible, so that those who are in greatest need receive a more equitable share of the welfare dollar, or the taxation dollar as a whole. [More…]
Today we are not talking about ‘dole bashing’ as many of the newspapers in their editorials and members of the Opposition like to call any attempt to share more equitably and efficiently the resources available to welfare. [More…]
These two extremes should not prevent people from constructively criticising abuse and recommending changes to improve the efficiency, equity and cost benefit of the welfare dollar to see that it goes to those in the greatest need. [More…]
He is fed up because after he finishes his day’s work and goes down to the pub at night, he finds somebody who has a spurious welfare claim and has been at the pub all day. [More…]
So there is no simple answer to reducing the abuse of the welfare system. [More…]
This Government is too interested in chiselling the people in this country who are dependent on welfare. [More…]
Petrol is not a luxury; it is vital to the welfare of this country. [More…]
I saw one Press release from a major rural organisation saying that it is fair enough at this point to impose this levy for that gives the Government a good reason to be able to get stuck into the social welfare area in the Budget to be presented in a couple of months. [More…]
1 ) Is he able to say whether the United States of America Department of Health, Education and Welfare has launched a campaign to impress upon Medicare and Medicaid recipients the desirability of having a second opinion before surgery. [More…]
-The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: (1)1 understand that in September 1 978 the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare (DHEW) began an extensive campaign to promote the seeking of second opinions before surgery, particularly for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. [More…]
The agencies give support and material assistance in general welfare activities, hosting and friendship schemes and the movement of the refugees from the hostels to private accommodation. [More…]
It is also of considerable interest to the members of the Australian Capital Territory electorate to find social welfare and community interests high amongst their own priorities. [More…]
over and above what the Government itself appropriates for recreational, cultural and welfare disbursements in the ACT. [More…]
The present Minister for Finance was then saying to the Assembly that the Fraser Government intended to take control of domestic Australian Capital Territory revenues raised from poker machines and the TAB and these revenues would not be used to increase the level of welfare services enjoyed by the people of Canberra. [More…]
Many people in Canberra who are involved in welfare work are considerably disturbed at the possibility that this body should undertake projects which, for instance, had nothing whatsoever to do with welfare and which ignored the needy people in the community. [More…]
How were these funds, which were supposedly to provide for the people in need and the welfare agencies, to be used for cultural, artistic and sporting purposes other than directly through an indoor recreation centre? [More…]
On the other hand, if there is a creative, approach by both sides to these matters, we will see created, either with the Assembly’s approval or despite, a system of administering welfare and community development funds in this Territory with which I hope everybody will be very happy. [More…]
It is not to the credit of a government, a house of assembly or a legislative assembly to have welfare agencies knocking at the door and wanting funds for the needy. [More…]
I shall be doing so because there are organisations in Canberra that are in need of welfare funds. [More…]
Last week the honourable member for Calare (Mr MacKenzie) proposed for discussion a matter of public importance emphasising that the belief of Government members was that the welfare dollar, including the health dollar, should go to the needy. [More…]
These are consistent with our philosophy of concentrating welfare towards those in genuine need. [More…]
He will then learn about specialists who believe that the socially disadvantaged should be treated only in hospitals; of doctors who pry out the embarrassing details of poverty from those who seek to be treated as socially disadvantaged; and of the doctor who will recognise no one as socially disadvantaged unless he has some kind of social welfare certificate. [More…]
As for claims that I am not helping Federal-State relations, my concern is for the health and welfare of Queenslanders. [More…]
I refer the House to the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare. [More…]
In Australia, we have little idea of whether our health and welfare efforts are appropriate, effective, efficient, or equitable. [More…]
That is a judgment made by a majority of Government supporters about the Government’s health and social welfare programs. [More…]
In Australia, we have little idea of whether our health and welfare efforts are appropriate, effective, efficient, or equitable. [More…]
one sees in health and welfare in Australia a system out of control- [More…]
In order to achieve an efficient, effective national and equitable health and welfare system, it is necessary to conduct on going evaluation … the consequences of not evaluating are possible indiscriminate cuts in funds, indiscriminate handing out of funds, continuance of the present ad hoc decision making process, perpetuation of the present inadequacies in the health and welfare system, and a possible lack of alternative solutions to problems in health and welfare. [More…]
What has emerged is the decision to slash, cut and rend health and welfare policies. [More…]
The decision to slash, cut and rend our social welfare and our health policy schemes is what this legislation is all about. [More…]
I would have hoped that at the end of the 1960s we had succeeded in removing charity as the basis of health, welfare and social security in this country. [More…]
Clearly, any such moves cannot put at risk the proper concern for the safety and welfare of the patients. [More…]
The Government has now recognised the significant contribution made by the people concerned towards the welfare of younger patients with similar long term nursing care by extending the eligibility for the domiciliary care benefit for eligible patients over 16 years of age. [More…]
The availability through Government departments and other institutions for interpreters, social and welfare workers, other liaison officers and other assistance to be made available in the Croatian language and through Croatians and not in the so called Yugoslav language ‘; [More…]
-There has recently been both parliamentary and public comment on the principles of welfare disbursement. [More…]
I believe that it is possible to urge a needs approach to welfare, both in the interests of the needy and in the interests, of responsible budgetary management. [More…]
From the time I made my maiden speech in this place 1 have constantly said that we go about this objective in the wrong way- in a way which is against the best interests of the disadvantaged- by moving increasingly towards universal welfare. [More…]
This tendency towards universal welfare is rather new. [More…]
Firstly, the universal method of disbursing welfare funds leads to Budget inflexibility. [More…]
Secondly, selectivity permits a greater concentration of welfare resources on the needy and may allow those resources to be paid at a higher level and also to be protected from inflation, neither of which can be achieved with universally paid benefits because it is too costly. [More…]
Thirdly, needs based welfare would certainly mean that society could be permitted to lower taxation levels, thereby helping to create employment and further increase overall living standards. [More…]
I want to emphasise that we do not require a simple adjustment to welfare principles. [More…]
I also think it is quite interesting to note that those who speak out strongly against handouts, high government expenditure and high taxes are so often the same people who receive welfare assistance from the Government without being in the kinds of circumstances which make such assistance imperative. [More…]
In any formulation of a code of aims within our system I believe we must recognise that industrial capitalism has proved itself the most efficient means of increasing the wealth and hence potentially the welfare of our people. [More…]
I know that the honourable member for Murray is a member of the Government parties health and welfare committee and that he has a very keen interest in ensuring that this policy is maintained and strengthened. [More…]
But I make this plea to the Minister: If the Government wants an efficient and effective police force it should ensure that the provisions for the welfare of the members in respect of promotions, appeals and transfers, whether they are written into the Act or made by way of regulations, safeguard the rights of the members. [More…]
Social Welfare Commission (Repeal) Act, 1976 s. 8 [More…]
Child Welfare Ordinance, 1957 s. 14(2) (c), 14(3) [More…]
We do have an interest which is related to a need to maintain stability in the world and a common concern about humanitarian matters like the welfare of people and the wish to avoid war and turmoil as much as we can. [More…]
The Labor Party’s policy is that, having regard to the present unresolved economic, social, biological, genetic, environmental and technical problems associated with the mining of uranium and the development of nuclear power in particular, until Australian sovereignty, the needs of our environment, the economic welfare of our people and the rights and wellbeing of the Aboriginal people are understood we will not assist in any way the Government’s actions to carry out uranium mining in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Conference recognises that the provision of Australian uranium to the world nuclear fuel cycle creates problems relevant to Australian sovereignty, the environment, the economic welfare of our people, and the rights and well-being of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
The purpose of the survey was to gather information not previously available about amputees to assist maintenance and development of the health and welfare services provided to these amputees. [More…]
It is also influenced by the priorities which Aboriginals in different communities and regions attach to the provision of housing as compared with programs to meet other needs and by the extent to which State Governments through their housing authorites give priority to the housing needs of Aboriginals eligible for welfare housing. [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to a report on page 7 of the Australian of 8 May 1979 that the United States of America Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Mr Joseph Califano, has launched a national campaign against alcohol abuse with a counselling and referral service in his own department which has about one problem drinker for every 1 8 staff members. [More…]
