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

• But for the life of me I cannot see what the internal appointments within a political party have to do with the welfare and the good of the nation. [More…]

• How much of the total allocation for Aboriginal welfare, for the year 1968-69, remained unspent as at 30th June 1969? [More…]

• An announcement by the Vietnamese Minister for Social Welfare on 14th February indicated that the President had approved in principle the establishment of a Casino. [More…]

• Did the welfare officer of the Department of the Interior give protection to Rita Galkama, an Aboriginal girl at Gove Peninsula, when, contrary to Aboriginal custom, she refused to become the wife of an Aboriginal male. [More…]

• Did the manager of the reserve, after 4 days, fear for the girls’ welfare and send a truck to return the party to the camp. [More…]

• Miss Galkama was given protection by the District Welfare Officer on 24th February 1970 and resided at his home until her departure by air for Darwin on 27th February 1970. [More…]

• Miss Galkama was given protection because she sought it through the Missionary to the Welfare Officer and the Police. [More…]

• How much of the total allocation for Aboriginal welfare for the year 1968-69, remained unspent as at 30th June 1969. [More…]

• Did Mrs Nicholls approach the Superintendent on this loss of wages and did the Superintendent tell her ‘The quicker she thought of these people as just blacks and not try to put them on her own level, the better she would get on in Welfare’. [More…]

• Would the Minister give the same consideration to Mrs Taylor as was given to Mrs Biggs, by making a thorough investigation as to the welfare of the children and taking appropriate action in the best interests of the children? [More…]

• If the future welfare of the children will be belter served by residence in Australia, no matter what sin one of the parents has committed, will the Minister temper justice with mercy and withdraw the deportation order? [More…]

• In his many recent statements on censorship the Minister for Customs and Excise has made it clear that he is in favour of a maximisation of civil liberties as long as they do not act unduly against the common welfare. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that the welfare sister stationed in the Wattie Creek area left her employment approximately a week ago? [More…]

• Can the Minister inform the Senate whether, as a matter of urgency, the welfare sister will be replaced? [More…]

• 1 was not aware that the welfare sister had left Wattie Creek Station. [More…]

• That there be referred to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare the following matter - All aspects of Repatriation, including the operation of the Repatriation Act. [More…]

• As a former RAAF sergeant myself, I have a great interest in the welfare of all former RAAF sergeants. [More…]

• That the Petition presented to the Senate this day by Senator Cavanagh, relating to crime in Australia, be referred to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare for inquiry and report. [More…]

• Did the welfare sister stationed in the Wattie Creek area leave her employment approximately 1 week ago. [More…]

• Will the Minister indicate, as a matter of urgency, whether the welfare sister will be replaced, and. [More…]

• That the Petition presented to the Senate this day by Senator Cavanagh, relating to crime in Australia, be referred to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare for inquiry and report. [More…]

• I inform the Senate that I have received a letter from the Leader of the Opposition appointing Senator Wriedt to be a member of the Standing Committee on Primary and Secondary Industry and Trade in place of Senator Milliner and appointing SenatorMulvihill to be a member of the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare in place of Senator Brown. [More…]

• The Commonwealth also has been very generous in making finance available for Aboriginal welfare. [More…]

• The Aboriginal Welfare Council as it is known in Western Australia, has been very grateful for this assistance. [More…]

• The Aboriginals themselves are taking a very keen interest in their welfare. [More…]

• At one time the Aboriginal Welfare Council was composed almost entirely of white Australians but it is now composed almost entirely of Aboriginals^ - and they are doing a very good job. [More…]

• That there be referred to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare the following matter: The introduction of a national superannuation scheme and the methods of financing and operating such scheme. [More…]

• 1 have received letters from , Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson appointing senator to the following Senate Committees: Senator Buttfield has been appointed tq the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator M. F. Scott and Senator Wood has been appointed to that Committee to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator D. B. Scott. [More…]

• If this is so, does it not emphasise the urgency of granting an immediate pension increase pending a total restructuring of our broken down and inedaquate social welfare system? [More…]

• 1 ask a question of the Minister representing the Minister for Health, although I think my question involves the Minister for Social Services also, ls the Minister aware that, according to the President of the Association of Victorian Homes and Hospitals for the Aged, which Association covers 32 homes, the Chief Executive of the Church of England Diocesan Mission, the Catholic Vicar for Social Welfare and the Manager of the Salvation Army Social Services Department, homes and hospitals for the aged and children in Victoria are, due to inflation, critically short of funds and in most cases are reducing their services and the number of their patients? [More…]

• )(b) after ihe word Thai’ insert the following words: ‘(wilh the exception of those committees already established, namely, the Standing Committees on Health and Welfare and Primary and Secondary Industry and Trade)’. [More…]

• Leader of the Government in the Senate: As the report of the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare on mentally and physically handicapped persons in Australia was introduced into this Parliament on 5th May last with much acclaim and support, and as this matter refers to the administration of a number of Ministers, will the report be read by those Ministers and the respective departments? [More…]

• I have received a letter from the Leader of the Government in the Senate appointing the following senators to the following legislative and general purpose standing committees: Education, Science and the Arts, Senators Carrick and Davidson to replace Senators Sir Magnus Cormack and Prowse; Health and Welfare, Senators Bonner and Jessop to replace Senators Davidson and Webster; and Primary and Secondary Industry and Trade, Senator Prowse to replace Senator Rae. [More…]

• I inform the Senate thatI have received a letter from Senators Townley and Turnbull notifying the appointment of Senator Townley to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare in place of Senator Turnbull. [More…]

• I have received from the Leader of the Opposition a letter appointing Senator Brown to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare in place of Senator Mulvihill who has resigned from the Committee. [More…]

• That the petition presented to the Senate by me this day be referred to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• Usually it has been found necessary to embody it with other amendments or proposals relating to social welfare, some of which were not acceptable to members of the official Opposition. [More…]

• We commend it as an advance in the approach to social welfare. [More…]

• It will tend to alleviate some of the justifiable concern sometimes felt by pensioners that their welfare is a matter of political opportunism only. [More…]

• During World War II there was a system of welfare officers. [More…]

• The Minister might well examine whether more welfare officers should be given the task of seeing that in training establishments the practices which have taken place are prevented. [More…]

• It extends to the welfare section of the Air Force which should possess enough strength and prestige to approach a commanding officer and say: ‘These sorts of things ought to stop’. [More…]

• Perhaps the Minister for Air might consider to what extent the welfare section of the Air Force could be instructed to examine current conditions at Laverton and other places. [More…]

• The Minister should request the Air Board to give him specifically the results of the promulgation of new instructions and secondly he should instruct welfare officers to visit these training areas to ensure thai measures are not adopted there which are not consistent with the. [More…]

• As a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare, I have listened to this debate with a great deal of interest. [More…]

• Because of the great work load that has been put on the members of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare, it has not been possible up to this stage, for the Senate to determine whether or not the matter should be referred to that Standing Committee. [More…]

• Then we could proceed with the third matter, which is the proposed reference to the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• Senator MURPHY (New South WalesLeader of the Opposition) - At the request of Senator Fitzgerald, I hereby remove Senator Fitzgerald as a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• In the past it has contributed to the welfare of the workers in this country. [More…]

• by leave - I wish to inform the Senate 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…]

• by leave - It gives me great pleasure to announce that the Commonwealth Department of Social Services with the full support and co-operation 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 the Minister for Social Services held in Brisbane last June. [More…]

• Other members of the steering committee will be Mr M. Wryell, First Assistant DirectorGeneral, Commonwealth Department of Social Services, Mr W. C. Langshaw, Under Secretary of the New South Wales Department of Child Welfare aud 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…]

• 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 1972, together with the reports of the Auditor-General on the books and accounts of the funds. [More…]

• If so, what information has he concerning the welfare and whereabouts of Mr Hannon? [More…]

• welfare and advancement of those Aboriginal people of Australia living within their borders. [More…]

• That Australian citizens place great value on the sanctity of human life and the physical, mental and social welfare of mothers and children. [More…]

• That Australian citizens place great value on the sanctity of human life and the physical, mental and social welfare of mothers and children. [More…]

• Mr President, I seek leave to make a brief statement relating to the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• Such action will be taken as is conceived to be the best course to see that the Australian Labor Party continues in office as long as possible to serve the interests of the people of Australia and to advance their welfare. [More…]

• My Party has already decided to refer a petition to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare, but I am wondering to what extent this Senate Standing Committee inquires into such a reference. [More…]

• That the petition be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• Does the Government of the People’s Republic of China consider the effects of nuclear fall-out to be of little significance to health, or does it display a callous disregard for the health and welfare of its people. [More…]

• I present the report and transcript of evidence from the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare relating to its inquiry on repatriation. [More…]

• On behalf of the Government I pay tribute to the work of that Committee and also to the work done by the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare which inquired into the problems of the mentally and physically handicapped. [More…]

• 1 from the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare dealing with rehabilitation services for the disadvantaged (handicapped). [More…]

• Senator Dame Nancy Buttfield has earned in South Australia the reputation of being a very hard working senator, particularly in the health and welfare field. [More…]

• That the Senate take note of the report to the Minister for Minerals and Energy by T. M. Fitzgerald, dated April 1974, relating to the contribution of the mineral industry to Australian welfare. [More…]

• We were told that the Government was specifically applying those restrictions to the private sector and it was stated that that action was being taken for the very purpose of enabling the Government to expand the public welfare section of housing which it claimed was for the more needy persons in the community. [More…]

• Will these include the curtailment of the Government’s only new welfare policy in 1974, to exclude from death duties the matrimonial home when it passes to the spouse of the deceased. [More…]

• The Minister for Social Security has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: 1 studied a number of welfare matters while in New Zealand last year. [More…]

• 1 ) The establishment of the Social Welfare Division of the Department of Social Security is: . [More…]

• This kind of situation could be fairly easily fixed if there were a requirement on behalf of the Social Welfare Commission that certain procedures be followed to ensure wide public knowledge of the forms of interim councils. [More…]

• Turning now to the remarks of the Minister about what the Labor Government did for welfare housing in Australia since coming to office in 1972, I remind him that not only have completions of welfare housing fallen in South [More…]

• It has been drawn to my attention that some further sections of the Northern Territory Social Welfare Ordinance were not referred to by the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Senator Cavanagh) when he was talking about the Northern Territory a short time ago. [More…]

• Where a welfare officer who is so authorised is satisfied that the behaviour of a person who has such a right and is on a reserve is such that it is desirable for the maintenance of order on the reserve that the person should not be on the reserve or a part of the reserve, he may declare to the person that the person ‘s right to enter or remain on the reserve, or on such part of the reserve as the welfare officer specifies, is suspended for such period not exceeding thirty days as the welfare officer specifies. [More…]

• The Administrator may, by writing under his hand, authorise a welfare officer to suspend the right of a person to enter and remain on a reserve. [More…]

• The decision is made by a welfare officer. [More…]

• A ‘welfare officer’ is defined in the Ordinance as being: [More…]

• The Director of Social Welfare or a person appointed under this Ordinance to be a welfare officer. [More…]

• Cases have been referred by general practitioners, hospitals, infant welfare sisters, social workers, and police. [More…]

• What are the sources of referrals of cases ofbattered child syndrome’ in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory and how many referrals in the past five years have come respectively from: (a) general practitioners, (b) dentists, (c) lawyers, (d) hospitals, (e) welfare agencies, (f) police, (g) teachers and (h) others. [More…]

• Will the the Government, as an elementary exercise in protecting an Australian’s human rights, refuse to hold the projected talks with the Pathet Lao Minister for the Economy, who is about to visit Australia, until the Pathet Lao have given satisfactory assurances about the welfare and the future of Mr Sharman? [More…]

• 1 ) What programs exist to enable assessment of social welfare initiatives in Australia. [More…]

• What procedures exist to ensure that all members of the Australian Public Service dealing directly with potential clients of the welfare system (a) know what benefits are available, and (b) communicate this information accurately, courteously and expeditiously. [More…]

• This assistance is being provided through a United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF) project in Zambia involving the provision of educational, medical and welfare assistance for women and children under the care of a number of national liberation movements who have temporarily settled in Zambia. [More…]

• Has the Government contributed to the welfare of members of the so-called liberation movements? [More…]

• As I understand the situation, the right to make welfare payments, which never has been under challenge by the Opposition or anybody else in Australia, would seem to be the one we are moving under in this respect. [More…]

• It has not only dismembered the CSIRO but has also purported to have dismembered the Cities Commission and the Social Welfare Commission- statutory bodies- without a word of reference to the chief personnel involved in them. [More…]

• 1 ) Are many medical services rendered by salaried doctors employed by welfare agencies, many of which are in financial difficulty, for example, the Spastic Centre, the Family Planning Association and Red Cross Blood Banks. [More…]

• Can the Minister confirm that despite the necessity to restrain government spending, the Government’s social welfare program to protect those who rely on government assistance is still providing the best possible benefits? [More…]

• Can the Minister indicate how concerned his Government is for the maintenance and the welfare of people involved in this industry? [More…]

• Pursuant to section 16 (2) of the Social Welfare Commission Act 1 973 1 present a report by the Social Welfare Commission entitled ‘Care of the Aged’. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present a paper dated July 1975 prepared by the Priorities Review Staff entitled Possibilities for Social Welfare in Australia ‘. [More…]

• Until early last year, a multi-coin public telephone leased by the Social Welfare Department was available to the residents. [More…]

• What has to be seen and has to be seen clearly is that we have to bring about a psychological change in the thinking of the Government that you support, Sir, and support for proper reasons, so that it accepts that we cannot advance our social structure any faster than the wealth is created in the community and that once the demand in the form of welfare upon the productive resources of the community exceeds a given point- I suggest that it is reaching that stage now if it has not already reached it- the economy begins to sag. [More…]

• It is not for the Opposition to overcome the problem, but every man and woman in the other place and in this chamber who supports the Government has the responsibility to try to change the Government’s attitude towards the economy of this country, because all the Government’s aspirations in relation to social welfare will be meaningless unless we can get the economy back on to its feet again. [More…]

• That, in the matter of the approval by the Senate of Bills for Supply to the Australian Government, certain decisions and declared intentions of Senators of the parties of the Opposition in Parliament are placing in jeopardy the welfare and basic human rights of those citizens who are aged or disabled and thereby dependent upon pensions payable by the Australian Government. [More…]

• Your petitioners are impelled by these facts to call upon all Honourable Senators to forthwith determine as a matter of urgency that approval of the Bills for Supply be no longer delayed in order that the Government shall continue to adequately provide for the welfare rights of Australian citizens. [More…]

• That, in the matter of the approval by the Senate of Bills for Supply to the Australian Government, certain decisions and declared intentions of Senators of the parties of the Opposition in Parliament are placing in jeopardy the welfare and basic human rights of those citizens who are aged or disabled and thereby dependent upon pensions payable by the Australian Government. [More…]

• Your petitioners are impelled by these facts to call upon all Honourable Senators to forthwith determine as a matter ofurgency that approval of the Bills for Supply be no longer delayed in order that the Government shall continue to adequately provide for the welfare rights of Australian citizens. [More…]

• In view of the continuing problems of civil strife in Beirut, can the Minister provide any furtherinformation on the welfare of Australian citizens in Lebanon? [More…]

• Do the reports indicate that there has been a lack of co-ordination by the Government among locally based programs covering schools, health, social welfare, urban improvement and employment. [More…]

• This Regional Council has access to administrative and community development officer funds, but does not yet have access to capitation funds for the support or initiation of welfare services within the region. [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Social Security give the Senate some advice as to the future of the program supporting welfare rights officers, particularly in the various ethnic, welfare and other organisations? [More…]

• 1 ) Can the Minister list all individual centres within Australia where citizens can be referred for social security and welfare, legal information and other advice in what are generally known as community aid centres. [More…]

• As it was for an initial pilot program, I will be interested to have some reporting back as to the success, acceptability and purpose of the welfare rights officers who have been appointed. [More…]

• 1 ) Does the statutory responsibility relating to cases of child bashing and battered babies in the Australian Capital Territory rest with the Director of Child Welfare in the Department of the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• How many incidences of child abuse became known to the Director of Child Welfare in the Australian Capital Territory for each of the past 5 years. [More…]

• Under the Child Welfare Ordinance 1957 the Director of Child Welfare has responsibility for matters affecting children and so action in relation to child bashing can be a joint enterprise between the Welfare Branch of the Department of the Capital Territory, the Police and Health and allied services. [More…]

• Serious child battering becoming known to the Director of Child Welfare is an infrequent occurrence. [More…]

• Social Welfare: [More…]

• I think that the best way to deal with this situation is to have a healthy building industry in which there is encouragement not only for private housing for ownership to be built outside the welfare housing area, but also for rental accommodation outside the welfare housing area, to be constructed by those who do it for the profit or gain from providing rental accommodation. [More…]

• While a grant has not been given, within the Health portfolio, to any organisation specifically wishing to express a contrary view, the Government provides assistance to both the Australian Federation of Family Planning Associations and the Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission ($250,000 and $125,000 respectively in 1975-76) to assist with family planning and contraceptive programs. [More…]

• Only the Bagot Welfare Settlement and Oenpelli Mission Settlement have been inspected and reported on. [More…]

• Previously, the Social Welfare Commission was also represented; but, in view of the proposed abolition of the Commission in the near future, it will not have continuity of representation on that Committee. [More…]

• That leave be given to introduce a Bill for an Act to repeal the Social Welfare Commission Act 1973 and for related purposes. [More…]

• How often in New South Wales in the past six months have Inspectors sought the aid of the New South Wales Factory Welfare Board to improve amenities. [More…]

• That question was one which I asked because in the Budget Papers there is an area of uncertainty left as to what the final expenditure for Aboriginal welfare programs will be. [More…]

• That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and well-being of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]

• 1 ) In the Australian Capital Territory under the terms of section 32 of the Adoption of Children Ordinance 1965-74 this is the responsibility of the Director of Child Welfare (Secretary of the Department of Capital Territory) who delegates this power to the Assistant Secretary, Welfare Branch. [More…]

• In the Northern Territory once a person has signed a consent to adoption and that consent is final (after 30 days) the Director of Child Welfare is responsible for the care and custody of children waiting to be adopted. [More…]

• We the undersigned citizens of New South Wales in the Commonwealth of Australia by this our humble petition respectfully request that members of the Senate insist that the 1976-77 Budget provides specific measures to lift building activity particularly welfare housing, schools, hospitals and other public buildings above the present dangerously low level; [More…]

• That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and wellbeing of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]

• A small number of them have, as part of their other duties, the checking out of allegations of misrepresentation or abuse of the welfare system. [More…]

• If so, does such loan carry with it any conditions disallowing expanded social welfare programs and benefits to the Australian community, such as have been laid down in the past to dictatorships such as Chile which received funds from the Fund after the coup which overthrew the elected Allende Government on 11 September 1973. [More…]

• 1 ) Statutory authorities associated with the Department of Social Security are the Commonwealth Employees’ Compensation Tribunal, the Office of the Commissioner for Employees’ Compensation and the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]

• A Bill to abolish the Social Welfare Commission is at present before the Parliament. [More…]

• -On behalf of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare, I present a report on the 1974-75 annual report of the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories Commission. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that the Queensland Minister for Health, Dr L. Edwards, quoted in the Courier-Mail dated 3 October 1976, has expressed disappointment that the Commonwealth Government has reduced funds for welfare services for the aged. [More…]

• Grants for welfare rights officers are made, subject to review from time to time. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I lay on the table 2 reports: Firstly, the report of the Committee on Care of the Aged and the Infirm and, secondly, the first report of the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health entitled Proposals for Change in the Administration and Delivery of Programs and Services. [More…]

• Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health (Question No. [More…]

• -I report to the Senate that I have received a letter from the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (Senator Wriedt) nominating senators to be members of the Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committees as follows: Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee- Senator Button, Senator Devitt and Senator James McClelland; Education and the Arts Committee- Senator Button, Senator Robertson and Senator Ryan; Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee- Senator Mcintosh, Senator Primmer and Senator Sibraa; National Resources Committee- Senator McAuliffe, Senator McLaren and Senator Robertson; Science and the Environment CommitteeSenator Colston, Senator Melzer and Senator Mulvihill; Social Welfare CommitteeSenator Brown, Senator Grimes and Senator Melzer; Trade and Commerce CommitteeSenator Cameron, Senator Coleman and Senator Walsh. [More…]

• Will the Prime Minister ascertain from each State social welfare Minister how long it took the respective State Governments to prepare their submissions to the Bailey Task Force. [More…]

• When the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health visited each State following correspondence with each Premier, it found the State officers with whom it had discussions (they were from Social Welfare, Health and other Departments) fully and co-operatively ready to assist it in its task. [More…]

• Does the Prime Minister agree that the Task Force’s recommendations will be a most inaccurate means of determining the future delivery of health and welfare services in Australia, given the short time allowed for the inquiry. [More…]

• The main objectives of the Institute would be to foster the development of the maximum potential of mentally retarded persons, their inclusion into the mainstream of community life and the development of services for the retarded as part of comprehensive general community health and welfare services. [More…]

• As the honourable senator will be aware, the first report of the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health was tabled on 17 February 1977 (Hansard, 17 February, pp. [More…]

• -Will the Minister for Social Security release to Senate Estimates Committee D explanatory notes on expenditure under the National Welfare Fund, as she did in September last year? [More…]

• With respect to the Minister’s press release dated 27 March 1 977, entitled ‘ Health Program Grants for Evaluative Research and Development’, why was it necessary to establish an advisory committee within the Department of Health to ‘look for ways of getting better value for the nation’s increasing health expenditure’ when the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare is currently conducting an evaluation of the adequacy of Australian health and welfare services. [More…]

• The facts are that Una Watson was employed as a welfare officer in a temporary capacity to assist with Aboriginal welfare matters at the time of the Darwin cyclone. [More…]

• Until two weeks ago it was not possible to appoint her to a welfare officer position as there were no vacant welfare positions available. [More…]

• Welfare officers in the Department are appointed to assist in meeting the welfare requirements of all our clients regardless of their race, their ethnic background or any other factors. [More…]

• In regard to the specific questions that have been asked concerning Una Watson, I hope that she will apply to achieve permanent status and that she will be able to continue to serve as a welfare officer in the Department. [More…]

• I preface the question by reminding the Minister that onethird of the entire Aboriginal population of this nation dwells within my State of Queensland and that, to service the needs of my people, the Department of Social Security employs one Aboriginal welfare officer, Mrs Una Watson, who to my amazement and dismay is employed on a temporary basis only. [More…]

• The Treasurer announced in his Budget Speech that the overall amount to be made available to the States for welfare housing in 1977-78 is $390m. [More…]

• The States cover the physical aspects relating to registration and the Commonwealth covers the numbers and the welfare of patients who are able to be admitted. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Social Security aware of the application by the Geelong Mentally Handicapped Childrens Welfare Association for subsidies for equipment at their sheltered workshop at Karingal? [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Department of Social Security taken steps to establish a Social Welfare Unit for Aborigines within the Department; if so, is this Social Welfare Unit to have comparable powers to the Social Welfare Units in the Departments of Health and Education. [More…]

• Which sheltered workshops, handicapped training centres, activity centres, residential and holiday accommodation in the La Trobe electorate have been provided with Commonwealth funds under the Handicapped Persons Welfare Program since 1969. [More…]

• 1 ) The following organisations in the La Trobe electorate have been provided with funds under the Handicapped Persons Welfare Program, since 1969. [More…]

• Ferntree Gully and District Welfare Association for Intellectually Handicapped. [More…]

• The statement which the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) brought in tonight has set down a record by the Fraser Government of new initiatives, increased benefits, a family allowance scheme, extended benefits, a movement towards an income supplement scheme which will guarantee a minimum income, an income test replacing a means test and consultative mechanisms set up within the welfare area. [More…]

• The report of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare, chaired by Senator Baume, must be taken into consideration. [More…]

• There has been a great deal of discussion in Queensland about this program, and I am sure that most parents who are interested in the welfare of their children at school, as well as many educationists, are not fully aware of the content of the material or the way that the program has been developed. [More…]

• 1 ) Is the Minister aware of a June 1 977 survey, prepared by the North Queensland Welfare Action Group, into the standard of service provided by the Townsville office of the Unemployment and Sickness Benefits Section of the Minister’s Department. [More…]

• Has the research group, referred to in the Age of 6 February 1978, which is examining welfare programs such as Medibank, made recommendations on Medibank or on any other welfare matter. [More…]

• In my Press statement of 2 March 1978 I announced the appointment of Dr Sidney Sax as Head of the new Social Welfare Policy Secretariat. [More…]

• It 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…]

• I seek leave to make a brief statement on an inquiry proposed by the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare as part of its continuing oversight of relevant aspects of the report of the Senate Select Committee on Drug Trafficking and Drug Abuse. [More…]

• I desire to inform the Senate of a further inquiry proposed by the Standing Committee on Social Welfare under its charter to maintain an oversight of relevant aspects of the report of the Senate Select Committee on Drug Trafficking and Drug Abuse. [More…]

• We propose to initiate the inquiry without delay so that interested persons may have the opportunity of preparing and forwarding submissions during the next few months while the Committee proceeds with its current reference on the evaluation of the adequacy of Australian health and welfare services. [More…]

• Senator Brown, who served as Chairman of the former Standing Committee on Health and Welfare, and Senator Tehan have both rendered significant service to the Standing Committee on Social Welfare and we shall miss them. [More…]

• -by leave- I welcome the statement of the Chairman of the Standing Committee on Social Welfare. [More…]

• In the time I have been a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare, Senator Brown and Senator Tehan have been very important members of that Committee, Senator Brown particularly because of his experience with previous committees. [More…]

• I inform the Senate that I have received a letter from the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (Senator Wriedt) requesting that Senator Brown be discharged from further service on the Standing Committee on Social Welfare and nominating Senator McAuliffe to be a member of the Committee in his place. [More…]

• That Senator Brown be discharged from further service on the Standing Committee on Social Welfare and that Senator McAuliffe, having been duly nominated in accordance with Standing Order 36AA, be appointed to fill the resultant vacancy. [More…]

• I understand that the Government will be suggesting to the Legislative Assembly in each Territory that it consider the recommendation which calls for a review of health, welfare and community development programs in the context of moves towards selfgovernment and that the Government has offered assistance to the assemblies for any follow up of that recommendation. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, refers to the second report of the Bailey task force which deals with various welfare and community services and which was tabled recently. [More…]

• Social Welfare-Senator McAuliffe. [More…]

• Social Welfare- Senator Bonner and Senator Elstob. [More…]

• 1 ) and (2) There were thirty-nine social welfare research projects listed in the Senate Hansard of 8 April 1 976. [More…]

• 1 ) How many of the social welfare research projects listed in Senate Hansard, 8 April 1976, pages 1 1 84-6, have been completed. [More…]

• On 29 June 1978 I wrote to the respective State Government Ministers and informed them of the Government’s decision to vary the rate of Commonwealth Subsidy for home care services and welfare officers under the States Grants ( Home Care) Act. [More…]

• The Government is committed to reimbursing each participating State on the basis of $ 1 for $ 1 on all expenditure by them for approved home care services and salaries of welfare officers. [More…]

• the Conference of Health Ministers and the Standing Council of Social Welfare Ministers be asked to assist in encouraging and monitoring progress towards the establishment of appropriate advisory mechanisms on policies and services for the handicapped in each State; [More…]

• It should be remembered however, that sheltered workshops, in achieving their related rehabilitation, production and social support goals, are faced with a constant problem in balancing commercial and social welfare orientations. [More…]

• My Department is making the necessary arrangements to have the National Advisory Council for the Handicapped proposal listed for discussion at the next meetings of Health and Social Welfare Ministers. [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…]

• Is it a fact that today social security and welfare payments represent some 28 per cent of the Budget? [More…]

• Has the Minister any further figures which indicate the cost to the taxpayer of social security and welfare payments? [More…]

• The Australian Wine Board prepared a film which the Standing Committee on Social Welfare saw some 6 months ago. [More…]

• Approaches are often made by welfare organisation personnel in respect both of individual clients on benefit matters and of groups in respect of grants and subsidies. [More…]

• This evening I wish to raise a matter that concerns the welfare of three tradesmen who live and work in Perth. [More…]

• -Later on in the order of business the tabling of a report from the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare is listed. [More…]

• -On behalf of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare I present the report on the Committee’s reference on evaluation in Australian health and welfare services together with the official Hansard transcript of the evidence and a submission received by the Committee subsequent to the taking of evidence. [More…]

• For instance, the Opposition proposed, as I understand it, not only to give to the islanders some aspects of the social welfare system that we have in Australia but also to introduce our taxation system to Norfolk Island. [More…]

• However, a tobacco industry representative in evidence to the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare on 19 April 1977, estimated annual expenditure on promotion at $ 1 8m. [More…]

• The Report of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare has been the subject of detailed consideration. [More…]

• Which ofthe 17 recommendations related to smoking, contained in the Report of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare- Drug Problems in Australia- has the Government accepted and acted upon. [More…]

• The Fraser Government has continued to give a high priority to income security and social welfare. [More…]

• Yet we have had introduced here an insulting urgency motion which is not concerned for the welfare of the people of Australia; it is concerned with an obligation to engage in commercial development. [More…]

• The Fund has to date distributed in excess of$ 18m of its capital, and interest earnings, on welfare relief of eligible ex-Servicemen and women and their dependants in needy circumstances, on education assistance for eligible children and on eligible children suffering from serious afflictions. [More…]

• 1 ) As the Treasurer indicated in a press release of 12 July the Task Force on occupational superannuation is chaired by an officer of his Department and also includes officials drawn from the Departments of Finance, Prime Minister and Cabinet, Social Security and Industrial Relations, the Taxation Office and the Social Welfare Policy Secretariat. [More…]

• I can assure honourable senators that I regard the welfare of Ministers as very important. [More…]

• I inform the Senate that I have received a letter from the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (Senator Wriedt) requesting that Senator Grimes be discharged from further attendance on the Standing Committee on Social Welfare, and nominating Senator Georges to be a member of the Committee. [More…]

• 1 ) That Senator Grimes be discharged from further attendance on the Standing Committee on Social Welfare, and that Senator Georges, having been duly nominated in accordance with Standing Order 36AA, be appointed a member of the Committee. [More…]

• In the instance raised by Senator Grimes of welfare organisations making a specific and formal request for an urgent inquiry to be made by cable, the charge would be imposed. [More…]

• If a migrant welfare organisation or any welfare organisation acting on behalf of a migrant makes an inquiry that requires information to be sought by cable, does this mean that either that welfare organisation or the client will be charged? [More…]

• I think it would be quite wrong for this community to have two groups of people: Members of parliament who get things free and legitimate groups, such as welfare organisations, who are charged. [More…]

• The figure mentioned represents the total of capital funding under the Act and of the subsidies that will be paid from the National Welfare Fund. [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…]

• The Department of Social Security is continuing to consult with the National Consultative Council on Social Welfare and with the Australian Council of Social Service about development of the program. [More…]

• The Department of Social Security will be in touch with a wide range of community welfare agencies in the course of administering the new emergency relief provision. [More…]

• The question of controls over cigarette advertising, including peripheral advertising given to cigarette manufacturers, has been taken up in the context of the Government’s consideration of the report of the Senate Standing Committee on social welfare entitled ‘Drug Problems in Australia- an intoxicated society?’ [More…]

• Does the allocation by the Department of Social Security for emergency relief of $500,000 as grants to community welfare agencies mean that: (a) such funds will not be made available to State Governments as requested by the Council of Welfare Ministers; and (b) local government bodies will be excluded from applying for such funds, as they are not voluntary agencies. [More…]

• What consultations are planned with non-government welfare agencies to establish procedures for the distribution of the $500,000 for emergency relief. [More…]

• What action is proposed, such as the establishment of a standing committee to provide continuing evaluation of the need for emergency relief in relation to social security payment procedures; the efficiency of new special benefit guidelines; and the effectiveness of the distribution of funds to community welfare agencies. [More…]

• -On behalf of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare, I present a report on annual reports referred to the Committee, together with the official Hansard transcript of evidence taken. [More…]

• I think that the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare has made the point, which ought to be self-evident anyway, that Government programs should be reviewed as to their effectiveness. [More…]

• I am sure the GovernorGeneral’s Speech will give great encouragement to the people of Australia and that we shall go into the 1970s with a Government which has feeling, which is responsible, and which is showing consideration for the general welfare of the community in a way which will bring about the greatest benefit to the greatest number of people. [More…]

• They believe that it will look after their welfare more effectively than will the Australian Labor Party, despite the desperate promises that were made by the Australian Labor Party to capture the votes of country people. [More…]

• There is no provision in the Speech to take care of the social problems of health and education, and also social welfare. [More…]

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

• I would have thought it the right of a member interested in native welfare to visit such settlements and, of course, while present inquire about matters which are causing discontent. [More…]

• The following is an extract from the report of the Senior Welfare Officer who was at Yuendumu when the statement was obtained: [More…]

• The extract from the report of the Senior Welfare Officer states: [More…]

• A welfare officer of the Department selected a man who then approached a group of men who then told him a story; he went and typed a statement; he brought it back and said that if there were any corrections to be made to the statement he would make them. [More…]

• The men signed the statement and it was witnessed by the welfare officer and by Mr Juttner. [More…]

• It is addressed to the Director of Social Welfare, Welfare Branch, Northern Territory Administration, Darwin, NT, and it reads: [More…]

• He was dismissed from the Welfare Branch in February of this year for refusing to transfer to Darwin. [More…]

• It is a Government settlement under the control of the Social Welfare Branch of the Northern Territory. [More…]

• The matter has been investigated thoroughly by members of the Welfare Branch staff and myself. [More…]

• He was frightened for the girls’ welfare and was anxious as to whether they would come back alive. [More…]

• Of course she resisted the tribal chief who enforced the Yiarrkala tradition of Aboriginal custom, took certain disciplinary action against the girl, and the Government welfare officer rescued the girl and took her to Darwin. [More…]

• They wrote a joint letter to Mr Giese, the Director of Welfare in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• You will be interested to hear that one of the welfare officers approached me on that matter (refers to letter enclosed to Mr Giese). [More…]

• Did the manager of the Reserve, fearing for the girls’ welfare, after 4 days send a truck to collect the party and return it to the camp? [More…]

• If he had a real interest in the welfare of patients, long ago he would have accepted what the various bodies recommended on smoking. [More…]

• Will the Minister representing the Attorney-General inform me whether there is a social welfare ordinance of the Northern Territory which permits entry to Gove Peninsula to only government officials or persons authorised by the Nabalco mining company or the Native Welfare Branch? [More…]

• Under that Bill it was proposed for the first time that a death penalty should apply not only in respect of an offence resulting in the death of someone by a criminal action but also in circumstances where there was a disregard for the safety or welfare of any person, or where anyone in an area where an aircraft was housed or on board an aircraft acted with a disregard for the safety of any person who might or might not have been present. [More…]

• Very little is being done to try to protect them, f have the greatest sympathy for them for many reasons, f do not like to see people in hardship and I do not want lo see these people flowing into the industrial areas in competition with the work force which is there, not for work, because there is work about for people to do, but for the facilities for them and their families; that is, the facilities to educate them, and the facilities for their health and welfare, which are sadly lacking at the present time. [More…]

• Since using that report it has been brought to my notice that Reverend Fleming’s document was a confidential one submitted to the welfare officer of the Department of the Interior. [More…]

• Reverend Fleming submitted that document in the belief that it would go no further than the welfare officer and his director. [More…]

• The statement referred to was never published by me, but was submitted as a strictly confidential statement to the Director of Social Welfare. [More…]

• To the best of my knowledge it was seen only by the Assistant Director of Welfare, Alice Springs, and the Director himself. [More…]

• I have been asked where I obtained the information since this was a highly confidential document meant for the Assistant Director of Social Welfare. [More…]

• The reverend gentleman was of the belief that this document never went further than the Assistant Director of Social Welfare and the Director himself. [More…]

• Fleming had no intention of including in the document any information which would be published generally, but that he did so in the interests of the welfare officer and the Director. [More…]

• Since the commencement of the Social Welfare Ordinance 1964 in September 1964, Aborigines in the Northern Territory have been equal at law with all other residents, although some special benefits have been retained for them or have been introduced since then. [More…]

• As a result of the investigation made by myself and some of my colleagues, notably Senator Greenwood, we were able to have a royal commission established in Victoria to examine the problem of Aboriginal welfare in the context of the 1950s, a time when scientific aid was more readily available. [More…]

• All of us recognise the need to interest ourselves in the welfare of our Aboriginal people. [More…]

• Of the $5.4m being provided by the Commonwealth to the States for Aboriginal welfare during 1969-70 under the [More…]

• From the information provided by the States and from inspections carried out by Commonwealth officers I can say that a great deal of care has been given not only to the quality of the homes themselves but also to their location in the community and to the provision of welfare support for their occupants. [More…]

• I do not want to go into the story of how they were dispossessed by the State Government’s manoeuvre and by the failure of the Church to supervise properly their welfare. [More…]

• The referendum clearly placed responsibility for Aboriginal welfare in the hands of the Federal Government. [More…]

• T. J. Fleming, who has been the Resident Baptist Minister at Yuendumu for approximately the last 20 years, and by reports of officers of the Northern Territory Welfare Branch. [More…]

• Changes are occurring under the influence of welfare officers and missionaries. [More…]

• The material provided in response to this instruction included a copy of a letter from Mr Fleming to the Director of Social Welfare dated 1 7 th December, 1969. [More…]

• Mr Fleming has replied that the statement was submitted as a strictly confidential statement to the Director of Social Welfare. [More…]

• We say that the incident at Yirrkala is different because there the girl asked for the welfare officer’s protection. [More…]

• We will not eliminate poverty in Australia unless we have an entirely new approach to social welfare. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party has a new approach to social welfare. [More…]

• In every comparable country it is recognised that cash benefits alone cannot provide an adequate response to welfare problems. [More…]

• We would make grants under section 96 of the Constitution to enable State governments, local authorities and volunteer agencies to co-operate in the establishment of regional departments of social welfare. [More…]

• What was the contribution to the welfare of the industry at that time? [More…]

• There are well established procedures in the Navy by which representations affecting welfare and conditions of service can be made through normal Service channels. [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…]

• As is fitting with this welfare legislation, payments made in accordance with its provisions will be debited to the National Welfare Fund. [More…]

• Native Welfare Minister Lewis- [More…]

• On 13.8.69 when the excisions were recommended for approval the ‘West Australian’ reported, page 31, ‘Native Welfare Commissioner F. E. Gare said that in cases such as this the Department did not protest because a proportion of any royalties would be paid into a special fund’. [More…]

• Mr Davey then wrote the following letter to the West Australian’, which was published: lt is pleasing to be assured by Native Welfare Minister Lewis that ‘it was an integral part of the arrangement governing this excision (from Admiralty Gulf Aboriginal Reserve) that the total amount of the normal royalties payable by Amax Bauxite Corporation in respect of mineral mined in ihe excised area is to be paid into a special fund for Aboriginal advancement’. [More…]

• Amax’s application for 27 square miles of the reserve was recommended by the Wyndham Mine Warden’s Court on August 12 and was unopposed by the Native Welfare Department because ‘a proportion of any royalties would be paid into a special fund’. [More…]

• It could have indicated, for example, that discussions had been had with the appropriate welfare organisations in the various States and that they had come up with certain recommendations and indicated what I will call the particularly depressed areas for want of a better term. [More…]

• After all, the States have only a partial responsibility in the field of social welfare. [More…]

• It has had a magnificent response from social welfare organisations which feel that they are really doing something worthwhile when they visit aged people and supply them with something that they need so badly. [More…]

• Was Mr Howard summarily dismissed by the then Welfare Director, Mr Moy, as a result of a disagreement between Mr Howard and a trained nursing sister from the Alice Springs Hospital. [More…]

• Was a Sister Lalor employed by the Department of Native Welfare at Darwin and summarily dismissed. [More…]

• to (3) Mr Moy ceased to be Director of Native Affairs for the Northern Territory in 1953. lt is believed that Sister Lalor’s employment by the Native Welfare Branch of the Northern Territory Administration ceased over twenty years ago. [More…]

• Party which puts forward a desirable proposition for the welfare of the primary producer. [More…]

• The Council’s function is generally to promote the welfare and development of agricultural industries. [More…]

• Generally to promote the welfare and development of agricultural industries. [More…]

• In the broad context of social welfare: [More…]

• This is emerging with the growth of the welfare state and other such developments. [More…]

• Was a Mr Moy at one time the Director of Welfare in the Department of the Interior in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• What was the previous experience of Mr Giese in Aboriginal welfare. [More…]

• In 1954 Mr Giese was appointed Director of Welfare, a new position. [More…]

• His previous experience included 6 years primary and post primary teaching and 12 years in senior administrative posts in the fields of physical and health education, youth welfare and community recreation, and in-service training. [More…]

• We in Australia are in a way blessed by the Constitution, but in many cases we find as we try to legislate for the people’s welfare that we are seriously handicapped, first of all, by the Constitution and secondly, this Government and other governments have found to their cost that it seems to be part of the Australian way of life to say no to any government that asks for a change in the Constitution. [More…]

• The Commonwealth is causing hardship to them and burdens on State budgets by making inadequate cash social service payments and by allowing large gaps in welfare services. [More…]

• We have heard so much ranting and raving about the National Health Bill and the fact that the Minister for Health (Dr Forbes) has only the welfare of the patient in mind, but we do not hear from anybody that the Minister will do nothing about the Pharmaceutical Advisory Committee and its actions and that he will do nothing to try to help the very patients about whom he talks so glibly. [More…]

• There we learned from the farmers’ first hand knowledge the problems confronting these people and their genuine concern for their own future and for the welfare of their families. [More…]

• On behalf of a great number of people who rely completely on this industry for their economic welfare and for the future of their families, I protest. [More…]

• The following is an extract from the report of the Senior Welfare Officer who was at Yuendumu when the statement was obtained. [More…]

• The Senior Welfare Officer gives details of how he obtained the statement. [More…]

• This is the statement of the Senior Welfare Officer who selected the people he would interview. [More…]

• Therefore it seems that the Senior Welfare Officer selected 4 people to discuss the matter. [More…]

• In the opinion of the Senior Welfare Officer they were trusted men. [More…]

• The task was not given to the President of the Council or to the one who should be designated to handle communications between the Senior Welfare Officer and the settlement. [More…]

• The Senior Welfare Officer went to Harry Nelson and to two or three others for the purposes of getting the statement. [More…]

• The Senior Welfare Officer’s report goes on: [More…]

• It was written by the Senior Welfare Officer from what they told him. [More…]

• It was read by the Senior Welfare Officer. [More…]

• A selected group which was under the influence of the Welfare Officer told the story. [More…]

• The Welfare Officer typed it. [More…]

• Another matter which is not in the statement we are discussing is that I am informed by Mr Nicholls - and I have stated in the Senate - that the manager of the reserve, not the Superintendent, after 4 days feared for the welfare of the girls and sent out a truck to return the party to the camp. [More…]

• In the Held of Aboriginal welfare, they arc particularly generous with hot air but conservative of elbow grease. [More…]

• The welfare officer at Darwin was requested lo come down here regarding the allegations of cruelty and maladministration. [More…]

• A permittee or licensee shall carry out all petroleum exploration operations and operations for the recovery of petroleum inthe permit area or licence area in a proper and workmanlike manner and in accordance with good oil-field practice and shall secure the safety, health and welfare of persons engaged in those operations in or about the permit area or licence area. [More…]

• A person who is the holder of a special prospecting authority or an access authority shall carryout all petroleum exploration operations in the area in respect of which the special prospecting authority or access authority is in force in a proper and workmanlike manner and in accordance with good oil-field practice and shall secure the safety, health and welfare of persons engaged in those operations in or about that area. [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…]

• Did the Director of Native Welfare in the Northern Territory on 19th February 1968 reply to complaints by Yuendumu Councillors of ill-treatment of aboriginals, and promise, on his visit to the Reserve on 10th March 1968, to discuss the matter of complaints with the Councillors. [More…]

• He said that the Assistant Director of Welfare (Southern) would discuss the matters raised on his next visit to Yuendumu, and the Director would have some further discussions when he visited Yuendumu for the opening of the Church. [More…]

• On the first page of the second reading speech delivered by the Minister for Housing she referred to ‘basic principles which the Government believes are essential in any national welfare measure’. [More…]

• New Zealand is sometimes quoted as the very acme of the welfare state in which everything in the way of medical care, hospital care and all the other services is just as it should be. [More…]

• When we in the national Parliament come to debate this legislation we are dealing with a problem that has 2 basic important facets: Firstly, it is surely aimed at the physical welfare and wellbeing of the ill; secondly, it must be remembered that the national health scheme, the pharmaceutical benefits scheme and other social welfare legislation ure important parts of the fiscal policy and responsibility of any government. [More…]

• Not only is it a basic human right, but it can make a contribution to the economic welfare of the nation, because a healthy community can produce greater economic productivity in the welfare of the country. [More…]

• What is more necessary than a healthy community; a community which can live happily enjoying good health; a community which can face up to economic burdens more efficiently: a community which can make a greater economic contribution to the welfare of the nation? [More…]

• It is quite wrong for Senator Greenwood to make accusations against the medical profession and public servants generally and to imply that they have no interest whatever in the welfare of the people. [More…]

• The Standing Committee on Health and Welfare; [More…]

• A confidential memorandum was issued to staff by the Superintendent giving an extract from a report by a senior Welfare officer on the question of staff morale. [More…]

• In the field of Aboriginal welfare, they are particularly generous with hot air but conservative of elbow grease. [More…]

• I appeal to the Government, if it is interested in the welfare of people and patients, to accede to the Opposition request for an amendment. [More…]

• I think the words which were used by Senator Greenwood are most applicable to the attitude which I adopt in relation to the provision of a free health scheme and the placing of some responsibility on individuals to take an interest in their own welfare. [More…]

• I believe that it is not asking too much of anybody to make a weekly contribution towards this health scheme for the protection and welfare of his family. [More…]

• The very reason why workers join trade unions - and I shall deal with the question of compulsion in a moment - is consideration for the welfare of themselves and their fellow workers, and also for their own families, because of industrial aspects. [More…]

• So when we start talking about the welfare of individuals in this country, we get to this cloudy area as to whether or not responsibility should be associated with a scheme. [More…]

• I am sure that the Australian community is perfectly willing to make a small contribution that will give all people, including their children, protection against sickness and ensure the security and welfare of families. [More…]

• The policy behind paragraph (e) is to provide that the various categories of eligible persons generally receive assistance from only one welfare source. [More…]

• In addition, where a person believes that special circumstances of financial or other domestic difficulty exist, the Committee believes that machinery should be available, within the social welfare elements of Government administration, for the evaluation of such claims and the approval of special payments in such cases. [More…]

• Will the Government give serious consideration to this advice for the benefit of its citizens and the welfare of Australia? [More…]

• Although the Commonwealth bears a large share of the responsibility for looking after handicapped adults - through invalid pensions, its own rehabilitation service, its subsidies to sheltered workshops and in other ways - child welfare, broadly speaking, has been a matter for the States and the many admirable voluntary organisations that have so successfully pioneered and carried on their humanitarian work in this field. [More…]

• Because of the Commonwealth’s continuing interest in the welfare of the. [More…]

• Mr Deputy President, this Bill is a practical measure, lt takes the Commonwealth into a new area of welfare work but it will enable voluntary and religious organisations to improve and expand a service which they have been providing for many years, lt provides Ibr a $2 Federal subsidy for every $1 subscribed from private or local government funds for capital expert- diture on training centres, training equipment and hostels for handicapped children. [More…]

• The- Standing Committee on Health and Welfare; [More…]

• The Standing Committee on Health and Welfare: [More…]

• Welfare. [More…]

• During the years attempts have been made by people with a tremendous interest in the welfare of this country, in the defence of this country and in the promotion of a viable aircraft industry in this country, to make sure that the country had proper protection and could be serviced in times of defence and in meeting the needs of plain commercial economics. [More…]

• The Ministers agreed on a number of matters concerning Aboriginal welfare in Queensland. [More…]

• These included future participation in a trust for the welfare of the Weipa Aboriginal community by taking up 10.000 shares at issue price. [More…]

• That means in fact all matters relating to good government and the welfare of our people. [More…]

• There are also the social welfare workers who assist parents in the education of handicapped children. [More…]

• This committee of inquiry which we request should report upon every incidence, status and condition of handicapped persons, including children disadvantaged because of physical or mental disability, chronic illness, or injury; and upon the adequacy of existing Commonwealth and State social welfare legislation. [More…]

• They did nol want the dynamic provided by the Subnormal Children’s Welfare Association replaced with the impersonality of ihe State. [More…]

• If we have an obligation for the education and the welfare of the able child, we have at least an equal obligation to the disabled child, and it should not be a question of a 2 for 1 subsidy to voluntary contributions where schools are provided. [More…]

• Of course, a group of parents who have disabled children and who arc interested in the welfare of their children generally collect for such a cause. [More…]

• The proposition which has been put by Senator Gair now suggests that 2 standing committees be established - 1 on trade, industry and labour and 1 on health, welfare, education and science. [More…]

• Then, of course, there are the eleemosynary committees on health, welfare, education and science. [More…]

• I suspect that if the honourable member for Banks, who apparently gave the information to the Press, was interested in the boy’s welfare rather than in seeking publicity for himself, he would have availed himself of my offer to investigate further any other claims he wished to make about the lad, provided that he supplied me with details of the events he wished to have investigated. [More…]

• Did the Director of Welfare approve the sick leave payments on medical advice; if so, who was the medical adviser and when had he last seen Mrs Nicholls prior to her being placed on sick leave. [More…]

• The Inspector’s report was forwarded to the Director of Social Welfare by the Director of Health for the Territory with the comment that the report indicated some improvement in hygiene might be effected with advantage. [More…]

• The following actions have been taken: - Additional positions of hygiene supervisor, supervisor family services, nursing sisters, a’nd assistant kitchen supervisor have been added to the settlement staff; - The Department of Health has provided additional Health Inspectors to service the settlements and mission stations; - a new kitchen/dining room unit, a home management centre and an infant welfare centre have been built; - 65 houses with an appropriate number of laundry, toilet and ablution blocks have been erected for Aboriginal families; - The hospital has been renovated and improved; - A substantially improved water supply has been installed; - A water-borne sewerage scheme for the settlement is scheduled for early construction and funds have been set aside for this purpose; - Health education is being stressed in the school and adult education programme; sisters of the Health Department are assisting with infant welfare and health education programmes; - A research project into the incidence of deaths amongst children at Yuendumu is being undertaken by the Australian National University and the Adelaide University in conjunction with the Welfare Branch of the Administration. [More…]

• The welfare and future of the staff of the Authority are matters of the utmost importance, and proper provision for any who might bc displaced in whatever permanent arrangements are ultimately developed for the industry should be determined well in advance of any such displacement. [More…]

• 1 would regard the Bill more as a measure of social welfare than of economic amelioration of the present situation. [More…]

• Most important of all, it will improve the welfare of those connected with this great industry. [More…]

• Very briefly, the Australian Democratic Labor Party supports all these measures because they are necessary for the welfare of the dairying industry. [More…]

• Whatever the rights or wrongs in this complicated situation, surely if the interests of the children are to be taken into account the paramount consideration should be the welfare of those children. [More…]

• 1 now wish to make reference to a matter which I believe is vital to the welfare of the fruit growing industries in South Australia which I have no doubt applies to other fruit growing areas in Australia. [More…]

• The arbitration system has not been able to match the problems which arise out of the developing economy, the growth of productivity and the general improvement of welfare in the state. [More…]

• If one looks at the records of the Industrial Welfare Division of the Department of Labour and National Service one finds that there is a higher incidence of dermatitis today amongst workers using fuel oil than there has ever been before. [More…]

• The two such Committees selected for first establishment shall be - The Standing Committee on Health and Welfare: and the Standing Committee on Primary and Secondary Industry and Trade. [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…]

• should like to say at the outset that because we have chosen this matter of urgency for debate it does not mean that we are not well aware also of the pitiful state of the aged, invalided and widowed of Australia and the miserable pittance that has been given towards their welfare. [More…]

• All sections of the rural community are very much concerned about the economic situation that confronts them, the economic welfare of their families and future job opportunities for their children. [More…]

• The two such Committees selected for first establishment shall be - The Standing Committee on Health and Welfare; and the Standing Committee on Primary and Secondary Industry and Trade. [More…]

• The two such Committees selected for first establishment shall be - the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare; and the Standing Committee on Primary and Secondary Industry and Trade. [More…]

• The Budget is aimed at promoting the sound economic growth of the country whilst meeting the needs of the State governments and our objectives in the fields of defence, social welfare and assistance to rural industries. [More…]

• As regards the call by the Australian Council of Trade Unions for a strike over the Budget, I cannot see how this could advance either the general welfare of the community or the welfare of that section of the community represented by the ACTU. [More…]

• The Health, Welfare and Science Committee considered various Bills, as did the Legal and Constitution Committee. [More…]

• First, he referred quite a number of questions to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• There has been a lol of disputation in this chamber as to whether the appropriate section of the Repatriation Act dealing with the onus of proof provision was operating to the welfare or to the detriment of the claimant. [More…]

• That is a matter which quite appropriately could be a specific reference to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• If I may just mention other matters, in the second notice of motion the subject of the reference is the adequacy of the existing Commonwealth and Stale social welfare legislation. [More…]

• 1 would think it would take more like 3 years to consider the adequacy of the existing Commonwealth and State social welfare legislation. [More…]

• The Chairman of the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare has to ascertain what primary and secondary poverty is. [More…]

• The notice of motion also refers to the adequacy of existing Commonwealth and State social welfare legislation. [More…]

• 3 relates to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• That there be referred to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare the following matters [More…]

• With this, there must always be the acknowledgement that our security and welfare is inextricably bound up with the security and welfare of others. [More…]

• The proposals which the Government has put forward provide for large increases in essential expenditures, especially in payments to the States, improvement of welfare services, greater development and assistance to industry. [More…]

• Last year there were very substantial increases in welfare payments and in a number of the other programmes put forward by the Government. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) was criticised as being irresponsible in taking the steps which he took to bring up the degree to which he brought them up the various payments in the welfare field. [More…]

• Last year’s Budget enabled the people who are in receipt of welfare benefits to receive a very substantial lift, one which I believe was well and truly the maximum that the nation could afford. [More…]

• and (2) The medical officer who was Superintendent of the Alice Springs Hospital from April 1959 to 1960 states that as part of his contact and liaison work with Welfare Branch authorities in Alice Springs, he would have reported from time to time on health matters concerning residents of Yuendumu. [More…]

• This one senator sought to set down a programme for the Health and Welfare Committee which would take it 5 or 6 years to get through. [More…]

• Perhaps Senator Murphy would care to indicate how many months or how many years the references which he proposed to be made to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare would keep that Committee occupied. [More…]

• The requests were issued as part of the fight by the ACTU to protect the welfare of its members. [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 . [More…]

• to remove whatever basic injustices exist, particularly in the field of social welfare. [More…]

• That there be referred to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare the following matter - The problems of, and the provisions for assistance to, mentally and physically handicapped persons in Australia. [More…]

• Today proposals will be submitted to deal with references to the Health and Welfare Standing Committee and the Standing Committee on Primary and Secondary Industry and Trade. [More…]

• Health and Welfare 405 was going to move from place to place necessarily and call witnesses from industry, and other fields of endeavour. [More…]

• I am asking that my amendment, which is in terms similar to an amendment of mine which was carried on 1 1th June last by 28 votes to 23 votes, will be endorsed by the Senate today, so that this will be the first matter referred to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare, one of the committees which have been talked about so glibly and so graciously, as a matter of fact, over a long period of time. [More…]

• This is our purpose in seeking to have this matter referred to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• The fact that Senators are overburdened with Senate select committee work is sufficient reason to refer this matter to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare because it has been set up to inquire into matters of this nature. [More…]

• If a Senate select committee is set up to inquire into this matter its findings and recommendations may be referred to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare anyway. [More…]

• For the reasons Senator Turnbull has just stated, I am of the view that the inquiry ought to be conducted by the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• The welfare of mentally and physically handicapped persons is an important subject - in some ways it is perhaps a fundamental matter - but it is not a subject which comes within the category of being extraordinary. [More…]

• The welfare of mentally and physically handicapped persons is a problem which will continue to be with us for a long time but it is not something which is unusual. [More…]

• The social welfare section of the Budget provides for an extra 50c a week for pensioners. [More…]

• Thousands of these people are living in Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia where injustices are being perpetrated by pastoralists, by governments and by people who, in many instances unfortunately, are associated with departments which are supposed to minister to their welfare. [More…]

• Social welfare receives the second largest allocation under this Budget. [More…]

• Senator Laucke praised the standard of Australian welfare and mentioned our present economic standard but, like the majority of his colleagues on the Government side, he said nothing about the miserly 50c that the Government has given to the pensioners of this country. [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…]

• I venture to suggest that someone who has the reputation of having done a great deal to ensure that there was no recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and did not meet the just requirements of public order and the general welfare in a democratic society is someone who may well be not admitted to this country to carry on in the way in which he obviously has carried on in the United States. [More…]

• The Standing Committee on Health and Welfare is one to which the independent senator, Senator Turnbull, has been nominated. [More…]

• In a supplementary statement presented after the closing date for receipt of applications, the company presented further views on its programme policy, in which it was again asserted that the interests and welfare of the public and those of the shareholders are not incompatible, but must be regarded in that order, and gave further evidence of the manner in which this result should, in ils view, be secured. [More…]

• Section 64 of the Migration Act requires that an Aboriginal who resides in a State in which there is in force a law making provision for the protection, control or welfare of Aborigines shall obtain a permit to depart from Australia unless exempted by the Act. [More…]

• Inquiries made following Barry McKenzie’s departure revealed that he did not come under the control or protection of the Native Welfare Department of Western Australia, and therefore did not require a permit to depart from Australia. [More…]

• Any information which comes to hand, from whatever source, will continue to be checked and enquiries will continue to be made in the hope of obtaining accurate information as to Mr James’ whereabouts and welfare. [More…]

• If this Government after 20 years in power can allow this right to overseas shipping lines which have a far greater influence on the welfare of primary industry than the sort of thing Senator Lillico was concerned about, then quite obviously I cannot see why he should be emphasising so much the activities of certain trade unions. [More…]

• The main criticism of the social service section of the Budget must be that it has failed to tackle the long overdue overhaul of the welfare system. [More…]

• I am trying to emphasise the need for a complete overhaul of our social service and welfare programme. [More…]

• The needs of all people similarly placed are exactly the same, but our social welfare programme seems to indicate that there are some differences. [More…]

• At the same time this Budget helps to achieve other great national objectives in important areas such as defence, social welfare and the economic welfare of industry - including our great woolgrowing industry .. . [More…]

• We are talking about a sound economic growth, a fair and increasing share to State governments of the gross national product: social welfare; the consideration of the importance of defence; the economic welfare of industry: assistance to the wool growing industry: and tax relief to lower and middle income groups. [More…]

• Every manjack in Australia is talking about his own welfare and wellbeing. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party seems to forget that the healthier the Australian economy is the better will be the living standards of the Australian workers, ft has forgotten about the welfare of the people and what can be done for them. [More…]

• The Minister will recall that yesterday I posed a question to him concerning the urgent replacement of the welfare sister in the Wattie Creek area who left her employment. [More…]

• publications published by religious, charitable or welfare organisations consisting in substantial part of news, information and articles about their activities or concerning matters relating to religion, charity or welfare, or [More…]

• We should look at these matters very seriously in order that we might uphold those things which are dear to this country and which over the years have made a vital contribution to the economy and the welfare of the nation. [More…]

• At the same time this Budget helps to achieve other great national objectives in important areas such as defence, social welfare and the economic welfare of industry - including our great woolgrowing industry that is currently beset by special problems. [More…]

• When the present Prime Minister assumed office we used to hear talk about social welfare matters. [More…]

• We thought that the new Prime Minister would be a social welfare Prime Minister because he made a number of important statements on this matter. [More…]

• 1 have often said in this Parliament that the Prime Minister made a number of important statements on social welfare, but 1 suggest that what has happened is that the conservative element in the Liberal Party is trying to stop him from doing what he wants to do. [More…]

• Our welfare assistance has been directed to the areas where it is felt that there is an immediate or a very pressing need. [More…]

• Defence will take $34m and social welfare $157m. [More…]

• I came to the conclusion that the Australian Labor Party was not sincere about its regard for the welfare of pensioners and that all its talk about them was pious waffle. [More…]

• If the Gov eminent is proceeding to consolidate other gains, to offer other social welfare provisions, and it can maintain the real value of the pension, I believe, taking into account the other obligations of the Government, its actions ought to be regarded by a discerning, discriminating electorate as justified. [More…]

• As far as I can see, an examination of the Budget in the light of the various welfare provisions and the expenditure involved in giving effect to, for example, the tapered means test introduced last year and the new health scheme which came in earlier this year reveals very real progress in the field of social welfare. [More…]

• Lel us consider the pressures which have developed and the obligations which the Government must meet in the field of social welfare. [More…]

• Many other requirements involving human welfare are not being provided because too much of our funds are being thrown into the war in Vietnam. [More…]

• The fixed commitments - that is, the inescapable commitments, those which may vary from year to year in amount but are fixed in obligation, either in political obligation or in contractual obligation - are things such as the defence commitment, payments to or for the States, social welfare payments, the ordinary administrative costs of the Government and matters of that character. [More…]

• This year our Welfare Programme concentrates on consolidating past gains and getting the new Health Scheme under way. [More…]

• The thing which worries me in contributing to a social services debate is that if one puts practical and realistic facts to the Senate one tends to create the impression that one is not sympathetic towards the welfare of pensioners. [More…]

• I commence my remarks by saying that I am intensely sympathetic towards the welfare of pensioners, although I do receive a good deal of abuse in this regard. [More…]

• We need to realise that the amount of money paid out in the national welfare fund this year is $ 1,473m, which is an increase of $131m or nearly 10 per cent over last years figures. [More…]

• I say that this Budget provides for a payment of SI, 143m from the National Welfare Fund, an increase of SI 30m over last year’s allocation or, in other words, an increase of almost 10 per cent. [More…]

• The increased appropriation from the National Welfare Fund has been channelled into other directions. [More…]

• It seems to mc to be so clear that if that were done under the present welfare fund and under the present scale of graduated income tax, it would be completely beyond the capacity of the taxpayers of this country to pay, having regard to the mighty increases which would be necessary to pay a pension which would, be adequate to maintain an acceptable standard of living. [More…]

• The overall increase in benefits amounts to about 10 per cent of the National Welfare Fund. [More…]

• If you look at- the social welfare programme as a whole you will find that the graph similarly goes up but the rise is not quite as marked as it is in the field of attention to age and invalid pensioners. [More…]

• So long as the social welfare programme as a whole is a matter in which the people have a say, I believe that the social welfare programme that is evidenced in the country will be a reflection of the will of the people. [More…]

• Further, I suggest that any government should be prepared to accept the responsibility of making a decision as to what the economy can stand in the form of non-productive payments - I do not say that in any derogatory sense- in which 1 include those under the social welfare programme, as opposed to productive payments in which I include, but not exclusively, things such as national development and education. [More…]

• I hope that the Senate will pass the Bill with all due expedition so that we can then proced to get on with the development of our country through argument and positive suggestions as to how we can increase our gross national product and thereby provide in future for greater increases in our social welfare programme. [More…]

• These areas are subject to periodical inspection by Welfare Officers, who under the terms of the Wildlife Conservation and Control Ordinance are (considered to be) honorary rangers. [More…]

• Whatever the reason may be, the Senate should not be subjected to the kind of treatment whereby an important social welfare measure is rushed through the Senate in a state of emergency. [More…]

• I pay a tribute also to the welfare officers, the social workers who really do a first class job. [More…]

• These Acts introduced important advances in social welfare and . [More…]

• continued the trend towards greater co-operation in the welfare field between the Commonwealth and the State Governments, local authorities and voluntary agencies. [More…]

• Australia has been a pioneer in the sphere of social welfare and social services oyer the years, it introduced a comprehensive system of age pensions long before either Great Britain or the United States of America, 2 countries with which we frequently have been compared and on which we are frequently modelled in all broad areas of social advance. [More…]

• That same year Commonwealth Government expenditure on major social service programmes, including health, repatriation and welfare, amounted to $1,500m and that for the States amounted to S860m - a total of $2,333m out of a total consolidated revenue of about $6,00Om. [More…]

• We could even come down the list quite a way and regard recreational activities, family and child welfare as well as counselling services, as coming within the field of social services. [More…]

• I believe it not unfair to say, we found the so-called National Welfare Fund in heavy deficit. [More…]

• This Bill is proof that the Government has a continuing interest in the welfare of the recipients of social services. [More…]

• If Legacy can do it, if the Returned Services League Welfare Fund can do it, so can our Commonwealth public servants if they are given the power. [More…]

• It must be grossly unpalatable to the Ministers concerned that their approach to social welfare should have to be determined in such a light. [More…]

• This statement shows how, once the situation is allowed to develop whereby we have to examine the entitlements and the alternatives open to pensioners, in the absence of an independent approach to the matter, we can offend the human dignity of the people with whose welfare we are dealing. [More…]

• The provision of any social service benefit today is as much a matter of economic determination as of arbitral decision, and an independent body adequately equipped with those with trained judicial minds and those with economic experience and expertise, and being of course a body which would have regard for the financial capacity of the nation and the consequences of a determination on the national financial structure, ultimately must earn the respect of the community and of the recipients of social welfare. [More…]

• That there be referred to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare the following matter - All aspects of Repatriation, including the operation of the Repatriation Act and of the War Service Land Settlement Agreements Act. [More…]

• Surely the foregoing is a sickening survey of the activities of two members of our Federal Parliament - of two who are supposed to have at heart in the Commonwealth sphere the welfare of this State and the interests of Queensland. [More…]

• These concession rates represent, in effect, a substantial subsidy to the publishing and printing industry and to manyorganisations, ranging from religious, charitable and welfare organisations to social and recreational clubs. [More…]

• Religious, charitable and welfare organisations, publishing registered newspapers and periodicals, consisting mainly of news, information and articles about their activities or about religious, charitable or welfare subjects; similarly educational, scientific, technical and agricultural organisations whose principal object is the dissemination of knowledge, whose publica tions consist mainly 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 of1c. [More…]

• Thai there be referred to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare the following matter - All aspects of Repatriation, including the operation of the Repatriation Act. [More…]

• by leave - Mr Deputy President, the intention of the Leader of the Opposition (Senator Murphy) is to short circuit the debate on the motion which is on the notice paper concerning reference of all aspects of repatriation to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• This is the first time in the history of this Parliament that the Government has shown any interest in the welfare of ex-servicemen or repatriation benefits. [More…]

• That there be referred to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare the following matter - All aspects of repatriation, including the operation of the Repatriation Act and of the War Service Land Settlement Agreements Act. [More…]

• I make a final appeal that before this Bill passes through this chamber and comes into law the Government examine the amendment moved by Senator Bishop on behalf of the Opposition and also the motion on the notice paper which asks that there be referred to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare all aspects of repatriation, including the operation of the Repatriation Act and of the War Service Land Settlement Agreements Act. [More…]

• I believe it is now very important that the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare . [More…]

• How many cattle stations come under the jurisdiction of the Departmental Welfare Office at Wave Hill, Northern Territory. [More…]

• What distance is the Welfare Officer required to cover in the course of his duties. [More…]

• The only Welfare Officer stationed at Wave [More…]

• In modern society one can refer to many areas of great importance and significance for the welfare and needs of our people but possibly there is no greater area than that of communications, whether within densely populated cities or in sparsely settled areas, whether intrastate, interstate or international. [More…]

• The next article deals with paper making safety and the welfare of those engaged in the industry. [More…]

• It provides instructions on safety and welfare to members of the union. [More…]

• I know that the Minister for Housing has the highest regard for the work performed by charitable and religious organisations in the social welfare field and in looking after people who perhaps are not so fortunate as we are. [More…]

• The honourable senator has my assurance that this will be done, but I do not think he can fairly expect me, my Department, or any of its officers, to go beyond that in his general welfare. [More…]

• Because this journal devotes much of its space toroadtraffic problems and has as its objective the welfare and safety of the motoring community of New South Wales, will the Postmaster-General be prepared to reviewthe rates of postal charges for this and similar organisations. [More…]

• These are country newspapers and periodicals, and those published by religious, charitable and welfare organisations. [More…]

• I want to pause at this stage for a moment because at some time in the discussion I believe I heard somebody say that these publications were not given the benefit of category A. I want to stress that these periodicals and newspapers published by charitable, religious and welfare organisations are part of category A. [More…]

• Native Welfare Act 1911-1963 (Section 17) [More…]

• The wider the ambit of the welfare state becomes, the move embracing becomes the solicitude of the Government for various segments of society, the greater is the fixed commitment of the Budget in relation to the provision for those committed services. [More…]

• Is it a fact that direct communication satellites, with a capacity to telecast programmes from foreign countries directly to viewers in Australia, without the aid of a local repeater station, are being prepared for launching; if so, what consideration has been given to the possible impact that such multiple unlicensed overseas transmissions will have upon the programme standards of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board, Australian television stations, including those operated by the Australian Broadcasting Commission, and the cultural welfare of the people of Australia. [More…]

• [ believe that if the South Australian senators on the other side are mindful of the welfare of the wine industry they will join us on this side of the chamber when the vote is taken later today. [More…]

• Is it a fact that many Aboriginals employed by the Aboriginal Welfare Department in the North- em Territory are classified as trainees and are thus in receipt of a low wage? [More…]

• Is it a fact that the women’s toilets at the Welfare Centre near Wattie Creek have been damaged and unusable for a period of more than 4 months; if so, when will repairs to the toilets be effected. [More…]

• Why was the same close examination not carried out by Health officers at the Welfare Centre, where toilet facilities are obviously well below the standard of those at Wattie Creek. [More…]

• lt has always been my desire to live in Australia for the rest of my life and I am sure that I can contribute to the welfare of the country. [More…]

• I am a member of the Standing Committee on Health, Welfare and Repatriation. [More…]

• It always will be a tremendous problem when society is expecting the revenue to provide a great number of services; where in effect it has a great expenditure pattern for various reasons such as defence, development of the country, social welfare - all these things which really call for a lot of money. [More…]

• As this present programme proceeds from the recommendations of a joint committee, which included gentlemen who are intensely identified with Canberra and its welfare, which has taken some years to complete its investigations and which has examined land sales trends in the area and assessed the future development of Canberra in terms of population and services, we feel that the Parliament is now in a position to look at this matter with considerable objectivity and apaproach the motion for disallowance accordingly. [More…]

• Thus, during 1969-70 grants totalling $203,000 were made to Aboriginal organisations and other bodies to enable them to make their welfare and other activities more effective. [More…]

• That indicates their regard for the welfare of the people they are supposed to represent. [More…]

• I give him full credit because he was sufficient of a patriot and interested enough in the welfare of his own country to try to do the right thing by the economy. [More…]

• The Housing Commission is not concerned about the welfare of people, lt is concerned about getting bodies into the metropolitan area to encircle the Golden Mile for the purpose of putting money back into the pockets of the big business interests in Bourke, Swanston and Collins Streets. [More…]

• is that we feel that in a body such as the Australian Wool Commission we have to be very sure that those allotted the responsible task of handling the whole of the acquisition and marketing of the wool put into their hands are people who will operate in the highest traditions of and with dedication to the industry, but not necessarily people who are tied to any firm or organisation which could give them an unconscious bias that would be against the objective interest of approaching the welfare of the industry as a whole. [More…]

• That there be referred to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare the following matterThe incidence, distribution and causes of primary and secondary poverty in Australia and the ad equacy of existing Commonwealth and State social welfare legislation. [More…]

• The purpose of this motion is to refer the problem to the appropriate committee - that committee being the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare - for consideration. [More…]

• The Standing Committee on Health and Welfare has already had referred to it the problem of mentally and physically handicapped people and the question of repatriation. [More…]

• That is important because one of the difficulties about the problem of poverty in Australia is that the responsibility for social welfare has been broken up between the Commonwealth and the States so that each has some share of responsibility and each deals in some piecemeal way with the problem. [More…]

• At the Commonwealth level, for example, the Repatriation Department concerns itself with the welfare of persons who have been in the armed Services and their dependants, the Department of Social Services is concerned with various aspects, the Department of Housing is concerned with other aspects, the Department of the Treasury is concerned in many ways with problems of pensions, superannuation and so on, the Prime Minister’s Department is concerned with the welfare of Aboriginals- [More…]

• The United Kingdom-Australia Assisted Passage Agreement - Passage and associated costs - item relates to assisted passages under the United Kingdom-Australia Assisted Passage Agreement and the associated costs involved for passages of assistant welfare and information officers and official chaplains on ships. [More…]

• Due to a strengthening of social welfare resources the Department is now able more adequately to assess the feasibility of successful settlement in certain social breakdown cases. [More…]

• The welfare and integrationof all its citizens. [More…]

• After all, it is Commonwealth public servants’ money, and 1 understand that the policy of the Commonwealth Superannuation Board - the Minister can correct me if I am wrong - is not to advance loans from the Superannuation Fund to public servants who are anxious to secure loans at a reasonable rate of interest for the purchase or the construction of a home or for other purposes connected with their family welfare. [More…]

• It would appear that the Government, which considers the interests of industry, commerce, the farming sector and shipping, is not prepared to consider the welfare of the worker. [More…]

• This conflict of which I speak between the Office of Aboriginal Affairs and the Department of the Interior is one which bodes ill for the welfare of Aboriginals in the area. [More…]

• At present a considerable amount of money is expended for the welfare of the Aboriginal. [More…]

• Acts which are punishable by detention include attempts to escape or illegally leave the Reserve; ‘failure to carry out instruction in hygiene, sanitation or infant welfare’, being guilty of immoral conduct or committing an offence against discipline. [More…]

• In addition to the Community fund already mentioned, the Aboriginal Welfare Fund is set up, which is to be ‘maintained for the general benefit of persons having a strain of Aboriginal blood’ fR.4). [More…]

• Those most vociferous have generally also been noticeable by a lack of any real personal contribution or involvement particularly in the welfare field. [More…]

• Was the Office of Aboriginal Affairs or the Welfare Branch of the Northern Territory Administration consulted before the licence was granted? [More…]

• It is remarkable, indeed significant, just how many people have become interested in the welfare of Aboriginals since they were granted the franchise. [More…]

• The Administration in South Australia has the responsibility of using this money to the best of its ability and for the welfare and benefit of the people of South Australia. [More…]

• The matter before us comes down to two main headings, namely, the import and significance of the Grants Commission - not only in this distribution of funds but also in relation to the future distribution of financial grants to the States - more particularly as far as South Australians are concerned, the use to which this money is put for the welfare of the State and its instrumentalities. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for the -Interior, upon notice: ls it a fact that ‘pensioner’ cottages on Old Wave Hill Station belong to some of the Aboriginal pensioners now living at Wattie Creek; if so, is any action being taken by the Northern Territory Aboriginal Welfare Department or any other institution, to have the cottages transferred to Wattie Creek for use by the owners. [More…]

• We recognise that the entire social welfare system cannot be changed overnight. [More…]

• All of us would like lo be able to spend more on social welfare and on the other activities of government. [More…]

• The Phoenix Welfare Association Limited. [More…]

• In the circumstances, and conceding as I said before that because of pressures from outside which we were not game to resist independence will come, I want now to refer to statements made by Mr Whitlam to show that in my view they have been injudicious and reckless and have not contributed to the welfare of the people of New Guinea. [More…]

• It shows a very slender change in the National Welfare Fund. [More…]

• I should think that the Labor Party, if it had any sense for the welfare of the Australian people, would do the same. [More…]

• What 1 am saying is that I support the idea of a review of our immigration policy because 1 believe that the time has come for us to decide whether it is in the interests of the economic welfare of Australia to continue the rate of immigration at the same high level as it has been in the past. [More…]

• There are strong economic as well as welfare reasons for assisting these people to new employment. [More…]

• Employment and Welfare, on behalf of the Maltese Government and by the Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch) on behalf of the Australian Government. [More…]

• Minister of Labour, Employment and Welfare, on behalf of the Maltese Government and the Minister for Immigration 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…]

• Another interesting point is that for all these months we have had this matter before the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• welfare and charitable organisations. [More…]

• Only 2 of those committees were given immediate viability, they being the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare and the Standing Committee on Primary and Secondary Industry and Trade, to each of which references have been made. [More…]

• I could not imagine a more inappropriate time to bring forward this motion in Senator Murphy’s name or his motion to refer to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare the introduction of a national superannuation scheme, lt would appear to me that prudence itself would dictate that both these matters be allowed to stand aside until a discussion of the President’s report. [More…]

• On 20th August last Senator Murphy gave notice of a motion to refer a matter to the only committee available at that time, the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• It is of interest to note that Greece subscribes to the International Labour Organisation and has ratified many of (he conventions appertaining to conditions on board ship and the welfare of its seamen. [More…]

• The Standing Committee on Health and Welfare; [More…]

• As I said earlier, we began our system of legislative and general purpose standing committees by appointing 2 committees, one in relation io health and welfare and the other in respect of primary and secondary industry and trade. [More…]

• I understand that the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare at present has a reference which it was given almost as soon as it was created and I have been informed by the Chairman of that Committee that it may well be that the reference will not be resolved before the end of this financial year. [More…]

• I think this document will take its place in the history of the procedures of this chamber of the National Parliament, and it may well be that stemming from the report and subsequent motions to which we might agree we will be able - I am sure we will - to produce in the Senate a system of management which will be in the best interests of the welfare of the people of Australia. [More…]

• A number of references have been suggested to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare and the Standing Committee on Primary and Secondary Industry and Trade. [More…]

• If such a committee had before it a massive reference such as that on handicapped children which has been referred to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare - or the currently suggested reference on housing, or one concerning a national superannuation fund - either those massive references would have to be put aside under the pressure of intrusion of smaller matters, destroying the continuity of investigation and prejudicing the interest of the committee- [More…]

• Standing Committee on Health and Welfare the introduction of a national superannuation scheme and the methods of financing and operating such a scheme. [More…]

• They may inquire into a. matter raised by a backbencher in the Parliament about some of the social welfare problems that arise. [More…]

• We should not permit a situation in which, as I mentioned earlier, important legislation, statements to this House, or issues relating to the social welfare of the nation could be hidden by referring them to a committee. [More…]

• With the exception of 2 matters, one of which related to the Commonwealth’s control of the welfare of Aboriginals, none of the matters recommended by that all-party committee was presented to the people. [More…]

• Honourable senators will be aware that one of the standing committees in existence at the present time is the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• We have a number of witnesses coming to give evidence and in order to get the best value from membership, contribute to the ultimate findings and give account of the stewardship in relation to the matter which the Senate has referred to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare, these documents have to be studied and cognisance taken of the material within them. [More…]