Since coming to office this Government has certainly provided substantial assistance to those in need, including those seeking welfare housing. [More…]
We continue to provide substantial assistance for those in need of welfare housing. [More…]
In so doing, this would deprive the pensioners of Australia of increased benefits, because approximately 40 per cent of the money that is gathered from the fuel levy is expended on social welfare payments. [More…]
It is my opinion that the taxpayers of Australia are paying far too much personal income tax and for the honourable member for Blaxland to advocate higher taxation, lower pensions and lower social welfare payments is absolutely unacceptable. [More…]
It has also been able to make some very worthwhile improvements to the social security and welfare system. [More…]
It struck me as an anomaly, as I was listening to the Minister talking about the expansion of the Budget and the Social Welfare Policy Secretariat, that we have an increase in the Budget of 33 per cent. [More…]
That is a 33 per cent increase in the budget of the Social Welfare Policy Secretariat. [More…]
The Minister then went on to talk about allocations to national social welfare co-ordinating organisations such as the Australian Council of Social Service, the Australian Council for Rehabilitation of Disabled and the Australian Council on the Ageing. [More…]
Yet the amount of money going to the Social Welfare Policy Secretariat, a part of the Government’s bureaucracy, has been increased by 33 per cent at the same time. [More…]
I commend the changes, as far as they go, that have been announced tonight as far as the social welfare policies are concerned. [More…]
As pan of an on-going program of BAE research, to evaluate farmers’ attitudes and opinions on a range of farm adjustment welfare and motivation issues including the rural adjustment scheme. [More…]
l ) and (2) The following grants-in-aid to assist organisations in the Electoral Division of Sydney to employ social welfare workers have been granted on the dates stated; the total amount of funding for each organisation is also listed. [More…]
Since the inception of the scheme in 1 968 numerous inquiries have been made about the availability of funds for social welfare purposes and it is not possible to provide details of these inquiries. [More…]
There is only one formal application outstanding for a grant-in-aid- INCA Institute Nazionale Confederate di Assistenza (Welfare Institute for Italian Workers in Australia ) which at this stage has been neither accepted or rejected. [More…]
1 ) With reference to his statement made at the June 1978 Premiers ‘ Conference that the recycling of rental income and sale proceeds would make possible total expenditure on welfare housing in 1978-79 at least equivalent to that in 1977- 78, what was the total expenditure by welfare housing authorities (a) by State, (b) by Territory and (c) for Australia in (i) 1976-77 and (ii) 1977-78 for (A) construction, (B) repairs and maintenance, (C) loans, (D) land purchases, (E) repayments of interest and principal to the Commonwealth and (F) other purposes. [More…]
Not all the information concerning sources and uses of funds for welfare housing sought by the honourable member is available. [More…]
Also, as welfare housing arrangements in 1978- 79 were made under the 1978 Commonwealth State Housing Agreement, the figures for 1978-79 and for earlier years are in some cases not directly comparable, and, because of different accounting arrangements, estimates for the various States are not comparable in many cases. [More…]
However, the information which is available, and the fact that under the revised Housing Agreement increased surpluses may be generated from the operation of housing programs and utilised for welfare housing purposes, support the statements made following the June 1978 Premiers’ Conference. [More…]
It included interviews and questionnaires to (1 ) new settlers, (2) ethnic and welfare organisations, (3) key organisations in the field of health and medical welfare, (4) key individuals in migrant welfare. [More…]
However, I am informed that the Victorian Department of Community Welfare Services, through which Commonwealth Community Health Program funds are channelled, has advised the solicitors administering the deceased estate of the terms of the Commonwealth’s approval for funding of this refuge under the Community Health Program. [More…]
In the last financial year 86c out of every $1 collected by means of personal income tax from the Australian people was spent to meet the cost of health and social welfare at the Commonwealth level. [More…]
Secondly, they have said that the Government should spend more money on health, welfare, education or other things. [More…]
An amount of $550,000 is to be allocated for welfare purposes, $200,000 for general community purposes and $350,000 for the arts. [More…]
I will be asking the committee of the House of Assembly to give me advice as to the disposition of the $750,000 that relates to welfare and the general community. [More…]
For instance, the present Act imposes requirements related not only to the welfare of the crew and the structural safety of the ship but also to its manning, navigation, loading and unloading; to the carriage of dangerous cargoes, pollution of the sea and wreckage and salvage. [More…]
Since the Army establishment at Holsworthy, New South Wales, was added to my electorate in 1977, I have naturally taken an interest in the welfare of serving members of the forces. [More…]
The Government had regard for all views, including those of the Northern Territory, during the framing of the Bills and the passing of the Acts relating to mining development, the establishment of townships, the protection of the environment and the welfare of the Aboriginal people in the Alligator Rivers Region. [More…]
That this House, mindful of the principles and philosophy of the Liberal Party to assist those in need, is anxious to protect the family and single people in the lower income groups from the worry of bills and charges for medical or hospital treatment due to illness or an accident, and therefore requests the Minister for Health to advise the medical profession that a confidential letter from a local justice of the peace, minister of religion, industrial chaplain or an officer of the Citizens Advice Bureau, Social Security or Welfare or Probation, in relation to any patient, shall entitle that medical practitioner to accept the patient as ‘disadvantaged’ and refer any charges to the Commonwealth for payment. [More…]
This Government is responsible for at least five major housing problems that are causing increasing hardship for low and middle income earners; that is, the two out of three workers who receive below average weekly earnings, those on pensions and welfare payments and the unemployed who receive the miserable pittance that this Government calls an unemployment benefit. [More…]
In that approach we have been economically realistic but at the same time very sensitive to the welfare needs of the Australian community. [More…]
In fact, on the best estimates and advice available to us of the position in the last financial year, the total amount available, from all the sources in public welfare funding for housing was about the same as that for the previous year. [More…]
The evidence shows that during the period of the Labor Government we had the longest waiting list in the history of this country of people seeking assistance from governments for welfare housing. [More…]
Our policies have started to bite and the numbers on these welfare housing waiting lists are falling. [More…]
That sector is producing quality of life things such as education, information, health and welfare services and so on. [More…]
Did the Government have before it a proposal which was designed to make the tax and welfare system fairer and more equitable? [More…]
But when members of the Liberal and Country parties come into this chamber they forget about the welfare of their constituents. [More…]
It is no wonder that those people whom I have mentioned in the motion, such as Australia’s Catholic bishops, the Brotherhood of St Laurence, the responsible Minister in Victoria, Mr Dixon, and all the social welfare agencies throughout Australia, can point to the Government the problems that are being confronted specifically by the young people but not only by them. [More…]
Why should not the Catholic bishops, the Brotherhood of St Laurence and all the other social welfare agencies that carry this enormous burden speak up? [More…]
I think that the election is fast approaching when the people of Australia will single out unemployment, job security, care, welfare and the opportunities that Australia should be giving to all its citizens. [More…]
None has been so destructive of family security, as contemptuous of family welfare or as corrosive of family life. [More…]
By failing to increase or index basic social welfare benefits the Budget permits a drastic erosion of payments on which many disadvantaged family units are dependent. [More…]
The same picture emerges when the absence of indexation is applied to other key welfare allowances and benefits. [More…]
‘convivial’ industries (to adopt the language of Ivan Illich) which are intended to promote the quality of life, but do not produce tangible goods or services which are capable of being exported or sold at a profit, for example, education, health and welfare services. [More…]
That is almost 40 per cent of the total welfare budget. [More…]
The welfare budget has taken almost 40c in the dollar of total Government expenditure. [More…]
Over the last 10 years in Australia expenditure on social security and welfare has increased almost sevenfold from $1.3 billion in 1969-70 to $5 billion in 1975-76, which was the last year of the Labor Government, to an estimated $8.9 billion in 1979-80. [More…]
Even if adjustments are made for expenditure on family allowances, unemployment and sickness benefits, the increased eligibility nevertheless means that expenditure on social security and welfare as a proportion of the Commonwealth Budget has increased from 18 per cent in 1975-76, Labor’s last Budget, to 21 per cent in the current Budget. [More…]
They say that the Government’s import parity fuel policy has added a most significant indirect tax to the Government’s income armoury which has allowed the Government to reduce the deficit and to hand out some well deserved improvements in the welfare sector. [More…]
When listing these points it would be wrong for me as chairman of the Government Members Health and Welfare Committee not to congratulate the responsible Ministers and the Cabinet on such measures as the reintroduction of twiceyearly indexation of pensions, increases in permissible earnings to retain eligibility of pensioner health benefit cards, the extension of the eligibility for pensioner health benefit cards and other fringe benefits to supporting parents, the increased capital allocations for the aged persons and senior citizens’ programs, the extension of service pensions to all allied ex-service personnel and the accelerated animal quarantine program. [More…]