• More importantly in the matter of integration the need to learn the English language shows up in the area of family welfare. [More…]

• Moving from the personal situation through the family welfare situation, one comes into the area of employment. [More…]

• Usually adult migrants are busy in employment, setting up homes, attending to the welfare of their families and the development of their life generally and it is not always possible for them to fit into a private educational programme. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the superintendent of the Station takes disciplinary action against Aboriginal residents who complain about living conditions to Native Welfare officers. [More…]

• The Western Australian Commissioner of Native Welfare has advised that the Mission was visited 3 times during the last 12 months and the District Office, Wyndham, reported that there was no evidence that any Aboriginalhas been punished for complaining to the Native Welfare Department officer about living conditions, disciplinary action or victimisation to the District Officer, Wyndham. [More…]

• Last year we had 3 estimates committees sitting at the one time, and of the Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committees referred to by Mr President already the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare and the Standing Committee on Primary and Secondary Industry and Trade are silting. [More…]

• The Standing Committee on Health and Welfare is endeavouring to resolve some of the questions we have referred to it. [More…]

• On inquiring today I find that the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare has asked 3 departments to give some report on the subject of extra finance to overcome the increasing crime in Australia. [More…]

• From today’s notice paper, at page 2254, we see that currently we have 2 legislative and general purpose standing committees - one on health and welfare and the other on primary and secondary industry and trade. [More…]

• F have had some experience of the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• That (with the exception of those Committees already established, namely, the Standing Committees on Health and Welfare and Primary and Secondary Industry and Trade) each Standing Committee consist of six (6) Senators, three to be appointed by the Leader of the Government in the Senate, two by the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, and one by the Leader of the Australian Democratic Labor Parly or by any minority group or groups or independent or independents in the manner referred to in paragraphs (4.) [More…]

• (with the exception of (hose Committees already established, namely, the Standing Committees on Health and Welfare and Primary and Secondary Industry and Trade) . [More…]

• Labor ami Public Welfare Washington. [More…]

• That the petitions relating to crime in Australia presented to the Senate on 28th October 1970 and 2nd November 1970 by Senator Cavanagh and referred to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare on 3rd November 1970 be now transferred from the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare to the Standing Committee on Social Environment and that the latter Committee be empowered to take into consideration and further pursue any inquiries or actions already initiated by the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare in regard to the petitions. [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…]

• The Navy League on the other hand is concerned with the formation of units, the provision of accommodation and buildings for training, the financial administration of units and with the social and moral welfare of members. [More…]

• The proposed rural commission of inquiry would necessarily face an immense task because of all the elements which go to constitute the rural economy and on which its welfare, viability and national value depend. [More…]

• We in the Senate then proposed the appointment of the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• That the Petitions relating to crime in Australia, presented to the Senate on 28th October 1970 and 2nd November 1970 by Senator Cavanagh, and referred on 3rd November 1970 to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare, be now transferred from the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare to the Standing Committee on Social Environment, and that the latter Committee be empowered to lake into consideration and further pursue any inquiries or action already initialed by the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare in regard lo the Petitions. [More…]

• The important step was taken on referring the petitions to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• It has happened that the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare has not proceeded very far into this matter as it has been heavily engaged in considering other matters. [More…]

• I have spoken to the Chairman and 1 think to all members of the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• I am referring not only to the general hospitals that look after the health and welfare of the ordinary citizens -but also to the homes and hospitals for the aged and infirm. [More…]

• It is for these reasons that 1 welcome the introduction of this legislation and commend the Government for having been prepared, at the request of the Australian Dried Fruits Association, spontaneously to assist on a $1 for $1 basis in the things which the industry itself desires to do to promote ils welfare and, through promoting its own welfare, to promote the wellbeing of the fruit industry- in Australia. [More…]

• Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson did not say anything about this other matter of a reference to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• The Government has shown a continuing interest over the years in the welfare of pensioners. [More…]

• That there be referred to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare the following matter - The introduction of a national superannuation scheme and the methods of financing and operating such a scheme. [More…]

• Many Australians think that our country is still in the vanguard of most industrial nations in social welfare. [More…]

• About 1900 Australia was justifiably regarded as a social welfare laboratory. [More…]

• Our social welfare system is inadequate, unjust and inequitable. [More…]

• Any country as wealthy as Australia should regard social welfare as essential, along with services such as health and housing. [More…]

• The official philosophy regarding the aims and objectives of social welfare benefits is stagnant. [More…]

• One of the major ways to help to transform our present patchwork social welfare system into one which provides proper social security is to create a national superannuation scheme. [More…]

• It is clear that such schemes vary with their management, and it is equally clear that it is time for a closer legislative consideration of this important area of social welfare. [More…]

• Thus our aged will be more easily supported by the work force than the aged of other nations which are generally regarded as having more advanced and generous forms of social welfare. [More…]

• It could also provide the foundation for an entirely new approach to social security, an approach where the state cares for the total welfare of all its citizens and not just for the lucky minority. [More…]

• 1 therefore submit for the consideration of the Senate, and for its commendation, this motion that the matter be referred to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• As a matter of fact it destroyed the national welfare fund which was set up by the Chifley Government for the purpose of abolishing the means test. [More…]

• It is our intention to refer to the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare this question of all aspects of poverty in accordance with a motion yet to be resolved by the Senate. [More…]

• An investigation by the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare - later we shall ask honourable senators to support a proposal for a reference to that Committee - would prove of benefit. [More…]

• The provision to persons in particular need of such additional benefits and welfare services as may be necessary to maintain their real standard of living at an acceptable level including cooperation with State, Local Government and Regional authorities on these matters; and Commonwealth financial allocations and the establishment of administrative machinery to govern the standard which these Commonwealth finances should achieve to promote the development of regional health and welfare programmes. [More…]

• This process of examining and evaluating all proposals is continuing as the Government is aware that social welfare is an area which should never remain static Also some of the problems are so complex and immense that prudence demands further study. [More…]

• In the field of welfare services, Australia provides a comprehensive social security system. [More…]

• Tn 1969-70. the Federal Government spent $ 1,327m on social and health services from the National Welfare Fund. [More…]

• The Federal Government provides its main cash welfare services under the Social Services Act 1947-1969. [More…]

• Benefits are paid from the National Welfare Fund, which is financed from consolidated revenue. [More…]

• Through the years it has reviewed the field of social welfare and has taken as its standard the object of assisting those in the most need while at the same time not discouraging self-help and self-reliance. [More…]

• I take these remarks briefly beyond the realm of Australia and look at the report of the International Conference of Ministers Responsible for Social Welfare which was held at United Nations headquarters. [More…]

• I relate the following portion of the report to Australia’s role in understanding the requirements of social welfare: [More…]

• The Ministers responsible for social welfare participating in the conference affirmed their commitment to the goal expressed in the Preamble of :he United Nations Charter ‘to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom’. [More…]

• In so doing, they underlined their conviction that social welfare was of fundamental significance in furthering’ this goal in all countries of the world, at whatever stage of development. [More…]

• At the same time, they recognised that respect for human rights and individual freedoms and the avoidance of any kind of discrimination constitute the indispensable basis of all social welfare development. [More…]

• The Conference had no doubt that a unique opportunity now existed for social welfare to make its full impact felt in national development. [More…]

• Given the firm resolution ali national leaders in the social field, and; particularly the Ministers responsible for social welfare, to make sure that the social elements in ‘development are given proper emphasis in overall policy and planning, social welfare could . [More…]

• Finally, social welfare provided necessary supportive services to the development of health, housing, education, manpower training and employment as well as broad policies of rural development. [More…]

• Social welfare also had a supportive function in population policies, which in many countries were fundamental to overall development. [More…]

• But I say to the Senate that it is a general description of what might be called an international discussion of social welfare, an integral part of which is the whole pensions pattern or scheme. [More…]

• It relates social welfare to the other aspects of Australian life. [More…]

• I believe that when the Government is giving consideration to its social welfare programme, including its pensions pattern, this has to be taken into account. [More…]

• I for one hope that the pattern of social welfare, set alongside the pattern of overall development of the Australian nation, will provide before too long a wider and better range of benefits for those people who are in particular need. [More…]

• I find it most strange that in one of our affluent cities young students should find it necessary to set up a centre to which pensioners can go to receive goods at below cost price, assistance in social welfare and directions as to where they can obtain medical care. [More…]

• Senator Davidson referred to the concept of a National Welfare Fund. [More…]

• fact, that in the era of Sir Arthur Fadden a ceiling was virtually applied to the National Welfare Fund. [More…]

• The point I make is that so many members of our work force were at their peak earning period - I mean physically - that the Government of the day would hot have found any difficulty in introducing a national welfare scheme. [More…]

• That there be referred lo the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare the following matter - All aspects of Repatriation, including the operation of the Repatriation Act and of the War Service Land Settlement Agreements Act. [More…]

• The Democratic Labor Party holds that the most satisfactory solution is to be found in a national superannuation scheme whereby the majority currently employed ensure the welfare of those in retirement. [More…]

• As stated in the House of Representatives Hansard of 31st March, the general Government expenditure on health and welfare expressed as a proportion of gross national product for the year 1968 - I take it they are the latest figures - is as follows: Europe-Denmark 20.48; Germany 17.95, Sweden 17.45, France 16.8. [More…]

• If one looks at the figure for the nation of which I and the Minister arc citizens, one finds that health and welfare expenditure represents the princely figure of 7.09 per cent of the gross national product. [More…]

• Whilst the criticisms which are made from time to time may appear to have weight - indeed I am not saying that they do not have weight in some instances - a government has the responsibility to govern and a government must place the position of those deserving of welfare from government alongside the other commitments for which government is responsible. [More…]

• The approach of the Government over the years has been to allocate to the National Welfare Fund and to those aspects of expenditure from the National Welfare Fund such amounts as could be allocated having regard to the many demands which were continually being made upon the Government for expenditure. [More…]

• Additionally, any government would desire to be able to control the amount which it has to place into the national welfare fund so as to be available for pensioners. [More…]

• In other words, child endowment has become virtually a worthless contribution towards the assistance, succour and welfare of families of this nature, but nothing has been done about the matter. [More…]

• Surely the greatest contnributon to the building of a nation must be the welfare of its young people. [More…]

• In many areas of social welfare a prudent community with a social conscience can suggest improvements. [More…]

• I do not suggest that the Democratic Labor Party has not a real concern in the area in which it has put forward these proposals, but I do assert that there are many competing claims upon the Government’s welfare funds. [More…]

• The Government’s record in social welfare is a record of which ti can be justly proud. [More…]

• That those interests are entitled to protection is recognised in Article 29 (2) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in which it is stated that in the exercise of bis rights everyone shall be subject to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing recognition of the rights of others and of meeting the requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society. [More…]

• However, I do take up the point which was raised by Senator Byrne, who is the spokesman of the Australian Democratic Labor Party on this matter, about his Party being concerned as to the welfare of the youth of this nation - in this instance, the youth of the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• The organisations that deal in the accumulation of money are all a part of this term ‘property’, although they themselves are involved in an exercise that, in terms of human standards and human welfare, could be classified as immoral. [More…]

• Since the tabling of this report the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare has been established in the interests of the Australian community. [More…]

• I believe that the report of the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare relating to the problems of the physically and mentally handicapped will be of tremendous advantage to the public in that the report will enable the public’ to have a better understanding of this unfortunate section of the Australian community. [More…]

• My comments relate to a small number only who are principally in the capital cities and whose activities bring discredit upon their profession and are seriously prejudicial to the treatment and cure of those unfortunate members of the community for whose welfare they seem to have such scant regard. [More…]

• But does this amount come out of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund, the Army canteen fund or the welfare fund? [More…]

• As the welfare and development of Aboriginals affect more than 1 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…]

• As a member of the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare J concur with the remarks of the Chairman, Senator Dame Ivy Wedgwood, about the report presented today. [More…]

• I am extremely pleased that the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare has been able to bring down what appears to be an extremely comprehensive report. [More…]

• Without trying to diminish the serious situation these drugs pose in our society, it became very evident early in the inquiry that currently in Australia the major drug problem, so far as the health and welfare of the mass of the people are concerned, revolves round the abuse of the socially acceptable and legal drugs - alco hol and tobacco and the therapeutic substances - which in the majority of cases are either legally prescribed or purchased through legal sales outlets. [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 Shepparton area generally. [More…]

• Undoubtedly the 2 organisations have the welfare of the producers in this industry at the centre of their hearts. [More…]

• the interests and welfare of the participating individuals. [More…]

• The tasks of a Prime Minister of this nation with all its various problems are such that he needs as much time as he can devote to determine policies for the betterment, the growth and development of this country and for the welfare of its people. [More…]

• He has held positions on the Printing Committee, the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Senate Select Committee on Road Safety, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works and the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• Costs and she is Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• As time has gone on she seems to have been achieving more and more, certainly greater distinction in this chamber for her activities in connection with health and welfare which clearly have been of the utmost benefit to the whole nation. [More…]

• We thank you for your services in that capacity and as Chairman of the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• In that respect we all know of her great contribution to general welfare work, to health and to assistance to handicapped and disabled persons. [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…]

• In view of the great social need for this type of social welfare activity, will the Government give consideration to including a monetary provision in the next Budget for the work of this laudable voluntary organisation, the Service to Youth Council in South Australia? [More…]

• In the debate on the Budget for the last financial year - that is 1969-70 - I referred to its grave shortcomings in such crucial areas to the welfare of the Australian people as health, education, public works and services and national development. [More…]

• The Senate resolved to refer that matter to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• That Party had a day’s notice of the DLP move and surely it was concerned for the welfare of the family man. [More…]

• Naturally we would all like to spend more on social welfare and, indeed, all the other activities of government. [More…]

• I think that if one examines the social welfare expenditure of the Government one will find that it already represents a very significant proportion of Commonwealth expenditure. [More…]

• The national welfare fund expenditure was expected to, and will, require something just under $ 1,500m or 18.7 per cent of the total. [More…]

• Therefore when the Western Australian Constitution Act was passed on 25th July 1890 it contained the provision that 5,000 should be paid out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund to the Aboriginal Protection Board for ‘the welfare of the Aboriginal natives, and expended in providing them with food and clothing when they would otherwise be destitute, in providing the education of Aboriginal children (including half castes) and in assisting generally to promote the preservation and well-being of the Aboriginals.’ [More…]

• On other occasions, particularly during the Budget session of this Parliament, the Labor Party will be moving other motions which will support a fairly large number of people in the Australian community both in relation to land rights and in relation to the questions of health, welfare and job opportunities. [More…]

• It does seem to me - referring briefly to the New Zealand-Australia Free Trade Agreement - that the first duty of the Government is to look to the welfare and prosperity of its own primary producers. [More…]

• Through a sympathetic acceptance of a difficult situation and a preparedness to act in the way provided for in these 2 Bills, I feel that we can emerge to a condition wherein the 2 sectors of our economy, complementary one to the other, can ensure the general welfare of the people of our country. [More…]

• If there is to be, an adherence to the dictates of union executives in the way that Mr Hawke claims he can require the dictates of his organisation to be observed, some people will, in the pursuit of an objective, be denying themselves the employment which they regard as vital for their own and their families’ welfare. [More…]

• While it may be true that some State legislatures are slow to introduce amendments in this field, I remind the Senate that States in which Labor governments held office during the post war years were the States that really started the welfare trend. [More…]

• I am sure that he will say that in relation even to strictly legal matters it has been the custom in the courts to take note of this new concept of workers compensation and to look at the law as providing the sort of compensation which should be provided in a welfare society. [More…]

• Senator Dame Ivy Wedgwood will support me to the full when I say that when the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare was inquiring into matters relating to mentally and physically handicapped people we found what I would call a lack of an even break for people who happened to be injured while working at a rural quarry, for example. [More…]

• I want to draw the Minister’s attention to the fact that when the Senate Standing Committee on Healh and Welfare was dealing with physically handicapped persons, Mr Reynolds, the compensation officer of the New South Wales [More…]

• I simply convey to the Minister that when the Health and Welfare Committee completed its report the key words of that report were ‘without prejudice to existing rights’. [More…]

• Throughout your parliamentary career it has been apparent to all that you have always had an overwhelming conviction that our democratic processes require dignity, devotion and application to the welfare of the nation. [More…]

• I wish to inform him that Pitcairn is British territory and the welfare of the Pitcairn Islanders is the responsibility of the British Government. [More…]

• I would have thought that, so far from espousing this line of operation, those who had any solicitude for the existence and welfare of the trade union movement would see in this course of conduct a most divisive factor which, if persisted in, cannot be tolerated by any democratic community that puts its faith in a parliament elected by the majority of the people. [More…]

• One has only to see the damage that it can do to the economic fabric of this country and to make mere mention of the Glasgow dockyards, the collapses that have taken place in big manufacturing concerns in America and the general economic situation in that country, which has industrial unrest to a greater degree than we have in this country, to see that the economic welfare of the trade unionist is at risk. [More…]

• The wage increase indicated first of all, a drastic erosion of the value of money and that that would have a disastrous effect on the recipients of social welfare and, secondly, that once the effect of that wage increase started to operate there would be a further grave deterioration in the income and purchasing power of the pension. [More…]

• the notice and attention of Parliament 1 this gravely wanting field of social welfare. [More…]

• I have no doubt that it was for the welfare of the people. [More…]

• As to welfare, we know that the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) on taking office pledged the Government to bring into effect in 1971-72 a fundamental review of social services and methods of adjusting them. [More…]

• Pensioner group leaders have called for an immediate $5 a week rise pending the construction of a new welfare scheme geared to the living standards of our wage earners. [More…]

• The whole social welfare scheme is a malignant growth on our society and this Government is not equipped or inclined to perform surgery to remove it. [More…]

• it produces no programme for high national objectives of social welfare, economic strength and national security.’ [More…]

• Those who criticise the policies that are expressed in the hard cash figures of the Budget - it is those with which I want to deal, not fanciful theories of Socialist nonsence such as we have listened to - should note that more than two-thirds of the $833,00Om is committed under 4 items - defence, the States, the National Welfare Fund and repatriation services. [More…]

• The stern item in this quota of (he Budget, to which I referred as constituting more than two-thirds of it, is the National Welfare Fund. [More…]

• We are increasing the National Welfare Fund by $2 17m this year. [More…]

• When he was saying that the increased personal income tax would yield $68m and that the increased duty on cigarettes would yield $21 in, he did not say that the total of all the increased taxes in this Budget represents $157m, which is just $60m less than the increased social services which it provides under the one heading of National Welfare Fund. [More…]

• We have always tried to evaluate the Budget against the background of Australia’s welfare in its widest sense, including the economic wellbeing of its people as well as the requirements of national security. [More…]

• Has the Minister representing the Treasurer seen a recent survey on poverty by Professor Henderson of the University of Melbourne which shows that in 1966 Australia spent 5.6 per cent of the gross national product on social welfare, compared with 14.7 per cent in the Common Market countries and 6.3 per cent in New Zealand; that in 1969 the Australian percentage was only 5.3- [More…]

• As I have said, Australia in 1968-69 spent 5.3 per cent of its gross national product on social welfare, and I suggest that we should lift that percentage to 5.9 and bring it in line with what was spent in those 4 years from 1960 to 1964. [More…]

• There are strong grounds for the Government to consider uplifting the amount spent on social welfare. [More…]

• We must take into consideration the fact that 14.7 per cent of the gross national product of the countries in the European Common Market is spent on social welfare. [More…]

• In a country nearer to home, New Zealand, 6.3 per cent of the gross national product is spent on social welfare. [More…]

• I hope that the raising of these questions will make them sensitive and aware of the existence of poverty, and that when the opportunity presents itself in future Budget talks they will try to persuade the Government to uplift the proportion of our gross national product that is being spent on social welfare and thus alleviate hardship and eliminate poverty in Australia in our time. [More…]

• They sit on committees, more often than not unpaid, which deal with employer-employee relations, and on countless other organisations in the community that are interested in the social and economic welfare of our society. [More…]

• The fact that there is an increase of $2 17m this year in the welfare fund, bringing it up to a total of $ 1,694m, gives some indication of the interest that this Government has taken in the social welfare of the nation. [More…]

• In other words, the authorities at this point bear down on the side that if there are bodies that are not strictly judicial in character but operate within those parameters of imposing disciplines which may affect the character or status or economic welfare of a person, then they are required to follow certain procedural lines. [More…]

• but more particularly for the rights of those who are not in the chamber but of whose welfare we are the guardians and the custodians. [More…]

• Much of the current thought on future planning stems from the many recommendations made at the 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…]

• Under the Social Welfare Ordinance 1964- 1971, the Director of Social Welfare has authority to provide assistance to persons, including pensioners, who are in need of it. [More…]

• Much of the current thought on future planning stems from the many recommendations made at the Workshop on Health and Nutrition in Aboriginal children held in Sydney in December 1969 and which was attended by representatives of Universities, Public Health Departmentsand workers from welfare and social organisations [More…]

• Did the Vice-President of South Vietnam, Mr Ky, in a speech to the School of Social Welfare in Saigon, depict South Vietnam as a sinking boat with a deceptively good coat of paint and a helmsman who is unfaithful, disloyal and dishonest? [More…]

• On the expenditure side 70.6 per cent of all expenditure by this Government is on 3 items: Firstly, payments to or for the States; secondly, the social welfare items of health, social services and repatriation; and thirdly, defence. [More…]

• lt is one of the casualties of the postwar years, i suggest that Government members and Ministers in particular converse with officials from welfare organisations like the Smith Family and the Red Cross and other charities. [More…]

• Our Governments are still in the mad rush for economic growth regardless of its destruction of the environment and its effect on human welfare. [More…]

• Crises exist - whether or not this Government is prepared to recognise them - in education generally, housing, hospitals, sewerage, social welfare, accommodation, human relations and the decline in value of money. [More…]

• Few aspects of our environment, our culture, our welfare, our way of life can be adequately tackled without involving local government. [More…]

• As an Australian, I am concerned for the future of my country, for the welfare of its people and for the quality of life that they enjoy. [More…]

• 3 refers to the National Welfare Fund, the expenditure from which increased in this Budget by $217m to $ 1,694m. [More…]

• This figure includes increased welfare services in the form of pensions, maternity allowances, child endowment, unemployment and sickness benefits, rehabilitation services, sheltered employment allowances, funeral benefits, deserted wives benefits, personal care subsidy, national health services, nursing home benefits, handicapped children’s benefits, payments to public hospitals for pensioners, homes savings grants and matters such as these. [More…]

• I believe that no longer is there any stigma or condescension about the receiving or disbursement of payments from the National Welfare Fund. [More…]

• These 3 items are of supreme importance to the welfare and quality of life of all Australians, none more so than Aboriginals. [More…]

• I trust that our deliberations will be, in fact, for the true welfare of all Australians. [More…]

• These increases, with the supplementary provision made soon after Mr McMahon became Prime Minister, clearly indicate that the Government is paying some regard to the welfare of the older people and the needy in our community. [More…]

• Other provisions under the heading of social welfare also have shown a welcome advance. [More…]

• Despite all this I am of the opinion that the Government should and must recognise the urgent need for a complete reassessment of our attitude to all areas of social welfare in the light of the requirements of the 1970s. [More…]

• I move on to the subject of social welfare, which is the third item in the Budget Speech of the Treasurer. [More…]

• I believe that in its approach to age, invalid, widows and Service pensions child endowment, payments to those who are institutionalised, repatriation and the other aspects of social welfare in general the Government is working to a satisfactory plan. [More…]

• it produces no programme for high national objectives of social welfare, economic strength and national security.’ [More…]

• The proposed expenditure on social welfare in the Budget is. [More…]

• Looking through the Budget, and particularly the provisions for social welfare payments, it is obvious that the Treasurer (Mr Snedden) has completely ignored the pockets of poverty. [More…]

• If child endowment payments were to continue after a child reached 16 years of age, and that child did not receive the student’s allowance, the cost to the Government would not be very much especially when we recognise that an amount of $2,950m has been allocated for social welfare purposes. [More…]

• We must look at this from the point of view of the individual, the possibility of his recovery and the welfare of society, quite apart from the dread question of the moral entitlement of one to take the life of another. [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 the greatest emphasis upon improvements in social welfare. [More…]

• There are groups in society, whether they be in the field of social welfare, education, industry or anywhere else, that are pressing for Government assistance, Government incentive, Government encouragement and Government co-operation. [More…]

• The economic affairs of a country in a remote part of the world can have a profound influence on the welfare of a great number of Australian people. [More…]

• I turn, firstly, to the area of social welfare. [More…]

• Expenditure on social welfare and repatriation constitutes the largest single item of the Commonwealth’s own expenditure. [More…]

• Social services, repatriation benefits, health services, housing and other welfare activities will involve this year an expenditure of S2,095m. [More…]

• Of this increase, $78m represents the cost in 1971-72 of current proposals for improvements in social welfare. [More…]

• As honourable senators are aware, and as we heard today when the relevant legislation was introduced into this place - that legislation will be the subject of debate later - increases in many spheres and in various rates of social welfare payments are proposed. [More…]

• Over a period the Government has provided a greater number of services, increased funds, and an enormous range of institutions and establishments, all operating in the field of general welfare and care. [More…]

• How would the community respond to the imposition of a special social or welfare tax? [More…]

• While accepting with much appreciation the extension of the social welfare programme that has been provided for in the Budget this year, I hope that the aspect to which I have referred, which is a cause of some degree of distress and is a matter of urgency, will receive attention before too long. [More…]

• As a former president of the South Australian section and a member of the federal body of the Service for a period - its federal executive met in Melbourne today - I acknowledge the amount of money that has been allocated and the reference in the Budget Speech to this historic organisation which is carying out a form of social welfare unlike that of any other organisation within Australia. [More…]

• They are now working in the sphere of a wide variety, of social welfare programmes in addition to carrying out the accepted roles which, it is understood from long years of service and activity they have to carry out. [More…]

• I hope that as the demands and the pressures are applied to the Commonwealth, whether in payments to the States, demands for increased welfare payments, or greater expenditure on defence or repatriation, consideration will be given to those demands but at the same time the restraints and the restrictions that have been placed upon the economy against the background of a world situation that is particularly difficult to comprehend, or even to judge, will be understood. [More…]

• If we fiddle with the proposal and turn what is a price subsidy into some kind of glorified social welfare scheme we will run into economic anomalies of unknown magnitude; we will be faced with distortions in thevalue ofland and property, and we will create 100 problems instead of curing one. [More…]

• We heard just the other day the New South Wales Father of the Year, Prime Minister McMahon, saying in an interview that he was concerned with the welfare of the elderly. [More…]

• That Government has dedicated itself to the welfare of Aborigines. [More…]

• South Australia has played a significant pioneering role in the field of legislation to assist the welfare of Aborigines in a positive fashion. [More…]

• The economic fact is that out: of the capacity to produce and consume these goods comes that which we can syphon off to use in the interests of infant welfare, a better deal for handicapped children, a better deal for education in general and so on. [More…]

• Yet honourable senators of the Democratic Labor Party have only to pick up the notice paper to see that the Australian Labor Party has already had this matter referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• That is why the Australian Labor Party has submitted it to the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• I say again that I believe that those who had high hopes in relation to proposals to update our social welfare system should have expected something better than what appears in this amending Bill. [More…]

• At end of motion add: ‘but the Senate is of opinion that - (1) the increases proposed are inadequate; (2) social services payments generally are inadequate to maintain an acceptable standard of living; (3) steps should be taken immediately to eliminate poverty: (4) a national superannuation system should be established and the means test eliminated; (5) pension payments should be a proportion of average weekly earnings adjusted annually; and (6) a joint select committee should be established to inquire into and report upon the social welfare needs of the Australian community.’ [More…]

• We believe, as Sir Robert Menzies does, that it is only in this way that we will be able to provide a satisfactory system of social welfare. [More…]

• The Prime Minister has given an undertaking, of which he should be reminded, that the Government would be prepared to give serious consideration to the establishment of a joint select committee to inquire into and report upon the social welfare needs of the Australian community. [More…]

• In other countries of comparable social and economic development there are systems of social welfare payments, retiring allowances and other fringe benefits which provide from 60 per cent to 80 per cent of average weekly earnings prior to retirement. [More…]

• I commend to the Senate the amendment (hat I have moved on behalf of the Opposition and I hope that it will be carried, particularly insofar as it relates to the establishment of a joint select committee to inquire into and report upon the social welfare needs of the Australian community. [More…]

• In his Budget Speech the Treasurer referred to expenditure on social welfare in this way: [More…]

• Expenditure on social welfare and repatriation constitutes the largest single item of the Commonwealth’s own expenditures. [More…]

• Social services, repatriation benefits, health services, housing and other welfare activities will involve this year an expenditure of $2,095m. [More…]

• This is a very important part of the social welfare field in the community. [More…]

• I agree with Senator Brown who pointed out to the Government - and Senator Webster did not reply to this point - that it has dishonoured its promise to the many people who are impatiently waiting for and looking forward to an improvement in the system of providing social welfare benefits. [More…]

• Such repudiation of promises is not unusual with anti-Labor governments, particularly where the workers’ welfare is concerned. [More…]

• As 1 have already said, our performances insofar as the amounts we spend on social welfare compared to the amounts other countries spend is unsatisfactory. [More…]

• The Common Market countries spend 14.2 per cent of their gross national product on social welfare and New Zealand spends 6.3 per cent. [More…]

• I have already indicated that 5.3 per cent of the gross national product was spent on social welfare in 1969-70. [More…]

• Professor Henderson, who is at the University of Melbourne, took out a survey through the services of the Applied Institute of Social and Economic Welfare. [More…]

• The pertinent observation that was made by Professor Henderson was that if the $100m which would be made available if the Government were to restore the percentage of the gross national product spent on social welfare to the figure of 5.9 per cent that was spent between 1960 and 1964 it would go a long way towards alleviating the problems of the 8 per cent of the community which it was found in that survey to be living below the poverty line. [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…]

• He has not taken a moment’s consideration of the wide range of social welfare services which have been put into operation by this [More…]

• Its social welfare service has covered citizens of every age, particularly those in any kind of need whether they be poor, aged, young or handicapped. [More…]

• But I point out to the honourable senator and to the Senate that over the past 20 years this Government has initiated a range of social welfare services which is second to none. [More…]

• 1 say again that the people of Australia need to recognise that the greatest amount of Commonwealth expenditure on this behalf is on social welfare and repatriation. [More…]

• The services which constitute the largest single item of Com:monwealth expenditure are social services, repatriation benefits, health services, housing and other welfare, activities. [More…]

• Steps should be taken to make the Government’s welfare programme good against this kind of background rather than a political item which is hurled across the legislative chamber. [More…]

• Any government has as its undertaking the priority and security of its citizens, not only for their material welfare but also for what I might describe as their ‘psychological welfare’. [More…]

• The total welfare and social services programme at this time is distinctly and clearly related to the total Budget thinking. [More…]

• The point to which so much attention has not been paid today is the fact that every year there is an increasing number of areas of welfare calling out for attention, making their demands upon the government of the day, and are the subject of submissions and representations to the Government. [More…]

• People constantly seek extensions to the welfare and social programme. [More…]

• But in any programme of social welfare in Australia today the Government recognises - and has recognised - the tremendous contribution made by voluntary organisations, individual communities and individual citizens. [More…]

• Mention has been made of the figure of 5.3 per cent - the proportion of our gross national product that we spend on social welfare - being lower than figures in other countries but I submit, Mr Deputy President, that no other country involves its citizens in a total programme of voluntary and personal concern for their fellows in the way that the Australian community does. [More…]

• Society after society has received subsidies of varying kinds and has been provided with the opportunity of extending accommodation, health services and other forms of social service and care, whether it be in the spheres of Meals on Wheels or of counselling or of a wide range of social welfare. [More…]

• Having said that, we have to recognise th/it there are total and widespread changes occurring in our social welfare services. [More…]

• All these things are having an influence on the needs and the general and changing concern of the community towards the total social welfare programme. [More…]

• By now, all societies appear to be moving toward welfare statism’, compelled in this direction by enormous human problems and … by conscience. [More…]

• All of these things are combined to encourage the Government not only to update its social welfare programme but also constantly to reform it and to re-examine it. [More…]

• As I said at the outset, the social welfare programme has been, for a good many years, a cause for political debate. [More…]

• The developments that have taken place, the means of assessing, recording and distributing benefits, and the general social and economic changes at present all demand that we continue to seek improvements in the social welfare programme. [More…]

• Thirdly, the provision for social service benefits raises again the economic feasibility of Australia’s whole welfare system, which is a non-contributory system based on the means test. [More…]

• However, if we turn to page 3403 of today’s notice paper we find that this very subject has been referred to the Health and Welfare Committee of the Senate. [More…]

• If our amendment is carried it will also have the effect of removing paragraph 6 of the motion with seeks to establish a joint select committee on social welfare. [More…]

• The Senate already has established a Health and Welfare Committee. [More…]

• They probably do not even realise that there is a Senate Health and Welfare Committee. [More…]

• The only point I make is that a committee would not make a useful contribution in this area, if it is to inquire into social welfare needs, when one of the major parties in this Parliament has a policy in this regard to which it will adhere, as I understand it, in this Senate or in that proposed committee. [More…]

• a Joint Select Committee should be established to inquire into and report upon the social welfare needs of the Australian community. [More…]

• If Senator Cavanagh turns to page 3440 of today’s notice paper he will find that this very subject has been referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare, and that is why we seek to eliminate it from the Australian Labor Party’s amendment. [More…]

• We in the DLP believe that the Health and Welfare Committee ought to be given the courtesy of examining this reference. [More…]

• This paragraph deals with a joint select committee on social welfare. [More…]

• The Senate has already established the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• The thing that mystifies me a little is that when debating the second reading of the Bill we moved that a joint select committee be established to inquire into and report upon the social welfare needs of the Australian community. [More…]

• Committee on Health and Welfare the incidence, distribution and causes of primary and secondary poverty in Australia and the adequacy of existing Commonwealth and State social welfare legislation. [More…]

• Although at times the Government has taken credit for what it has achieved - as Senator Little said, often this has been said with tongue in cheek - I do not think Government supporters are really proud of the amount of social welfare payments, nor do I think they are proud of the fact that we have 1 million people living in poverty. [More…]

• As I pointed out the other night also, already we have referred to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare the introduction of a national superannuation scheme. [More…]

• My own view, and I think the view of many people, is that until we finally solve the problem and get round to having a national insurance scheme under which people will contribute to superannuation or a pension, if one likes to call it that, until the end of one’s working life, we will be bedevilled by all sorts of nuances and all sorts of things associated with social welfare. [More…]

• What we have said is that until we can have a superannuation scheme with a revolving fund, if that is the correct term, where we provide social services for one’s industrial life it will be the responsibility of this and future governments to decide what social welfare should be provided. [More…]

• I invite honourable senators to consider the adjuncts to the main areas of social welfare. [More…]

• We recognise the force of what has just been said by Senator Willesee - that is, that the decision as to what amount of social welfare payment should be made is a matter of government responsibility. [More…]

• I hope that the amendment will be carried and that this will be a clear indication to the Government that no longer are we prepared to sit by and allow the erosion of the social welfare benefits and the pension rates of exservicemen and seamen continue to the extent that they will be completely worthless within the next 10 or 15 years. [More…]

• As there is a good Australian citizen at present in Cadell labour prison in South Australia for no reason other than that he has a conscience, as this heroic martyr will be eligible for immediate release upon the coming into operation of an amendment to the National Service Act, and in view of the attitude of the present Attorney-General who will not recommend his release until the Bill becomes law, will the Government do everything possible to expedite the passage of the Bill through both Houses of Parliament, thus permitting the release of this courageous Australian to the companionship of his parents and permit him to contribute to Australia’s welfare by following his normal occupation, which happens to be thai of skilled building worker? [More…]

• 6 standing in my name and concerning social service transferability, and ask for an assurance that this motion be given speedy transmission to the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• Senator Mulvihill asked me for an assurance that a motion of his dealing with the transfer of social service entitlements be transmitted to the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• That is why the Senate has referred to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare the possible introduction of a national superannuation scheme and the methods of financing and operating it. [More…]

• States have their priorities with regard to their health services, their education programme, their welfare, and all of those other matters which are State responsibilities and which the direct taxing power will enable them to de:ermine in their own way. [More…]

• I am sure that in each State similar priorities in the matters of education, health and social welfare will benefit directly from this increased revenue which comes directly to them for their determination. [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…]

• That there be referred to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare the following matter - The petition presented to the Senate on 15th September 1971 by Senator Mulvihill concerning the transfer of social service entitlements. [More…]

• After the words ‘Standing Committee on Health and Welfare’, insert the words ‘for its information’. [More…]

• I have had the opportunity of participating in 2 royal commissions on this industry and therefore have had an abiding interest in the welfare of what 1 believe is an industry which is indispensable to the welfare of Tasmania. [More…]

• If it is a matter of interest to those in the Senate I would say that the additional power is that it has power to advise and make representations to the Minister on matters affecting the welfare of the apple and pear industry, lt also has power to arrange for or to take any action which, in the opinion of the Board, is likely to lead to an improvement of the quality or prevention of the deterioration of apples during transport; or any action to expand existing or new markets, or to increase and extend the consumption of fruit throughout Australia; or to improve the production of apples and pears in Australia. [More…]

• 1 noticed that amongst those speakers on the Government side who spoke in support of the proposal for the abolition of capital punishment there were some who recognised that there could be exceptions to the general rule for the abolition of capital punishment; there were others who suggested that the real challenge of the 1970s was to consider how we shall deal with delinquency and how we shall deal with crime, whether it be capital or otherwise; and there were others again who suggested that there was a pressing need to look at the position not only from the point of view of the individual or from the point of view of the possibility of his recovery or rehabilitation but also from the point of view of the welfare of society. [More…]

• Competitive advertising, for the sole purpose of attracting members to a particular organisation, and often directed at existing members of other organisations, is undesirable and wasteful in a sphere which should be a matter of welfare rather than big business’. [More…]

• We think perhaps of the increasing development through local government authorities of social welfare officers who are in touch with persons living in a community and who, for various other reasons, are aware of many needs of families throughout the community. [More…]

• Statements by social welfare workers in Victoria clearly indicate that the increases that we have before us today are totally and absolutely insufficient to solve this problem. [More…]

• Perhaps I am more conscious of the need for respect because I come from a race of people who have always placed great importance on the welfare of their aged and everything that is done for them. [More…]

• I think Senator Douglas McClelland, along with myself, was a member of the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare which was looking at the problems of physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]

• Those organisations are run essentially for profit; they are not concerned about the welfare of patients. [More…]

• The witness’s definition of a drug pusher was one who sells drugs for profit disregarding the welfare of the purchaser of the drug. [More…]

• The welfare of the purchaser is not the consideration. [More…]

• I ask: Has the Minister noted the recommendation of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare in its report on handicapped people in Australia that a national advisory council be established to co-ordinate services and facilities for handicapped people? [More…]

• In particular the co-operation of such people as social workers and persons involved in welfare groups will be sought so that more information can be given to potential beneficiaries on a person-to-person basis. [More…]

• It has to be considered within the ambit of this Bill because it concerns not only the future of our meat exporters but also the welfare of the slaughtermen, the meat exporters and the veterinary men who have to slaughter and prepare these beasts for export. [More…]

• Of course, honourable senators will also be aware that many very important aspects of the overall arrangements for Aboriginal welfare come within the ambit of my colleague, the Minister for the Interior, with whom I am in frequent consultation on this whole matter. [More…]

• In addition, I have instructed my Department to examine more effective means of assisting eligible persons to use the help available, 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…]

• He was concerned about and solicitous for individual welfare. [More…]

• The resources of the Trade Commissioner Service which from time to time carries out in depth investigations in selected overseas markets for vegetable oil seeds, oils and meals; survey projects by the Marketing Division of the Department of Primary Industry and the Bureau of Agricultural Economics in connection with trends in both home consumption and export outlets for oil seed products; the provision by the Department of senior officers to act as Chairman and Secretary of the industry’s national organisation concerned with its development and welfare; the preparation and distribution to all sectors of theindustry of crop and market intelligence on a regular basis; the maintenance of a protective tariff against imported vegetable oils, the levels of which are reviewed periodically by the Tariff Board. [More…]

• Not in any aspect of hysteria or undue anxiety but with real concern for the welfare of this nation we say that we must assess the position realistically. [More…]

• Tt was never intended that this should be a social welfare measure or a means of making payments to individuals in the greatest difficulty. [More…]

• It deals with Australia’s greatest industry, the wool industry which over the years has contributed greatly to the progress and welfare of this nation. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Health aware of the inadequate medical facilities available at Wave Hill and Delissaville Aboriginal welfare settlements in the Northern Territory? [More…]

• Will the Minister visit all Aboriginal welfare settlements in the Northern Territory at an early date to acquaint himself at first hand with existing health problems? [More…]

• Most settlements with nursing facilities in the Northern Territory are not within the administration of the Department of Health, but that of the Welfare Section of the Department of the Interior. [More…]

• The subject of overseas investment is- one of the most vital that the Australian Parliament could discuss, because while the present Government relies so heavily on uncontrolled investment from abroad to overcome ils financial difficulty, if the position deteriorates further it will be very difficult for any future government which has the welfare of Australia and Australians really at heart to take positive and effective action to ensure that Australians recapture control of their own destiny and to ensure also that they remain the rightful owners of their own soil and their own country. [More…]

• The most necessary and important reform of all is, however, the establishment of a new tribunal for matrimonial causes to determine the merits of the parties, their rights to dissolution, the custody and general welfare of children, and the rights of the parties to property as well as questions of maintenance. [More…]

• They have endeavoured lo meet the problems which they have seen arising by identifying themselves with groups such as marriage guidance bureaux and other family welfare groups designed to help in a variety of ways. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Health, relates to the report of the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare on mentally and physically, handicapped persons in Australia that was tabled in this chamber on 5th May of this year, which is over 6 months ago. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare, of which Senator Buttfield is the chairman, has before it a reference dealing with all aspects of repatriation. [More…]

• For example, a report has been presented by the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare in relation to mentally and physically handicapped persons in Australia. [More…]

• The plight’ of many pensioners and others depending on welfare payments, the continuance of poverty on a disturbingly wide scale, the apparently . [More…]

• Currently approximately one-third of our national budget is devoted to social welfare in some form or other. [More…]

• The cost per unit of production is vital to our welfare and any action which would be detrimental to our ability to keep our costs down and retain our competitive position on overseas markets would undoubtedly in my opinion destroy what the Opposition seeks to achieve for the betterment of our social services. [More…]

• I am a firm believer in the idea that, where a person works in and earns his livelihood from a particular section of industry and there is an organisation working for the welfare and benefit of those in that section of industry, thai person should be a member of that organisation. [More…]

• This will enable the States to devote more of their housing funds to the provision of welfare housing. [More…]

• Is there any check on the way in which Australian aid is spent, or is it merely handed over to the Saigon regime to allow that undemocratic government to maintain itself in office at the expense of the ordinary people’s welfare? [More…]

• In addition the Department employs, as welfare officers, a number of officers proficient in languages other than English. [More…]

• There is also a Turkish-speaking welfare aide employed in Sydney. [More…]

• Non-Government social welfare agencies receiving assistance from my Department under the grants to community agencies scheme, and the current annual rate of assistanceasat31st October 1971, are as follows:’ [More…]

• They look to the Government for cheaper land, cheaper and better housing, cheap transport, better education facilities, welfare and other services as well as for a decent environment. [More…]

• It is important always that regard be had to the social welfare basis of the Commission’s activities which must have a bearing on the type of dwellings provided in its ordinary programmes. [More…]

• They have agreed lo do that, with the general acceptance of rises in social welfare. [More…]

• The Act which provides a national health scheme is so drafted, mid has been given approval by this Government, to protect general practitioners and ensure that they remain essential ib the health and welfare of the people of Australia. [More…]

• In general measures of an economic rather than a welfare kind are likely to make the most effective contribution to resolving the very real problems facing many rural industries. [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 Senate. [More…]

• 1 have in mind, also, uniform child welfare adoption. [More…]

• Policy on these matters is not always effectively interpreted at child welfare centres and migrant hostels. [More…]

• The work of this Council relates more particularly to matters of integration and social welfare after migrants have arrived here. [More…]

• I refer to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare which has before it a petition concerning the transfer of social service entitlements and also the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts which has had the question of education needs in Australia referred to it by way of 3 petitions. [More…]

• The welfare and integration of all its citizens. [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 arts, crafts and cultural activities, support of youth and sporting activities, Aboriginal housing societies and for preschooling 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, and by the increasing contribution to the national product by Aboriginal Australians, as well as by the increasing contribution to the varied pattern of Australian social life made by their traditions and culture. [More…]

• 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 1971, together with the reports of the Auditor-General on the books and accounts of the Funds. [More…]

• I know that the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare - on which I think Senator Fitzgerald served - accepted evidence from repatriation officials in relation to the Repatriation Department’s activities. [More…]

• What is more, I further disapprove of the action of the Government in continuing to refuse to answer questions concerning the Australian Intelligence Security Organisation which do not infringe - if one looks at the questions from a security point of view - upon the peace and welfare of this nation. [More…]

• What consideration has been given by the Department of Health to the recommendations of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare relevant to the problems of the physically and mentally handicapped. [More…]

• An inter-departmental committee has been formed to consider the recommendations of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• It is satisfied that the interests of this nation’s economy, growth and welfare, as well as the interests of all those persons and corporations, both within and without Australia, who are involved in the Australian securities industry require that the Commonwealth Government exercise the powers given to it at federation to legislate with respect to the securities industry. [More…]

• There are many fields of Aboriginal welfare for which I believe our Government must take a greater responsibility. [More…]

• This nation has not only an obligation but also a responsibility to the indigenous people of this country, and I would like to see much more done for their welfare. [More…]

• I support the Bill and I thank the Government for what it is doing in the area of Aboriginal welfare. [More…]

• In Australia today it is estimated that there are between 250,000 and 300,000 hopeless alcoholics who are unable to work, unable to have intelligent conversation and simply dependent upon the welfare of society as a whole. [More…]

• I am condemning the consideration of commercial interests coming before the health and welfare of the community. [More…]

• We are not thinking of happiness and of welfare; we are thinking of profits. [More…]

• His concern for the drug problem and the health of the community is such that the catching of a plane is more important than the welfare of those who are dependent upon drugs today. [More…]

• Under the State Grants (Home Care) Act, which was introduced in 1969, the Commonwealth is now able to subsidise State expenditure incurred in connection with the provision of housekeeping or other domestic help services, conducted either by the State, a local governing body, a community welfare organisation or a joint body, wholly or mainly for aged persons. [More…]

• lt was made clear in the Budget Speech that the review is aimed at ensuring that the rate of increase in departmental expenditure is restricted lo the absolute minimum consistent with the execution of Commonwealth functions of vital importance lo the national welfare, and further that the review, which is to be conducted within the Government itself, will of necessity be spread over a period of some months. [More…]

• I come to the real reason for the attack on South Africa, usually made by people who could not care less about the welfare of the natives. [More…]

• Is it a fact that investigations made by a prominent union official in Darwin have revealed that both the Department of the Interior’s Welfare Branch and the Commonwealth employment section of the Department of Labour and National Service are implicated in the racket? [More…]

• Emergency Preparedness and the Office of Civil Defence in connection with hurricanes such as Camille involved everything from the debris clearance, emergency public health measures, treatment of the injured in emergency welfare services, through such complex situations as the provision of post disaster employment, the redevelopment of local businesses and industries, and provision of credit with respect to their immediate needs. [More…]

• To this end, 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 development rights arc being considered. [More…]

• If a significant report were made in the field of health and welfare, that probably should be referred to the relevant committee if to do so would assist the Senate in its discussion of the matter. [More…]

• The spouse was made compellable in respect of certain offences against the Child Welfare Act 1923. [More…]

• They would much prefer to exercise a motherly interest in the welfare of their families. [More…]

• With what authority, if any, concerned with our economic welfare and the position of Australia’s trade with Japan was the proposed rise discussed with a view to determining its justification and extent? [More…]

• I must say, to follow up that statement, that the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare on which I am serving has treated the references to it in a non-party political way. [More…]

• That matter has been referred to the Health and Welfare Committee. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare inquired into the problem of the mentally and physically handicapped in this country. [More…]

• Every airman has the opportunity to go to the padre or to the welfare officer to put his point. [More…]

• Thai there be referred to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare the following matter - The prevailing provisions of facilities, accommodation, health and other services for aged persons; and [More…]

• Let us examine the situation insofar as social work and welfare are concerned. [More…]

• It is for that reason that I have, on behalf of the Opposition, moved that this matter be referred to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare for its consideration. [More…]

• That is the judgment that is applied by welfare officers in determining eligibility for a remission of the charge. [More…]

• There is a very great scarcity of qualified welfare officers here. [More…]

• It was mentioned recently that there is on the staff only half the number of qualified welfare workers required to do the great but very difficult job that the people working in this area have to do. [More…]

• In some instances the courts are being held up and affected detrimentally by the insufficiency of welfare officers to carry out the duties - including making reports - which are required to be carried out so that the courts can do their work. [More…]

• So, it looks as if the already severely overloaded welfare staff in the Australian Capital Territory will have an additional job thrust upon it. [More…]

• They are the sorts of cases on which welfare people need to be engaged constantly in order to determine whether there is severe hardship and whether the ultimate result of the hardship will be that some young people will be denied something which I believe is their right. [More…]

• i have mentioned the quite considerable build-up in the work of the welfare people. [More…]

• A system of issuing tokens to the children involved was considered but not proceeded with on the advice of the welfare branch of the Department that such identification would be socially undesirable. [More…]

• The present scheme is administered by the social welfare section as part of its function to provide general social welfare in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• Applications for refund of fares have been made to the Welfare Branch of the Department, which has approved the payments. [More…]

• That figure suggests to me that there could be changes in the economic wellbeing of families in this area to the extent that there could be a great addition to the burden of the welfare people here. [More…]

• When one looks at the result of this measure - an increase of $80,000 a year in revenue - and weighs it against the cost of these welfare services, together with the policing and administration of the new system being introduced, one wonders what the net result will be. [More…]

• The next topic discussed at the seminar was ‘Local Government in Relation to Social and Welfare Services’. [More…]

• It has had - and I hope it will always have - a long term and continuing interest in the welfare of the Australian people as a whole. [More…]

• Whether or not power can be worked out and written down in words - we know the difficulty of lawyers in that regard - one thing we do know is that it is well nigh impossible in (his country to alter the Constitution by referendum unless we are removing powers from the centre or are giving social welfare powers to the centre. [More…]

• The crunch of the matter was that in Western Europe their payment under the national welfare scheme for health coverage was based on a percentage of what was earned. [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 know that he is thinking of the welfare of the community. [More…]

• 1 suggest to him that if he is concerned about the welfare of the persons whom he has mentioned, the best way of obtaining the information is to go direct to the Minister, particularly where the issue is the welfare of people who are wanting this money. [More…]

• Minister arrange at the earliest possible date for the Senate to debate the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare on the provision of suitable help for mentally handicapped persons - a report for which, we all know, Senator Fitzgerald deserves a lot of credit - because there is grave concern among interested bodies lest this important matter be forgotten? [More…]

• The Australian Government is confident that the British Government, which has already expressed its concern to Mr Smith at the detention of Mr Garfield Todd and Miss Judith Todd, is aware of the widespread concern in this country and elsewhere for their welfare. [More…]

• I have been uneasy about evidence that has been presented to the Committee of which I am privileged to be a member, that is, the Legislative Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• Have investigations by a prominent trades union official in Darwin revealed that both the Department of the Interior Welfare Branch and the Commonwealth Employment Service are implicated in this matter. [More…]

• This community is bound to observe these rights whether they be in relation to hospitals or whether money is provided for homes for the aged, for child welfare or for social welfare. [More…]

• So, I say to you, Mr President, that education stands with health, help for the aged, and welfare in a similar principle; it is a principle that I completely uphold. [More…]

• It refers to the report from the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare on mentally and physically handicapped persons in Australia. [More…]

• What is the function of the Department of the Interior Welfare Branch in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• The functions of the Welfare Division of the Northern Territory Administration are to: [More…]

• conduct institutions for the care and maintenance of young people placed in the care of the Director of Child Welfare; (0 exercise powers and responsibilities under the following Ordinances - [More…]

• Social Welfare Ordinance 1964-1967 Child Welfare Ordinance 1958-1969 [More…]

• The Welfare Division works in close consultation with the Department of Labour and National Service to place Aborigines to the best advantage in private employment. [More…]

• The Director of Social Welfare has a statutory responsibility to provide care and assistance to people economically or socially in need of such assistance. [More…]

• Social workers of the Welfare Division investigate all cases of hardship which come to notice and assistance is provided where a need is shown. [More…]

• What progress has been made by the interdepartmental committee that has been formed to consider the recommendations of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare in its Report on Mentally and Physically Handicapped Persons in Australia. [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…]

• 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 isues. [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…]

• If $2,019 is regarded as a reasonable living from beekeeping, I think it indicates a great lack of thought for the welfare of beekeepers on the part of the Government and, let us be frank, the Australian Agricultural Council. [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…]

• Is the Minister aware of the statement made by Mr Justice Fox in the Australian Capital Territory Supreme Court on 16th February 1972 in which he criticised the serious under-staffing of the Social Welfare Branch of the Department of the Interior. [More…]

• Is it a fact that this staff shortage is delaying the production of welfare reports on prisoners; if so, what steps is the Department of the Interior t aking to remedy this shortage. [More…]

• The time taken to prepare a welfare report depends on the circumstances of the case as well as on the availability of staff. [More…]

• In that respect we differ from the ILO Convention which provides for leave and requires cash benefits on a welfare basis subject to a means test required for social assistance. [More…]

• It is to be understood that that provision in the ILO Convention has relation to European systems of social welfare benefit - an entirely different basis from the Australian social welfare benefit system as at present provided. [More…]

• A prisoner may be granted leave for his welfare or the welfare of the family unit. [More…]

• Will the Minister or any other legal man in this place argue that the words ‘for his welfare’ would not include study leave, or would not include the release of a prisoner to complete his studies or to continue his studies at a university? [More…]

• I will return to the regulation in case the Attorney-General has a different interpretation of the words ‘for his welfare’. [More…]

• Ideally, therefore, one should look towards an economic policy and welfare services which would eliminate poverty of whatever colour. [More…]

• He ignores the fact that for a long while his Party has used Aboriginal welfare as a political football. [More…]

• I am sure that Senator Bonner, who has been actively associated over many years with the improvement of Aboriginal welfare and with the One People of Australia League, can adequately answer whatever might be the allegations sought to be made against him or that organisation. [More…]

• Senator Cant has said that it is permissible and has quoted the words ‘where it is for the prisoner’s welfare or the welfare of his family’. [More…]

• The giving of leave was for the welfare of the prisoner and therefore is in complete comformity with the regulations in Western Australia. [More…]

• Despite the fact that this is for the welfare of the prisoner, the Attorney-General thinks that this is something that should not be extended to national service resisters. [More…]

• In presenting this report, I believe that as Chairman of the Committee I should mention some of the important factors that were basic to the Committee’s deliberations on the 2 petitions seeking co-operation and financial assistance for crime prevention which were referred originally to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare, and were later transferred to the Standing Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• We have pointed out in our report that the text of the petitions had already been referred by the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare to appropriate Commonwealth Ministers including the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) for comment. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment had not been established when the petitions were presented and they were referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare, from which committee they came to the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• Child welfare and adoption are subjects of State legislation and are the responsibility of the State governments. [More…]

• Successive Commonweath Ministers for Immigration have taken the firm view that entry into Australia of Asian children whom Australian residents wish to adopt is not prohibited by an immigration policy but that it is clearly and essentially in the interests of the children that the adoption plans have the approval of the expert child welfare authorities in the States concerned. [More…]

• The differences between the administration of child welfare and adoption matters in different States are entirely matters for the States. [More…]

• They strike against the people of this nation because every strike not only injures the unions but also it injures many other people and the welfare of this country of ours. [More…]

• A prisoner may be granted leave for his welfare or the welfare of the family unit. [More…]

• Regulation 280 does not refer to prisoners obtaining leave for the welfare of themselves or their family units. [More…]

• for his welfare or the welfare of the family unit. [More…]

• 283 which, again I emphasise, provides only that, a prisoner may be granted leave of absence to be in attendance on his family, amongst other things, for his welfare or the welfare of the family unit. [More…]

• There is no provision which in the terms quoted by Senator Cant says that a prisoner may be granted leave for his welfare or the welfare of the family unit. [More…]

• Under regulations made in 1970, leave of absence may be granted by the Chief Secretary for specific purposes, and those purposes include employment, family bereavement, hospital treatment and attendance on the family for certain welfare purposes. [More…]

• Can the Minister Inform the Senate, firstly, whose responsibility it is to register Aborigines as unemployed; secondly, what facilities are available to Aborigines for this purpose in remote areas, and thirdly, whether provision is made or could be made for welfare officers or social workers to act as agents for Aborigines to see that they are recorded with the Department as unemployed, [More…]

• the South Australian Department of Social Welfare and Aboriginal Affairs is willing to assist Aborigines in this way in other areas of South Australia and discussions will take place shortly between officers of Departments concerned on this matter. [More…]

• Senator Bishop, to whomI ascribe the virtue of sincerity, a man interested in the welfare of an Australian industry, has put forward a motion related to the Australian aircraft industry. [More…]

• I direct attention to Orders of the Day 16, Health and Welfare Committee - Report on Mentally and Physically Handicapped Persons; 17, Drug Trafficking and Drug Abuse - Select Committee - Report; 33, Off-shore Petroleum Resources - Select Committee - Report; and 39, Health and Welfare Committee - Proposed Reference of Matter. [More…]

• Government’s concern for the welfare of the workers. [More…]

• I do not think that I should at question time go beyond saying that, in collaboration with the other departments which are involved, I am working hard on the matter, f would like to have some discussions with, in particular the welfare section of the Department of the Interior before I proceed any further by way of giving an answer in depth. [More…]

• Surely this position must suggest to any thinking person who is concerned for the welfare of the 3 levels of government in Australia that the time has arrived, if it has not passed, for a get-together of the 3 elements of government in Australia to attempt to arrive at a proper basis of judgment of the constitutional limitations of those 3 levels and the means which may be found to enable them adequately to discharge their functions in the community. [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 greater proportion of young people in Tasmania tends to produce a relatively greater need for expenditure on education and for infant and child welfare services. [More…]

• The whole purpose of the presentation of petitions appears to me to -be completely futile unless they are referred for investigation to, say, the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare if they involve social service matters or to another standing committee if they involve other matters. [More…]

• 10% of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]

• Hoya) 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 the petition relating to social services presented to the Senate by Senator Turnbull this day be referred to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• After listening to the drivelling nonsense uttered by my friend Senator McLaren it is very difficult to believe that the honourable senator from South Australia has a genuine interest in the welfare of this north eastern Victorian town. [More…]

• That there should be referred to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare the following matter: The petitions presented to the Senate on 10th May 1972 by Senator Turnbull and other senators relating to social services. [More…]

• Welfare was one of the first standing committees established by the Senate. [More…]

• One must remember also that the forerunner to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare, whose report is now under consideration, was the select committee which was established by the Senate to inquire into medical and hospital costs. [More…]

• At 10 public hearings the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare took evidence from 45 witnesses, lt received over 70 written submissions. [More…]

• On 20th April Senator Dame Nancy Buttfield, who is now the Chairman of the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare, asked the Minister about the implementation of recommendations in reports of standing committees. [More…]

• lt is a pathway to reform in social welfare and to the solution of the problems of physically and mentally handicapped people in Australia. [More…]

• As we present members of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare move about the States in connection with our inquiry into repatriation,, we are visiting rehabilitation centres. [More…]

• I think it is appropriate to remind honourable senators at the outset that the Senate in its wisdom on 2nd September 1970, having established a number of legislative and general purpose standing committees, decided to refer to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare an important matter, namely: [More…]

• As my colleague, Senator Douglas McClelland, and Senator Dame Nancy Buttfield said, many directly involved voluntary organisations which have interested themselves in the care, welfare and treatment of mentally and physically handicapped people in Australia have requested repeatedly by letters, I am sure to all members of the Senate and no doubt to members of the House of Representatives, that at least some of the 85 recommendations that they say would materially assist them in providing greater care and treatment to those whom they have cared for and treated over the years be implemented. [More…]

• That there should be laid down a set of definitions for the guidance of medical, educational and welfare authorities working in the field of handicapped persons in Australia. [More…]

• The Australian Democratic Labor Party congratulates the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare on its report to the Senate. [More…]

• The report before the Senate was brought down by the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare which conducted an inquiry into mentally and physically handicapped people in Australia. [More…]

• I refer to direct grants of finance, the provision of its own health and welfare services and the provision of long term loans to enable voluntary organisations to undertake wider, more intensive, more efficient and more effective work. [More…]

• But, because of the highly unusual nature of the problems arising from deafness - of course, these are concerned mainly with communication - the adult deaf do not fall into the normal categories of the handicapped or of those requiring welfare assistance. [More…]

• In doing so, I equally join with them in paying tribute to the former chairman of the Committee, Dame Ivy Wedgwood, for the dedication that she exhibited right through the hearings by the Senate Select Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• The report of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare is, without challenge, a magnificent report. [More…]

• Senator MURPHY (New South WalesLeader of the Opposition)’ - We are all grateful to the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare for the admirable report which it has presented to the Senate on a subject of great importance to the whole community and of special importance to persons who are physically or mentally handicapped and those associated with them. [More…]

• (8.5) - This proposed reference to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare was moved on 2nd November 1970. [More…]

• That there be referred to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare the following matters - The incidence, distribution and causes of primary and secondary poverty in Australia and the adequacy of existing Commonwealth and State social welfare legislation. [More…]

• Today the Senate dealt with a report from the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• I put it to the Senate that to refer another matter to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare is striking a blow at - perhaps destroying - the very work that these various committees do. [More…]

• I now deal with the references that are being considered already by the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• Health and Welfare has before it already and which its members are working on may not be presented to the Senate before it adjourns at the end of the Budget session. [More…]

• The motion seeks to refer the matter of poverty to the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• As this is a matter of acute urgency, I think that not only would that course be inappropriate but rather it would defeat the purpose of the inquiry if the matter were to be referred to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare in these circumstances. [More…]

• Health and Welfare but I am sure that it would be happy to have a representative on it if he had the time to spare to devote to these important matters. [More…]

• One of the references we have made to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare could well include an investigation into poverty in the community. [More…]

• In recent times, the Senate decided to refer to the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare for inquiry and report all aspects of repatriation. [More…]

• But, as soon as the Senate referred that matter to the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare, the Government established a private inquiry into the repatriation system to be presided over by His Honour, Mr Justice Toose. [More…]

• What I am saying is that whilst I would of course be keenly interested in the undertaking given by the Minister for Social Services to raise with State Ministers for social welfare at a conference in Brisbane on 5th June this year one half of this motion - that is, the relationship, delineation and partnership of Commonwealth and State associations in this field of poverty - whilst I would support that, and whilst I would indeed support the concept of the Government’s setting up an inquiry, what 1 want to press is that we as a Parliament and we as a community should look not only to the material things - and I do not talk in any starryeyed way about this - but also to the intangible and abstract things of the community which in my judgment are far more important. [More…]

• Classic examples have been given tonight of the repatriation and national superannuation inquiries which are listed for reference to the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• The Minister for Social Services is a man who has a deep concern for the welfare of the community, particularly for those who are in special need by reason of absence of an income, poor housing, old age, infirmity or some other handicap. [More…]

• I want to pay my tribute, as I am sure other honourable senators who have been involved will, to the members of the social welfare organisations who work in this field. [More…]

• It is perfectly obvious that in a community that is devoted to this sort of thing there is a need for hospitalisation as well as for welfare workers. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare has been asked to perform several tasks. [More…]

• All of these matters are concerned in some way with health or welfare. [More…]

• Therefore, there is every reason why this Committee probably would be in a better position than almost any other body in the community to investigate this very important matter of the incidence, distribution and causes of primary and secondary poverty in Australia and the adequacy of existing Commonwealth and State social welfare legislation. [More…]

• People in the universities, people in the welfare institutions, members of the Salvation Army and St Vincent de Paul could have given us their knowledge about the problem, and people would have started to find out what had been done in other countries, which cures worked and which failed. [More…]

• Noone has considered how much it has contributed to welfare or social justice. [More…]

• But above all the value of a government should be decided by its contribution to the welfare and social success of society rather than by the advancement of industrial techniques. [More…]

• Infant welfare sisters are doing all within their power to bring about this change in attitude of the mother to the health of her children. [More…]

• The members of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare have made me welcome. [More…]

• Will the Minister state which is the most important - the need to warn about the health hazard of cigarettes, which kill 10,000 Australians a year, or the partial economic welfare of rural broadcasting stations? [More…]

• That the petition be referred to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• Honourable senators opposite will stand and defend this man as someone who is interested in the welfare of our national industries. [More…]

• I come now to what is perhaps my final quotation about the industrial activities of people who do not have the welfare of the workers at heart, as so many honest trade union secretaries do. [More…]

• The Conciliation and Arbitration Act has done more for the welfare of all Australians, particularly Australian employees, than has any other legislation.. [More…]

• Information has been supplied by the New South Wales Directorate of Aboriginal Welfare: [More…]

• He paid two visits to the area and conferred with Officers of the Department of Child Welfare and Social Welfare, the Education Department, the local Council and the local hospital. [More…]

• This Bill seeks to widen the breach and to permit even further disruption by politically oriented members who really have no interest in the welfare of the industrial organisation to which they belong but are prepared to be lackeys of a minority political party. [More…]

• It is a tragedy that a person who has not the slightest interest in the welfare of the workers should be in charge of a Bill of this nature. [More…]

• How does, he reconcile the statements of the Victorian Minister for Social Welfare, Mr Smith, on. [More…]

• I am not sure of precisely what statement made by the Victorian Minister for Social Welfare the honourable senator has in mind. [More…]

• However, I understand that there was a statement made in the ‘Canberra Times’ this morning, attributed to the Victorian Minister for Social Welfare, that the Victorian and Commonwealth Ministers would be meeting in Brisbane next Monday to examine the issue of overseas adoptions. [More…]

• In the current case relating to the young Vietnamese children the position is that the Minister for Immigration had taken the view that they ought not to be admitted or could not be admitted into Australia until he was satisfied that proper steps were being taken to maintain their welfare in Australia, and that required the consent or some indication of likely consent from the State authorities that an adoption would be recognised. [More…]

• State School Committees are primarily engaged in activities concerning the welfare and education of school children, and increased postal charges on our magazine means less money for our main purpose. [More…]

• ‘We are prepared to assume, as the Commission did last year, that people on low incomes have special problems which we can to some extent alleviate’, but it pointed out that it was ‘an arbitral tribunal and not an administrative social welfare agency’. [More…]

• To promote the welfare and development of Australian forestry. [More…]

• We are indebted to the Minister for Civil Aviation (Senator Cotton) for the observations he made when closing the second reading debate in which he revealed his personal association with this industry, somethings of his own skill in connection with it and his interest in its welfare. [More…]

• Do State Social Welfare Departments provide assistance to unmarried mothers and, in the case of a claimant State, are then penalised by the Loan Council for meeting this humane social need. [More…]

• At end of motion add ‘and that the medical, social environmental, and legal aspects of the report and recommendations of the Committee be referred to the Standing Committees on Health and Welfare, Social Environment and Constitutional and Legal Affairs, respectively, and that these 3 Committees be authorised to undertake the continuing oversight of those aspects and to recommend from time to time what further measures might be taken to implement the recommendations or to overcome the problems revealed in the report’. [More…]

• To those various governments it was a report for action by the health authorities, education authorities, social welfare authorities and law enforcement authorities. [More…]

• 9 - National Welfare Fund - and No. [More…]

• Information in respect of the National Welfare Fund canbe found in the table published on page 25 of the attachments to the Treasurer’s Budget Speech and full details of the War Service Homes Insurance Account are provided in the report of the Directors of War Service Homes. [More…]

• Industrial disruption is the chorus of Senator Cavanagh, but responsible people who have some regard for the welfare of the island State would accept the responsibility of seeing to it that its shipping operations were maintained or that if they were dislocated there would be some recourse to the unionists who inflicted such a loss and caused an increase of freights to an uneconomic level. [More…]

• Considerations such as sound economic practice and the introduction of measures to advance the cause of genera) social welfare and equity have all been submerged beneath the paramount purpose of maintaining this tired, desperate and political bankrupt Government in office. [More…]

• From a welfare aspect he has estimated that more than half of the value of the proposed cuts would go to only the top 15 per cent of income earners. [More…]

• Where is there any indication of a new philosophy and approach to social welfare? [More…]

• We have introduced and stepped up migration education and welfare and integration programmes. [More…]

• Equally and finally, as the fourth objective of the whole Budget conspectus and general view of what should be done, there has been the introduction of measures having merit on the ground of social welfare, justice and equity. [More…]

• But I would wish to say briefly in passing that the feature of the Budget which has given me the most pleasure has been the improvement in the area of social welfare by way of increased benefits. [More…]

• At end of motion add - but the Senate 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…]

• But I would like to think that in our Party social conscience and community concern for the welfare of the individual have dictated the priorities which are included. [More…]

• I do not propose to list them in detail at this stage because I wish to talk in a little, more general way on our attitude to the matter .of social welfare and our social conscience. [More…]

• I feel that there is a gap in our social welfare programme and that attention should be given to the particular hardships surrounding the widower with young pre-school age children and the many difficulties he has to face. [More…]

• The social welfare aspects in general will be amplified by many subsequent speakers, as I said earlier, and I want to talk for a short time about some of the health pro-, posals in this Budget. [More…]

• This is perhaps the most magnificent social welfare proposal in the Budget. [More…]

• In sensitive terms it has provided many new initiatives in social welfare and health proposals. [More…]

• I feel that this is a Budget well suited for an approach to the people of Australia because it shows responsible economic understanding and personal priorities in matters of welfare and all those other things which the people of Australia have demanded from governments for so many years in the past. [More…]

• The Budget also provides for an improved and extended social welfare programme. [More…]

• I support the amendment which has been moved by the Opposition, which seeks the condemnation of the Budget by the Senate 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 submit to the Senate that when the Budget documents were being prepared in July of this year the Government was aware that the unemployment figure had passed 100,000, and it has increased the estimates for that section of the National Welfare Fund from $44m to $57m, recognising that unemployment will continue and that the number unemployed will increase. [More…]

• If we look at the National Welfare Fund in 1962-63, which Mr Snedden referred to, we see that the expenditure in that fund, which is after all supposed to represent the goodies of life, was $758m. [More…]

• In 1972-73 Commonwealth expenditure on health from the National Welfare Fund is estimated to be $592m - that is the Government’s contribution - which represents an increase of about $65m over the amount expended in 1971-72. [More…]

• ‘the Senate condemns the Budget because it fails to define adequate economic and social goals for Australia; and in particular because it provides no programming for restoring full employment, no means of checking the costs, the prices of goods and land, no framework for improving the standards of education, health, welfare and public transport and no national plan for our capita] cities and regional centres’. [More…]

• As a senator from Queensland I naturally have a vested interest in the welfare of that State and in the welfare of the people of that State. [More…]

• It must be evaluated against the background of Australia’s welfare in its widest sense. [More…]

• I then commended the Budget because it contained long overdue welfare reforms and was clearly aimed at securing a more equitable distribution of the nation’s wealth. [More…]

• This lies in the fact, which recent inquiries revealed, that 80 per cent of people eligible for some of these welfare services do not even know about them or how to receive the benefits. [More…]

• I hope Professor Henderson will be able to overcome the problem of the growing complexity of welfare services by substituting one simple cash payment to the too many recipients of the incomprehensible maze of different subsidies, handouts, free services and other kinds of social welfare. [More…]

• Unfortunately, the really big welfare deficiency in this Budget - this has been the case in most of the recent LiberalCountry Party budgets - was the failure to increase the rate of child endowment or to do anything about child endowment. [More…]

• Those mothers who elect to stay at home and look after their children are conducting child welfare centres of their own. [More…]

• I conclude by saying that the DLP is pleased with the main effects of the Budget, namely, to extend social welfare reforms and to attempt a more equitable distribution of Australia’s wealth. [More…]

• Anyone who has viewed our programme over the years will know that we have tended to emphasise certain stories: censorship, the treatment of Aborigines and attitudes towards colour, deficiencies of social welfare, dissent and the conflict between civil liberties and the needs of the state. [More…]

• They realise that in offering what are in fact improvements to the community - social welfare improvements - the Government is offering a pant of policies which the Labor Party has been advocating for many years. [More…]

• If it believes in the sorts of things it is putting up at this election such as social welfare, the need to control overseas investment and the need to plan the economy, why has it not done these things during those 23 years? [More…]

• I am particularly impressed with the new social welfare provisions. [More…]

• I believe that the Parliament and the people are indebted to the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) for the achievements in the social welfare field which were announced in this Budget. [More…]

• I believe that this is an outstanding mark and the beginning of a new era in social welfare services in this wonderful country in which we are so fortunate to live. [More…]

• Surely these are positive proposals in a social welfare field and surely they deserve the support not only of the Senate but also of all people in this nation. [More…]

• He has displayed these things by the tenacity he has shown in bringing about the changes in social welfare that we see today. [More…]

• In the interest of the true welfare of the people of Cocos Island I urge that no partisan judgment be made now but rather that people wait until the Minister has made his report. [More…]

• That is the contention that is going on there, and that contention will go on here on the part of any government which has the welfare of the real working trade unionists at heart to combat this unfortunate adoption by the ALP of the Carmichael and Mundey theory whereby every trade union and every trade unionist seeks immunity from the civil courts. [More…]

• Before holding up other applications, I would suggest to you that you ring the doctor concerned because he is probably concerned with the patient’s welfare whereas it is immaterial to your department how long it takes for a patient to commence treatment on a necessary drug. [More…]

• We cannot expect and get increased social welfare benefits, reduced taxes and other concessions - be paid more and then work less. [More…]

• It is common knowledge that the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare has for the last 2 years been diligent in examining both particular and general aspects of social welfare in Australia. [More…]

• An amount of $3.2m is to be appropriated specifically for migrant counselling and selection, and for English language training and migrant welfare services. [More…]

• I cannot leave the Budget without some recognition of the Government’s splendid record in moving ever forward towards meeting the needs of those dependent on social welfare. [More…]

• Some bold experiments in providing homes for the aged in South Australia have attracted attention from welfare workers at home and overseas. [More…]

• This, to my mind, is the most important step forward in the entire field of social welfare. [More…]

• Just to refresh the memory of honourable senators who are present, I want to read the amendment moved by Senator Wriedt: but the Senate 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…]

• but the Senate condemns the Budget because it fails to define adequate economic and social goals for Australia; and in particular because it provides … no framework for improving the standards of education, health, welfare . [More…]

• The Opposition would condemn the Budget although it provides for one of the largest education programmes we have seen in our time and although the new provisions, not only in the education sphere but also in the social welfare sphere, will relieve personal hardship by increasing pensions, improving the social wellbeing of the people and easing estate duty. [More…]

• I have been doing a little thinking about this matter cf the rate of change and the awareness of the social needs of a community, and 1 have been looking at a document from the 16th International Conference on Social Welfare which was held only a few weeks ago in the Netherlands. [More…]

• Therefore it is not surprising that in this Budget there has been a tremendous emphasis on the general broad social welfare programme. [More…]

• I wish to turn to one or two features of the social welfare benefits I mentioned earlier. [More…]

• In the short run and as a continuing improvement in its social welfare policy, the Government decided to propose an immediate increase in the amount of means which pensioners may enjoy without a reduction of their pensions. [More…]

• That is in addition to what I have already said about the increased interest shown in the social welfare of the people of Australia and the decision to take advantage of the many changes that are rapidly taking place. [More…]

• I think that Senator Byrne in raising this matter referred to the inquiry that the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare held into the problems of the physically and mentally handicapped. [More…]

• I have had a continuing interest in the welfare of people in the outback, in the remote areas of South Australia and other States of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• To refer it to a committee will provide an opportunity to establish a dialogue and an opportunity for the Committee to talk with the people who are involved not only in the sphere of education but in the total sphere of outback needs, the whole area of decentralisation and the social welfare of the people who serve Australia so well and so worthily in this sphere. [More…]

• But we face the situation as it is and the Government must move with all speed to correct the consequences of such a decision involving as it does the life, property and welfare of people innocently involved in what has been an administrative mistake. [More…]

• This Bill represents only one part of the comprehensive measures being undertaken by the government in this session through both the Department of .Social Services and the Department of Health to improve the health and welfare position of aged people. [More…]

• This was only one of a number of aged persons welfare measures contained in the Budget. [More…]

• The major consideration is, however, the welfare of the individual. [More…]

• As I mentioned earlier, this Bill is but one of a number of measures being introduced by the Government to improve the health and welfare of the aged in our community. [More…]

• This Bill makes a significant contribution to the welfare programme. [More…]

• Take the Repatriation Commission and the repatriation reference of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• lt is equally foolish to say that the Welfare Branch of the Northern Territory Administration will police this matter, because it will not either. [More…]

• Let me briefly say that the Government’s record in regard to the development of Aboriginal welfare proposals is nothing short of remarkable in the 3 to 4 years in which the Commonwealth has had the plenary power to act in respect of Aboriginal matters. [More…]

• The Migrant Advisory Council is a proud and effective body which has made a great contribution to migrant welfare. [More…]

• The expenditure on social services from national welfare fund for 1972-73 other than that resulting from this Bill, is estimated to reach, $ 1,327m which is an increase of $119m over the expenditure for the previous year. [More…]

• The Chifley administration of 1948-49 certainly intended to place social service benefits on a firm foundation when it introduced the National Welfare Bill but again events intervened to prevent the enactment of legislation to give substantial benefits to the Australian people. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that the Commonwealth has taken the step in the Budget documents of increasing the total amount for social service payments provided through the National Welfare Fund by $325m, which represents an increase of in excess of 18 per cent on the amount for the previous year. [More…]

• Numbers of countries which are recognised on the world scene as being in the forefront in the provision of welfare benefits have already adopted schemes similar to that to which the Labor Party is committed. [More…]

• We commend the amendment to the Senate, lt is a genuine attempt by the Opposition to draw to the attention of the Government the need to establish a national superannuation scheme to bring Australia into line with the advanced countries of the world in this field of national welfare which is the responsibility of government in this area. [More…]

• To me it would be most appealing if all people who contribute to the welfare of this country by paying taxes could look forward to some return from the country when they became aged. [More…]

• When one sees that expenditure on social services from the national welfare fund for 1972-73, other than that which is included in this legislation, is estimated to reach $l,327m, an increase of $119m over last year, combined with these proposals which will cost $179m in a full year, it can be seen that the Government is certainly taking a very big portion from the total Budget to devote to this highly necessary and desirable area of national need. [More…]