At one stage in 1975 he said, in the context of discussing the various claims that are made on the national exchequer, that to expect increases in education, to expect increases in welfare, to expect greater health benefits and also to expect tax indexation was to ask for the impossible. [More…]
One can look to other statistics for verification in order to gain the contrast between the concern for the welfare of families in Australia under a Labor Government, and the brutal indifference of this Government. [More…]
In the 1975 Budget Speech I announced that in the preceding year there had been an increase of 7 per cent in real terms in the income of the average income earner, and if one made allowances for redistributional benefits in the fields of education, welfare, health and so on, the increase in real terms was 9.5 per cent. [More…]
The problem is that this Government has allowed its ideological obsessions with this problem and with many others completely to obscure its view of the Australian community and its overall welfare. [More…]
The vocal social welfare groups have made some gains. [More…]
The unemployed, people on sickness benefits and those receiving the rent allowance- the poorest social welfare recipients in this country who do not have a voice- have clearly lost. [More…]
Meanwhile, within the overall framework of the Budget, the Government has been able to restore important social welfare benefits. [More…]
Total expenditure this financial year on the pensions will rise to $ 10,530m, about 40 per cent of the total welfare budget. [More…]
While the Government was stimulating the private sector, cutbacks were occurring in health, education and welfare areas of the Budget. [More…]
Education showed a continual shift to the non-government schools, and in welfare there was a freezing of many of the extra benefits; for example, supplementary benefits which have been unchanged since this Government has been in power. [More…]
They there has been simply the fact that the electorate looks very seriously at reductions, particularly at reductions in the welfare area. [More…]
-I turn to welfare. [More…]
A 9.6 per cent increase on last year’s expenditure is proposed in terms of welfare expenditures with a 10 per cent inflation rate expected at least. [More…]
We have seen a massive cut in welfare housing buildings with 93,000 families now on the waiting list. [More…]
If he imagines that that sort of approach to taxation is going to produce sufficient wealth for the vast social welfare progams that no doubt a Labor government would want to perpetuate and increase, I think he has another think coming. [More…]
On the other hand, after making a modest allowance for inflation, the Budget gives less to Canberra in total social welfare appropriations, education appropriations, health appropriations, and the construction budget for the National Capital Development Commission. [More…]
In fact, condemnation is more in order as welfare spending will actually drop. [More…]
In a Press interview, quoting figures about some individuals representing the party’s interests, the Minister for the Capital Territory said that congratulations had gone to the Government for the apparent fact that social welfare expenditure in the Territory is to rise. [More…]
Condemnation is probably more the order of the day as welfare spending in the Australian Capital Territory will drop. [More…]
Only the allocation for welfare spending by the Department of the Capital Territory rose in this Budget. [More…]
In that respect the social welfare allocations made by the Government are somewhat of a subterfuge. [More…]
It is changing the picture as to what in fact happens with the funds as it proceeds to subsidise what should have been the responsibility of the Government- to maintain the level of expenditure in relation to those organisations which deal with people who are not in a position to help themselves in the social welfare area and to encourage those organisations to maintain their services. [More…]
Last year the Department of the Capital Territory was allocated $5.93m for welfare expenditure. [More…]
The Department of Social Security contributed $ 1.32m and the revenue from poker machine funds added close to $ 1 m. Total welfare funds for the Australian Capital Territory were therefore $8.25m. [More…]
It had been opposed, predictably, by the Left, local government, education and welfare lobbies and unions, and also by politicians of both sides, by the Press and by big business. [More…]
The same freeze applied to welfare benefits. [More…]
The freeze on welfare and public service salaries should be viewed in context. [More…]
Welfare payments were generous- perhaps too generous- and public servants enjoy very high pension entitlements at the expense of other taxpayers. [More…]
Funds for welfare housing are reduced by $23m. [More…]
What a heartless, callous attitude by a party which professes to be concerned about people’s welfare. [More…]
We have had four years of slashing of public expenditure and of cuts in education, welfare, health care, urban development and almost every area of human endeavour. [More…]
Let us never forget that the introduction of indexation of pensions was a major welfare breakthrough by the Whitlam Government. [More…]
I often hear the claims of members of the Opposition that theirs is a party of concern, theirs is the only party that has ever done anything for welfare recipients in this country, they are the leaders in all these so-called areas of concern. [More…]
There are grants totalling $500,000 to community welfare agencies which are in need of support in providing emergency assistance to members of the community. [More…]
As we have a large percentage of migrant people, this money has been spent correctly by social workers who have been appointed to bodies such as the Italian communities welfare committee. [More…]
Despite that, we have met major commitments in defence, in social welfare and in the development and support of Australian industry. [More…]
Is it any wonder that the welfare bill has grown as a result of those figures? [More…]
So, we are providing for national goals in areas of social welfare, in defence and in support of industry. [More…]
That represents massive support for Australian families and a major social welfare innovation introduced by this Government. [More…]
Welfare politics in Australia today is currently dominated by powerful lobby groups representing the interests of the aged, the invalid and the veteran. [More…]
In 1 974, the President of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission made it quite clear that the Commission does not see itself as a social welfare agency. [More…]
This we should do because the welfare of any individual is a function not so much of his own income but of the combined income of the family or household of which he or she is a member. [More…]
Lest I be accused of caring only for the wealthy, let me say this: The competition for the available funds directed to welfare each year is well known in this place. [More…]
If we are to kill the will, the incentive and the ability of the more fortunate in our community, in the future they will be putting their hands out to share in the restricted availability of welfare funds. [More…]
I passionately believe that a government of my Party’s persuasion has a very deep obligation to ensure that the stage is set not to allow people to dodge tax obligations but to ensure that the better off look after themselves so that when they reach old age their investments are caring for them and they do not become competitors for the restricted amount of money available for welfare. [More…]
Almost $9,000m is being set aside for social welfare. [More…]
Without trying to cover too many more subjects, I conclude with the observation that here we have well over 38 per cent of the nation ‘s Budget spent on social welfare and health. [More…]
I advise the Opposition to get its feet on the ground and recognise the fact that the working man wants to take home as much of what he earns as possible while at the same time recognising he does have to make a contribution to the welfare of the nation. [More…]
the economic prosperity and welfare of the people of Australia. [More…]
He rejects the concept of lower taxes and a growing private sector as being critical to economic growth and prosperity for all Australians, and particularly for the welfare recipients. [More…]
This Government’s policies of restraint have not meant that we have shown no regard for those welfare recipients in needy circumstances, although that seems to have come through in many speeches by members of the Opposition in this debate. [More…]
I believe that a sound economy is essential for a sound welfare policy. [More…]
I am yet to hear anyone argue that welfare recipients can benefit from a country which is confronted with massive economic difficulties. [More…]
The welfare record of this Government has been sound during a very difficult time for economic management. [More…]
There have been other welfare initiatives of significance. [More…]
At the same time, we are concerned with furthering the welfare of the needy in our society. [More…]
As with previous Fraser Government Budgets, funding which goes to Aboriginal people has been cut in regard to housing, health, education, employment, enterprises, town management, public utilities, cultural and recreational funding, legal aid training and consultation and research- in fact, in every category except for general welfare where there has been a small increase. [More…]
The one line where there has been a slight increase is the welfare area. [More…]
The funds set aside for preventive medicine are relatively small by comparison with the enormous expenditure on health services and social welfare payments provided in this Budget. [More…]
Members will be aware of the sacking of Joseph Califano Jnr, the former Secretary of State for Health, Education and Welfare in the Carter administration in the USA. [More…]
They say that the Government’s import parity fuel policy has added a most significant indirect tax to the Government’s income armoury which has allowed the Government to reduce the deficit and to hand out some well deserved improvements in the welfare sector. [More…]
Of course, it is in that area that one of the most significant changes is to be made to the social welfare area, but probably a more important change is the extension of Commonwealth fringe benefits. [More…]
If there is one area in which this Government can at least claim to be consistent in its policies, it is in its disregard for the welfare of those who are unable to obtain employment. [More…]
When I talked with the Maltese Minister for Labour, Welfare and Culture, Miss Agatha Barbara in May of this year, she stressed that Malta does not want cash grants. [More…]
The other document concerns a statement from the Australian Greek Welfare Society. [More…]
It is signed by Dr Spiro Moraitis, President, and Mr George Papadopolous, Chairman, of the Australian Greek Welfare Society. [More…]
This shows a despicable disregard of the welfare of children. [More…]
According to Labor, more money should be spent on education, regional development, health, welfare, the States, and a hundred relatively smaller items. [More…]
In the area of social welfare nearly $9,000m is being paid. [More…]