• I have mentioned those things because I feel, looking at the suggestion by the Opposition that there is a need for a comprehensive system of national social security, that we do have a system of social advancement and social security in this country which has achieved a tremendous amount for those who have a legitimate welfare claim upon the society of which they are a part. [More…]

• At end of motion add - but the Senate is of the opinion that a just, adequate and comprehensive social welfare system can be achieved only by the creation of a contributory national superannuation scheme and that pending the establishment of such a scheme, pension rates should be determined by an independent tribunal of experts including pensioner representation, and the Senate is also of the opinion that this Bill should have provided for increases in child endowment rates and maternity allowances which are long overdue for adjustment. [More…]

• The amendment begins: but the Senate is of the opinion that a just, adequate and comprehensive social welfare system can be achieved only by the creation of a contributory national superannuation scheme. [More…]

• Then, when the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare had repatriation referred to it for investigation - I might say that it is not doing a bad job - the Government decided that it would appoint Mr Justice Toose to carry out an independent investigation. [More…]

• The number of legislative measures relating to these aspects of health and welfare are creating great confusion in the minds of the people. [More…]

• Because of the difficulty brought about by variations between the Department of Health and the Department of Social Services, I think the time is long overdue when the Government should consider how the various measures relating to the welfare of Australia’s elderly citizens can be consolidated. [More…]

• These figures perhaps in themselves do not sound to be large ones in the total complexity of the social welfare section of the Budget. [More…]

• Persons Homes Bill as it processes an aspect of the Budget Speech which evokes a response in every one of us in terms of its attractiveness and also because of its extension of the Government’s welfare and social service programme. [More…]

• In speaking in support of this measure today I draw attention to the fact that the government of the day, whatever political colour it may be, has become more and more involved in the social welfare programme of the Australian community. [More…]

• Every time a measure relating to the welfare of our senior citizens is introduced and implemented,I think it is important to recall very briefly something of the background from which this general programme came. [More…]

• I think it would be true to say, and indeed it is pertinent to affirm, that this surely indicates the success of this wide-ranging and far-reaching social welfare scheme. [More…]

• AH of this, of course, reflects the increased and improved social welfare and medical programmes which have been initiated and sustained as part of the Government’s total social welfare programme. [More…]

• Having said that, I know that one immediately raises a whole range of other related matters, not the least of which is the economics of the situation but, as we move and research into new ways of providing improved social welfare programmes, that proposal merits real consideration. [More…]

• stand in this place, as senators do, to support improvements, growth and extensions in the social welfare programme. [More…]

• However, we should always examine and re-examine our total approach to social welfare programmes. [More…]

• We must remember that the Australian community is one community within the whole range of world communities which are giving a great deal of care and expert attention to social welfare. [More…]

• Therefore we must constantly seek to avail ourselves of the information and knowledge which is accessible to us as we develop our own social welfare programmes. [More…]

• If we are to make a worthwhile contribution to social welfare we must recognise that our contribution may demand more from us as citizens of the country than perhaps we have hitherto realised. [More…]

• A great deal of development in social welfare has evolved over the last 20 to 30 years. [More…]

• In the late 1920s this definition of social welfare was given at a conference: ‘Alleviating suffering arising from poverty, preventing social ills, improving social conditions and raising the standards of living.’ [More…]

• I nave heard social welfare described also as ‘the organised social methods of meeting basic human needs for mutual support’. [More…]

• In the late 1920s social welfare definitions were simpler than they are today. [More…]

• I think, being forced to recognise that today social welfare involves much more than materia] aid for those who happen to be in need, whether in terms of age or health. [More…]

• Today social welfare is concerned with the quality of life of all human beings but more particularly, as we discuss a particular age group today, those of senior years Therefore as we debate and agree on social welfare programmes, the kind of which we have before us today, I think we ought to pause a moment to re-examine our total outlook to them. [More…]

• The size of the social welfare programme in Australia is enormous, and une does not quarrel with that. [More…]

• It may well be asserted that the social welfare programme of the 1970s is very large and that it is a highly professional industry. [More…]

• I am not sure that ‘industry’ is the most suitable word to use about a social welfare programme, but we must remember that involved in a total social welfare programme are doctors, teachers, nurses and social workers all of whom are dedicated to their own particular vocations and to the extra services which they render to mankind. [More…]

• Some welfare establishments such as the wide range of homes and hospitals which are referred to either directly or by inference in the Bill which is now before the Senate, are in themselves large scale industries in which a wide range and a large number of people have a particular and direct interest. [More…]

• Further, as the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) puts down line by line all the new social welfare programmes we should remember that he is referring to a wide range of skilled professional people all of whom have professional competence and who make an important contribution to the total programme. [More…]

• While recognising the great skills and competence which they possess we must remember that if their work is to provide the maximum benefit to the social welfare programme it must be undergirded by the involvement of the community at large - because, as I said earlier, this social welfare programme is one in which one section of a community is dependent upon another. [More…]

• It is easy for us to pass a Bill and to make congratulatory references this afternoon about the extra sums of money which are involved, and which the Parliament has directed should be involved, and which the taxpayers provide; but at th- same time we should remember that any constructive welfare programme must be undergirded by the interested, involved and dedicated service of the people at large. [More…]

• With those observations I support the measure and hope that it will have a speedy passage through this House and that those who will be the beneficiaries of it will be able to extend their services in the welfare of the community. [More…]

• I would think that none of us would quarrel with the view that we are a federation and that it is most desirable to have uniformity in legislation which affects the common weal and has an impact upon the common welfare of the people. [More…]

• Information was obtained from the New South Wales Department of Child Welfare and Social Welfare. [More…]

• (1), (2) and (3) The tenancy of the cottage occupied by Mr Maher is controlled by the New South Wales Minister for Child Welfare and Social Welfare, with the Housing Commission of New South Wales acting as agent. [More…]

• For some time prior to June, Mr Maher’s rent was considerably in arrears, and following numerous efforts by officers of Child and Social Welfare and of the Housing Commission to secure a better response from the tenant, action was taken under the Landlord and Tenant Act for recovery of the premises. [More…]

• The recommendations contained in the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare on the physically and mentally handicapped have some bearing on the points raised by the honourable senator, and these recommendations are currently under examination by the Government. [More…]

• I believe that those people should make some contribution to the welfare of the Commonwealth of Australia. [More…]

• But honourable senators opposite are saying: ‘We express the opinion that all these should be exempted from contributing to the welfare of the Commonwealth of Australia’. [More…]

• Finally, we have also been determined to find room for measures having merit on broader grounds of social welfare and equity. [More…]

• By introducing this measure, the Government wishes to assist Australian wool growers further in their efforts to advance the welfare of their industry. [More…]

• Not the least matter is the concern that South Australians very properly have for the welfare and benefits to be achieved by employment in their State. [More…]

• The following are extracts from the letters - We were made aware of your complete lack of interest in the educational welfare of the children of the outback.’ [More…]

• I believe that these organisations do a great job in liaison and welfare work and not only in straight out welfare work where people are in dire circumstances and need but also in health and social activities. [More…]

• I believe that they would make very good liaison and welfare officers working among their own people. [More…]

• That the all Aboriginal and Islander Session of FCAATSI demand that the Northern Territory Administration and Welfare recognise and accept the full Commonwealth definition of the term Australian Aborigine. [More…]

• That the all Aboriginal and Islander Session of FCAATSI condemn the systematic destruction by the Northern Territory Administration and Welfare of the identification of Aboriginal people with their culture and each other. [More…]

• That the all Aboriginal and Islander Session of FCAATSI condemn the persistent lack of effective and positive action by the Northern Territory Director of Welfare and Assistant Administrator, Mr Harry Giese, to come to grips with the increasingly urgent Aboriginal problems in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• I have asked him to relate his remarks to the terms of the Bill which I understand concern the welfare and advancement of the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• This is the fourth Bill introduced by the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) during this session of Parliament to advance the welfare of aged persons. [More…]

• In addition, the Minister for Health (Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson) is introducing 3 new measures to assist the health and welfare of chronically-ill aged people (i) by giving additional assistance to patients of nursing homes: (ii) by increasing the Commonwealth subsidies paid lo organisations providing home nursing services; and (iii) by providing a new domiciliary care benefit to encourage and assist families and relatives to accept responsibility in their homes for the provision of the professional nursing care and supportive services required by an aged and infirm person, in order to reduce the demand for nursing home treatment At the same time the Ministers for Health and [More…]

• These organisations, as honourable senators 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 on the one hand and supportive services, such as home nursing, paramedical, housekeeping, emergency transport, shopping, gardening, hairdressing, chiropody, library and general counselling, on the other band. [More…]

• Total expenditure under the Delivered Meals Subsidy Act for 1972-73 is therefore expected to be $640,000 rising to upward of $800,000 in the full year 1973-74. la 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 explained to the Senate 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…]

• I remind the Senate - Senator Little may have forgotten - that full rights to control the welfare of Aborigines were granted to the Commonwealth 5 years ago. [More…]

• It provides for the granting to the States of the sum of SI 4.5m for the purpose of the advancement of the welfare of Aborigines. [More…]

• The context in which this Bill has been brought to the Senate is a continuing programme by the Government to advance in a variety of ways the welfare of Aborigines in this community. [More…]

• What we must guard against is this conscience leading us into taking any and every step which is suggested by people who claim to have the welfare of the Aboriginal people at heart but who, far from having their welfare at heart, are merely using them in a variety of ways as steps to achieve the realisation of other objectives. [More…]

• But I do not believe that in regard to the welfare and advancement of the Aboriginal people it reflects to his credit o* to his Party’s credit that he should use a lot of mis-statements in order to found a case which is not to be sustained on the record. [More…]

• I think that one of the most significant documents ever delivered by a government with regard to the welfare and future of the Aborigines of Australia is the document which was delivered on 26th January this year by the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon). [More…]

• In a publication entitled ‘Poisons - Emergency Treatment’, which was produced by the Safety Promotion Committee of the Canadian Paediatric Society and was published by the authority of the Canadian Minister of National Health and Welfare, it is stated that, although the lethal dosage is unknown, survivals have been reported with 70 milligrammes per kilogram of body weight and deaths with 20 milligrammes per kilogram of body weight. [More…]

• If I remember correctly, I think that in regard to the uniform divorce law - that is one matter of which I can think, and there may be others - a Bill, with all its complications, was put down, because it was going to affect the social life and the welfare of the nation, so that it could be examined by the people who were competent to examine it and to reflect upon it. [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, thai child care which was beneficial to the child’s overall development was prohibitively costly for the large body of parents, and secondly, that the child-minding arrangements that most parents could afford fell far short of the quality that was required in the interests of child welfare. [More…]

• Secondly, 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…]

• The amendment proposed by the Australian Labor Party is as follows: but the Senate 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…]

• Now we find this important legislation, om of the most important reforms that is required in the structure of our welfare in the Commonwealth, being held back for the purpose of winning an election. [More…]

• The key stimulus in the current Budget comes from the very large taxation concessions and the substantial increases in social welfare benefits which it contains. [More…]

• Will anybody say that those social welfare proposals were not wise? [More…]

• It hus been my experience that people seeking such payments are referred to a State Department of Welfare. [More…]

• Ls it his intention to appoint to that committee persons who, over the years, have shown a very deep interest in the welfare of Aborigines and the preservation of their culture and heritage? [More…]

• Our Embassy in Islamabad has been in regular contact with the British Embassy in Kabul which has arranged regular visits to Hannon, and interest is being taken in the sufficiency of his rations and his personal welfare. [More…]

• Our embassy will continue to take a close interest in his welfare. [More…]

• Child care must concern itself with mental health - an integral part of the problem - with the welfare of working mothers and with their pre-school children. [More…]

• The Government shows its contempt for the intelligence of the people of Australia when it slates that this Government’s initiative is a tangible expression of its very real and proper concern for the welfare of children. [More…]

• The New South Wales Child Welfare Department has expressed concern at the number of unqualified and often indifferent housekeepers and nannies who are caring for children in their own homes. [More…]

• According to the New South Wales Department of Child Welfare existing child care centres cater for only 2.8 per cent of pre-school children and only 6 per cent of 3 to 5-year-olds. [More…]

• She described these institutions as 8-hour-a-day orphanages or mother neglect centres, not child welfare centres. [More…]

• Members of the Australian Labor Party have suggested that some improvement in the system could be effected by removing the responsibility for child care services from the jurisdiction of the States, which may already have at least some knowledge and staff in this field, putting this entire area of welfare - from the far north of Queensland to the depths of Western Australia - under the control of a department of experts in Canberra. [More…]

• Surely honourable senators opposite feel that the State governments would be better equipped to handle this field of welfare and would handle it better than if the whole area were institutionalised in Canberra where the Labor Party does not even have a government of its political complexion. [More…]

• The proposed child care sheme is concerned with the welfare of children, with particular emphasis on the welfare of those children who have special need of alternative care while their parents are working, sick or otherwise unable to care for them. [More…]

• The mother and children have to rely on the State Welfare Department for sustenance. [More…]

• I understand that Mr Lekatis would be detained in Greece and separated from his wife and young children, who have no income other than what they are receiving from the State Welfare Department. [More…]

• In view of this situation does the Government believe that the cash grant of $25,000 is an adequate response in a time of disaster which is gravely affecting the welfare of our near Pacific neighbour? [More…]

• This matter was brought up during the pressure of debate last night when I was discussing the Child Care Bill, lt was not promoted by me but by people who were interjecting while I was speaking about child welfare. [More…]

• They use their best endeavours to promote their children’s welfare on a view which is fairly current right throughout the community, that parents want their children to have a better life than they, the parents themselves, had. [More…]

• The fundamental basis of this legislation is the acknowledgment of the fact that there are working mothers and there are parents other than working mothers who cannot look after their children throughout the day and that there ought to be proper physical arrangements and professional staff to provide the type of child care in child care centres which will enable the welfare of these children to be maintained. [More…]

• They will be operated by local government bodies, benevolent trusts, welfare organisations, parents associations and such other eligible organisations as apply. [More…]

• There must be some such risk, but the real concern that the Government has is the welfare of the children. [More…]

• In short, in relation to death from injury as in relation to injury from while a worker recovers and is able to go back to his work, we adopt the same general principle which is in line wilh modern notions of social welfare and with modern conscience that people who work in industry and who are injured in the course of their work, and their dependants, should suffer no financial handicap because of that physical disability. [More…]

• This is, of course, pure nonsense, and could be dismissed as such were it not for the danger that Dr Cairns may, in the not too distant future have the opportunity to vent his ill-considered prejudices upon one of the few official bodies in Australia that has shown signs of having an active concern for the long-term economic welfare of Australia. [More…]

• It is most unfair that a senior social worker in the Welfare Division of the Northern Territory Administration who had in his heart a wish to help certain people should be charged with the commission of an offence within the meaning of section 55 of the Public Service Act. [More…]

• Would a major step in the social welfare scheme be achieved if the costs referred to in (1) were made a deductible taxation item. [More…]

• For example, I have heard debatesin this chamber on the sugar industry which particularly impinges upon the economic welfare of Queensland. [More…]

• Cabinet has approved of an additional grant for Aboriginal welfare and activities. [More…]

• I shall take up the question with the Minister to see whether there is anything that he can do to preserve this company, if it truly is in the interests of Aboriginal welfare. [More…]

• Does the Minister concede that devaluation compensation is an entitlement of exporters, or is it in his conception a welfare payment to be given and bestowed at the discretion of a Minister? [More…]

• Did the Minister, before his announcement of 6th February last of a welfare payment limited to $1,500 per orchard, have before him the full report from the Australian Apple and Pear Board recommending devaluation compensation? [More…]

• His welfare does not matter. [More…]

• Will the Minister, before taking such inhuman and brutal action, give consideration to the old-fashioned principle that the conservation of decent, hard working human beings who have contributed greatly to the development and welfare of all Australians should be more important in government priorities than kangaroos and emus, however attractive these natural fauna may be and however important their conservation may be? [More…]

• A working party of top social welfare administrators and other experts has been appointed by the Government to investigate and report on a suitable program. [More…]

• We said: ‘We cannot predict the future, but we see Japan as an island nation which is totally dependent for its survival, for its growing affluence and for its people’s welfare upon trade and particularly upon the sea lanes - notably the sea lane to the south through the Strait of Malacca and across the Indian Ocean to the Persian Gulf, because Japan is oil hungry and obtains 90 per cent of its oil along that sea lane. [More…]

• So, can Japan maintain its present defence and foreign affairs attitudes if there is any threat to its trade or if there is any challenge to the welfare of its people? [More…]

• A national commission on social welfare will be established to advise the Government on all aspects of social welfare. [More…]

• It is on record in Queensland Hansard that in that period he did not make one speech in the Parliament advocating welfare conditions for them. [More…]

• The Government in its conduct of the nation’s affairs has subordinated the security and welfare of the Australian people on whose behalf it should govern to the factional decisions of the Conference and Executive of the Australian Labor Party in that: [More…]

• I cannot understand any honourable senator of the Australian Parliament coming into the Parliament and being more concerned about the politics of a defence matter, something which concerns this country’s welfare, and talking about separating the left and right wings of the Labor Party. [More…]

• The simple fact of the matter is that at that time - namely, I think June or July of last year to which the honourable senator referred - I myself was a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare which was inquiring into all aspects of repatriation. [More…]

• But the thing that underlies, and must underlie, all welfare programs is the continuation of sound economic policy. [More…]

• Sound economic policy must precede improvements in welfare. [More…]

• Without that sound economic policy the possibility of increasing welfare provision to those who need it and those who deserve it is simply not a proposition which a government can entertain. [More…]

• There is wonderful humanitarian legislation contained in the Bill before the Senate and I know that the Minister will give consideration to the suggestion I have made because he has a deep interest in the welfare of others, particularly those less fortunate than ourselves, and adopts a great humanitarian approach to these matters. [More…]

• I claim that it had a practical approach to the multiple qualifications which form a background to social welfare. [More…]

• Social welfare needs to be distributed to that section of the community which stands in the greatest need. [More…]

• If there is a large distribution and a large social welfare program, care must be exercised so that funds are not wasted and so that the administration is not top heavy. [More…]

• As one who has been interested in social welfare over a period of years. [More…]

• I claim that those factors were the hallmark of the previous Government’s program of social welfare. [More…]

• He stated that he and his colleagues had been ‘determined to find room for measures having merit on broader grounds of social welfare and equality’. [More…]

• Expenditure on social welfare and repatriation constitutes the largest single item of the Commonwealth’s own expenditure. [More…]

• These statements, Mr President, I think you will agree, do not suggest for a minute that this responsibility for social welfare in our community under that Government were characteristic of what the Minister described as ‘mean men in practise of a poorhouse, alms giving mentality’. [More…]

• Any discussion relating to social welfare and social security invites, of course, reflection and comment upon the means test. [More…]

• But what is rejected and what is answered are the Minister’s unjust allegations against the previous administrations whose records stand investigation in such matters as the modification of the means test, broadening of the basis of eligibility for pensions and continuous endeavours to improve the welfare of all Australian citizens. [More…]

• So while we support the measure that is before the Senate, I rake the liberty of observing that a wideranging and widespread distribution of a large amount of money - and when dealing with social welfare both this government and previous Governments were dealing with large amounts of money - does not necessarily solve all social welfare problems. [More…]

• All of us who have spoken or who have given thought to social welfare measures in recent times have examined them, in both discussions and speeches, from the standpoint that pension rates and other benefits should not be geared to political decisions. [More…]

• I know him to be a gentleman very much interested in sport and in all things connected with the welfare of young people, particularly those in this area. [More…]

• He accepts, on what he said, that even if the sub judice rule applies that in itself is no reason, if the national welfare requires it, why the Parliament should not deal with the matter. [More…]

• you balance the question of how it should be dealt with, whether the National Parliament should go ahead to deal with it, notwithstanding that there was some private litigation or public litigation in the courts, because the national welfare may require that National Parliament should do so. [More…]

• As far as I am concerned, the effect of legislation on Tasmania’s welfare will be my paramount consideration. [More…]

• Currently the Cabinet Welfare Committee is examining this particular side of our program, and in doing so it has had to have regard for what ought to be done in the social security field. [More…]

• I do not suggest that the Minister for Primary Industry (Senator Wriedt) is unconscious of the problem but I do suggest that perhaps he may have some problems in being able to ileal with the situation adequately when the approach of the Government to the management of the economy is that a pittance shall be meted out - as if it were a social welfare payment - to an industry which is struck down as a result of an economic decision of the Government. [More…]

• Instead of that we have the sort of approach which is a social welfare approach. [More…]

• This evening we have heard the Tasmanian Devil howling from his corner in the chamber a great deal of drivelling nonsense suggesting that Senator Greenwood was indifferent to the welfare ofhis country. [More…]

• 8, remove the requirement to specify arrangements to be made for the welfare of children of a marriage in the petition prior to divorce when section 71 of the Matrimonial Causes Act, section 71 requires in all cases that the Court be satisfied as to the proper arrangements for their welfare, or proof that there are special circumstances whereby this should not be required. [More…]

• As a respondent may not now find in the petition any statement of the proposed arrangements in regard to the welfare of the children how is he or she to place his or her views before the Court on this important question, without having to defend the suit and thereby becoming at risk as to costs. [More…]

• Our purpose is to try to reflect in the best possible manner a more modern concept in many of these matters to the advantage of those unfortunately involved in matrimonial proceedings, with particular regard to the welfare of the families and children of parties involved in divorce litigation. [More…]

• 1 understand that difficulty is experienced in the courts in administering section 71 of the Act, under which the court must be satisfied either that proper arrangements have been made for the welfare of the children of the marriage or that special circumstances exist so that the decree nisi can be made absolute despite the court not being satisfied of such arrangements. [More…]

• Will the Minister advise what action has been taken, or is intended to be taken, to implement the recommendations contained in the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare, on Physically and Mentally Handicapped Persons in Australia, which was presented to the Senate on 5th May 1971. [More…]

• However, some of the major proposals relate to matters that are already listed for consideration by the proposed National Commission on Social Welfare. [More…]

• It will be a function of the Commission to assist not only in ensuring that future social welfare developments are based on a carefully balanced and integrated plan, but also that full regard is had to the needs of the various groups and the priorities that should be given to meeting those needs. [More…]

• That there be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare the following matter: [More…]

• The report, which was sent to the Australian Government from the Yugoslav Government, goes on to say that the terrorists have received instructions in the use of mining devices at the Croatian Catholic Welfare Centre in Sydney; that they have received military training at a camp operated by the Croatian Liberation Movement; that they have had training in the use of weapons and explosives; and that they have been supervised by members of the Regular Army at Wodonga. [More…]

• He was reported to be a Franciscan Friar residing at 45 Victoria Street, Waverley, and at the Croatian Welfare Centre, 14 Queen Street, Woollahra. [More…]

• He also had the duty to protect the lives and welfare of Australian citizens. [More…]

• I believe that instead of the Senate having to consider this motion of want of confidence in the Attorney-General, this Australian Parliament, having regard to the interests and welfare of the Australian people, should be lauding the activities of the Attorney-General, and I believe that no matter what our friends in the Opposition do, the Australian people will applaud him for the -action he took to protect the lives and welfare of Australian citizens and visiting dignitary to this country. [More…]

• Does he feel that the closure or potential closure of Australian shipbuilding yards since his Government took office is evidence of any real interest in the welfare of the industry by the Government? [More…]

• There is nothing to be said for a free-for-all in international trade; nothing - to be said for violent fluctuations which can entail considerable human cost in welfare terms and cut right across countries’ efforts to achieve greater certainty and predictability in their trade as a basis for sound production and marketing programs. [More…]

• The Government agrees with this and has plans for expanding the medical and welfare services which are needed to provide a full range of accommodation and care for the sick and the aged. [More…]

• I did what I considered was justified in the public interest, and I am certain that the results of my action have been to advance the public welfare. [More…]

• But, when it comes to a matter that was literally one of life or death, when it comes to a matter of the Attorney-General taking firm action to protect the lives and welfare of Australian citizens and action to protect sections of the Australian community from bombings, honourable senators opposite react as though we were as bad as the people who commit these atrocious acts. [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 best that can be hoped for is that the proletarian leaders are more concerned with the welfare of their own countries than with being a vassal state of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or China in an expansive mood. [More…]

• That Australian citizens place great value on the sanctity of human life and the physical mental and social welfare of mothers and children. [More…]

• Can the AttorneyGeneral tell the Senate whether, if the deleterious effects upon the health and welfare of the Australian population from fallout from atmospheric testing by the French Government in the Pacific reach a level of considerable concern, the effect upon the entire populations of peoples living in the Pacific basin will be even greater? [More…]

• Does the Minister intend to substitute for the Australian wheat stabilisation scheme a Labor Party welfare arrangement divorced from any economic basis? [More…]

• I am the Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare which is currently examining repatriation benefits and I should like to deal with just one example. [More…]

• It will be recalled that our spokesman on Health and Welfare during the 1972 election campaign, now the Minister for Social Security, indicated that the benefit of proposed new rates of subsidy would amount to $22m per year for Queensland. [More…]

• That Australian citizens place great value on the sanctity of human life and the physical, mental and social welfare of mothers and children. [More…]

• But let us make no mistake about the fact that, depending on the nature of the explosion, all tests, including Chinese tests, are detrimental to the health and welfare of the people of the world and to future generations. [More…]

• It recognises some of the changes which have come about, both in the capacity of a country to provide for welfare payments to its citizens and in the recognition of the changes which have come to world society as a result of travel, communication and migration. [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…]

• Honourable senators should remember in considering this matter that the greatest development in social welfare policies took place in the period of office of the preceding Government. [More…]

• If the new Government is able to do as well as the preceding Government in the social welfare area I will be pleased to give it credit when it has completed the job. [More…]

• Amongst other things a country has to be able to afford social welfare legislation. [More…]

• If the administration of this country is to follow the incredible course which it has begun to follow, in which inflation has been allowed to run rampant, where Government action is taken regardless of its inflationary effect and regardless of the detriment to the country’s ability to be able to provide proper social welfare legislation, where steps are taken which are totally unrelated to the economic management of the country, we will find that rather than having a capacity to increase social welfare legislation the Government’s capacity to provide for it will be decreased. [More…]

• In one sense, I might be straying a little from the present Bill, but it is relevant to the claim which has been made that the Government is introducing this Bill as one step in its implementation of a progressive policy in the social welfare area. [More…]

• In other words, will the increases have an effect on the capacity of the nation to pay for social welfare legislation? [More…]

• We warn the Government about the economic management of the country and its capacity to continue to provide desirable social welfare alterations if the country is not managed in a way which enables it to afford those alterations, and we warn about what appear to us to be potential abuses available under the Bill. [More…]

• As we all have said, and I say it again, the nature of this measure is related closely to the welfare of migrants, lt is true that they are not the only section of the community who will benefit from this measure, but because of the very nature of the case, it is a fact that the migrant community within Australia will stand to benefit considerably from the measure which is before the Senate this afternoon. [More…]

• There were not only social benefits and welfare benefits but also educational benefits and all manner of facilities for migrants in this country to enable them to move. [More…]

• I am proud to be introducing legislation on behalf of a Government which has the welfare of the Australian people at heart. [More…]

• 1 do not approach this matter with any degree of bias or lightness, but I firmly believe that it is our duty to ensure that in the background we have legislation which docs give a feeling of confidence that those who direct the affairs of society generally are cognisant of the great need to have background protection which indicate that concern exists for the welfare of the public generally. [More…]

• It involves to some extent, if not the future at least the welfare of a comparatively small yet significant operating secondary industry in Cairns. [More…]

• It does not look merely at the bookkeeping of the system; it looks at the bookkeeping of the national accounts and national welfare. [More…]

• It would not be suggested for a moment by any one of us - if it is, let us say so - that the greatest consideration for the welfare of the people of King Island is not being exercised by the Government of Tasmania. [More…]

• I am too concerned about the welfare and interests of the people of the King Island and Circular Head districts of Tasmania and those who are on the periphery of the trade and commerce in those areas to indulge in cheap, lowdown politics. [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.I commend the Bill to the Senate. [More…]

• That Australian citizens place great value on the sanctity of human life and the physical, mental and social welfare of mothers and children. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Health: Is he aware that last Saturday represented the second anniversary of the tabling of the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare relating to mentally and physically handicapped persons in Australia? [More…]

• It is a government that has many things to do for the welfare of the Australian people. [More…]

• That Australian citizens place great value on the sanctity of human life and the physical, mental and social welfare of mothers and children. [More…]

• That is the kind of situation Senator McManus wants to perpetuate in this country so that his Party can do what it has been able to do in this Senate, namely, change the balance of power completely and absolutely all the time to get its own deals up, and any interest in the national welfare is purely incidental to its own desire to have power. [More…]

• Will the Minister examine the report and recommendations of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare which looked at the position of mentally handicapped people and, in particular, to the references to mental health institutions and the reviews of Commonwealth-State agreements? [More…]

• I find this surprising for a Government which prides itself on having some concern for the special situation of minorities and which has talked about the special needs of groups of people, of minorities and of people who are in some particular and peculiar circumstances whether in the field of social welfare, education, the arts or communications. [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…]

• That the following words be added to the AddressinReply: ‘, but the Senate is of the opinion and regrets that - The Government in its conduct of the nation’s affairs has subordinated the security and welfare of the Australian people on whose behalf it should govern to the factional decisions of the Conference and Executive of the Australian Labor Party, in that: [More…]

• Yet we find him coming into the Senate chamber and saying on every occasion that his policies for the support and development of rural industries will be based on welfare. [More…]

• Indeed, why should a parent, no matter how well meaning he or she may be and no matter how concerned he or she may be for the welfare of the children, set himself or herself up as the judge of whether an appropriate marriage of young people, one of whom is over the age of 18, albeit under the age of 21, is going to be a successful marriage. [More…]

• That Australian citizens place great value on the sanctity of human life and the physical, mental and social welfare of mothers and children. [More…]

• That Will place Australia in the position where, with the riches that can come from these dis- coven es of oil arid gas, the standard of living can be lifted and we can widen the expectation of expanding welfare in the community. [More…]

• conscious not only of its own interests but also of its participation in world welfare, in the welfare of other nations, and that the vast resources of the world, within reason, should be made available, so far as is possible, particularly for the’ assistance of countries which up to the present have been denied the opportunity to explore and exploit’ their own resources as the Western nations have done. [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…]

• There was one man whose position gave him unique power to achieve these changes and I here gratefully acknowledge - as everybody with the welfare of the world at heart must - the pivotal role played by President Nixon in ushering in a new and saner phase in our relations with China; in clearing the way for more intensive commercial, scientific, technical and cultural exchanges between the United States and’ the Soviet Union, and thereby achieving a successful first round of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and in ending foreign intervention in Vietnam. [More…]

• 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…]

• I feel that it is my responsibility during this debate on the motion for the first reading to answer some of the comments that have been made by Senator Turnbull and Senator Carrick on this important issue concerning the health and welfare of the Australian people. [More…]

• At this point, I would like to interpose and say that we are 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…]

• 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 co-operative 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 the annual allocation to its home builders’ account in each of the 2 financial years immediately preceding 1 July 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 include a married or engaged couple and 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 95 per cent of average weekly earnings, plus $2 a week for each child beyond the second. [More…]

• Our intention is that our welfare housing advances will not be part of State programs approved by the Australian Loan Council. [More…]

• During the process of negotiation of this Agreement, all State Housing Ministers sought certain assurances in respect of 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 1 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 the States Grants (Housing Assistance) Bill 1973 is to authorise the Treasurer to make advances totalling $84,600,000 to the States for welfare housing during the first six 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…]

• It is proposed, under the agreement, that the Commonwealth Minister will determine the amount of welfare housing advances to each State during the next 5 years, so that 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…]

• As I said at the outset of my remarks, this is a measure which not only deals with economics or with the erection of houses or with the design of streets, but also takes into account the total social welfare of any given community. [More…]

• When does the Government propose to take remedial action, promised prior to the last election, relating to the mentally and physically handicapped persons in Australia whose serious plight was illustrated by the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare, which made 85 recommendations for assisting such people. [More…]

• A number of recommendations of the Senate Committee relate to matters that are to be considered by the proposed National Commission on Social Welfare. [More…]

• These will be implemented after the Commission has decided on the priorities that should be given to meeting social welfare needs and the location of those needs. [More…]

• In the end, people’s living standards, their well being and their welfare are substantially bound up with sound economic management. [More…]

• If the Government continues its proliferation of bureaucracy in this portfolio and does not get round to dealing with the real issues - treating Aborigines as dignified Australians who are equal to other Australians and not people to be patronised or simply representing a social welfare situation, as New Zealand did with its Maoris for a long while, much to its regret - very soon there will be as many public servants looking after Aborigines as there are Aborigines. [More…]

• However, I do think it important to refer very briefly to the effect of one of the other Bills, namely, the States Grants (Housing Assistance) Bill which provides for funds to be allocated for welfare housing for the first 6 months of 1973-74. [More…]

• I believe that in terms of development that ought to be the general relationship which exists between the Commonwealth and the States in the determination of these subjective assessments which are part and parcel of the application of finance for social welfare ends. [More…]

• I do not challenge that in a very broad way I could find common ground with my colleagues in the Labor Party in sensing that we have an objective that there are welfare needs that have to be met. [More…]

• The total amount to be advanced to each Stale in 1973-74 for welfare housing purposes, which is yet to be determined, will be the subject of an authorising BUI to be introduced into Parliament during the Budget sittings. [More…]

• One is proceeding under the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare, the other under the Chairmanship of Mr Justice Toose. [More…]

• As most members know, I had the privilege of serving with the Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council - a council which, may I say, was originally established by a Labor administration and one which has known the benefit of advice from a wide range of citizens coming from diverse disciplines and interests and all of them acutely involved in the welfare of citizens. [More…]

• The Council has through the years advised successive Ministers, and still advises the present Minister, in encouraging citizenship by recommending an enormous list of welfare and other services. [More…]

• It has made recommendations about language, education, counsellings, to which I have just referred, employment and other matters relating to health, housing, finance, personal needs, social workers and welfare officers. [More…]

• All these recommendations have been implemented over the years by previous administrations in relating to the welfare and the citizenship of migrants. [More…]

• The Minister may call them task forces or by any other name, but through the years a great deal has been done by previous administrations for the welfare and citizenship of migrants. [More…]

• It is a fairly easy thing for those of us who are interested in social welfare to make sweeping generalisations. [More…]

• There is always a need for careful examination of the social indicators which enable judgments to be made about society and about the steps which the Government of the day may take on welfare issues. [More…]

• I do not think for one moment that any member of the Senate, especially one who served on the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare and particularly one who served on the committee of inquiry into the problems of the physically and mentally handicapped, would doubt the desirability of and the great need for additional social workers to be provided in the community. [More…]

• When we study administrative and development programs in our urban areas we have to be concerned with a great variety of functions such as the collection of taxes, the provision of roads and of transportation, health and welfare services. [More…]

• I refer the honourable senator to my answer to a similar question asked by Senator Rae on 8 May and point out to him that the Minister’s statement truly reflects this Government’s very great concern for the welfare of the low wage earner and his right to a just and equitable reward for his labour. [More…]

• I refer now to the other portion of the question which the honourable senator asked in May, concerning the consideration the Government had given to the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare which inquired into the problems of the physically and mentally handicapped. [More…]

• Those provisions were inserted in the original legislation because they advanced the interest and welfare of the public at large. [More…]

• In the past - LiberalCountry Party governments have always had very high regard for the genuine welfare as distinct from the strangleholding of union activities - there was a provision that any member of a trade union who felt that wrongful action was being taken by the executive had the right to apply to the Attorney-General for the payment of his costs in any court proceedings. [More…]

• I wish at this stage to make it clear that the Opposition does nothing other than support the introduction of this desirable welfare legislation. [More…]

• Continual improvements in welfare legislation and the provision of added benefits to the community can be the product only of a community which is able to pay for them because the economy has been soundly managed and is able to stand the cost of the added benefits. [More…]

• by leave- I wish to make a brief statement in respect of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare has resolved to make a statement to the Senate on two of the matters referred to it by the Senate in the previous session which were not disposed of by the Committee. [More…]

• The question of what the States and employers in outside industry will do is one which has to be faced in the general context of social welfare legislation. [More…]

• In 1967 the people showed in a very decisive manner that they recognise, realise and appreciate fully the necessity to have a responsible Senate, a Senate made up of men who will have regard to the welfare of the States they represent, men who will act judiciously, honestly and responsibly in the decisions that they make on the issues which come before the Senate. [More…]

• He accepts his responsibility as the Premier of Western Australia on a matter which he believes is of importance to the welfare of his State, yet on arrival in London he is told that Joe Chamberlain of the ALP or some other Pooh-Bah- [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…]

• In this area, which obviously is a basic area of the defence Services, we have done extraordinarily well in a situation in which general welfare demands have been great. [More…]

• Finally, does the Minister agree that Australia will continue to rely heavily on overseas earnings to finance its expenditure on social welfare programs and that the meat industry can play an important part? [More…]

• But now we see a situation, with a change of government in Canberra, where in the Budget this week the Government proclaimed that it was going to do so many things in the fields of social welfare and education and in so many other areas. [More…]

• Will the Government reconsider its decision, defer the construction of the Googong ‘Dam and allocate the finance saved to assist in the speeding up of the construction of Dartmouth Dam which is so vital to the welfare and the needs of South Australia? [More…]

• As the Government seems to believe that one of the virtues of the Chinese nuclear tests is that the tests have been conducted over Chinese territory, I ask the Minister: Does the Chinese Government consider the effect of nuclear fall-out to be of little significance, or does the Chinese Government display a callous disregard for the health and welfare of its people? [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…]

• Of course, we are members of a welfare party. [More…]

• As members of a party we decided that because of the promises we made to the electorate we should arrange the Budget in a concept that would restore to the Australian people the welfare standards that have been eroded by many years of the Liberal-Country Party governments. [More…]

• The Labor Government decided that during that period it should meet its welfare obligations to the Services. [More…]

• We are doing other things in addition to these welfare matters of increasing pensions and providing other facilities. [More…]

• After the legislation concerning this matter has passed through the Parliament, any person will be able to go into a repatriation limb appliance centre and obtain free treatment and free appliances fitted by people who are the most adept and the most experienced in this field, ls that not a great welfare service not only for ex-service people but also for other persons in the community? [More…]

• I said earlier that the Labor Party is trying to catch up with and meet the needs of the health sector and the welfare sector of the community. [More…]

• In respect of our welfare promises and defence obligations we are confident that we are doing what the people wish us to do in this period. [More…]

• In respect to defence, repatriation, welfare or education, no government has the record that we have up to now. [More…]

• Of course we are a welfare-pointed government. [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…]

• An additional $196m will be spent on health and $3 40m on social welfare. [More…]

• In the current financial year we intend to spend an additional $789m on social welfare programs for the Australian people. [More…]

• That is a remarkable confession of failure and guilt by a Treasurer who only weeks beforehand was promising major tax cuts and whose ministerial colleagues were promising major concessions, particularly in the social welfare field. [More…]

• I tried to get an answer from the Government on whether the Chinese regarded the fallout danger as being insignificant or whether China showed a callous disregard for the welfare and health of its people. [More…]

• Does that excuse them from exploding nuclear bombs without considering the health and welfare of millions of people in the world once the fall-out goes obliquely over Japan and Korea? [More…]

• Here again, the Prime Minister is using an odd criterion because the Chinese people are having their health and welfare affected. [More…]

• He stated in his amendment that we should add to the formal words of thanks to the Governor-General for his Speech the following words expressing the opinion of the Senate: but the Senate is of the opinion and regrets that - The Government in its conduct of the nation’s affairs has subordinated the security and welfare of the Australian people on whose behalf it should govern to the factional decisions of the Conference and Executive of the Australian Labor Party, in that: [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the first report of the Interim Committee of the Social Welfare Commission covering the period 3 April to 30 June 1 973.I present also Discussion Paper No. [More…]

• -I present the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare on the petitions relating to social services. [More…]

• That there be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare the following matter- Rehabilitation Services for the Disadvantaged (Handicapped), including the total requirements necessary for the optimum provision of these services, particularly in the educational, medical, social and vocational aspects of rehabilitation, and having regard to: [More…]

• The report of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare on physically and mentally handicapped children tackled the subject of rehabilitation in considerable detail for this section of the population. [More…]

• With so much work done by Senate committees on various aspects of rehabilitation, I am recommending that the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare bring out a comprehensive report combining matters already touched upon as well as some not yet examined in detail. [More…]

• -Briefly, I wish to indicate that the Government concurs in this proposal being referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• -The Opposition supports this Bill, as it would support any measure that contributed to improved conditions of service and improved welfare for our servicemen, although I seriously doubt, if the Government pursues its defence policy as outlined in the Budget, that there will be many servicemen left in Australia’s forces to benefit from these rehabilitation decisions. [More…]

• That the petition be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• I have sufficient faith in the good sense of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare to know that it will deal with the petitions as they ought to be dealt with. [More…]

• Your petitioners believe that in addition to this basic per capita grants additional assistance should be provided in cases of educational disadvantage, but they believe that the appropriate instruments for reducing economic inequalities are taxation and social welfare systems which deal with individuals and families and not with schools. [More…]

• Of course it is extremely important that whatever is done in the motor car industry fits into the general economy and has proper regard to those engaged in the industry in South Australia and to the welfare of South Australia. [More…]

• At the June Premiers’ Conference the Government agreed to advance $2 1 9m to the States for welfare housing in 1973-74, 26 per cent more than in 1972-73. [More…]

• At the Premiers Conference last June the Australian Government agreed to advance $2 19m to the States for welfare housing in 1973-74. [More…]

• Our welfare budget is the biggest in the history of Australia, and so it should be because that is our standard; that was our promise to the community. [More…]

• Our education budget is the biggest ever known to the community, and of course those welfare plans have an effect on the domestic economy. [More…]

• We heard all the strange philosophy which is embodied in the Governor-General’s Speech, namely, that the welfare of Australia does not consist only of what one might call material prosperity; it consists of so many other things which are spelt out in glamorous and sentimental terms. [More…]

• I hope that this training scheme will train social workers in the rural aspects of social welfare problems. [More…]

• It was stated during this week, I think, that the sum of $2 19m- an increase of 26 per cent- is to be made available for welfare housing. [More…]

• The Government is concerned about the welfare of the people. [More…]

• As much as I welcome the increased benefits it provides, particularly in the social welfare and education fields, I deplore the imbalance of the total measures. [More…]

• Should it be in the field of education or social welfare or housing? [More…]

• The Government is committed to a policy of far reaching expansion in the provision of public facilities and transfer payments in the fields of education, health, the cities and welfare generally. [More…]

• It is the duty of the Board, within the limits of its powers, to ensure that the monetary and banking policy of the Bank is directed to the greatest advantage of the people of Australia and that the powers of the Bank under this Act, the Banking Act 1959 and the regulations under that Act are exercised in such a manner as, in the opinion of the Board, will best contribute to the stability of the currency of Australia; the maintenance of full employment in Australia; and the economic prosperity and welfare of the people of Australia. [More…]

• Country people, smokers, drivers and those who enjoy a social drink are the ones who will have to pay for the welfare benefits that are due to be eroded shortly by the rate of inflation that has been set in train by the Government. [More…]

• The areas of Commonwealth expenditure such as defence, social welfare, administration and debt servicing would have to have first call on Commonwealth resources. [More…]

• The Commonwealth’s priority for defence, security and social welfare, justice and general well-being would have to be ensured together with the ability to manage the economy and maintain stability in the currency. [More…]

• Idonot wish to criticise the fact that there is to be increased expenditure on education and social welfare programs or the development of health care programs. [More…]

• The Minister for Overseas Trade (Dr J. F. Cairns) went to China at a time when China was exploding atomic bombs which threatened the welfare of people all around it. [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 being made immediately. [More…]

• The Government that went out of office on 2 December last always had the welfare of the Australian people at hean. [More…]

• Senator Poyser that no member of the Opposition would oppose increased welfare benefits being given to the Australian people. [More…]

• But before any government can give welfare handouts to the people it first of all has to earn the money, and how does it do that? [More…]

• There has been criticism about the inadequacies of social welfare payments. [More…]

• Is someone going to tell me that if the Commonwealth spends its money on housing, health and welfare, urban affairs and sewerage, instead of in the rural sector in the form of subsidies, one form of spending is inflationary and the other is not? [More…]

• I present the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare on the petition relating to the transfer of social service entitlements. [More…]

• The Government seeks to put to one side important Bills relating to social welfare, thus keeping a whole host of people waiting for increased pension benefits and advantages. [More…]

• It was able to sustain an enormous number of satisfactory and satisfying social welfare programs. [More…]

• The Australian Government is budgeting for a slightly smaller deficit than last year, but is placing increased emphasis on social welfare measures, which should further stimulate personal spending. [More…]

• The Government is always in the position where if it carries out any expansion of its social welfare aims it is often said to be extravagant and to be creating a counterforce to pension rises. [More…]

• There is much which can be argued about in this legislation, but it is very clear that the Labour Government has quickly implemented its social welfare reforms. [More…]

• As Senator Keeffe said, as soon as we got into office our first piece of legislation dealt with social welfare pensions and repatriation payments which were made retrospective to the date of the election. [More…]

• I also congratulate those who have been responsible for delaying the publication of the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• The reason I have those reservations is that the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare which investigated all aspects of repatriation received much public evidence on the subject. [More…]

• Again I say that I think it is a great pity that the efforts of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare should be picked about by the Government. [More…]

• I do not know what the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare recommended although Senator Dame Nancy Buttfield presumes that I do. [More…]

• Your petitioners believe that in addition to this basic per capita grants additional assistance should be provided in cases of educational disadvantage, but they believe that the appropriate instruments for reducing economic inequalities are taxation and social welfare systems which deal with individuals and families and not with schools. [More…]

• Is it not a fact that this Labor centralist Government has a greater preference for a bit of dried paint on canvas than it has for the needs and welfare of the people of South Australia? [More…]

• But what honourable senators opposite are posing to me is that the Government, in this day and age when it is spending huge amounts on welfare and on improvements to Service standards- to which Senator McManus gave some supportwhen it is trying to catch up on the lack of welfare provisions in the Services and in the community generally, and when it is providing additional educational facilities, should increase the defence expenditure above the amount which was granted by past governments. [More…]

• But as everybody knows, we have come down on the side of meeting our general welfare commitments and our commitments to improve Sendee conditions at a time when we can afford to do it. [More…]

• I deal with the Bills particularly against the background of an era in which there is an emphasis by the present Government on social welfare, on decentralisation and on the quality of life. [More…]

• They militate against any development of social welfare. [More…]

• I draw attention to the social welfare consequences which may flow from Bills of this kind. [More…]

• The Government is very concerned about the social welfare of the Australian people, and rightly so. [More…]

• One of the things which helps the social welfare program of any nation is the ability of various organisations and sections of our community to communicate not only with their supporters, members, friends or other organisations but, more particularly, with the community at large. [More…]

• I have in my hand a bundle of letters from a variety of organisations of a social welfare nature. [More…]

• I ask the Government to adhere to the pledge it has given and to explain to the Senate why it has felt it necessary to place these additional charges upon sections of the community which can ill afford to carry them and upon groups which are endeavouring to serve the Australian community not only in terms of education and community welfare but also in terms of the important matters of growth and national development. [More…]

• Government programs in social welfare, education and urban development. [More…]

• Nevertheless, as the Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden) has mentioned in the other place, the present government is not altogether satisfied with certain features of the scheme and has asked the Social Welfare Commission to carry out a critical appraisal, to see if it can suggest better ways of providing a program of accommodation for the aged. [More…]

• In the context of the Government’s comprehensive welfare proposals this Bill represents only a small holding measure, designed to maintain the value, in terms of purchasing power, of the assistance being given to aged persons’ hostels. [More…]

• During the previous session of this Parliament, this Government introduced 3 major social welfare Bills. [More…]

• The Bill before you today is one of a series of further measures which the Government 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 is another Bill in the series being introduced in this session to improve welfare services for elderly people, the purpose of which is to increase the assistance payable to the States under the States Grants (Home Care) Act. [More…]

• In broad terms it provides 3 forms of assistance: Firstly for home care service schemes which provide housekeeping the 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 Social Welfare Commission which was tabled in the Parliament 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 to further 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…]

• This Government views the proposals in this Bill as a bridging step between the present unsatisfactory system of fragmented welfare schemes and the Australian Assistance Plan as shown in a discussion paper recently tabled in the Parliament. [More…]

• Indeed, this present measure is a generously improved program to what has gone before but still 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 am saying that this year we will be spending $170m through the Department on Aboriginal welfare. [More…]

• We placed very high- this was almost our paramount objective- in our order of priorities the belief that we should conduct ourselves responsibly, with balance and common sense and at all times having regard to the welfare of Australia and its people. [More…]

• Is their welfare not the direct responsibility of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs? [More…]

• The Minister or the Department would appear to have the power to pay money out of the Fund to an enterprise which would further Aboriginal welfare and employment. [More…]

• This is just one more instance of the Government’s determination to squeeze every dollar it can from primary producers so that its welfare policies can be implemented. [More…]

• We are just as sympathetic about his welfare and his expanding standard of living and for him to be able to do his job on the land with confidence, high morale and dignity as is any member of the Opposition. [More…]

• Our citizens will demand that information services will be their right in the same way that today they look upon matters relating to social welfare and environmental protection as their right. [More…]

• It is difficult to evaluate all the consequences and benefits which might result from an upheaval such as this but the impact of these things will be felt strongly not only in the fields of education, culture, health, medicine and science in general but also, more importantly, the impact will be overwhelming in relation to organisation and management of the total society, particularly in our social welfare and our quality of life. [More…]

• As the Government has announced that, due to an acute land shortage, it intends to acquire the land in question for development and housing in particular, there are certain people who are prepared to put personal gain before the welfare and needs of the citizens of the Northern Territory. [More…]

• Honourable senators 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, it will be reporting direct to the Prime Minister. [More…]

• This is the second of 2 Bills the purpose of which is to enable local governing bodies to make a greater contribution to the welfare of handicapped people. [More…]

• On 3 April 1973 the Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden) 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 objectives 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, employment 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 operationalthe 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 priorities 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 then 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…]

• 1 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 support so that the service 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 decision making 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 coordination 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 coordinated 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 the Minister for Social Security tabled in the House of Representatives 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 Commissionwhich 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 mere fact that there may be some opposition to the proposal from some quarters and that the honourable senator may share the opposition on the basis that this representative Parliament should not be given certain powers to make laws for the welfare of the people is his own affair. [More…]

• The purpose of this Bill is to authorise the Treasurer to make advances not exceeding $327,975 million to the States for welfare housing during 1973-74 and the first six months of 1 974-75, in accordance with the provisions of the 1973 Housing Agreement At its meeting last June, the Premiers Conference decided on a program of $218.65 million 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…]

• The amount of $218.65 million to be advanced to the States in 1973-74 represents on increase of 26 per cent on the amount spent by the States on welfare housing in 1972-73. [More…]

• Welfare housing advances to States in which the Agreement has not yet been ratified by the State Parliament 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…]

• Talking about the imposition of sanctions, I commend to the attention of members of the Opposition a book entitled ‘Welfare and Strikesthe Use of Public Funds to Support Strikers’. [More…]

• It deals with the use of welfare to support strikers. [More…]

• Previous arrangements for providing financial assistance to the State Governments for welfare housing purposes have been replaced by the 1973 Housing Agreement which is operative from 1 July 1973. [More…]

• Of the total amount of $32.73 million advances to be made to South Australia for welfare housing in 1973-74, $ 17.25m is being allocated to the Home Builders’ Account representing an increase of over 1 1 per cent on the amount allocated to the Account in 1972-73. [More…]

• Is he also aware that there is a House of Representatives committee conducting a similar inquiry into the welfare of Aborigines? [More…]

• This year we will be spending $ 1 70m through the Department of Aboriginal Welfare. [More…]

• But in the whole general problem of Aboriginal welfare and the improvement of the opportunities of these people to join meaningfully in the way of life of this nation, I believe that time is by no means the most important factor. [More…]

• First, at the Premiers’ Conference/Loan Council meeting new arrangements for financing the construction of welfare housing were agreed upon. [More…]

• Great matters in relation to social welfare have also been coming before this Parliament. [More…]

• It is owing to those whom this legislation purports to protect- the consumersthat their welfare is looked after and that the consequences of this legislation to them should be before this chamber when the Bill finally finds its passage through the Parliament of Australia. [More…]

• Will he ask his colleagues to undertake a program of research into the reasons for this increase and seek the cooperation of social workers and others engaged in welfare work? [More…]

• The orientation of our society towards the qualitative aspects of growth and towards broad concepts of welfare requires a close integration of science policy with social and economic policy, especially in relation to the long-range human objectives of economic development. [More…]

• Who was more eloquent in his allegations that that Union in some respects was being run without regard to the welfare of the rank and file than the Minister? [More…]

• But a communist can never be a good union official because, when the welfare of the union comes up against the welfare of the Communist Party, what does he do? [More…]

• The Committee was fully charged at all times with the community’s responsibility to provide and care for disabled ex-service personnel to enable them to return to a fuller life as soon as possible, at the same time safeguarding the welfare of ex-servicemen and their families. [More…]

• Firstly, I should like to thank the members of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare for the help that they extended to me during our study of the repatriation system of this country. [More…]

• -In anticipation of an opportunity in the future for a fullscale debate on the report by the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare with respect to repatriation, I wish to make some brief remarks at this stage. [More…]

• -I congratulate the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare on its report which, whilst it is in a short compass, is very embracing in the matters which it canvasses and in the recommendations which it makes. [More…]

• The growth of Japan as a major trading partner has been associated with the welfare of Australia for many years, and the developments earlier this year cast doubt in so many minds upon whether that association of the past would continue. [More…]

• It seems to me to be quite an appropriate sort of welfare body which could well fit in with an overall education theory. [More…]

• But they would seem to be much more appropriately part of a social welfare or social services program. [More…]

• We could have group 5BX exercises, Mr President, if you would be kind enough to lead us; or, as a gentleman of honour, you may be prepared to give way to the Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• However, at a recent meeting with the Tasmanian Minister for Health and Social Welfare a basis for continued co-operation with the various State departments concerned was arrived at, and it is the Australian Government’s intention to open a small office of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs in Hobart [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 needing help which is not just physical. [More…]

• One of the features of government in recent years is its involvement in the ever-widening sphere of social welfare. [More…]

• I note with considerable interest that the Minister for Social Security is not altogether satisfied with certain features of the scheme and that he has asked the Social Welfare Commission to carry out a critical appraisal of it to see whether it can suggest any better ways of providing a program of accommodation for aged people or senior citizens. [More…]

• I have been interested in the report which the Social Welfare Commission has distributed headed ‘Annual Report 1973’. [More…]

• It is in fact the first report of the Interim Committee of the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]

• The general purpose of social policy- which encompasses such areas as education, housing, health services, employment policies and other matters, as well as the more specific issues of income-security payments and personal welfare services- is to provide an environment in which the individual is given the opportunity to develop his or her personal abilities to thenmaximum potential. [More…]

• Social welfare policies have traditionally centred on the disadvantaged. [More…]

• However, in the last few years in Australia, there has been a growing concern to ensure that community health, welfare and legal services, as well as adequate education and housing, are available to the entire community as a matter of right rather than as an act of charity. [More…]

• The Commission considers that it is of the highest importance to develop a different approach to the planning and provision of welfare services. [More…]

• In that paragraph the Commission is indicating that there is a need for a change in approach to the whole matter of social welfare policies, especially as far as aged people are concerned. [More…]

• Therefore I hope that as the Government prepares its program of social welfare and as the Social Welfare Commission swings into action the Government will take into account the vocation and occupation by which the talents and abilities of our senior citizens can be involved. [More…]

• He pointed out that firstly it provided assistance for home care service schemes which give housekeeping and other domestic assistance for aged people in their own homes; secondly it provides assistance for the building of senior citizens centres; and thirdly it provides assistance for the employment of welfare officers employed by or in association with senior citizens centres. [More…]

• The third and final objective of this Bill relates to the employment of welfare officers. [More…]

• As time goes by the employment of appropriate welfare officers becomes more and more urgent because there are a greater number of people to be serviced. [More…]

• While voluntary helpers and workers do a splendid job there is a point beyond which many of these people cannot go simply because they may not have had the training to take them beyond that point or the time or the facilities to render the kind of service that a trained welfare officer can render. [More…]

• At the same time it must always be remembered that people who are served by any welfare officer program should never be placed in the position where the welfare officer determines what they should do. [More…]

• But it will be a very sad day if we lose the services of religious institutions and those people who may be interested in attending to the welfare of their fellow man because they are not given the encouragement which is given to government-provided instrumentalities. [More…]

• The Bill seeks to widen the scope of the Act so that local government bodies are able to contribute to the welfare of handicapped people. [More…]

• It seems to me that the Government has paid some attention to the report on mentally and physically handicapped persons in Australia which was presented in the Senate some dme ago by the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• Having been a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare which inquired at length into the problems of the physically and mentally handicapped, I echo the remarks of Senator Jessop when I say frankly that I am very proud that the Government of which I am a member has taken heed of the very detailed and voluminous report which was arrived at collectively and unanimously by the members of that Committee, who were of all political persuasions, after they had taken evidence at length from a large cross-section of the Australian people who represent the physically and mentally handicapped section, particularly the handicapped children, in our community. [More…]

• I should point out to her that this, of course was one of the recommendations of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare of which she was a member and of which I also was a member. [More…]

• If one goes through the Northern Territory on committees dealing with Aboriginal welfare, water pollution or wildlife conservation it becomes clear that representative Calder cannot carry the load. [More…]

• Is the Minister also aware that the South Australian Community Welfare Department received a grant of $ 1 5,000 each year from the Department of Aboriginal Affairs to supervise the welfare of the Aborigines during the fruit harvest? [More…]

• Is it a fact that this year the $ 1 5,000 grant was returned because the Community Welfare Department was not continuing its supervisory role? [More…]

• The money was voted each year for the welfare of the Aborigines who were placed on fruit-picking ventures along the Murray River. [More…]

• Community Welfare Department in South Australia for this purpose. [More…]

• I refer to a newspaper report which states: ‘The Federal Government has appointed yet another inquiry- this time into manpower available for social welfare work’. [More…]

• Standing Committee on Health and Welfare when it was inquiring into health and hospital costs generally, in evidence the Pharmacy Guild of Australia complained that the previous Government- admittedly this was before April 1 972- for seven or eight years had not increased the amount of fee payable by the Government to chemists for prescriptive purposes. [More…]

• Can the Minister assure the Senate that the present Australian Government will take more care in safeguarding not only the welfare of the Aboriginal community in regard to its housing needs but also the public purse? [More…]

• In addition to those persons and organisations with whom the Commission’s field officers, Committees and Regional Boards will consult, the Commission itself will need to develop a close liaison with the other educational, social and cultural Commissions and agencies of the Commonwealth and State Governments and with those authorities concerned with community and individual welfare, including the appropriate Commonwealth and State bodies. [More…]

• Information from the Depanment of Health and Welfare in Canada indicates that no major change took place in the number of visits to doctors by persons previously covered under the voluntary insurance schemes following the introduction of public insurance in the various Provinces. [More…]

• I took the matter up with my departmental head, Mr Dexter, who agreed with me that it would be better to write to the New South Wales Department of Child Welfare. [More…]

• They would go on a list and the matter would be decided in accordance with the welfare of the child. [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…]

• Firstly, new arrangements had been made for covering the welfare housing programs. [More…]

• I am glad to see that the Commonwealth Government has assumed certain responsibilities by way of substituting grants for borrowings on behalf of the States so that at least half of the indebtedness of the States is relieved, and that the Commonwealth has assumed a responsibility, for example, for the provision of welfare housing and capital works arising from the new Commonwealth approach to the assumption of responsibility for tertiary education; and the consequential capital saving that will result from that which is now the burden of the States. [More…]

• There are in existence many organisations which perform splendid work in the social welfare advisory field and one must doubt therefore that the Government needs to go to the expense of establishing a Commission which, in part, will duplicate the work of these existing bodies. [More…]

• I hope that this Commission, when set up, will not usurp the responsibilities of the social welfare bodies which have been appointed in these States. [More…]

• -The Social Welfare Commission Bill is a most important Bill because it purports to direct the attention of the nation to an area which can be very easily overlooked in the modern society. [More…]

• All I need say, I think, in addition to expressing appreciation of the Government for the speedy passage of the Bill is that I shall reply to Senator Drake-Brockman who sought an undertaking that there would be a continuation of the operations of the various welfare bodies throughout the States. [More…]

• I draw the honourable senator’s attention to the second reading speech of the Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden) in which he stated that one of the functions of the Commission is to make 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…]

• I had some association with him in this very extensive, complex and involved program and was able to see the way in which he used his talents and the opportunities available to him for the welfare of a host of unfortunate and distressed people from overseas who were seeking resettlement in this country. [More…]

• 2 ) that the proposed alterations would seriously impair the powers of the legislature of the State to legislate for the peace welfare and good government of the citizens of this State: [More…]

• that the acquisition of these powers by the Parliament of the Commonwealth by reason of the lack of definition as to their scope and use would be a source of confusion and uncertainty to, and could be a source of oppression against, the citizens of the State in the conduct of thenaffairs: therefore doth agree and resolve- that the conferring of powers on the Parliament of the Commonwealth as proposed is inimical to the welfare of the citizens of Queensland and that accordingly the Assembly is totally and irrevocably opposed to such conferral: and further doth agree to authorise [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…]

• I will not read what he said, but his general comment was that the various Acts of Parliament of the United Kingdom passed during the nineteenth century gave each State the power to make laws for the peace, welfare and good government of the State. [More…]

• He said that that meant that each State could effectively make a law on any matter which relates to its peace, welfare and good government, provided it does not relate to a subject with respect to which the Commonwealth has exclusive power and it is not inconsistent with a valid law of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• I refer to a newspaper report which states: ‘The Federal Government has appointed yet another inquiry- this time into manpower available for social welfare work’. [More…]

• The Minister for Social Security has advised that a Working Party on Social Welfare Manpower has been established, the need for which arose from the evident shortage of social workers and other trained personnel in the social welfare field. [More…]

• The Social Welfare Commission proposed a broadly based Working Party to include both departmental and other representation. [More…]

• Department of Social Security, Department of Labour, Department of Education, Australian Universities Commission, Australian Commission on Advanced Education, Australian Council of Social Service, Australian Association of Social Workers, Australian Psychological Society, Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand, Interim Committee of National Hospital and Health Services Commission, South Australian Department for Community Welfare, Australian Institute of Welfare Officers. [More…]

• The Working Party will be a continuing body responsible to the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]

• To devise methods of obtaining projective figures for welfare manpower needs in each State, and regional areas of each State, having regard to the needs of health and other serivces as well as primary welfare services. [More…]

• To include in its consideration of welfare manpower needs, Social Workers, Psychologists, Sociologists and other professional disciplines involves in the area of Social Policy, as well as all job-oriented personnel, such as welfare officers, case aides, child care officers and voluntary workers. [More…]

• To make predictions regarding requirements for education to meet the welfare manpower needs of the future. [More…]

• To make recommendations to the Social Welfare Commission concerning any policies which will facilitate the supply of adequate welfare manpower. [More…]

• The Working Party will be chaired by a member of the Social Welfare Commission and will be provided with research staff. [More…]

• This Government was more concerned with a bit of dried paint on canvas than it was with the needs and welfare of the people of South Australia. [More…]

• Legislation has been introduced to establish the National Investment Fund, the Social Welfare Commission, the Industries Assistance Commission and the Schools Commission. [More…]

• Are these the actions of a Government that is seeking excessive powers and centralist control, or of a dictatorial Government that has a disregard for the welfare of its people? [More…]

• Surely this is the action of a humanitarian Government that has a regard for the wellbeing and welfare of the Aboriginal people who were disregarded by previous governments for so long. [More…]

• So much for education and Aboriginal welfare. [More…]

• Let us have a look at the social welfare field. [More…]

• I could also refer to widows’ pensions, to unemployment, short-term sickness and special benefits, to long-term sickness benefits, to supporting mothers’ benefits and to the other humanitarian and social welfare legislation in order to indicate what this Government has achieved in 12 months. [More…]

• Let us ask the Australian people whether all these things which I have enumerated regarding social welfare, education and so on have been achieved as a result of the rapid concentration of excessive and arbitrary powers in Canberra. [More…]

• From the point of view of Aboriginal welfare, conservation and true economics the whole program is misconceived. [More…]

• I understand that one is a consultants report from an economic point of view- a feasibility study, in other words- and the other is a study as to the appropriateness of this whole project to the conservation purposes and the Aboriginal welfare purposes for which it was designed. [More…]

• It will be enjoyed by thousands, probably millions, in a sporting sense and its product will be of great value to the welfare and comfort of the homes and industries of Tasmania without in the slightest degree damaging the ecology of that area. [More…]

• At the system level, support will be given 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 psychological advisers. [More…]

• I refer to the interim report on aged persons ‘ housing from the Social Welfare Commission in which the Commission expressed concern that the practice of the founder-donor system has become an integral part of the housing for the aged program. [More…]

• All that has happened is that this Government has decided to play political football with the welfare of the children in the schools of this country. [More…]

• I feel that these comments are an injustice to my privilege as a free Australian Citizen, and, as lies, are detrimental to not only my personal character, but also to the welfare of my wife and family. [More…]

• The article is accompanied by a photo of Mr Dickie, the Victorian Minister of Community Welfare. [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…]

• He said this in reply to an article appearing in an earlier edition of the Adelaide ‘News’ written by Professor P. G. H. Strehlow, a professor of linguistics at the Adelaide University and one who had been engaged very actively in Aboriginal welfare through many years. [More…]

• He is a very knowledgeable man and is most knowledgeable in all matters pertaining to Aboriginal welfare. [More…]

• What inquiries has the Minister made regarding the welfare of the son and about the mother’s request for him to be returned to Australia? [More…]

• The honourable senator was good enough to tell me, at some stage last week, that she intended to raise this case, I think for the purpose of highlighting some of the recommendations of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• Whilst I regard it as unreasonable to expect this Government to act as the moral policeman of the world at the United Nations, I ask: Will the Minister and his Government show at least as much interest in the welfare of the Ukrainian and other captive nations of whose people we have hundreds of thousands here as it does in the welfare of Rhodesian Africans of whom we have none? [More…]

• The Office will be staffed by salaried lawyers who will work in close cooperation with community welfare organisations, established legal aid schemes, referral centres and the private legal profession. [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 it? [More…]

• In considering what kind of grounds should take the place of the present fault grounds I sounded out various persons, including judges, legal practitioners and academics expert in this field, and other persons and bodies such as the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]

• It is proposed that my Department will prepare a suitable document setting out the consequences of divorce- particularly the consequences to the children of the marriage- and that this document will be made available to courts, welfare officers and solicitors to give to all persons proposing to institute proceedings under the Act and also to their spouses. [More…]

• The Bill enables the court, in a divorce case where there is a child under 18 years, or in any contested proceedings for custody or guardianship of a child under 1 8, to order the parents to attend a conference with a welfare officer to discuss the welfare of the child, with a view to ironing out any differences between the parties as to matters affecting the welfare of the child. [More…]

• It is thus hoped that greater use will be made of the skills of welfare officers in matters relating to custody, access and the general welfare of children. [More…]

• Failure by a parent to attend such a conference will not be contempt of court, but the welfare officer will be required to report the failure to the court. [More…]

• It is proposed that greater use will be made of reports by child welfare officers who will, in the case of the Superior Court, be attached to the Court itself. [More…]

• It is hoped it will be possible to have a child welfare reportand a quick report- at least in every contested custody or access case. [More…]

• It is also hoped it will be possible to have custody and access orders supervised by welfare officers, where the court considers such supervision is necessary. [More…]

• The Bill allows the child itself, or any responsible organisation concerned with the welfare of children, to apply to the court for separate representation of the child on the hearing of an application for custody, guardianship or access. [More…]

• I propose that the judges of this division of the court will be selected for their personal suitability for family law work, and that the division will have attached to it appropriate supportive staff, such as marriage counsellors and welfare officers, so that it will in fact be a family court as generally understood. [More…]

• 1 ) Did the Interim Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Aged Persons’ Housing of the Australian Government Social Welfare Commission express concern that the founder-donor system has become an integral part of the program. [More…]

• Your petitioners believe that in addition to this basic per capita grant additional assistance should bc provided in cases of educational disadvantage, but they believe that the appropriate instruments for reducing economic inequalities are taxation and social welfare systems which deal with individuals and families and not with schools. [More…]

• Will the Minister agree that the Fabian Society is a social reform discussion group which enjoys close links with the Australian Labor Party, especially in its views on welfare proposals? [More…]

• Will the Minister treat this situation as most urgent and overcome these wrangles so that the Government can meet its obligations in this very important area of social welfare? [More…]

• So we are doing all we can to look after the welfare of the underprivileged and underpaid in this community. [More…]

• We express grave concern at Press reports of the complete disregard of the Fry report and of the request to Social Welfare Commission to make alternative recommendations. [More…]

• We urge that this request to the Social Welfare Commission be withdrawn until full o sideration be given to Fry report. [More…]

• I believe that those people who compare what they have been forced to accept ever since the war years and what they have now will appreciate that they now have a dynamic and thoroughly dedicated Government that has great plans about increasing the welfare of the people and the environment in which they live. [More…]

• If the Prime Minister were genuinely interested in human welfare he might have had a few words to say about the shocking massacres carried out by President Numeiry in the Sudan. [More…]

• I believe it is an indictment on us all and on the nation that the single greatest problem facing Aborigines every day is the difficulty they have in filling in a form such as a welfare form. [More…]

• We want something that will make him seek reward, not welfare. [More…]

• Australia is a land of peace, where order shall not rest on force, but on the love of all for their land, the great mother of the common life and welfare. [More…]

• I have some hope that this may be the case, and my hope would be only for the welfare and the well being of Australia and its citizens. [More…]

• If, in the opinion of this place, such a proposition will not advance the welfare of the people or confer any benefit on them it should be rejected. [More…]

• As honourable senators know, we already have the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare which has not yet been debated. [More…]

• Health and Welfare [More…]

• What is the present position with regard to the Fry report and the discussions which I understand were initiated with the Social Welfare Commission? [More…]

• In regard to the first portion of the honourable senator’s question, I have a recollection that Senator Rae addressed a similar question to me about a fortnight or 3 weeks ago, concerning the report of the Fry Committee and discussions between that Committee and members of the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]

• Our achievements in social welfare services and benefits to date, in really such a short time, are so significant, are such an advance on what has gone before, that the public confidence and respect in identifying our Party in this way is clearly well placed. [More…]

• But the thing that underlies, and must underlie, all welfare programs is the continuation of sound economic policy, Sound economic policy must precede improvements in welfare. [More…]

• Without that sound economic policy the possibility of increasing welfare provision to those who need it and those who deserve it is simply not a proposition which a government can entertain. [More…]

• I point out to those pensioners and other people who work in the community and are interested in comments that are made in the Senate in relation to social welfare Bills, that in fact the Minister devoted almost 25 per cent of his speech to criticising the Opposition. [More…]

• It is not in social welfare matters. [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…]

• I make this point: The parties on the Opposition side of the Senate are more interested in the welfare of the working man of Australia than the socialists who are sitting on the Government benches today. [More…]

• In a situation where the Government was faced with huge welfare programs, including the amount of $200m for the Services, the Government had to make some reallocations. [More…]

• No account was taken by those who said I had ignored the family of the provisions in the Family Law Bill for marriage counselling and the services of welfare officers, or the special obligation laid on the courts and on those who will represent parties to proceedings under the Bill to consider the possibility of reconciling the parties. [More…]

• It enables the court in any divorce case where there is a child under 1 8, or in any contested proceedings for custody of a child under 18, to order the parents to attend a conference with a welfare officer. [More…]

• The purpose is to enable the parties, with the assistance of the welfare officer, themselves to iron out difficulties affecting the welfare of the child. [More…]

• It is envisaged that greater use will be made of the skills of welfare officers in custody proceedings. [More…]

• But they are not interested in getting advice or assistance on a Bill which, above all, affects the public welfare. [More…]

• Is it social welfare or is it education? [More…]

• Above and beyond this, in our view, there has been too little recognition of the right of Aborigines to be consulted in a meaningful way in respect of programs for the advancement and welfare of Aboriginal communities. [More…]

• I present the report and transcript of evidence from the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare on the petition relating to ultrasonic aids for the blind and move: [More…]

• The report sets out the terms of the petition and states that the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare invited submissions from the Australian Government departments and from organisations for the blind, including those who initiated the petition. [More…]

• The voluntaryorganisations working in the field of welfare of the blind should be encouraged also to continue to expand their work. [More…]

• The Minister for the Media, Senator Douglas McClelland and I- I can also include you, Mr Acting Deputy President- were made aware of the imperfections of these funds when we served on the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• And if that escalation is to be transmitted to hospitals and welfare costs we will find that the money is not being spent where it should be spent. [More…]

• My colleague, the Minister for Social Security, today tabled in the House of Representatives a document which purports to be the policy recommendations of the Committee on Social Security, Health and Welfare of the Liberal Party of Australia. [More…]

• In fact, such a scheme is proposed in the Liberal Party’s policy recommendations from its Committee on Social Security, Health and Welfare. [More…]

• This extraordinary document headed ‘Highly ConfidentialLiberal Party of Australia- Committee on Social Security, Health and Welfare- Policy Recommendations’ sets out in paragraph 24 - [More…]

• Does the Minister not agree that the lack of any clear proposals by the Opposition, together with its obsession with public spending, must mean that it would want to cut spending on education, health and welfare? [More…]

• What would be the general effect of cuts in social welfare payments? [More…]

• In reply to my colleague, Senator Milliner, it occurs to me that Mr Snedden having been a former Federal Treasurer apparently believes that the way to deal with inflation and its effect is to reduce taxes and interest rates on the one hand and increase defence spending on the other and then hope that no one notices that social welfare spending has to be cut back. [More…]

• From reading the transcript, it appears to me that on a number of occasions Mr Snedden has stated clearly that he will reduce spending on social welfare and education, but particularly - [More…]

• Members of the Opposition do not want welfare schemes. [More…]

• During her representation of the State in this Senate she has applied herself not only to Senate committees concerned with health and welfare, to which references have been made, but also to the total field of political activity. [More…]

• That discrimination by the Labor Government against rural industries and the community dependent upon them is adversely affecting the economy and the welfare of the nation and many of its citizens. [More…]

• Would the Leader of the Government regard such a step as an effective form of protest at China’s continuing and callous disregard of the welfare of its people and of the people of the world? [More…]

• The Opposition then sought to add these words to the Address-in-Reply: but the Senate is of the opinion and regrets that- The Government in its conduct of the nation’s affairs has subordinated the security and welfare of the Australian people on whose behalf it should govern to the factional decisions of the Conference and Executive of the Australian Labor Party, in that: [More…]

• I believe that the major areas in which Labor has made proposals are in the fields of social welfare. [More…]

• I would like to make it clear that social welfare initiatives do not come only from one side of the chamber. [More…]

• My Party has a proud record of initiating social welfare programs over the last 25 years. [More…]

• I would like to see equity in our social welfare programs. [More…]

• We are establishing Aboriginal control in every Aboriginal settlement and in every mission station by the formation of town councils, welfare organisations, housing societies and the establishment of industries so that they can proceed according to their own determination. [More…]

• There are also the consumer protective areas of industrial activity and legislation- the important legislation designed to protect the living standards, the skills, the welfare and the safety of the working men and women of this great country. [More…]

• It recognises that the twin desirable goals of human welfare and economic efficiency are often in conflict and that a final policy is most likely to incorporate a sensible compromise between the two. [More…]

• It recognises quite explicitly, in chapter V paragraph 48, that previous across the board subsidies and tax concessions have been ‘in conflict with both efficiency and welfare criteria’. [More…]

• The Green Paper also recognises that on occasions there can be a case on both economic and welfare grounds for financial support from governments to an industry. [More…]

• On pure and simple welfare issues the Green Paper states what even blind Freddie should always have known, namely, that a welfare policy is most effectively directed at incomes and not at bounties or subsidies on production. [More…]

• We want nobody to act for his own selfish interest, and we do not want various pressure groups in the community concerned only with their own welfare and interest. [More…]

• It is a welfare state. [More…]

• Is he aware of the widespread concern expressed by migrant groups, Good Neighbour councils- particularly that in South Australia on the occasion of its 25th anniversaryand migrant welfare associations at the splitting up of the Department of Immigration? [More…]

• The welfare and prosperity of this city depend upon the largess and patronage of government. [More…]

• Has the Government received from the Social Welfare Commission proposals for the development of day care facilities for children which were requested by the Government in February 1974? [More…]

• We are using agencies in the States for welfare, health, education and housing. [More…]

• It is planned to fill these centres with all sorts of services- including psychiatric services, social welfare services, guidance agencies and expert therapists. [More…]

• If one wants authority for the proposition that approximately one million Australians are uninsured, it can be found in paragraph 8 of the background statement of the Liberal Party of Australia Committee on Social Security, Health and Welfare. [More…]

• This is the value of an investment by my profession in the welfare of society. [More…]

• attended a seminar concerned with the welfare of children in hospital. [More…]

• The system is more important than patient care or staff welfare so that staff are discouraged by it and its methods of employment. [More…]

• This Government is attempting to bring social welfare in Australia into line with most other countries. [More…]

• We have been led to believe by many spokesmen for doctors that their main concern is their patient and the welfare of their patient and that they sacrifice more of their health, leisure and general wellbeing, in pursuit of such perfection and full personal care of their patients than do the rest of us run-of-the-mill citizens in our pursuits. [More…]

• In fact, it is because the Opposition stands for the protection of vested interests and subsidies to the rich against the greater good and welfare of the great mass of the Australian people. [More…]

• Relations between hospital doctor and GP were more distant; nor was contact sufficiently close with the community health services or the welfare services under local authority control. [More…]

• It is a gross distortion of the social welfare of the country that approximately one-twelfth of our people should be deprived of the medical benefits which we believe are the right of every citizen. [More…]

• I believe there is an enormous area for the involvement of taxpayers funds in this country- defence, education, welfare, economic incentive and so forth. [More…]

• This is not a Bill to develop these things for the welfare of Australia. [More…]

• Following the Treasurer’s announcement last night that the Government had decided to defer or drastically cut back its social welfare program, a program enunciated and much vaunted only 2 months ago when the Government must have known exactly the health of the nation’s economy, what programs other than those outlined by the Treasurer last night have been deferred or curtailed? [More…]

• In particular, I would like to know: Will this list include the curtailment of the Australian Labor Party’s only new 1974 welfare policy which was to exclude from death duties the matrimonial home when it passes to the spouse of the deceased? [More…]

• Thirdly, we have asked that the welfare huts or the premises which are set aside as amenities be upgraded with improved furniture. [More…]

• This is hardly an example of a Minister who is not interested in the welfare of the mining industry of this country. [More…]