The people of Grayndler definitely need much assistance from governments and social welfare programs that can be funded only by the Federal Government. [More…]
In some of the suburbs of my electorate slight variations in welfare, employment or economic policies can have a grave effect on the social fabric of the area. [More…]
The Government has not increased family allowances this year even though it seems to think that is the jewel in its social welfare crown. [More…]
On the one hand we have allegations that there have been cut-backs in social welfare. [More…]
On the other hand we have assertions from some interest groups that social welfare spending is out of control. [More…]
On the one hand groups are saying that there have been cut-backs and condemning the Government for the cut-backs and heartlessness; on the other hand, curiously, other groups are saying exactly the oppositethat social social welfare spending is out of control. [More…]
In Australia over the past 10 years, expenditure on social security and welfare has increased almost sevenfold, from $1.3 billion in 1969-70 to $5 billion in 1975-76, and to an estimated $8.9 billion in 1979-80. [More…]
Even if adjustments are made for spending on family allowances, unemployment and sickness benefits, expenditure on social security and welfare as a proportion of the Commonwealth Budget has increased from 18 per cent in 1975-76 to 2 1 per cent in 1979-80. [More…]
In the past three financial years some $ 1 15.5m has been spent under the handicapped persons welfare program. [More…]
In short, those who say that they are opposed to the cutbacks in the social security budget and in social welfare spending generally should specify where those cutbacks have been made and say how much they would increase expenditure in those areas and how the revenue to cover the increased expenditure should be raised. [More…]
On the other hand, those who say that social welfare expenditure is out of control, ought to specify where the surpluses are in current expenditure and be prepared to publicly justify cuts when the inevitable criticism comes to government for having taken drastic action to cut back expenditure. [More…]
I believe that this Government has adopted a realistic attitude to its responsibilities in the social welfare area. [More…]
The survey established that there had been a 300 per cent increase in the number of people seeking assistance from such benevolent organisations as the Smith Family, St Vincent de Paul and the Anglican welfare organisation. [More…]
Why did not honourable members opposite introduce those sorts of provisions if, in fact, they are really interested in the welfare of the rank and file trade unionists of Australia? [More…]
The Opposition is not really interested in the welfare of the rank and file trade unionists of Australia. [More…]
Let us look further than the immediate needs for welfare housing which this Government has neglected and see what has happened even with those presently employed on low and middle incomes, and particularly those young couples or young people seeking their first home. [More…]
The Government has been concerned in this area as in other important areas of potential redistribution, such as education, health and welfare, on the one hand to reduce the total volume of funds available and on the other to seek to ensure that the money that is spent is spent basically on behalf of its natural constituency, that is, on behalf of the better off, the more affluent or, if you like, the middle class. [More…]
In the past it has relied on gaining the consent of the people through the use of a range of welfare services, the education system, the media, the churches, the arbitration system, the law and the Parliament. [More…]
For instance, I believe the Opposition has been effectively taken to task by the Australian Greek Welfare Society, which is hardly a front for the Liberal Party. [More…]
In a media release last week, when the Opposition sought to stir issues along, the Australian Greek Welfare [More…]
It is a temporary appointment which meets with the full satisfaction of the Chairman of the Ethnic Television Review Panel, Mr Frank Galbally, and it is one which the Australian Greek Welfare Society has greeted. [More…]
If I might go on to mention one more; the President of the Australian Yugoslav Welfare Society has also said that that Society fully supports the appointment. [More…]
None of these is contemplated within our present ASIO Bill although I am firmly of the belief that all Australians should be possessed of some form of identification or social security number, as is the situation in the United States, in order to prevent the abuses under our Government’s welfare and national health programs, but that is not related to the security of our country. [More…]
These honourable members, to mention only a few, have shown that they are true and honourable Australians who are genuinely concerned for the welfare of all Australian citizens. [More…]
The amendments will: require a commissioner to consult with his deputy president before making or varying an award relating to wages and conditions; prohibit the Commission from ordering, recommending or sanctioning in any way, an employer paying wages to an employee for time when the employee was engaged in industrial action; provide for the expeditious hearing of stand-down applications, either before a single member of the Commission or a full bench; provide that the question of whether an industrial dispute exists may be the subject of a reference to a full bench; enable an industrial dispute or part of an industrial dispute to be referred to a full bench at the conciliation state; reinforce the powers of the President of the Commission by enabling him to withdraw a matter from another member of the Commission and either deal with it himself or refer the matter in a full bench; and provide increased protection for the community by creating an alternative path to the deregistration of organisations and thereby remove delays in the deregistration process in cases where the safety, health or welfare of the community are put at risk by industrial action. [More…]
The Government does not believe that any member of our community, whether a direct participant in industrial relations or not, should have to put up with tactics which threaten their health, safety or welfare. [More…]
We will not stand by and watch while individual Australians are denied their right to obtain goods and services affecting their safety, health or welfare. [More…]
The Government believes that the present deregistration provisions are not adequate to deal with the special circumstances where organisations, or sections of them, endanger the safety, health or welfare of Australian families. [More…]
The Minister may apply to a full bench of the Commission for a declaration that industrial action by an organisation or a group of its members has had, is having, or is likely to have, a substantial adverse effect on the safety, health or welfare of the community or a part of the community. [More…]
These new provisions are designed specifically to protect the job security, safety, health or welfare of Australian men and women and their families. [More…]
People who are concerned about such things as Aboriginal welfare and those who are concerned about the deprivation of rights. [More…]
If there were people in 1937 and 1938 who could have envisaged the fact that Philby was to become an active member of a government that was totally against the welfare of the government of the United Kingdom, is it the judgment of members of the Opposition that that ought not have been stated in some paper about him? [More…]
Do they not understand that the welfare of their nation is protected directly in ratio to the significance of the national security organisation? [More…]
We are constantly being criticised on our social security and welfare policies. [More…]
Yet within the context of overall economic responsibility the Commonwealth Government has continued to give high priority to income security and social welfare needs. [More…]
Total spending on social security and welfare will increase by 9.6 per cent to $8,900m in 1979-80. [More…]
The total expenditure on age pensions is estimated to rise to $3, 530m, almost 40 per cent of the total welfare budget. [More…]
Most of us believed that economic circumstances were such that it would not be possible for the Government to go ahead with the development of these social welfare policies. [More…]
He presided over social security during the important period of Labor’s three-year term when social welfare benefits and costs rose from $2,099.7m to $5,077.4m and when the Commonwealth taxpayers’ expenditure on health rose from $783.2m to $2,952.7m. [More…]
I ask you: How can one judge a man who one moment says he has insufficient funds for welfare housing and the next has to struggle to hide a Budget surplus of $100m? [More…]
In the middle 1960s less than 1 1 per cent of the total government outlays were directed towards welfare for the aged. [More…]
-Total expenditure on welfare for the aged has increased from 1 1 per cent of government outlays to 1 9 per cent. [More…]
The Government and, through it the Australian people, has given that welfare to the aged. [More…]
At the present rate of increase between 23 per cent and 24 per cent of total government outlays will be spent on welfare for the aged by 1984-85. [More…]
Knowing that there is that justified drawing power in relation to welfare, we have heard a confession of the general taxation policy of the Opposition. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition poured scorn on the late Richard Crosland who argued that welfare could be delivered by means of greater economic growth; that greater economic growth would generate the resources that were able to be redistributed. [More…]
The worst example of cuts in expenditure occurred in the area of welfare housing. [More…]
Admittedly the increased oil royalties received by the Government following the crude oil price increases by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, known as OPEC, greatly assisted the Government in not only reducing the deficit, but also enabled the Government to continue its social welfare policies of assisting those most in need. [More…]
I turn from welfare housing and refer to the private housing sector. [More…]
The response to the measures taken in the welfare area has been overwhelmingly good. [More…]
I wonder where the additional revenue is coming from- the sort of revenue that allows them to provide an extra $50m for welfare housing, a 24 per cent increase in funds for youth and community services, a 34 per cent increase in other welfare areas and a 55 per cent increase for pre-schools. [More…]
Secondly, the Leader of the Opposition talked about annuities for low income farmers, which I presume are welfare handouts for low income farmers. [More…]
It is a welfare type approach to rural policy. [More…]
South Australian Industrial Code Regulations under the Industrial Safety, Health and Welfare Act, Section 39, (1972-78). [More…]
The Opposition displays a very narrow focus when it calls for more spending on particular welfare areas. [More…]
It fails to appreciate that overall economic policy is a vital part of welfare policy, for failure of total economic policy is bound to hit the disadvantaged for whom the Labor Party falsely claims to speak exclusively. [More…]
We have said that employment, development of the country and the welfare of our citizens are important matters which must be seen within the context of the whole Australian economy. [More…]
Not one of us in this House can rest easy where the welfare and progress of the chronically unemployed youth are involved. [More…]
It has been prepared to sacrifice important community programs such as housing, welfare, urban affairs and employment. [More…]
Neither of those figures represents the full extent of the Commonwealth commitment to the welfare of migrants. [More…]
Forty-eight special project grants with total expenditure of $150,000 were made in 1978- 79 to encourage self-help among ethnic groups and to help trade unions in providing welfare services to migrant members. [More…]
When we come to the 48 special project grants, which were offered to encourage self help among ethnic groups and to help trade unions in providing welfare services to migrants, with a total expenditure of $ 1 50,000, this sounds good. [More…]
Private investment is essential for the welfare of the economy and the maintenance of full employment. [More…]
It could provide work in community services, essential services for non-profit making bodies such as community welfare agencies or local government bodies. [More…]
If two or more of those members do anything which in the words of this amending Bill affects the safety, health or welfare of the people of this country a declaration can be sought from the Commission that if such behaviour occurs again within six months the union will be deregistered. [More…]
We can understand that, but when we look at the words used in the Bill we wonder what does not affect the health, safety and welfare of the people of this country. [More…]
That affected the health and welfare of Australians but the Government does not interpret its action in that way. [More…]
Everything that is done in this country affects the safety, health and welfare of people, but the Prime Minister wants to kick the trade union movement and use it as the last resort in order to stay Prime Minister of this country. [More…]
If the Minister decides that an issue affecting the health, safety and welfare of the community is of such importance that deregistration action should be taken, he must make application to the Full Bench and he has to justify his position in a Full Bench hearing. [More…]
The honourable member for Port Adelaide asked quite piously: ‘What sorts of disputes could affect the health, safety and welfare of the community? [More…]
No government, when the health and welfare of the community are obviously at some peril, cannot respond to the situation. [More…]
Proposed new section 143 A, which is sought to be inserted into the Act, will give to the Governor-General a wide range of powers which may be exercised against unions which take industrial action which has a substantial adverse effect on the safety, health or welfare of the community. [More…]
The proposed section allows the Minister to apply for a declaration from a full bench of the Commission that industrial action by a union or its members has had, is having or is likely to have a substantial adverse effect on the safety, health or welfare of the community. [More…]
The main features are that the Minister- and I stress that it is the Minister- may apply to the Full Bench of the Commission for a declaration that industrial action by an organisation, or a group of its members, has had, is having, or is likely to have a substantial adverse effect on the safety, health or welfare of the community or a part of the community. [More…]
Now we take the view that the public does matter and, as a consequence, we are providing in this legislation that deregistration can occur on grounds of safety, health or welfare of the community. [More…]
It empowers a full bench to make a relevant declaration where it is satisfied that two persons have in the past been engaged in industrial action- for example, a ban- which has had a substantial effect on the welfare part of the community. [More…]
The honourable member failed to say, of course, that the Minister will intervene only when matters such as the safety, the health and the welfare of the community are involved. [More…]
Would the honourable member and the Labor Party have us say that the Government should not be concerned about the safety, the health or the welfare of the community? [More…]
Would they say that the welfare of the community would not be affected? [More…]
It appears to me that the Labor Party is not concerned with the health, the safety or the welfare of the community because it would deny the Minister an opportunity to act for the Australian people. [More…]
Honourable members opposite are saying that the Government of Australia is not concerned about welfare, safety or health. [More…]
They are saying: ‘You allow us to have safety and welfare; you allow us to earn our money; you allow us to attend to the wellbeing of our families. ‘ [More…]
A declaration may be made if it is held that industial action is adversely affecting the health, safety and welfare of the community. [More…]
But it is not necessary to show that industrial action is having an adverse effect on health and safety if it can be shown simply that a strike is against the welfare of the community the certificate has to be issued - [More…]
If there is a strike involving shipping, transport, the post office or any public facilities, it can be easily argued that the welfare of the community is affected by it substantially. [More…]
Further, as the Treasurer is a member of the Social Welfare Policy Committee of Cabinet, will the Acting Treasurer ask the Treasurer whether he will also refer the proposals for analysis and report by the Social Welfare Policy Secretariat which was established by the Government to co-ordinate development of welfare policy? [More…]
1 give an undertaking to the honourable member for Sturt that the report on his proposal will be available as quickly as possible and on the Treasurer’s return this weekend I will put to him for consideration the suggestion that the proposal should go to the Social Welfare Policy Secretariat. [More…]
We must demon.trate our co-operation and our sincere regard for the welfare of people in matters such as this. [More…]
I am certain that the Government and the people of Australia will pull their full weight because, as I said earlier, our record in respect of Kampuchea is going to be seen by the world as demonstrable evidence that Australians do care and that we are concerned for the welfare of our fellow human beings. [More…]
Where are the decisions that have been so vital to the industrial welfare or the economy of this country which have so upset the Government that it has to introduce such a draconian measure? [More…]
the industrial action has had, is having, or is likely to have, a substantial adverse effect on the safety, health or welfare of the community or of a part of the community, the Full Bench shall make a declaration that it is so satisfied and cause the declaration to be recorded in writing. [More…]
A declaration is made by the Commission to say that the health, welfare or safety is affected. [More…]
As the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) said yesterday: ‘Forget about the health and safety, just concentrate on welfare’. [More…]
Under this Bill, once a certificate is issued by the Conciliation Commission to the effect that there is a stoppage of work in a particular union which affects the welfare of the community, the Minister will have the right to declare that particular members of that union shall not be eligible to continue to hold office, or that particular members of the union shall not be eligible to contest a ballot for office, or that particular members of a union may not be eligible to record a vote in an election for union officials, or that a particular member or members shall be prohibited from attending a union meeting, voting at a union meeting or attending a meeting of workers on a particular job. [More…]
Accordingly, on Thursday, 27th September, 1979, I telephoned the prison and spoke to the acting Welfare Officer. [More…]
the industrial action has had, is having, or is likely to have, a substantial adverse effect on the safety, health or welfare . [More…]
Child care centres, welfare services, senior citizens’ centres, various recreational facilities and public libraries are vital in supporting people at particularly vulnerable times of their lives or in ensuring more satisfying leisure activity. [More…]
There is a real danger not only that local government will be forced to restrain severely growth of community services such as education, welfare, recreation and cultural activities, but also that public works of various kinds will be allowed to deteriorate. [More…]
It is clear that in countries where welfare services are advanced- England, Holland, Sweden and Denmark, for instance- local councils are playing a more and more important and responsible part in the process. [More…]
It is humanely and economically senseless to spend $ 1,000m this year on welfare payments to unemployed people while there is so much important socially useful work that needs to be done and which could provide gainful and satisfying jobs for the unemployed. [More…]
I believe there is a real and pressing casefor decentralisation of authority and that local governments will best perform many governmental functions in such critical areas as welfare, culture and the environment. [More…]
There now appears to be a general agreement that local government is the most appropriate unit for the planning, administration and delivery of a wide range of community welfare services and facilities because it can take account of the different needs, values and preferences of individual communities and because it is the political unit closest to the communities being served. [More…]
The Liberal-National Country Party Opposition in its October 1975 social welfare policy speech, under the heading of ‘Local Government and Community Participation’, provided: [More…]
A Liberal and National Country Party government views local government as the focus for service delivery, since welfare services provided at the local level will be very responsive to users’ needs and wishes. [More…]
A Liberal and National Country Party government will assist local governments to utilise these inherent advantages and potentialities effectively to meet the contemporary need for citizen participation and welfare provision by: [More…]
seeking to have States Grants Commissions consider the diverse welfare needs of local government in allocating them equalisation grants. [More…]
This proposal would have served as an important incentive to assist local government authorities to provide social welfare and other services which are most needed in some of the less fortunate municipalities and shires of this country. [More…]
Expenditure from the National Welfare Fund on pensions and benefits payable under the Social Services Act is estimated to be $7390m for 1979-80 which will be an increase of $650m over expenditure in 1978-79. [More…]