• I only make the point that there is little concern amongst members of the Australian Labor Party about the welfare of this country or of the legislation which the Government is putting forward. [More…]

• Do not let us think that any political philosophy has a monopoly of concern for the Welfare of the Australian community. [More…]

• -I remind the Minister representing the Treasurer of his statement in the Senate last week that the Social Welfare Commission report on child care would be tabled in due course. [More…]

• In calling upon the taxpayer to subsidise big business in this way, money that could have been used for child care centres, education or other welfare programs was no longer available. [More…]

• While the Labor Party is represented in this Senate it will use its powers and procedures without inhibition for the welfare of the people. [More…]

• This measure is not designed to improve public welfare because its effects must add to the inflation which is already existent in Australia. [More…]

• It is interesting that that should be said because the one thing that has concerned many people in this country for a long time is this need of communication by small periodicals, community organisations, service organisations and so many social welfare organisations which, working on a voluntary basis, have the problem of communicating not only with their members but with people generally in the community. [More…]

• It is a big increase for many of these service clubs and other social welfare groups in this country. [More…]

• -Or child care and all other welfare basics. [More…]

• I want to say how pleased I am to observe that the Liberal Party now has adopted the philosophy of the welfare state- something to which only a short time ago it was so intractably opposed. [More…]

• In fact, the Liberal Party criticism now is not that our welfare programs go too far but that they do not go far enough. [More…]

• I think the honourable senator will agree that all members of the Committee approach the matter of broadcasting on a non-political basis having in mind at all times the welfare of the institution of Parliament and the public interest. [More…]

• It is the duty of the Board, within the limits of its powers, to ensure that the monetary and banking policy of the Bank is directed to the greatest advantage of the people of Australia and that the powers of the Bank under this Act, the Banking Act 1959 and the regulations under that Act are exercised in such a manner as, in the opinion of the Board, will best contribute to the stability of the currency of Australia, the maintenance of full employment in Australia, and the economic prosperity and welfare of the people of Australia. [More…]

• It is the duty of the Board, within the limits of its powers, to ensure that the monetary and banking policy of the Bank is directed to the greatest advantage of the people of Australia and that the powers of the Bank under this Act, the Banking Act 1959 and the regulations under that Act, are exercised in such a manner as, in the opinion of the Board, will best contribute to the stability of the currency of Australia; the maintenance of full employment in Australia; and the economic prosperity and welfare of the people of Australia. [More…]

• History has shown that no single factor can do more to influence the welfare and progress of a community than the management of the volume and flow of money. [More…]

• This point is covered by what is written quite clearly into clause 3 (b) of the Bill which provides for: the regulation of those activities for the purpose of contributing to economic stability, the maintenance of full employment, the efficient allocation of productive resources and the economic prosperity and welfare of the people of Ausralia. [More…]

• the regulation of those activities for the purpose of contributing to economic stability, the maintenance of full employment, the efficient allocation of productive resources and the economic prosperity and welfare of the people of Australia. [More…]

• But I say that the words ‘economic prosperity and welfare of the people of Australia’ comprehend an amazing number of things. [More…]

• But I believe that if honourable senators opposite examine the words ‘economic prosperity and welfare of the people of Australia’ they will see that that phrase comprehends the proposition they have put forward and, most certainly, comprehends other propositions that could be put forward by way of amendment. [More…]

• I do not propose to go into detail and, if it is so wished, I am happy to table a document prepared by the Education and Welfare Group of the Legislative Research Service of the Parliamentary Library relating to the voting rights of Aborigines in State and Federal elections. [More…]

• Mrs Skuta, who is very active in the Gippsland area for which she is the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee member, sent me a frightening report about the conditions of Aborigines in the area, mostly in regard to health, housing and welfare. [More…]

• These Bills are part of Labor’s welfare program for all the Australian people. [More…]

• The Australian Council of Social Services report states that in most of the inner city areas there are inadequate health, education and welfare facilities. [More…]

• There are no schools and no welfare services. [More…]

• My Party is made up of a great number of men and women who have been involved in social welfare programs, in local government and with many other planning problems associated with the great developments of our cities in recent years. [More…]

• In 1972 when Labor took office the Minister for Housing and Construction gave $5m to the States, in addition to that provided under that year’s estimates, for the purpose of occupying the work forces in the states in the building of welfare houses in the remainder of the 1972-73 financial year. [More…]

• But attached to the grant was the stipulation that a large proportion of the money must be spent on providing welfare housing. [More…]

• It is a welfare scheme. [More…]

• The people in this area have contributed more to Australian welfare than any other section of the community. [More…]

• As regards custody, the main improvements contained in the Bill over existing law are: The requirement for greater use of welfare officers to try and achieve a settlement between the parties; greater opportunity for the wishes of the child whose custody is in dispute to be ascertained; and more effective enforcement of custody and access orders. [More…]

• Some changes of substance have been made to Part VI, dealing with the welfare and custody of children. [More…]

• Clause 43 has been amended to state positively that a court must have regard to the wishes of the child in custody proceedings, as part of its consideration of the welfare of the child. [More…]

• The power of the courts under subclause 43 (4) to direct supervision of access orders by welfare officers has been extended to enable the courts to direct supervision of any order under Part VI. [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 Dig 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 Austraiian 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 Austraiian people was suffering instead of benefiting. [More…]

• Without such orderly development we in the Australian 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 Australian people than this side of the chamber. [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…]

• It is the purpose and policy of this Act, in order to promote the full flow of commerce, to prescribe the legitimate rights of both employees and employers in their relations affecting commerce, to provide orderly and peaceful procedures for preventing the interference by either with the legitimate rights of the other, to protect the rights of individual employees in their relations with labour organisations whose activities affect commerce, to define and proscribe practices on the part of labour and management which affect commerce and are inimical to the general welfare, and to protect the rights of the public in connection with labour disputes affecting commerce. [More…]

• He points out that this exemption is inequitable because it requires public policy to favour the welfare of one group at the expense of the general welfare- which is precisely what this sub-clause to which I am addressing myself does- and the economic burden it imposes on the whole nation is, as has been shown, exceedingly heavy. [More…]

• Alternatively, does the announcement with regard to the curtailed activities of the Australian Social Welfare Commission indicate that any action on the complete review has been abandoned? [More…]

• I believe that the Federal Government has a genuine and sincere interest in ensuring that the affairs of local government are carried on in the best interests of the welfare of all the people, which is where the responsibility of local government lies. [More…]

• Several programs have a high priority, such as education, welfare, health and above all, the general state of the economy. [More…]

• Does he agree that some trade unions are engaging in disputes without any thought to the welfare of fellow trade unionists and the general public and that the integrity of unions and the union movement has been called into question? [More…]

• This aid in any case consists of a type which is properly to be regarded as designed to improve the health and welfare of the people of South Vietnam, and should not be seen as Australian props under the South Vietnamese Government. [More…]

• I have acknowledged right throughout that a number of people were genuinely interested in the welfare of this person. [More…]

• I think it is quite incorrect and improper to try to generate fear in the minds of those people who are genuinely concerned with the welfare of local government. [More…]

• I see evidence of this- surely it must be evident right throughout the land because I have discussed the matter with people in other political parties who are as concerned as I am for the welfare of local government, and they see the same picture emerging. [More…]

• She spent some time with the Family Welfare Bureau and in Melbourne with the Australian Imperial Forces Women’s Association. [More…]

• During the war years, she worked with the Family Welfare Branch and the AIF Women’s Association. [More…]

• In domestic politics, he sought to improve the welfare state. [More…]

• He was the founder and the president for many years of the Australian Spastic Welfare Association and was responsible for conducting the Miss Australia contest in his State for many years. [More…]

• He had a keen interest in the Returned Services League and in the Spastic Welfare Association right up until the time of his death. [More…]

• I ask those Opposition senators who have any regard for their fellow citizens and for the welfare of the community, to allow the Government to introduce and have passed the measures which we think are necessary to deal with inflation. [More…]

• Health and Welfare; and [More…]

• Health and Welfare; [More…]

• The Standing Committee on Health and Welfare has already presented a report in respect of one of the 5 matters which are before it. [More…]

• Australian Government has pledged $A250,000 to UNICEF (disbursed in 1973-74 and 1974-75) for its Indo-China aid operation including its welfare programs for Vietnamese mothers and children disadvantaged by the war. [More…]

• However, were not those with the responsibility of looking after his welfare obliged to consider his people ‘s comfort and to persuade him to go home and see his people? [More…]

• The importance of the issue is emphasised because it includes attitudes to other nations, relations to foreign policy, the people of those nations and the relationship between the welfare of those people, on the one hand, and the Australian Government’s decisions on the other. [More…]

• Their interest in Mr Ermolenko ‘s welfare was a dishonest cover for their real motives. [More…]

• The Green Paper also goes into the field of rural reconstruction, the welfare of rural people, land utilisation, environment and conservation, decentralisation and so on. [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 programs in the fields of education, welfare and health. [More…]

• It is the welfare and the future of unionist themselves. [More…]

• When this realisation eventually draws a blow may really be struck for the material welfare of Australian employees and the peaceful and rapid development of our national resources. [More…]

• It can readily be understood that a large number of staff organisations exercising their legitimate interests in the welfare and employment conditions of their members would pose difficulties of communication and co-ordination for both management and the staff organisations. [More…]

• Health and Welfare: [More…]

• It does not give a jot for the welfare of the people. [More…]

• The economic welfare of Australia depends on the health and vitality of the private sector, yet it is this sector which the Government is so determined to undermine and weaken. [More…]

• They learnt that the welfare of those provincial cities, the welfare of the individual, the welfare of the whole State and ultimately, because we are part of the Australian nation, the collective welfare of the Australian nation, are inextricably bound up with the welfare of the rural sector. [More…]

• The Social Welfare Commission, at the direction of this Government, produced a report which basically recommended a program which is consistent with the principles that I have put forward. [More…]

• We have got to get away from the ridiculous fiction that social welfare and education are obtained at no cost to the individual. [More…]

• I take some issue with what Senator Chaney said about social welfare and taxation. [More…]

• I believe that more and more the community is becoming aware of its responsibility in social welfare and realises that it is no longer confined to flower hatted ladies and calf’s foot jelly but also concerns the life of everybody from birth until death. [More…]

• To hear that people are said to be stupid and they do not want these sorts of social welfare benefits or that in some way the people believe that these benefits are handouts by the Government takes us back to the days before the age pensions came in when we were told that if pensions came in we would have a lot of layabouts who would not work and we would be forced to pay them out of our own taxes. [More…]

• The Government’s justification for limiting the advance is that if it were to increase the advance to the Post Office beyond that figure it would be at the expense of other government priority programs in the field of education, welfare and health. [More…]

• We also see a Government that is spending money, and spending it heavily, in the areas of health and education and on other things that go towards making for the welfare of our people. [More…]

• Under the 1973 housing agreement welfare housing this year will increase by 7 per cent at a time when we are suffering from inflation of over 20 per cent. [More…]

• The Whitlam Government has rightly focused attention on previously neglected social welfare and minority problems. [More…]

• As I have said, the Whitlam Government Budget is concerned with education, health, social welfare and urban improvement. [More…]

• When the first Whitlam Budget was presented we sounded a tocsin in relation to education, health and social welfare. [More…]

• It creates community wealth, of which I have just spoken, and because of free enterprise, with people going out to work and gaining for themselves more of the things of life in return for money, it creates tax revenue with which this Government is able to introduce its program of welfare. [More…]

• For once, even though there have been very serious inflationary crises throughout the world as well as in Australia, we have kept our promises relating to social welfare, education - [More…]

• -We have more than exceeded the claims made by anybody in regard to education and social welfare, as well as in regard to repatriation benefits. [More…]

• Consider the welfare matters and the repatriation budget of the Department of Repatriation and Compensation administered by Senator Wheeldon? [More…]

• I think I can say quite clearly- everybody knows this-that although it has been claimed that we have been extravagant in Government we have kept our welfare promises. [More…]

• For heaven’s sake, what about the education vote, the welfare and the repatriation pensions? [More…]

• We are continuing with welfare proposals because that is what we ought to do. [More…]

• They have to accept some of the socialist ideas that our Labor Party, our welfare party, has put into operation. [More…]

• Unless the Opposition can reconcile its own philosophies of free enterprise with the social welfare aims which are required in these days, it will never get back into government. [More…]

• I will mention just one of them: The Family Welfare Bureau is the only family counselling bureau in Sydney for a large number of people from poor areas. [More…]

• We know that with the inflationary problem in this society we have seen welfare programs lose their impact, we have seen social progress slow, we have seen the pensioners do without their rise in this Budget. [More…]

• There will be less wealth to distribute and less opportunity for the welfare programs which are wanted. [More…]

• I think that the efforts we are making need the cooperation not only of those on this side of the House but also of everyone who is interested in the welfare of Torres Strait Islanders if we are to get something into operation so they can be usefully employed. [More…]

• It creates the community wealth and tax revenue for the sort of social welfare programs we all want to see. [More…]

• 1 ) An inquiry is being conducted under the auspices of the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]

• The Committee is an independent committee set up by the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]

• The Government has made a very loud noise about the extent to which it has been prepared to help the people, the magnificence of its social welfare program and all sorts of things. [More…]

• Under the heading Social Security and Welfare the increase shown is 18.5 per cent for 1973-74 whereas expenditure for Legislative Services- running the Government- increased by 51.6 per cent. [More…]

• I repeat that I support strongly these Bills, and I am glad that at last a start is being made on 2 very important and necessary projects for the welfare and benefit of this country. [More…]

• Yes; the Australian Government, through the Australian Development Assistance Agency is researching ways and means of achieving increased emphasis on development assistance which provides greater social welfare and distributional effects. [More…]

• The roles which these channels play in achieving more equitable distribution and improved welfare are being examined. [More…]

• Liberal Senators will have to learn to put the welfare of their State above their Party. [More…]

• The government decided that improvements 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 programs, in bringing greater expertise into our staffing arrangements and in more directly associating the community with the Government’s aid efforts. [More…]

• We, the undersigned persons, interested in the welfare of the family life in Australia and the maintenance of community standards, desire to bring to the notice of the Honourable the President and Members of the Senate in Parliament assembled, the registration of protests to the principle contained in the Family Law Bill. [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…]

• The Bill provides for compulsory conferences in many cases with welfare officers so that the problems, disputes and hatreds can be avoided and so that common sense in the interests of the children can prevail. [More…]

• In other words, the court- in a moment I will come to the notion of a new court which the Committee has adopted- would have to persuade itself, with all the aids that we propose that such a court would have in the way of welfare officers, counsellors and marriage guidance people, that, in fact, there was no prospect of cohabitation being resumed. [More…]

• I commend these clauses as providing a realistic and sincere effort to make available to parties to a marriage which is in danger intelligent, dedicated and well-trained counsellors and welfare officers to help the marriage to survive if, in fact, there is any chance that it will survive. [More…]

• We believe in a combination of this humanitarian ground of irretrievable breakdown provable by 12 months separation and a Family Court- an exclusive, specialist Family Courtstaffed by carefully selected judges and assisted by experts such as welfare officers, counsellors, psychologists, accountants and other people such as accountants who might advise those whose marriage is in difficulty primarily because they cannot handle their finances on how to get their affairs in order. [More…]

• We, as legislators in this Parliament, all have a responsibility, whether we are considering social welfare legislation, economic legislation or the various other types of legislation which come before us, to consider the effect of that legislation on these types of pressures which exist in our society which are detrimental to the institution of marriage and to human relationships altogether. [More…]

• It provides its own welfare and counselling facilities and the judge plays a relatively informal role, almost as an adviser to the parties, and ultimately if reconciliation cannot be effected providing the particular orders in relations to custody, maintenance and so on. [More…]

• It clearly states, with respect to the custody of, guardianship of or access to children of a marriage, that the court shall regard the welfare of the children as the paramount consideration. [More…]

• 3) is the Government’s program for social welfare in the Budget of this year. [More…]

• I was hopeful that there may have been some initiatives in the matter of social welfare this year. [More…]

• It was for this reason that we wished to include in the Bill the amendment which I moved earlier to draw attention to the need of the supporting fathers in Australia and the lack of accessibility by them to any government programs of social welfare. [More…]

• Yet I am sure that those who work within the social welfare field acknowledge that there is deprivation in the emotional sense in a one-parent family and that there is deprivation in those families who reach the poverty level because of the problems of single parenthood. [More…]

• We are talking about a group of people who have been isolated from social welfare programs and the fact that the Government has acknowledged the needs of single-parent families if that parent is a mother. [More…]

• The point we are making in our amendment is not to highlight the cost or the need to develop any accurate figures at this time but to show that there is a sector of the community which has been excluded from the Government’s social welfare program. [More…]

• For a Labor Government that places such store on its social welfare initiatives this Bill is pitiful in the small amount of benefit it offers to people and the small number of initiatives it takes. [More…]

• It is deplorable and we have nothing in prospect to suggest that any further benefits are to become available if this is in fact the Government’s social welfare package as a consequence of the Budget it brought down. [More…]

• My remarks are not entirely unfair because we had come to expect from the Government a continuing program of social welfare initiatives. [More…]

• I am not saying that all the proposals put up by the commission are necessarily correct but the fact that almost none of them has been accepted is a sorry commentary upon the social welfare capacity of this kind of socialist government. [More…]

• We can look around to find what other people have had to say about this Government’s efforts in the field of social welfare, particularly in the last Budget and the Bill before us. [More…]

• Thus although ACOSS welcomes the initiative that the Government has taken in several broad areas of social welfare it feels that the Budget has done little to help the ordinary person on a low income struggling to make his way in an inflationary society. [More…]

• It has done the absolute minimum in terms of making any progress on the broad canvas of social welfare policy. [More…]

• I would suggest to honourable senators that whatever the final figure actually is, be it the upper estimate of $35m or not, for the sake of the welfare of 50,000 Australian people it is money spent very much for a purpose. [More…]

• I believe the Opposition would be much more consistent if it stuck to that rather than coming along here and performing as though it was the founder of the welfare State while on the other hand saying that it stands for a surplus Budget. [More…]

• As Senator Baume will recall, a few nights ago during the consideration of the Estimates we were all, I think, pretty unhappy to see the lack of sufficient people in the social welfare area. [More…]

• There must be a considerable focus upon the economic welfare of people who are affected as a consequence of the dissolution of marriages. [More…]

• During the course of his speech the Minister advised that the Government had decided that some improvement should be effected in almost all aspects of its aid program- in the machinery for formulating policy, in ensuring greater attention to the welfare and distributive effects of Australia’s aid, in evaluating the effectiveness of our various programs, in bringing greater expertise into staffing arrangements and in more directly associating the community with the Government’s aid efforts. [More…]

• There should be somewhere people can go before the papers are signed, where they can be told that bank accounts have to be closed, other accounts have to be closed, property has to be divided, insurance has to be changed, new wills have to be made, the welfare of the children has to be concerned with and schooling arrangements have to be made for the children. [More…]

• The main aim of any divorce Bill should be the welfare of the children, I believe. [More…]

• I note that under this Act no decree will be issued unless the Court is satisfied about the welfare of the children. [More…]

• I hope that although welfare workers will be used to ascertain the needs and desires of children, not too much emphasis will be placed on what have become known as welfare workers, with all that the term implies, but that a lot of emphasis will be placed on a great deal of informal, friendly, helpful discussion to find out what truly is needed for children. [More…]

• They contribute to the family welfare and still have 2 jobs. [More…]

• I am interested in the Committee’s recommendation regarding certain social welfare laws that make it mandatory for a wife to take out a maintenance order before she can get any sort of social welfare pension. [More…]

• I say, firstly, that this is a far-reaching, all-embracing piece of social welfare legislation. [More…]

• It seems rather strange that we should have a social welfare system, which is virtually what compulsory third party insurance is, which provides payments enforceable by law to one group but not to another and there is no more moral worth about one than about the other. [More…]

• I find great difficulty in accepting some of the proposals particularly in relation to the wife who is wholly dependent on her husband and, indeed, in the final analysis in relation to the welfare of children. [More…]

• The reason that that situation is different from the question of breaking or dissolving a marriage, that the latter is so much more emotional, is because there is the matter of justice in the area of property, joint property which has been earned through joint effort which must be justly and reasonably settled and because, crucially, it is highly likely that the marriage will include a giving birth to children and the welfare of the children of the marriage must be paramount. [More…]

• Does the announcement that the activities of the Social Welfare Commission have been curtailed indicate that action on the review has been abandoned. [More…]

• 1 ) My Department in association with the Social Welfare Commission is currently examining the need for Government assistance to national social welfare organisations. [More…]

• The Australian Red Cross has received 2,139 enquiries from the Cypriot community in Australia about the welfare of relatives. [More…]

• The Australian Government’s consular officer on Cyprus is also tracing and checking the welfare of Australian citizens. [More…]

• What is the establishment of the Social Welfare Policy Division of the Department of Social Security. [More…]

• ls the strength of the Social Welfare policy division of the Department adequate to enable it to function efficiently. [More…]

• It is clear that this Government has indicated that it will from time to time take the measures which are necessary for the welfare of the community. [More…]

• Whether it be taxation cuts, reduction of interest rates or whatever measures are deemed by the Government to be in the interests of the people, those measures will be introduced at a time which seems most appropriate for the welfare of the community. [More…]

• Will the Treasurer now give an undertaking not to abolish the deductibility but to continue to support community participation in providing for social welfare needs? [More…]

• Improving industrial relations and the welfare of the workforce involved. [More…]

• Last year members of Estimates Committee C queried whether it was appropriate that proposed expenditure for the national health insurance plan and the National Commission on Social Welfare should be included in Appropriation Bill (No. [More…]

• It seems to me that the proposed expenditures questioned by members of Committee C conform in that the Social Welfare Commission Bill 1973 is now before the Senate and 1 understand that the Minister for Social Security intends to introduce the Health Insurance Commission Bill 1 973 during the current sittings. [More…]

• The community centre was formed as the result of co-ordinating the activities of the various Aboriginal communities in South Australia and by holding conferences with the various Aboriginal communities, the Department of Community Welfare in South Australia and my own Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• It is envisaged that the Centre will play an important role in furthering the interests of Aboriginal welfare in South Australia. [More…]

• I refer to the joint announcement by the Minister and the Western Australian Minister for Community Welfare on 10 November 1974 and that a further $lm from the 1974-75 grant could be devoted to further village development by and for Aborigines in Western Australia. [More…]

• Doubtless most readers, knowing of the Government’s generous attitude towards social welfare in general and the close and confidential relationship between the Australian Labor Party and the medical profession, would expect that this sort of amount might reasonably have been given to the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. [More…]

• This can enable large amounts of money to be made available to these regional councils which can spend the money in the provision of welfare services. [More…]

• The prize at the end is the availability of very large amounts of money which are to be spent on welfare services for a region. [More…]

• The normal process would be to identify existing groups, that is social welfare agencies, groups of citizens who have been interested, local councils and others, and invite them to various kinds of sub-regional meetings to gain their interest in the Australian Assistance Plan generally. [More…]

• The first discussion paper which the Social Welfare Commission published last year does not set out the types of representation that are envisaged. [More…]

• In regard to the regional promotion, the Department and Social Welfare Commission are in the process of reviewing the various regions to see where publicity could stimulate wider community interest and understanding of the Australian Assistance Plan and thereby attract wider representation. [More…]

• It is put out by the Social Welfare Commission of the Department of Social Security. [More…]

• Department of Social Security is primarily responsible for approving the constitution of interim regional councils and regional councils and for advising the Social Welfare Commission on the administrative implications of policy issues generally. [More…]

• There is joint responsibility between the Social Welfare Commission and the Department of Social Security to develop a policy in respect of membership and representation of organisations and citizen groups. [More…]

• I mention this just to point out that it is envisaged that the regional councils will move into quite a wide area of social welfare policy, such as grants for community health services, States Grants (Home Care) Act, grants for the development of low cost accommodation for young travellers, etc. [More…]

• It is intended that the work of these councils should move across many areas of social welfare to try to draw together all the available grants. [More…]

• The Social Welfare Commission has been aware that this sort of problem could exist. [More…]

• 1 which was prepared by the Interim Committee of the Social Welfare Commission and which refers to the Australian Assistance Plan, makes reference to the constitution of regional councils in paragraph 2.3 of chapter 2. [More…]

• Each regional council should involve representatives of the Australian, State and local governments, trade unions and employer groups, welfare consumer groups and nongovernment bodies concerned with social welfare, lt is desirable that the regional council should be answerable to the residents of the region. [More…]

• I was reading from a discussion paper prepared by the Interim Committee of the Social Welfare Commission which is supposed to perform the function of giving at least some sorts of guidelines to those people who are concerned about the establishment of regional authorities. [More…]

• Senator Baume said that when the Social Welfare Commission Act was passed in 1973 the attitude then adopted by the Opposition was to welcome the initiative and to support the Bill. [More…]

• My recollection is that the Social Welfare Commission Act provided for recommendations to be made by the Commission to the Minister. [More…]

• What we have is an Australian Assistance Plan which seems to have crept upon us as a mixture of experimentation, of dispensing of public funds on an increasing scale and of desirable objectives all under the umbrella and justification of social welfare. [More…]

• It is a plan, to use Senator Baume ‘s words, under which there can be community involvement in the provision of welfare. [More…]

• It is good in itself but it depends for its effectiveness on how the community is involved and how welfare is advanced. [More…]

• We do not know what is meant by the term social welfare and whether any limitation is placed upon the way in which the moneys granted to these interim bodies, may be spent. [More…]

• We do not know what is a welfare project and what is not a welfare project. [More…]

• Why have the local municipal councils not been used as the means by which money for welfare provision in a region is dispensed? [More…]

• It seems to me that it would be the appropriate way in which welfare services could be provided. [More…]

• They have shown, I think right around the country, a developing concern with welfare needs within municipal boundaries in recent years, but apparently the councils and the council structure are completely bypassed. [More…]

• I think it would be a bad day for Australia if we have millions of dollars available for Ministers or others to dispense as they think fit in order to promote what is broadly called a welfare objective but in a real sense is securing the interests of the persons who dispense the money. [More…]

• I would like just for a few brief moments to speak on the social welfare aspects of Senate Estimates Committee E of which I was the Chairman and to make observations on a couple of points which I think are of consequence. [More…]

• When we were discussing the adequacy and availability of social welfare advisers or workers, or whatever we like to call them, it became readily apparent- I think it was apparent to us all before we got to that stage- that in this country now there is a very grave shortage of trained social welfare advisers, planners and workers. [More…]

• I suppose that from day to day in our electorates we must find evidence of situations in which, due to the complexities of life and living these days and to the involvement of people in all sorts of matters, members of the community frequently run into difficulties of one kind or another in which the availability of social welfare advisers would be of very great assistance. [More…]

• I believe that there is a need for social welfare workers because in so many areas in the community people who have some type of entitlement miss out on that entitlement because they do not know that it is available to them. [More…]

• I content myself with that brief observation and hope that having raised that matter on this occasion we may see an acceleration of efforts to train for and promote an interest in social welfare work in the Australian community. [More…]

• I do support the concept of the assistance and encouragement of social welfare and community development throughout this country. [More…]

• Yet we are going to completely by-pass them in a new form of social and community welfare development. [More…]

• It is the requirement of the Social Welfare Commission, that the regional councils should have representation upon them from State and local governments. [More…]

• The fact is that there are responsibilities which local government has which are other than those of the welfare schemes of the type envisaged by the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]

• That is what we expect to happen because we believe that this is not only a social welfare program; it is an educative program. [More…]

• It is a program designed to bring the mass of the Australian people into the distribution of welfare provided amongst themselves out of their taxation and out of their efforts. [More…]

• But at the same time the approach which the Government and the Social Welfare Commission have taken is that it would be quite wrong to lay down ab initio that these are the rules, that this is the Act, that this is precisely the way the scheme is going to operate. [More…]

• The Western Regional Council in the 1973-74 period received the sum of $20,000 and it received a capitation grant of $236,004 for welfare projects. [More…]

• Welfare departments, State and Federal, then have to take over the main burden of assistance. [More…]

• I believe that it will be a contribution to the welfare of the people in difficult times. [More…]

• For this reason it would seem to me, and I think certainly it is the Government’s view, that it is desirable that as many organisations of all kinds as possible should become involved in the operation of this plan, even though when one looks at the narrow objectives that the organisation has they may appear to bear very little relation to the field of social welfare. [More…]

• There are certain welfare agencies which play a very major role in delivering services, particularly in the city of Sydney where I come from, which are going to find it difficult to operate under a regionally funded system. [More…]

• So while they applaud local initiative and the provision of welfare services, they see themselves as threatened. [More…]

• Some of these welfare services are notable for the fact that they are very flexible and are involved where services are needed. [More…]

• I am not asking on that ground that the regional system be abandoned, but I am asking that account be taken of the fact that there are certain groups giving welfare help for whom this kind of arrangement will be inappropriate. [More…]

• I am not convinced that we could not achieve the same aims with regard to the provision of welfare services if we worked through our local elected councils. [More…]

• Finally, I remind Senator Wheeldon that I am keen to know the position of the large welfare agencies. [More…]

• They should give added impetus to initiatives within their regions to provide a wider range of welfare services and to test innovative programs for service delivery. [More…]

• If only they knew what the trade union movement had done in the social welfare field they would not be so keen to speak in such a fashion as they do about the trade union movement. [More…]

• Who are the members of the Rockhampton Social Welfare Development Planning Council, and what organisations do they represent? [More…]

• I want honourable senators opposite to take really serious notice of the personnel of the Rockhampton Social Welfare Development Planning Council and the organisations which they represent. [More…]

• Sister Anne-Marie is a social worker and director of the Catholic Social Welfare Centre. [More…]

• I now turn to members of the Townsville Welfare Council and the organisations which they represent. [More…]

• They are: Mr P. Doughtry, Marriage Counselling Centre; Mrs J. Innes-Reid, Townsville General Hospital and the City Council- the City Council has been invited to attend; Dr I. Atkinson, Townsville General Hospital and the City Council; Mrs M. Campbell, Senior Citizens Welfare Association; Mr B. Leakey, St. Vincent de Paul Society; Mrs A. Butler, student counsellor; Miss M. Gindhart, St Raphael’s College, James Cook University; Mr M. Reynolds, Specific Learning Difficulties Association; Mr A. Spance, Crippled Childrens Society; Miss G. Gorman, Department of Social Security; Miss D. Wilson, Community Health Services; Dr J. Mayo, Department of Economics, James Cook University; and Major J. Patterson, Community Services Organisation Section of the Army. [More…]

• It does seek to involve the community in social welfare and this is a desirable development. [More…]

• This sub-division proposes a sum of $5,970,000 to bc spent under the Australian Assistance Plan for the development of regional welfare services. [More…]

• -Mr Staley could not spell social welfare ‘ let alone go. [More…]

• I said earlier that the function of these interim committees was to establish some sort of welfare program. [More…]

• We have not been told what the definition of ‘welfare’ is. [More…]

• Welfare may be best asserted by having a Labor Party member in the district and that may be the way in which the money is meant to be expended. [More…]

• It is to have all sorts of other people representing bodies within the region- municipal bodies, associations and other welfare groups. [More…]

• But if the executive committee does not regard that organisation as being an organisation really concerned in welfare projects it can exclude it. [More…]

• There are a lot of people who see in it a future which could revolutionise the provision of welfare in this country, members of the Opposition are amongst those people, but we do not believe that the program as at present devised ought to be subject to the manipulation to which it is subject at the present time. [More…]

• Let us ensure that proper welfare purposes are served, but let us make sure that there is a proper procedure under which the members of these committees are appointed and under which the money which is able to be dispensed is dispensed. [More…]

• I describe the Minister as being completely careless in relation to the welfare of migrants. [More…]

• His own actions and the statements that he has made, such as they are, have indicated his complete indifference and carelessness concerning the welfare of migrants, and I protest strongly. [More…]

• This authority will enable the Treasurer to continue payments to the States for welfare housing in the period from 1 July 1975 until an appropriation measure for 1975-76 is passed by the Parliament. [More…]

• At the June Premiers Conference the Government agreed to advance $235m to the States for welfare housing in 1974-75. [More…]

• At the same time, however, the Prime Minister stated that we 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 senators will be aware that the Minister for Housing and Construction has 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, he 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 activity in a substantial degree. [More…]

• Overall I suggest there is a need for some body which is co-operative, which has representatives of the profession, of the Government, of social welfare groups and of people who are involved in this area to ensure that these things are done on a regular basis and that the gaps are filled. [More…]

• Has he seen Press reports indicating a cut-back in funds from the Commonwealth Government to Queensland for Aboriginal welfare? [More…]

• I can only assume that his reducing funds is based on a desire to retard the improvements and developments in Aboriginal welfare in this State which so significantly highlight the failures in the Northern Territory and other areas under direct Federal influences and policies which have been admitted as disasters. [More…]

• Now let me mention welfare and refer to the amounts of money to be allocated to the States by the Australian Government. [More…]

• In New South Wales some $270,000 is being allocated for Aboriginal welfare. [More…]

• I am hoping that the Minister will clarify this when he replies and that he will give us some reason why the State of Queensland is not getting at least the same amount, as if not more than, is being allocated for Aboriginal welfare in the other States. [More…]

• Again Queensland seems to be missing out on the kind of finance that is required for Aboriginal welfare. [More…]

• I thought we were dealing with the welfare of Aborigines in Queensland rather than the Queensland Government which Senator Rae is supporting in his amendment. [More…]

• It is an attempt to use this particular Bill, which is for the welfare of the Aboriginals, politically. [More…]

• I will not vote for an amendment which will make Aboriginal welfare suffer because some politician wants to gain some votes from it. [More…]

• I hope that if he tells people why I do not support his amendment, he will tell them that the first reason is that I do not trust him and the second reason is that 1 do not want the welfare of Queensland Aboriginals to be made a political football as Senator Bonner himself has said it ought not to be. [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 12 months ago. [More…]

• As the argument develops it will be seen that the honourable senator would be critical of anything to the detriment of the vested interests of Ansett, regardless of the welfare of the people of the north of Western Australia. [More…]

• When there are children in the family, their welfare in all its aspects becomes the prime consideration in any decision regarding the marriage. [More…]

• It is the responsibility of civil authorities to provide an ordered procedure for the dissolution in law of a broken marriage and to ensure that such a dissolution will be effected only after all possibility of reconciliation has been exhausted and after satisfactory arrangements have been made for the welfare of any children in the family. [More…]

• They provide for reassurance, they provide for comfort and they provide particularly for welfare officers. [More…]

• In a day when we are entering strongly into discussions upon economics, social welfare, foreign affairs and things of this kind, time spent on discussion of marriage, divorce and family welfare may seem a little out of context for this Parliament. [More…]

• From my discussions with him, I believe that Senator Murphy would wish to add 3 other criteria- 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; the financial disputes between the spouses should be resolved as quickly and finally as possible; the whole process should be performed with dignity, relative privacy and with as little expense as possible. [More…]

• This Bill is about family conflicts- not divorce; it therefore deals with the welfare of children, maintenance, property, protection of the marriage and the people involved therein (by injunction if necessary), marriage counselling, on going help in custody and access problems. [More…]

• We see communal living which is aided and abetted by the huge social welfare payments that are passed about now. [More…]

• Young people want instruction in such knotty matters as insurance whether it be health, personal or property, budgeting, taxation banking, existing welfare services, family planning. [More…]

• I am pleased to say that, even though it is an area of controversy, it appears- from what I have gathered from the people who have corresponded with me, from people to whom I have spoken, from welfare workers and so many other people- that the great majority of people support the aspect of irretrievable breakdown. [More…]

• He said he hoped that the Prime Minister and the Australian Government would delay consideration of their welfare and social legislation until they got down to the job of legislating for the economy, the welfare of the economy and in conjunction - [More…]

• Establish and develop well staffed family courts to deal with marital disharmony, divorce and all ancillary matters, with primary emphasis on reconciliation and the welfare of children of the marriage. [More…]

• They affect not only the grounds for divorce but also a host of other facets of the marriage relationship; the court structure in quite fundamental ways; provisions relating to the welfare and custody of children in ways which have not been part of our law in the past; provisions relating to maintenance and property which alter long established concepts, and procedures and so on which introduce many new ideas. [More…]

• While the assistants will not have any police powers they will act as interpreters; they will endeavour to ensure that persons brought into the station understand the charges laid against them and will generally attend to the welfare of Aborigines in police custody. [More…]

• -I present the report from the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare on the petitions relating to the proposed national health scheme. [More…]

• Business has seen a government so preoccupied with creating the welfare state that it did not care how much business was hurt. [More…]

• those with the highest taxable income, and in this sense conflict with both efficiency and welfare criteria. [More…]

• The reason I raise this point of order is that it is important that these Bills be passed so that we can allocate the moneys which are so critical to the welfare of the industry about which Senator Webster is registering so much concern. [More…]

• Therefore we had to supplement this amount with another $6.5m for welfare housing. [More…]

• We did this for welfare housing. [More…]

• I do not ask them to read the Bill in all its detail but merely to look through the table of provisions and they will see that the Bill contains clauses relating to marriage counselling organisations, reconciliation, welfare and custody of children, maintenance and property. [More…]

• Territory’ does not include an external Territory other than Norfolk Island; welfare officer’ means- [More…]

• a person who is permanently or temporarily employed as a welfare officer in the Australian [More…]

• a person who is permanently or temporarily employed as a welfare officer in the Public Service of a State and whose services have been made available for the purposes of this Act in pursuance of an arrangement between the Government of Australia and the Government of the State; [More…]

• a person nominated by an organization concerned with the welfare of children; or [More…]

• a person appointed as a welfare officer in accordance with the regulations. [More…]

• proceedings with respect to the maintenance of a party to the proceedings, settlements, the custody or guardianship of infant children of the marriage or the maintenance, welfare, advancement or education of children of the marriage, being proceedings in relation to concurrent, pending or completed proceedings of a kind referred to in either of the last two preceding paragraphs, including proceedings of such a kind pending at, or completed before, the commencement of this Act. [More…]

• proceedings with respect to the maintenance of a party to the proceedings, settlements, the custody or guardianship of infant children of the marriage or the maintenance, welfare, advancement or education of children of the marriage, being proceedings - [More…]

• I draw attention to the fact, for instance, that the Catholic Family Welfare Bureau would like to start a training course in marriage counselling. [More…]

• It does not deal with welfare officers or counsellors who would be attached to the Court. [More…]

• For example, I am aware that the Family Welfare Bureau went out of business in Sydney recently and many of its assets were taken over by the Smith Family. [More…]

• The collapse of the Family Welfare Bureau, which was mentioned by the honourable senator, is an illustration of what I referred to a little earlier. [More…]

• Yet the Family Welfare Bureau, which was a well respected institution, gave plenty of notice that it was in grave financial difficulties and was allowed to collapse. [More…]

• We need to train people, and there is competition from other areas for social welfare workers and people who would be capable of operating in this field. [More…]

• As the Attorney-General said, it is felt that the proper consideration in that matter should be the views of the parties and not the interposed view, as it were, of a legal practitioner who might for some reason unrelated to the welfare of his client in the particular circumstances seek an adjournment. [More…]

• The clause provides that the court may, at any stage of the proceedings, of its own motion or upon the requests of a party to the proceedings, make an order directing the parties to the proceedings to attend a conference with the welfare officer to discuss the welfare of the child and, if there are any differences between the parties as to matters affecting the welfare of the child, to endeavour to resolve those differences. [More…]

• If a party fails to attend a conference in respect of which an order has been made under sub-section ( 1 ), it is the duty of the welfare officer to report the failure to the court. [More…]

• the parties have had an opportunity to consider a reconciliation with the assistance of a marriage counsellor, an approved marriage counselling organisation or some other suitable person or organisation nominated by the Director of Counselling and Welfare; or [More…]

• Where such a notice is filed, the Director of Counselling and Welfare of the Family Court may arrange for the parties to the marriage to be interviewed by a marriage counsellor for the purpose of assisting the parties with a view to a reconciliation or the improvement of their relationship to each other and to the children of the marriage. ‘ [More…]

• The Director of Counselling and Welfare of the Family Court may arrange for the parties to the marriage to be interviewed by a marriage counsellor for the purpose of assisting the parties with a view to a reconciliation or the improvement of their relationship to each other or to the children of the marriage. [More…]

• That is to say, when one party files the notice the Director of Counselling and Welfare would become involved and he may arrange for the parties to be interviewed by a marriage counsellor. [More…]

• The consequent step as it seems to me is that the Director of Counselling and Welfare, who in the eyes of the people concerned would be an officer of the Marriage Guidance Bureau or the Department, may arrange for an interview to take place. [More…]

• If a person wants to use the facilities of the Family Court or of the Marriage Guidance Bureau he can do so under a subsequent proposed new clause which suggests that the Director of Counselling and Welfare is to advise where facilities may be obtained. [More…]

• The Director of Counselling and Welfare will be attached to the court and will not be part of some Public Service establishment. [More…]

• There will be all sorts of other people in the social welfare field and other fields who will understand that a legislative intent has been expressed. [More…]

• One would expect the Director of Counselling and Welfare to give that assistance. [More…]

• Can Senator Greenwood see any harm in a person being able, if he wishes, to file such a notice and then get the Director of Counselling and Welfare in a position where he can provide assistance? [More…]

• The important point in addressing myself to the question that was raised by Senator Greenwood is that under proposed new clause 14 a (2) it is envisaged that the Director of Counselling and Welfare will be permitted to take positive steps to arrange for counselling. [More…]

• The clause provides that the Director of Counselling and Welfare may arrange for the parties to the marriage to be interviewed by a marriage counsellor. [More…]

• I think it is quite reasonable that before you call on an officer of the court, in the person of the Director of Counselling and Welfare, to take some positive step he should have some form of application in hand, some formal request from a party to the marriage that that sort of action should be taken on the parties’ behalf. [More…]

• Proposed clause 14 a suggests that the Director of Counselling and Welfare will actually take positive steps at the request of one of the parties. [More…]

• This to me seems inconsistent with the whole concept of advice which the supposed Director of Counselling and Welfare can give. [More…]

• 14 b ( 1 ) The Director of Counselling and Welfare of the [More…]

• Family Court may advertise the existence and availability of the counselling and welfare facilities of the Family Court and of other courts having jurisdiction under this Act. [More…]

• A party to a marriage may seek the assistance of the counselling facilities of the Family Court and when such assistance is sought the Director of Counselling and Welfare shall, as far as practicable, make those facilities available. [More…]

• b) the counselling and welfare facilities available within the Family Court and elsewhere. [More…]

• Do the majority of Queenslanders who care for the welfare of charitable organisations regard Mr Neary as a very fine gentleman? [More…]

• There shall be a Director of Counselling and Welfare, and such other counsellors and welfare officers as are necessary. [More…]

• There shall be a Director of Counselling and Welfare, and such other counsellors and welfare officers as are necessary. [More…]

• arrangements have been made under which full use will be made by that court of the counselling and welfare facilities that are available to the Family Court of Australia. [More…]

• made of counselling and welfare facilities, so that it is not just the Family Court of Australia; the State courts should have equal access to those facilities. [More…]

• We must face the fact that social welfare matters will continue to be an extremely important State function and that therefore their interest should be maintained in the State courts which are dealing with family matters. [More…]

• It needs to develop team work between judges and ancillary staff, including counsellors and welfare officers. [More…]

• The Family Court needs a single direction, a concept of helping out and a developed team work between judges and ancillary staff, including counsellors and welfare officers. [More…]

• the need to protect the rights of children and to promote their welfare: and [More…]

• Amendment 67 would enable a court of summary jurisdiction in a contested custody case, before transferring the proceedings, to order the parties to attend a conference with a welfare officer pursuant to clause 41. [More…]

• Further- this is the result of the recommendation of the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs -if the court is in doubt as to whether proper arrangments have been made in relation to the children, it may adjourn the proceedings until a report regarding those arrangements has been obtained from a welfare officer. [More…]

• If a party fails to attend a conference in respect of which an order has been made under sub-section ( 1 ), it is the duty of the welfare officer to report the failure to the court but the failure does not constitute a contempt of the court. [More…]

• The court may adjourn any proceedings referred to in sub-section ( 1 ) until a report has been obtained from a welfare officer on such matters relevant to the proceedings as the court considers desirable, and may receive the report in evidence. [More…]

• proper arrangements in all the circumstances have been made for the welfare of those children; or [More…]

• Where, in proceedings for a decree of dissolution of marriage, the court is in doubt whether the arrangements made for the welfare of a child ofthe marriage are proper in all the circumstances, the court may adjourn the proceedings until a report has been obtained from a welfare officer regarding those arrangements’. [More…]

• 1) In proceedings with respect to the custody or guardianship of, or access to, a child of a marriagefa) the court shall regard the welfare of the child as the paramount consideration and in doing so shall take into account the wishes of the child; [More…]

• Where a court makes an order under this Part with respect to a child, the court may also, if it thinks the welfare of the child so requires, by order direct that compliance with the first-mentioned order shall, as far as practicable, be supervised by a welfare officer. [More…]

• the court shall regard the welfare ofthe child as the paramount consideration; [More…]

• authorizing an officer making an investigation referred to in paragraph (b) to take evidence on oath or affirmation, and to obtain and receive in evidence a report from a welfare officer, and enabling the summoning of witnesses before an officer making such an investigation for the purpose of giving evidence or producing books and documents; [More…]

• authorizing an officer making an investigation referred to in paragraph (i) to take evidence on oath or affirmation, and to obtain and receive in evidence a report from a welfare officer, and enabling the summoning of witnesses before an officer making such an investigation for the purpose of giving evidence or producing books and documents; [More…]

• In sub-clause (1), in the definition of ‘welfare officer’ insert ‘(aa) a person appointed as a welfare officer under section I7s: [More…]

• the parlies have considered a reconciliation with the assistance of a marriage counsellor, an approved marriage counselling organization or some other suitable person or organization nominated by the Director of Counselling and Welfare: or [More…]

• The Department of Aboriginal Affaris through its Northern Territory Division, inherited overall responsibility for the self-help housing scheme from the welfare division of the former Northern Territory Administration- the Department of the Interior. [More…]

• The evidence shows that suitable arrangments 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…]

• I wish to refer to aged persons housing in general and perhaps to seek from the Minister for Repatriation and Compensation (Senator Wheeldon) in his response some indication of whether the report of the committee of inquiry that was set up about 12 months ago by the Social Welfare Commission is now available, because the Minister said a few weeks ago that he expected the report to be available during this session. [More…]

• I would not wish to think that we are entering a stage in which the whole of social welfare needed to be undertaken by government. [More…]

• I just draw attention to that matter, and I am sure that those in the Department of Social Security who are closest to the welfare programs would understand my reference to the difficulties that so many voluntary organisations are experiencing at present. [More…]

• It will be known that this organisation provides a variety of social welfare services and has introduced many new concepts into this field of care. [More…]

• Senator Guilfoyle has asked me whether the report of the Committee of Inquiry of the Social Welfare Commission has yet been presented. [More…]

• Senator Guilfoyle has expressed some concern that at some stage the whole of social welfare might be taken over and administered by the Government to the detriment of the existing voluntary and private organisations which work in this area. [More…]

• But she herself has referred to the report of the Social Welfare Commission ‘s Committee of Inquiry. [More…]

• The view of the Government is that as we still do not know what the Social Welfare Commission’s Committee of Inquiry will be reporting it would be more satisfactory to let the matter stand as it is. [More…]

• While, on the other hand, we are concerned with the welfare of the people in the various communities of this country, the airline operators are concerned obviously with the profit motive. [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 made earlier this year by the Minister for Social Security, when he outlined a 15-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 possible for a Government department, in the personal day-to-day care of many mentally or physically handicapped people. [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…]

• Can he also inform the Senate whether Senator Bonner has ever sought financial assistance from him to be used for the welfare of the Aboriginal people in Queensland and, if so, did he consider that by agreeing to any such requests he might be leaving himself open to being accused by Senator Bonner of attempting to buy votes for the Australian Labor Party? [More…]

• Senator Bonner has on occasions made requests for grants on behalf of organisations in Queensland to assist them in improving the welfare of Aborigines. [More…]

• I take it that it has been in good faith, because of his interest in the welfare of Aborigines, that he has asked. [More…]

• As Senator Guilfoyle said, there is a committee of inquiry of the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]

• It is to be hoped 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…]

• We of the Opposition were interested to note that 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 proposals contained in this Bill are a further indication of the Government’s concern for the welfare of nursing home patients. [More…]

• Honourable senators 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 1974, the Minister for Social Security 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 hoped 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. [More…]

• For the first time citizens in our community are being asked to participate and are participating in social welfare endeavours at a grass roots level. [More…]

• Senator Grimes had asked whether Government supporters did not know that the intention of a policy proposal was to station an aircraft permanently in Tasmania for the Royal Flying Doctor Service and also to be available for some social and health welfare work, with particular reference to pensioners who are at the moment discriminated against. [More…]

• Royal Flying Doctor Service aircraft be stationed permanently in Tasmania and be available as well for some normal social and health welfare work, with particular reference to King Island and Flinders Island pensioners who at- the moment appear to be discriminated against by both the socialist governments- State and Federal. [More…]

• For the current financial year the Queensland Government has set aside in its Budget some $7m for Aboriginal welfare in the State of Queensland, which amount is matched by some $I0m from the Australian Government. [More…]

• Before honourable senators vote lightly on this matter, following party lines, they ought to consider what they are doing in relation to the furture efficiency of the Corporation and the growers welfare. [More…]

• What we are trying to do in this case is to encourage the sort of thing which they have said in debates on other Bills in relation to social welfare which have come before this place ought to be encouraged, namely private initiative. [More…]

• With the increase in funds for welfare housing which has subsequently been approved, the increase is over 40 per cent. [More…]

• With the increase in funds for welfare housing which has subsequently been approved, the increase is over 40 per cent. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Repatriation and Compensation: In the light of the extensive use now being made of computers in the health and social welfare fields, does the Department of Repatriation and Compensation make use of computers in its hospital service? [More…]

• I understand that the Brotherhood of St Laurence in Victoria submitted to the Social Welfare Commission a working paper on emergency relief 12 months ago. [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 Northern Territory Social Welfare Ordinance states: [More…]

• It appalled me recently to learn that over 13,000 people are receiving welfare cheques between Parramatta and Penrith and that in the district of Mount Druitt alone in the western suburbs of Sydney- an area in which I do electoral work- over 25,000 people are receiving welfare. [More…]

• The Government allocated $3 1 0m in 1 974-75 to the States for welfare housing, an increase of $91m over the amount allocated to the States in 1973-74. [More…]

• There is an additional expenditure of $ 15m in 1974-75 under the Defence Service Homes Scheme; an additional expenditure of $ 14m in 1974-75 for housing in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory; an increase from $5m to $ 1 0m in the yearly expenditure under the Dwellings for Aged Pensioners Scheme; an increase in the capital subsidy under the Aged Persons’ Homes Act to $4 for $1 from the previous $2 for $1; and, of course, an additional $75m to be allocated to the States for welfare housing- $50m to be distributed through the home builders’ account and $25m for the State Housing authority building programs; and a further $8m has been allocated specifically to Queensland. [More…]

• I believe all honourable senators and people who take an interest in economics and the welfare of the people of this nation are aware of this matter. [More…]

• It is typical of the way Nero fiddled while Rome was burning, and unfortunately for this country we have to wait some months before the judgment of the people can be vindicated by an emphatic vote of denunciation of people who have done such dire things to the welfare of this country. [More…]

• In 1973 Council recommended that education programs in case detection and management should be prepared for those involved in health education and welfare of young children. [More…]

• 1 ) Facilities in the Australian Capital Territory are the Welfare Branch of the Department of the Capital Territory, the Mental Health Branch and Child Health Section of A.C.T. [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…]

• The discussion papers and progress reports have suggested that local residents and welfare consumer groups be encouraged toparticipate in the planning and provision of welfare services under the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]

• In addition staff of the Social Welfare Commission and the Department of Social Security have advocated this action in their consultation with Interim Regional Councils. [More…]

• Increases in both government and private expenditure- the sources of material welfare- depend upon the capacity of the community to save, to work, and to produce. [More…]

• Is the Minister concerned that the National Inquiry into Poverty, a report of which appears in this morning’s Press, should have found it necessary to criticise the lucrative business aspects of welfare work and to say that welfare funds should go to the nation ‘s poor and not to bureaucrats? [More…]

• Those 2 men were concerned with the welfare of the people after they had seen their plight on that occasion. [More…]

• On it also were a Captain Alan Walker from the Salvation Army, Frank Trainor from the Red Cross, Reverend Graham Bence from the United Churches, Bernard Valadian from the Aboriginal Foundation, Ted Robertson from the Regional Welfare Council, a representative from the Darwin Corporation and a representative from the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]

• Will the Minister discuss with the Minister for Defence whether new arrangements might apply in future to allow reasonable royalties to be set aside for RAAF welfare projects or related Services projects? [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…]

• From the time I was elected to the national Parliament- twenty-two years ago at the end of this month- I refused to accept what was then the conventional wisdom that the sole or chief concerns of the national Parliament should be foreign affairs, defence, the annual Budget and the level of the major social welfare payments. [More…]

• Even the most enlightened and equal approach to social welfare can only scratch the surface of the basic problem of equality and well-being of most of our citizens. [More…]

• I think that ought to be the aim and objective of any government concerned with the welfare of people. [More…]

• This Government exists for the welfare of every man, woman and child in the Australian community. [More…]

• In the social security and welfare area assistance will be provided for handicapped children. [More…]

• What the Government proposes, hopes and expects to see fulfilled is that all sections of the community who are genuinely interested in the social welfare and development of their communities will be involved. [More…]

• We have a vast number of community welfare projects being undertaken. [More…]

• We have set aside money under the Aboriginal Land Fund Act and we are spending large sums of money on Aboriginal development and Aboriginal welfare in Australia. [More…]

• 1 from the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare on the continuing oversight of the report of the Senate Select Committee on Drug Trafficking and Drug Abuse. [More…]

• During the debate on the report the Senate resolved that the Standing Committees on Health and Welfare, Social Environment and Constitutional and Legal Affairs should continually oversight the report and recommend from time to time the further measures which might be taken to implement the recommendation or overcome the problems revealed in the report. [More…]

• Basically we have in the Senate today and we have had in the House of Representatives recently the same old, tired criticisms such as that this is a compulsory scheme, as if in a society which provides for compulsion in all sorts of matters involving the welfare of the people a compulsory health scheme above all is in some way undesirable. [More…]

• That’s because Medibank, like other social welfare service, will be financed by money from tax revenue. [More…]

• I would remind the Senate that when Professor Richard Downing recently gave the George Judah Cohen Memorial Lecture at Sydney University he talked about the cost of the 3 Government welfare programs- the Hayden health scheme, the Woodhouse scheme for which Senator Wheeldon is responsible, and the national superannuation scheme- as far as they could be costed at this stage. [More…]

• The final point on costs is this: Mr Hayden is well aware of the adverse effects of expensive welfare proposals on society. [More…]

• Mr Hayden gave the Chifley Memorial Lecture in 1973 and during that lecture discussed a proposed welfare initiative. [More…]

• That is the expenditure of $ 1,200m on a welfare proposal - would be enormous- there would have to be large increases in taxation to begin with. [More…]

• Mr Hayden says that to introduce his welfare proposals and to spend that kind of money would involve large increases in taxation. [More…]

• That is, while the desirability of a major welfare re-distribution program may seem incontestable, the implementation is bound up with many factors including timing and public attitudes. [More…]

• They are not responsible to the people, the consumers of the welfare which they hand out. [More…]

• Opposition to this scheme and to the other schemes, to my way of thinking, is not based on fact, and it is certainly not based on a concern for patient welfare. [More…]

• Let us face the obvious fact that conciliation and arbitration in the Australian scene over many years have been successful in bringing about a degree of industrial peace, a degree of production and a degree of social welfare and development which have been the envy of most, if not all, countries around the world. [More…]

• After all, the prime objective of this sort of conciliation and arbitration legislation should be the welfare of the unionist himself in the total concept of an industrial situation which should lead to peace and production. [More…]

• The problem to which I have referred was compound by the fact that the State Factory Welfare Board was not doing its job, as it should, in this International Women’s Year, by providing adequate toilet facilities in some of our big industries. [More…]

• When this realisation eventually dawns a blow may really be struck for the peaceful welfare of Australian employees and the peaceful and rapid development of our national resources. [More…]

• But once again, as with export incentives or export subsidies, if any, surely it is more rational to be selective about the areas in which welfare payments will be made and it is necessary to be more selective than just to make them available on an across-the-board basis so that they would be available to people who perhaps do not even have a liquidity problem, or certainly do not have an asset problem. [More…]

• It could well be that at the tail end of the beef industry, among the last 5 per cent or thereabouts, there may be a case for welfare assistance. [More…]

• In my view, any assistance which is provided on welfare grounds should be provided as welfare and not provided to the whole industry on an across-the-board basis. [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…]

• In addition, appropriations amounting to $225,260,000 are sought to give effect to the arrangements agreed upon at the Premiers’ 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 $6 5 m is being provided for payment to the States for welfare housing activities under the 1973-74 housing agreement. [More…]

• With the additional $65m 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…]

• -I undertook to obtain further details in answer to the latter part of a question from Senator Greenwood in the Senate on 4 March about whether the Government, as an elementary exercise in protecting an Australian’s human rights, would refuse to hold the projected talks with the Pathet Lao Minister for the Economy, who is about to visit Australia, until the Pathet Lao have given satisfactory assurances about the welfare and future of Mr Sharman. [More…]

• The role of Dr Cairns, Dr Cass and Mr Enderby requires explanation- an explanation which clarifies how a group of people, having been expelled from an organisation because they were Trotskyites acting inimically to the welfare of the Australian Labor Party, could be readmitted. [More…]

• In 1974-75 the Australian Government advances to the States for housing have been further increased to $345m, an increase of $ 124m over the 1973-74 allocation and almost double the amount made available to the States for welfare housing when the previous Government was in power for the financial year 1 972-73. [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…]

• As one of its first enactments this Government provided the States with $5m for the sole purpose of utilising the manpower and building materials available to the State housing authorities before the new Budget in July 1973 so as to provide welfare housing for those who had received no help at all under the previous Government. [More…]

• Bearing in mind what the previous Government had done, while we admit that in 1973 we could not meet the housing requirements because of the shortage of skilled manpower and building materials which were being utilised in the construction of multistorey buildings, the necessity was there for some action to be taken through financiers for the purpose of curbing building activities and land speculation and to ensure that in future building booms there will not be a curtailment of welfare housing and also that there will not be land speculation which makes it prohibitive to buy a block of land on which to put a house. [More…]

• l) (2) and (3) The Social Welfare Commission has been established to undertake a program of reviewing national social welfare initiatives with special reference, among other objectives, to decentralising programs and involving communities in decision-making, and to monitoring and assessing programs with respect to both goals and actual performance [More…]

• A third parttime Commissioner, Mrs Sadie Canning, is an aboriginal who has detailed knowledge of health and welfare matters affecting the indigenous population. [More…]

• The now disbanded Advisory Council on Social Security/ Welfare provided for a membership representing users as well as providers of social services. [More…]

• The Social Welfare Commission has involved consumers in its information gathering and policy-formulating work. [More…]

• In assessing the welfare needs of the handicapped, special account of clients ‘ views was taken. [More…]

• In producing a report on Child Care services the Social Welfare Commission established a project team with several members representing user interests. [More…]

• The Commission has a continuing commitment to monitor the progress of these and all other social welfare programs with a view to stating priorities, co-ordinating activities and assessing performance. [More…]

• One of the biggest initiatives in the welfare field is the action-research program entitled The Australian Assistance Plan which stimulates local participation in social service planning and execution and which encompasses a comprehensive assessment program. [More…]

• These 35 pilot programs are being monitored and evaluated by the Social Welfare Commission and the Department of Social Security. [More…]

• 1 ) What are the latest available figures of the amounts of money available in the National Welfare Fund. [More…]

• What special appropriations of money other than those to the National Welfare Fund, have been made which could be used by a Government health insurance fund. [More…]

• 1 ) and (2) At 30 June 1974 there was a balance of $462.3 million in the National Welfare Fund (NWF). [More…]

• An amendment to the National Welfare Fund Act is 19S2 provided that expenditures from the NWF should be met in full by payments to the fund from Consolidated Revenue. [More…]

• -Will the Minister representing the Minister for Social Security tell the Senate what steps have been taken to ensure the welfare of the 200 orphans from Vietnam who have already been brought to Australia? [More…]

• Other children may be granted visas- these are the particular ones to whom Senator Primmer would be referring- to join prospective adoptive parents in Australia where the adoption proposals have the support of the relevant child welfare authorities, which in these cases would be the various departments of community welfare and child welfare in the different States. [More…]

• In some instances allocations have been made to proposed parents whose applications may not have the support of the appropriate State child welfare authorities. [More…]

• Others have not been allocated to specific parents and ultimately will be allocated, if one can use the rather inhuman word ‘allocated’ in regard to children, to the various States which no doubt will make appropriate arrangements through the different child welfare organisations within those States. [More…]

• When entry permits are issued the children will legally become wards of the Minister for Social Security, but in practice his powers and functions will be undertaken by the State child welfare departments. [More…]

• Any further flights which may bring Vietnamese children or Vietnamese orphans to Australia will include an experienced welfare worker with immigration experience. [More…]

• Economic progress and the welfare and living standards of people throughout the world depend upon the efficiency of their public securities markets. [More…]

• It said it was satisfied that the interests of this nation’s economy, growth and welfare, as well as the interests of all those persons and corporations, both within and without Australia, who are involved in the securities industry require that the Commonwealth Government exercise the powers given to it at Federation to legislate with respect to the securities industry. [More…]

• The Government believes that legal aid can best be made available to those in need by a nationwide salaried service working in conjunction with existing legal aid services, the private legal profession and other bodies interested in the welfare of the citizen. [More…]

• In the latter category are 1,041 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…]

• Welfare philosophy, human relations and communication skills are also covered in training courses for public contact staff. [More…]

• 1 ) Which members of the Social Security Appeal Tribunals for (a) New South Wales, (b) Victoria, (c) Queensland, (d) South Australia, (e) Western Australia, (f) Tasmania and (g) the Australian Capital Territory, come from the Benefits Branch of the Department of Social Security and legal and welfare groups within the community. [More…]

• From which community legal and welfare groups do the appointed members come. [More…]

• In announcing the introduction of the Appeals Tribunals it was stated that the ‘The Tribunals in each State would consist of two independent members, usually a lawyer and a welfare worker and a full time member seconded from the Department’. [More…]

• Since that time, because of the calls upon this service, it has been decided to make it a general welfare service. [More…]

• Today they extend, or residents want them to be extended, into fields of welfare by providing facilities and amenities to all residents of all ages. [More…]

• The Social Welfare Commission’s Committee of Inquiry into Aged Persons’ Housing, and the Poverty Inquiry are both considering the needs of pensioner home owners and reports are expected from each of these bodies this year. [More…]

• The Senate is debating Appropriation and Supply Bills that are designed to carry forward the Budget and the social welfare programs of the Government which were established in the 1974 Budget to which have been added new commitments the Government has entered into in the ensuing months. [More…]

• Paragraph 35, section (f) of the Social Welfare Commission Act 1973, gives the Commission an important responsibility for co-ordinating C.D.O. [More…]

• Both the Department of Social Security and the Social Welfare Commission currently have C.D.O. [More…]

• Several training programmes have been approved and others are being developed by the Social Welfare Commission in consultation with the Department of Social Security. [More…]

• The number of C.D.O.s in the area in the next 12 months cannot be reliably predicted as it depends upon many factors including the development of the Regional Council structures, size of population, and extent of welfare needs. [More…]

• Secondly, I think it is fair to say that the Bill does show the development of Labor policy in this sphere of welfare legislation. [More…]

• A further reason why I am quite happy to help speed this legislation through the chamber is that it is traditional that important policy matters, such as repatriation and social welfare matters, are properly, fully and critically examined when the annual Budget of any government is presented in August because that Budget contains the financial policy for the ensuing year. [More…]

• One calls to mind that such departments and sections of departments as the Commonwealth Employment Service, the Department of Social Welfare and the Department of Education- there are various others- may very well be able to open and staff even part-time an office somewhere on the eastern shore to facilitate contact between the Commonwealth Government and people living on the eastern side of the Derwent River. [More…]

• That committee, which had the support and co-operation of all the major churches in Australia, most major welfare organisations and both major political parties, made representations to State and Commonwealth governments asking them to introduce legislation prohibiting discrimination on the grounds of race. [More…]

• I am interested to learn that Senator Townley, who now is known as a member of the Liberal Party, believes that not enough is being done by way of public activity in the social welfare sector, a view which I thought would not have been shared by the Liberal Party spokesman on these matters in another place, Mr Chipp. [More…]

• This Parliament, by increasing its own members’ salaries, by increasing pensions, and other welfare benefits and by introducing costly legislation has aggravated the trend of inflation. [More…]

• We should think of the whole program of Aboriginal culture, of tribal welfare as against our family welfare system. [More…]

• We have departed from the standard of tribal welfare. [More…]

• Because the family welfare system is corrupt we pay child endowment, deserted wives pensions, widow pensions and invalid pensions. [More…]

• This may be done by establishing workshops with parents periodically discussing problems with people skilled in various aspects of child education and welfare. [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…]

• It will be recalled that a committee comprised of the health, education, social welfare, youth, sport and recreation and local government departments in Victoria as well as representatives of the voluntary sector was set up so that an overall State program could be placed before the Commonwealth Government for the support of the Commonwealth Government. [More…]

• I do not think it is an unfair comparison to relate the Children’s Commission to the Schools Commission or to the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]

• Similarly the Social Welfare Commission has, under section 14 (f), to consider the report to the Minister on measures designed to provide skilled staff for the successful implementation of social welfare programs. [More…]

• In the Social Welfare Commission the necessity to provide for skilled staff is recognised. [More…]

• What we are aiming for is a co-ordinated and integrated approach to the health, education and welfare of young people. [More…]

• We will then have a community in which the trade union movement will be making a most significant contribution to the country’s welfare. [More…]

• I am disturbed by Senator Wright’s remarks that in letting the legislation go through he believes that insufficient consideration has been given to the welfare of a woman such as one who is about to have a baby or who has just had a baby. [More…]

• My recollection is that in the Family Law Bill we have provided the same general provision that conversations which take place at conferences in the presence of welfare officers should not be used in subsequent legal proceedings. [More…]

• I believe it is relevant to refer to the Northern Territory Social Welfare Ordinance which includes in section 18 the following provision: [More…]

• ) Where a welfare officer who is so authorised is satisfied that the behaviour of a person who has such a right and is on a reserve is such that it is desirable for the maintenance of order on the reserve that the person should not be on the reserve or a part of the reserve, he may declare to the person that the person’s right to enter or remain on the reserve, or on such part of the reserve as the welfare officer specifies, is suspended for such period not exceeding thirty days as the welfare officer specifies. [More…]

• A welfare officer may be authorised by the Administrator to suspend the right of a person to enter and remain on a reserve in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• The Director of Social Welfare or a person appointed under the Ordinance is declared to be a welfare officer, [More…]

• I wonder what the distinction is between the provisions in the Queensland legislation which will be affected by the amendment with which we are now dealing and the powers that are given to the Administration in the Northern Territory under the Social Welfare Ordinance to give directions and make orders as to who shall go onto and who shall leave a reserve in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• It is contrasted with the ordinance of the Northern Territory which gives a right to a welfare officer who has a right to issue permits to say who goes on to a reserve and who stays on a reserve. [More…]

• It is very interesting that an important document such as the Crisp report states that a product of official statistical systems should be related to community welfare. [More…]

• A new Housing Agreement was negotiated with the States in 1973 and advances for welfare housing are being made to the State housing authorities and the States home builders account at the respective rates of 4 per cent and 4lA per cent. [More…]

• The States have never had such good welfare housing agreements. [More…]

• Because we are making available, for welfare housing, labour and materials we are the subject of criticism today. [More…]

• I remind the Minister that many medical services are rendered by doctors employed on salaries by welfare agencies, many of which are in financial difficulties. [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…]

• It can readily be understood that a large number of staff organisations exercising their legitimate interests in the welfare and employment conditions of their members would pose difficulties of communication and co-ordination for both management and the staff organisations. [More…]

• That the expressed intent of the Opposition Parties to amend the Superannuation Bill 1975 is causing and will cause widespread distress, inconvenience, confusion and loss of equitable living standard for those persons dependent on the proposed Bill for their rightful standard of living and welfare. [More…]

• That the proposal to amend the retiring age provision to age 65 only is a retrograde provision certain to be detrimental to the health and general welfare of persons affected by the Bill; fails to perceive the accrued benefits to the Community at large, the Government and the Public Service by the responsible retirement of those persons, recognising that their best years have been spent in service of the community and that they should have the opportunity of moving out of the service to the wider community for leisure and or other meaningful occupations. [More…]

• I refer also to the fact that the lag in welfare housing shows similar trends. [More…]

• The Government has doubled the expenditure on welfare housing since it has been in office in an effort to meet the needs of the community. [More…]

• I take up a point that was made by Senator Gietzelt during the course of his contributions; that is, that it is never time for a government to take initiatives in the area of social welfare. [More…]

• Of course there has always been and still is a fundamental conflict of interest between the Country Party’s political welfare and the economic welfare of the farmers it claims primarily to represent, the Country Party’s political welfare being of course largely dependent upon maintaining the greatest possible number of farmers assisted at the margin quite substantially by electoral gerrymandering, while maximising the economic welfare of farmers by having the lowest number of farmers. [More…]

• The Australian Development Assistance Agency co-ordinates such activities in conjunction with the Australian Council for Overseas Aid (ACFOA), which includes such organisations as AUSTCARE, Australian Council of Churches, Australian Catholic Relief, Federation of Jewish Welfare Societies, Freedom from Hunger and Vietnam Orphans Fund. [More…]

• In any costing of a superannuation scheme or welfare measure the use of capitalised costs permits the comparison of one or more alternatives with the costs of existing arrangements. [More…]

• 1 ) Did Mr Ray Piesse, Director of the National Acoustic Laboratories, address a meeting of the Forum for Deaf Education and Welfare held in Sydney on Tuesday, 8 April 1 975. [More…]

• So that claims by the Opposition that the Whitiam Government has neglected the welfare of members of the defence forces can be tested, will the Minister inform the Senate of the benefits which have become available to Australian servicemen since this Government came to office? [More…]

• Recent developments have included courses in such areas as nurse education, welfare studies, urban studies and recreation leadership. [More…]

• That wealth has been shuffled about and has been eroded by inflation and from time to time we are having to deal with a series of stopgap measures where people’s lives, fortunes and welfare are at stake. [More…]

• I suppose that every time we say that, people say that we want to cut out welfare payments. [More…]

• But it is quite a different matter to propose, as this Government does, that the Government should look after all our welfare requirements. [More…]

• Forgetting the nuts and bolts of the organisations of the Commissions, surely they must have some consideration for the welfare and future well-being of the 2000 people who comprise the staff of the OTC. [More…]

• Surely that must be worthy of some consideration by honourable senators opposite, but so far no consideration has been given by them in their contribution to the debate to the welfare or wellbeing of the staff. [More…]

• World trade policies, including Australian trade policies, are important to the welfare of developing nations. [More…]

• It contacted the welfare department and asked if the department required the island for an Aboriginal reserve. [More…]

• There is an Aboriginal reserve on Ukerebagh Island but, as far as I am aware, the Aboriginal Welfare Board does not control any land immediately adjoining your occupancy. [More…]

• When the Government introduces measures on matters such as health, welfare and education it receives tardy and qualified censure from the Opposition members. [More…]

• We witnessed the disgusting spectacle of these two great poseurs, the honourable member for Richmond and the honourable member for New England, who claim to have been overwhelmingly concerned with the welfare of wool growers and the wool market, attempting to make the Government, and the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in particular, commit themselves to an irrevocable statement that the reserve price would not be set at 250c and that the Caucus would not amend the Cabinet’s original decision. [More…]

• The advertisements have qualified the reference free’ by pointing out that medical insurance will be free of direct contributions in the same way as other welfare services and benefits are free. [More…]

• In particular, its decentralised offices will provide administrative support bases for community advice centres and legal or welfare advice groups generally. [More…]

• In cases not falling within the preceding subparagraph, the Office will act as a referral service, referring persons as in paragraph 3 (d ) above or to an appropriate welfare organisation or government department. [More…]

• I inform the Minister for Social Security (Senator Wheeldon) that we have today dispatched a telegram to his Department informing him of the concern felt by the Health and Welfare Committee of the Opposition Parties about the possibility that the regulation may have the effect of excluding from benefits private and intermediate patients who might rightfully think they are entitled to this cover for their medical care. [More…]

• She will be long remembered for untiring service as a member of various Senate and joint parliamentary committees, which included chairmanship of the 2 important committees concerned with health and welfare. [More…]

• Her deep interest in health and welfare matters led to her becoming Chairman of the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare in 1970. [More…]

• This was reflected in her service on the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• I think it is appropriate that I, as Minister for Social Security, should say something about the death of Dame Ivy Wedgwood because she was certainly conspicuous during her membership of the Senate as one most interested in health and social welfare. [More…]

• She was the Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• Social Welfare Commission is to be abolished? [More…]

• Did the Public Service Board move unilaterally and without proper approval to dismember the Social Welfare Commission in advance of parliamentary authorisation? [More…]

• Will the Minister assure the Senate that no attempt will be made by the Public Service Board, by the Department of Social Security or by any other body by administrative means to destroy the Social Welfare Commission as a working body in advance of the enactment of appropriate legislation? [More…]

• -The Prime Minister did announced in June, as Senator Baume has said, that the Social Welfare Commission in its present form would be disbanded and its activities transferred elsewhere. [More…]

• It is not a fact that the Public Service Board tried to undermine or destroy the Social Welfare Commission in advance of legislative approval being given to the abolition of the Social Welfare Commission, which in fact would be needed as the Social Welfare Commission was established by legislation. [More…]

• During the last month or so the Public Service Board, far from dismembering the Social Welfare Commission, has given approval to an increase in the staff of the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]

• With regard to the future of the Social Welfare Commission, as Senator Baume would know, a royal commission has been established, under the chairmanship of Dr Coombs, to inquire into the whole framework of the Public Service in Australia. [More…]

• One of the matters which doubtless will be studied by the task force which has been set up within the Public Service royal commissionI hope to have a report from the task force within the next month or two- is the future performance of the functions which are now undertaken by the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]

• In the meantime the Social Welfare Commission is continuing to function as it did in the past and in fact the staff has been increased. [More…]

• Any changes in the nature of the Social Welfare Commission, including its abolition, can be brought about only by legislation. [More…]

• Will the Minister not agree that the voice of the RSL should be heard on all committees relating to the welfare of ex-servicemen and women? [More…]

• A special task force is dealing with the rationalisation of the social welfare systems generally of which repatriation is a part. [More…]

• -Despite the fact that the Government has been under very great pressure to reduce public expenditure, there is one field in which we have more than maintained our record and that is in the area of social welfare. [More…]

• We reject the arguments which were put forward on Monday of this week in the Australian, whose proprietor and whose flunkies seem to have shown a remarkable reversal of form over the last few months and are now not only advocating opposition to what they would regard as socialism, whether of a creeping or any other variety, but also are opposed it would seem to the concept of the welfare state. [More…]

• We are not; we stand for the welfare state. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that, despite the fact that we have found it necessary to cut back on expenditure in the public sector, if one looks at the record one sees that in the last year of the Liberal Government- 1971-72- of the total Budget outlay 25.2 per cent was spent on health, welfare and repatriation and that in the first year of the Labor Government such expenditure rose to 28.2 per cent. [More…]

• We see the tumbling down and the tearing apart of the social welfare program which Labor had previously said it supported. [More…]

• It has not previously had a program of welfare assistance on any official basis. [More…]

• The nationalisation of activities or, might I say, the socialisation of activities must not depart from the social welfare ambit. [More…]

• I will be ever ready to support the nationalisation of welfare concerns and to condemn in a very loud voice the nationalisation of matters which do not belong to government control. [More…]

• If Senator Carrick and his colleagues believe that in using what funds we can get for the extension of our social welfare program- whether it be for the Medibank scheme; whether it be for better pensions for ex-servicemen; whether it be for more money for the States for public housing- is using funds for socialist purposes, then we readily admit our guilt. [More…]

• In fact it is a threat to the ability of the Australian Government to extend its welfare proposals to those least able to protect themselves in the area of public insurance. [More…]

• Sir Vincent Fairfax and the newspaper proprietors cum insurance company directors- the insurance companies own 43 per cent of the shares in the Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, there are these interlocking directorates- and the people who are opposed to the working people of this country and to the party which represents the working people of this country have not been very clever, because there has been an equal and opposite reaction to their action of trying to discredit this Government and its policy not only on this issue but also on its whole program of social welfare, its whole program of bringing equality to the people of Australia. [More…]

• As I understood it, the main criticism by his Party of this Government was that it was spending too much money on social welfare. [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…]

• One of the factors which contributes to that crisis we believe- it is a conclusion which we have come to only very reluctantly- is that there has been excessive expenditure in the non-profitable and non-productive elements of the public sector such as in the field of social welfare including pharmaceutical benefits. [More…]

• Like its predecessors, only more so, the Budget aims at the creation of the welfare state. [More…]

• Honourable senators will recall the death bed repentance of the late Clement Attlee when, asked whether he regretted any of his Government’s activities, he said ‘The welfare state’- and rightly so. [More…]

• Nothing could be more destructive of a society, of the individual, than the true, total welfare state; yet that is what the Government has set out to create. [More…]

• The Government has tried to make much of its so-called progress in the welfare field, but what it has not admitted is that welfare assistance is not free. [More…]

• For example, the Government plans to cut its total payments for housing by $69m, including $20m for welfare housing for the needy and the under-privileged, yet its overseas housing program, the building of luxury office blocks and residences for its diplomats, will cost millions. [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. [More…]

• In relation to social security and welfare it is stated: [More…]

• Total direct outlays on social security and welfare are estimated to increase from $3,703.4 million in 1974-75 to $4,772.2 million in 1975-76. [More…]

• Under Migrant Welfare it is stated: [More…]

• The spending of money should be with the intention of gaining elevation in a particular area of social welfare and being able to maintain it under the conditions resulting from the policy that one sets about to implement. [More…]

• Nearly every one of the whole range of social welfare benefits which Labor has been proud to say it has brought to this community will find some cutback as a result of the disastrous inflationary situation which we have at present. [More…]

• There is in this community a necessity for businesses, for entrepreneurs, to be encouraged to provide job opportunities so that we can continue, on an ongoing basis, some of the social welfare benefits that have been given to the people. [More…]

• The overwhelming strategy of the Budget is to combat inflation, to restore confidence to the private sector, to maintain the essential aspects of the Government’s program in education, urban development, health and social welfare and to redistribute the burden of taxation. [More…]