In assessing whether the Australian Government should continue to provide assistance for the consumption of phosphatic fertilisers, the Commission has considered both the economic efficiency and welfare implications. [More…]
The Government boasts of significant increases in expenditure in various areas of immigrant welfare, but the truth of the matter is that it is the immigrants themselves who will now be paying for the services the Government has appeared to offer so generously on the prompting of the Gal bally report. [More…]
Not only are immigrants now asked to pay for the administrative costs they incur at a time when they are least able to pay for them, but they are the ones from whom money is to be taken to pay for the supporting programs designed as immigrant welfare- the props and supports designed to give immigrants greater equality with other Australian citizens. [More…]
Insofar as there is now a significant component in the immigration welfare program which is really directed at and for refugees, one could claim that immigrants generally will be paying for their own postarrival welfare and for that of refugees. [More…]
One immediate direct result of the meeting is that we expect shortly to welcome to Australia the Maltese Minister of Labour, Culture and Welfare. [More…]
The amendments will give a Minister the right to start deregistration of a union or part of one engaging in any industrial action harming community safety, health or welfare. [More…]
Quite apart from the procedural amendments which I have described, another part of the legislationthis was referred to briefly by the Leader of the Opposition- provides for accelerated deregistration procedures for unions or sections of unions whose actions are substantially adversely affecting the safety, health or welfare of the community. [More…]
If people in the community see that their safety, health and welfare are being affected, they naturally expect their government to take action to protect them. [More…]
His consideration for the welfare of the people, as far as this legislation is concerned, is nil. [More…]
The Commission has the power to deregister when it believes that there will be an adverse effect on the safety, health or welfare of a community. [More…]
This newspaper has drawn to my attention, and I am sure to the attention of many other people, matters that are vitally important to the welfare and livelihood of the citizens in that area. [More…]
It is interesting to note that this is the first time that the Opposition has started to take any interest in the welfare of Australia’s fishing resources. [More…]
He was suggesting that the Liberal Party decides matters behind closed doors and closets itself away to make decisions affecting the welfare of the nation. [More…]
a ban) which has had a substantial adverse effect on the welfare of part of the community. [More…]
I come back to the situation of welfare housing. [More…]
The State Social Welfare Minister, Mr Dixon, telegrammed two Federal Ministers warning of the possibility of family breakdown if the benefits were not paid. [More…]
The State ‘s Minister for Social Welfare, Mr Dixon, - [More…]
In the four Budgets introduced by the Fraser Government it has significantly re-ordered priorities in the area of income, security and welfare. [More…]
Commonwealth support for welfare services now places greater emphasis on need. [More…]
The Government has started to develop through the federalism policy a process by which more control can be exercised by the States and local communities over their own welfare priorities. [More…]
As was pointed out in the recent interim statement of the Department, the overriding objective of the Government is to build up a department which is both efficient and compassionate, with a recognition that these two values, far from being in conflict, are the twin pillars around which a truly effective welfare operation must be designed. [More…]
The Commonwealth has increased its allocation for subsidies for welfare officer salaries, housekeeping, home repairs, gardening, laundry and other home care services under the States Grants (Home Care) Act by some $4m or 60 per cent compared with the expenditure in 1975-76. [More…]
The Government in 1976 announced a $12 lm program under the Handicapped Persons Welfare Scheme. [More…]
The first objective is to plug a number of gaps and anomalies in the social welfare provision in this country. [More…]
The Opposition welcomes most of these efforts at greater consistency and the effort to make more comprehensive and solid the protective social welfare framework. [More…]
Thirdly, the package of Bills aims to continue and reinforce the Government’s treatment of the unemployed, not merely as second-class citizens but as second-class welfare recipients. [More…]
The first objective of these measures is to plug a number of gaps and anomalies in the social welfare provision in this country. [More…]
With only minimal administrative changes and relatively small expenditure increases, a much more comprehensive welfare floor could have been provided. [More…]
The third and most contemptible of the objectives of these Bills is the further development of this Government’s policy of treating the unemployed not merely as second class citizens, but as second class welfare recipients. [More…]
The dole bludger epithet may now be rejected in Government rhetoric, but the dole bludger syndrome is alive and active in the reality of this Government’s social welfare policies. [More…]
If they had received these adjustments, as has practically every other welfare beneficiary, their benefit in November would be some $7 a week more. [More…]
This again discriminates against the unemployed as compared with nearly all other categories of welfare recipients. [More…]
But these Bills do more than simply tolerate the existing welfare discrimination against the unemployed. [More…]
Finally, the Government seeks to further use social welfare as an instrument in industrial warfare. [More…]
I would be very interested to know whether the honourable member for Franklin (Mr Goodluck) supports that use of welfare provisions. [More…]
I believe that this quite savage welfare punishment of unionists as the result of the industrial action of fellow unionists is wrong in principle. [More…]
It is quite inappropriate to use social welfare provisions in this way. [More…]
In the present Budget a sum of $8.9 billion has been allocated in the general area of social welfare. [More…]
Indicative of this success has been the increase in the total number of recipients of social welfare which is theirs injustice, not in charity. [More…]
The total number of social welfare recipients will grow this year from 2,280,000 to 2,336,000. [More…]
It is interesting to note that in the Budget of a government of concern and interest in the unfortunate in society the allocation for welfare is about 28.2 per cent of the total Budget allocation. [More…]
Eighty-five per cent of personal income tax collections in Australia is spent on health and welfare. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party in 1973 allocated 20.4 per cent of our income to social security and welfare. [More…]
There is a long history of conservative governments being prepared to spend sometimes very significant amounts of money on social welfare. [More…]
The reason for that is that, historically speaking, social welfare expenditure has operated to a greater or lesser extent as an instrument of social control. [More…]
That is to say, it is possible on occasions to use welfare expenditures as a means of damping down the fires of discontent. [More…]
When we talk about the increased amounts that have necessarily been spent on welfare in the time when this Government has been in power, we have only to look at the unemployment statistics to understand why. [More…]
We have had to spend considerably increased amounts of money on welfare because unemployment creates a potentially revolutionary situation, a situation in which conflict of very serious proportions is produced in society. [More…]
If we turn to what is being proposed in this legislation tonight in relation to unemployment beneficiaries, we see that it is simply a continuation of that kind of story of welfare, not in terms of the achievement of justice, not in terms of delivering to people what is their right, but rather in the form of an attempt further to harass people and make them feel that somehow they have to get more into line and that somehow they are being deviant. [More…]
That has nothing to do with social welfare. [More…]
It has nothing to do with welfare, and yet that is part of this social security legislation. [More…]
The only possible help will come from State welfare departments, which have limited emergency funds and which in some States they are unwilling to hand over. [More…]
The Government has learned nothing from the 1977 four-week Latrobe Valley strike, which threw every welfare organisation into chaos from which they were finally rescued by a joint Commonwealth-State grant of $100,000. [More…]
My electorate is a welfare electorate. [More…]
This Government fails to realise that high percentages of welfare recipients and low income earners are poverty stricken. [More…]
A Luddite approach seeking to block changes is too despairing to tolerate and too damaging to the future welfare of the country. [More…]
It will have to get a handout- a food parcel- from the welfare agency in the State in which its members live. [More…]
The State Social Welfare Minister, Mr Dixon, telegramed two Federal Ministers warning of the possibility of family breakdown if the benefits were not paid. [More…]
The State’s Minister for Social Welfare, Mr Dixon, said: It’s stupid to use unemployment benefits as a possible lever in an industrial dispute and such a move would be ill-advised and ill-considered.’ [More…]
The welfare agencies in Queensland will have to hand out the food and clothes needed by the people who are stood down and not paid the unemployment benefit. [More…]
We have grown up with the notion that somehow work is related to participation in a particular kind of economic system, that it is related to working in organisations that are primarily devoted to a profit rather than being related essentially to making some sort of contribution to community welfare. [More…]
I would like to reply very briefly to the comments of the honourable member for Corio (Mr Scholes) when he suggested that members on this side of the House had less than a passing interest in the welfare of our returned men. [More…]
No action was taken by the Minister, but an officer of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs gave notice in writing to former employees of the Council that their authorisation to be on the reserve was terminated under the provision of the Social Welfare Ordinance. [More…]
This has been recognised as the single most important reform in the Australian welfare system since Federation. [More…]
But, corresponding to what I have been saying about capital works, if one looks at the particular areas of spending, such as health, education and welfare, one will see that the cutbacks are much more obvious and one will see the implications of the Government’s strategy much more clearly displayed. [More…]
Ministers of justice, judges, criminologists and leading figures in the fields of correction, police, social welfare and generally related areas were to be involved. [More…]
These special appropriations include Parliamentary Allowances, bounties, National Welfare Fund, Payments to or for the States, Debt Charges and primary industry assistance. [More…]
It is referring to the welfare spending in this country. [More…]
The welfare branch, of course, which is a band-aid organisation, does excellent work, but there is nothing to handle the youth support schemes as there is in New South Wales. [More…]
I mention that the departments covering the areas of health, welfare and education spend about $14.5 billion per annum, which is about 46 per cent of the total outlays of the Commonwealth. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to secure the future of the homeless persons welfare program by removing from the enabling legislation reference to a prescribed period. [More…]
It also enables the Commonwealth to pay 50 per cent of the salary of a social welfare worker employed at a homeless persons assistance centre. [More…]
Subsidies valued at $320,000 are also being provided for 44 social welfare workers at 40 centres. [More…]
The program, by assisting with rental subsidies and social welfare worker subsidies, has been able to contribute to the development of the halfway house concept. [More…]
This allows for placement of clients in a residential setting while they are assisted in adjusting to the many demands of a different life style by social welfare workers funded under the program. [More…]
In this regard, the definition of ‘social welfare worker’ has been interpreted in the widest possible sense under the program, the main criterion being that a worker provides a personal welfare service to homeless people. [More…]
In addition, there are the family support services scheme, the community health program and the welfare housing programs. [More…]
Substantial sums of Commonwealth money are given to the Queensland Government for the welfare and advancement of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
It is failing in the area of welfare and in the area of the advancement of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
I cannot see any welfare or advancement in that. [More…]
In looking at the situation in terms of welfare and advancement, welfare would relate to good personal health, hygiene, a good diet and the right sort of environment. [More…]
We are in the process of destroying these people if we leave their welfare to the likes of the Queensland Government. [More…]
We have to be able to say to the Aboriginal people: ‘We are genuinely concerned about your welfare’. [More…]
Similarly, expenditure on health, hospitals and welfare is the lowest for any State. [More…]
Furthermore, the Committee noted that there was a lack of the appropriate data required to assess the need for greater passenger welfare generally. [More…]
In addition, Field Officers perform a welfare role in advising departmental clients on payments and services to which they are entitled and concerning which they may be unaware. [More…]
It also enables the Commonwealth to pay 50 per cent of the salary of a social welfare worker employed at a homeless persons assistance centre. [More…]
I support the Homeless Persons Assistance Amendment Bill because it secures the future of the homeless persons welfare program. [More…]
Until now there has not been any guarantee that this program would be an on-going one, which has meant that neither the Government nor the organisations delivering this welfare have been able to undertake long term planning of programs designed to assist homeless men and women. [More…]
Some valuable government assistance also has been provided through capital grants, food and accommodation subsidies, rental subsidies and subsidies for the salaries of social welfare workers, but until now the Act has required statutory extensions following periods of evaluation and review. [More…]
By removing from the enabling legislation reference to a prescribed period the status of this Act and of those organisations and individuals operating under it has been enhanced and the Act can now be given the long term welfare priority which it rightly deserves. [More…]
As to social contact, there has been a high usage of church or welfare centres and a virtual absence of family ties. [More…]
Yet it is the church and other charitable organisations which the Government, under this Act, is trying to encourage to stay in this field of welfare to help the homeless and destitute people in this country. [More…]
Organisations such as the Salvation Army, the St Vincent de Paul Society and the Jesus People- which is a uniquely Western Australian group who look after the homeless group in Western Australia and do an excellent job- must remain in this field of welfare because the people they are helping are those who are often referred to as ‘skid row’ people. [More…]
I do not believe that governments should provide all the finance required to care properly for this area of welfare. [More…]
If this were done much of the essential spirit and dignity which comes from the church and charitable and other non-profit welfare organisations would disappear. [More…]
That figure represents 0.01 per cent of the Budget outlays for 1979-80 which are classified as social security and welfare payments. [More…]
I would like to refer also to the salary subsidies, which amount to 50 per cent of the salary of a social welfare worker employed at a homeless persons’ assistance centre. [More…]
According to the second reading speech of the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle), at present subsidies valued at $320,000 are being provided for 44 social welfare workers at 40 different homeless persons’ centres. [More…]
Social welfare workers need formal qualifications in order to be eligible for this subsidy. [More…]
If the purpose of these centres is to provide some scope for rehabilitation rather than just to mount a salvaging operation, additional suitably trained staff, quite apart from social welfare officers, may be required. [More…]
One 35-bed hostel in my electorate employs nine welfare workers. [More…]
This problem is an almost inevitable consequence of the conflict which occurs in determining welfare priorities when universal payments assume a significance, both political and budgetary, which precludes a flexible approach in appropriating funds to emerging areas of need. [More…]
The more we rely upon universal payments in the social welfare field, the more that prevents a total concentration of scarce resources in areas of need. [More…]
I know that the Government is seeking to stress the criterion of need as the basis of disbursing welfare funds. [More…]
Notwithstanding this desirable method of administering a welfare policy, I think that we have a long way to go and the homeless persons assistance program highlights that fact. [More…]
I find it strange that in a country of 14 million people, strongly endowed with the world’s most valuable resources, enjoying one of the highest standards of living in the world and spending $14.7 billion annually on health, welfare and education, areas of real need involving minuscule appropriations remain relatively ignored. [More…]
It is rather a question of priorities between universality and selectivity in welfare payments, which I have debated time and again in this chamber. [More…]
Perhaps there is a tendency for policy makers in democratic systems to listen to the highly organised and highly articulate welfare groups, which leads mainly to income transfers being made from middle income earners to other middle income earners. [More…]
Whatever the reason, I strongly suggest to the Minister for Social Security, who has constantly advocated a needs approach to welfare, that she give a top priority to re-examining the present funding levels under this Act which services a very needy section of the community. [More…]
They would cover rent, furnishings and equipment with subsidies for welfare staff members and a subsidised meal allowance. [More…]
I have been allowed only five minutes in which to associate the National Country Party with this piece of most necessary social welfare. [More…]
I remind the people of Australia that notwithstanding the need to spend much more money in this area there are parallel schemes in existence: $3m has been made available on a dollartodollar basis with the States for the provision of youth support schemes; various family support service schemes, the community health programs and the welfare housing programs are operating. [More…]
When the directors of Hanover Welfare Services were negotiating in relation to Gordon House, the State Housing Commission refused to be part of that deal. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to the film Warm Blood on White Ice and the book Seal Song produced by Brian Davies, Executive Director of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, to direct attention to the annual slaughter of adult and baby harp and hood seals in the north and north east of Canada. [More…]
One of its main concerns would have been the welfare of our communities in the broader sense of the word. [More…]
This meant not only social welfare but also the welfare of groups of people as ethnic communities, the relationships with children growing away from the heritage of their parents, the children’s relationships to their parents and the survival of those groups as entities. [More…]
We envisaged this Institution as being concerned with the welfare of communities in that sense. [More…]
So too the Institute of Multicultural Affairs ought to be investigating the community welfare needs of immigrants. [More…]
The Industries Assistance Commission considered that the continuation of the stabilisation assistance arrangement for the wheat industry could not be justified on either efficiency or welfare grounds and recommended its discontinuation. [More…]
The High Court of Australia, sitting in its legal ivory tower, has made decisions which are disastrous for the welfare of Australia and, in particular, uphold the validity of the Curran scheme and made section 260 of the Income Tax Assessment Act subject to a new almost obscene interpretation rendering its original purpose null and void. [More…]
So far as Australians in Iran are concerned, we naturally have a concern for their safety and welfare. [More…]
Pursuant to section 34 of the Services Trust Funds Act 1947, I present the annual report of the Royal Australian Air Force Welfare Trust Fund 1978. [More…]
I make the point that we should look at the extraordinary amount of money that has to be put into assisting our justices make worthwhile decisions, which of course they will write with pen and ink or get typed, and then look at the deprived circumstances from the point of view of health, hygiene and general welfare, in which we conduct our affairs on behalf of the nation. [More…]