• Those associated with the business, both employers and employees, have enjoyed high living standards, have provided assistance to community welfare projects and so on. [More…]

• The Government has done this to meet its very high ideals, its ideology of providing a welfare state. [More…]

• I have noted with concern that in the promotion of the social welfare state undue emphasis has been placed on that which is provided and that there has been a denial of any personal desire to better one ‘s position and so on. [More…]

• He has also enabled the Government to continue with its welfare policy, particularly in the fields of education and health. [More…]

• These taxes have had to be levied because money has to be raised and the Government is keen to press on with the welfare policies that it has 2 mandates to carry out. [More…]

• It is regrettable that there has to be such a heavy excise on these commodities, but I sincerely hope that it will not be for long and that the Government, in its next Budget, will be able to reduce these indirect taxes and carry on with its very progressive welfare policy. [More…]

• Community welfare projects [More…]

• Welfare officers for senior citizens centres [More…]

• Welfare rights. [More…]

• It does so in the areas of welfare housing, pensions and so on. [More…]

• Whether the Treasurer’s judgment and the Government’s judgment is correct only time will tell, but the Budget is a bold attempt to rescue the economy from the difficulties into which it has drifted and simultaneously to protect the welfare of the weaker members of society. [More…]

• Government’s welfare policies and programs and how they should be achieved. [More…]

• As honourable senators already know from answers given by Senator Wheeldon, he would be most interested in the amount of resources which would be applied in reducing the tariffs and the amount which would be available for welfare. [More…]

• The main report that I have now tabled is a significant and comprehensive document covering such areas as the extent of poverty in this country, groups in poverty, the income needs of poor people, housing, welfare services and employment. [More…]

• ‘Poverty in Australia’ contains wide-ranging recommendations on social security, welfare services and other provisions. [More…]

• Also of interest in this matter will be the report entitled Possibilities for Social Welfare in Australia’ by the Priorities Review Staff which, I understand, is being tabled today in another place. [More…]

• I might add that since I began speaking a note has been passed to me asking me to delete the reference to the tabling today of the report by the Priorities Review Staff entitled ‘Possibilities for Social Welfare in Australia’. [More…]

• I believe that the many people concerned with social welfare matters have been looking to this report to give a very detailed background to the findings by Professor Henderson and his recommendations in that respect. [More…]

• It is the duty of the Board, within the limits of its powers, to ensure that the monetary and banking policy of the Bank is directed to the greatest advantage of the people of Australia, and that the powers of the Bank under the Banking Act 1959 and the regulations under that Act are exercised in such a manner as, in the opinion of the Board, will best contribute to the stability of the currency of Australia, the maintenance of full employment in Australia, and the economic prosperity and welfare of the people of Australia. [More…]

• We note that social welfare payments in this Budget have been increased but we recognise that the Government has frozen student allowances at $3 1 a week, lt is noted that this has occurred at a time when we talk of indexation of salaries to accommodate increases in costs. [More…]

• A sum of $77.6m is planned for expenditure on capital works including major projects such as the Naval Dockyard at Williamstown, a Royal Australian Corps of Transport Centre at Puckapunyal, the Land Welfare Centre at Canungra, developments to the RAAF Base at Amberley, new storage facilities at RAAF No. [More…]

• It also includes responsibility for the welfare, morale and discipline of personnel under command. [More…]

• In many instances, through the work of the Government’s officers and in co-operation with welfare agencies, families have been united. [More…]

• The assistance given by voluntary welfare organisations has been magnificent, as has been the assistance from the people of Darwin who themselves are already suffering great deprivations. [More…]

• 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…]

• They are the welfare professionals, the people who traditionally have spent their time actually in the field delivering service. [More…]

• Migrants may be going back to Italy or Greece and may need help and that body will arrange for their welfare benefits to be dealt with. [More…]

• Bodies like the Social Welfare Commission which actually do a job in correlating and evaluating welfare have been threatened with disestablishment. [More…]

• We intend to suspend the beef export levy, to reintroduce the superphosphate levy and to give beef producers and other rural people access to the welfare payments to which they are denied now. [More…]

• It knows that people in the rural areas are poor and constitute a poverty group but it has not let them get into the welfare system so they can receive the welfare benefits to which they are entitled. [More…]

• It is central control under the guise of social welfare, and anything that is not centrally controlled has been hit. [More…]

• Victoria has demonstrated its callous indifference to the welfare of Victorian schoolchildren in authorising a challenge to the High Court to invalidate grants to non-government schools. [More…]

• It cannot be achieved by developing the welfare state and the welfare mentality which is the product of socialist thinking. [More…]

• I believe that the welfare state mentality is foreign to Australians. [More…]

• I think that one of the things which people who work in the field of social welfare have recognised over recent years is that even the most severely disabled people, if they are properly attended to, are able to lead useful lives. [More…]

• With that state of affairs it was up to the Government^ working from the social welfare aspects of its platform, to do something to arrest the position. [More…]

• When introducing a highly beneficial welfare scheme surely there was a need for consolidation in other fields. [More…]

• He is being sacrificed to meet the social welfare plan. [More…]

• I have nothing against that social welfare plan but it is necessary that there should be that full degree of equity applying between taxpayers in order that all will meet a just share. [More…]

• It has introduced social welfare benefits, and rightly so. [More…]

• Let me repeat, as the result of a mandate given at 2 elections, that to introduce a liberal social welfare system and at the same time trying to arrest inflation and to provide ample employment is a herculean task. [More…]

• Should it be cut back in the national welfare field? [More…]

• Are they prepared to nominate which sections of our welfare programs should be cut back. [More…]

• Of course, I could go through all of the social welfare programs of this Government and the same picture would unfold. [More…]

• This particular Budget effects a substantial transfer of payment from the productive sector of the Australian economy to welfare. [More…]

• The extent of the Government’s efforts in this area can be measured by the fact that $ 1 ,396m of the $ 1,938m additional expenditure, or 72 per cent, goes to the welfare area- social security and educational expenditure. [More…]

• I often wonder how much of that pressure would have existed if people had realised that welfare payments in total had increased by more than $700m over the last 5 years. [More…]

• He said that specific incentives are clearly demanded for the primary industry sector, that the superphosphate bounty should be reintroduced, and that beef producers should be eligible for welfare payments. [More…]

• One of the reasons was that the level of social services, the level of welfare and the level of education in this country had slipped miles behind those levels in comparable countries in other parts of the world. [More…]

• We were elected to office after 23 years of conservative government in which this country had fallen well behind comparable countries in the fields of social welfare and education. [More…]

• I refer to fields such as social welfare and education. [More…]

• At the same time that we have done it, nonetheless the percentage of the Budget of this country which is expended on social welfare has radically increased. [More…]

• That is something which we have tried to remedy by bringing about Australian ownership of Australian industry and by seeing that the people of this country are receiving adequate social welfare and adequate education. [More…]

• One would think, surely, that the health and welfare of people in the future, and ways of preventing them from getting things like cancer and heart disease, would be very important. [More…]

• Does the Government call this a contribution to social welfare? [More…]

• There has been real progress along the road of social reform in the nation’s social welfare programs. [More…]

• The Minister for Social Security (Senator Wheeldon) said yesterday he was opposed to the Government launching major new initiatives in social welfare until it was clearly beating inflation. [More…]

• If we don’t defeat inflation, we are only wasting time talking about other social welfare programs’, he said . [More…]

• I take it that the Opposition will not be claiming that more money ought to be spent on social welfare. [More…]

• It deals with care of aged persons in their own homes and with the avoidance of placing aged persons in institutions- something which I think anyone who is interested in the welfare of aged people would think highly desirable. [More…]

• We have had every indication that the staff are appreciative of the concern which is being shown for their welfare. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 16 of the Social Welfare Commission Act 1973 I present the annual report of the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]

• What I have said is that at this stage the Government does not intend to embark on any new initiatives in the field of social welfare which would cost substantial sums of money. [More…]

• What I have said is that my Department is studying the report of the Social Welfare Commission’s committee, which I have said is a very important report dealing with very important matters. [More…]

• The Treasurer (Mr Hayden) has made it clear that the Government has set out on a policy of cutting back the increase in Budget outlays but at the same time has insisted on applying those welfare programs which had been promised, and in that general area it had kept its promise in relation to pension increases. [More…]

• On the question of the subsidies to which I have referred, no government could have faced an outlay of $348m because it would have had to cut back on a large part of its welfare policies. [More…]

• In doing so, as many of my colleagues have pointed out, it has drastically cut back a number of things which it might consider to be socially necessary, but in the broad field of social and welfare commitment it has more than honoured its objectives by way of its education proposals and so on. [More…]

• The Australian Government has honoured to the full its commitment to preserve its general welfare policies. [More…]

• These social demands- social welfare, education and so forth- are recognised on this side of the chamber as well as on the Government side. [More…]

• The welfare systems kept pace with the growth of the wealth of Australia. [More…]

• Anyone who wishes to study- I will not take out vast graphs on this- the growth in Australia will know that the improvements in welfare and social services took place commensurate with the increase in growth in Australia. [More…]

• I suggest that in this honest endeavour- and it was an emotional, honest endeavour by the Government when it came into power- to reform matters in the welfare and social structure all over the place- in the arts, in education and so on- it completely forgot that the money to pay for these things had to be found. [More…]

• It seems to me that this Government is reaping a colossal harvest from personal taxation and since coming to office has squandered much of this in a headlong rush to develop a welfare state. [More…]

• They know perfectly well that combating inflation means a special effort had to be made to divert resources to the public welfare sector; that such resources can only come from the private sector via wage restraint, and that their current demands not only make it impossible to cushion the poor against want but will inevitably lead to actual cuts in the welfare services. [More…]

• Honourable senators on this side of the chamber have covered many aspects of the intention of the Budget, which is to reduce government spending, as it has done in many cases, and at the same time not to reduce spending to honour our obligations to introduce social welfare reforms. [More…]

• Another benefit in the field of social welfare which is part of the Australian Labor Party’s policy is in health care. [More…]

• The only regret that I have about the Budget is that it was not possible to introduce a social welfare payment for the deserted father. [More…]

• He cannot register at the Commonwealth Employment Office to receive unemployment benefits because he is unable to accept employment if it is offered and, of course, he does not qualify for any other social welfare payment. [More…]

• Thousands are being overpaid social welfare- often by computer mistakes- and pensioners are being asked to make repayments of money that they thought was theirs. [More…]

• I do not think the social welfare which is provided in this country, not only in this regard but also in a great many other regards, is anything like what ought to be provided in a country as rich as Australia. [More…]

• -This year there was not available for distribution to the States the amount of finance that would be required to catch up on the lag in the field of welfare housing. [More…]

• I think that there is an acute shortage right throughout the nation of welfare housing. [More…]

• He proposes to shelve reports from the Henderson Commission of Inquiry into Poverty, the Social Welfare Commission, the Hancock Commission, the Toose Commission, the Priorities Review Staff and probably many others. [More…]

• It had to increase in order to bring our social welfare payments up to somewhere near the level of comparable countries. [More…]

• The percentage of gross domestic product Australia spent on welfare was far below those countries and people were not getting a fair go. [More…]

• But the people described by Professor Henderson in his report, the people described for years by the Brotherhood of St Laurence, and more recently by the Social Welfare Commission and other organisations, have no freedom to spend their income because it is so low they have only sufficient or less than sufficient for their most rudimentary needs. [More…]

• The Melbourne University social welfare unit reported back in 1965 and 1966 the sorts of things that Professor Henderson has reported and it had been going on for years. [More…]

• If we listen to all those people, social welfare and educational expenditure would be nil, subsidies to primary and secondary industry would be enormous, and the unemployed, in the words of Dr Yuill, one of the founders of the Workers’ Party, would be given a few vegetables and left to fend for themselves. [More…]

• Many people question the priorities of various aspects of social welfare in this country. [More…]

• I agree with some of his queries about priorities but I think we must point out that while we have our present social welfare system priorities in this field remain a matter of individual judgment and the final result must come from compromise, no matter who is in Government. [More…]

• I think I should point out to Senator Baume and others that this Government is not satisfied with the priorities and is not satisfied with the system of social welfare in this country. [More…]

• I hope both sides take note of the views given by Professor Henderson and his Commission, by the Priorities Review Staff, by the Social Welfare Commission, by people such as the Brotherhood of St Laurence and by others who are working in this field and have been pointing out the inadequacies and the fallacies of the present piecemeal system which leaves great gaps and which results in social welfare funds going to those who need them least rather than those who need them most. [More…]

• We must all look at the social welfare system. [More…]

• By setting up the Henderson Commission the previous Government started the inquiry; the present Government has continued it by setting up the Priorities Review Staff, to look at this system and the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]

• People who might wish to own their home have been severely damaged, and we find that Senator Wheeldon, the Minister for Social Security and Minister for Repatriation and Compensation, even says that at the present rate of inflation you cannot plan social welfare. [More…]

• It was a marvellous opportunity to increase our independence in the field of energy and to lift the standard of living and hence the standard of welfare of all Australians. [More…]

• The situation really is that we now have various expert groups in the social welfare field advising us that it is simply not possible to have all the desirable assistance that there is for the really poor in Australia and at the same time to have universal social services. [More…]

• As I have indicated, real and genuine efforts were made by my predecessor to reach agreement with Mr Clunies Ross about the nature and timing of changes which must be made, having in mind the welfare of the Cocos community. [More…]

• But the Government considers this should not deter it from effecting the changes that it believes are essential to the welfare and betterment of the Cocos Community. [More…]

• Government members even make statements in this place indicating that promises relating to social welfare will not be continued. [More…]

• Social welfare schemes are being placed in jeopardy. [More…]

• I preface my question by saying that no doubt the Minister is aware that the Australian Council of Social Services and the 8 State and Territory councils of social services, which have a total membership of over 2000 non-government health and welfare organisations and whose purpose is to carry out and promote programs to eliminate poverty and promote the well being of disadvantaged groups in our society, are at present in financial difficulties. [More…]

• However, as I said elsewhere this morning, in my capacity as Minister for my other Department, that of Repatriation and Compensation, I also deal with voluntary bodies which look after the welfare of large numbers of people; for example, the Returned Services League of Australia. [More…]

• Throughout the inquiry the Committee has paid considerable attention to the welfare of the Cocos Islanders and it is clear to us that substantial changes are required to allow the Cocos Island community adequate opportunity to develop socially, economically and politically as an entity independent of the Clunies-Ross Estate. [More…]

• Geoff Duncan speaking to the Shadow Minister for Social Security and Welfare, Don Chipp. [More…]

• 1 ) The Social Welfare Commission is expected to produce recommendations to the Australian Government on the future shape of the Australian Assistance Plan which is currently in the final year of a three year pilot program. [More…]

• One of these Councils received funds to be forwarded to welfare organisations for capitation projects. [More…]

• Capitation funds are passed through Regional Councils to local welfare organisations. [More…]

• There is one such person employed in the Health Insurance Commission and one in the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]

• Social Welfare Commission l Clerk-$ 15.224 [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister for Social Security been drawn to an article in the Melbourne Age of 26 September in which the Victorian Branch of the Australian Institute of Welfare Officers is alleged to have said that delays of up to 3 months by the Department of Social Security in processing claims for unemployment benefits have forced many applicants into crisis situations? [More…]

• I have seen the statement by the Victorian Branch of the Australian Institute of Welfare Officers. [More…]

• I think that one of the things one finds in this field is that there are a number of people, some of whom I think could be described as old welfare hands, who find it to their advantage to complain to various organisations of this kind. [More…]

• By doing so they are able to achieve some sort of immediate payment from the organisations to which they complain as the organisations find it difficult to obtain verification of any allegations by an allegedly aggrieved applicant for social welfare benefits because of the policy of confidentiality which is followed by the Department of Social Security in not disclosing to third parties information concerning the status of people’s claims. [More…]

• However, what has been said by the Institute of Welfare Officers, which I am sure was said in good faith, really does not in any way accurately reflect the record of the Department of Social Security in the payment of unemployment benefits. [More…]

• Recently there was quite an appalling program on the Australian Broadcasting Commission in which a number of people were interviewed whose actions can be described only as ripping off social welfare benefits to the disadvantage of the whole of the country, particularly to the disadvantage of legitimately unemployed and sick people to whom the money available is reduced by these people. [More…]

• I have an enormous interest in 2 things- in the welfare of those who work in the mines and in the steel industry, and above all in the 13 million Australian people who will have for posterity coal as one of their most precious minerals. [More…]

• In 1 974 a report was published by the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare entitled ‘The Health Consequences of Smoking’. [More…]

• In my opinion it has made a quite successful attempt to get together a combination of individuals in employment, the professions, the arts, politics, community and welfare activities and women who just occupy the traditional role of homemaker. [More…]

• I refer to the answer he gave in the Senate on 9 September about the cost of the insurance companies’ campaign which started out as opposition to the proposed Australian Government Insurance Corporation and which has now developed into an alliance between the insurance companies and the Opposition to oppose a whole range of Government social welfare initiatives. [More…]

• It has been felt by the Government that it is sensible that all of the matters relating to welfare ought to have some sort of coordination. [More…]

• Is it a fact that his Department recently conducted a survey of people receiving unemployment benefits which revealed that over 30 per cent of these people were not entitled to receive this social welfare payment? [More…]

• We say to every Australian who lives in a city that his or her vote on questions such as health and welfare, taxation and so on is worth half the value of a vote of a person who lives in the country. ‘ [More…]

• I am pleased to note the present trend, as I am sure other honourable senators who have any concern for the welfare of the defence Services will be. [More…]

• Is this further evidence of the close collaboration now taking place between the Opposition and the insurance companies in their doomed attempts to destroy the social welfare initiatives of this Government? [More…]

• He completely ignored the fact that Government cash transfer payments, principally payments to the States and payments for benefits to persons, mainly social welfare benefits payments, amount in total to $ 14,000m, which is more than twothirds of government expenditure. [More…]

• Can the Minister inform the Senate whether the policy of the insurance companies of slashing social welfare expenditure is also being adopted by the Opposition? [More…]

• Whether they have been able to induce the Liberal and National Country Parties to adopt their social welfare policy which primarily seems to consist of the demolition of what has been constructed under a Labor Government, I do not know, because until now we do not know what the social welfare policies of the Liberal and National Country Parties are, [More…]

• The sooner the Bill receives royal assent and becomes an Act of this Parliament the better it is for the welfare of all Australians. [More…]

• It has provided a general social welfare program over a wide field, including Medibank which has been a very costly experiment. [More…]

• b) Normal welfare food relief has always been available. [More…]

• In December 1970 an ablution block with laundry, showers, baths and toilets was placed on the mission area for use by the people living along the river by the New South Wales Directorate of Aboriginal Welfare using Australian Government funds. [More…]

• For the mallee area, the New South Wales Directorate of Aboriginal Welfare has used funds allocated from the Australian Government to pay the Central Darling Shire Council to provide: [More…]

• The Aborigines Welfare Board built fourteen small houses on the Aboriginal Reserve (Mission) in 1953, to which were added laundry/bathrooms, electricity and other improvements in 1970. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Social Security, whom I ask: Has the Minister read the comment by Mr Chipp, member of the House of Representatives, as reported in the Melbourne Age of today, that a Liberal Government would consider a special levy to part-finance Medibank’ and that ‘any welfare scheme of this type completely paid for out of general revenue was doomed because of the strain it put on resources’? [More…]

• Does it cast doubt upon the whole credibility of the Opposition in relation to its new social welfare policy? [More…]

• Both the payment of nursing home benefits under the National Health Act and payments to religious and charitable homes to meet operating costs are deficits under the Nursing Homes Assistance Act and payments are made under the National Welfare Fund which will not be affected by the current situation. [More…]

• I ask honourable senators to remember that the people who were asked said that the Australian Government had 0.00 per cent interest in the welfare of the people of the eastern shore. [More…]

• The Department of Labor and Immigration has established its permanent office for the district employment area of Bellerive and there has been a study done of all the social welfare needs of eastern shore residents. [More…]

• If we look further over a 3-year period at the cost of pharmaceutical benefits for nonpensioners which is met by payments from the National Welfare Fund- this information is contained in an attachment to the Budget Papers- we find that in 1973-74 the cost was $15 1.5 m and in the next year it was $18 1.6m. [More…]

• The Government has estimated a lower expenditure this financial year on pharmaceutical products for non-pensioners from the National Welfare Fund. [More…]

• The Senate, with a sense of responsibility as to the nation’s welfare, has decided not to proceed with the Budget. [More…]

• He has made an appeal to honourable senators from his State to act in accordance with their obligations, which is to represent the State in this chamber and to look after the welfare of the State. [More…]

• If so, can he verify that these allegations made by the Queensland Welfare Services Minister are false and malicious? [More…]

• -I have seen today’s Courier-Mail newspaper and a report in it of the statement which has been made by the Queensland Minister for Welfare Services, Mr Herbert. [More…]

• Every time Labor gets into power it sets out on a course of great welfare programs, as honourable senators well know. [More…]

• The fighting in Beirut has made it very difficult for the Australian Embassy to deal with the consular inquiries which it has received about the welfare of Australians in Lebanon. [More…]

• That is a reduction but, as I told the Australian Council of Social Service at its annual general meeting, we are in a period where we have to cut back on public expenditure, and the view of the Government- and it is my view- is that if we are cutting back on public expenditure in the field of social welfare it ought to be cut back on advisory bodies rather than in the actual provision of services for aged people’s homes, homes for the blind and things of that nature. [More…]

• Of course, in this same Budget the basic essentials show that 37 per cent of the funds are earmarked for the Government’s health, education and welfare programs. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister for Social Security been drawn to an article in the Sydney Morning Herald of 27 October in which the Opposition ‘s spokesman on social security is reported to have stated that a person approaching Government departments for welfare aid would be, in the words of the article ‘confronted as often as not by a crude, rude, untrained and insensitive person’. [More…]

• One of the main reasons for having a salaried service is to take advantage of the efficiency, competence and expertise arising from specialisation in so-called poverty or welfare law. [More…]

• He has advised that the atmosphere was good and that all members actively contributed to the discussion on a great number of subjects involving and related to the welfare of the Cocos-Malay community. [More…]

• He is prepared to sacrifice the welfare of our nation at the altar of his ego. [More…]

• In order that this country can be administered efficiently and properly and in accordance with convention and standard practice, the Government is attempting today to have restored to the Senate notice paper Appropriation Bills that the Opposition continues, in defiance of the welfare of the Australian people, to have deferred. [More…]

• They are irresponsible and obviously they are indifferent to the welfare of the people. [More…]

• It is they who are showing a callous indifference to the welfare of the Australian people. [More…]

• It has been very obvious that right throughout the term of its office the Government has disregarded the welfare of one section of the community, the section of the community engaged in primary industry. [More…]

• Like many other grandiose social welfare programs produced by Mr Whitlam’s Government, scant attention seems to have been paid to just where the money is going to come from- [More…]

• Welfare housing is an area to which the Government attaches high priority. [More…]

• They will also be some 2V4 times greater than the allocations for welfare housing from State loan funds in the last 2 years of the previous Government which were $161. [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 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…]

• Honourable senators opposite represent a government which has reached the point where Senator Wheeldon has had to come into this chamber and say that inflation is such that the Government cannot even plan its social welfare program. [More…]

• This is over 2Vi times more than the amount of $39m that was allocated for welfare housing in Victoria in 1972-73, the last year of the previous Liberal-NCP Government. [More…]

• In this situation, the welfare housing advances initially allocated to Victoria for 1974-75 were increased throughout the year and the total represented an increase of 83 per cent on the previous financial year. [More…]

• I am hopeful therefore that the continued massive support for welfare housing made available by the present Government under the Housing Agreement will assist in the further recovery of the home building industry. [More…]

• If I may be quite frank, I would have proposed that in the context of the present Budget there ought to have been some equalisation of the position of single supporting fathers to that of single supporting mothers, but the Government felt that this was not a time for new initiatives so far as expenditure on social welfare is concerned. [More…]

• We also submit that the Federal Government’s intention to eliminate the differentials in Nursing Home Benefits between States, is an action contrary to the Labor Governments’ 1974 policy speech on Social Security Benefits and Welfare Services, delivered at the Fitzroy Town Hall on May 1 , 1 974 on which it was elected to Govern. [More…]

• That, in the matter of the approval by the Senate of Bills for Supply to the Australian Government, certain decisions and declared intentions of Senators of the parties of the Opposition in Parliament are placing in jeopardy the welfare and basic human rights of those citizens who are aged or disabled and thereby dependent upon pensions payable by the Australian Government. [More…]

• Your petitioners are impelled by these facts to call upon all Honourable Senators to forthwith determine as a matter of urgency that approval of the Bills for Supply be no longer delayed in order that the Government shall continue to adequately provide for the welfare rights of Australian citizens. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for the Social Security aware that in Tasmania on Sunday last the President of the Handicapped Citizens Assistance Association, Mr John McNicol, stated that many social welfare organisations which rely on Government subsidies, such as sheltered workshops, hostels, staff, and so on, would be seriously affected by a shortage of Government funds brought about by the refusal of Opposition senators to pass the Budget Appropriation Bills and calling upon the Opposition to pass the Budget? [More…]

• As well as that we have introduced the system of having welfare rights officers whose role is to spread as far as possible amongst all residents, including those people who do not speak English, advice as to their rights under the various social welfare laws of Australia. [More…]

• The main ones are payments to or for the States, National Welfare Fund (which also passes through Trust Fund), bounties, salaries of statutory office holders. [More…]

• for National Welfare Fund), and hence are detailed in budget expenditures, but in the case of a minor proportion, only the outlays net of receipts (e.g. [More…]

• It is also more in keeping with the Government’s social welfare objectives and programs, and more readily adaptable to the ever-changing requirements of economic management, revenue-raising and the containment of inflation. [More…]

• My question arises out of” a very deep concern over the past weekend of a resident of Devonport about the welfare of members of his family in Beirut. [More…]

• I ask the Minister: In view of the apparent success of the latest moves to bring about a cessation of fighting in Beirut, can he provide any additional information concerning the welfare of Australian citizens in Lebanon? [More…]

• I would have thought that the encouragement at the outset of the greatest level of profit by any business concern, so that the people of Australia shared in at least 65 per cent of the profit margin calculated at the end of the year, was one of the most wonderful things that we could do and indeed was one of the underpinning factors of our renewed social welfare system. [More…]

• We do not make any apology for the fact that, in a period when there is obviously excess money in the community, tax money should be collected for the purpose of redressing the deficiencies in the areas of education, sewerage, roads, the National Estate and so on, in respect of all of which I need make no more than a passing reference, and of providing the essential welfare program which has been a characteristic of this Government ‘s policy during its term of office. [More…]

• When one reads through a lot more of the speeches of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Fraser) one finds running through them a desire to minimise Government, involvement in welfare and public sector activity and a desire that people should be able to do what they want to do with their own money. [More…]

• I challenge the Opposition to the view that the Australian people do not want Australian Government funding to go in larger sums to the State and local governments but they do want larger sums of Commonwealth funding to go to the areas of education and public works in the total sense as well as to the improvement of the welfare programs. [More…]

• Those announcements were that the Cities Commission would be abolished, that the Social Welfare Commission would be abolished, and that the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation would have transferred from it to the Department of Minerals and Energy the minerals research laboratories and the solar energy research unit. [More…]

• The Cities Commission has produced a number of papers, and it is interesting to note that it has not been critical of the Government in the same way perhaps as the other independent Commission referred to in the Press release of 10 June- the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]

• It is interesting to note, however, that both of these Commissions have been set down for disestablishmentthe Cities Commission apparently because its job has finished and the Social Welfare Commission because it dared to be critical of the Labor Government and, of course, because the Social Welfare Commission did a truly surgical job on the Government’s half baked proposals contained in the National Compensation Bill. [More…]

• It is interesting to look at the question of regionalism and the 2 streams of activity which have come to bear on it- one stream from the Department of Urban and Regional Development and the other stream from the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]

• The Social Welfare Commission, as you know, Mr President, has set up the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]

• It is interesting that, when in the examination of the Estimates I tried to raise with the Minister for Social Security (Senator Wheeldon), under whose authority the Social Welfare Commission works, the fact that letters had been written to the AAP groups and that letters had come from the Department of Urban and Regional Development, no answer was forthcoming; no comment would be made. [More…]

• Social Welfare; [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that a large number of well-intentioned people interested in welfare services who have been involved in an honorary capacity for the Australian Assistance Plan are concerned at the absence of any clear guide from the Government as to the future of the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]

• He understood the West better than anyone else in China and knew that co-existence with nations of various political persuasions was essential in the interest of peace and human welfare. [More…]

• A departmental ombudsman, welfare officers or [More…]

• The lessons of the past must be the basis of our future legislation for the welfare of the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• But the thing that underlies, and must underlie, all welfare programs is the continuation of sound economic policy. [More…]

• Sound economic policy must precede improvements in welfare. [More…]

• Without that sound economic policy the possibility of increasing welfare provision to those who need it and those who deserve it is simply not a proposition which a government can entertain. [More…]

• We know that prior to the 1974 election the then Opposition, in concert with the people who backed it- the great vested interests in Australia and the Press monopolies- had set out to destroy the Labor Government because the Labor Government was catching up on the need to make great welfare reforms in particular, to change the face of Australia and to give Australia a new image in the world. [More…]

• This is the Government ‘s new welfare scheme. [More…]

• This is the new welfare idea. [More…]

• We will be responsible also for providing general supportive and welfare services to the refugees once they have arrived in Australia.The migrant services section of my Department will liaise with the Department of Immigration and EthnicAffairs indeed with all other departments such as the Department of Education, the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development- to enable any difficulties to be overcome with regard to the refugees on their arrival in this country. [More…]

• When the Government abolishes the Social Welfare Commission, who will perform the functions it currently performs? [More…]

• The Social Welfare Commission will be in existence until the relevant Act is repealed in the Parliament. [More…]

• The other part of the question, which relates to who will perform the functions of the Social Welfare Commission, can best be answered by saying that at present there are adminstrative reviews taking place with regard to all aspects of government administration. [More…]

• One relates to social welfare and income security. [More…]

• I read with that statement the opening part of the social welfare policy of the joint parties at the recent election: [More…]

• In this relation I wonder a little at the announced decision that the Social Welfare Commission is to be abolished. [More…]

• The Senate Committee had considered evidence given by Mrs Marie Coleman on behalf of the Social Welfare Commission and concluded: [More…]

• The concern of the Social Welfare Commission, which was expressed in the first report of its Interim Committee, that the development of an integrated policy in the field of social welfare is of vital national importance’, is understandable, especially in the light of the statutory functions of the Commission. [More…]

• I think it is correct to say that the Senate Committee, which was a Committee comprised of members from both sides of the Parliament, was greatly impressed with her insight, with the various proposals and with the view of an overall common feature to the social welfare question rather than the many different schemes that have prevailed for some time. [More…]

• Much play is made of the necessity to ensure that social welfare benefits go to those who are in need of them. [More…]

• What are the first things the government has done to ensure that any of the social welfare benefits in this community go to those who really need them? [More…]

• I have in my hands at present a report that has been prepared for me on the Australian Assistance Plan by the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]

• With regard to the future of the Plan I can say at this stage only that following the release of the Social Welfare Commission’s report and the conference which is planned to be held in May of this year there will be an opportunity for discussion and evaluation of the operation of the Plan during the past 3 years. [More…]

• Of course, as one who has an interest in welfare I can understand that it is against this background that the Government has had to try to develop a program where it can meet the desires and aspirations of those Australians who are in need. [More…]

• I was grateful to see the commitments which the Government has made in the welfare area which were outlined in the Governor-General’s Speech last week. [More…]

• Those commitments are that there will be an increase in social services pensions and benefits each 6 months in accordance with movements in the consumer price index; that the Government will carry on with the review of the income security system as a whole, a very important initiative; that, among other things, it will examine the effectiveness of guaranteed minimum income proposals; that it will look at the possibilities of expanding the area of choice in services available to the disadvantaged; that it will support once again the voluntary welfare organisations which have been so badly damaged, and many of which went out of existence under the Labor Government; that financial assistance to the voluntary agencies will continue; and most importantly, that it will assist by making public service resources available to some of the voluntary agencies so that they can tap into the expertise of the public sector and make use of it instead of being shut out, as they have been up to now. [More…]

• He and I have discussed the reports on rural poverty and we are both concerned about the raw deal which those in non-metropolitan Australia get, many of them because they are farmers, when it comes to having access to the welfare system. [More…]

• Welfare assistance is referred to in the Speech and is of extreme importance to any government and to any political party. [More…]

• A lot of the welfare programs that were introduced by the Australian Labor Government had only just got off the ground at the proroguing of the Parliament. [More…]

• It is all very well for the Opposition, as it has done in the past, to go about its program of social welfare while denigrating, in effect, the private sector. [More…]

• Has the Department of Social Security or the Social Welfare Commission studied any proposals for amalgamation of regional councils for social development with larger regional boundaries? [More…]

• In it he seeks to justify his election victory and to turn back the clock as far as Australia’s social welfare program is concerned. [More…]

• It will be the endeavour of the Government to restore incentives to the individual and to encourage him to use his own initiative for his economic welfare without losing sight, of course, of the necessity to support the poor, the underprivileged, the disadvantaged and those people in the community who are unable to help themselves. [More…]

• I have dwelt at some length on the current problems of the fruit industry because of their serious nature and the large number of people whose economic welfare and future are involved. [More…]

• I acknowledge, of course, the need for the Government to provide the economic support to the family unit by way of child endowment, child minding centres and various other aspects of social welfare programs to buttress the economic welfare of the family unit. [More…]

• In 20 years in government in Victoria the Liberal Party has not delivered in respect of all sorts of services which are basic to members of the community and to the welfare of the society in which they live. [More…]

• But honourable senators may agree that improvements in education, training, legal aid services, welfare services and child-care, benefit the whole of society and not just women. [More…]

• Government spending is all right for the purposes of destruction, provided it is not used for welfare or constructive purposes. [More…]

• Some, of course, argue that bounty payments of this nature can be justified on welfare grounds. [More…]

• It is true that significant sectors of agriculture had been through a 12 to IS months period of very low prices and there are some welfare problems, grossly overstated though they may often be. [More…]

• I am sure that those honourable senators will make a worthwhile contribution to the debates in this chamber and for the welfare of the people they represent in their respective States. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Repatriation: How does the Minister for Repatriation or his Government reconcile his statement of 4 February 1976, namely, ‘the Government remains committed to preserving the welfare of veterans and their dependants ‘, with the announced decision on the same date to deprive the same veterans and dependants of $3. [More…]

• In the end, the financial welfare of the patient is often their own welfare. [More…]

• It is unfortunate that in this review the welfare area has had to be considered at all. [More…]

• Perhaps it is difficult in the social welfare or health areas that such measures have to be considered and taken. [More…]

• A number of people in the community are becoming confused because of what is happening in the social welfare field in Australia. [More…]

• We are opposing them because we think this action at this time is inappropriate and is inconsistent with the Government’s stated policy, that policy being that social welfare benefits of this type should go to people in need. [More…]

• It is to go into a welfare fund. [More…]

• It was said in some areas that a Federal pension could make many young women permanently dependent on welfare. [More…]

• As some confusion exists over the publicity given to the expression of ages in matters of social welfare will the Minister please explain the position? [More…]

• Social Welfare; [More…]

• The committees that Senator Withers has suggested should be established are the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee, the Education and the Arts Committee, the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, the Social Welfare Committee, the Trade and Commerce Committee, the National Resources Committee and the Science and the Environment Committee. [More…]

• Those 2 committees were the Committee on Health and Welfare, which I believe was presided over by the late Senator Dame Ivy Wedgwood, and the [More…]

• Social Welfare; [More…]

• The Government’s stated intention of continuing financial assistance to voluntary welfare organisations will be welcomed by the Young Men’s Christian Association, the Young Women’s Christian Association, the Northern Territory Council for Social Services and other agencies at present operating in the Territory. [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 sincerely trust that Divine Providence intervenes to protect the welfare of the people of Australia because that is about as much as they can rely on with respect to the present Government. [More…]

• Let me say in passing that the opportunity will be afforded to me and my colleagues to debate the issues which will emerge, such as social welfare and repatriation matters and the like, as they are brought forward in legislative form. [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 on that Committee. [More…]

• -( Victoria-Minister for Social Security)- Pursuant to section 16 of the Social Welfare Commission Act 1973, I present the report of the Social Welfare Commission on the Australian Assistance Plan. [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…]

• It is intended that the internal treasury bill holdings of the National Welfare Fund Trust Account be redeemed. [More…]

• Again, we know that we are prone to disasters from time to time and we can therefore consider the value of the general aviation industry in assisting the welfare of the victims of floods, earthquakes and, of course, cyclones. [More…]

• The other system was the Aboriginal Education Branch of the Welfare Division of the Department of the Interior. [More…]

• There is to be a transfer of $470m from the National Welfare Fund and a transfer of up to $700m- a defined amount of money- to the Loan Fund for defence purposes. [More…]

• These 2 Bills provide for a transfer of $470m from the National Welfare Fund to the Consolidated Revenue Fund; or I should say that the Minister’s second reading speech informed us that that mechanism will be used, although the Bills do not specifically provide for it in legislative form. [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…]

• In relation to reporting on the National Welfare Trust Fund for the year ending 30 June 1975, the Auditor-General had this to say: [More…]

• The National Welfare Fund was established by the National Welfare Fund Act 1943 - [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 - [More…]

• This is the punch line- in relation to health, social services and other welfare services. [More…]

• I ask the Minister how the closing off of the Welfare Fund as suggested by the Government serves the legal purposes of the Fund which are supposed to relate to health, social services and other welfare services? [More…]

• I sincerely hope that in transferring funds from the National Welfare Fund to the Consolidated Revenue Fund the Government will not take the opportunity to give some false idea of what the deficit would actually be. [More…]

• I could, of course, be very critical, as some of my colleagues have already been, of the present Government in a great number of areas, particularly those in relation to the welfare of the disadvantaged. [More…]

• To me a country which balances its books in their entirety and has no deficit is one which has no concern for the welfare of the people of that country. [More…]

• Another legacy from the Whitlam Government is the accumulation of valuable data relating to social policy, and I refer here to reports of the Commission of Inquiry into Poverty, the Social Welfare Commission and various research projects funded under the Schools Commission. [More…]

• Further, the transfer of unrequired balances of the National Welfare Trust Fund to the Consolidated Revenue Fund will supplement the receipts of that fund and hence will reduce the prospective deficit in that Fund by some $470m. [More…]

• Senator McAuliffe voiced some concern also about the National Welfare Fund and suggested that our proposal to transfer the unrequired balance of the National Welfare Fund to the Consolidated Revenue Fund might be open to criticism in that the transfer of the balance would not serve the legal purpose of the Fund. [More…]

• To amplify this statement, in 1952 an amendment to the National Welfare Fund Act provided a standing appropriation for the automatic replenishment of the National Welfare Fund from the Consolidated Revenue Fund in respect of all moneys paid from the National Welfare Fund. [More…]

• In effect, a clear break was made with the past and a system was introduced whereby all social security payments are met from the Consolidated Revenue Fund, even though moneys are still channelled through the National Welfare Fund Trust Account. [More…]

• Given the standing appropriation provision for automatic replenishment of all moneys paid to the National Welfare Fund for social security, the balances in the National Welfare Fund cannot be used directly to finance social security payments. [More…]

• In these circumstances there is no need for any working balance in the National Welfare Fund and the balances are truly not required for the purposes of that fund. [More…]

• What we are proposing is therefore clearly within the intention of section 62a of the Audit Act under the provisions of which the National Welfare Fund Trust Account was established. [More…]

• What in fact is being done is a transfer of the book balances of $470m in the National Welfare Fund from that account, where they can now not be utilised for the purpose of financing social security benefits, into the CRF, from which security payments have in the final analysis been financed since 1952. [More…]

• Expenditure from the CRF that is channelled through the National Welfare Fund was estimated in the 1975-76 Budget alone to total more than $4,393m. [More…]

• Later in the Governor-General’s Speech we find Mr Fraser saying that the Government will place great emphasis on directing welfare assistance to those in real need. [More…]

• Despite a huge Budget deficit he can’t smash up Whitlam ‘s main welfare programs, such as Medibank, partly because he committed himself to maintain them during the election, but mainly because expenditure is already allocated for a year ahead. [More…]

• I made representations to the Treasurer in respect of many of the functions of officers of my Department, whether they be field officers, social workers or welfare workers. [More…]

• Welfare and educational policies for example are surely directed towards this end. [More…]

• There is no suggestion whatsoever that the Government is taking any action with respect to the second recommendation in relation to special welfare loans for producers who have been assessed as being non-viable. [More…]

• To some extent there is a welfare problem in the beef industry. [More…]

• I think we should be careful in our social welfare area of things like unemployment benefits and the conditions under which they are granted. [More…]

• I think the welfare of our families should be an overriding consideration. [More…]

• It was my profession before I came to this place and I have had an abiding interest in its welfare ever since. [More…]

• That plan brought into action in the local communities those members who were interested in the welfare of their local areas and those interested in the development of systems and services which would be of benefit to their community. [More…]

• In fact, it indicated a sympathetic understanding of his desire to take her to the hospital for medical treatment long before she was prepared to go, of his preparing a meal for her and looking after her welfare. [More…]

• The new Government has since created a separate Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs as a single focal point through which matters of interest to migrants can have prompt and effective attention and to assist the many migrant welfare organisations. [More…]

• Consistent with this initiative the Government has also decided to amalgamate the various Federal advisory bodies in the migrant welfare field into a single body. [More…]

• I am aware of your personal interest in the welfare of migrants and I should like to express my appreciation of the constructive association you have had with the former Immigration Advisory Council as its Chairman. [More…]

• -The honourable senator shows her concern to advance the welfare and prospects of her own State to a very advanced degree. [More…]

• In effect all this Bill is doing is providing for a welfare payment to perhaps 2500 fruit growers in Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales. [More…]

• I have no doubt that the growers concerned would be somewhat indignant at the use of the term ‘welfare payment’ because they would not see it in that light. [More…]

• But if they were to stand off from their industry for a little while and rationalise it I think that they also would agree, when the chips are finally down, that it can be seen as only a welfare payment. [More…]

• This Bill does not provide for welfare payments, as Senator Primmer put it; it provides for loans to be made to the States of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia to enable them to help the canneries in those States overcome their temporary difficulties by making money available to them at an interest rate of 10 per cent. [More…]

• I do not think that the fruit growers expect handouts or welfare payments. [More…]

• He implies that because I suggested that the Chifley Government was responsible for soldier settlement I was not interested in the welfare of ex-servicemen in the Riverlands. [More…]

• For my family’s welfarefor the welfare of my wife and my young son- it was necessary for me to take the unemployment benefit. [More…]

• I can now advise that the Premier has indicated to the solicitors of the consortium who have assumed negotiations with regard to the development of the bauxite deposits embracing the Aurukun Reserve, that the Government requires the negotiation of a firm agreement by representatives of the companies with representatives of the Aurukun Aborigines and the Presbyterian Church of Queensland regarding the payment by the companies, in addition to royalties, of an amount to be credited to the Aborigines Welfare Fund. [More…]

• I present, pursuant to section 16(2) of the Social Welfare Commission Act 1973, a progress report by the Social Welfare Commission on social welfare manpower. [More…]

• The purpose of the States Grants (Housing Assistance) Bill is to authorise the Treasurer ( Mr Lynch) to advance to the States this financial year the sum of $364.6 million 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 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 will be deemed to be made under that Act. [More…]

• If we look at all these revolution in historical perspective, we can see the Hegelian dialectic in operation: The first revolution bringing about the minimal state, the second revolution bringing about the total state and in the synthesis between the two one can see the welfare state of Great Britain coming about. [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…]

• Does it mean that this present Government plans to reduce considerably social welfare payments, payments to the States, payments for construction of capital works, or does it mean something else? [More…]

• However, I think it would be acknowledged by everybody associated with the building industry and everyone associated with social welfare that the point was finally reached in 1 972 when the figures that I have been able to obtain showed that there were more people waiting for public sector housing than ever before in Australia’s history. [More…]

• One has only to refer to the various poverty reports from social welfare agencies to see that an increasing number of people find themselves unable to provide the resources for their accommodation. [More…]

• Our policies on welfare housing were just one part of our overall strategy to improve the quality of life in Australia. [More…]

• The agreement for which this Bill is appropriating funds is inter-related with the policies we introduced in the whole area of transport, urban and regional development, education, social welfare and many other fields. [More…]

• No special funding arrangements existed under the McMahon Government for the provision of welfare housing in the States, although the normal allocations by the States for welfare housing from the States’ loans programs were assisted by the payment of grants under the States Grants Housing Act of 1971. [More…]

• No special programs existed to improve the standard of education or the standard of welfare services. [More…]

• Apart from doing these things which were welcomed and appreciated by the electorate, the Labor Government recognised that if we were to increase the resources used for the provision of welfare housing, the Agreement should stipulate I quote from the Agreement- that ‘to the maximum extent reasonably practicable, dwellings built by housing authorities are to be intermingled with private dwellings and housing authorities will acquire some blocks to be developed privately’. [More…]

• The social welfare reports published over the last ten or fifteen years have drawn attention to the need for public housing tq have the principle of a social mix integrated : with housing programs, and have shown that we wanted no more of the segregation that was” sp much part of the incorrect policies pursued in the 1950s and 1960s. [More…]

• The Minister stated that the Labor Government had been forced to curtail expansion of welfare housing in this country because expansion in this area had been too extravagant- At the time the Hayden Budget was being prepared the pressure was on for cutbacks in public spending but the State governments, particularly the Queensland Government and the New South Wales Government, ignoring the philosophical expressions coming from the new Leader of the Liberal Party, Mr Malcolm Fraser, set out in anticipation of an expanded housing program for 1 975- 1 976. [More…]

• So the Minister’s view that a cutback in real terms in welfare housing is not important gives the impression that the previous Government was not concerned with public housing. [More…]

• Rather than attempting to denigrate our efforts in the field of welfare housing- most Government speakers in the other place did so- the present Government should be trying to emulate our feats, our successes and our achievements in the housing field in the period 1972-1975. [More…]

• If we examine Labor’s record we find that the McMahon Government allocated only $ 164.2m for welfare housing in 1972-73. [More…]

• In 1973-74, the first year of operation of the current Housing Agreement, an amount of $2 19m was advanced to the States for welfare housing purposes. [More…]

• Clearly these are areas which will require the sympathetic consideration of the Minister against those within the Government who want to change the whole philosophical approach to a point of disaster in public housing if, in their frantic haste to cut back Commonwealth spending, they see the need to do so in the welfare areas which are the responsibility of the Australian Government. [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 $ 1 69.8m in 1972-73 to $2 1 8.7m in 1973-74. [More…]

• The funds made available for welfare housing escalated even further in 1 974-75. [More…]

• So over the last 2 financial years, an average of $375m 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…]

• They were to honour the provisions of the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement which was entered into in 1973 and to ensure that for this financial year a sum of $364m was made available by the Commonwealth to the States for the purpose of what is broadly called welfare housing. [More…]

• He said that they were the people whom the present Government was endeavouring to ensure had accommodation through the Government’s welfare housing proposals. [More…]

• I am willing to consider as favourably as one can the approach that it is for each State to determine how it wishes to apply for general welfare purposes the money which is applicable to it. [More…]

• In view of the number of applicants for rental homes- the applicants generally come from the impoverished sections of our community and from those who cannot afford home ownership- welfare housing needs were stipulated. [More…]

• That was the philosophy of welfare that we adopted and which is now condemned. [More…]

• The efforts of the Labor Government in regard to rental housing and welfare housing were obviously insufficient if the figures are correct. [More…]

• It is suggested by Senator Rae that we worsen the position by ensuring that 50 per cent of money made available should go into the purchase of houses thus increasing the number of applicants for welfare housing throughout the States. [More…]

• financial risk that they present to lenders is greater than normal- for rental homes and welfare housing to be made available to those who desire such housing. [More…]

• I am prepared to say that because of my parliamentary and community duties it is necessary for me to employ a housekeeper for the welfare of my son and my family but that the Commissioner of Taxation has seen fit not to allow me a $364 deduction in respect of that housekeeper. [More…]

• My male colleagues who do no more, and sometimes do a darned sight less than I, in general have an unpaid housekeeper for whom they claim not only the $364 deduction but also any additional expenses involved in the health and welfare of their spouse. [More…]

• All governments- State governments, local governments and in particular the Federal Governmenthave a responsibility to the people of Australia to ensure that their welfare is looked after. [More…]

• I was moved to mention this in the Senate tonight after reading a report in the Brisbane Telegraph of Monday last in which it was mentioned that the Federal Government was planning changes in the administration of social service programs to eliminate all types of welfare bludgers. [More…]

• We have not only ‘dole bludger’ but also now ‘welfare bludger’. [More…]

• Will restrictions on the use of consultants and reductions in overtime and travel for public servants be likely to adversely affect the administration of welfare services in Australia; if so, will the Minister provide the Senate with specific details of how these staffing reductions are likely to affect the management of the Department of Social Security and the services administered by that Department. [More…]

• This reduction will not adversely affect welfare services. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Social Security, refers to the statements made by the Prime Minister in his speech to the Victorian Council of the Liberal Party at the weekend when he said ‘Some of Labor’s social welfare schemes will have to be cut because we cannot afford them’ and ‘cuts will be tough for the Government but not for the people’. [More…]

• When will a comprehensive statement be made on the Government’s social welfare plans, particularly for those areas in which it is intended to cut expenditure? [More…]

• Such a statement needs to be made in order to relieve the uncertainty of organisations and individuals working in the welfare field. [More…]

• The Senate would be aware that at present the Income Security Review Committee, which is representative of several departments, is undertaking a review of all social welfare programs and all matters related to the security of Australians. [More…]

• It will be recognised that the Prime Minister and others in the Government have said at all times that essential welfare expenditure will be maintained. [More…]

• This was handled basically by the Social Welfare Division of the Department of the Interior. [More…]

• For example, the Department of the Northern Territory indicated that it would like some welfare officers trained. [More…]

• It threw this matter to the Community College for it to organise a welfare officer course for the Department. [More…]

• So, this was arranged and organised and the College had graduates in the first and second years of the welfare officer course. [More…]

• The letters were sent to Aboriginal organisations throughout Australia, including Aboriginal communities (previously known as ‘missions’ and ‘settlements’), Aboriginal companies and co-operatives, Aboriginal Land Councils and State Lands Trusts, Aboriginal welfare organisations (including Legal and Medical Services). [More…]

• Is it a fact that some migrants, after becoming Australian citizens and qualifying for age pension benefits, return to their country of origin and are subsequently paid these welfare benefits for the rest of their lives? [More…]

• It has also been suggested that children of these people are deliberately bringing them out to Australia so that after a very short period they can return to their own countries and thereafter be paid Australian welfare benefits. [More…]

• Each country has a responsibility to contribute to the world situation, and each country has to be concerned with trading relations between it and other countries, as much as it is concerned with the welfare and the wellbeing of the people of its own country. [More…]

• Senator Wood will recall and the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Withers, will recall as a member of the delegation, that Senator Davidson, Senator Cavanagh and one or two others of us paid a visit to Norfolk Island at the request of the people of Norfolk Island who felt that the legislative process had passed them by and that nobody had any regard, care or concern for their welfare. [More…]

• We felt that we should pay special regard to any matters affecting the welfare of Norfolk Island that came before us and henceforth that will be the attitude adopted by the Committee. [More…]

• It is non-partisan, non-political work and their devotion to the true objective in education, which is the welfare of the student, is well known. [More…]

• In directing my question to the Minister for Social Security, I refer to her recent announcement that a departmental working party had been set up to review the aged persons welfare program. [More…]

• I remind the Minister of her re-affirmation, by way of a Press release on 2 April, that $500,000 was allocated for grants in 1975-76 under the special assistance scheme of grants to welfare organisationsknown in the trade, I might add, as the departmental slush fund. [More…]

• Is she able to give an assurance that the available money will not remain unspent at a time when voluntary welfare organisations are in real trouble? [More…]

• Many people in the social welfare area, particularly those who are members of the Australian Council for Social Service, have drawn attention to the unfairness of categorising people in such a way. [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…]

• The Government has been running away from the welfare argument. [More…]

• It tends to deny that there is a welfare intention underpinning this Bill. [More…]

• It is not surprising that the Government should run away from any attempt to justify this measure on welfare grounds. [More…]

• Under the States Grants (Home Care) Act 1969-1973 the Government promised to pay a large proportion of the cost of a senior citizens centre at St Marys, New South Wales, as well as paying two-thirds of the salary of a welfare officer employed in conjunction with such a centre. [More…]

• Is it not a fact that there is a serious shortage of social workers with qualifications or backgrounds suitable for work with ethnic welfare agencies? [More…]

• Has the Government received suggestions and submissions from ethnic welfare agencies to overcome the problem? [More…]

• It is claimed in general that there is a shortage of social workers not only amongst ethnic communities but also for the general social welfare work which needs to be undertaken. [More…]

• I cannot answer specifically with regard to representations from ethnic welfare agencies with specific requests. [More…]

• But I am aware of the shortage and I am aware also of the shortage of numbers in training for social welfare work which we would like to see undertaken. [More…]

• Under the Act no provision was made for the welfare of the inhabitants of the Island during the period of the rock phosphate mining. [More…]

• If we are to bring in names of individuals I suppose that we should do the same with people receiving social welfare benefits or any kind of subsidy or tariff assistance. [More…]

• While congratulating the Minister for the announcement on 6 April about 6 grants for social welfare, I draw to her attention the fact that the Australian of yesterday’s date indicated that the grants would be administered by the Department of Social Security because ‘the Social Welfare Commission had been abolished’. [More…]

• I ask the Minister whether the Social Welfare Commission has been abolished or whether the Government has made any commitment to abolish this body. [More…]

• The announcement of the grants was related to the fact that they had been negotiated and approved by the Social Welfare Commission last year. [More…]

• The fact that there was some mention that these services would be administered through my Department following the abolition of the Social Welfare Commission relates to the fact that the Government had announced already that it intended to abolish the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]

• But the references in the Press to these grants did point to the fact that when the abolition of the Social Welfare Commission occurs these services will be administered by my Department. [More…]

• All outstanding commitments of the Social Welfare Commission will be upheld and there are 26 other projects for which grants have been approved. [More…]

• Four fellowships in Social Welfare have been granted to: [More…]

• Mr R. Brown, regional social planner with the Fitzroy Interim Regional Council for Social Development, Rockhampton, for ‘Welfare Services and Delivery Structures in Remote Areas of Queensland,’ ($ 14,850). [More…]

• Professor Geismar, who is director of the Social Work Research Centre of Rutgers University, New Jersey, U.S.A., is to research ‘The Structure of the Australian Family and the Roles Individuals may take within it’, and ‘The Social Functioning of the Australian family- particular welfare aspects. ‘ [More…]

• Is the Minister further aware that the Family Law Act amendment she has suggested is considered by many professional welfare workers to be inhumane? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Mininster for Social Security who has referred on several occasions to an income security review being conducted at the present time to cover a broad area of concern in the welfare field. [More…]

• Our social welfare policy seeks to enhance the security, dignity, self-reliance and well-being of Australians. [More…]

• That, notwithstanding anything contained in the Standing Orders, there be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare the substance of proposed clauses 7 and 1 1 of the Social Services Amendment Bill 1976. relating to the proposed abolition of funeral benefits. [More…]

• When considered in relation to a warm, human approach to the welfare of people, the amount that the benefit costs this country each year is really infinitesimal. [More…]

• I remind the Senate that when we came into Government the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) said that we would maintain essential programs in health, education, welfare and matters of this kind. [More…]

• Commission of Inquiry into Poverty conducted under the chairmanship of Professor Henderson makes it very clear in its report that there is a direct link between the problems that arise in social welfare and the problems of inflation. [More…]

• We are dealing with one area of social welfare cuts that the Government has proposed. [More…]

• Both Bills, particularly the Social Services Amendment Bill, repudiate the promises made to pensioners and to pensioner organisations in the course of the election campaign of November-December last that the value of social welfare benefits in this country would not be reduced if a Liberal-National Country Party government was elected. [More…]

• These Bills are just part of the whole attack, we believe, on the social welfare system of this country. [More…]

• Other benefits had been introduced to make a start on bridging gaps in our social welfare program. [More…]

• They had firm and repeated promises that there would be no reduction in the value of welfare benefits. [More…]

• We believe that only by insisting on an amendment to index these benefits can we guarantee that the Government will do justice to the pensioners in view of the already abysmal record of this Government and the abysmal record of the previous Liberal-Country Party Government in the social welfare field. [More…]

• I point out that this is a further $1.7m cut in welfare spending. [More…]

• It should not be necessary to leave a hiatus of need in the social welfare system while some new scheme is being investigated or while some new scheme is being brought up. [More…]

• As honourable senators know, we give to people in need 2 kinds of services: We give cash through the cash transfer system and we support the provision of services through other welfare agencies. [More…]

• All these facts expose the Government for what it really is in social welfare matters. [More…]

• I think one of the greatest reproaches which can be made of this Government is that by its welfare policy so far it has brought us within measurable distance of this unfortunate state of affairs. [More…]

• What were the numbers and classifications of the Department’s staff designated or performing duties of a migrant welfare nature in each State. [More…]

• In February 1975 all positions provided for post arrival migrant welfare activities were abolished and functional responsibility given to the Department of Social Security. [More…]

• 1 ) and (2) As I announced on 8 March, my Department and I are conducting consultations with State Governments, private insurers, unions, employers, motorists’ and welfare organisations and the legal and medical professions in relation to the development of options for a national compensation program for Australia. [More…]

• Activities undertaken by the Department of the Northern Territory are related to an integrated social welfare service including probation, family and community welfare and child care institutions controlled within the Social Development Branch. [More…]

• Has the Minister seen an article in the Brisbane Sunday Sun of 2% March 1976, which claims that pensioners will now find it harder to cash social welfare cheques, because of the introduction of new anti-fraud regulations by the Commonwealth Bank. [More…]

• 1 ) The Australian Assistance Plan is a vital welfare programme because it is one of the few attempts by the Australian Government to foster local participation in community affairs. [More…]

• The Australian Assistance Plan has been able to provide support to many local organisations whose needs were able to be well documented, but who would otherwise have been unable to gain access to funds for welfare projects. [More…]

• Does she intend to ask the representatives of the various voluntary welfare agencies who took such a great interest in previous attempts to introduce a compensation scheme to contribute to her deliberations? [More…]

• Voluntary welfare agencies are bodies with which consultation will be held. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Social Security aware of a statement made by the Prime Minister, Mr Malcolm Fraser, in his electoral talk on 18 April 1976 in which he characterised many social welfare programs as being socially irresponsible? [More…]

• What will be evident when we are preparing this year’s Budget will be an application of the philosophy of the Liberal and National Country parties; that is, that the social welfare programs are directed towards those people in the greatest need. [More…]

• Outside the Parliament the political party to which the Minister belongs has paid tribute to the work of voluntary agencies in the field of welfare and has said that the Government will assist these agencies in their work. [More…]

• They are noteworthy organisations: The Australian Council of Social Services, which works with the general range of welfare associations; others, such as an ecumenical centre which works essentially with migrants; and others which have needs of voluntary associations in the work that they do in the community. [More…]

• The fact that the assistance was not introduced in the Social Services Amendment Bill which came forward last night does not indicate that no funds will be available for social welfare assistance. [More…]

• I will read from that document, because Senator Wriedt said that it proves that the Government will abdicate its responsibilities on education, health and social welfare and that it will not take the responsibility any more; it will give it to the States. [More…]

• 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 . [More…]

• Our concern for education, our concern for social welfare, our concern for health will be as strong as or stronger than ever, but will not bring about the duplication, the waste, the extravagance, the standover tactics of the Labor Party; we will not ourselves tie up the States and local government in bureaucratic trivia; we will work out a co-partnership which will be more efficient, more economic, which will save the taxpayer’s money, which will define the responsibilities of Federal, State and local government, which will show the taxpayers where their money is going and which, because of the responsibility of government, will bring about more efficiency and less taxation.’ [More…]

• Senator Baume, who knows Sydney pretty well, understands as I do that one of the greatest bugbears in relation to the Child Welfare Department in New South Wales concerns complaints from people about the lack of uniformity among the States with respect to adoption laws. [More…]

• I believe that under the Fraser Government’s federalism policy the States will now be obliged to assume responsibility for the administration of many programs in the areas of health, education, welfare, transport and urban and regional development, without being provided with the financial capacity to fund these programs. [More…]

• Indeed, the Bland committee of inquiry is expected to recommend reductions in financial commitments of the order of $ 1 ,000m in the areas which constitute the Australian Government’s social welfare and environmental infrastructure. [More…]

• In conclusion, I believe that the present Government’s approach to Federal affairs has seen the end of national superannuation, insurance and compensation, the winding down of legal aid, the emasculation of welfare programs and in the future could soon mean the end of Medibank. [More…]

• In short, I believe it is a series of retrograde steps which will have the combined effect of making State and local government services poorer for lack of finance, and the citizens of New South Wales liable to a double income tax or a levy or a surcharge merely to keep some essential public welfare programs functioning in the fields where responsibility has been abrogated by Canberra. [More…]

• To suggest that this Government would give a low priority to the education or the general welfare of Aborigines is to fail to understand both our policies and our actions. [More…]

• In social security and welfare we doubled the sums of money that were paid. [More…]

• We did this not only in terms of the amount of money that was made available by way of pensions, whether the recipients of these sums were war pensioners or otherwise, but also in the whole area of welfare generally. [More…]

• Twice as much money was spent on social security and welfare. [More…]

• I believe that this Government will be forced to accommodate the same sort of demand as the previous Government had to accommodate to make up the very serious lag in public works and social welfare which had been a characteristic of both Commonwealth and State funding in the whole of the post-war period. [More…]

• We could then take into account payments made to people who qualify for building grants for hospitals, for example, payments to people associated with State emergency and welfare organisations, payments to hospitals and so on, in addition to the direct grants to which I referred previously. [More…]

• I have been listening to Senator Guilfoyle fairly consistently and she gives me the impression that she is trying to retain as much as she can of the share of Commonwealth revenue for social welfare. [More…]

• If more money is to be made available to the States I want somebody from the government benches to tell me how it is that a dollar spent by State governments in the public sector is more inflationary than a dollar spent by the Australian Government in allocating the money in the way that it has to education, welfare and so on. [More…]

• We sought to bring about a more equitable distribution of resources and a more equitable distribution of welfare payments. [More…]

• Each rural scheme should not be considered in isolation, however, as benefiting or handicapping a particular section of the community; they should be considered as a part of an integrated economic policy- a policy which should seek to achieve the full and effective use of the resources of the community, equitable distribution of wealth, and social welfare in accordance with the aspirations of the community as a whole. [More…]

• I made representations to Mr Baxter, the Minister for Community Welfare in Western Australia, and asked for an inquiry into the whole incident so that we could get to the bottom of .it. [More…]

• The change of government and the attitude exhibited by this Government towards pensioners has caused a great deal of concern and distress to those people who are beneficiaries of welfare programs. [More…]

• Finally, age pensioners, like all other beneficiaries of welfare programs in Australia, resent and are extremely distressed by the smear being cast on them by some sections of the Government. [More…]

• Aided and abetted by the Press we have seen a campaign in this country in the last few months aimed at humiliating and insulting people who are genuine beneficiaries of welfare programs. [More…]

• The pensioners feel the humiliation of these sorts of smears and feel that the attacks made on beneficiaries of welfare programs extend in the minds of some people to pensioners. [More…]

• That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and wellbeing of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]

• -Has the Minister representing the Treasurer seen the headlines in the Tasmanian newspaper Mercury declaring that drastic cuts in health and welfare spending and a reduction in taxation would be part of a mini-Budget considered this weekend at a special meeting of the Cabinet Economic Committee? [More…]

• Will the Minister ascertain why to date only Bagot welfare settlement and Oenpelli mission settlement have been inspected and reported upon by the Fire Board? [More…]

• Has the Minister received complaints from local voluntary welfare agencies concerning a flood of applications for housing assistance? [More…]

• I must say that I have received no complaints from voluntary welfare agencies. [More…]

• People on the extreme left have put views about the situation in East Timor which seem to me to be extraordinarily inflammatory and not directed to the welfare of the East Timorese people. [More…]

• We understand that we may come here screaming about what the Government has done to welfare payments, to defence or to something else. [More…]

• Additionally, I have asked the education and welfare group in the Parliamentary Library to prepare for me some material which would explain the operation of the Schools Commission, the SRR index and its inter-relationship with the level of assistance provided by State governments. [More…]

• In the Legislative Council on that day in 1964 I moved that a sessional committee on integration be appointed to inquire into and from time to time to report and make recommendations concerning the operation and effectiveness of the Social Welfare Ordinance 1964 and related legislation in practice. [More…]

• The first and second reports were brief because of the short time that had elapsed since the social welfare legislation had come into effect and there was little time to gauge the actual workings of the legislation. [More…]

• That this policy as to reserves should remain side by side with the more enlightened policy which is expressed in the Social Welfare legislation is, to say the least of it, incongruous. [More…]

• That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and wellbeing of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]

• The brief that was given to the committee with which I have a close association- the Government Members’ Health and Welfare Committee- was for its members to look at the 2 Acts concerned and to have wide-ranging discussions and consultations with regard to the matters that had arisen through the inconsistencies in the Acts. [More…]

• Will the Minister refer to the Treasurer the question of the destruction of drought affected dairy cattle with a request that the cattle so destroyed be subject to cash payment by the Government, as this would provide both cash at the time of need and some disincentive for the continued over-production, both of which would initially be preferable to social welfare payments. [More…]

• On the evening of 3 January he constituted a court, which sat at 8.30 p.m. Four children were tried and sentenced to 7 days imprisonment, with no opportunity available to have the welfare officer present to hear the charges made against the children. [More…]

• The transference over the years to local government authorities of a greater measure of responsibility for social and welfare functions to serve the Australian community generally was ignored by Australian governments in relation to financial assistance for the added responsibility carried by local government. [More…]

• That the Family Planning Association and similar organizations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and well-being of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]

• Those schemes providing direct payment of wages and salaries and superannuation to individuals have been excluded, but the whole range of social welfare and compensation pensions and payments, and allowances such as in the fields of education and Aboriginal advancement have been included. [More…]

• A wide range of grants-in-aid to health, education and welfare organisations. [More…]

• Is the preparation and publication of research reports an integral and important part of welfare planning and administration. [More…]

• Will this decision to cease funding the publication of research reports have an adverse effect on the quality of debate in this important area of social welfare. [More…]

• That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and wellbeing of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]

• That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and well-being of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]

• Could the Minister institute an investigation that may show the present cost to the producers of selling dairy produce on very low overseas markets which have to be subsidised from the home industry returns on the one hand, against the welfare payments, exit grants and so on on the other hand, and compare those costs with a scheme of ‘payment not to produce’, bearing in mind the easing of personal problems, the lowering of production and the increases in prices to be realised that can be expected to follow such action? [More…]

• There were grants for Department of Main Roads construction, for transport bus routes, for bush fire protection, for welfare and youth work, for social workers, for after-school payments- that is after-school facilities- for vacational play centres, for library facilities, and for Department of Main Roads maintenance. [More…]

• It is most unfortunate for the ratepayers of Northam that, firstly they had active members of the Liberal Party on the town council who were more concerned with pushing the Liberal Party’s political barrow and political nonsense than they were with the welfare of the ratepayers of the town of Northam. [More…]

• It would seem to me that a fair amount of the basic work- certainly the basic outline of the plan- has been done by the commissioner, and that a start could be made in the not too distant future not only for the sake of Launceston but also for the sake of the safety, efficiency and welfare of the Australian maritime industry and especially for the sake of those who sail the sea. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Social Security and refers to the social welfare advisory groups of the Social Welfare Research Centre which I understand the Minister is to establish shortly, more or less to replace the functions of the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]

• Will the reports by any of these groups be made public, as Social Welfare Commission reports are, so that all of us can assess the results of their work? [More…]

• Spending on essential Education, Health and Welfare programmes will be protected against inflation. [More…]

• That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and wellbeing of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]

• That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and well-being of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]

• I draw her attention to the social welfare policy statement issued by the Liberal and Country parties in October 1975 which indicated an acceptance and an endorsement of the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]

• Is this not one of the most radical redistributive welfare programs ever promised for this country? [More…]

• Is it a fact that, in answering a question put to her during her recent appearance on Monday Conference about the role of the Government back benchers’ committee on health and welfare, the Minister replied that consultation with the health and welfare committee is a constant matter? [More…]

• In view of this apparently close relationship between the Minister and the Government back benchers’ committee on health and welfare under Senator Baume from New South Wales, can the Minister explain the statement by the honourable member for Hotham, reported in the Press on 24 May 1976, that the first news he, as a member of this committee, had of the Government’s intention to foist the Australian Assistance Plan on to State governments was the Minister’s Press statement of 21 May 1976 which was issued in Darwin? [More…]

• This is particularly important in the case of the many families in Australia where young children are being reared and where the wife and mother decides that the best role she can play, in relation to the welfare of her family, is to remain at home and not go out into the work force. [More…]

• I cannot believeand I am sure that a proper analysis ofthe economic package will reveal this fact- that transferring, for example, $ 100m which would otherwise be spent by the Australian Government into the pockets of 50 000 different consumers throughout Australia- those same dollars which would have been spent nationally in the social welfare program, the urban program or in the sewerage program, or by transferring those funds to a State for its health scheme- or by putting it into the pockets of 10 000, 20 000 or 50 000 individuals, will have any sort of stimulative effect on our economy. [More…]

• Surely the trade union movement, as has been clearly evidenced, already is sharing with all the other people of the Commonwealth in the greater amount of public funds spent on education, health and welfare and other matters to the detriment of the Budget. [More…]

• That, of course, disrupts and disturbs the initial setting of the various rates of tax which have in them a social and public welfare content. [More…]

• It is quite clear that to build that into the system would really only falsify the total picture and probably would lead to greater consumer price index increases and would be recovered in due course from public welfare payments anyway. [More…]

• The Factory and Industrial Welfare Board is established under the New South Wales Factories, Shops and Industries Act. [More…]

• The Board, inter alia, recommends standards of welfare facilities and general amenities to be provided in establishments covered by that Act. [More…]

• A large number of federal awards contain very limited, if any, reference to welfare and amenities, and employers in New South Wales respondent to such awards would be covered by the Factories, Shops and Industries Act in respect of welfare and amenities matters. [More…]

• However, some federal awards do incorporate the provisions of the relevant State industry amenities and welfare legislation, or provide that amenities should be of an ‘adequate’ of ‘satisfactory’ standard. [More…]

• In these cases, Arbitration Inspectors in New South Wales refer for guidance to the standards recommended by the Factory and Industrial Welfare Board. [More…]

• That the Family Planning Associations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and well-being of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]

• That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and well-being of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]

• That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and well-being of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]

• -Mr President, on behalf of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare I present a report on the outstanding references of the former Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• Spending on essential Education, Health and Welfare programs will be protected against inflation. [More…]

• We know too that, despite the assurances of the Prime Minister, the education, health and welfare programs all have been cut and that all the Labor initiatives which had been developed and which were so progressive have been hamstrung and almost eliminated. [More…]

• As a way of correcting the funds that had been put into all these aspects of social welfare the great idea of Medibank is to be emasculated. [More…]

• We all know that one of the reasons for the long agitation in this place by honourable senators opposite particularly which resulted in 2 elections in the 3 years that we were in office was the claim that we were extravagant in our welfare provisions. [More…]

• Before the general election they said that the future of Medibank would be ensured; there would be an improvement in employment and our education and general welfare policies would be maintained. [More…]

• What the people of Australia are concerned about is the confusion which results from these massive cuts and from the indecision about the welfare programs, particularly about the future of Medibank. [More…]

• One would think that the Labor Party had made no cuts at all in the great welfare programs or had not cut back the specific purpose grants to the States or reduced the spending of the States at all. [More…]

• Unless we can restore the economy, beat inflation and restore employment, no social welfare programs however great, no aid and no support system will have any real relevance because we will not be able to project into the future. [More…]

• Given the state of siege on welfare programs, Education Minister Carrick has clearly won a major battle to hold the line and provide some growth in real terms. [More…]

• Given the state of siege on welfare programs, Education Minister Carrick has clearly won a major battle to hold the line and provide some growth in real terms. [More…]

• Are they opposed to cuts in welfare? [More…]

• Honourable senators opposite say with tears in their eyes: ‘You must not cut welfare expenditure’. [More…]

• It acknowledges by its actions that there have to be significant cuts in welfare programs and that when faced with this it went to specific purpose programs and hacked them to pieces. [More…]

• It is important at this stage to say that it is our philosophy that welfare assistance should be directed to those people whose needs are the greatest and that it should be directed in a way in which we enable people to become more independent and to exercise their own choice and their own responsibility. [More…]

• It represents a major improvement in the Australian social welfare system and it improves the situation of those families who are most in need. [More…]

• We believe it is a major step forward in the Government’s objective of directing welfare payments to families whose needs are the greatest. [More…]

• It is to be reined in on health and on welfare. [More…]

• Not only has this Government attacked matters such as that, but we see an onslaughtdespite undertakings that were given by various shadow Ministers, some of whom became caretaker Ministers, some of whom, but not all, then became real Ministers- on the moneys available for the welfare of the Aboriginal people of Australia and for legal aid. [More…]

• I believed that the level of nonprofitable public spending, that is to say public spending on such things as welfare which do not produce a return, had reached too high a percentage of the gross national product of Australia. [More…]

• They said they were a little puzzled as to how it could be established that welfare in Sweden had produced a high rate of inflation. [More…]

• That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and well being of a great proportion of the Australian people, both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]

• That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and well-being of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]

• There is a major welfare factor in local government responsibility, and local government bodies thoroughly applaud the historic decision to redistribute wealth so that the poor, for whom they have great concern, can be given very great help. [More…]

• You must bear in mind that the safety of the skipper and crew of a fishing boat and the welfare and future of their families depends upon making satisfactory catches and returning to port safely. [More…]

• I address my remarks to the Department of the Capital Territory, divisions 2 10 to 2 1 3 and in particular to division 210, subdivision 3, item 06 which deals with social welfare. [More…]

• Last year $ 1 .5m was spent on this item of social welfare. [More…]

• They came from various parts of this year’s vote for the Northern Territory- local government, general welfare, transport and many other items. [More…]

• The level of assistance is tied directly to the area of trees removed and is only indirectly related to welfare needs through a means test provision. [More…]

• -He advocates for this industry its final destruction and the conversion of orchardists into a welfare retinue for future help by government. [More…]

• That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and well-being of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]

• That there be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare the following matter: Evaluation of the adequacy of Australian health and welfare services with particular reference to- [More…]

• 1 ) standards of performance and provision of health and welfare services; [More…]

• mechanisms for evaluation of the effectiveness and efficiency of health and welfare services; and [More…]

• requirements for ongoing evaluation as an integral part of the development of health and welfare programs. [More…]

• This rail link is vital to the welfare of the people who live in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• We are concerned not only for the carriage of the freight but also for the economy and for the welfare of the employees who work on the north-south line. [More…]

• Through reform of the finance and functions of local government our local government policy seeks to increase the independence and expand the role of local government in health, social welfare and community affairs. [More…]

• Other elements of our policy in respect to urban affairs are contained in our transport and social welfare policies. [More…]

• The cutting back of construction programs in thc 1975-76 Budget compounded with the trimming of subsidies for welfare building, as anti-inflationary measures, can only have one effect on the national economy, unemployed resources.’ [More…]

• That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and wellbeing of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]

• If so, does such a loan carry with it any conditions disallowing expanded social welfare programs and benefits to the Australian community such as have been laid down in the past to dictatorships such as Chile, which received funds from the IMF after the coup which overthrew the elected Allende Government in September 1973? [More…]

• It must be looked at to make sure that any scheme of this type coordinates with other social welfare schemes in the provision of income security and in the prevention of poverty in all sorts of people. [More…]

• The private health funds will act as a vehicle to enable individuals to exercise that noble quality which has been notably lacking in society today, namely, that of personal responsibility for a person ‘s own welfare rather than relying on the State. [More…]

• It has to be considered also that the prime requirement of the Medibank system is welfare, and welfare must go to the places it is needed most. [More…]

• Time and again during the last election campaign the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and other Government spokesmen on welfare gave assurance after assurance, when challenged, that Medibank would remain, that it would not be disturbed and that most certainly it would not be dismantled. [More…]

• However, I am sorry to say that the record of this Government in the 6 months that it has been in office is that it has made more raids and sorties into the welfare of the underprivileged than any other government. [More…]

• There has been much trumpeting and excitement among members of the Government parties in their praise of these measures and their proclamation of them as the greatest advance in social welfare since the industrial revolution. [More…]

• Most members of the Government parties would admit that they are not the be all and end all of welfare services and do not remove the obligation on the Government to look at other measures. [More…]

• He recommended many other things, such as the necessity for infant welfare services and protection services for children. [More…]

• We need a scheme which involves less categorisation in our welfare services. [More…]

• Nevertheless, I suggest that it is only occasionally in the life of any government, and not too frequently in the life of any country, that there is a major revolutionary change in the way in which welfare services are provided. [More…]

• We have in this measure a social welfare concept of major importance and innovation. [More…]

• It is appropriate on such occasions to recognise the advance being instituted and the new possibilities which it creates for welfare in this country. [More…]

• A number of very important reports on welfare services and poverty have been produced in this country. [More…]

• This is the first occasion for some considerable time when families as such have been favoured in welfare matters. [More…]

• I hope that it will continue to direct its social welfare concern towards people in need. [More…]

• I do not believe that a Bill such as this has any substance at all if at the same time other social welfare programs are either discarded or cut to shreds. [More…]

• It is pretending to people that they will actually gain by a single stroke of the pen when what is really happening is that other pens are striking out social welfare programs which would have benefited many more of the people of Australia. [More…]

• I do not accept that the people in the areas that I have covered- and there are many more that I have not mentioned- will feel that they are receiving something from the Government because they have extra cash in their pockets when other social welfare benefits are being taken away from them. [More…]

• In doing so I say that the Liberal-National Country Party Government is once again to the fore in the introduction of major social welfare reform in what can only be termed a sensible and rational way. [More…]

• However, the Bill involves a greater redistribution of social welfare benefits than any previous legislation has attempted. [More…]

• That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and wellbeing of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]

• That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations thoughout Australia contribute to the welfare and well being of a great proportion of the Australian people, both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]

• Community services where persons involved in health and social welfare meet to work together, e.g. [More…]

• health/welfare centres, mental health, rehabilitation, and family planning services. [More…]

• The legal rights of recipients of special welfare assistance. [More…]

• These include aspects of the economic circumstances of the poor, of the role of local government in the provision of welfare services, and of consumer protection. [More…]

• He was asked to investigate social-medical aspects of poverty including the community services where persons involved in health and social welfare meet to work together, for example, health and welfare centres, mental health, rehabilitation and family planning services; the relationship between poverty and major illnesses in the community of a socialmedical nature; and any associated matters relevant to the above and to the general objectives of the inquiry. [More…]

• Our approach in social welfare will be to concentrate support on the disadvantaged, to adopt general policies which will add greatly to the security of the weaker sections of the community. [More…]

• Mr Martin’s report deals with the more important community services at the health and social welfare interface and covers such major issues as community health services, mental health services, disability and poverty, alcoholism and drug dependence, the health of newborn children and infants, family planning, and dental health services. [More…]

• This puts me at a disadvantage to other workers in the community using similar skills, such as teachers, welfare workers, nurses, etc. [More…]

• Yet mothers, whose concern for the welfare of their children is a professional, long-term commitment more deeply felt than that of an employee, have a far greater need for educational and training services to equip them for their job. [More…]

• But even before I had a family I was, both on the Social Welfare Committee of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and on the ACTU Executive itself, in the forefront of the campaign to have child endowment payments raised. [More…]

• Albert Monk was a man who, when asked 6 months before he retired from the presidency of the ACTU what he would like to be done in the social welfare area and what would be his priority, said an increase in child endowment. [More…]

• I pose this question to responsible members of the Government: Does the Government repudiate that moral view of politics as expressed by Mr Bjelke-Petersen or does it intend to comply with that view and introduce a system which will require recipients of age pensions and similar welfare benefits to declare that they are supporters of the free enterprise system and ofthe non-Labor political parties before they receive those benefits? [More…]

• It will try to put the blame on the trade union movement for strikes and election ballots that do not please the Government; ballots in which the wrong officials are elected or officials are elected who place too much importance on conditions and the welfare of the members of the union. [More…]

• It is only the officials of unions who have been elected by some devious means through the rules of their organisations and who do not carry out the objectives of their members and look after the welfare of those members who have anything to hide, who have any need to worry and who need to seek protection from the Conciliation and Arbitration Act to retain their jobs. [More…]

• Health and Welfare. [More…]

• Just as last year when the Whitlam Government in its Budget announced major cutbacks in public welfare programs and education programs, including a $105m cutback in the programs of the 4 education commissions, so when this Government exerts its duty and responsibility to make alterations in its own programs there will be some public comment. [More…]

• This Bill will give effect to the Government’s decision, as announced by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) on 2 February 1 976, 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 1973, 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 communication 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…]

• 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 me and my 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. [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 senators that our proposals will greatly strengthen our links with people and groups active in the welfare field. [More…]

• In addition to my Department’s continuing involvement 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 senators 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…]

• I have given undertakings in the Parliament 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 two additional research projects and four 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 I have 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…]

• I have agreed that the Department of Social Security should undertake work immediately in this area seeking the cooperation 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…]

• Members of 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 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 pensions. [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…]

• Whatever the justification may be for price increases to these dairy farmers- I accept that the justification in the short term is considerable for providing either strictly welfare assistance, clearly delineated as welfare assistance, or finance for reconstruction within the industry, and the reality is that reconstruction also means contraction- the payment should come through the tax system from society as a whole and not from the people who purchase milk in Melbourne and in the other towns of Victoria as Mr Sinclair has proposed. [More…]

• The Reserve Bank of Australia was asked to take the matter up with the Commonwealth Banking Corporation to minimise inconvenience to welfare recipients seeking to cash cheques. [More…]

• Anyone who knew Tom Bull knew the strength of his convictions and his concern for the welfare of his family and, indeed, of all families in our community. [More…]

• During his lifetime he endeavoured to initiate schemes for their welfare. [More…]

• -Mr President, from the interjections that are coming now from members of the Opposition, you can detect their total lack of concern for social welfare. [More…]

• The terms of this recommendation are now receiving priority attention from the Aboriginal Affairs Coordinating 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 ) Did the Minister and the Western Australian Minister for Community Welfare make a study visit to the Kimberley Region of Western Australia to investigate problems facing Aboriginal communities in that region during the period in which Senator the Honourable J. L. Cavanagh was the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs; if so (a) when did the visit take place, what was the itinerary, and who accompanied the two Ministers, (b) did the Australian Government and the Western Australian Government subsequently agree to take any specific policy initiatives to benefit Aboriginal communities in the Kimberleys, including the placing of additional staff in the area; if so, what decisions were taken, and which of them have been put into effect to date. [More…]

• The Ministers were accompanied by Mr A. Ridge, Minister for the North-west, Perth; Mr B. Dexter, Secretary, Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Canberra; Mr F. Gare, Director, Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Perth; Mr K. Maine, Director, Department of Community Welfare, Perth; Dr L. Holman, Director, Community Health Services, Perth; Dr J. Rowe, Assistant Principal Medical Officer, Medical Department, Perth; Dr W. Langsford, First Assistant Director-General, Australian Department of Health, Canberra; Mr K. Jones, Secretary, Department of Education, Canberra; Mr J. Booth, Senior Social Work Supervisor, Kimberley Division, Department of Community Welfare, Perth; Mr M. Hepburn, Social Work Supervisor, Kimberley Division, Department of Community Welfare, Derby; Mr D. Cavanagh, Private Secretary to Minister for Aboriginal Affairs; Mr Z. Kovacs, Journalist, ‘West Australian’, Perth. [More…]

• The West Australian Government placed 23 additional staff in the Kimberleys (Education- 1, Preschool Board- 8, Community Welfare- 14). [More…]

• It should be understood by the honourable senator that the amounts that have been appropriated from the National Welfare Fund for all of the pensions and benefits paid by my Department are based on an estimate. [More…]

• Those problems are of vital social and political importance to the future welfare of this country. [More…]

• It talks about a deficit as though it is some sort of major contribution to the welfare of the people. [More…]

• Indeed, they are scattered right across the nation and their welfare as they work their destiny out in lonely and scattered places surely must be the concern of all of us. [More…]

• That the Family Planning Association and similar organizations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and well-being of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]

• That the decision to remove the grant is a ruthless political one taken without due consideration for the lives and welfare of those citizens dependent upon the care provided at the Lauriston Centre. [More…]

• That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and well-being of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]

• I think it would be agreed that it frequently does go undetected and even when it is identified by health or welfare officers or others it may not be reported to legal or other authorities. [More…]

• Any specific program developed would need to be framed in co-operation with the relevant Commonwealth and, if necessary, State welfare, health and other authorities. [More…]

• Looking at this Budget in the broad and reducing it to the essential simplicity of the position, one will see that the Government set out to reduce Government waste and extravagance which had been a product of the Labor years; to stop money being thrown down the drain; to make money available to reduce personal income tax, as the honourable senator has said; to help in social security and social welfare, and to lead to economic recovery. [More…]

• The Budget is a social security and social welfare Budget designed to revive Australia. [More…]

• But the Government considers this should not deter it from effecting the changes that it believes are essential to the welfare and betterment of the Cocos community. [More…]

• The purposes for which funds are provided under this program are education, research, support of national family planning bodies- the Australian Federation of Family Planning Associations and the Catholic Social Welfare Commission- and for the non-clinical costs of State family planning associations. [More…]

• 3- the Social Welfare Commission (Repeal) Bill 1976. [More…]

• a lease of, or a licence to occupy, the land may be granted to a person, for a purpose related to the advancement of the welfare of the Malay residents of the Territory. [More…]

• The ordinance specifically states that if land is acquired it must be for a purpose related to the advancement of the welfare of the Malay residents of the territory. [More…]

• -The Opposition will not oppose the Social Welfare Commission (Repeal) Bill 1976. [More…]

• The Commission was established in 1973 because it was felt that a need existed for an independent body to evaluate the social welfare systems of this country, to advise the government of the day on the effectiveness and efficiency of its welfare policies, to conduct and commission research and data gathering, and to recommend how new initiatives could be introduced and how the current system of welfare could be better co-ordinated to suit the needs and priorities of this nation- the needs and priorities largely of alleviating and preventing poverty. [More…]

• The Commission, I believe, carried out in its short lifetime an imaginative program of investigation and research, and improved greatly the information available on welfare systems. [More…]

• It also demonstrated the deplorable lack of statistical data in the welfare field. [More…]

• One would hope that the work of the Social Welfare Commission and the work of the Commission of Inquiry into Poverty and other inquiries into various aspects of welfare will enable us and inspire us to take a more thoughtful and rational approach to the provision of welfare. [More…]

• It was an attempt by a government to establish an organisation which could sit back and look at the welfare field with a broad view, to make dispassionate analyses of the problems and suggest alternatives to the present system and within the present system. [More…]

• The processes of government in this country meant that any independence given to the Commission was at best curtailed by the influences of the Public Service- influences such as that of the Public Service Board on staffing, perhaps of the Treasury on finance and of other established departments in the welfare field in general. [More…]

• When I speak of the welfare field I do not mean only the Department of Social Security. [More…]

• This experience was not confined to the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]

• The lack of staff which the Commission suffered and the inability to overcome the deplorable lack of hard statistical information were inhibiting factors in an organisation which attempted- and which I believe attempted gallantly- to have a meaningful look at the overall welfare problems of this country. [More…]

• Another problem that I believe the Commission had is that the welfare field in general and the social security field in general does not only involve the Department of Social Security but also involves departments dealing with education, housing, the environment, urban and regional development and in particular the Attorney-General’s Department in respect of legal aid. [More…]

• I believe, as Dr Coombs has pointed out, that these departments in their own way are very jealous of their own responsibilities, their own areas of activity and their own power and view an intrusion like that of the Social Welfare Commission as an unwelcome one to say the least. [More…]

• The experience of the Social Welfare Commission is a reminder to us all of the importance placed on power of various sorts in our systemthe importance of power to the bureaucracy as well as the importance of power to the political arm of government at any level. [More…]

• As honourable senators will know, this was another innovation attempting to involve the people in the community at the grass roots level in social welfare, in social planning and in determining their own priorities in the community. [More…]

• The reaction of some members of the bureaucracy to both the announcement by the previous Government and the announcement by this Government of the abandonment of the Social Welfare Commission was at times one of indecent haste to be in at the kill, to be in at the dismemberment of the Commission. [More…]

• Last year an attempt was made to deplete the Social Welfare Commission of staff before details of arrangements that were to be made were even announced and certainly before any legislation was even at the drafting stage. [More…]

• I wish to pay my respects to Mrs Coleman, the commissioners and the members of the staff of the Social Welfare Commission for the work that they did and the contribution they have made to the development of social welfare policy in this country. [More…]

• A perusal of any of the papers, the productions or the research projects of the commission in its short life reveals much which will long be useful to all of us who are interested in social welfare and will be a useful reference, I believe, to all people concerned in the welfare field in Australia. [More…]

• I would hope that the social welfare research centre to be set up in New South Wales will provide a basis on which future advancement can be made in this field. [More…]

• One understands that the committees will consist of a variety of people involved in the welfare field, including departmental members, members of voluntary welfare organisations and, one would hope, consumers in the welfare field. [More…]

• Personally, I do not share the belief of the Minister expressed in her second reading speech that consolidating advice on research on and into social welfare matters within the Department is necessarily a good thing unless there is careful outside assessment of the advice, the effects of this advice and evaluation of the ultimate outcome of the various plans introduced. [More…]

• An overall look at the intermeshing and the co-ordination of the various welfare departments by outside evaluation is necessary. [More…]

• I am not opposing this legislation but as I said earlier in my speech, it is with some regret that I see the ending of the Social Welfare Commission and what I have regarded as a very useful contribution to welfare research and co-ordination in this country. [More…]

• I repeat what I said at the commencement of my speech: I think the downfall- I specifically do not use the word ‘failure’- of the Social Welfare Commission reflects as much the failures of all of us in the processes of Government in this country as it reflects anything that the Social Welfare Commission did or was involved in. [More…]

• I believe, in its way, the Social Welfare Commission succeeded. [More…]

• The Senate is considering the Social Welfare Commission (Repeal) Bill 1976. [More…]

• I am reminded that he was a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs and that the consideration by that Committee of the clauses of the National Compensation Bill last year probably saw the Social Welfare Commission functioning at its finest hour because it was the evidence and contribution of the Social Welfare Commission which more than anything else demonstrated the shortcomings in the proposed legislation and which led to its being withdrawn. [More…]

• In his chapter entitled Health and Welfare Services in the book Towards a New Australia under a Labor Government, Bill Hayden- then in Opposition- wrote: [More…]

• The administration of Labor’s comprehensive health and welfare program will require the setting up of new organisations. [More…]

• It was out of this idea that we had the development and formation of the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]

• The role of the Social Welfare Commission was stated some time after its formation by the Chairman, Mrs Marie Coleman, when she addressed the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science Congress on 23 January 1 975. [More…]

• The Government has created the Social Welfare Commission as an advisory body. [More…]

• That is what Mr Whitlam said when giving his instructions to the Social Welfare Commission- . [More…]

• Looking at what the Social Welfare Commission was able to achieve in less than 2 1/2 years, it had an impressive record of achievement and especially tonight when we are debating the motion that the establishment Bill should be repealed, it is worth listing some of the achievements of the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]

• It brought out a paper entitled Community Development and Community Development Training and papers on family welfare, participation and participation patterns in Australia and regional funding. [More…]

• These publications which the Social Welfare Commission has either produced or commissioned through outside workers have opened up large areas for debate within the welfare area in Australia. [More…]

• We then come to what the Social Welfare Commission achieved, not in terms of reports or papers but in terms of structures. [More…]

• I simply interpolate in this debate on the Social Welfare Commission that I believe in the Australian Assistance Plan and hope from the announcement the Minister has made that it can continue. [More…]

• Looking further at the achievements of the Social Welfare Commission there was the establishment of social welfare research grants and these have led to the commissioning of a large number of papers. [More…]

• It was the work of bodies like the Social Welfare Commission which led to the formation of the Children’s Commission and from the Children’s Commission to the new Office of Child Care. [More…]

• To a large extent the Social Welfare Commission developed a coherent social welfare program and this program did not run entirely parallel to the grandiose designs of Mr Whitlam because the Social Welfare Commission put its emphasis more upon the welfare of the most needy whereas Mr Whitlam ‘s program often had more of a universalist bias. [More…]

• The major article in the Financial Review of 6 June 1975 described the Social Welfare Commission as ‘a major critic’ of the Government’s policies, especially as they related to the proposals of the Whitlam Government to develop a quite impractical national compensation scheme. [More…]

• It was very interesting to watch the co-operative effort of the Senate Standing Committee and the Social Welfare Commission in the critical examination of that legislation. [More…]

• I remind the Senate that the original decision to abolish the Social Welfare Commission was made by the former Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam. [More…]

• The Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, has made it clear that he believes it more appropriate for bodies doing such jobs as that done by the Social Welfare Commission to be directly answerable to the Minister. [More…]

• He believes that in the end Ministers of State must accept responsibility for what is done and that this is more easily achieved if bodies like the Social Welfare Commission are integrated with departments. [More…]

• Social Welfare Commission, has been offered and has accepted a senior position within the Department of Social Security in charge of the new Office of Child Care. [More…]

• I find the abolition of the Social Welfare Commission a matter of regret and I know that many of my colleagues feel the same way. [More…]

• This fact does not in any way diminish my commitment to the kind of goals for which the Social Welfare Commission stood or for the kind of advice it was prepared to offer. [More…]

• I hope that the Social Welfare Research Group which will operate within the University of New South Wales and report to the Minister for Social Security will be as effective as the Social Welfare Commission has been in offering critical advice on such a wide ranging group of issues. [More…]

• One of the matters which the Social Welfare Commission raised was the question of the evaluation of programs. [More…]

• I simply draw to the attention of honourable senators that there is an increasing concern about evaluations of health and welfare programs in Australia and a reference was given by the Senate to one of the standing committees for evaluation of health and welfare programs. [More…]

• I hope that in the work of that committee we can profit from the kind of approach and system of operation which was established by the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]

• I hope that the practices and the impetus which derived from the Social Welfare Commission will not be lost with its abolition. [More…]

• The Senate is debating a Bill for the repeal of the Social Welfare Commission Act 1973, yet the speakers in this debate so far have almost entirely spoken in support of that body which is being repealed. [More…]

• He was so enthusiastic in his support of the Social Welfare Commission, particularly the way in which he saw it as a formidable critic of the Whitlam Government and its proposals, that I thought for a moment he was going to oppose the legislation before us tonight and vote for the retention of the Social Welfare Commission for that reason if for that alone. [More…]

• I will not be opposing the repeal of the Social Welfare Commission Act. [More…]

• Like my colleague, Senator Grimes, who has already spoken in this debate, I accept the necessity at this stage for the repeal of the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]

• I rise to speak also because I think there are some questions to be raised about the future performance of the functions which have been carried out by the Social Welfare Commission to date. [More…]

• When the Commission was established it was given a number of functions, the major one being to make recommendations to the Minister for furthering the achievement of a nationally integrated social welfare plan. [More…]

• Its functions included the requirement, set out in section 14 of the Act, that it should make recommendations for avoiding duplication of social welfare programs and for promoting the maximum efficiency and effectiveness of the community social welfare effort. [More…]

• It seems to me at this stage of the development of social welfare programs in this country that neither of those objectives has been achieved. [More…]

• Certainly we do not have anything at this stage that could be called a nationally integrated social welfare plan and we still have a multitude of duplication and fragmentation of services, as any person who has fallen into the welfare network and tried to avail himself of welfare benefits will tell you only too readily. [More…]

• So at this stage there is still a need for a body to perform the functions which the Social Welfare Commission was set up to perform. [More…]

• Because of this high rate of unemployment and the associated disruption to many individuals and groups in society there is a greater call on social welfare programs than previously and, I think, a greater opportunity to focus on the inadequacy of many of our programs, and in particular the lack of co-ordination between them. [More…]

• I think that at this period when we have many Australians dependent on welfare benefits we might start to consider very seriously the necessity for something like a guaranteed minimum income scheme for all individuals and families in our society. [More…]

• It is to just that sort of new way of measuring economic need that a body like the Social Welfare Commission could have devoted itself. [More…]

• I quoted that particular example because I think it demonstrates that there is a real problem in terms of the provision as well as the administration of social welfare and in ensuring that field officers carry out the Government’s policies and do not project their own attitudes into their work. [More…]

• I think it is unfortunate that the Social Welfare Commission is being abolished at a time when the sorts of functions it could have performed are very much needed. [More…]

• It is unfortunate, too, that the proposals put up to date by the Government for replacing the Social Welfare Commission and the work it was doing do not seem to be an adequate replacement. [More…]

• We on this side of the chamber had hoped that the Government would formulate a better plan for the development of social welfare having regard to the enthusiasm for the Social Welfare Commission and the Australian Assistance Plan which has been so often expressed by Government supporters. [More…]

• Senator Baume spoke tonight with such enthusiasm about the Social Welfare Commission that I wondered why he was not opposing its repeal. [More…]

• I am pleased to note that his expressions of support tonight are not new but that he has been a consistent supporter of the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]

• As far as I am concerned, any proposal to abolish the Social Welfare Commission will fail. [More…]

• Although Senator Baume ‘s enthusiasm for the Social Welfare Commission has not decreased, his determination to maintain the Commission seems to have disappeared entirely. [More…]

• But it is not only Senator Baume who has been an enthusiastic supporter of the Social Welfare Commission and the concept on which it was based. [More…]

• The social welfare policy of the coalition Parties stated: [More…]

• It is essential that there be a permanent body with the capacity to provide analyses of overall welfare priorities, evolving social needs, and evaluations of program effectiveness. [More…]

• Despite those commitments to a nationally developed social welfare body- independent, objective, able to operate outside the framework of the bureaucracy- the provisions made to date by the Government following the abolition of the Social Welfare Commission fall far short of those objectives. [More…]

• I have read with care the Minister’s second reading speech and, although most of the functions of the former Social Welfare Commission will continue in some form or another, the more valuable and innovatory aspects of the Commission’s work will be lost in the new arrangements. [More…]

• Although the Minister has announced that a new unit will be set up within the University of New South Wales for research and data collection, at this stage I doubt whether such a unit in a university will be able to repeat the kind of research work that has been carried out by the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]

• Senator Baume gave the Senate a long list of the research activities of the Social Welfare Commission, and I doubt that the unit being set up for the purpose will be able to continue that breadth of research. [More…]

• It is my understanding that there will be no new developments in our universities as a result of the last Budget, and I wonder if the unit will have sufficient funds to perform the sorts of functions in the research and social welfare areas which the Social Welfare Commission was performing. [More…]

• We have been told by the Minister that research projects not completed by the Social Welfare Commission will be completed, but we have been given no indication of future field work that may be carried out by the Department of Social Security, which has taken over the work of the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]

• Overall, the new arrangements for the continuation of the work of the Commission suggest fragmentation and a breaking down of the excellent teamwork which had been developed by the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]

• I think that fragmentation must lead inevitably to poorer quality advice, to less innovation, and to a diminishing of progress towards the original objective of the Social Welfare Commission, that is, the formulation of an integrated national social welfare plan. [More…]

• I had intended to speak of the excellent work published so far by the Social Welfare Commission, but as Senator Baume has already given such a comprehensive list, which no doubt he had memorised in order not to have to read it in the chamber, I will not repeat it. [More…]

• Suffice it to say that I agree that in its 3 years of operation the Social Welfare Commission did an enormous amount of work in preparing reports on a very wide range of social welfare issues. [More…]

• They always added something to any debate to which they were contributed, and I think that all of us who are concerned with social welfare are indebted to the Commission for its reports and will refer to them often in the future. [More…]

• In conclusion, I should like to repeat that I doubt whether the arrangements made by the Government for the carrying on of the functions performed by the Social Welfare Commission will be adequate for what we all seem to agree is necessary, that is, a nationally integrated social welfare plan. [More…]

• I hope that in the future the Government will see fit to reconstruct a body similar to the Social Welfare Commission, a body having objectivity, independence, adequate resources and a national monitoring, evaluating and co-ordinating role. [More…]

• -in reply-I thank the Senate for its debate this evening on the Bill to abolish the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]

• Senator Grimes referred to the anticipation of the abolition of the Social Welfare Commission, and I believe that some statement should be made in response to that. [More…]

• It should be understood that in June of last year the then Government announced its intention to repeal the Social Welfare Commission Act and to abolish the Commission. [More…]

• Any action that was taken to transfer the functions of the Social Welfare Commission to the Department of Social Security perhaps could be interpreted as pre-empting a decision of this Parliament. [More…]

• It may be of interest to honourable senators to know that on 20 February there were 49 officers in the Social Welfare Commission and that as at 19 August the staff situation was as follows: Twenty-five officers had been transferred within the Australian Public Service; 4 officers had resigned from the Australian Public Service; and 20 officers were still within the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]

• The staff of the Social Welfare Commission now occupy Public Service Act positions which are included in 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 the repeal of the Social Welfare Commission Act. [More…]

• As an interim measure pending the formal abolition of the Social Welfare Commission, the remaining staff of the Commission have been seconded to the Department to continue work on approved projects within the departmental framework. [More…]

• It was mentioned with regard to the regret that people have about the abolition of the Social Welfare Commission that one of its primary advantages was its independence. [More…]

• I should draw the Senate ‘s attention to the final report of the Social Welfare Commission in which it styled itself as an idea before its time. [More…]

• In relation to the co-ordination 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…]

• With these various bodies having outside representation on them, we believe that this process will be invaluable to government in leading towards the welfare policies that are required by the Australian people. [More…]

• It was said by Senator Baume that the Government considers the co-ordination of social welfare information as the basis for policy formulation as being mainly the responsibility of the Department of Social Security. [More…]

• The Department has the capacity to collect information on community welfare services, to formulate advice to the Government on broad social questions and to evaluate experimental and pilot social welfare projects. [More…]

• With regard to the co-ordination of health and welfare and the formulation of a national plan on health and welfare, I draw attention to the operation at the present time of the health and welfare task force, which is looking closely at matters of health and welfare and which soon will be reporting to the Government on ways in which there can be co-ordination between those and other departments with related responsibilities. [More…]

• I welcome the way in which the Senate has dealt with the debate on the Social Welfare Commission (Repeal) Bill and I thank honourable senators for their remarks and the contributions that they have made. [More…]

• The Social Welfare Commission in a publication entitled ‘Care of the Aged’, in relation to hostels when well planned and well run, states: . [More…]

• A bugbear in all systems of providing accommodation for the aged, in fact a bugbear in the whole of our welfare system, is that of deciding the criteria for need, in this case for financial, social and medical need. [More…]

• As the Social Welfare Commission stated in its report entitled Care for the Aged, it is inevitable that the financial responsibility for the capital construction, upkeep and staffing of these institutions in most cases will rest with the Government. [More…]

• I believe that the overall assessment of need, particularly on an area basis, is a responsibility of government or of some assessing organisation in the social welfare field, outside the Government if necessary. [More…]

• A lot of statistical information has been gathered in this area and a lot of the preliminary work has been done by the Social Welfare Commission and by the other people who have reported on aged persons’ accommodation and care in the community. [More…]

• It is to this kind of question that we address ourselves when we look at aged persons’ welfare housing. [More…]

• Senator Grimes has already referred to the report of the Social Welfare Commission entitled Care of the Aged in Australia which made a number of recommendations relating to aged persons’ welfare housing. [More…]

• The great need in Australia at present is for both funding and increased provision of aged persons’ welfare housing. [More…]

• We have to accept that, and the kinds of programs that have evolved from government in the last 15 or 20 years have increasingly recognised that it is a proper role of government to provide support for aged persons’ welfare housing. [More…]

• Some of the aged persons’ welfare housing is situated in isolated areas. [More…]

• Much of the aged persons’ welfare housing which has been built by charities in the great cities, including the conurbation in which I live, has been placed at the periphery of the city. [More…]

• We have had another problem with the development of aged persons’ welfare housing. [More…]

• A series of programs has certainly provided housing places for people who need them but we have no evidence of uniform availability of aged persons’ welfare housing to all the potential clients. [More…]

• So I would like to know whether we have information not only in terms of total unmet need but also in terms of distribution of aged persons’ welfare housing in different areas of the community. [More…]

• It is not easy to build aged persons welfare housing even with matching government subsidy. [More…]

• It is more difficult, Mr Acting Deputy President- and we both come from the same city- for a Mount Druitt community to provide the basic amount of money needed to start a welfare housing project than it is for an established charity or for people somewhere on the North Shore. [More…]

• This may mean that the clientele who gain access to available aged persons welfare housing are not always those who might be judged as the most needy. [More…]

• We do not know who constitute the clientele of aged persons welfare housing. [More…]

• Until I have that kind of information and until I have some kind of data base on which to work I cannot really judge whether the aged persons welfare housing projects have really been successful in the social sense. [More…]

• I was talking about some of the problems of aged persons welfare housing and I remind the Senate that the problem of maintenance of projects once established is a continuing problem and one that is assuming even greater importance. [More…]

• If the Social Welfare Commission taught us one thing during its life it is that evaluation is not only a good idea but also it is essential. [More…]

• I give notice now that if there is one thing that our Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare will examine it is programs like the aged persons welfare housing program to determine what goal the scheme thinks it is serving and to what extent these schemes are serving those programs. [More…]

• It is a matter of national importance that we know whether our welfare dollar is achieving anything and whether we are gaining anything for it. [More…]

• I want to know whether it is a fact, as has often been alleged, that in the western suburbs of Melbourne, which is an area of great need, very few aged persons welfare housing projects have been started. [More…]

• On the question of funding aged persons welfare housing, the Government and the Minister for Social Security have gone a long way to bringing some rationality and help to the building of various kinds of units. [More…]

• I am very pleased to support the kind of initiative which the Fraser Government has put forward, namely the promise of a triennial funding program- a program which will indicate in advance the amounts of money that will be available for the provision of aged persons welfare housing. [More…]

• Since it is cheaper to build now and borrow money than it is to wait one year, this will be a very real help to those organisations and to those groups trying to provide aged persons welfare housing. [More…]

• If this Government has the social welfare of Australians at heart, particularly the needs of the aged- I place greater emphasis on the frail aged- then it ought to be looking at the possibility of extending these services to an increasing number of people. [More…]

• A major consideration in the formulation of the Lynch package for 1976-77 was the Government’s concern for those people who are not wage and salary earners but who are dependent upon social services and welfare programs for the alleviation of the distressing effects of misfortune and old age. [More…]

• The Government has sought to rationalise its interblending of human, capital and natural resources in such a way as to serve the interests of the economy and the welfare of the people generally. [More…]

• My wife in turn has looked after our household and children and is quite active as President of our School Welfare Committee and other non-commercial roles. [More…]

• I will endeavour to enlighten a few of the Government senators who are present about the possible ramifications of the Budget in the areas of Aboriginal welfare, housing, education and employment. [More…]

• Even Mr Viner, the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, is disgusted at the expenditure cuts, amounting to $33m, in the area of Aboriginal welfare. [More…]

• That cut concerns the health, education, welfare and employment of people. [More…]

• I am sure that all those Aborigines who are deprived of satisfactory health care, welfare benefits, education and housing while the Government determines the ‘indiscriminate spending’ will be eternally grateful. [More…]

• It contributes significantly to the welfare of South Australians, provides a base of skill in the area, of course is terribly important, and has gained a reputation not only in Australia but also overseas for the quality of its work. [More…]

• I ask the Minister: As the estimates of expenditure for her department which have been released to honourable senators do not include those of the National Welfare Fund will such explanations be released in the future for the information of honourable senators? [More…]

• I will give consideration to making available information with regard to the National Welfare Fund as the honourable senator has requested. [More…]

• But, as with all National Welfare Fund expenditure, there is an automatic withdrawal of funds from the Fund in respect of all of the programs for pensions and benefits. [More…]

• It is simply that when the benefit has been established those who are eligible receive the benefit from the National Welfare Fund. [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…]

• Finance is one of the great problems today not only for sporting bodies but also for areas of our community which carry out welfare and social activities. [More…]

• We have been told that in fact the Government will be spending more on Aboriginal welfare than the Budget figures show; that the [More…]

• This is not because people like the Prime Minister are usually very concerned about the health or welfare of people in any way. [More…]

• The Attorney-General’s Department is also holding discussions with officers of other departments in the welfare area to see whether there could be a further extension of the Tribunal’s jurisdiction. [More…]

• We gave generously to Aboriginal welfare projects and Aboriginal housing projects. [More…]

• We have increased education expenditure by 15 per cent and social security and welfare expenditure by 23 per cent. [More…]

• They mentioned only in passing the rnining sector, defence and social welfare. [More…]

• It is committeed to promoting the welfare and the well being of Aboriginals. [More…]

• The Government has done extremely well to encompass in this program the tools of growth, welfare and recovery and accompany these with radical taxation measures, social welfare and rural reforms as well as to begin implementation of new policies in areas such as education. [More…]

• According to Opposition spokesmen, social welfare has not been mentioned very much except in the context of Aboriginal welfare. [More…]

• Social welfare expenditure is the largest single component of the Budget outlays. [More…]

• I now move to the area of social welfare. [More…]

• One would think that in an area like Darwin, in the wake of a cyclone, there would be good social welfare services. [More…]

• We needed $ 1.2m to maintain general welfare at the 1975 level. [More…]

• In 1973-74, $1,383,000 was allocated for general welfare. [More…]

• Services are falling well below standard in the areas of family welfare, child welfare, rehabilitation and parole. [More…]

• It is fair to say that throughout the Territory virtually no welfare services are available in Aboriginal communities. [More…]

• As I indicated earlier, there is no provision in the social welfare field for the physically and mentally handicapped. [More…]

• That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and well-being of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]

• That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and well-being of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government has recently formed 2 committees- one to inquire into federal programs for the care of aged and infirm people and the other to examine welfare services and community-based programs in the healthwelfarecommunity development area. [More…]

• There is a committee to look at the care of aged and infirm people and there is a committee to look at health, welfare, community developments and community based programs. [More…]

• We will be equally as critical if the Government hands over to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly other powers which have to do with the welfare of Aboriginal people. [More…]

• In many instances we find that welfare housing is going to non-welfare cases. [More…]

• I turn now to social security and welfare. [More…]

• Let us look at the Budget as far as welfare is concerned. [More…]

• The welfare housing allocation decreases in real terms. [More…]

• They were some steps forward all right because in fact funds for Aboriginal welfare have been reduced by $33m. [More…]

• If the Government would cease to be hampered by its philosophical prejudices or hangups and take selective action, not excessive action, to deal with the areas of need; to produce a plan aimed at reducing the number of young people unemployed and thus reduce the inevitable social problems that result from a large number of unemployed youths; to help with the housing shortage in specific areas, not just by providing $75,000 on an untried voucher scheme which will make no difference to the appalling situation in welfare housing in this country; to increase the funds available to local government in certain areas- none of these need to be excessive amounts of money- then perhaps it would seem to be doing something and perhaps it would inspire confidence. [More…]

• The same applies to the welfare health task force set up to find a job for a couple of displaced public servants. [More…]

• This is an area which directly affects not only the material but also the emotional welfare of many Australians. [More…]

• It ought to be clearly understood in this chamber and around Australia that in the area which I see as being fundamental to social welfare, that is in the area of the health of the economy and in the restoration of full employment, the Government has done an enormous amount in the time which it has had. [More…]

• Refuges assist women to obtain welfare, legal and medical help. [More…]

• A choice made without fear for their children ‘s welfare. [More…]

• W.: conscious of the fact that most of the unemployed apprentices will never be able to complete their training (thus creating a continuing problem for the industry, and indeed the community as a whole) unless immediate urgent measures are provided for in the Federal Government’s Budget; we the undersigned citizens of New South Wales in the Commonwealth of Australia by this our humble petition respectfully request that Members of the Senate insist that the 1976-77 Budget provides specific measures to lift building activity particularly welfare housing, schools, hospitals and other public buildings above the present dangerously low level; we request that the Budget be returned to the House of Representatives with instructions from the Senate to include such measures. [More…]

• We the undersigned citizens of New South Wales in the Commonwealth of Australia by this our humble petition respectfully request that Members of the Senate insist that the 1976-77 Budget provides specific measures to lift building activity particularly welfare housing, schools, hospitals and other public buildings above the present dangerously low level; [More…]

• Concern at the record number of building workers registered for unemployment benefits in New South Wales; aware of the Australian Bureau of Statistics Report for New South Wales revealing a drastic fall off in both commencements and approvals for future commencements, of building projects this year as compared to previous years; alarm at the fact that 1368 building apprentices were registered for unemployment benefit payments during the month of July in New South Wales; conscious of the fact that most of the unemployed apprentices will never be able to complete their training (thus creating a continuing problem for the industry, and indeed the community as a whole) unless immediate urgent measures are provided for in the Federal Government’s Budget; we the undersigned citizens of New South Wales in the Commonwealth of Australia by this our humble petition respectfully request that Members of the Senate insist that the 1976-77 Budget provides specific measures to lift building activity particularly welfare housing, schools, hospitals and other public buildings above the present dangerously low level; we request that the Budget be returned to the House of Representatives with instructions from the Senate to include such measures. [More…]

• In referring briefly to some of the hardships which are imposed by the Budget I should like to mention, first of all, what has been done in the field of health and social welfare. [More…]

• The present Government’s policies are, on the one hand, to demolish our social welfare system and, on the other hand, to allow a return to the law of the jungle in private enterprise by not proceeding with legislation to control corporations and the exchange of securities. [More…]

• One can only stand appalled at the destruction to which this experiment in a social welfare state has led us. [More…]

• Out of this wreckage would have come, unwanted by the majority of Australians, a social welfare state. [More…]

• There was a slashing of Government expenditure, a restriction on the Public Service and a review of the social welfare system. [More…]

• Property for defence has been denied and funds have been frittered away on a welfare system which has gone a long way towards undermining the strength of our Australian character and producing, as the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) has said, the soft Australian. [More…]

• Long term recovery will mean that we will have the money to return to a much more generous provision of” social welfare schemes which many of us on both sides of the chamber find extremely important. [More…]

• China has lost its helmsman with the death of Chairman Mao, but his legacy of a unified nation firmly advancing the welfare of the world ‘s most populous nation and its emergence to its rightful place in international affairs remains with us. [More…]

• We the undersigned citizens of New South Wales in the Commonwealth of Australia by this our humble petition respectfully request that Members of the Senate insist that the 1976-77 Budget provides specific measures to lift building activity particularly welfare housing, schools, hospitals and other public buildings above the present dangerously low level; [More…]

• The boys are in the legal custody of the welfare officer at Yirrkala and will be released to the care of Aboriginal relatives with the agreement of the father and the mother. [More…]

• The cuts in capital works, programs for Aborigines, social welfare, housing and regional development have served the inequalities in the Australian society. [More…]

• The Government’s cuts on spending on social welfare have added greatly to the problems of over 100 000 youths in this country. [More…]

• At the present time we have a committee which is reviewing matters of welfare services and facilities for aged and infirm people and I am hoping that as a result of that committee’s work we will be able to develop further programs which will give assistance and security to aged people. [More…]

• In addition to the committee which at the present time is inquiring into the care of the aged and infirm, the Government has appointed a task force to examine welfare services and community-based welfare programs in the health, welfare and community development areas. [More…]

• Especially since Aboriginals need the support of special accommodation and sometimes welfare assistance because they are usually the last choice of employers and landlords and lack the resources of economic, technical and social skills. [More…]

• The unproductive welfare drain, with no hope of individuals being able to leave their dependent state [More…]

• An Interim Budget that does not include Aboriginal workers wages and funds for back-pay for work already done, is NOT Aboriginal welfare, and has created an atmosphere of gloom and depression. [More…]

• In welfare there will be an increase of $200,000 and overall programs will be maintained. [More…]

• A representative of a body or association providing welfare or social services; [More…]

• We allowed a little bit of leeway as far as education and social welfare were concerned but the Australian Broadcasting Commission, as with most other departments, was told that it had to pull its horns in. [More…]

• As things got better they introduced a welfare scheme of their own. [More…]

• They then started to build welfare tennis courts, a swimming pool, a golf course, a football field and many other facilities. [More…]

• With the welfare fund continuing they were still swimming in money. [More…]

• In that statement the Minister referred to the establishment of a national consultative group on social welfare to advise the Minister on current issues in social welfare which come within the responsibility of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• The Minister also referred to the proposed establishment of a social welfare consultative committee in each State and Territory to keep the Government informed of problems or difficulties encountered in the administration of Commonwealth welfare programs. [More…]

• Can the Minister indicate what action has been taken to establish a social welfare consultative committee for the Australian Capital Territory? [More…]

• Can the Minister say whether all organisations involved in social security and welfare work in the Territory will be considered for participation? [More…]

• I envisage that the State committees and the territorial committees will have approximately 6 members drawn from social welfare professionals, local academics in the social sciences, local government personnel, voluntary organisations and client welfare groups. [More…]

• I feel sure that with these consultative committees the Government will ensure that all questions of importance in the social welfare field will receive active consideration and attention. [More…]

• Will the Minister confirm publicly that financial assistance is available from the Welfare Branch of the Department to parents who are unable to afford the $10 a child bus pass fee? [More…]

• That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and well-being of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]

• I wish to ask a question of the Minister for Social Security concerning government co-operation with voluntary welfare organisations. [More…]

• -Has the attention of the Minister for Social Security been drawn to the statement by the Minister for Welfare in Tasmania that the Federal Government has avoided all its responsibilities in respect of the women ‘s shelter in that State? [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 child who has been put into care under State welfare legislation. [More…]

• There is a statutory qualifying period of 6 months during which claimants are eligible for State Government welfare payments. [More…]

• In August this yearabout 3 weeks ago- the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare published a document entitled Forward Planning for Health, Fiscal Years 1978 to 1982. [More…]

• I return to the United States document Forward Plan for Health, issued last month by the United States Departments of Health, Education and Welfare. [More…]

• The lone parent could be a wage earner who is not a recipient of any social welfare payments. [More…]

• Our Government is to be congratulated on a wonderful achievement in the fields of education and social welfare. [More…]

• If honourable senators opposite do not want a contributory scheme for Medibank we will have to cut the vote for education and social welfare. [More…]

• I think we have proved that with the family allowances and other social welfare legislation which we have introduced. [More…]

• He said that, with all respect to Churchill, in regard to Medibank 1976 he had been thinking along these lines: ‘Never before in the field of human social welfare has so much muddle been created for so many by so few bureaucrats and the Government’. [More…]

• Some areas are still subject to examination- for example, by the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health. [More…]

• That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and well-being of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]

• This concern was expressed by the present Government when in Opposition, as well as 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…]

• Since February 1966 the Queensland Government has spent $2,541,359 at Weipa South in addition to salaries and other costs associated with the maintenance of a staff structure for the provision of general welfare services to the Aboriginal Community. [More…]

• That the Family Planning Association and similar organisations throughout Australia contribute to the welfare and well-being of a great proportion of the Australian people both in family planning and in an advisory capacity on the prevention and control of social diseases. [More…]

• These applications for maintenance include cases brought by the Department of Community Welfare. [More…]

• But we have to consider the fact that there are these people to whom Senator Wheldon refers more charitably than Senator McLaren as ‘welfare professionals’. [More…]

• In general in this community there has been a deplorable lack of hard statistical data in the welfare field. [More…]

• It has been complained about by welfare professionals in various voluntary agencies. [More…]

• I know that it is a problem to governments, and the Social Wefare Commission when in existence pointed out the great difficulties which we face in trying to rationalise our welfare programs and in trying to rationalise future developments not only in this field but also in many other fields. [More…]

• We have been approaching all welfare programs in a piecemeal way with methods whereby we have no idea where we are going or what sort of result we will produce from our legislation. [More…]

• The Bailey task force on health and welfare in the community is due very shortly to produce an interim report. [More…]

• We hope that future welfare plans in this and other areas of social security will be on the basis of good, hard statistical data, of research and of information and that that information will not be buried in interdepartmental committees of inquiry which do not report to this Parliament, committees of inquiry to which matters are referred and which report only to have part of their reports acted upon and parts rejected while the Parliament, the public, the people involved and the parents of the people involved have no idea of the basis on which these plans were developed. [More…]

• -The Senate is debating the Handicapped Persons Assistance Amendment Bill and it may be important at the beginning to take up some of the points that Senator Grimes was making regarding assessment of what we are doing in the whole welfare area. [More…]

• Spending in our Budget on social services and welfare has been increased by 23 per cent, almost a quarter more than it was in 1975-76. [More…]

• I hope that with the easing of financial stringency in the next few years it will be possible to increase our activities even further and to take account of even more of the recommendations of the Henderson Commission and of many of the other welfare reports which have emerged. [More…]

• It is entirely consistent with our whole approach to welfare and our style of government. [More…]

• For instance, if I may just briefly classify them, I refer to the adoption of many of the recommendations of the Griffith report, especially recommendations of the National Advisory Committee on the Handicapped and also the recommendations of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• The phrase seemed to me to indicate that the Ministers in charge of these areas of responsibility to society were coming under pressure, just as previous governments had come under pressure, from the Treasury to cut down expenditure in the area of social welfare. [More…]

• The efforts to meet the needs of the community as far as health and welfare are concerned should not be limited. [More…]

• We should not be getting this sort of welfare on the cheap, subsidising money which is raised by the private efforts of people who have already accepted a responsibility for the care of the handicapped. [More…]

• Again I return to the possibility that the Treasury, preoccupied with the need to reduce the deficit, may impose budgetary restrictions in this area of welfare. [More…]

• I think it is well known that the Government at present has an interdepartmental task force looking at the variety and diversity of health and welfare programs. [More…]

• It was considered by the Government that it needed a task force to look at these programs and to collate and perhaps recommend coordination and means of effective delivery of service in the areas of health and welfare. [More…]

• Whenever substantial changes are made to major welfare programs, it is inevitable that gainers and losers will emerge; it is not practicable for the law to take account of each and every variant in personal or domestic circumstances. [More…]

• As regards those Industries Assistance Commission majority recommendations that do not fall within the ambit of the Budget measures, it was estimated that excluding the proposals relating to housing and welfare at ports and the carry-back of losses, the first full-year cost would be $3 5 m. Adoption of the latter proposals could result in further substantial cost to revenue. [More…]

• I am responsible for the welfare in Australia of those children who come within the provisions of the Act. [More…]

• In practice I have delegated the function of guardianship to the competent State and Territory authorities, that is, the principal officer of the relevant welfare department of each of the States and Territories. [More…]

• Naturally, I am concerned for the welfare of these children while I am their guardian but I would emphasise that adoptions of children from Vietnam have been granted in every State with the exception of Queensland where, I am informed, no cases have been presented. [More…]

• Whilst there has been a further injection of some $25m for Aboriginal housing and welfare programs by this Government, my concern has not changed. [More…]

• One has to wonder how genuine governments are when figures like that do not change with the injection of a further $2 5 m specifically for Aboriginal housing and welfare programs. [More…]

• The State Housing Commission will not let her have a home unless she can show that she has the children with her, and the Department for Community Welfare will not let her children go until she can show that she has a home. [More…]

• How can a woman possibly care for her own children in a home atmosphere if the State Housing Commission refuses to give her a home unless she has the children with her and the Department for Community Welfare will not let her children go from State institutions until she can prove that she has a home? [More…]

• There is an extensive disregard of the Council ‘s Health and Building By-laws and it is recognised that something must be done quickly in the interests of the health and general welfare of the campers. [More…]

• As you are aware, this local authority is not responsible for the welfare of the Aboriginal people and therefore has no funds made available to it, nor has it any statutory power to provide accommodation of a reasonable standard for these people. [More…]

• It is understood by Council that the Federal and State Governments either together or separately are responsible for the welfare of the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• Council is reluctant to take legal action but if responsible Government is not prepared to accept its responsibilities in respect of the welfare of the Aboriginal community then it must be realised by those administering the affairs of the Federal and State Governments that Council has no alternative but to enforce its standards - [More…]

• There are 900 Aboriginal people on the State Housing Commission waiting list, and still only 100 houses are to be built this financial year after the injection of a further $25m by the Federal Government into Aboriginal housing and welfare projects. [More…]

• The only commission or statutory body under my control on the abovementioned dates was the Social Welfare Commission which was not employing any journalists on those dates. [More…]

• We the undersigned citizens of New South Wales in the Commonwealth of Australia by this our humble petition respectfully request that Members of the Senate insist that the 1976-77 Budget provides specific measures to lift building activity particularly welfare housing, schools, hospitals and other public buildings above the present dangerously low level; [More…]

• It relates to the grant to FILEF- the Federation of Italian Labourers, Emigrants and Families- under the welfare rights program which the Minister has decided to terminate at the end of the year. [More…]

• As her second explanation to the Estimates Committee last week centred on the proximity of the NOW-North West One Stop Welfare- shop at Coburg to the FILEF office, I also ask whether she has read the account of the NOW experiment in the Coombs report which refers to the lack of interpreter services there for the heavy migrant population? [More…]

• the cut-back in funds from the Commonwealth for sewerage, and urban transport and the effective reduction in real terms of funds for roads and welfare housing. [More…]

• I suggested that particularly in the areas of welfare housing, roads, public transport rolling stock, and sewerage- areas in which activity is very much in the private sector- spending by Governments in 1976-77 should be held at the same level in real terms as in 1 975-76. [More…]

• I have already mentioned welfare housing and the acute lack of funds in this area. [More…]

• Under the Welfare Housing program the amount provided by the Commonwealth to the State has not increased in money terms since 1974-75 so that substantial reductions in the volume of physical work carried out under that program have been required to allow for increased cost levels during the intervening period. [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Education received a letter from the Chairman of the Education Sub-Committee of the AustralianGreek Welfare Society concerning the need for the establishment at a national level of an advisory committee on migrant education? [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of the considerable concern being expressed by 166 Victorian community welfare organisations about the future of the Australian Legal Aid Office? [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that the welfare organisations firmly believe that persons in need who utilise legal aid service should be consulted about the proposed changes to the Australian legal aid organisation? [More…]

• I will certainly see that my Department has contact with the Attorney-General’s Department to bring to its attention the concern expressed by the Victorian community welfare organisations. [More…]

• I advert to a question asked earlier today by the Leader of the Opposition about a letter which he suggested had been written to me by the Chairman of the Education Sub-Committee of the Australian-Greek Welfare Society. [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 LiberalCountry Parties’ social welfare policy provides for this to be altered to an income only eligibility test. [More…]

• These initiatives, as honourable senators are aware, were very much welcomed by leading veterans’ organisations, 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…]

• I refer to health, education, welfare, the environment, urban improvement and transport. [More…]

• During these years the Australian Government willingly shouldered its responsibilities in the vital social areas that are close to all Australians- that is, health, welfare, housing, urban and regional development, and education. [More…]

• I am pleased to say that it was opposed unsuccessfully, because the Australian Assistance Plan was a great social welfare innovation. [More…]

• It allowed people at the regional level to decide for themselves what services they wanted to build in their community, such as sporting, cultural and educational facilities, welfare services and health centres. [More…]

• The new federalism in no way contributes to progress or to the advancement of greater welfare for the Australian people. [More…]

• The classic problem arises that people who are seeking social welfare and seeking assistance really do not know where they should go. [More…]

• I have been drawn into this debate by my interest in and concern for the welfare of local government in Australia. [More…]

• I was a practitioner in local government and I suppose it is only natural that I should display some interest in its welfare and well-being. [More…]

• I hope that the Senate will accept the Opposition’s amendment and so display further to local government that we are concerned for its welfare and that we want to ensure that it has the loudest possible voice in the forums that determine local government matters. [More…]

• In South Australia there is a great percentage of ratepayers- in some cases they are not ratepayers but they have contributed towards the community welfare- who do not have a say in local government. [More…]

• I submit to the Senate that the provision of normal welfare type services, normal welfare type housing for families in distress, homes for children and so on is a much more expensive operation than the subsidisation of women’s refuges for a few thousand dollars a year to enable them to provide the sort of assistance that they do provide. [More…]

• Welfare: The Kempsey District office of the Department of Youth and Community Services is funded to employ a young Aboriginal clerical assistant. [More…]

• Mr Camm seemed to have scant regard for the farmers as people, and little concern for their welfare. [More…]

• In the past 3 years we have had inquiries of various sorts and reports of various sorts from the Social Welfare Commission, from Professor Hancock on superannuation, from Mr Justice Woodhouse on compensation, and from the various voluntary agencies and others concerned in social welfare in this country. [More…]

• At the moment we are awaiting several government reports from the Income Security Review Committee, from the Committee of Inquiry into Housing for the Aged and from the Bailey Task Force on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• The Government has made some selective changes to the welfare system. [More…]

• I believe that it ensures that the same piecemeal approach which we have taken for the provision of welfare in this community will continue. [More…]

• The Opposition is disturbed at the penchant for setting up secret inquiries which look at aspects of health and welfare and which do not report to this Parliament. [More…]

• All of them give effect to policies which give to people, which give increased benefits and which create a new and better system of welfare. [More…]

• I remind the honourable senator that he was a supporter of a government that remained in office for 3 years and had in its possession some of main welfare reports, but did nothing about them. [More…]

• The total welfare payments this year will be 32 per cent higher than they were last year- an enormous increase that receives no acknowledgement from the members of the Labor Party, who mouth their dedication to welfare but who have no intention of acknowledging when any advances are made to this nation ‘s system. [More…]

• Let me point out that it is a very convenient fallacy to approach our Government in the first April of its term when it had been in office for 3 months and to try and castigate it for not having implemented its entire 3-year welfare program. [More…]

• I believe that it is fair to say that the Bills we have before us now which contain these very major adjustments are the most significant social welfare measures, in the sense of the processes to be followed, since the tapered means test was introduced seven or eight years ago. [More…]

• These Bills provide part of a new system of social welfare. [More…]

• I cannot help observing that what we propose does not quite fit in with Senator Grimes’ description of us as a conservative government which is intent on denting or blunting welfare. [More…]

• We introduced a new program of welfare housing for aged persons. [More…]

• These are major expenditure items, all directed towards those who need and use welfare. [More…]

• This supposedly conservative government in its first year has carried out more radical innovation in the field of welfare than the Labor Government could manage in its entire 3 years in office. [More…]

• I can only conclude with what we have always known to be true, namely, that from the days of Alfred Deakin to the time of the introduction of family allowances, it has always been the Liberal Party which has introduced the major initiatives, that most major welfare benefits in this country have come from our side of politics and will continue to do so. [More…]

• The Liberal philosophy means better welfare; it means better results; it means better protection for the people of Australia. [More…]

• These Bills, which I heartily endorse, are merely part of the framework of effective welfare which we are providing for all Australians. [More…]

• Victorian Government supporters have accepted without a murmur cuts in welfare housing that effect all those groups of women who are vulnerable and cannot assist themselves. [More…]

• They have accepted cuts in migrant and Aboriginal welfare and have not put up one murmur about the cuts. [More…]

• Even though this new system has been functioning for only a few months the mothers and social welfare workers I have spoken to believe that this is the biggest improvement in the social welfare system that Australia has seen. [More…]

• If the honourable senator does not believe this she cannot have spoken to any of the s< cial welfare workers. [More…]

• Social welfare workers believe that this is the best thing that has ever happened to the Australian community. [More…]

• Whilst I would agree with Senator Grimes that we would want to work towards a social security and social welfare plan that overcame poverty, there are limits to what can be achieved because of the ability to pay and the burden of cost that many of these desirable features may induce. [More…]

• As he would know, the amounts that cover unemployment benefits come from the National Welfare Fund and whatever the requirements are in this year they will be provided in that fund. [More…]

• However, the special appropriations provided for in the National Welfare Fund are available automatically. [More…]

• Families which find themselves in financial difficulties can make application to the Welfare Branch of the Department of the Capital Territory for assistance. [More…]

• Do the terms of reference include the activities of the Commonwealth, the States and the voluntary sector in the welfare field? [More…]

• I understand also that there are to be continuing discussions with regard to matters that have been subjected to scrutiny, including such things as the delivery of welfare services between the Federal Government, the State governments and the voluntary sector. [More…]

• My question to the Minister for Social Security refers to the Bailey task force on health and welfare in respect of which Senator Baume asked a question earlier. [More…]

• 2) 1976 is to authorise the Treasurer to advance to the states this financial year the sum of $375m for welfare housing in accordance with the provisions of the 1973-1974 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…]

• 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 twelve 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…]

• They must be good administrators and have the capacity to liaise closely with the ethnic groups and voluntary agencies in the field of migrant welfare. [More…]

• The Assistant Director, Migrant Services, Adelaide, as with his counterparts in the other States, is directly responsible to the Senior Assistant Director of the Community and Social Welfare Branch in the State headquarters. [More…]

• He also proposes that there be a new increased intake into the Police Academy, that there be a scholarship scheme for cadets in social welfare, female secretaryship, and so on. [More…]

• This plan has been put into effect for all nursing staff, except for some specialised nurses working in infant and school welfare. [More…]

• Traditionally, nursing services in the community have been provided for the purpose of single services, such as infant welfare, for quite large population groupings. [More…]

• I point out to honourable senators 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…]

• I believe I am a very ardent supporter of certain current matters affecting Aboriginal welfare and rights; but I am no supporter of rip-offs, because the people who are being ripped off are the Aboriginal people themselves. [More…]

• They rang a community welfare sister and asked her to go and see the baby, which she did. [More…]

• I can only say to those honourable senators who expressed an interrest in this subject that it would be useful for them to visit such places and to see how unpaid people, working under extremely difficult conditions which I doubt I could stand for three or four days let alone for years as these people have done, are working in a way which directly is improving the welfare of the homeless and the itinerant Aborigines of the eastern gold fields. [More…]

• I mention these matters to the Senate merely because, whilst I abhor and am saddened by the sorts of matters raised by Senator Coleman, I think it would be a pity if we did not also acknowledge that there are areas of real progress and that the hundreds of millions of dollars currently being spent in the field of Aboriginal welfare is in fact achieving some results. [More…]

• Welfare Services for the Aged (Question No. [More…]

• There has been no reduction in Commonwealth Government funds for aged persons’ welfare. [More…]

• Under this legislation this Government also reimburses two-thirds of State Government expenditure on home care services for aged persons, and two-thirds of the salaries paid to welfare officers. [More…]

• Furthermore, due to increases in the salaries of welfare officers employed at senior citizens’ centres, the $700,000 provided in 1976-77 will be required to fund the existing positions [More…]

• As the honourable senator may be aware, the Government recently set up a Committee of Inquiry into Care of the Aged and Infirm and has also appointed a task force to examine welfare services and community based programs in the health/welfare/community development area. [More…]

• Major-General Stretton makes a couple of remarks in his book which seem to indicate that I grafted myself to him, that I took a very paternal interest in his welfare, and that at one stage he ordered me out of Darwin. [More…]

• If he does not obtain employment he falls back on social welfare benefits. [More…]

• In particular, on page 68 he will find a breakdown by States and a comparison of this year’s expenditure with expenditure last year under the headings of housing, health, education, employment, welfare, enterprises, town management, recreation and so on. [More…]

• In the meantime the welfare and the livelihood of almost 50 families are at stake. [More…]

• The first is the common objectives of the worker in achieving his individual welfare, and that, of course, is the fundamental thing that brought persons together in trade unions in the first place. [More…]

• -Has the attention of the Minister for Social Security been drawn to the opposition of the Australian Association of Social Workers to the application of the term main user principle’ to social workers- that is, the proposition that all welfare workers should be centralised in the Department of Social Security? [More…]

• Our welfare state concept, particularly in relation to a national health scheme, is much inferior to that in European countries. [More…]

• In the Scandinavian and German countries people are well protected under the national health scheme and other welfare schemes without their take home pay being affected. [More…]

• In relation to the concept of welfare, relations between unions and governments in those countries are much closer than they are in Australia. [More…]

• As I see it, that would mean that the federal council of an organisation could appoint, say, a social welfare worker and he would then be free to do any work within the organisation, even if it were substantially the same work being performed by an officer. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Social Security a question regarding grants for welfare rights officers. [More…]

• Will the decisions be made on the basis of organisations applying for welfare rights officers, or are others, such as Parents Without Partners, to be encouraged by the Minister personally? [More…]

• -Did the Minister for Social Security read a report in the Australian newspaper of 15 November that the New South Wales Minister for Youth and Community Services, Mr Jackson, has called a meeting next Friday of State Ministers responsible for social welfare to discuss the future of the Australian Assistance Plan? [More…]

• It should be understood that payments of unemployment benefits come from the National Welfare Fund without further appropriations during the year. [More…]

• There is an automatic application of pensions and benefits through the National Welfare Fund once the legislation is established, and this will occur throughout this year. [More…]

• Social welfare services and the basic services provided by government will, of necessity, decline. [More…]

• In planning for departmental facilities considerable care has been taken to ensure that to the greatest possible degree, they form an integral part of local health and welfare services, including those of voluntary agencies. [More…]

• The developments that I have outlined 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…]

• 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…]

• What some members of the Liberal and National Country Parties try to do is to assert that the Senate is a States House, an independent House of review, where their vote is governed not by the dictates of their Party but by the welfare of their States and the dictates of their own conscience. [More…]

• Since then, and particularly since the recent increases in social welfare benefits, an employee who is injured would have been nearly as well off from June of this year until these increases become effective by receiving the sickness benefit as he would have been by receiving workmen’s compensation under the 2 Acts. [More…]

• I wish to make a short intervention into the debate because I believe that the manner in which the Compensation (Commonwealth Government Employees) Amendment Bill has been introduced into the Senate, although it is not a matter which is likely to arouse great debate in the community at large, gives a very clear indication of this Government’s approach to the welfare of the Australian people. [More…]

• We have heard absolutely nothing from the Government on this question, despite the fact that we still provide inadequate social welfare in this field- it is a field of social welfare- but it has apparently relied on constitutional difficulties which, at least according to some constitutional lawyers, are more imagined than real; on the alleged disagreements with the States; and on what I think to the Government would be most important, the opposition of those insurance companies which believe that at some stage the Government may bail them out and see that they are able to carry on lucrative businesses out of working people’s misfortunes. [More…]

• A considerable amount of research work was done by the old Welfare Division of the Department of the Interior. [More…]

• R. F. Jackson, Minister for Youth and Community Services in New South Wales, has convened a meeting of State Social Welfare Ministers in Sydney on 19 November 1 976. [More…]

• I am sure that honourable senators 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…]

• 2) 1976 which authorises the Treasurer to advance to the States this financial year the sum of $375m for welfare housing in accordance with the Housing Agreement of 1973-74. [More…]

• This legislation is important because it does provide some recognition, paltry as it is, of the needs of welfare housing. [More…]

• In real terms, taking into account the ravages of unbridled inflation which according to the Lynch Budget when it was presented in August this year is to continue at much the same rate this financial year as existed last year, this sum represents a cutback in the finance made available for welfare housing. [More…]

• Government’s policies and the policies of the previous Government is the recognition of need as the starting point in all of our social welfare programs. [More…]

• The net result for those people waiting for welfare housing is that they will have to wait longer. [More…]

• I remember that when we took office in 1972 there were more people waiting for public or welfare housing than had ever been the case in the history of this country. [More…]

• Any member of Parliament who does not appreciate the fact that increasing numbers of people are unable to compete in the private sector for housing and therefore have to rely on public or welfare housing does not understand his social responsibilities. [More…]

• In the last 2 years of the Labor Government’s term in office an average yearly amount of $375m was made available in this area- considerably in excess of what is provided for welfare housing in this Budget. [More…]

• All we can hope is that somehow, by some Minister or some back benchers, some decisions will be taken by this Government which again will allocate to welfare and public housing the sort of funds necessary to enable the ordinary, average Australian to participate in a reasonable housing scheme. [More…]

• I agree with the previous speaker on one point; that is, that the specific purpose of the Bill is to provide welfare housing. [More…]

• I believe that there should be a system in which annual revisions or annual scrutiny of the welfare system should be made. [More…]

• I see the voucher system as having a very wide application in all sorts of welfare areas, and I think it can be clearly demonstrated that in many cases the voucher system is often better than money. [More…]

• I believe that it can be extended into all fields of need by all departments providing welfare assistance of any sort, and I hope that it will not be long before it is extended into the field of home purchase. [More…]

• Far from failing to succeed, I think I can assure all honourable senators that it will succeed and will turn out to be very much a part of general Commonwealth-State welfare arrangements. [More…]

• I think it can be carried down through many of the civic and welfare groups which are looking to the care of people. [More…]

• The community is happy to contribute and will contribute if given the opportunity, and money which is currently being spent by the Commonwealth through the States on welfare housing would produce a lot more if it were taken out of the Government’s hands and used as a subsidy, perhaps through vouchers or some other system. [More…]

• So my third suggestion is that as far as possible funds should be directed to community and welfare groups and government involvement reduced. [More…]

• Dubious’ use of welfare housing funds to buy three properties in Hobart ‘s historic Battery Point. [More…]

• If we are going to give money to the States for welfare housing, the least we can expect is that the scheme is administered properly. [More…]

• It is a straightforward measure to provide some $375m for the current financial year for welfare housing for the States and half that amount for the first half of the following year. [More…]

• The Government has taken a number of initiatives to assist home buyers and to promote home building: an improved Home Savings Grant scheme has been introduced to operate from 1 January 1977; an experiment is to be conducted with housing allowance vouchers to find out the best way of assisting low income renters in the private market; approximately 1500 families are to be assisted in each of three cities- Hobart, Melbourne and Sydney, and this will ease the waiting list for Housing Commission homes; a revised housing loan interest deductibility scheme was introduced to give maximum assistance to first home buyers in the first five years of ownership; the level of welfare housing advances to the States was maintained in 1976-77 despite severe budgetary constraints. [More…]

• Which is the second financial year of office of the Whitlam Labor Government - the Commonwealth has, under a new Agreement applying for the five years 1973-74 to 1977-78, advanced funds to the States for welfare housing outside, and in addition to, Loan Council arrangements. [More…]

• We know, as we have said earlier, that since 1973-74 the Commonwealth has under a new agreement advanced funds to the States for welfare housing outside and in addition to Loan Council arrangements. [More…]

• The level of Government support for research in this area must be viewed in the light of known research as reported in the ‘Fifth Annual Report to the U.S. Congress’ from the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I table the final report of the Darwin Disaster Welfare Council. [More…]

• To examine the welfare needs of families and individual persons affected by the cyclone known as ‘Tracy’ and to give an indication of where these needs exist to the relevant authorities; [More…]

• The report is a very detailed one and serves a very useful purpose in recording the welfare implications of a major disaster. [More…]

• Senator ROBERTSON (Northern Territory) by leave- I commend the report to all honourable senators and remind them that the Darwin Disaster Welfare Council was set up and funded within 2 weeks of cyclone Tracy hitting Darwin. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that had the Northern Territory Council of Social Services been funded earlier there seems little doubt that we would not have needed to set up the Darwin Disaster Welfare Council. [More…]

• Secondly, it shows the place of the social welfare agencies in times of emergency. [More…]

• In fact it goes on to recommend that there should be a welfare component in the national disaster organisation. [More…]

• Nobody in this chamber can honestly tell me that the money that we spent on this looney idea of metric madness has achieved as much for the internal workings of Australia as we would have gained if that money had been devoted, say, to the portfolio of the Minister for Science and used for a scientific investigation, and more particularly an investigation into the health and welfare aspects of medical science. [More…]

• community health and welfare, [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; a wider base for international understanding and goodwill. [More…]

• The basic problem behind the lack of programmes designed for children is the fundamental divergence of aims between those primarily interested in the welfare of children and the commercial interests of television licensees and their shareholders. [More…]

• It is to be hoped that the Government will endeavour to plan on a national basis and on a constructive basis, and not take the easy way out by adopting ad hoc, piecemeal, social welfare measures which only facilitate fruit growers leaving the industry after they have lost their war against poverty without offering them an alternative other than to join the ranks of the unemployed in the outer metropolitan areas of our capital cities. [More…]

• There is an inequitable distribution of welfare housing to the underprivileged, as the Henderson report and others have pointed out. [More…]

• The very recent establishment of the Department is evidence of the Government ‘s interest in the welfare of those - [More…]

• However, they did contribute a great deal to the welfare of the people of Australia. [More…]

• Cutbacks in health, education and social welfare programs are adding to the disadvantages of those who live in isolated areas. [More…]

• I would like the Government to draw a greater distinction between that sort of assistance because of a short term aberration in the market and an area that I would like to call welfare. [More…]

• We get a situation in the country in which many people who are receiving what is virtually welfare in a form of assistance are, because of the rate of welfare, persuaded that their particular industry has a future. [More…]

• I would like to see a greater distinction made between short term assistance to an industry that has a short-term down turn in its prices and the sort of welfare area that will assist producers to leave agriculture altogether or to go into some other area of production. [More…]

• There is always a conflict between the justification which may sometimes exist for paying a subsidy on purely economic grounds- on grounds of resource allocation- and welfare. [More…]

• Always there is this conflict of interest between justification for paying a bounty on purely economic grounds and an attempt at justification for paying bounty on social welfare grounds. [More…]

• It is a very ineffective and inefficient way of distributing welfare payments. [More…]

• In relation to Aborigines it claims that there is an added drain on its social welfare services because of its high Aboriginal population. [More…]

• I remind the Minister for Social Security that when I was travelling recently in north Queensland people expressed concern about 2 matters affecting welfare services. [More…]

• Will the Minister indicate whether appropriate flexibility exists in north Queensland to cope with the special conditions applying there with regard to welfare services? [More…]

• Can one rightly assume that the inadequacy of the sum allocated indicates that this is an exercise to gain cheap political advantage and not one to further migrant welfare? [More…]

• Perhaps I should restate the concluding remarks of the honourable senator’s question to suggest that his question in the form in which it was asked may be designed to obtain cheap political advantage and not to assist migrant welfare. [More…]

• For this reason I have sent copies of the report to my colleagues the Ministers for Social Welfare in each of the States. [More…]

• I am aware of their common interest in this matter, which is exemplified by a recent report on social indicators which I have received from the honourable Ron Payne, Minister for Community Welfare in South Australia. [More…]

• I believe that all governments- whether they be Liberal Party, Country Party or Labor Party governmentsshould have the national welfare of this country at heart and should meet around a table to see that the real wealth of this country that needs to be spent on roads is in fact spent on roads. [More…]

• Senators 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…]

• Consequently we set about the legislation concerning the Australian Housing Corporation and the welfare housing program which was designed specifically to assist people on lower incomes to get their own homes. [More…]

• Of course we also recognised the difficulties that had arisen for what could be termed that middle income group or people who were not eligible for welfare housing but who were experiencing considerable difficulties in obtaining homes because they were not able to pay very high amounts of repayments. [More…]

• The poorer sections of the community- in that regard I include those sections which include people who earn too much to be eligible for welfare housing but who do not earn sufficient to enable them to meet the interest commitments- will be ignored. [More…]

• The continued construction of housing in Australia is fundamental to the proper welfare of all Australians. [More…]

• They can be assisted not only by land price schemes or land price controls of some son but also by the provision of various types of welfare housing. [More…]

• Despite the fact that some welfare housing is available in that State, thousands of people are on the waiting list to go into those houses. [More…]

• If replacements are not found, either in alternative forms of energy or in methods of transport, there will be serious effects on economic and social welfare. [More…]

• Looking further at the crude oil situation, Russia and the United States of America are today conserving their crude oil as much as possible because there is a need for the longer term production of industrial feed stocks of such things as drugs and fertilisers which will be needed in future years, fertilisers to assist in food production and drugs to assist in the welfare of humanity itself. [More…]

• If we compare the projected figure for uranium exports with $800m for wool exports and about $500m for beef exports, we can see their enormous potential for the welfare of this country. [More…]

• Extract from letter from Stan Davey c/o Community Welfare, Fitzroy Crossing 18 Feb. 1976. [More…]

• So, with this sort of attitude within the parties, let us look at the annual reports of the Welfare Branch and see how this was implemented within the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, or the Welfare Branch as it was from 1970 onwards. [More…]

• We had a situation in which the Department or the Welfare Branch attempted to provide clothes, European education, European food, health services and so on to the Aboriginal people in the same quantum as would be supplied to a European community. [More…]

• The work that has been done within the Government Parties has been hard work by individuals who have been concerned with the welfare of the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• I understand that a draft discussion paper, in the form of an internal document which canvasses options for rationalisation of staff resources within the Social Welfare Division of the Department in which the Community Services Branch is located, has been distributed amongst officers who might be directly affected if any of the options canvassed in that paper were to be taken up. [More…]

• It is to give services to migrants particularly in matters of social welfare and social security, that we review these matters from time to time. [More…]

• The Committee has interpreted the terms of reference as intending it not just to confine its investigations to employment of musicians within the Australian Broadcasting Commission itself but also to seek the views and opinions of individuals and other organisations which also are involved in the welfare, training and employment of professional musicians in Australia. [More…]

• -by leave- Mr President, over the last several months, you have forwarded to the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare some 25 annual reports for its consideration and if necessary for report thereon. [More…]

• An integral part of all of these Bills is the housing, welfare and education of the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• There is also the type of Aboriginal who receives welfare housing because of his family income or the lack of opportunities making it impossible for him to pay rent. [More…]

• That has to be done on a welfare basis whereby the rent is subsidised by the Commonwealth. [More…]

• The delay in the proclamation of proposed section 70 will allow a law of the Northern Territory- that is, the Social Welfare Ordinance controlling the permit requirements -to continue operation until such time as the ordinance is appropriately amended. [More…]

• As the Social Welfare Ordinance contains a total package for the administration of the entry onto Aboriginal land, it would be preferable to allow its amendment before allowing it to operate concurrently with the Commonwealth Act. [More…]

• As the Social Welfare Ordinance contains a total package for the administration of the entry onto Aboriginal land, it would be preferable to allow its amendment before allowing it to operate concurrently with the Commonwealth Act. [More…]

• It is further evidence of our desire to approach all questions of Aboriginal advancement and welfare m the spirit of consultation and co-operation. [More…]

• With relation to the statement by the Queensland Minister for Aboriginal and Islanders Advancement in the Estimates debate in the Queensland Parliament on 26 October 1 976, in which Mr Wharton claimed that ‘radical changes in policy implemented by the Commonwealth Government in recent years seem likely to extinguish completely or, at least, drastically reduce the levels of Commonwealth financial aid to Queensland for matters associated with Aboriginal welfare ‘, is the Department of Aboriginal Affairs engaged in implementing a continuing policy of ‘isolating, bypassing and ignoring’ the Queensland Department of Aboriginal and Islander Advancement, as has been claimed by Mr Wharton. [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Social Security received a letter from the NOW Centre in Melbourne protesting about her withdrawal of the welfare rights officer grant from the Federation of Italian Labourers, Emigrants and Families? [More…]

• As the report of the Bailey task force on coordination in welfare and health will be of great interest to the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare, because, Mr President, as a committee we have taken considerable evidence on many of the task force references, can the Minister say when the report will be handed down? [More…]

• It is further evidence of our desire to approach all questions of Aboriginal advancement and welfare in the spirit of consultation and co-operation. [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…]

• In writing about another devaluation on 29 November Mr Davidson said that it is a mortal blow to the credibility of the Fraser Government and it does ‘great harm to the material welfare of most Australians’. [More…]

• Worse than that, subsidies on production inputs have done nothing for welfare problems in industries; they have simply benefited those who have needed them least. [More…]

• I hope that this television inquiry into self-regulation will expose the people in FACTS and FARB, and all the rest of them for the people they are, people who have no concern for the public welfare whatsoever. [More…]

• However, it has established specific inquiries into the care of the aged and infirm and the co-ordination of welfare and health programs which will no doubt recommend on measures needed to further improve the effectiveness and efficiency of services in these areas. [More…]

• Other assistance given to them is provided by the migrant welfare service of Commonwealth Hostels Ltd and by the company’s migrant accommodation advisory service which assists them to find private accommodation in the community. [More…]

• In a number of decisions, such as the introduction of family allowances, full personal tax indexation, the investment allowance, and the allocation of moneys to Aboriginal and welfare programs, the Government has moved to help the sectors of the community hit hardest by inflation, and to encourage activity. [More…]

• Although many problems facing fruitgrowers have their origins m the industry’s dependence on export markets, welfare problems and reconstruction needs are not restricted to the export sector. [More…]

• But, when the IAC recommends that our apple and pear industry should fall into the vulturous hands of social welfare or the ‘people oriented assistance approach’, I am completely in agreement with the Corporation when it states that that would be essentially a negative and ultimately more costly method of sustaining people in this industry than would be real industry support. [More…]

• I refer briefly to what the Corporation has asked the Government to do; that is, not to accept the welfare proposals of the IAC but to continue the new stabilisation scheme for 3 years-1977, 1978 and 1979. [More…]

• The point I am making is that if these people were forced to pay the commercial rate of interest- given the current financial situation of many of them there is no reason on welfare grounds why they should not be forced to pay commercial rates of interest- there would be some incentive to repay the loans. [More…]

• Conduct research and experiments in the areas of employee welfare, personnel policies and practices, and application of behavioural science concepts in the fields of job design, job satisafaction, personal and organisational development and worker participation in industrial, commercial and government establishments. [More…]

• Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to the statement by Professor R. H. Henderson, Director of the Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne and formerly Chairman of the Inquiry into Poverty in Australia, reported in the Sydney Morning Herald dated 22 November 1976, that local authorities instead of State Governments should control grants for social welfare in Australia. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 34 of the Services 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 calendaryear 1975. [More…]

• In addition advances made by the Commonwealth to the States for welfare housing purposes under the 1973-74 Housing Agreement may be used for the provision of accommodation for both single aged persons and aged couples. [More…]

• I would go so far as to say that if any of the political ambitions of people in this chamber are to be met- I refer to members of the Opposition and to members of the Government- then they had better pay regard to the 2 States of Western Australia and Queensland, which I believe will provide the fuel which will permit the Australian machine to function and which will enable us to fulfil our general welfare and social ambitions for the country that we all represent. [More…]

• I believe that the election next Saturday therefore has a national significance, not only for those who are interested in development as development but also for all those who want to see better education, better social security, better health and better welfare. [More…]

• All the talk in the world about welfare, education and all the rest, if it is not underpinned by economic expansion is, in my submission, so much cant. [More…]

• Any substantial increase in defence expenditure is regarded suspiciously by the civilian community as sacrificing much needed social welfare, while any reduction in the absolute amount of defence expenditure or its proportion of the gross domestic product is interpreted as running down Australia’s defence capability. [More…]

• What efforts are currently being made to evaluate this situation and to assemble available resources in an attempt to get the matter into proper perspective so as to assist productivity and to head off a situation which, if it continues, could be extremely damaging to the national welfare and could lead to all sorts of undesirable social and economic consequences? [More…]

• What I can do is give an assurance that with the continuing good administration of the Court Government and with the federalism policies, the welfare and general revenue available in the public and private sectors to the people of Western Australia will continue to burgeon. [More…]

• The Henderson report said very simply that of the 183 000 people, give or take a few, who were receiving the benefits of this welfare housing only 5 1 000 were truly poor and that a racket was involved. [More…]

• In making available $375m this year for welfare housing my Government has invited the Premiers to come around the table and suggest when renewing the agreement for future years from June 1 978 how we can better use the money to make sure that people in most need get the most benefit; how we can subsidise the truly needy and not the house. [More…]

• By February 1975, again during the time in office of that group of people who are so concerned about Australia and the welfare of the work force, unemployment in manufacturing had risen to 5.3 per cent. [More…]

• Figures of Commonwealth Budget outlays demonstrate that under Labor what really happened was that the productive sector of the country, the growing and developing sector, was leant upon to increase distribution to what I call the welfare consumption sector. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Budget outlay in 1972-73 on what might be called the total welfare and defence sector represented 44 per cent of total outlays. [More…]

• When we were elected we discovered that the social welfare system of this country, which once had been the envy of the whole Western word, had degenerated to such an extent that it was well behind the social welfare systems of all of northern and western Europe and that the areas from which previously large numbers of immigrants had come to this country had dried up because working people were not prepared to leave the Netherlands, West Germany, France, Austria, Norway or Sweden to come to this country. [More…]

• The reason was that, despite the fact that they lived in countries where in proportion to the population there was much less wealth than there is in Australia, they were still much better off than they would have been if they had come here, because of the total breakdown of the social welfare system that had occurred in this country during 23 years of Liberal-Country Party government. [More…]

• In fact, the proportion of the Budget that was spent on social welfare increased from 22.5 per cent in the last full financial year of Liberal-Country Party government to a proposed 34.5 per cent in 1976-77. [More…]

• We were conscious of the fact that, as a result of this slowing down in business activity and as a result of the increased expenditure that we had found necessary for social welfare, education and other long overdue necessities for the Australian people, we were faced with a very considerable problem. [More…]

• The Government which replaced us is not committed to ideas of social welfare. [More…]

• In June and July 1976 the Government established 2 inquires 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 postarrival 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. [More…]

• The Committee on Care of the Aged and the Infirm and the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health are commended for their efforts. [More…]

• It is important that the Opposition, welfare recipient organisations and the various welfare organisations in all States at least now will be able to study both of these reports, discuss their findings, their relevance to the welfare scene in this country, and contribute, we hope, although we sometimes doubt whether we will be able to do so, to the outcome of these reports and the eventual implementation of the recommendations. [More…]