Somebody else has been charged with effectively cheating social welfare benefits and it is suggested that the overwhelming public interest is in ensuring that we deal not with the former matter because it is more important that we concentrate on the latter. [More…]
I wish to quote from an article by Judith O’Neill, who is a social welfare research officer for the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
This Government basically would like to return to the pre- 19 72 days which are characterised in this country by public squalor, by the failure to provide adequate public provision in schools, in health and in social welfare. [More…]
The Industries Assistance Commission recently said that wheat stabilisation could not be justified on either efficiency or welfare grounds. [More…]
The Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Nixon) in his second reading speech said that the Industries Assistance Commission considered that the continuation of the stabilisation assistance arrangements for the wheat industry could not be justified on either efficiency or welfare grounds and. [More…]
He thought the terms ‘social’ and ‘social problem’ might mean that, with children such as this in foster care, the hospital’s social work department and the Community Welfare Department could become involved. [More…]
Although my Department has no direct responsibility in the matter, officers assisted the three seamen concerned with money from the Merchant Navy Welfare Society, Brisbane and drew the attention of the Papua New Guinea Consul and the Department of Transport and Civil Aviation in Papua New Guinea to the living conditions on board the vessel. [More…]
Whatever its defects, it has consistently and courageously defended the long-run interests of the system, and the welfare of the Australian community, against sectional interests and propagandists. [More…]
In a period of one month the savings banks loan funds which amount to more than the total made available for welfare housing in Australia in any one year. [More…]
That is the thrust of Government policy and in fact that is the thrust which has allowed so many young people, and citizens of all types, to start buying their own homes; to move off the welfare list and to be able to afford their own homes. [More…]
We have abandoned the Australian Government’s estate development and construction activities, which were designed to provide at minimum cost land and housing for welfare purposes. [More…]
The welfare waiting lists around Australia have been reduced. [More…]
So we are having some success in reducing welfare housing lists. [More…]
Those reports cover a whole range of activities- health, social welfare, the environment, law and government and so on. [More…]
That means that ultimately if anything goes wrong the blame, broadly speaking, will not be taken by public servants who are guaranteed protection through the Public Service Act and other social welfare benefits. [More…]
Users include government agencies at the Federal, State and local level; welfare and social service organisations; research institutions; bodies undertaking regional, manpower and educational studies; demographers; business organisations; and private individuals. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has indicated that he is prepared to engage in discussions between the returned soldiers and the Regular Defence Forces Welfare Association on aspects of these matters as the Government’s decision is studied. [More…]
The Aboriginal Benefit Trust Account formula is for 40 per cent of the royalty payments for minerals extracted from the land to be paid to land councils, 30 per cent to be paid to the local traditional owners of the land concerned, and the remaining 30 per cent to be paid towards the general welfare of Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
That formula is to be departed from by taking some money out of the 30 per cent for the general welfare of Aborigines in the Northern Territory and giving it to the land councils to cover extra administrative costs. [More…]
This is the point I am making to the members of not just the Labor Party but also my own party and anyone who is interested or thinks he is interested or tries to be interested or, if I may say so, tries to bluff other people that he is interested in the welfare of Aborigines. [More…]
Whilst the Opposition strongly supports the decisions taken to protect the welfare of wine grape growers, and I understand and recognise your interest in this measure, Mr Deputy Speaker, I assert that the Government has not gone far enough. [More…]
The worst way, the method adopted in this Bill, is to destroy the AUS, to make it less representative by interfering with the tradition of academic freedom and to prohibit the councils of tertiary institutions from enabling fees to be paid except for very narrow- one might say, almost selfishpurposes confined to ‘student welfare’, narrowly defined. [More…]
My approval is subject to a special condition that the project organisers and staff shall closely co-operate with New South Wales health and welfare authorities and officers in relation to the operation of this project. [More…]
1 ) The North West one stop Welfare Centre at Coburg, Victoria, is continuing as a co-ordinated welfare delivery outlet. [More…]
The recent review of the operation of the Centre indicated that the Centre as it had been organised was effective in co-ordinating the welfare delivery efforts of various government and non-government organisations. [More…]
and (4) The question of establishment of further one stop welfare centres will be considered in the light of particular circumstances as they arise. [More…]
Welfare Services [More…]
Grants to organisations involved in integration activities/migrant welfare activities [More…]
Migrant Social Welfare Advisory Council [More…]
1 ) How many Aborigines have been recruited as welfare officers in the Department of the Northern Territory Development Branch and its successors in each year since 1 970. [More…]
The Conference is being sponsored by the Council of Social Welfare Ministers. [More…]
The Council of Social Welfare Ministers has decided to limit the numbers of delegates who are to be invited to attend the conference and the Commonwealth/ State/Territory quota is as follows: [More…]
South Australia: Minister for Community Welfare [More…]
Western Australia: Minister for Health and Community Welfare [More…]
State: Office of the Minister for Ethnic Affairs, Education Department, Housing Department, Health Services Department, Social Welfare Department. [More…]
Housing Commission, Treasury Department, Department of Community Welfare. [More…]
What sums were paid by the Commonwealth in grants in the Electoral Divisions of (I) the Northern Territory, (2) Canberra, (3) Kalgoorlie, (4) Perth, (5) Swan, (6) Sturt, (7) Kingston, (8) Ballarat, (9) Bendigo, (10) Deakin, (II) McMillan, (12) Isaacs, (13) Henty, (14) Holt, (15) La Trobe, ( 16) Hotham, ( 17) Bass, ( 18) Franklin, ( 19) Braddon, (20) Wilmot (21) Denison, (22) Wide Bay, (23) Herbert, (24) Fadden, (25) Dawson, (26) Lilley, (27) Bowman, (28) Brisbane, (29) Leichhardt, (30) Calare, (31) Eden Monaro, (32) Cook, (33) Lowe, (34) Barton, (35) Macquarie, (36) St George, (37) Phillip and (38) Macarthur under the (a) Child Care Act and children’s services program, (b) Aged or Disabled Persons Homes Act, (c) Aged Persons Hostels Act, (d) Handicapped Persons Assistance Act, (e) Homeless Persons Assistance Act, (0 State Grants (Home Care) Act, (g) delivered meals program, (h) welfare rights program, (j) personal care subsidy scheme and (k) Australian Assistance Plan during (i) 1975-76, (ii) 1976-77, (iii) 1977-78, (iv) 1978-79 and (v) 1 July 1979 to date. [More…]
Social Welfare Commission (xiii) [More…]
The Social Welfare Commission was abolished in 1976. [More…]
Having regard to his announcement of 22 August 1 979 listing available funds for (a) community, (b) welfare, (c) arts and (d) sporting grants by his Department within the Australian Capital Territory what grants in each of these categories were made by his Department or any other Federal Government Department disbursing funds for the same purposes in each of the last 5 financial years. [More…]
Not all the Departments listed use the same definitions of ‘community’, ‘welfare’, ‘arts’ and ‘sports’. [More…]
When was the States Grants (Home Care) Act amended to change the funding basis for approved housekeeping or other domestic activities and for the salary of welfare officers employed in conjunction with a senior citizens’ centre from a $2:$ 1 to a $ 1 : $ 1 basis with the States. [More…]
Total State and Commonwealth expenditure has risen from $14,788,758 in 1977-78 to an estimated total of $20,744,000 in 1979-80, partly due to an expansion in expenditure on existing services, but additionally from the approval of 25 new home care services and 79 additional welfare officer positions. [More…]
The Government also has under study a report of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare which has made recommendations on this matter. [More…]
Applications for permanent residency from other sportsmen and women who have been here since 1975 would be considered on their individual merits, allowing for such factors as marriage to an Australian resident, family disposition and ability to maintain themselves without recourse to dependence on social welfare. [More…]
Is the Minister able to state what percentage of annual budget appropriations are committed to Social Security and welfare outlays by national governments in (a) the United States of America, (b) the United Kingdom, (c) Canada, (d) Australia, (e) New Zealand, (0 Sweden, (g) Denmark, (h) the Netherlands, (j) France, (k) West Germany and (1) Japan. [More…]
Is it a fact, as estimated by the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare in its report on Drug Problems in Australia, that in the 6 years prior to 1 979 the tobacco industry in Australia spent close to $ 100m on advertising whereas expenditure on anti-smoking campaigns over the same period was of the order of $ 1.5m. [More…]
1 ) Has the Government had regular information from a variety of sources on the level of fighting and the state of the welfare of the people of East Timor ever since Indonesia’s invasion in 1975. [More…]
I ) Has a decision been made on assistance for purchasing equipment for the Nyabing St John Ambulance Association submitted by the Kent Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [More…]
1 ) Has a decision been made on assistance for the purchase of equipment for the Mandurah Emergency Water Rescue Organisation submitted by the Manudurah Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [More…]
I also suggest to the honourable member for Sturt that if he reads clause 14- stronger, as it is, than the old section 43- together with clause 12 of the present Bill, which refers to a child of a marriage who is under 18 years of age, he will see that the Bill enables the court, of its own motion or at the request of either party, to order that the parents attend a conference with a welfare officer to discuss the welfare of their child and try to resolve any differences between them concerning the matter. [More…]
One can say: There is a welfare officer, a psychologist and a child welfare expert down the corridor. [More…]