• We believe that the guidelines that were given to both these committees were unnecessarily narrow and mainly demonstrate the Government’s pre-occupation with finding real or imagined overlaps and duplications in our welfare programs and its obvious desire to foist as many of the social welfare programs as possible on to the States with a resultant reduction in the cost to the Commonwealth. [More…]

• It is notable that despite the very strong words in the statement of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) relating to duplications and overlaps in the field of social welfare and the implication in the statement that these largely caused the problems about which we all know in our social welfare programs, the Bailey Task Force, at page 24 of its report, states: [More…]

• This finding bears out the submission that the Australian Council of Social Services made to the Bailey Task Force when it said that there was very little evidence of overlap causing inefficiency in the field of social welfare. [More…]

• In the last 5 years we have had very many valuable reports on welfare in this country. [More…]

• A large number of Social Welfare Commission reports and reports put out by voluntary agencies are available. [More…]

• We have talked about them in the context of the overall adequacy of our welfare programs. [More…]

• It is very important that this obsession with duplication and overlap- as I said, real or imagined- must not overshadow the findings of all the more detailed, careful, independent and, I suggest, useful inquiries which show that the overwhelming problem in the welfare field or the health field in this country is not duplication and overlap but gaps. [More…]

• Considering the personnel on those committees- not the individual personnel but their association with the government servicethe time schedule and the tight terms of reference that were given to those committees, I believe that they were just intended to be a means whereby the philosophical goals of the present Government of pushing off as much expenditure and responsibility in the welfare field to the States could be adequately fulfilled. [More…]

• We all are concerned that health and welfare programs will be effective and will achieve their aims. [More…]

• In this whole field of welfare and health services, Commonwealth-State relations and responsibilities have always been important. [More…]

• The Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health, chaired by Mr Peter Bailey, recognises this at page 46 of its first report where it states: [More…]

• In summary, we believe the Commonwealth should discharge several important functions in the welfare/health field: [More…]

• as the national government, be responsible for establishing national policy, maintaining a critical surveillance of the welfare /health field and initiate action to reduce undesirable overlap. [More…]

• Therefore, we in the Opposition urge that the Government not treat these reports as it treated whatever report came out of the Medibank Review Committee and that it provide not only ample consultation with the welfare organisations, with the people who are to receive welfare, but also ample consultation with all other members of the community who are interested in this aspect. [More…]

• We are anxious that these reports be considered in association with the other very important reports and very important studies that have been done in the field of welfare in this country. [More…]

• If we allow welfare development in this country to continue to grow like Topsy, as it has done for 77 years, and if we go on adding bits and pieces here in response to some articulate group around election time or out of a desire to do something nice in a Budget the contents of which are otherwise unpleasant, the shambles will get worse. [More…]

• Merely reorganising the funding of welfare programs, shifting them to the States, shifting the responsibilities from one department in the Federal Government to the other and ceasing funding through direct organisations but channelling it through the States is no way to bring decent reform to welfare in this country. [More…]

• Naturally it took some time for State governments, local government authorities, voluntary organisations and individuals who participated in it to learn how to work together and to assess the welfare needs in their own area. [More…]

• They formed a human resource whose skills could be used to set up welfare plans in those communites which worked efficiently and which would work more efficiently in the future as they became more experienced. [More…]

• She promised to go away and consider the representations put to her and that the Government would make a decision after she had consulted her State counterparts at the Welfare Minister’s conference which, from memory, was held in Darwin. [More…]

• I am not privy to what the Government considered or whether the decision had already been made; but what we know for sure is that, before any one of the State Welfare Ministers could open his mouth, put a point of view or even participate in any sort of serious discussion, the Minister read and circulated a statement which had been prepared before the conference and which pulled the rug from under the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]

• The difficulty in the A.C.T., of course, is that funding for welfare planning which was received by the A.C.T. [More…]

• Because of the involvement and help given by voluntary organisations these projects are costing the community far less than they would have if the Department for Community Welfare tried to take them over. [More…]

• Those regional councils, established in States where neither the State or local government elected members have any experience or interest in the welfare needs of the people, were very apprehensive about the likelihood of their State governments wanting to take up where the Commonwealth had left off. [More…]

• Administrators and welfare personnel who have become experienced, who have gained skills and brought them into this area, have gone to look for work elsewhere. [More…]

• Finally, in the event of a referendum being held, is it not possible- in fact highly probable- that the result would reflect the views of the more recent residents rather than those of the real Norfolk Islanders for whose welfare we are principally responsible? [More…]

• I well remember the interest which a number of honourable senators had in the abolition of a statutory commission of the Commonwealth, the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]

• The Government is considering the first report of the Bailey Task Force on co-ordination of health, welfare and community development programs, including the Area Improvement Program. [More…]

• Does she also recall that Mr Fraser, as Leader of the Opposition, chided the Labor Government for giving insufficient funds to those offices, drawing the inference, if I remember correctly, that the Labor Government refused to countenance alternative welfare policies? [More…]

• What he did not say was that President Roosevelt established big governmentI prefer the term welfare programs- because of the failure of big business in those troubled times to deal with and care about people. [More…]

• -Does the Minister for Social Security agree that the Australian Assistance Plan was responsible for the initiation of some of the most innovative programs in the history of Australian social welfare? [More…]

• What funds have been provided by the Commonwealth to each State and for Australia as a whole for State welfare housing in each financial year since 1 970-7 1 . [More…]

• Two schemes are administered by my Department under which capital funds are provided by the Commonwealth to the States for welfare housing. [More…]

• Consultation has been sought with leading academic figures, with the judiciary, with health and welfare professionals and administrators. [More…]

• The fact that lone fathers with young children may qualify for this benefit is generally well known to welfare organisations. [More…]

• I understand that Telecom Australia currently is investigating, in conjunction with the Australian Council for Rehabilitation of the Disabled and appropriate welfare orientated government departments, what other facilities might be required and how best they could be made available. [More…]

• Is the Government considering introducing a system of identity cards for persons receiving welfare benefits? [More…]

• The statistics which I have quoted in some detail are all the more alarming when we look at them in terms of preserving the family unit as basic to the welfare of our democracy. [More…]

• The introduction of the contributory Medibank scheme meant a saving of $2,000m in the Health vote of the nation and meant that the Government was able to maintain and improve the level of expenditure in other important areas such as social welfare and education. [More…]

• Being one who has taken some interest in the welfare of rural people in New South Wales, I agree with that contention but I would would emphasise to Senator Lewis that the members of the Government Parties are not the only ones who have an interest in the welfare and well-being of the Australian people generally, especially those in rural areas. [More…]

• Since he entered this chamber, Senator Lewis has shown that he has an active interest in the welfare of Victoria, in particular the country areas in which he lives. [More…]

• His speech in the Senate today was a credit to him and should give confidence to the people of Victoria that in Senator Lewis they have a worthwhile person who is interested in their welfare, particularly in the rural community. [More…]

• Apart from inheriting a wrecked economy from the Labor Government, we also have had to provide from revenue a considerable amount of money- something of the order of 25 per cent -for social welfare payments. [More…]

• Now it says: ‘Let us have some more social welfare; let us have some money’. [More…]

• This is of very great concern for many of the people who are concerned with welfare housing in this country. [More…]

• We know that we cannot plan properly in this country for future social welfare services of all types, including pensions and rehabilitation, until we obtain the results of some of the recent censuses so that we have some idea of what the problems are, where they are and how large they are. [More…]

• Our only objective, as you would know, is to do all we can for the welfare of each patient who comes under our care, and we would be available to discuss a problem or endeavour to solve any difficulty they may have at any time and help in any way possible. [More…]

• As the Minister himself has pointed out that useful submissions have been made by the NACC on matters of education, health and welfare, employment, language, customs and land rights, can we be advised when it is planned to hold the next meeting of the NACC? [More…]

• The various State social welfare ministers met in Sydney on Friday, 19 November 1976. [More…]

• Leaders of thought, leaders in education, social welfare and community education, also have a responsibility to remind the Australian people that if we talk about having the right to work, when the opportunity to work comes it should be taken and not ignored so that people can live at the taxpayers’ expense. [More…]

• In the light of the growing need for the provision of adequate interpreter and translation services in hospitals, law courts, social welfare agencies and the like, and the shortage of qualified interpreters and translators, has the Government given consideration to the development of translation by computer-based and/or video machines? [More…]

• This is the result of a study conducted by the health and welfare branch of” the Canadian Ministry of Health and Welfare in which saccharin was shown to cause malignant bladder tumours in test animals. [More…]

• Of course the circumstances of your personal interest in the Nella Dan’s welfare were unknown to me but I thank you, personally, for your interest in preparation of the expedition vessel. [More…]

• In fact, the first government to introduce government legislation for any social welfare in this country did so only early in this century. [More…]

• Australia has an enviable record for early social welfare and the Liberal Party has a particularly good record in this regard. [More…]

• The first country actually to legislate for any form of social welfare was Germany in 1889. [More…]

• As I look back over the last 60 years, it seems hard to imagine that such a short while ago there were just no social welfare benefits of any kind. [More…]

• The Government should encourage self reliance so that more individuals can provide and are willing to provide for their own welfare. [More…]

• The new family allowance scheme places in every mothers hands an allowance to spend as she thinks is best for the welfare of her family. [More…]

• In relation to Aborigines the Queensland Government claims that there is an added drain on its social welfare services because of the high Aboriginal population. [More…]

• But here is the punch line: Despite the Government claims that there is a drain on social welfare services because of the high Aboriginal population, it persistently refuses to co-operate with the Federal Government. [More…]

• We have introduced a family allowance scheme which, one would gather, Senator McAuliffe does not support or approve but of which we are very proud as it is one of the most radical and necessary social welfare initiatives introduced in this country in a quarter of a century. [More…]

• While I share the concern for the welfare of members of Parliament expressed a short while ago by Senator Baume in a very adequate speech, I think we should be concerning ourselves with the welfare of our fellow Australians, and this document fails to do that. [More…]

• That Government study group seems to show some awareness of the problems which Government senators try to ignore by characterising people who voluntarily leave their employment as people who are lazy and who want to receive welfare benefits and by characterising young people who are without work in a general sense as ‘dole bludgers’. [More…]

• We have seen the ending of the Austraiian Assistance Plan and the attempt to hive off all responsibility on to the shoulders of State governments, none of which is able to meet the cost of this essential welfare service. [More…]

• We only have to look at the last Budget to see that illustrated, when $33m was cut from expenditure proposed for Aboriginal welfare services, housing and the like. [More…]

• Funding for Aboriginal welfare would not have been slashed; it would have been increased. [More…]

• The Congress will bring from 1500 to 2000 visitors to Australia, including Ministers, judges, academics and other leading figures in the fields of law, criminology, police, corrections, social welfare, mental health, sociology, education and related areas and disciplines. [More…]

• I report to the Senate that I have received a letter from the Leader of the Government in the Senate nominating senators to be members of legislative and general purpose standing committees as follows: Constitutional and Legal Affairs- Senator Missen, Senator Chaney and Senator Rae; Education and the Arts- Senator Davidson, Senator Collard and Senator Martin; Foreign Affairs and DefenceSenator Sim, Senator Knight and Senator Scott; National Resources- Senator Thomas, Senator Maunsell and Senator Townley; Science and the Environment- Senator Jessop, Senator Bonner and Senator Townley; Social Welfare- Senator Baume, Senator Tehan and Senator Walters; [More…]

• The same situation exists in relation to welfare officers. [More…]

• The case load of the present welfare officers is sixty to one hundred. [More…]

• Yet at present it is sixty to one hundred cases per welfare worker. [More…]

• This problem is exacerbated by the fact that the welfare workers who are operating in the Territory are given no chance to train. [More…]

• Looking beyond the European situation in the Northern Territory to the Aboriginal situation, I point out that in 1974 the Cabinet directed that there be an Aboriginal welfare officers training program. [More…]

• The Department was moving out to work in Aboriginal communities and, quite obviously, we all would support the proposition that we need Aboriginal welfare officers. [More…]

• The same situation applies in regard to welfare officers. [More…]

• Groups are moving off the stations and setting up fringe camps around the towns, with no welfare officers to support them. [More…]

• They are saying: ‘Okay, the welfare state concept will do me; it is good-oh’. [More…]

• In Australia 1 570 000 people are in receipt of social welfare payments. [More…]

• A deserted father should have the same entitlements to social welfare payments as a deserted mother with dependent children has. [More…]

• Departments have to adjust in order to assist these people in the same manner that they now assist supporting mothers, widows and other recipients of social welfare payments. [More…]

• She can go to a community welfare department or the Department of Social Security, but for the sole male parent there is very little assistance offered. [More…]

• If a woman goes to a community welfare department or the Department of Social Security, she is told of the pensions to which she is entitled not only for herself but also for her dependent children. [More…]

• I refer to the dependant’s allowance which is paid to all social welfare recipients with a dependent child or children. [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…]

• a ) 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…]

• The new family allowance scheme places in every mother’s hand an allowance to spend as she thinks is best for the welfare of her family. [More…]

• Has the Minister for Social Security read the speech by Mr Lynch to the Liberal Party State Council on Saturday last in which he predicted the severe curtailment of welfare expenditure and the ending of some welfare activities in the next Budget? [More…]

• In which areas will welfare expenditure be severely curtailed? [More…]

• Indeed, there have been many indications that we are anxious to do what we can to intensify our links with our South Pacific friends, not only in order to develop a spirit of regional co-operation but also to help the governments of the region to advance the economic welfare of their people and, just as importantly, to advance the social and educational welfare of their people. [More…]

• In the area of welfare, the 1 976-77 Budget for Aboriginal affairs was $ 1 53m in toto. [More…]

• The Government is mindful of its election undertakings and is committed to promoting the welfare and well-being of Aboriginals. [More…]

• While the level of funding in the areas mentioned has been held pending the review we have made money available to the crucial areas of unemployment and welfare. [More…]

• They give a comparison on spending for housing, health, education, employment, welfare, enterprises, town management, public utilities, recreation, legal aid and in some general areas for the years 1972-73 to 1976-77, the current financial year. [More…]

• In relation to the welfare of Aborigines, there have been grants to the States and grants in aid totalling some $3m just as there have been grants to Aboriginal enterprises for employment opportunities totalling $4m. [More…]

• As far as this Government is concerned programs relating to the welfare of Aborigines will have priority. [More…]

• This is the Government which said that there will be no cutbacks in Aboriginal welfare programs, employment, housing or health and which immediately sliced $33m off the Budget. [More…]

• I direct the attention of the Senate to the amounts of money which have been expended over the years on Aboriginal assistance in such areas as housing, health, education, employment, welfare, enterprises, town management and public utilities, cultural recreation, sporting activities, legal aid and so on. [More…]

• Mining growth, although for various reasons we may question the optimum rate of growth, does provide a potential to increase the material welfare of all Australians provided the appropriate adjustments are made. [More…]

• Included among those people are welfare officers. [More…]

• I think the Sydney court has attached to it about six counsellors or welfare officers, which is about the same number attached to the Parramatta Court, but I think the Sydney court has seven or eight judges. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence which recently inquired into and reported on the plight and circumstances of the Vietnamese refugees and whose report was tabled in Parliament on 1 December 1976, made extensive recommendations on the need for closer co-operation and co-ordination of the various government and voluntary organisations active in the field of refugee welfare. [More…]

• The Refugee Resettlement Co-ordination Committees include representatives from Commonwealth Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Education, Health and Employment and Industrial Relations; from State Departments of Health, Education and Welfare and the Depart.ments responsible for Ethnic Affairs; from voluntary organisations such as Red Cross, St Vincent de Paul, and Salvation Army, and from many other organisations including ethnic and religious associations and from refugee groups. [More…]

• In addition the Depanment of Social Security as Convenor of these Committees has been able to use its extensive understanding of the welfare system in each State to facilitate the work of the Committees. [More…]

• Sub-committees have been formed to cover such areas as Education, Health and Welfare. [More…]

• In some States Departmental welfare officers with the same ethnic background as the refugee groups are used to assist also. [More…]

• Long term assistance including the payment of benefits, counselling, information, interpreting and welfare services, has been provided by my Department to isolated children and single parent families from Timor who have been separated from their families or bread winner parents as a result of the disorder in that area in 1975. [More…]

• The primary task of the Settlement officer is to supervise, co-ordinate and implement orientation programs for refugees, to assist the Welfare Officer from Commonwealth Hostels Ltd, as required where particular settlement difficulties are being experienced by individual refugees and to assist with queries and problems with Social Security Benefits. [More…]

• The Settlement Officer is also able to arrange for follow-up by welfare staff from my Department where the refugees move from hostels to private accommodation. [More…]

• This may be achieved through a Follow-up Sub-Committee of the Refugee Resettlement Co-ordination Committee which arranges for a welfare officer or social worker from the Department of Social Security to regularly visit the refugees shortly after they move from the hostel. [More…]

• This cultural information is particularly important if the statutory and voluntary agencies dealing with refugee groups are to develop appropriate resettlement activities and provide effective welfare services. [More…]

• For example, there is listed the telephone number of the Abortion Counselling and Rape Crisis Centre as well as the telephone numbers of the Pregnancy Support Service of Canberra and other welfare organisations. [More…]

• As multiple sclerosis tends to become manifest in the early 30s and as this severely affects the family as well as the patient, can the Minster say whether any special welfare provisions apply for people suffering from this chronic condition? [More…]

• Legislative Assembly, that is, to its Health and Welfare Committee. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Social Security and relates to the article in today’s Australian newspaper headed ‘PM poised to cut down on welfare cash’. [More…]

• I ask: Is there any substance in the suggestion in the article that the Prime Minister has written to the Minister recommending cuts in certain welfare payments and projects in the next Budget? [More…]

• Great concern is being shown by all people in the area for the welfare of this important section of the community. [More…]

• Is the Government considering Budget cuts to migrant welfare services such as community interpreters and migrant telephone interpreter services? [More…]

• Is it not true that since I last asked a question on this subject speculation has continued and in fact has been widened to include not only the field of social welfare but also education and defence? [More…]

• Has not this speculation been widened by speeches made by the Treasurer and the Prime Minister, such as the speech the Prime Minister made to his electorate yesterday when he said that expenditure would have to be cut and that the fields of social welfare, education and defence seemed the most likely areas for cuts to be made? [More…]

• Briefly, the IAC has proposed the termination of stabilisation after the 1977 season … For the future, (beyond 1977), the IAC has recommended a number of welfare measures . [More…]

• This is 35 years after Lord Beveridge came along to bring the plight of welfare into the apple industry. [More…]

• Apart from any disputation as to the validity of the IAC’s findings on the future viability of the export trade, the social welfare or ‘people oriented assistance’ approach has been strongly opposed - [More…]

• We who participated in the inquiry into the impending collapse of the copper industry at Mount Lyell saw how obvious it is that we spend much more money completely wastefully if we go into welfare than we do by supporting, on a product based subsidy, an industry which for the time being is not making its costs and cannot be viable without some government assistance. [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- then went on to say that this ‘support is not unequivocal, and not without some basis of criticism’. [More…]

• But it is not only the industry that is important, it is the people associated with it, the individuals who have been pushed out of what was a successful and worthwhile occupation into various other areas of activity or into fields of unemployment and social welfare. [More…]

• Director of Aboriginal Welfare, and the amount of work he did in the development of settlements and of Aboriginal education. [More…]

• Can the Minister say whether consideration has been or is being given to having Australian Capital Territory welfare programs administered in Canberra rather than through the Department’s New South Wales office? [More…]

• If the Minister feels it necessary and considers it appropriate will she seek the views of the Australian Capital Territory Social Welfare Consultative Committee on these matters urgently with a view to possible reforms in the 1977-78 Budget? [More…]

• It is a fact that Australian Capital Territory welfare programs are primarily dealt with through my Department in New South Wales. [More…]

• The point I make in citing that figure in this debate is that that saving meant that in areas such as education and social welfare the Government was able to keep up the commitments of the previous Government, and indeed, in some areas- in the area of education- there was increased expenditure. [More…]

• We have demands for defence, welfare, the Aboriginal people, national roads and so on. [More…]

• Australia because when we approach the Aboriginal student we approach not only a problem of education but a problem of health, pastoral care, and welfare. [More…]

• We have a profound responsibility in terms of health and welfare. [More…]

• In one of the first statements on Timor in the Australian parliament Dr Evatt said in October 1943 ‘As a result of the war, Australia must show a particular interest in the welfare system of control of these islands and territories that lie close to our shores. [More…]

• ‘As the result of the war, Australia must show a particular interest in the welfare and system of control of those islands and territories that lie close to our shores. [More…]

• The other ‘important point in our consideration of this matter is of course the welfare of the native people of Portuguese Timor which has been notoriously neglected by the administration. [More…]

• We submit that in this territory and elsewhere in the South- West Pacific surrender arrangements should not prejudice readjustments found desirable in the interests of security and welfare always subject, naturally, to the consent of the powers concerned.’ [More…]

• This revealed not only a new Australian preoccupation with the welfare of the indigenous population in colonial dependencies but contained more than a hint that the Australian Government would consider strong measures to ensure that Portuguese Timor was physically included in any future Australian strategic framework. [More…]

• Tonight, one year and one day later, I repeat my plea to the media not to use this word ‘bludger’ in the context of social welfare. [More…]

• RAAF Welfare Recreational Company. [More…]

• February 1977, that the Queensland Government is Queensland’s biggest social problem, and that the Queensland Government is withholding funds provided to it by the Federal Government for badly needed welfare work. [More…]

• If so, (a) what welfare funds are being withheld by the Queensland Government and (b) what action is the Federal Government taking as a result of the withholding of funds by the Queensland Government. [More…]

• The reference to the ‘six Government funded positions’ is not entirely clear, but it is thought that it may relate to positions funded under the Grant-in-Aid scheme for migrant welfare activities. [More…]

• The rules of the Grant-in-Aid scheme have now been widened to permit the employment of welfare officers in addition to Social Workers and this development will broaden the scope for the employment of bi-lingual people with relevant experience. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Social Security: Is it a fact that some 43 positions are being removed from the establishment of the Community and Social Welfare Branch of her Department in Victoria? [More…]

• We believe it is in contempt of the rights and welfare of the unemployed and in contempt of the legal procedures of this land to conduct government business the way this Government has conducted it. [More…]

• We believe that this action by the Government has demonstrated that the Government not only has no concern for the welfare of the unemployed- for their need of income support- but also is unconcerned about the proper processes of this Parliament. [More…]

• We recently had tabled in the Parliament the report of the task force on health and welfare, chaired by Mr Peter Bailey- the Bailey Task Force- which deals particularly with this issue of the movement of welfare services between different levels of government. [More…]

• As honourable senators 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…]

• Is the Prime Minister giving serious consideration to the proposal by the Australian Council of Trade Unions that a social welfare planning ministry be established in Australia. [More…]

• Of relevance in this context, however, is that the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health was asked in its terms of reference to report on the continuing machinery which should be established to co-ordinate social policy development at the Commonwealth level. [More…]

• It should be understood that the composition of an appeals tribunal embraces a social welfare worker- a person with experience and qualifications in that field- a lawyer and a departmental officer. [More…]

• If the strike or ban in South Australia continues and endangers the functioning of essential services as well as affecting adversely the jobs of innocent and conscientious workers, will the Government declare a state of emergency to make sure that crude oil will be delivered to the refinery so that the welfare of innocent people will not be placed in jeopardy by a few radicals who seem to have no concern for either the welfare of the community or the economy generally? [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Social Security: Will the sum, which I understand to be about $688,000, which was raised and placed in trust by the Spastic Welfare Association of Western Australia for the proposed Sir David Brand centre for handicapped children, be matched by a $4 for $1 government contribution in 1977-78 or in subsequent years? [More…]

• We have a 3-year program under the Handicapped Persons Assistance Act and a certain amount was set aside for the Spastic Welfare Association of Western Australia. [More…]

• As I understand it, the Spastic Welfare Association has a large project in view, some of which will involve other departments such as the Department of Education. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development: In view of the apparent lack of housing for rehabilitation purposes through the women’s refuges, can the Minister say whether pressure can be put on the States to give priority in allocation of welfare housing to the clients of the refuges? [More…]

• One of the endeavours of my colleague, the Minister in another place, with regard to welfare housing is to seek to have discussions with his State colleagues in an effort to ensure that priorities are more correct in the allocation of welfare housing. [More…]

• It has been clear from statistics that many people who deserve high priority for welfare housing are not being allocated such housing and that those whose priority is lower or has lapsed are in receipt of welfare housing. [More…]

• Issues which is located at Richmond, Victoria and which provides a national service, utilised across Australia, in education, welfare, industrial, health and community relations programs. [More…]

• I would be prepared to release to Senate Estimates Committee D any information which it requires on expenditure under the National Welfare Fund. [More…]

• There needs to be a clear realisation of their dependence upon each other for the total welfare of each other. [More…]

• -by leave- On behalf of the Standing Committee on Social Welfare, I wish to inform the Senate of the outcome of the Committee’s consideration of a number of annual reports referred to it by you, Mr President, pursuant to resolution of the Senate. [More…]

• Royal Australian Air Force Welfare Trust Fund for year ended 31 December 1975 [More…]

• The Bureau provides assistance to the sponsored students in various matters relating to their education, training and welfare. [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…]

• I suppose that because of particular circumstances which have arisen all of us are contributing to this debate on the basis of how best in a society such as ours one can contribute to the welfare of the motor car manufacturing industry, the employees engaged in it and the companies engaged in it. [More…]

• The effect on employees in terms of social and family disruption is of course quite considerable, but the point which has to be made is whether in the free market society in which Senator Cotton believes we live, companies should be able to operate to the detriment of the social welfare of individuals employed in an industry such as this and should be able to behave in the manner in which this company has behaved. [More…]

• The sort of conduct in which General Motors is now engaging is anathema to a free society if it continues to be subjected to the same double standard which the Government hands out and continues to behave like a dinosaur in the context of a free market without any regard to the public interest or the welfare of its employees. [More…]

• Our view has always been that the Government Parties are concerned with the welfare of the whole of the community. [More…]

• In short, profit is the main consideration of the multinationals, not the welfare of this nation. [More…]

• We should not let Government supporters try to fool the people of this nation that the multi-nationals ever invest their capital in this country because they are concerned with the welfare of workers and the people who live here. [More…]

• Can the Minister now advise me what criteria were applied in funding the City of Frankston and the City of Hawksburn primary schools in Victoria as they had not been funded before, and why the City of Williamstown, the City of Altona, the Australian Greek Welfare Society, the City of Essendon, the Huntingdale Technical School and the City of Chelsea, which had previously been funded, were denied funding for these holidays? [More…]

• I believe one of the clearest examples of this was in the strict and narrow guidelines which the Government gave to the Bailey task force on health and welfare which looked into these and other problems. [More…]

• This applies particularly in the field of welfare housing. [More…]

• For this reason the Social Welfare Commission’s excellent report on care of the aged recommended that the Australian Government should take an active part in determining the distribution of housing for aged and disabled people and that it should take an active part in the planning and funding of this accommodation. [More…]

• On page 141 of the report of the Social Welfare Commission one can read the following quite definite statement: [More…]

• The Social Welfare Commission’s report also comments on the legislation we are dealing with now. [More…]

• It therefore concerns us that this legislation seems to be the first step in a plan whereby the Commonwealth Government will opt out of the future planning and the future overseeing and development of welfare housing in this country. [More…]

• It also disturbs the Opposition that the only initiative of note about which the Government has been boasting has been in the field of welfare housing. [More…]

• Inquiry into Poverty, the Social Welfare Commission and many other interested groups in the community, we have had the knowledge available to cope with the housing problem in this community or to start to cope with it. [More…]

• We are told that this period of 12 months, apart from waiting for the new housing agreement, will give time for 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 to be studied and perhaps reforms introduced. [More…]

• Two years ago welfare organisations in Melbourne calculated that there were 3500 homeless men in the inner Melbourne area alone. [More…]

• Today welfare organisations tell us that the numbers with which they are dealing are increasing rapidly and that the number of men who need a bed and breakfast is increasing rapidly. [More…]

• If I am to believe the welfare organisations in Melbourne- I have no reason to believe that they are not caring people who know something about this area- the position is getting worse. [More…]

• It raises 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…]

• It may well be that the recommendations in the Bailey and Holmes reports are sounder in welfare terms than what the bureaucracy is proposing. [More…]

• Reports on housing and welfare will be available, and all members in both Houses of the Parliament believe that those reports will make a valuable contribution to the areas of housing and welfare. [More…]

• I reiterate that in fact the Social Welfare Commission, in its report entitled Care for the Aged, recommended very strongly that the Commonwealth exercise some control over this expenditure and set up national standards and guidelines, as did the Bailey Task Force on Health and Welfare and the Holmes Committee. [More…]

• The simple fact is that when a national government sees a national need to set up and to support any sort of welfare funding, be it for women’s shelters, for aged persons’ housing or for anything else, it should do so. [More…]

• The decision by the United States and Canada to phase out the use of saccharin in foods and beverages was the result of a study conducted by the Health and Welfare Branch of the Canadian Ministry of Health and Welfare in which saccharin was shown to cause bladder tumours in rats. [More…]

• So far the Tribunal has no jurisdiction in the welfare field. [More…]

• The new contract specifically requires that the tenant must provide staff welfare facilities and amenities generally in accord with the N.S.W. [More…]

• It goes right across from the area of foreign affairs to health and social welfare and Federal-State relations. [More…]

• Australia’s present and future capacity to resettle refugees successfully depends on many factors including: the prevailing economic situation, the level of unemployment, the locations within Australia to which refugees wish to go, the background of refugees to be acceptedtheir capacity for early integration or otherwise, the availability of special post arrival serviceslanguage instruction, education, training, accommodation, health and welfare, the numbers of refugees for which voluntary agencies can care. [More…]

• If the Budget is as predicted I think it might be able to be said that this Government has proven to be one of the most disastrous in our short national history in the field of social welfare. [More…]

• Jobs were created by special grants to local government, the introduction of housing associations, community welfare jobs, and loans to people to purchase businesses, farms and so on. [More…]

• In the social welfare area, for instance, the cornerstone of our approach has been to give priority of assistance to those most in need, and make sure that aid is provided to people in ways that increase their independence- in ways which allow them to choose how they will use the aid to most benefit themselves. [More…]

• 1 ) Does the Minister agree with claims made in a letter to the Age of 27 March 1977 relating to the processing of returns of the 1976 Census signed by 17 of Australia’s experienced academics and social service experts that the proposed delays in processing census materials and elimination of the topics from analysis, in whole or in pan, will (a) save a mere $2m after $7m has already been spent; (b) seriously hamper the work of the Bureau of Census and Statistics in providing materials for effective planning on economics, housing, health, education, welfare, transport and other urban services; and (c) increase the likelihood of error in the allocation of future resources in these areas. [More…]

• Task Force on Co-operation in Welfare and Health (Question No. [More…]

• 1 ) What consideration has the Government given to the recommendations of the Bailey Task Force’s report on the administration of health and welfare programs. [More…]

• Is it a fact that there is currently only one Aboriginal welfare officer in the Department of Aboriginal Affairs carrying out the job of assisting young Aborigines employed by the Department to settle into work and accommodation in Canberra? [More…]

• Does the Minister agree that such counselling and welfare facilities are essential if young Aborigines from isolated parts of Australia and from the Torres Strait Island are to succeed in the new work environment of Canberra? [More…]

• Will the Minister investigate this matter with a view to providing an adequate number of welfare officers in the Department of Aboriginal Affairs for this important work? [More…]

• I agree with the honourable senator on the importance of having an adequate number of welfare officers for Aboriginals, in particular to assist young Aboriginals. [More…]

• 1 am unable to say whether there is only one Aboriginal welfare officer in the Department of Aboriginal Affairs who can do this work at present. [More…]

• Eventually the Social Welfare Action Group, Miss Karen Green and others who assisted her took the Government’s action to the High Court of Australia. [More…]

• In the knowledge that there was an appeal- there were several appeals to several courts over this case- members of the Opposition, members of various social welfare groups, members of all sorts of self-help groups including unemployed self-help groups in the community encouraged people to register for unemployment benefits, but many still did not apply because they thought it was a waste of time to do so. [More…]

• Doctor Spiro Moraitis, President, Australian Greek Welfare Society. [More…]

• This area resolves to a discussion of 2 major assertions: Firstly, the question of the viability of an immigration program in the light of the demands it makes on investment in infrastructure- social overhead capital- for instance, welfare, education, housing and so on. [More…]

• It is not only a matter of providing funds or equipment for education facilities in the next quarter of a century; it is also a matter of taking account of community needs bearing in mind employment opportunities, social welfare, social outlooks and job and community satisfaction. [More…]

• They have established large social welfare programs, housing programs and education programs. [More…]

• What grants have been made to the Ferntree Gully and Districts Welfare Association for the intellectually handicapped since the introduction of the Handicapped Persons Assistance Act. [More…]

• Has the leasing of Knoxbrooke land on the old Ferntree Gully quarry site prevented the Ferntree Gully and Districts Welfare Association from attracting funds for the extension of facilities for the intellectually handicapped at Knoxbrooke. [More…]

• As this land is held in trust for the Ferntree Gully and District Welfare Association to extend their services to the handicapped, what steps can be taken by them to restore eligibility for a grant under the Handicapped Persons Assistance Act if they are currently ineligible. [More…]

• 1 ) Grants made to the Ferntree Gully and District Welfare Association for the intellectually handicapped from the inception of the Handicapped Persons Assistance Act to 6 May 1977 total $35,583. [More…]

• The Australian public will know that we are concerned about their welfare and we are prepared to do something pracitcal about prices. [More…]

• It just shows how hard she can be when it comes to social welfare matters. [More…]

• It is very clear, when one comes into the Senate and listens to speakers from both sides, that some people are motivated by a genuine concern for their country and its welfare. [More…]

• If we look at total budget expenditure for 1 972-73, we see that the amount of money being spent on health, education and welfare took 33 per cent of the Budget. [More…]

• In the last year expenditure on health, education and welfare took 46 per cent of the Budget. [More…]

• As far as the matter raised by Senator Cavanagh is concerned, I point out that all pensions and benefits paid by the Commonwealth Government are paid from the National Welfare Fund. [More…]

• There is an automatic payment from the National Welfare Fund of the amount required for all pensions and benefits. [More…]

• I state, for the information of Senator Cavanagh, that any pension or benefit paid under the Social Services Act finds an automatic payment through the National Welfare Fund. [More…]

• It is a matter not of omitting to provide for additional expenditure in the appropriation with which we are now dealing but rather of a special arrangement financially under the National Welfare Fund. [More…]

• An adjustment is made at the end of a financial year, taking into account all those commitments that have been met under National Welfare Fund expenditure. [More…]

• The Minister assures me that unemployment benefit is paid out of the National Welfare Fund and is not covered by this particular appropriation. [More…]

• When preparing these estimates the Minister advised the Treasury of what she thought would be necessary to meet the additional requirements of social welfare for the period up to the end of June. [More…]

• So I still question whether the National Welfare Fund has the money to pay the benefit. [More…]

• I think I ought to make some reference to the National Welfare Fund which was again referred to by Senator Cavanagh. [More…]

• Perhaps I did not make it clear to Senator Cavanagh that the National Welfare Fund is a fund through which the amounts are provided automatically in accordance with the Act. [More…]

• I thought it was a matter of knowledge that when we talk of not passing appropriation Bills such things as payments from the National Welfare Fund do continue. [More…]

• Payments from the National Welfare Fund continue and the adjustment is made to that Fund at the end of the year when the actual figures are able to be placed against the projected or budgeted figures. [More…]

• It is not a matter of having to provide a separate Bill for moneys from the National Welfare Fund. [More…]

• The National Welfare Fund is the mechanism by which we are continuously able to provide the payment of benefits while those benefits remain in the Act and the money is required for them. [More…]

• Again, I thank the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) for her explanation about the National Welfare Fund. [More…]

• Administrative and financial arrangements for health and welfare programs: Bailey and Holmes reports Education: Shared funding [More…]

• Welfare Programs: [More…]

• The Bailey and Holmes Reports (on co-ordination in Welfare and Health and on Care of the Aged and Infirm respectively) were tabled in Parliament on 17 February 1977 and the Prime Minister then announced the setting-up of a follow-up group of Commonwealth officers concerning the implementation of this part of the Federalism Policy. [More…]

• Of course, that is due to the recognition by the Government of the most important and direct services in the health and welfare field, particularly in the institutions, rendered by the Department. [More…]

• and another mollycoddling activity, typical of the welfare state.’ [More…]

• No one in their right mind would claim that this Government is typical of the welfare state. [More…]

• I hope that Mr Norgard, in his inquiry, will not advise the Government that it should close down some of these regional offices and again open district agencies and hand them over to people like Councillor Mason who can give only a very small portion of their time to looking after the welfare of the people who are in need of unemployment benefits. [More…]

• During the three year experimental period of the Australian Assistance Plan ended 30 June 1976, two applications for financial assistance, lodged by Regional Councils for Social Development in New South Wales with access to a community welfare grant, were rejected. [More…]

• Several applications from Regional Councils with access to a community welfare grant were referred back to Councils for additional information. [More…]

• Has the Minister or her Department undertaken any recent study of the report on the mentally handicapped which was presented by the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare and tabled in this Senate in May 1971? [More…]

• -I thank Senator Davidson for drawing attention to the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• We adopted a housing policy aimed at reducing house prices and providing welfare housing for more Australians. [More…]

• From my interpretation of the terms of reference of the inquiry of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare, I believe the Committee will primarily be concerned with standards of performance, pattern of current practice, mechanisms for evaluation and requirements for ongoing evaluation, the purpose generally being to ensure that the latter are made an integral part of health and welfare programs. [More…]

• I therefore see the activities of this Working Party being complementary to those of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare without duplication of purpose or function. [More…]

• We find particularly within the area of social welfare that there are lengthy delays in payments to people who are entitled to receive welfare payments. [More…]

• Handicapped Persons Welfare Act. [More…]

• This country’s social welfare and living standards were built on the sweat, toil and blood of the working class. [More…]

• I think that strikes affect the general prosperity of the country and the welfare of its citizens. [More…]

• Darwin Disaster Welfare Council: Final Report. [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…]

• Although the Commission stated that the bounty should not be regarded as a welfare measure it examined superficially- admittedly superficially- the welfare implications at page 34 of the report. [More…]

• I look further into this report which has been used extensively tonight- as it should be, because it is an authority- and look at subparagraph 6 of paragraph 8 on page 33 which deals with incomes and welfare. [More…]

• That because of the precarious position of the younger dairyfarmer, this organisation keep them in mind at all times and work for their welfare to the utmost. [More…]

• I ask: Is it true that orders to cut 43 staff from the Community and Social Welfare Branch of her Department in Victoria are still proceeding despite the Minister’s allocation of 96 additional staff, and that staff members’ demotions and removals will be implemented on this coming Monday, 6 June? [More…]

• Finally, is it a fact that this will overload staff, including welfare staff remaining in the Branch, who are already overloaded with demands for their services because of the existing inordinately high levels of unemployment? [More…]

• A strong case cun bc made that legal aid is to a sufficiently large extent a welfare, as distinct from a narrowly legal, issue that the preponderance of lawyers on the proposed commission is inappropriate. [More…]

• One point made by the Canberra Times editorial to which I have referred was that the question of legal aid involves important questions of social issues and important questions of welfare in addition to narrow legal questions. [More…]

• We regard them as fundamental to the development of legal aid as an aspect of welfare services in this country because we happen to believe that access to lawyers in many senses is as important to citizens of this country as access to doctors, though perhaps not as pressing from time to time. [More…]

• I again want to emphasise the point, which was referred to in the Canberra Times editorial, that legal aid should not be seen just as part of the legal system but as part of the welfare system within a democratic society. [More…]

• The public certainly would demand extensive and substantial amendments to it because the public sees legal aid not as a narrow legal issue but, to a very large extent, as a welfare issue. [More…]

• It is quite possible that if some State governments in terms of their welfare considerations were to give priority to legal aid and others did not we would arrive at a situation in which a built-in inequality of rights in relation to the capacity of people to obtain legal aid would operate throughout the Commonwealth. [More…]

• A strong case can be made that legal aid is to a sufficiently large extent a welfare, as distinct from a narrowly legal, issue that the preponderance of lawyers on the proposed commission is inappropriate. [More…]

• On behalf of CAGEO we wish to confirm our strong opposition to the present intention of the Government to pass the Commonwealth Legal Aid Commission Bill through both Houses of Parliament this week, without sufficient time for adequate consideration of the measure by affected staff associations, welfare organisations and members of the public, and of course by Members of Parliament themselves. [More…]

• As to the structure and functions of the Commonwealth Legal Aid Commission itself, CAGEO considers that it is too heavily weighted towards lawyers and did not guarantee adequate representation of persons who have expertise in welfare and consumer areas. [More…]

• A number of community welfare organisations, including ACOSS and its State affiliates, have consistently criticised the Commonwealth’s decision to dismantle the ALAO. [More…]

• This is especially true ofan advisory committee, where a detailed knowledge of legal practice is less important than an understanding of social welfare services, research techniques, and the needs ofthe consumers of legal aid. [More…]

• If that occurs the only representative able to put forward the consumer and social welfare perspective will be the single nominee of the Australian Council of Social Service. [More…]

• The Victorian Minister for Social Welfare wrote to me on 27 April 1977 enclosing a copy of his statement announcing the planned introduction of a Victorian Family and Community Services Program through which assistance will be made available for community service projects which are developed in conjunction with local government, self-help groups and voluntary agencies. [More…]

• The South Australian Minister for Community Welfare wrote to me on 18 May 1977, referring to his Premier’s press statement of 4 May that the State Government will provide financial and other support for the Australian Assistance Plan (AAP) in 1977-78. [More…]

• I have not been advised of their intentions by any of the other 4 State Governments, but am aware that the Tasmanian Minister for Social Welfare announced on 18 May 1977 that the sum of $48,000 would be made available to allow 3 Regional Councils for Social Development in that State to continue operating. [More…]

• The Queensland State Minister for Community and Welfare Services issued a press statement on 23 May 1977 indicating the Queensland Government would not fund a continuation of the AAP. [More…]

• 1 ) and (2) I am aware of a request which claims that such a need exists in the area and I have asked my Depanment to investigate and to take whatever action is considered necessary to ensure that residents are enabled to apply for whatever social welfare assistance they are entitled to. [More…]

• A certain amount of welfare work is, of necessity, also carried out. [More…]

• Why were the Cities of Williamstown, Altona, Essendon and Chelsea, the Australian Greek Welfare Society and Huntingdale Technical School, all of which had previously been funded, denied funds for their holiday care projects. [More…]

• Both the Commonwealth and the State Government are very concerned that there should have been a collapse of an undertaking which had multi-millions of dollars of funds involved and which concerned the welfare of many thousands of students. [More…]

• I ask: Will the Minister now rectify the confusion by approving the promised Federal funding to enable the Shelter to pay the salary of the qualified child care welfare worker engaged because financial support had been previously promised? [More…]

• Even professional associations, welfare organisations and almost all forms of social activity are subject to the supervision and control of the security authorities. ‘ [More…]

• These areas are entirely separate from those areas such as the general welfare of members of the Italian migrant community, which which FILEF is supposed to be dealing. [More…]

• The South Australian Government contributed $8,500 recently to FILEF for the purposes of its welfare activities. [More…]

• It is hoped that it will contribute even more to the welfare of these people. [More…]

• 1 ) Senator Missen has made representations to me on two occasions on behalf of Mr K. C. Haines, solicitor, Melbourne, who has also himself made separate representations to me relating to the need for foreign translations of the documents prepared under regulation 1 9 of the Family Law Regulations on the effects of proceedings and the availability of counselling and welfare help. [More…]

• At the same time, the right of the mother to rejoin the work force after such reasonable time as she thinks the health and welfare of her child and herself require, and the wish of the supporting parent who is ready to work rather than receive social security benefits, must be safeguarded. [More…]

• He recommended abolition of the 7-day waiting period, as did Professor Henderson and the Reverend Mr Martin of the Commission of Inquiry into Poverty and as has everyone in the welfare field who has had anything to do with unemployment beneficiaries. [More…]

• One knows that the system which is being proposed is causing concern in the welfare area and in the Department of Social Security itself. [More…]

• As with so many other Government measures, the new system will result in more people being thrown on to the care of the voluntary welfare agencies, especially in the first and second weeks of their unemployment. [More…]

• The Government is training people in community welfare schemes. [More…]

• As Senator Grimes mentioned there is also a lack of assistance in social welfare schemes as a result of staff ceilings. [More…]

• The request was rejected after discussions with the State Department for Community Welfare on the grounds that the accommodation sought was inadequate. [More…]

• The Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Authority; the Defence Force Retirement Benefits Board; the Australian Services Canteens Organisation; the RAN Central Canteens Board; the RAN Relief Trust Fund; the RAAF Veterans Residence Trust; the RAAF Welfare Trust Fund; the Australian Military Forces Relief Trust Fund and the Services Canteens Trust Fund. [More…]

• The last Estimates showed provision for a migrant welfare service in Melbourne and Sydney. [More…]

• As the Department of Social Security plays a major role m the lives and welfare of thousands of underprivileged Australians I now ask the Minister: Why is it that in today’s Press Government officials are reported as confirming the appointment of Mr Pat Lanigan, Second Commissioner of Taxation, to replace Mr Daniels whilst the Minister herself declines to inform the Senate fully on matters relating to this important change in her own Department? [More…]

• Recognising 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…]

• I have no doubt that the Department of Social Security will reject his application for a transfer because it would be very happy to see this unemployed worker who is in receipt of sickness benefit forced to go to gaol, and to sacrifice his sickness benefit so that his wife and children would have no income and would be forced to apply for community welfare payments from the State. [More…]

• Objections by APTU to supervisory officers inspecting locker rooms and welfare areas. [More…]

• I suggest that honest workers have never been more exploited in this country than they are at the moment by dishonest union leaders who rise to a position of prominence on the claim that they will promote the welfare of the worker and who forget about that claim when they are elected to office. [More…]

• I am convinced that unions are necessary as a balancing and important factor in the welfare of individual employees in Australia. [More…]

• Union leaders have a particular responsibility for the welfare of their members. [More…]

• It is bad enough that the members of the Australian Labor Party Opposition fail in their responsibility to criticise where union activities are arrogant and not for the welfare of employees, much less for the welfare of the Australian people. [More…]

• We must look at it in the total context of the Australian society, especially our education and social welfare systems. [More…]

• The new Ethnic Affairs Branch of the Depanment of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, staff for which is now being recruited from inside and outside the Commonwealth Public Service, will have responsibility, amongst other matters, for developing an overview of the position of migrants in the community in relation to health, welfare, housing, education, employment, communications, the law and other matters affecting their integration; identifying gaps in services or programs and, in co-operation with appropriate government and non-government agencies, developing approaches and pointing to action to remedy deficiencies. [More…]

• The Government has also agreed to the establishment or two experimental Migrant Resource Centres for an initial period of two years, one at Richmond, Victoria, within the Australian Greek Welfare Society, and the other to be administered by the Depanment in New South Wales. [More…]

• The Melbourne Centre commenced operation at the Australian Greek Welfare Centre at Richmond on 1 February 1977. [More…]

• The Depanment provides a direct welfare service to assist migrants with information, advice and counselling concerning individual problems and referrals to relevant authorities and agencies for relief or treatment. [More…]

• This service is provided in State capitals, Canberra, Wollongong and Darwin, through a field staff of about 25 social workers and 50 welfare officers, of whom the majority are competent in languages other than English. [More…]

• The Department is responsible also for the coordination of welfare services provided for refugees, evacuees etc. [More…]

• As a special measure to help overcome communication barriers which might significantly affect migrants’ welfare, the Department operates the Telephone Interpreter Service which provides an interpreting service over the telephone to assist nonEnglish speaking migrants and those having dealings with them who might require assistance to communicate. [More…]

• The Department is responsible also for a grantinaid scheme for migrant welfare activities, the purpose of which is the provision of grants to non-government social welfare agencies for the purpose of undertaking social welfare work to benefit migrants. [More…]

• If we argue that there is to be structural unemployment or a restructuring of industry where we see a need perhaps in the future to have some adjustment in respect of employment opportunities and other factors which may arise, we should still be looking at the effects on economic growth and productivity that will determine whether we are able to do the things that we would wish to do in education, health, welfare and so on. [More…]

• Social welfare outlays are estimated to total $7,250m which is an increase of about 13 per cent on last year’s expenditure. [More…]

• Few people realise- it is well to say this-that for every dollar paid in personal income tax 56c is allocated to social welfare expenditure in this community. [More…]

• He is not concerned about the welfare of South Australia or the Budget proposals. [More…]

• Benjamin and J. Morton, A Model for Welfare Service Planning and Delivery (AGPS. [More…]

• Australian Council of Social Service, ‘Consumer Groups and Their Views on Welfare Services’; Fitzroy Ecumenical Centre, ‘Housing Commission Tenants in Fitzroy and Collingwood’; Fitzroy Ecumenical Centre, ‘Tenants in Privately Rented Accommodation in Fitzroy and Collingwood’: in Consumer Views on Welfare Services and Rented Housing (AGPS, Canberra, 1975). [More…]

• Cox, ‘The Role of Ethnic Groups in Migrant Welfare’; J. I. Martin, ‘The Economic Condition of Migrants’: in Welfare of Migrants ( AGPS, Canberra, 1975). [More…]

• Brown, ‘Welfare Services in Brisbane’; D. Adams and C. Tilse, ‘Accessibility of Services in Brisbane’: in Community Services: Four Studies (AGPS, Canberra, 1976). [More…]

• ‘Glebe: Community Need and Service Organisation’; V. Douglas, ‘A Study of Health and Welfare Services in Melbourne’; P. Harlow. [More…]

• P. Harris, ‘Local Authorities and Social Welfare Services and Facilities’; H. J. Cunnington, ‘Communication Between Welfare Agencies and Clients’; in The Delivery of Welfare Services- With AGPS. [More…]

• Craft, ‘School Welfare Provision in Australia’; P. Toft, The Red Cross School Volunteer Project’; in Aspects of School Welfare Provision- With AGPS. [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 people 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…]

• To have more court counsellors, welfare officers and legal officers could greatly improve the facility and the ability of the court to operate as an effective unit. [More…]

• The figures illustrated the progressive increasing share going to grants-in-aid for health, welfare, employment and housing directly to Aboriginal communities and organisations in keeping with the concept of self-help and selfmanagement. [More…]

• I ask this question in the light of the fact that already each night in Brisbane an average of 1,000 homeless have to ballot for a bed offered by charitable and welfare organisations. [More…]

• There be continuing and expanding funding for the Hunter Region Working Women’ s Group so that it can continue to provide child care, legal aid, community health, welfare and educational services to the women of the Hunter Region. [More…]

• Even with renovated houses, its output will still be about one-third of what it used to be under a dynamic, thrusting government which had the welfare of the people at heart, especially the people at Whyalla. [More…]

• I recognise that he is up against difficulties with his Government, which has restricted all expenditure, including expenditure on welfare to sections of the community in relation to whom there should never have been a restriction. [More…]

• Rumours were floated around by the Opposition that there would be cuts in the welfare field and that in point of fact there had been cuts in the education field. [More…]

• Not only were they proved wrong but also the welfare area was extended. [More…]

• The next area in the social welfare field to be extended is the area involving the rehabilitation of disabled housewives. [More…]

• Will the Minister look at the staff establishment at the Greenslopes Hospital with a view to restoring previous standards and relieving the concern of the inmates and the RSL branches which look after the inmates’ welfare? [More…]

• My main concern is for the welfare of the people living in the Hostel. [More…]

• I shall not make any decisions on the future of the building until those discussions have taken place, and I am satisfied that the welfare of those people has been protected. [More…]

• Affairs (Senator Viner), the Minsiter who is responsible for their welfare. [More…]

• The Western Australian Minister for Community Welfare, Mr Ridge, claimed in the Western Australian Parliament that a task force had been consulting with the Lockridge people - [More…]

• He sent other telegrams criticising the Labor Party for indicating that funding for Aboriginal welfare would be grievously reduced. [More…]

• I suppose when one looks back over the events of the last week or two, there was no suggestion that Mr Ellicott, who made all these grandiose promises as the shadow Minister, was likely to resign when the cutbacks in Aboriginal welfare took place. [More…]

• You know that you are doing the wrong thing, not only in the area of Aboriginal Affairs but right across the whole field of social welfare so far as your Government is concerned, and you do not care. [More…]

• Mr Viner said that although the provision of housing was a matter for the State Government through the State Housing Commission and the Department for Community Welfare, he had been particularly concerned to follow developments amongst homeless Aboriginals in the Guildford/Lockridge area. [More…]

• The regular review of the circumstances of pensioners and other social welfare beneficiaries which was abandoned for those two years has now been reinstated. [More…]

• That sort of unproductive work is essentially of a band-aid nature and will make no long term contribution to the welfare of either the work force, the economy or the community. [More…]

• When this debate was interrupted last week, I was pointing out the Government’s concern shown m the Budget in the areas of social welfare. [More…]

• The site in question was one of a number inspected by the Minister for Community Welfare in Western Australia, the Hon. [More…]

• By an arrangement with the State Department of Public Health, on whose land the Lockridge camping site is situated, the Department of Community Welfare arranged to provide toilet and ablution facilities and other services to the best of its ability, to any Aboriginal people who wished to camp at this site. [More…]

• It is the intention of the Department for Community Welfare and the State Housing Commission to seek accommodation for the Aboriginal families now living at Lockridge and, providing the families concerned are willing, to place them in urban housing in the metropolitan area. [More…]

• I would like to make it quite clear that the State Department for Community Welfare and the State Housing Commission have the main responsibility for settling the Lockridge situation and that my principal interest in the matter was to provide financial assistance for concrete and satisfactory proposals put to me through my Department for the settlement of these distressing conditions. [More…]

• My Department provides the funds for the Department for Community Welfare to conduct a Special Research Project on Aboriginal homelessness and additional staff has recently been appointed to this unit which includes anthropologists and social workers. [More…]

• K. A. Ridge, Minister for Community Welfare in Western Australia, in which I said: [More…]

• It is possible that a systematic method of approach for tackling urban homelessness that has applicability for other parts of Australia could be an outcome of the concentrated study currently being undertaken by Mr Robinson’s Special Project within the Department for Community Welfare. [More…]

• The present occupants of the temporary camping site at Lockridge moved to the site voluntarily on 16 June 1977 with the assistance of the Department for Community Welfare. [More…]

• Only last year I made available nearly $ lm to the Western Australian Department for Community Welfare, which has the statutory responsibility for reserve administration, to carry out a special project to eliminate reserve dwellings in the south west of the State. [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 [More…]

• It should be expected that the Government would be looking to the same general processes of refinement in high expenditure areas including education, welfare and health. [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 concern for the welfare of nursing home patients, the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt) has written a letter to all patients to reassure them that the proposed changes to the nursing home arrangements will advantage them as patients. [More…]

• The Department certainly will co-operate in whatever way is possible to ensure that the interests and the welfare of the pensioners are safeguarded. [More…]

• Accommodation for the aged and for the frail aged has long been an unsatisfactory part of our welfare system in this country. [More…]

• Governments of all political persuasions inevitably will have to grasp the nettle and radically rethink this problem, as has been pointed out in the Holmes report, as has been pointed out in the report entitled Care for the Aged put out by the Social Welfare Commission and as is pointed out at every geriatric conference and conference of aged persons organisations every year. [More…]

• The question which the honourable senator asks is of profound importance in education and in general welfare. [More…]

• We have, as a Department, the welfare of pensioners very much in our minds. [More…]

• If we found that a number of warranty arrangements were being made by a single person or from a single address we certainly would have an interest in seeing that the welfare of the pensioners was preserved. [More…]

• We would certainly follow through in whatever way we are able any information that suggested that the welfare of pensioners was not being preserved. [More…]

• Does the Government support taking over the function of voluntary agencies concerned with Aboriginal welfare, rather than supplementing them financially. [More…]

• However, if a matter were referred to us or if we had reason to believe that there was any abuse of this system, protection of the welfare of pensioners would be of first priority in our minds and any appropriate investigations would be made. [More…]

• It is little comfort for supporting fathers to hear the Minister for Social Security, Senator Guilfoyle, acknowledge that they are the victims of a gap in the social security system or remark, in a historical context, that social-welfare legislation was written initially to safe-guard women’s interests. [More…]

• I was even more surprised when this morning in my mail I received a letter from Kathleen Edwards, who fortunately still quotes herself as chairman of the Women’s Welfare Issues Consultative Committee. [More…]

• That is the Women’s Welfare Issues Consultative Committee- were very pleased to have opportunity of meeting with you and discussing women’s issues during their meeting on 28 and 29 March. [More…]

• The task force was set up to investigate co-ordination of health and welfare. [More…]

• It is a provision for their children’s health and welfare through a time of severe stress and strain inside what could be just a domestic situation. [More…]

• They also provide women with information on child care facilities, what they can expect under the State Housing Commission welfare housing project and all these things. [More…]

• It teaches them about modern living facilities, health and education, welfare, population control and family planning. [More…]

• The churches and missions have contributed greatly to the health, education, welfare and spiritual upbringing of these people but the churches are not highly regarded by the Bantu because the churches’ giving has been all one way. [More…]

• As well the Director-General of the Department of Corrections, who was previously ignorant of Mr Orisa’s plight, has apparently taken an active interest in his welfare since 28 June 1977. [More…]

• They ask purely and simply that as we are members of parliament and as we are concerned with the welfare and the well being of people who do not have the availability of proper trials, we protest to the Prime Minister of Thailand or to the King of Thailand. [More…]

• So I presume that they are extraordinarily anxious about the welfare and progress, or whatever, of this monster of their own creation. [More…]

• We find, for instance, that the approved rate for a welfare assistant of $8,500 m March is now reduced to $7,165 or $7,432. [More…]

• Are evaluation reviews, carried out by the Priorities and Evaluation Division of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, ever made public when completed; if so, can the Prime Minister advise of any evaluations in the area of health or welfare programs which have been completed in the Department and the results of which can be made public. [More…]

• In the sense that the honourable senator asks his question, however, I can inform him that the Priorities and Evaluation Division and the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet have been associated with evaluations in the area of health and welfare programs as set out below: [More…]

• The Task Force Report on Welfare and Health (Bailey Report)- First Report [More…]

• I turn briefly to look at the position in relation to social welfare, which forms such a significant part of government expenditure. [More…]

• Yet daily we hear honourable senators and members in another place criticising the Labor Party and saying that we are not concerned with the welfare of primary producers. [More…]

• He cited figures in relation to housing which is the fifth item on the list but left out item four which deals with social security and welfare, the expenditure on which jumped this year by $8 17m. [More…]

• If honourable senators look at the two years during which this Government has been in office they will see that the total Budget allocation- I am comparing this with the Hayden Budget- for social security and welfare has risen by $2, 170m. [More…]

• The philosophy of the report was that he could see a dual role in unemployment benefit administration- to offer a welfare payment to the unemployed while at the same time working to reduce unemployment. [More…]

• Mr Brian Dixon, the Minister for Social Welfare, has been most zealous in promoting this program and seeing that it gets under way. [More…]

• Social security and welfare expenditure- I note that the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) is present in the chamber- has risen from 16.7 per cent of the total Budget outlay in 1967-68 to 27.2 per cent in the current year. [More…]

• I believe that the one-parent family falls into a special category which ought to be dealt with under the social welfare provisions. [More…]

• Potentially it will throw the 67 per cent of unemployed who have cash savings of less than $50 on to the already overworked voluntary welfare agencies, or on to their friends or families. [More…]

• Must I join my friends on Welfare? [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 1973-1974 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…]

• The welfare of whole communities depends on the well-being of the world sugar industry. [More…]

• I believe that many of the recommendations that we have made, if implemented, would contribute a great deal to the welfare of the Australian people, particularly with respect to land use planning which is an area which we believe has been neglected and an area in which State and Federal governments ought to get together in order to ensure that proper policies are introduced to deal with that aspect. [More…]

• -The States Grants (Housing Assistance) Bill 1977 provides for the payment of $390m to the States for welfare housing during 1977-78- this financial year. [More…]

• In real terms this will represent a cut of 1 1.6 per cent in funds which are at the disposal of the States for welfare housing assistance during the current financial year. [More…]

• Meanwhile, it is conservatively estimated that across Australia 100,000 families are presently waiting for welfare housing. [More…]

• The cuts in real government housing expenditure this year will worsen the welfare housing situation and will provide no stimulus at all to the housing industry generally at a time when stimulation for that industry is most needed. [More…]

• Having made those comments, I say that the Bill before us proposes to reduce the level of financial assistance which has been provided to the States for welfare housing. [More…]

• As I mentioned earlier, the payment of $390m to the States for welfare housing this financial year represents the final payment in the five-year Agreement which was entered into with the States by the Whitlam Australian Labor Party Government in 1973. [More…]

• No doubt, in any future arrangements for the provision of Commonwealth assistance to the States for welfare housing, this Government will seek to limit its involvement with this aspect of social welfare by probably establishing harsher criteria for those wishing to qualify for such assistance and also by further restricting the amount of money available for welfare housing. [More…]

• Therefore, the Labor Party sees in this Bill the dismal end of yet another social welfare scheme that was initiated by the Whitlam Labor Government. [More…]

• As I have said, the Bill provides for payment to the States during 1977 of $390m for welfare housing. [More…]

• This Bill provides $390m as advances for welfare housing. [More…]

• When the new Bill comes forward I trust that it will provide the frame-work within which welfare housing can be dealt with in a much more practical way. [More…]

• The Welfare Defence Movement, an organisation of social welfare bodies established in a sort of self-protection association, said on 1 S July: [More…]

• The Welfare Defence Movement in New South Wales strongly protests at proposed and actual cuts to welfare spending in the following areas: [More…]

• The Welfare Defence Movement, consisting of welfare recipients, welfare agencies, welfare workers, trade unions and concerned others, has arisen in response to the federal government’s cuts to health and welfare spending, which have occurred over the past year and which we anticipate in the next budgetary period. [More…]

• The request was rejected after discussions with the State Department for Community Welfare on the grounds that the accommodation sought was inadequate. [More…]

• Are we concerned with the progress and welfare of this country? [More…]

• The first area- the one that has been criticised by some people- is the area of welfare services. [More…]

• In the Australian Capital Territory, $4.8m has been allocated for welfare services. [More…]

• It is proposed to alleviate the problem by developing welfare officers amongst resident Aboriginals who will be able to prepare reports in such cases. [More…]

• Under the terms of that legislation, an amount of $390m is being provided as advances for welfare housing under the Housing Agreement of 1973-74. [More…]

• Indeed, as the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) said in his second reading speech, very substantial sums have been made available over the fiveyear period from 1973-74 to 1977-78 and the States will have received concessional interest rate advances totalling $ 1,734m for welfare housing. [More…]

• They serve on committees of other organisations in the community which are interested in the social welfare and the economic welfare of the community. [More…]

• I am sure that Senator Hall will not fool those people by taking out those figures and implying that he has a sudden interest in their welfare. [More…]

• Of course those migrants, particularly those 1 1,290 people who reside in that electorate and who Senator Hall said were born in the United Kingdom and Ireland, will not believe that Senator Hall has any interest in their welfare until such time as he comes out in public and denies his support for the statements Mr Sinclair has made everywhere. [More…]

• The facts are that I quoted the very large number of people in the electorate of Hawker who were born in Britain on the basis of concern for their welfare, and in no way was I criticising them. [More…]

• If you are going deliberately to depress wages and depress social welfare, what do you think the trade union movement is going to do?’ [More…]

• -I present the report from the Standing Committee on Social Welfare on its inquiry into the extent and nature of the inappropriate use of alcohol, tobacco, analgesics and cannabis, together with the official Hansard transcript of the evidence taken during the inquiry. [More…]

• I have the honour to present to the Senate the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare entitled ‘Drug Problems in Australiaan intoxicated society?’ [More…]

• That consideration of the Orders of the Day be postponed until after further consideration of the motion moved by Senator Baume to take note of the report of the Standing Committee on Social Welfare. [More…]

• In the previous drug report of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare, that is, its report on cannabis in 197 1, the problem of driving under the influence of cannabis was glossed over very quickly. [More…]

• They were in the main directors of departments; for instance, senior officers of the Departments of Welfare, Mines and so on. [More…]

• It has often been said in the Parliament that the Australian Labor Party has no interest in the welfare of primary producers and others who live in rural areas, but I would emphasise that the Government’s action here is in keeping with the recommendations in the IAC report concerning the inquiry into the financing of rural research. [More…]

• In view of the fact that the recent Government decision to pay unemployment benefit in arrears as from 1 November will cause added hardship and severe financial stress to many thousands of persons who are unable to find employment and that this in turn will force these people to seek assistance from State government welfare services, what action, if any, has the Minister taken to assist State governments and to compensate them for being forced to carry this added burden which is rightfully the responsibility of the Federal Government? [More…]

• At present I am having discussions with welfare bodies and also considering closely, through my National Consultative Committee on Social Welfare, the matter of emergency funding. [More…]

• The States equally provide assistance through voluntary agencies and through other programs which for many years have been part of the welfare programs in this country. [More…]

• However, as I said, the matter of emergency funding is receiving consideration through welfare bodies and my Consultative Committee. [More…]

• They say that the Australian Labor Party has no interest in their welfare and, in fact, is opposed to their very well being. [More…]

• As it is always trying to do, it was trying to hoodwink the people outside, particularly people in country areas, into believing that the Labor Party has no interest in their welfare. [More…]

• and (2) An Aboriginal Welfare Unit has been established within the Community and Professional Services Branch of the Social Welfare Division of the Department and its role, particular responsibilities and functions are as follows: [More…]

• Assess, evaluate and advise on welfare projects for which Government funds are sought through the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• Monitor trends in Aboriginal welfare services and advise the Department of Aboriginal Affairs on their policy on support of welfare programs relative to the changing needs and aspirations of the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• Provide advice and assistance to the Department of Aboriginal Affairs on training of Aboriginal welfare personnel employed by that Department, welfare agencies and Aboriginal organisations. [More…]

• Establish and maintain liaison with States, Territories, local government councils and voluntary agencies engaged in Aboriginal welfare services and provide a consultative service to them. [More…]

• Provide a consultative service to other Divisions and State Offices of the Department on all matters concerned with Aboriginal welfare. [More…]

• Administer a scheme of Aboriginal Liaison (or Welfare) Officers to be attached to all State Offices and selected Regional/District Offices of the Department. [More…]

• Participate in Inter-Departmental Committees and Working Parties at the Federal level and Federal/State consultations on Aboriginal welfare matters. [More…]

• Establish and maintain a comprehensive register of information on all aspects of Aboriginal welfare, including trends in similar fields overseas. [More…]

• It will be perceived that the thread which has been running through the fabric of this Report is that of concern for the welfare and integrity of public life which is being demeaned by various forces, but particularly by that of insidious cynicism accompanied as it is by destructive denigration. [More…]

• It reads as follows: the welfare and integrity of public life which is being demeaned by various forces, but particularly by that of insidious cynicism accompanied as it is by destructive denigration. [More…]

• Members of the LiberalNational Country Party coalition will try to influence people who live in the country areas, particularly the farmers, into believing that the Australian Labor Party has no interest in their welfare. [More…]

• Standing Committee on Social Welfare, put down a report on drug usage in Australia. [More…]

• The other comments which have been made with regard to no provision of funds being made overlook the fact that any of the pensions and benefits paid through my Department are paid through the National Welfare Fund. [More…]

• If legislation entitles people to a benefit or a pension of a particular kind, the National Welfare Fund makes that benefit or pension available at any time without the necessity for provision for it in the Budget Papers. [More…]

• The way in which this is dealt with is that benefits continue to be paid under the legislation from the National Welfare Fund. [More…]

• I heard also Senator Walsh’s remarks with respect to petrol equalisation in which he suggested that the Liberal Party always disregards the welfare of the farming community. [More…]

• They are the most technologically developed and sophisticated countries in the world, countries which have made the independent decision that they require nuclear power for their welfare and the welfare of their people, their workers and their industry. [More…]

• I should like the country people in Australia to know that whilst this Government has made great play of being very concerned about the welfare and interests of country dwellers, it is now saying that when those members of the Parliament who in their wisdom are trying to give a service to country people- those of us who have an office in the country- bring their electorate secretaries to Canberra they are going to have to shut the doors of their offices and there will be no office open to which those people can take their problems and have them attended to. [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…]

• In view of concern about alcohol abuse, as reported by the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare, and also in view of the heavy penalties imposed by all States on drunken driving to discourage excessive intakes of alcohol, will the Government give consideration to lowering the excise on low alcoholic beers as a disincentive to consume beers of higher alcoholic content? [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 Coordination 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…]

• The reason given by the Government is that it has not yet reached a decision on the proposals of the Task Force on the Coordination of Health and Welfare, the so-called Bailey Committee. [More…]

• We firmly believe that this Committee was established merely to transfer many welfare functions, including this function, back to the States. [More…]

• If one looks at the expenditure under the National Welfare Fund on accommodation and meal subsidies one will find that the amount of $800,000 has been allowed for 1977-78. [More…]

• The honourable senator referred also to the proposals of the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health- the Bailey Task Force. [More…]

• I am perfectly happy to examine the options available within the welfare system for bringing personal cash transfer to the Commonwealthonly a few parts are not with the Commonwealth now-and for taking some of the provisions of services for clients further down. [More…]

• But as has been explained by the Minister for Social Security, and explained again in her second reading speech- and this seems to have been overlooked by the Opposition senators who have spoken in this debate- the Government has not proceeded to amend the Act to provide at this stage for a widening of the scheme because it is still considering the proposals made to it by the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health. [More…]

• We have no objection to- in fact we welcome- the extension of the free service of the Commonwealth rehabilitation service to those people who previously were ineligible, but we must bear in mind that from the report of Mr Bailey, whose task force inquired into health and welfare, and from the answers given to Estimates Committee D, the question has arisen as to who should be responsible for rehabilitation services- whether they should be a State or Federal responsibility. [More…]

• I pointed out to her also by way of question the added financial burden this measure was going to place on the community welfare organisations in all States. [More…]

• Before I sit down I shall quote that reply, together with some comments which have been made by Mr Ron Payne, the South Australian Minister of Community Welfare, who, I understand, was in Canberra today talking to the Minister for Social Security. [More…]

• Mr Ron Payne, the Minister for Community Welfare in South Australia, had to make a special trip to Canberra today to speak to the Minister. [More…]

• In view of the fact that the recent Government decision to pay unemployment benefit in arrears as from 1 November will cause added hardship and severe financial stress to many thousands of persons who are unable to find employment and that this in turn will force these people to seek assistance from State government welfare services, what action, if any, has the Minister taken to assist State governments and to compensate them for being forced to carry out this added burden which is rightfully the responsibility of the Federal Government? [More…]

• At present I am having discussions with welfare bodies and also considering closely, through my National Consultative Committee on Social Welfare, the matter of emergency funding. [More…]

• The States equally provide assistance through voluntary agencies and through other programs which for many years have been part of the welfare programs in this country. [More…]

• However, as I said, the matter of emergency funding is receiving consideration through welfare bodies and my consultative Committee. [More…]

• The plan, approved in principle last week was announced yesterday by the Minister of Community Welfare (Mr Payne). [More…]

• He is flying to Canberra for today’s meeting of State welfare ministers. [More…]

• I am concerned that if school leavers who are unable to get a job are deprived of the unemployment benefit for six weeks it will throw a further burden on State welfare services. [More…]

• The child will be deprived of the unemployment benefit for six weeks and that will throw a further burden on State welfare services. [More…]

• It concerns the establishment of a social welfare unit for Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• The Minister makes great claim, as do all her fellow Ministers, about Professor Henderson’s general comment that a reduction in inflation, which is important to the welfare of the poor and the under-privileged in the community, has been brought about by the present Government. [More…]

• In the same recommendation Professor Henderson recommended that the supporting mothers’ benefit should be a Commonwealth responsibility, and that to maintain justice in the community home care help, infant welfare, child care and general accommodation services for women in distress and children in distress should be upgraded and should be funded. [More…]

• The Minister then spoke about actively involving the community in assessing and devising welfare delivery schemes. [More…]

• She mentioned the National Consultative Committee on Social Welfare. [More…]

• This Committee is some example of community involvement in the assessment and delivery of welfare schemes! [More…]

• The same goes for the consultative committees in the States and the Women’s Welfare Advisory Committee. [More…]

• I rise to make only a few comments on the Government’s statement, which took me by surprise and was obviously not so much a social welfare statement as one made in preparation for the forthcoming election campaign. [More…]

• The following assistance is being provided for Lebanese by my Department in addition to the welfare and supportive counselling services provided for migrants generally: [More…]

• Arabic-speaking welfare personnel have been outposted to areas where there are high concentrations of Lebanese [More…]

• b ) regular meetings of welfare personnel and volunteers working amongst Lebanese and leaders within the Lebanese community are convened to develop and further extend counselling and information services to Lebanese; [More…]

• a welfare officer is employed by the Australian Lebanese Association in New South Wales under a grant-in-aid from my Department, which covers salary and ancillary costs; [More…]

• On 6 September last, replying to a question I asked regarding the future of the Bulimba hostel and its 300 inmates who are low income earners and who could become homeless, the Minister said that he was most concerned for the welfare of the inmates and that he would have discussions with his colleagues about what assistance could be provided. [More…]

• As the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare recently reported in its very excellent report on drug trafficking, Australian governments have never committed themselves to any substantive and comprehensive policy on drugs. [More…]

• $900,000 was provided to the Western Australian Department of Community Welfare in 1976-77 for a special housing program in the South-West of the State aimed at rehousing reserve-dwelling Aboriginals, who do not meet State Housing Commission criteria for tenancy in conventional houses within towns, and providing them with social support services. [More…]

• It it evident that his career, both in the Parliament and in his service to the nation, not only in politics but also in his service to the armed forces, indicates a person who was obviously a great Australian and someone deeply interested in the welfare of this country. [More…]

• In the stage 2 area the Government has decided to bring the area under special control exercised by the Departments of Aboriginal Affairs; Environment, Housing and Community Development; Trade and Resources, and the Northern Territory and that there will be no exploration, development or mining within the area without the authority of the Commonwealth and that all measures will be taken for the advancement of Aboriginal welfare within that area. [More…]

• Social Welfare: [More…]

• As a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare, which recently presented a report on the drug problem in Australia, I welcome those moves. [More…]

• Perhaps this is because there is a greater awareness in the community of the trade offs that are made in a Budget contextmore assistance can only be accorded at the expense of expenditure on the environment, health, social welfare, defence … or through higher taxes. [More…]

• In yesterday’s address by His Excellency the Governor-General of Australia the Government put forward, among the apparently mandatory expressions of self-approval, a number of suggestions for furthering the development of Australia and promoting the welfare of its inhabitants. [More…]

• In the last day or so the Premier of my State saw fit to make a statement- he did not see fit to deliver it in South Australia but he had to go over the border to Melbourne- which affected the welfare and future of South Australians. [More…]

• As part of this approach, that is, a welfare approach, the then Government said: ‘We will place great emphasis on directing welfare assistance to those in real need’. [More…]

• It was going to throw an extra burden on the State welfare services. [More…]

• They have, of course, to fall back on the State welfare organisations. [More…]

• People other than those in voluntary welfare agencies are saying this. [More…]

• I briefly remind honourable senators of a couple of examples; one in the life of the previous government and one in the life of the Labor Party Government which demonstrate the positive action which is possible in Parliament to advance the public welfare. [More…]

• The record of that Government was characterised by the establishment of committees such as the Women’s Welfare Issues Consultative Committee, the Women’s Advisory Committee which still has not been established but which we are told will be established one of these days and various other committees while, at the same time, the Government is cutting back on programs which were giving assistance to people in need. [More…]

• I make brief reference in this speech to the report on drugs by the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare, of which I was a member. [More…]

• Professor Urie Bronfenbrenner, who is regarded as a world authority on the welfare of children and who wrote a magnificent article on the family entitled ‘The Origins of Alienation’, which appeared in the Scientific American, has said: [More…]

• Budgetary expenditures on welfare, health and education have grown from 25 per cent of the Federal Budget in 1966-67, 10 years ago, to 47 per cent in 1976-77, the overall expenditure in the 1966-67 Budget being $5,640m whereas in 1976-77 it was $24, 124m, almost 5 times as great. [More…]

• There is a complaint that social welfare is costing this country too much, but if the Government got rid of the unemployment problem for a start and got people back into the work force it would very considerably reduce its social welfare commitments. [More…]

• We are going to spend in the current financial year $24, 124m on social welfare payments and this is a considerable sum of money, but the Government has a lot of the remedies for this problem in its own hands. [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…]

• On behalf of the Government, he said: 1 now leave you in the faith that Divine Providence will guide your deliberations and further the welfare of the people of Australia. [More…]

• Nevertheless I feel that a major part of the disillusionment is that too many people have seen members of Parliament anxious only to score political points on the basis of party rather than with an eye to what is best for the nation ‘s welfare. [More…]

• The real needs of people, their health and welfare are ignored. [More…]

• It refers to a public meeting at Whyalla on 9 February which was chaired by the Reverend Canon Hewitson and which was convened by the Community Welfare Consultative Council. [More…]

• In the first instance, I am concerned that the statutory responsibility of the Director, Department of Children ‘s Services is being ignored as a result of substantial funding to a voluntary agency proposing to work in the field of child welfare, and, secondly, that consultation at an appropriate level concerning the proposed funding had not taken place. [More…]

• Among the sociological problems created by unemployment are education problems, communications problems, problems with health and welfare services and problems caused by the lack of retraining in other occupations. [More…]

• It should be recognised by everybody in government that we must treat welfare matters as welfare matters and not try to confuse them with subsidies. [More…]

• Honourable senators should not forget that this was paid for by slashing back on health, welfare, education, Aboriginal programs and urban improvement projects in the Budget. [More…]

• The inclusion of this question was supported by the Australian Council for Rehabilitation of Disabled and other organisations concerned with the welfare of disabled people. [More…]

• The Grants Commission figures show that total South Australian expenditure on education, health, welfare and law and order has risen the fastest of all States in the years up to 1975-76. [More…]

• These would include the selection of new personnel, promotion, training, organisation, the allocation of tasks within branches and departments, the attendance time policy, the administration of safety, health and welfare policies, and the development of the work environment. [More…]

• They have become deeply involved with safety issues, with social welfare amenities, job training and factory lay out. [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…]

• That post has some relevance to my own portfolio, and in that respect it is interesting to note that UNESCO was established in 1945 for the purpose of advancing, through the educational, scientific and cultural relationships of the peoples of the world, the objectives of international peace and the common welfare of man. [More…]

• The Speech showed special concern for the welfare of people in need in our community. [More…]

• The Speech referred appropriately to the expansion of services for migrant welfare, health and education programs and very significantly to the development of an ethnic television service. [More…]

• In 1 97 1 the first report of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare, which dealt with mentally and physically handicapped persons in Australia, had as its second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth recommendations proposals relating to the need for better information and statistics relating to handicapped people within Australia, the degrees of handicapped and the location of handicapped people. [More…]

• In view of the fact that in the last two years various senators in this place and members in another place have been told that some 30 major and minor matters of welfare concern have been referred to this Committee, will the Parliament be allowed to know what conclusions the Committee reached, and will we be able to obtain the background working papers which contain valuable information concerning future welfare planning in this country? [More…]

• -by leave- On behalf of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare, I present a report on the reference relating to the introduction of a national superannuation scheme. [More…]

• Senator BROWN(Victoria)-by leave-I have the honour to present to the Senate, on behalf of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare, a brief formal report on the reference relating to the introduction of a national superannuation scheme. [More…]

• This reference was originally given to the former Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare, of which I was a member, on 7 April 1971 and remained in abeyance awaiting the report of the National Superannuation Committee of Inquiry under the chairmanship of Professor Keith Hancock [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare believes that further inquiry at this stage would merely duplicate the work already done by the Committee of Inquiry. [More…]

• What the Minister was relaying in that letter- he went on to detail it- was that it was quite impossible for the Commonwealth of Australia to find some $12,000 to support what was effectively a welfare office for the Timorese community in Melbourne. [More…]

• If I might illustrate what the Government might do about it: In the last 12 months the Timorese community in Melbourne has, I think it is true to say, been sustained by the activities of Mr Joao Goncalves, who has been their effective welfare officer and has been employed by the Timorese Committee for Permanent Residence. [More…]

• (a) and (b) The figures quoted accord with those set out in the findings of the North Queensland Welfare Action Group, based on the survey it carried out in June 1977. [More…]

• The Queensland Act must be eliminated if Aborigines in Queensland are to receive their just due- their lands, adequate welfare and improvements to health and education. [More…]

• Having said that, I accept that in this area the major Commonwealth responsibility for Aboriginal welfare and the maintenance of the main thrust of that policy, which is to have a system whereby Aborigines are given more and more chance to manage their own affairs, is something that we must pay heed to and be prepared to act to protect if necessary. [More…]

• The report is the result of the work of a committee established by the former Social Welfare Commission, and continued after its abolition as a committee reporting to me. [More…]

• In compiling the report an examination was carried out of the patterns of welfare services provided by State governments, by nongovernment agencies and by the Commonwealth of Australia. [More…]

• The study of welfare services was carried out with the support and co-operation of State government departments. [More…]

• The Committee which has produced the report was chaired by Mrs Marie Coleman, formerly the Chairman of the Social Welfare Commission and now the Director of the Office of Child Care in the Department of Social Security. [More…]

• Department of Community Welfare, Western Australia; and Miss Valerie Douglas, Royal District Nursing Service, Melbourne. [More…]

• The report was discussed last year at a special meeting of State Ministers for Social Welfare which was attended also by me and a representative of the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner). [More…]

• Ministers agreed that they would sponsor regular national conferences on families and social welfare services in Australia, and the first of these is now in planning. [More…]

• Most of the recommendations bear on the responsibilities of the States and on the responsibilities of individual community welfare organisations, and to that extent the Commonwealth must await responses to this report from those authorities. [More…]

• Arrangements are in hand for States and Territories to establish welfare programs aimed at assisting parents to improve their child-rearing practices and thereby improve family functioning. [More…]

• The grants will be paid through State departments of social welfare and States are encouraged to develop coordinated planning in association with community groups. [More…]

• We do not even know to what extent Canberra citizens pay their way and contribute to the welfare of their fellow citizens throughout Australia because no proper territorial accounting system has yet been devised and implemented. [More…]

• 1 ) In general, the selection and admission of residents to facilitities funded under the Government’s aged persons welfare program is a matter for the individual organisations sponsoring approved services. [More…]

• People interested in gaining funds from this source can apply to the welfare branch of the Department of the Capital Territory. [More…]

• If they are statements of fact I will certainly consult with my colleagues to see what can be done to ensure that matters of health and welfare of Aborigines are protected so far as the Federal Government is concerned. [More…]

• In some places the State consultative committees on social welfare have established sub-committees to deal with child care matters. [More…]

• The view of the Government is that it wishes to see self-determination by the Aborigines, with assistance from government and community bodies to see that their health, welfare and development are such as to make them equal citizens and make the Government proud of what they are able to accomplish. [More…]

• I would not object to some sort of identification because I recognise that the people who lay down that policy and who are attempting to enforce it have at heart not only my welfare but also the welfare of those around me. [More…]

• Senator Baume ‘s committee, the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare, is inquiring into the evaluation of health and welfare services. [More…]

• I know, Mr President, that in the time of a President who held office before you there was security in this place and the welfare of each member and the staff of each member was considered. [More…]

• In announcing, on 2 March 1978, the appointment of Dr Sidney Sax as Head of the new Social Welfare Policy Secretariat, I stated that the Secretariat 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…]

• This legislation concerns me, firstly, obviously because, as I said before, I have little faith, for historical reasons and for practical reasons, in its effect on the welfare of those people in rural areas. [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Social Security given instructions to State Health Departments that municipal councils employing welfare officers under the States Grants (Home Care) Act must require them to devote 100 per cent of their working hours to the aged? [More…]

• As this would result in welfare officers ceasing their valuable community work for people in need, without isolating the aged, why has the change been made in the conditions of the subsidy? [More…]

• In all States, education, health and community welfare departments, for example, provide services to Aboriginal communities in the same way as they do to other citizens, There is no reason why these and other State Government services should be affected if reserve communities in Queensland choose self-management under this legislation. [More…]

• We stand to lose or gain very little compared with what is at stake for them in relation to their welfare. [More…]

• The views of your Synod as expressed in this decision have been noted and you can be assured that in all matters affecting the Aurukun community and indeed any Aboriginal Community in Queensland, the welfare and interests of community residents is and will continue to be of paramount consideration. [More…]

• We saw the same political bias when the Premier of Queensland stopped the National Trachoma and Eye Health Program because it was alleged that some welfare officer had political bias and had enrolled someone. [More…]

• At present in the Northern Territory- this is before the complementary and consequential legislation is passed- the Administrator, the Director of Aboriginal Affairs and welfare officers have the right and are authorised to issue permits. [More…]

• Welfare services also might not be required; they may not be appropriate. [More…]

• But I challenge anyone to deny me the same interest in their welfare as that claimed by others more vociferous. [More…]

• We have this deplorable predicament of such unique contention between the State field and the federal field with regard to an issue that should provoke the utmost urge to get down to business, resolve differences and create the most productive system whereby the welfare of the Aboriginal race is advanced. [More…]

• When we have the responsibility for evolving a system that will give the best opportunity for welfare for the Aboriginal community in the peculiar circumstances of these two areas, indirectly all the Aboriginal areas of Queensland and, of necessity, indirectly as a consequence of the development over the next five or ten years of the whole Aboriginal community of Australia, considering the definition of Aboriginal community- an Aboriginal being any person who pronounces himself to acknowledge Aboriginal descent, perhaps from Cape Barren Island- it behoves the Parliament in the threshold of a proposition of that sort first to undergo the discipline of saying: ‘We need time for gathering information, forming a judgment, debating the situation and then enacting more. ‘ [More…]

• I would be prepared to work seven days a week from breakfast time to midnight on a purposeful proposition of producing a measure that is best designed to succour the welfare of this community consistent with my overriding thought that we are one nation. [More…]

• I stand here simply to call attention to the essential claims made by an Australian polity, community, including the Aboriginals, for the purpose of reconciling their welfare in the present set up of constituted Federal government and constituted State government. [More…]

• We all support Commonwealth authority, if need be, for the welfare of the Aboriginal race. [More…]

• And the damage to them must obviously operate to the damage of Aboriginal welfare. [More…]

• If that proper occasion arose I would not intervene concerning an area of Aboriginal welfare, of which I have no knowledge, but now we get a ham effort of this sort, taken for the purpose of negativing an untoward decision of the State instead of seeking reconciliation and proper discussion and argument. [More…]

• If the Government is not dissuaded by the fact that it is creating in effect little Alsatias within the Australian community by this proposition then it is right, but if it is persuaded otherwise, if we have any interest in Aboriginal welfare, let us take a little time to consider it further, to iron out a measure, if one is needed, in the Commonwealth sphere. [More…]

• We should get back to a proper consultative council table with the Aborigines and work out a proper system of government for their welfare. [More…]

• To show how far the Queensland Liberal Party platform on Aboriginal welfare differs from the Federal Liberal policy platform, I shall read part of it to honourable senators. [More…]

• Queensland has a responsibility for the care and welfare of its indigenous people. [More…]

• This is the Queensland Liberal Party platform on Aboriginal welfare. [More…]

• As this debate is of very great importance to the welfare of the people of Aurukun and as this Parliament has to make a decision, I see nothing wrong in repeating an argument. [More…]

• Health, education, welfare, housing and law enforcement are all managed by the States. [More…]

• I concluded my remarks before the suspension of the sitting for lunch on the general subject of the reliance of Aboriginal welfare on State services. [More…]

• It is fair to say that all members of the Opposition have shown their sincerity and their interest in the welfare of Aborigines. [More…]

• If we have a real spirit of purpose to get a Bill that best conduces to the welfare of the Aboriginal people it is our job as a Senate to send off a committee patiently to consider all these issues deliberately, over a period, and come back with a report. [More…]

• In all States- I think Senator Chaney made this point stronglysuch services as education, health and community welfare are provided by State governments and it would be expected that they would be provided to Aboriginal communities. [More…]

• So a council can give a complete go-by to the whole system of State and Commonwealth law just by saying: ‘We pass a law that in this community the welfare of the community is best served by saying that residents shall conduct themselves according to the standards of behaviour approved by the council. [More…]

• Amongst these have been recommendations made on a broad range of g revisions for the handicapped in, for example, the ( 197 1 ) Report on Mentally and Physically Handicapped Persons in Australia by the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare, the (1974) Woodhouse Report on Compensation and Rehabilitation in Australia and the (1976) Martin Report on the Social/Medical Aspects of Poverty in Australia. [More…]

• Extension of funding arrangements- Because of the Government’s concern for the welfare and care of handicapped people, it has been decided to extend the threeyear program. [More…]

• I refer to a report in the Melbourne Sun on 10 April of the weekend meeting between Commonwealth and State AttorneysGeneral and in particular to the statement that all State governments except those of Queensland and Western Australia are prepared to transfer family law powers to the Commonwealth to enable the same laws and facilities to apply to the custody and welfare of ex-nuptial children and to all matrimonial property in order to overcome the effects of High Court judgments in 1976 which limited the effectiveness of the Family Law Act. [More…]

• That report will now be the subject of consideration by the social welfare policy secretariat. [More…]

• Our provision of foreign language speaking welfare workers, interpreters and welfare rights officers has been notoriously inadequate in the past in relation to dealing with migrants, especially when compared with the situation in some overseas countries. [More…]

• We have the telephone interpreter services, a welfare rights program and dual handset telephones on counter areas in our offices throughout Australia. [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 for proper environmental control and for ensuring the welfare of the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• The first committee of which I was a member was the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare, and the next was the Senate Standing Committee on the Social Environment, which looked into the environmental conditions of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and into the protection of their sacred sites. [More…]

• It is clear that the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee ought to take a close look at a very wide range of Queensland legislation to ascertain just how many pieces of legislation could possibly affect the welfare of Aborigines. [More…]

• In fact, the Centre has been invited to join several government committees including the Women’s Welfare Issues Consultative Group in the Department of Social Security, the Victorian Government Department of Labour and Industry’s Ongoing Activities of Safety Convention, the Victorian Premier’s Migrant Advisory Committee and Equal Opportunities in Schools committees. [More…]

• Recognising our mutual obligation with regard to the wishes and the welfare of the Aboriginal peoples at Aurukun and Mornington Island, the two Governments after long and earnest discussion, have reached the following agreement that in order to achieve self-management for Aurukun and Mornington Island communities: [More…]

• The Callaghan report which was commissioned specifically for Tasmania’s welfare contains no specific expenditure proposals but the implementation of the 10 point plan may involve the Commonwealth in substantial expenditure. [More…]

• The welfare of whole communities depends on this industry. [More…]

• We are concerned that old divisive issues should not be re-opened, that in educational policy the injunction of the Prime Minister should be taken into account and that the welfare and good of the majority of children- those in government and poorer parochial schoolsshould be considered as a prime issue. [More…]

• The next thing I mention is the Darwin Disaster Welfare Organisation which was established and funded by the Government. [More…]

• The voluntary group cooperated magnificently in the exercise involving the Darwin Disaster Welfare Organisation. [More…]

• It involved areas of social welfare, economic development, cultural advance and community stability. [More…]

• 1 ) Does the Commonwealth Government intend to allocate funds to Queensland women’s refuges before the end of the 1977-78 financial year, as was indicated by the Queensland Minister for Welfare Services, Mr John Herbert (The Telegraph, 27 March 1978); if so: (a) what is the total amount of funding involved; (b) which women’s refuges are to receive funding; and (c) how much will each receive. [More…]

• I refer to a joint Press statement issued on 28 April by the Commonwealth Minister for Health and the Queensland Minister for Welfare which related to funding arrangements for women’s refuges in Queensland. [More…]

• I do clarify the position to the extent of saying that a statement was made by the Minister for Health on the agreed arrangements for the funding of women’s refuges and, as was stated by Senator Martin, there is now an arrangement between the State and Federal governments to fund this welfare measure. [More…]

• Is she further aware that State welfare departments and voluntary agencies are reluctant to help such single people, preferring to allocate their meagre funds to families? [More…]

• As far as State welfare departments are concerned, it is entirely their decision as to where they give assistance. [More…]

• Spokesmen, including His Eminence Archbishop Stylianos and welfare workers in the community have expressed their concern about effects on individuals in the community. [More…]

• One cannot but believe that the officers of the Minister’s Department in New South Wales and the welfare workers in New South Wales have not informed her senior public servants of what is happening. [More…]

• I refer now to the handling of the welfare needs of the members of the community concerned. [More…]

• We have made arrangements with the Greek welfare centre in Sydney for it to have special access to the Department for prompt treatment of any needy cases that arise. [More…]

• Whilst not naming people as ‘Greeks’ the articles went on to say that the doctor was alleged to have given hundreds of fraudulent medical certificates to migrants who had used them to secure social welfare benefits. [More…]

• The Director-General has arranged for the Greek Welfare Centre in Sydney to have special access to the Department and it will be happy to take up the case of any person who is in doubt as to his right to receive continued payments. [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…]

• Mr President, this Bill, together with the related Bills which are being introduced, are 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 protection of the environment and the welfare of all Australians. [More…]

• The second question will depend on welfare and efficiency factors. [More…]

• It was not possible in this report to consider welfare factors in any quantitative way, although some of them will be alluded to in the report. [More…]

• If the Government is interested in protecting the welfare of the sugar cane growers and the workers engaged in the industry it must ensure that a complete investigation is undertaken of the whole proposal that has been submitted. [More…]

• I suggest that the matters I have raised should be answered by the Government before those meetings are held because the decision the canegrowers are being asked to make will have great effects on the economic viability of the sugar industry and on the welfare of the people who live on the north coast of New South Wales. [More…]

• Am I to infer from that that neither the Commonwealth nor the Queensland Government views the matter of Aboriginal welfare and wellbeing as being of considerable concern? [More…]

• 1 say emphatically that this Commonwealth Government, of all governments in Australia, has shown the most practical and intelligent concern for the welfare in all forms of the Aboriginal people in Australia. [More…]

• Recognising our mutual obligation with regard to the wishes and the welfare of the Aboriginal peoples at Aurukun and Mornington Island, the two Governments after long and earnest discussion, have reached the following agreement that in order to achieve self-management for Aurukun and Mornington Island communities: [More…]

• Recognising our mutual obligation with regard to the wishes and the welfare of the Aboriginal peoples . [More…]

• The Commonwealth will provide financial support to the communities to give them a greater capacity to manage their affairs and to assist them in welfare and enterprise activities. [More…]

• In fact a former Director of Social Welfare, Mr Giese, made the comment that in the Northern Territory if it had not been for the mission people the Aboriginal race would have died out. [More…]

• The Prime Minister said that while there may be a ‘mild degree of disputation’ between the Commonwealth and Queensland all Australians needed to concern themselves with the welfare of the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• Surely it is a small price to pay for the welfare of the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• The Government then had the power to legislate for the welfare of the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• The welfare of all Aboriginals and their fair and just treatment must be paramount. [More…]

• The legislation is supposed to recognise our mutual obligations with regard to the wishes and welfare of the people. [More…]

• The legislation does not provide for the inclusion of other organisations which have contributed to the welfare of the people and which the community might want to assist them. [More…]

• The ten draft ordinances which will be dealt with by the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly are: The Aboriginal Land Ordinance 1978; the Territory Parks and Wildlife Conservation Ordinance 1978; the Aboriginal Sacred Sites Ordinance 1978; the Mining Ordinance 1978; the Petroleum (Prospecting and Mining) Ordinance 1978; the Coal Ordinance 1978; the Crown Lands Ordinance 1978; the Social Welfare Ordinance 1978; the Special Purposes Leases Ordinance 1978; and the Cemeteries Ordinance 1978. [More…]

• The Council is also satisfied with the technical amendments to the Social Welfare Ordinance, the Special Purpose Leases Ordinance and the Cemeteries Ordinance. [More…]

• I remind honourable senators of the brave words of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) about the welfare of the Aboriginal people being paramount. [More…]

• I ask those people who are really interested in Aboriginal welfare to consider seriously the amendments. [More…]

• The six Bills just introduced underline our determination to proceed with uranium development in a carefullyregulated and responsible fashion with full regard for proper environmental control and for ensuring the welfare of the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• Yet in sailing blindly ahead with the large scale mining, processing and marketing of uranium, even though there is no definite empirical evidence, wine notwithstanding, that the associated dangers can be minimised much less eliminated, the Government is coming perilously close to being justifiably accused of putting economics and economic considerations before the health and welfare of present and future generations of Australians. [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…]

• This is not a Bill to develop these things for the welfare of Australia. [More…]

• In fact, for two decades it was Liberal governments which gave real benefits and real social welfare to the people of Australia. [More…]

• To sum up therefore in respect of Clause 6 we would submit that the way of life of the communities prior to the coming into force of this Act will not be able to continue following the assent of the Bill; which we feel seriously undermines the communities welfare for no income will bc able to be lawfully received by the Councils- thus it would bc felt that their self management role had been struck down. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government will provide financial support to see that this is able to be done; it will assist Aborigines in welfare matters and in the enterprises which they choose to conduct. [More…]

• I was reminded earlier this week at the very important Australian Council of Social Service conference which is going on in Sydney, when Hugh Stretton who was not exactly praising the Government let me assure honourable senators, emphasised during a speech that throughout the history of this nation the implementation and the extension of welfare legislation generally has rested more often than not with the non-socialist governments. [More…]

• Never mind the health, welfare and safety of the people who live in this community. [More…]

• Of course the Government would not because, as I said in my opening remarks, the mighty dollar is the main concern of this Government, not the welfare of or safeguards for the people of this community. [More…]

• Department of Health, Education and Welfare [More…]

• -On behalf of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare, I present the report of the Committee on the consideration of annual reports referred to the Committee by the Senate. [More…]

• Senator TEHAN (Victoria)-by leave-On behalf of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare and its Chairman, Senator Peter Baume, I have the honour to present the Committee’s report on the consideration of annual reports referred to it. [More…]

• Everybody who is interested in the welfare of the Northern Territory seems to have forgotten that Aborigines live in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• Whilst I respect entirely his genuine concern for the Aborigine and the energy he has devoted to their welfare, he has no monopoly, either practical or theoretical, for their welfare. [More…]

• I make it abundantly clear that the Fraser Government is second to none in its practical desire to further the welfare and dignity of the Aborigines. [More…]

• The Australian Greek Welfare Society [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: enquiries 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…]

• I said yesterday and the day before that I found it singularly distasteful that people felt that they could polarise their views that they had a monopoly of the practical welfare of the Aborigines. [More…]

• I simply say that I have been privileged many times in the Northern Territory to associate with senators from both sides of this chamber who, in my judgment, are dedicated to the welfare of the Aborigines. [More…]

• I do not think that the remarks of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) can go unchallenged because yesterday he made the same comment that no one has a monopoly of the interests of the welfare of Aboriginals. [More…]

• What are the details of the role of the Children’s Services Sub-Committee of the Australian Capital Territory Consultative Committee on Social Welfare. [More…]

• The role ofthe Children’s Services Sub-Committee of the Australian Capital Territory Consultative Committee on Social Welfare (ACTCCSW) is to advise the Office of Child Care on the operations of the Children ‘s Services Program in the ACT. [More…]

• including Jervis Bay, and to encourage the coordination of Commonwealth Government programs in the child care field with other children ‘s services and family welfare programs in the Australian Capital Territroy. [More…]

• Has the Minister had any assurance from the Australian Medical Association or any other organisation representing the medical profession that they will not demand cash on the nail from this group of welfare claimants who, as the Minister knows, are the poorest of all her Department’s clients? [More…]

• We propose so to do, and we propose to see that throughout Australia the safeguards for the health, safety and welfare of Australians will be the highest in the world. [More…]

• In February 1974 the Government asked the Social Welfare Commission and the Priorities Review Staff to look at the development of pre-school and day care opportunities from the welfare aspect. [More…]

• Has she ascertained whether help had been offered either by welfare workers in her Department or the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs? [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…]

• It 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…]

• I think that if we made more use of ethnologists in Australia rather than health, education and welfare workers with these people we would be a lot better off and so would our Aborigines. [More…]

• The pressures brought to bear on him can make him ready material for the trouble-makers and the groups who like to jump on the social bandwaggon of ‘working for the aborigines’ welfare.’ [More…]

• The blacks are being made the victims of a political philosophy disguised as a desire to promote their welfare, and such victimisation will distort their natural development. [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Social Security been made aware of recent Press reports stating that pensions and other social welfare benefits have been denied to women who are living at the same address as a male? [More…]

• I believe its advice to be of value not only to the Government but also to all handicapped people in the community and to all those who are concerned with their welfare. [More…]

• Nevertheless these long-term contracts are vital to the welfare of the Australian sugar industry. [More…]

• On behalf of the Leader of the Government, for the information of honorable senators 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’, together with the text of a statement by the Acting Prime Minister relating to the report. [More…]

• The Opposition welcomes the presentation of the second report of the Task Force on Coordination in Welfare and Health. [More…]

• The recommendations regarding administrative and consultative arrangements have been preempted somewhat by the statement of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) at the end of last year regarding the Health and Welfare Policy Secretariat and its establishment, which I understand is still recruiting staff. [More…]

• The organisations, government departments and others active in the welfare field and the field of children’s services were very much affected by a decision on how those services were to be carved up, and they are still awaiting that information. [More…]

• Given the overlapping areas of health, welfare, community development, veterans’ affairs and so on, a serious and continuing effort to co-ordinate the program and policies seems eminently sensible. [More…]

• However, I am interested to know how much this welfare co-ordinating policy unit had to do with the recent proposed changes to Medibank. [More…]

• Therefore I wonder what welfare considerations came into the thinking of the unit and the Government in, for instance, proposals for the abolition of bulk billing and the widening of the 15 per cent gap to a 25 per cent gap, changes which directly affect low income earners and the poorest of all pensioners, those not entitled to pensioner health benefit entitlements. [More…]

• This is a most serious income change for the very people whom a welfare coordinating unit should be conscious of assisting. [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, whilst serving the objectives just mentioned, must also be regulated and controlled so as to ensure full protection of the environment, 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…]

• It does not ensure the welfare of the Aboriginal people and, if disorderly marketing takes place, it will not necessarily yield any economic benefits to Australia. [More…]

• It is important to have concerned public discussion on issues such as the welfare of Aboriginals, but we believe such discussion surfers when it is not based on fact. [More…]

• There are additional expenditures in the social welfare area. [More…]

• I think it would be probably fair to say that in every area of social welfare pensions and benefits there are increased numbers and increased expenditures beyond what may have been the estimate. [More…]

• They did not like to have to contribute to the welfare of the ordinary man in the street. [More…]

• Aboriginal Welfare Conference [More…]

• In the article Mr Dixon, who is the Social Welfare Minister in the Victorian Hamer Government, is reported as follows: [More…]

• Other of the Senate Committee’s recommendations dealing with follow-up welfare work, English language training, welfare benefits, family reunion, etc., are being carried out under the supervision of the Standing Committee, and the Determination of Refugees Status Committee. [More…]

• Because the management and financial affairs of the Ralkon agricultural company of Narrung, South Australia, have been referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare for investigation and report, it is not my intention to debate this matter any further at this stage. [More…]

• Social welfare should encompass mind as well as spirit. [More…]

• Special departmental welfare staff members have also been sent into the area. [More…]

• They want to reduce funds to pay for the running costs of hospitals; they want to reduce funds going to schools and tertiary education institutions; they want to cut back on the welfare housing program; and they want to cut back on expenditure on roads. [More…]

• We regard them as pluses in terms of the welfare of the Australian people. [More…]

• The Government is also deeply involved, in conjunction with State governments, in the provision of welfare housing and from time to time a number of proposals have been put forward by this Government to assist Australians to attain the very desirable objective of home ownership. [More…]

• I did canvass in general the extent of the assistance that the Government provides through home purchase schemes, welfare housing schemes and other means, as considered appropriate, to those who seek assistance. [More…]

• In this instance, for reasons that have nothing to do with the welfare of the wool industry, the Government granted permission for the Corporation to borrow overseas to achieve that synthetic reduction in the deficit. [More…]

• Repeatedly the State and Federal departments of education are approached by health and welfare authorities and asked whether, within the scope of education curricula, we can undertake various preventive and remedial courses in areas such as nutrition, drugs, ingestion of alcohol and other matters. [More…]

• The organisations which were invited represented state schools, pre-schools, independent schools, the Child and Family Welfare Council, the Country Women’s Association, the National Council of Women of Australia and a great number of co-ordinating bodies. [More…]

• I hope that it will be looking to policy development of health, social services, social welfare and community welfare in the future to the advantage of all Australians. [More…]

• Foreign policy concerns of the Holy See under Pope Paul included: The problems of the proliferation of nuclear weapons; the improvement of social welfare; assisting the development of the poorer countries; a rapprochement with China; the evolution of relations with Marxist regimes; and a desire to expand official communications with the Communist, Islamic and Asian world in order to ensure the maintenance and continuity of the freedom of Christian observance. [More…]

• I refer to the decision announced by the Commonwealth Government at the last Premiers Conference to reduce its funding of home care services and the salaries of welfare officers under the States Grants (Home Care) Act from a $2 for $1 subsidy to a $ 1 for $ 1 subsidy. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of the public criticism levelled at this decision by groups such as the Brotherhood of St Laurence and the Do Care welfare organisation which claim that it will severely harm the interests of the frail and aged members of the Australian community? [More…]

• I appreciate Senator Knight’s keen interest in the welfare of the public servants, a large number of whom reside within the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• I believe, continue its responsibility for welfare projects. [More…]

• When this sort of thing is brought before the Parliament- I am sure that this will happen today- a majority from both sides of this Parliament will agree that the situation is far from satisfactory and that these people need protection from their own State Government because of its breach of faith in looking after their welfare. [More…]

• Surely the only answer to the problem is that the Parliament should use the powers available to it under the Constitution, given to it by an overwhelming majority of the people of this country, to take over these areas, to look after the welfare of these people, to allow them to develop in their own way without the paternalistic nonsense which we know goes on in Queensland and to allow them to have a proper say in the future development of the mineral and other resources in their area. [More…]

• I hope that the solution to these problems of the welfare and the progress of the Aboriginal people will be found by responsible officers and not by publicity seekers in the Press. [More…]

• I have a wide range of interests including defence, foreign affairs, social welfare, industrial relations and transport. [More…]

• To take my own area of interest, there may be a Bill with a legal aspect to it and also a social welfare aspect to it. [More…]

• If so, will she agree that her departmental estimate for the National Welfare Fund- that expenditure on unemployment benefit in the coming year will be $10m less than last year- is a deliberate deception and that, as in the case of last year, the Government is again deliberately understating the amount of money which will be required for unemployment benefit so as deliberately to understate the Budget deficit? [More…]

• At this time last year we went through somewhat the same exercise, discussing the way in which the unemployment benefit figures had been derived as a best estimate at that stage of the expenditure for the National Welfare Fund. [More…]

• I think that all people who have a real interest in the welfare of all Australians will be delighted with what that newspaper reported, because what has happened on the stock exchanges of Australia reflects not merely the belief of commerce and industry in Australia but even more importantly the state of confidence in Australia of overseas countries. [More…]

• We have already noted that they provide more direct welfare and counselling services; however, we believe the most important factor in their success is the links which they have been able to form with local ethnic and community organisations. [More…]

• A Commonwealth-financed ‘self help’ program will encourage local ethnic and community organisations and assist them in migrant counselling, welfare and cultural services in future. [More…]

• We dealt with social welfare and with cultures and traditions. [More…]

• Accordingly the Committee recommended that Australia should examine the extent to which it can assist with the provision of facilities for technical, agricultural, marine, mechanical, medical and social welfare training. [More…]

• My Department has in fact had contact with Mr Orbinski since 1968 through its social welfare service. [More…]

• Mr Weir was one of the early appointments to the Legislative Research Service where has was in charge of education and welfare research from early 1968 to mid- 1973. [More…]

• It has been introduced because of the growing number of people in this country who now qualify for age pensions and the consequent growth in our social welfare responsibility. [More…]

• A welfare housing allocation of $3 16m brings a new approach to housing authority activities. [More…]

• The welfare housing allocation of $3 16m ushers in a new approach to the activities of housing authorities. [More…]

• The Federal and State departments blossomed, fattened and forgot what their job was, namely, the supply of welfare housing for the people who needed it. [More…]

• The Government has implemented one of the recommendations in the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare which dealt with drug problems in Australia. [More…]

• Governments and people involved in the social welfare field say that the only answer is education. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare received evidence in respect of an experiment carried out in Canberra schools. [More…]

• Those people who can least afford it will be worst hit by the new or increased regressive taxes, by the crippling new charges on lump sum leave payments, by the abolition of the maternity allowance, by the destruction of the concept of universal health insurance, by the massive reductions in welfare housing and by the niggling and mean-spirited changes to social service benefits to people such as accident victims undergoing rehabilitation and even tuberculosis sufferers. [More…]

• Nor can we fall back any longer on easy assumptions about continued growth of the gross domestic product, of incomes and of taxation revenue of the kind which underlay our welfare distributionist program in the late 1960s and early 1970s. [More…]

• During an hour-long session with announcer Vincent Smith, Mr Fraser said he was disturbed at speculation that a pre-Budget examination of welfare spending would mean an end to means-test exemption for pensioners over 70. [More…]

• -by leave-On 31 May 1978 the Standing Committee on Social Welfare received from the Senate the following reference: [More…]

• The Committee members are inclined to the view that in future they may use the appropriate forms of the Senate to ensure that there is a debate on any proposal for a reference to the Standing Committee on Social Welfare. [More…]

• by leave- I thank the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare, its chairman, Senator Baume, and its secretary for the consideration that they have given to the reference concerning the management and financial affairs of the Ralkon Agricultural Co. Pty Ltd. [More…]

• The then members of the Opposition said that they were genuinely inquiring into the situation because they felt it was their duty to do so in the interests of the welfare of the nation and of the people. [More…]

• It is almost as much as total government spending on welfare. [More…]

• That the Senate take note of the Report of the Standing Committee on Social Welfare on Drug Problems in Australia, presented to the Senate on 25 October 1 977. [More…]

• Some of my colleagues, not members of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare, contributed to the debate. [More…]

• Criticism of Senate reports is important, and tonight I intend to identify some of the quite legitimate critical comments which this report from the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare has drawn. [More…]

• But I think honourable senators would agree that in the 10 months that have elapsed since this report came down, since the discussion paper has appeared from the South Australian Royal Commission- and I must say a discussion paper of a quality rare in public documents in this country- since the evidence has been coming forward in some of the royal commissions and since people of substance in society have started putting forward views, we on the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare now appear to be like conservatives, lagging behind in the development of policy in this particular drug area. [More…]

• Mr President, you will be aware that the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare has a continuing reference and oversight of drug abuse in this country. [More…]

• -Before moving the adjournment of the debate I shall speak very briefly to some of the points raised by Senator Baume and by this report of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare which, as the Senate knows, was tabled last October. [More…]

• Honourable senators know as well as I do that there is no institution within society which is more capable or better equipped than the family to provide educational or a social welfare and health delivery system. [More…]

• Whilst we accept the industrial machinery for the settlement of disputes and for rectifying causes for complaint through, in this case, the Public Service Arbitrator, I think that there is one aspect, Mr President, into which you with your responsibility to look after the affairs of the Parliament and the welfare of members of Parliament should inquire. [More…]

• If he feels that there is some justification for the private sector dropping its number of exploration projects from 69 to 21 and that that ought to be defended and that the private sector can make those sorts of decisions which may affect the welfare of the nation, then he has a strange logic in his thinking. [More…]

• I thought that the Minister, having been made aware of the problem of these pensioners, would have taken it into consideration when the Budget was drawn up, because she said in a news release on 15 August, the night when the Budget was presented, under the heading of ‘Social Welfare: Directing Assistance To Those in Need ‘: [More…]

• Did Dr Ward also comment that specialist medical care has been available to Aboriginals in isolated areas only since Medibank was introduced and that the loss of these specialists will seriously affect the health and welfare of Aboriginals. [More…]

• Is that a reflection of this Government’s concern for the welfare of the private sector in New South Wales? [More…]

• The Committee is also of the opinion that Islanders in general are not fully aware of existing community programs and benefits and that a systematic effort should be made to ensure that such programs, particularly those concerned with welfare and education which are available to the community as a whole, are brought more directly to the attention of, and are utilised by, eligible Islanders. [More…]

• The Committee recommends two full-time positions be added to the existing pilot Welfare Rights Program administered by the Department of Social Security. [More…]

• It is envisaged that these officers would be fulfilling a welfare rights role with a main aim being to increase the effectiveness of the Islanders ‘ access to normal social welfare processes. [More…]

• working on behalf of Islanders to ensure effective use of social welfare opportunities; community development to assist the Islanders to achieve self-help; and research into extent of disadvantage, adequacy and effectiveness of existing programs and the effect of the welfare rights intervention. [More…]

• The Department of Finance noted, however, that the Welfare Rights Program is approaching the end of its pilot stage and is currently undergoing evaluation. [More…]

• The Committee is of the opinion that the provision of the two Welfare Rights Officers would enable support and guidance to be given at the local level and so strengthen the purpose and effectiveness of the Islander communities in a more realistic way than providing funds to the national organisation. [More…]

• Increased unemployment benefits and related eligibility regulations began to foster a welfare mentality. [More…]

• No doubt by far the majority of the people today who have the welfare of this country in mind would believe that even the tough decisions that have been taken by the present Government in this Budget are the correct ones and are in line with the right way to economic recovery. [More…]

• As a Christian I believe that parliament’s authority is derived from God and, thus, it is entirely right that we begin our parliamentary sittings each day in prayer asking the Lord’s blessing and direction that our work be the glory of God and to the true welfare of the people of Australia. [More…]

• In these welfare and education services the dignity and freedom of choice of every individual must be ensured. [More…]

• We have altered the legislation so that there is an automatic increase every six months and we do accept that this is an increase in the social welfare bill. [More…]

• The low income families so dependent on them have suffered a loss in real income and those pensioners with children and pensioners with rented accommodation who have not had their children’s allowances or rent allowances increased since 1975 are now well below the poverty line, as pointed out by Professor Henderson who conducted the poverty inquiry and by almost every welfare agency in this country. [More…]

• Other areas of welfare expenditure will also be affected. [More…]

• The welfare aspects of this Budget have been universally condemned and deservedly so. [More…]

• They have been condemned by the councils of social service, they have been condemned by various welfare agencies, I am pleased to say that aspects of them have even been condemned by supporters of the Government itself [More…]

• The Queensland Government is seeking additional funds for welfare housing. [More…]

• I seek leave to have incorporated in Hansard a statement on the various areas of social security and welfare expenditure for 1975-76 compared with 1978-79. [More…]

• Under this Act, services such as the provision of welfare officers for the aged, home care services and senior citizens centres, are funded. [More…]

• Overall about 79 additional welfare officer positions and an additional 22 home care services have been approved. [More…]

• In Victoria 41 additional welfare officer positions and 20 more home care services have been approved. [More…]

• These funds are additional to the ongoing expenditure on welfare of $2.089m of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• Concern for the welfare of migrant groups led the Government to commission the Review of Post-arrival Programs and Services to Migrants under the chairmanship of Mr Frank Galbally. [More…]

• About 92 per cent of the people in all electorates in Australia, including Queensland, voted to give to the Federal Government power for the purpose of bettering the welfare of Aborigines. [More…]

• The Tasmanian Minister for Welfare is looking into allegations of improper conduct in the shelter. [More…]

• Not only have such allegations been made against it, but the Minister for Welfare in Tasmania, who belongs to the honourable senator’s Party, sees– [More…]

• The Depanment of Community Welfare in Hobart has stated that it has no regular supervisory responsibility for the shelter. [More…]

• If the State is responsible but the Department of Community Welfare in that State states that it has no regular supervisory responsibility, I can see that things are being left pretty high and dry. [More…]

• Allegations about these difficulties have been made, and the State Minister for Community Welfare is conducting an investigation. [More…]

• He took the photographs to the Crown Law officer, notified the local Minister for Community Welfare and then, as he always does - [More…]

• They, with their continuing burdens, and we, as fellow Australians celebrating today with them, have the rare privilege of being present at the creation, for that is what self-government is in the history of the Territory, and I have no doubt that I speak for all Australians when I express to all of the citizens of the Northern Territory our heartfelt wishes for the peace, the welfare and the good government of the Territory. [More…]

• He will recall a reference which he gave to the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare. [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 citizens ‘ 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…]

• The increased funds made available for the program, together with the changed subsidy basis has enabled new welfare officer positions and home care services to be approved for the first time since October 1975. [More…]

• 1 was recently able to announce that Commonwealth support could be extended to an additional 79 welfare officers and 22 home care services. [More…]

• Overall the Commonwealth will subsidise 191 welfare officer positions and 271 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…]

• 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…]

• 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…]

• -In the short time I have available tonight to continue my remarks on this subject I inform the Senate that the members of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare, like many other people in the community, consider that the report is a very good one. [More…]

• I refer, firstly, to a letter from Robert L. DuPont, M.D., who is the Director of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in the United States. [More…]

• -Will the Minister representing the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs inform the Senate as to the truth in reports that because of cuts to Aboriginal welfare programs it has been necessary for a charitable organisation to agree to fund a comprehensive nutritional program for Aboriginal children in New South Wales? [More…]

• Such people and organisations include Professor Henderson, the newspapers, the Council for the Ageing, various welfare organisations and local government bodies throughout Australia as well as back bench members of the Government parties in the other place, particularly the honourable member for Higgins, Mr Shipton. [More…]

• The Government’s changes to the States Grants (Home Care) Act in fact are an indication of its lack of responsibility towards Commonwealth programs in the welfare field and towards people, particularly the frail aged, who will be affected by the funding cuts contained in this legislation. [More…]

• To the best of our knowledge, it was made without any prior consultation with State Premiers, with State Departments of Health, with State Departments of Welfare, with local government bodies or with any voluntary organisations. [More…]

• Some two years ago the Government set up its own expert inquiries into the future of health and welfare services in this country. [More…]

• Another, the Bailey task force, had something to say about how we should conduct our welfare funding and particularly how we should conduct it in view of what allegedly is Liberal Party policy. [More…]

• We believe the growing awareness in local government circles of its potential to act effectively in the welfare/health field, and its growing capacity, particularly in service delivery, should be encouraged, primarily through influencing the States in this direction rather than by direct Commonwealth action. [More…]

• The Government has in fact cut the subsidy for welfare officers but has increased by nearly $400,000 the amount of money available for new appointments. [More…]

• During the past two years local government, in good faith, has appointed welfare officers and has applied for subsidies. [More…]

• The additional 34 per cent which is usually the amount estimated for the cost of administrative and support services to maintain welfare officers for the aged community will also have to be found by local government. [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…]

• In view of the announcement by the Federal Government on 22 June 1978, that subsidies for home care services and provision of welfare officers for the aged salaries under the States Grants (Home Care) Act would be reduced from $2 for $ 1 to $ 1 for $ 1 , would the Minister advise- [More…]

• 1 ) Will the State increase its allocation to this area of social welfare to prevent cuts in home care services . [More…]

• What steps has the State Government taken, or does it intend taking, to strongly protest to the Fraser Government about these cuts which will seriously affect a vital area of social welfare? [More…]

• The Welfare Officers have been employed under an arrangement between the Local Authority and the Commonwealth. [More…]

• It was said at that meeting that the Federal Government was paying lip service to the needs of welfare while taking money away from it. [More…]

• It is generally recognised, I believe, that levying local government rates is an unsatisfactory way of financing health and welfare services in the community. [More…]

• In a report by the Poverty Commission called ‘The Delivery of Welfare Services’ the arguments on this very subject are put in a section on local government and welfare. [More…]

• About one half of the revenue of local authorities comes from the levy of a general property tax, but this tax is an inappropriate one not only for financing expanded social welfare programs, but also for financing the current functions of local government. [More…]

• The Labor Party has been very pleased to see the widening of interest of those local authorities which have set up home care services, which have appointed welfare officers to the aged and which in recent years have generally entered into the area of welfare of not only the aged of all groups. [More…]

• What hope is there for any preventive health or welfare measures in this area if the Commonwealth slashes the funds and if the States cannot make up the deficiency- as the States of Victoria and Western Australia say they cannot- and if the councils, because of their nature, cannot raise their rates even further? [More…]

• Professionals in the health and welfare area have warned time and time again how short-sighted it is to force aged people and others into dependence and institutional life. [More…]

• For two years no subsidy has been paid towards the costs of welfare officers whom the councils have put on in good faith. [More…]

• One of the meanest and most shortsighted of the Federal Government’s welfare cutbacks . [More…]

• Earlier this year the Government established a policy unit within the Department of Social Security to co-ordinate policies on health and welfare. [More…]

• Experience in Australia and overseas has shown that as the Federal Government moves away from funding welfare projects they tend to contract. [More…]

• At last Wednesday’s meeting 50 Victorian councils called on members of Parliament on both sides to prevent the erosion of financial support to councils for home care and welfare officers. [More…]

• The Government has not delivered an expanded nursing care benefit, which was promised during the last election campaign, and now it has cut home care and welfare subsidies. [More…]

• This is a Bill which covers the important matter of social welfare, particularly care for the aged. [More…]

• Additionally, there is provision for payment of the salaries of approved welfare officers who are employed in senior citizens centres. [More…]

• It provided for the building and equipping of senior citizens centres and for the employment of welfare officers. [More…]

• It is also acutely conscious of the value of welfare officer services for aged and older people. [More…]

• In the area of welfare officers, to which I have referred, the amount for 1975-76 was just over $0.5m, whereas the estimate for this year is slightly over Sim. [More…]

• In his second reading speech the Minister pointed out that the Commonwealth is emphasising again and again that this is not the case and that, indeed, the Government will continue to match every dollar that is allocated by the States both for welfare officers and for home care services. [More…]

• It may be done also by a community welfare organisation or by what I think is termed in the Act a joint body, that is, any two of the earlier mentioned organisations which act jointly in a co-operative venture. [More…]

• The Act and this amending legislation are not concerned with institutionalised care of the aged except insofar as the provisions of the Act and the subsidies involved have some indirect effect on welfare services for senior people generally. [More…]

• The great range of services required today with the spiralling cost ingredient means that there is a need as well as an opportunity for voluntary and selfhelp groups to be a vital part of any home care and welfare service. [More…]

• Local government by its very nature is well suited to the provision of welfare services and the provision of home care services. [More…]

• The amendment proposed in the Bill to section 10 of the Act will reduce the money payable to the States for the payment of the salary of welfare officers at senior citizen centres, once again, from two-thirds to one-half. [More…]

• He said that 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 governments 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 with being left holding the baby. [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…]

• 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…]

• One must recognise that the overall increase from last year to this year- it is in fact an increase- for home care services, senior citizen centres and welfare offices was from $ 13,805,000 to $ 1 5,500,000. [More…]

• Furthermore, it is pointed out that the increased amount of subsidy for the salaries of welfare officers employed in connection with senior citizen centres will cater for an additional 80 welfare officers. [More…]

• Currently there are 1 12 approved welfare officer positions. [More…]

• Its effect, we believe, will be prematurely to force thousands of frail, elderly people- and others not so frail or elderly- into institutions by withdrawing the home help and welfare services which have enabled them to stay in their own homes. [More…]

• The fact is thai the Commonwealth will continue to match every dollar allocated by the States for approved welfare officer and home care services. [More…]

• When I, with the help of the Social Welfare Committee of the Liberal Party, presented and wrote that policy it was endorsed unanimously by the Liberals in the party room. [More…]

• The Minister for Social Security in a Press Release dated 3 April 1978 on ‘Community Responsibilities in Welfare and Health Programs ‘ said- [More…]

• This Bill is concerned with home care services and it is concerned with the subsidy arrangements which will allow for the provision of home care services and for the provision of salaries for approved welfare officers in senior citizen centres. [More…]

• It operates to involve several levels of government in sharing in the provision of home care facilities and the salaries of these welfare officers. [More…]

• I believe that this is an area in welfare like all the other areas in which we do not know what has been happening or what is happening now. [More…]

• I think he put forward some good arguments about the need for local government to have a supplement to a rating base if it is to be involved in welfare provision. [More…]

• Local government cannot provide welfare services on a basis of rates alone. [More…]

• Therefore, this Government, through the access it has given local government to funds- through the Loan Council, by the Grants Commission arrangements, and by the 1.52 per cent of income tax collections it has provided- has greatly increased the capacity of local government to be involved in welfare projects. [More…]

• We have seen local government respond and improve its share and involvement in the welfare game. [More…]

• It sets out the amounts which have been provided for home care services, for senior citizens centres and for welfare officers over several years. [More…]

• For example, for the provision of senior citizens centres we have provided an extra $52,000 this year, and for the salaries of welfare officers an extra $378,000. [More…]

• Despite the growth that occurred in those years, many welfare officer positions around Australia were not able to be approved. [More…]

• As mentioned in the second reading speech, 79 new welfare officer positions have been approved. [More…]

• The reason given at that time was that the Government had not yet devised a firm direction for the program and had not yet finished considering the Bailey task force report on health and welfare. [More…]

• This is something which is significant when considered in the light of the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare of which Senator Baume is the chairman and I and others are members. [More…]

• Understanding from welfare agencies and even banks and medical services can be a big factor in building up selfrespect in these people, as can the establishment of a rights program to lessen the sort of authoritarian structure that we have used to deal with these people in the past. [More…]

• It may even be that we, and the Minister, should consider the appointment of a welfare rights officer for homeless persons, not necessarily attached to particular organisations as such people tend to be, say, in the ethnic communities, but appointed in one of the major cities to take up cases and make recommendations to the Department of Social Security and others on positive ways of helping these people to find a more satisfying place in the community. [More…]

• As Senator Grimes has said, the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare, of which Senator Baume is Chairman and Senator Grimes and I are members, finds that very little evaluation goes on in any departments or voluntary organisations in this field. [More…]

• The survey was carried out among 35 welfare agencies. [More…]

• Last year some 37 welfare officers were employed on this work. [More…]

• The editorial was referring to the Farmers’ Union- is more concerned with the welfare of the majority of Australian woolgrowers than with increased profits to studbreeders, who have always regarded themselves and been regarded as something of an elitist group. [More…]

• We waste public time, for instance, abusing the women’s refuge movement instead of recognising and supporting its potential to undertake a social task the value of which is beyond measure and which cannot be fulfilled by traditional welfare bodies no matter how well intentioned they may be. [More…]

• Although under the existing Act no further capital for new projects, could be made available, we would be able to assist with subsidies for accommodation and meals, as well as the other subsidies that we pay from the National Welfare Fund. [More…]

• It has been demonstrated by Sweden that a country can have a high welfare system, high taxation and a very efficient economy. [More…]

• I simply say at this stage that I appreciate the concern which has been expressed for the welfare of the Commonwealth Police both by Senator Knight in the view that he has put forward and by Senator Cavanagh, who notwithstanding that he put forward a different point of view, expressed the same concern for the welfare of the officers concerned. [More…]

• I think the breakthrough in this area came in the very important speech that was made by the Victorian Minister for Social Welfare and Minister for Youth, Sport and Recreation, Brian Dixon, a short while ago in which he predicted that by the year 1990 one-third of our work force could be unemployed. [More…]

• As a locally elected senator- a representative of this community- I am very much aware of the long delays in attending to very urgent matters, such as processing housing applications, processing applications for emergency housing for homeless families, processing applications for emergency welfare assistance from women who have been deserted or from homeless youth or any other person in urgent need of assistance. [More…]

• Further, will the Minister say whether these courses and these fees, paid at a time of government austerity in community welfare, are likely to be extended to other departments of the Public Service? [More…]

• Outlays on health and welfare in three years under the Labor Administration rose by $4,600m. [More…]

• We ask the question: How can business, industry and social welfare plan programs or even advance if from year to year they are hanging on decisions that are announced in a particular place on a particular night. [More…]

• In this way there may be a greater evenness of decisions that are made not only in relation to business, finance and economics but also in relation to education and social welfare. [More…]

• Within 10 minutes of prayers being said they are doing things affecting the welfare of the country that they should not do. [More…]

• If they believe that this Parliament should be opened every day with a prayer they should be honest and courageous enough to carry out the text of the prayer and do things for the welfare of the people. [More…]

• Yet the Government says that it has an interest in the welfare of those people, and Government senators get up here every day after prayers and think they are doing a good job. [More…]

• The major areas of expenditure are: Housing $ 1.987m, which is up 38 per cent on last year; health $729,000, which is up 75 per cent; education $83,000, which is up 35 per cent; welfare $86,000, which is up 27 per cent; town management $ 1.992m, which is up 11 per cent and which includes mission and essential services which are funded through the Northern Territory Government; and legal aid $101,000, which is up 19 per cent. [More…]

• Department of Community Welfare- DCW has funds to enhance the welfare of children in refuges- but cannot contribute towards the running costs of refuges. [More…]

• Representations have been made to Ray YoungMinister for Health and Welfare. [More…]

• Mr President, I think it is a rather sad state of affairs when there are people who can contribute nothing but their time to running a welfare organisation which should be totally funded by either Federal or State governments or by both and those people suddenly find that their contribution, the re-donating of their wages, is taken away from their general funding area. [More…]

• The Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare, Senator Baume, when introducing this subject some three weeks ago, pointed out that at that time the Committee had been very concerned to ensure that, in future, debate and investigation of the problems of drug abuse in this country was looked at in a serious way by this Parliament, by the public and by everyone concerned, as free as possible from the emotional atmosphere in which this subject is usually considered so that we can ask the right questions and get the right answers as to how to attack what is a very real problem in some areas of this country. [More…]

• The problem of dealing with the policy on cannabis in the community is aggravated, as it is so often in the fields of social welfare and medical policy, by a lack of certainty about the facts and a certain amount of conflict about those facts and figures which are available. [More…]

• I can remember equally firm evidence from the welfare officers in this city that this claim was nonsense and that it was not used to anywhere near that extent. [More…]

• Tonight we are debating the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare entitled Drug Problems in Australia- the intoxicated society?’ [More…]

• Mr Deputy President, I submit to you that the debate which took place earlier this evening was a debate on the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare which dealt with a large number of problems. [More…]

• In fact, I would discourage its consumption as a matter of caution, even though the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare remarked that given the length of time cannabis has been in use, nothing has manifested itself in the community in the form of physical ill-health directly attributable to cannabis use. [More…]

• Is it a fact that last Tuesday, 3 October, a meeting was held in Sydney between officers of her Department and the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and representatives of Greek welfare organisations who are looking after the interests of the 175 people charged in the recent conspiracy case? [More…]

• 1 ) Has it been necessary for a charitable organisation to agree to fund a comprehensive nutritional program for Aboriginal children in New South Wales, because of reduced Government support for Aboriginal welfare programs. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Social Security: Did an interdepartmental committee of inquiry on the disadvantage of South Sea Islanders living in Australia recommend employment by the Department of Social Security of two additional welfare rights officers to give support and guidance to South Sea Islanders living in Australia? [More…]

• Since then or at that time I advised that the Government did not accept the recommendation with regard to separate welfare officers being employed in the interests of South Sea Islanders. [More…]

• But the officer appointed is an officer of my Department and not a separate welfare officer as was suggested in the recommendations. [More…]

• Although conceived as a compensatory measure mainly for the benefit of the less fortunate, the need for increasing tax collections to service the areas of social welfare, education and health has been shown on occasions to bring by way of response demands for more pay. [More…]

• The Minister for Health believes that the occasion warrants a restatement of a conclusion reached by the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare in its report ‘Drug Problems in Australia- an intoxicated society? [More…]

• Obviously, if one has additional income one’s general welfare status is much better. [More…]

• It is a question of the employer-employee relationship and it is a question of the health and welfare of workers in industry. [More…]

• -Has the attention of the Attorney-General been drawn to a recent speech by Mr Justice Muirhead in which, when discussing the Family Law Act, he said: ‘The judges are undertaking unacceptable work loads, counsellors are at their wit’s end, the welfare officers despite best endeavours find it almost impossible to keep up to date ‘? [More…]

• I should explain that the service pension is a social welfare payment, broadly equivalent to the age pension under social services legislation. [More…]

• It discriminates against welfare recipients in general but, more particularly, it discriminates against the single unemployed. [More…]

• Sections of the legislation have been condemned by supporters of the Government, by almost every welfare organisation in this country and by the editorials of some of the most conservative journals in this country. [More…]

• We have a very large welfare bill. [More…]

• We have taken politics out of old age pensions and all other social welfare and repatriation pensions by increasing them automatically in line with inflation. [More…]

• During an hour-long session with announcer Vincent Smith, Mr Fraser said he was disturbed at speculation that a pre-Budget examination of welfare spending would mean an end to means-test exemption for pensioners over 70. [More…]

• The true situation is that the Government is causing considerable suffering to the recipients of Australian social welfare programs. [More…]

• Some of us know what it is like for people to trudge the streets looking for work- not necessarily work for which they have been trained, but any type of work that will allow them to live with dignity and not have it constantly put to them that we are becoming a welfare state, that they are welfare minded or that they are dole bludgers. [More…]

• It typifies the Government’s meanness in that it makes pensioners and social welfare beneficiaries suffer for small gains to public revenue. [More…]

• Well, we now know that the Government has no concern at all for these people and the pensioners know only too well that this Government has no concern for their welfare. [More…]

• The Government’s promises in the social welfare area are like its promises in the income tax area. [More…]

• I need to say that because I think that anyone listening to the discussion this evening may not understand the extent of welfare expenditure in this Budget or the burden of increased expenditure on income security and social welfare payments through my Department. [More…]

• I confirm that grants totalling $95,000 have been allocated to the ACTU since 1974 to establish and support a social welfare research unit for research into the needs of trade unionists and their families. [More…]

• The purpose of the grants which have been made is to enable the ACTU to undertake relevant research in the area of social welfare which is essential in relation to the welfare problems of people in industry and their dependants directly or indirectly related to the circumstances of their employment. [More…]

• They include: ‘Welfare in Industry: Changing Perspective’, reports; Worker Participation in Management: The Australian Context’; a submission to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on migrants in the work force: ‘Social Policy and Problems of the Work Force’, volumes 1 and 2; ‘Adequacy of Income Derived from Work for Low Income Families in the Williamstown- Altona areas’; Development of a Working Women’s Charter’, submission to the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health; a submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare concerning the inquiry into the adequacy of Australian health and welfare services; and ‘The Collection and Dissemination of Information on Social Welfare Programs and the Role of Trade Unions in the Direct Provision of Welfare Services’. [More…]

• As the article containing the estimate repeated many of the recommendations relating to tobacco made by the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare in its report entitled Drug Problems in Australia- An Intoxicated Society? [More…]

• Both parents may be tax payers and contributing to the welfare of this country. [More…]

• In formulating Liberal-Country Party policy the committee of which I was a member laboriously sought the views of outside organisations which were actually in the welfare field. [More…]

• It sought not only academic views from people in ivory towers but also the view of the Salvation Army, the Brotherhood of St Laurence, the Catholic Family Welfare Bureaux, the Australian Council of Social Service, the Victorian Council of Social Service, other councils of social service and many workers in the field. [More…]

• I think anyone listening to the discussion this evening may not understand the extent of welfare expenditure in this Budget or the burden of increased expenditure on income security and social welfare payments through my Department. [More…]

• It should be noted that the conference facilities and training room provided in this area are in constant demand for departmental purposes and for meetings between the Department and various community organisations and welfare agencies. [More…]

• Is it intended that this project will continue indefinitely in order to provide the Government with a continuous data base for the formation of an adequate family welfare policy in Australia? [More…]

• There has been concern with regard to statistics and the standardisation of social welfare statistics for a number of purposes. [More…]

• In 1 976 the Commonwealth and State Social Welfare Ministers, through the Council of Social Welfare Ministers, established a project. [More…]

• Its goals are to provide a set of statistical standards for general use in the welfare area, to examine the statistical data which is currently being collected in order to assess what data is required for management and evaluation, and to work towards the production of standardised statistics needed for planning and evaluation at State and national levels. [More…]

• The project is also required to recommend statistical series to guide the Australian Bureau of Statistics in compiling and publishing national statistics relating to social welfare. [More…]

• Working groups have been proceeding in each State and in the Northern Territory, comprising representatives of Social Welfare Departments, my Department and the [More…]

• The State government social welfare representatives meet bi-annually to plan the project. [More…]

• This will put welfare statistics in the context of broad State government statistics. [More…]

• The whole stress of the Birch report and, indeed, the second reading speech of the Minister was on extending CSIRO ‘s role in industry and in community welfare generally; that is to say the economic welfare of this society. [More…]

• What needs to be appreciated is that while in Australian terminology one normally thinks of the Public Service in daytoday terms as being simply the persons employed directly by Commonwealth and State government departments, the German concept of that expression is to apply far more actively and widely the term so as to cover such disparate groups as policemen, soldiers, many employees of hospitals, the railroad system, the Post Office, public utilities, schools and universities, welfare agencies, public libraries and so on. [More…]

• I use the word ‘concerned’ in the sense that the Opposition ought to be interested in the welfare and standards of the ABC. [More…]

• This will add to the general atmosphere of blindness with which we approach health and welfare in this country. [More…]

• Doctors have a dual role- as entrepreneurs selling an expensive product on a fee-for-service basis, and as agents for the welfare and interests of the consumers of this product. [More…]

• This clause describes with breathtaking accuracy this Government’s total indifference to the welfare of its own employees. [More…]

• Typically, this Government is prepared to sacrifice the welfare and conditions of employees on the altar of its doctrinaire obsession with competition’. [More…]

• As honourable senators know, the Commonwealth Government fully supports the promotion of child welfare, which is the main purpose of the International Year of the Child, and would be concerned at any action which would tend to compromise the credibility of the campaign. [More…]

• The more it gets for its minerals the more the revenue for the Commonwealth Government and the more its capacity to undertake welfare and other programs. [More…]

• For I believe that for far too long the welfare of my people has been treated with mere apathy within this chamber. [More…]

• There is a great deal to be said for the view- in fact, as far as I am concerned it is quite decisive- that welfare needs should be treated on the basis of an individual’s income rather than on the price of a commodity. [More…]

• The arrival of large numbers of white people in the Region will potentially be very damaging to the welfare and interests of the Aboriginal people there. [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…]

• The Bill also makes some formal amendments to establish more clearly the separate identity of court counsellors from officers of State and Territory welfare departments. [More…]

• The paper urged the party to sympathetically consider equalising costs of communication, transport, health, housing, welfare and education between cities and country areas. [More…]

• It is time that those countries put something into the international welfare schemes. [More…]

• the Company pays to the Aboriginal Welfare Fund annually an amount of profit participation, based on the audited annual net profit derived from mining and associated benefication activities’. [More…]

• -Is the Minister representing the Minister for Health aware of the statement on 4 October 1978 by Joseph Califano, the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the United States, concerning a goal in that country for the elimination of measles there by 1 October 1982? [More…]

• What is the role of the social welfare policy secretariat in the Department of Social Security? [More…]

• What is the role of the social welfare research centre of the University of New South Wales? [More…]

• Briefly, the social welfare policy secretariat, which is composed of a small group of people, is responsible to a permanent heads committee and will provide advice on the integrated development of plans, policies and programs in the broad field of health and welfare. [More…]

• The secretariat will be able to provide support to the social welfare policy committee of Cabinet in the broad field of health and welfare and it will assist the permanent heads committee on social welfare to carry out its functions, including those of any sub-committees which might be established. [More…]

• It will ensure co-ordinated development and review of health and welfare policy and that appropriate research activities are directed to these ends. [More…]

• The functions of the social welfare research centre at the University of New South Wales are to undertake and sponsor research on important aspects of social welfare, to provide opportunities for post-graduate study of social welfare, to arrange seminars and conferences in the welfare field and to arrange for the publication of research results and studies produced at the centre. [More…]

• The establishment of the social welfare research centre at the University reflects a commitment by the Government to make a contribution to basic social welfare research. [More…]

• The director of the centre will be assisted by a body known as the Social Welfare Research Centre Advisory Committee. [More…]

• The social welfare policy secretariat is directly concerned with the coordination and development of government policy in the health and welfare field. [More…]

• I was surprised and encouraged to see that the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy, a Roman Catholic, had come forward for abortion law reform, putting the welfare of his electorate above his Church ‘s edict. [More…]

• I think the important issue is to put the welfare of the people in the electorates of the Australian Capital Territory before thinking about whether we should be listening to the right to life group, to the pro-abortionists or to the anti-abortionists, or whether we should be taking notice of people who have some qualifications in this area. [More…]

• I think that we live in a peculiar period of history in which the general standard of welfare and living is extremely high. [More…]

• I also know that some women who need abortions will not be able to afford the fares to travel or that some women, having no one to leave their families with for a couple of days, will be forced to go through with a pregnancy that will damage their health and the welfare of their families. [More…]

• There would be some loss of revenue, but I suggest that it would be partially offset by the reduction in the payment of unemployment benefits and other welfare payments which are connected with unemployment. [More…]

• The local Australian Labor Party member for Whyalla is reported in the newspaper, when commenting on the severe social problems, as saying that he believed that the Community Welfare Department in Adelaide had encouraged and advised people to take advantage of the cheap Whyalla housing. [More…]

• I am sure that the honourable senators 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…]

• I know that the State Department of Community Welfare has been active in consulting these people. [More…]

• I should like to refer particularly to the area of Aboriginal welfare and to the problems being experienced by the Aborigines in gaining suitable employment. [More…]

• Our desire has been to give Aboriginal people welfare. [More…]

• I draw to the attention of the Committee of the Whole some of the recommendations in the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare entitled ‘Drug Problems in Australia- an intoxicated society?’. [More…]

• To be eligible, a veteran must have served in a theatre of war and have reached the age of 60 years, or alternatively, be permanently unemployable, lt is a welfare pension similar to the age and invalid pensions payable through the Department of Social Security. [More…]

• It would cost the State Department of Community Welfare an enormous amount. [More…]

• I ask the Minister whether her Department would be prepared to divulge to the Minister for Community Welfare in South Australia any information pertaining to a pensioner which he might require so that he can decide whether a pensioner in South Australia should receive a particular concession. [More…]

• I note that in the social sciences Professor Henderson from Melbourne, for instance, has received some of those larger grants for investigation of projects, such as the use of manpower in social welfare services and other subjects such as that. [More…]

• I do want to remind all other honourable senators who have an interest in providing the good things for Australians- the social welfare, the health, the education and the defencethat those things come from the mainspring of both company tax and personal income tax. [More…]

• In a joint statement with Mr R. Young, Western Australian Minister for Community Welfare, on 28 September, I indicated that there was insufficient evidence of progress by the community after five years during which the Commonwealth Government had provided over $1 million. [More…]

• Social Welfare Department, Vic. [More…]

• Department of Welfare Services, Qld [More…]

• The Department of Aboriginal Affairs and before that the Welfare Branch used to offer to provide a mechanic to check a vehicle before it was bought. [More…]

• I seek the incorporation of that document and of the document headed ‘Additional Material to the Report on Welfare Department’. [More…]

• We acquainted him with our disturbance at the treatment Mr McNeil seemed to be getting from the Department of Social Welfare and in particular Mr Jack Cook, Assistant Director, Southern, in Mr McNeil’s efforts on behalf of Aputula Social Club, Finke. [More…]

• Mr McNeil was seeking the right to tender for the sale of the Aputula designed house to Welfare settlements. [More…]

• About June of 1971, Mr Giese, Assistant Administrator, Welfare, had called to see Mr McNeil, had expressed approval of the house and the project, and verbally promised $ 1 for $ 1 from Aboriginal Benefits Trust [More…]

• Finally it was given to the Department of Social Welfare itself to investigate. [More…]

• He was acquainted of our concern at what was happening- or not happening- at the possible wreckage of the Aputula project, of the idea of Welfare Department investigating its own malpractices, strong rumours of which latter were spelt out in detail. [More…]

• He said they would be perfectly safe, as this was a personal report to him and would not go near Welfare. [More…]

• He said he had known of the situation for months and wished to get hold of the books but he got no co-operation from Mr Cook, who told him the social clubs were private bodies run by Aboriginal groups and nothing to do with the Welfare Depanment. [More…]

• A new Superintendent took over when the previous one was promoted to District Welfare Officer. [More…]

• Jim Downing, and two members of the Welfare Southern Division staff. [More…]

• We spoke too of reported strenuous efforts to force the Warrabri Aboriginal Co-op to fold up and become a Social Club under Welfare. [More…]

• This Co-op seems very successful and has far more Aboriginal involvement and authority than any Welfare Department social club, which in practice, and despite earlier official claims, are in actual fact run and dominated by European staff. [More…]

• It is reported to me by staff members at Warrabri about six months ago that tremendous pressure was being put on the manager of the co-operative to wind it up and make it a Welfare Department social club. [More…]

• The pressure was said to come from Mr Giese, and the two informants said that the Superintendent, Mr John Rutter, had openly told staff that he had been placed there to ‘crack’ the co-operative and bring it under Welfare. [More…]

• He had been to Warrabri this month, and was told by the manager that he was told by Welfare representatives that as signatory for the co-op he had power to sign it over to Welfare as a social club, and if he did so the Aborigines would take a long time to find out, and in any case would not understand the legal processes, also they would guarantee him twice the wages he was receiving currently. [More…]

• He also showed a report made on the co-op by Mr Ted Evans for Welfare in January 1970 in which he expressed indignation at the suggestion by Pastor Reece that strong moves were being made by Welfare staff members to join the co-op and take it over to make it a Welfare Social Club once again, and because of the comments made about this the directors at the time voted not to extend membership until further notice. [More…]

• Here, only two years later the strength of Welfare pressure to make the co-op into a social club once again are being attested by two staff members and manager of the co-op. [More…]

• In view of that strong rumour, and of Welfare’s official statements about encouraging Aboriginal responsibility and participation in such co-operative ventures, it is very hard to understand the apparent vigour with which they seem to be attacking a successful Aboriginal controlled venture. [More…]

• At about this time we heard that a plane had been chartered by Welfare to go to Ayers Rock with the projects officer, Mr Smith of Stawell Timber Industries, picking up Mr David Hewitt of the Docker River Social Club on the way, and also taking a Health Department Officer to give approval for work to begin on the proposed ‘Aboriginal Enterprise’ service station to be built there. [More…]

• We understand that Stawell Timber Industries already have plans submitted for approval for this venture, though no tenders have been called, and in spite of present investigations and queries regarding the whole operations of S.T.I, and its relationship with Welfare. [More…]

• The Welfare Department had full knowledge of submissions to OAA and foreshadowed to ABTF on behalf of Aputula Social Club for a factory at Finke to produce modular housing for Aboriginal communities, and to provide employment for the economically very depressed community at Finke. [More…]

• The proposed application and venture by Stawell was told to Pastor Albrecht by Mr Jack Cook, Assistant Director, Welfare, at the very time when Pastor Albrecht was trying to convey to Mr Cook that the Jay Creek Council wanted to go to Alice Springs and view the Aputula Display house built there, and was getting only evasion from Mr Cook. [More…]

• One was the matter of Aputula housing, on which an expert feasibility study has been completed by W. D. Scott and Co, for OAA, and the matter of Jay Creek housing and the whole operation of Stawell Timber Industries and the relationship of this company with Welfare. [More…]

• Secondly, the whole matter of Welfare social clubs and their structure should be examined. [More…]

• He was told by Welfare personnel of strong pressure by a district officer, exPapunya superintendent to make Superintendents of settlements the President of social clubs on their settlements, and in one case where the superintendent resisted this, to make him become a voting member at least. [More…]

• Fourthly the matter of Warrabri co-operative should be examined, and the motive for trying to force it to become a social club under the control of Welfare. [More…]

• He said also that he could see that the real problem was a basic conflict in philosophies between our group and the Welfare Depanment. [More…]

• Downing seemed the prime mover in the meeting arranged with Albrecht, Reece and Welfare personnel, and that he controlled or chaired that meeting, which seems a fair statement of the situation. [More…]

• We think this is not a factor, but that our concern has grown out of the deep involvement of each of the group with Aboriginal people and their expressed concerns, and out of the frustrations and anguish which was felt because of the attitudes expressed by key Welfare Depanment personnel and action taken by them. [More…]

• We have heard that the Fraud Squad has been frustrated in efforts to examine the Papunya Social Club situation because of an order said to come from Mr Giese in the last week that Welfare staff were not to answer any queries, or show any books. [More…]

• ADDITIONAL MATERIAL TO REPORT ON WELFARE DEPARTMENT [More…]

• Is it fulfilment of the threat in Mr Ted Evans report of January 1970 to use the social club to compete with the co-operative to force it to comply with Welfare’s wishes? [More…]

• In 1970-71 a Welfare employee transferred to a job with the Social Club. [More…]

• Grants are made to help provide services to meet demonstrated needs within communities and to help with their social and economic development; they are not welfare payments. [More…]

• Consistent with that proposition, the Government cut funds for capital works, both general purpose funds plus the major specific purpose programs such as hospitals, community health, urban public transport and welfare housing. [More…]

• Basically, the failure of conservative governments to invest in public infrastructure has had a number of effects: Firstly, essential services such as schools, hospitals, public transport and welfare housing are allowed to run down under Liberal governments, thus creating a significant backlog of demand. [More…]

• With the elimination of the hospital building program altogether and the very severe cuts in housing allocations for welfare housing and co-operative housing, it all adds up to an enormously damaging blow to the economy, as we see it. [More…]

• Instead of the ‘sit by and do nothing’ approach which has been adopted on so many occasions in the past, it is obvious that specific measures should be implemented by the Federal Government to ensure that alternative employment is available in north western Tasmania; that the recommendations of the Industries Assistance Commission about the provision of counsellors and other social welfare workers who might be able to assist those mine employees who feel they ought to shift are implemented; and that the Tasmanian Government is given help in assessing possible industries for the north west as well as hastening other mineral exploration work in the area. [More…]

• The article went on to say : he believed the Community Welfare Department in Adelaide had encouraged and advised people to take advantage of the cheap Whyalla housing. [More…]

• Following my question and the reply given, I got in touch with Mr Payne, the Minister of Community Welfare in Adelaide. [More…]

• The Department for Community Welfare in Adelaide does not encourage people to move to Whyalla to take advantage of low rental housing. [More…]

• The Department for Community Welfare in Adelaide does not encourage people to move to Whyalla to take advantage of low rental housing. [More…]

• It would be unrealistic to expect either the Department of Community Welfare or the Housing Trust to discriminate actively against such people as deserted wives, widows and unemployed families and say: ‘Oh, there’s low rental housing available at Whyalla, but you can’t go there because there ‘s too many of your type of people there already ‘. [More…]

• As the Advertiser article pointed out, the Whyalla counselling service is among the agencies attempting to meet this need and this shows once again the value of voluntary welfare agencies and the contribution they make around the State. [More…]

• The Department of Community Welfare office at Whyalla has the highest staff ratio to population of any country district office in the State. [More…]

• The fact of the matter is that certain items of Commonwealth expenditure have been taking a larger proportion- areas such as health, education and welfare in particular have had an increasing share of Commonwealth expenditure. [More…]

• It is a matter for the States whether they allocate those funds to roads, to the health, education and welfare fields. [More…]

• The Opposition agrees with the comment in the second reading speech that Australian airlines are making a significant contribution to the development and welfare of this country. [More…]

• That if the laws governing collection of fees from university students are amended so as to prohibit compulsory membership of student associations, the provision of support and welfare services to students will be grievously curtailed. [More…]

• Such programs need to allow for the personal, social, educational, welfare and recreational needs of the unemployed young people. [More…]

• That this working group arrange for the wider distribution of information of health, welfare and education services as well as employment opportunities in the A.C.T. [More…]

• On behalf of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare, I present a report on ethics in wine promotion. [More…]

• -by leave-A longstanding reference from the Senate empowers the Standing Committee on Social Welfare to exercise a continuing oversight of relevant aspects of the report of the Senate Select Committee on Drug Trafficking and Drug Abuse which was presented in 1971. [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 year ended 30 December 1977, together with financial statements and the report of the AuditorGeneral on these statements. [More…]

• Yesterday, the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare in its report on ethics in wine promotion expressed its concern at the Australian Wine Board ‘s use of a film to promote Australian table wines. [More…]

• Let me give a hypothetical example so that people will be able to understand what I am talking about: Firm A is employing union labour, is honouring its awards both in spirit and in the letter, is enabling the union to go into the plant, is ensuring that safety, health and welfare provisions and procedures are followed and is able to ensure that there is proper consultation between the management and the employees so that the employees are not unfairly disadvantaged. [More…]

• Mr President, you admonish us during the early part of each day to act with the thought of the true welfare of the people of Australia in mind. [More…]

• We know from Greek welfare workers and from cases that members of Parliament have had that some people went without support for some six to eight weeks, relying on friends for help. [More…]

• Greek welfare officers in Sydney have had considerable difficulty in handling the problems that have arisen. [More…]

• People in the social welfare community have approached me and expressed their concern. [More…]

• I have had the opportunity to express the concern of this Government to the Greek Consul-General, the Greek Charge d ‘Affaires, a deputation from the Australia.Greek Welfare Society and others who are regarded as leaders of the Greek descendants in this country that they should feel embarrassed as a community by some of the Press comments that were made. [More…]

• Essentially, what the honourable senator is suggesting is an extension, through the taxation system, of benefits available under what I might broadly call the Australian social welfare system. [More…]

• As to that, I have on a number of occasions expressed reservations as to the appropriateness and efficacy of turning to the taxation system as a channel for providing, indirectly, social welfare benefits. [More…]

• 1 ) Does the Reserve Bank Act 1 959 require the Reserve Bank Board to exercise its power as to best contribute to the stability of the currency of Australia, the maintenance of full employment in Australia, and the economic prosperity and welfare of the people of Australia. [More…]

• The Commonwealth’s objective in assessing each proposal is to maximise economic and other benefits to Australia, having due regard to the welfare ofthe Australian fishing industry. [More…]

• All the time the results of the reduction in Aboriginal welfare ends up in the Department of Health which pointed out in its last report that infant mortality in the Northern Territory had decreased in Labor’s years and is increasing continually year by year under this Government. [More…]

• He cut down and cut down and disregarded the health, welfare and lives of babies in the north and got away with it. [More…]

• Beryl Beaurepaire (Victoria)- Voluntary community and charity worker; Citizens’ Welfare Service of Victoria (VicePresident), United Nations Association of Australia, Status of Women Committee; Member, Women’s Advisory Body Working Party. [More…]

• student and researching the child and law in Queensland; has published and presented papers on rights of the child, emotional needs of young children and care of sick children; President, Association for the Welfare of Children in Hospital, Queensland; member, sub-committee on co-ordination of Pediatric Services, Queensland Pediatric Advisory Committee; member, sub-committee revising legislation in Queensland for handicapped children, Queensland Special Education Department; member, Women Lawyers’ Association, U.N. Association Human Rights Committee, Federation of University Women. [More…]

• Connie Bush (Northern Territory)- Aboriginal; Welfare Officer, Groote Eyelandt. [More…]

• Lena Gustin (New South Wales)- Italian migrated 1956: radio announcer (manager of the Italian program on Radio 2KY); President, NSW Branch of National Association of Families of Migrants; honorary member, Apia Club; President, Sorella Radio Welfare Fund; member, Australian Institute of Welfare Officers, State Ethnic Broadcasting Committee, N.S.W. [More…]

• ; has been editor of and contributor to several Italian language newspapers; involvement with ItaloAustralian community includes welfare work and interpreting. [More…]

• Judith Roberts (South Australia)- Trained nurse; associate member of National Council of Women of SA; member of number of local community organisations (in the fields of health, welfare and education) including Unley Mothers and Babies Health Association ( former President, Secretary and Treasurer), Unley Royal Institution for the Blind, Unley Auxiliary of Crippled Children’s Association, Royal District Nursing Society, Red Cross, Good Neighbour Council of SA, State Committees of Schools’ Commission, Council of Governors of Walford CEGGS, Federation of Parents and Friends Association of Independent Schools in SA. [More…]

• Bearing in mind Senator Guilfoyle ‘s statement to the Senate yesterday that the first Commonwealth Police brief on the matter told her that the word ‘Greek’ did not appear at all on placards being held by alleged social welfare offenders being photographed by police but that yesterday she said she has since been advised that in at least five cases a placard bearing the date of birth and the word ‘Greece’ following it was used when police were taking the photographs, I ask the Minister whether he will ascertain and inform the Senate why that information did not appear in that first police brief given to the Minister? [More…]

• It involves the welfare of the most vulnerable of our citizens and, probably equally importantly, it also involves their ability to have any faith in this Parliament and in promises made both by parties and individuals in this Parliament. [More…]

• We have altered the legislation so that there is an automatic increase every six months and we accept that this is an increase in the social welfare bill. [More…]

• The second reason given was that it was an economic necessity for the welfare of the nation. [More…]

• They were not accepted by any welfare organisation at all. [More…]

• Services to disadvantaged people in the community have been affected through cuts in assistance to various welfare agencies and groups which assist these people. [More…]

• We cannot look at the economics of the situation without giving recognition to the enormous growth of expenditure on health and welfare. [More…]

• I do not wish to be tedious in the use of figures but it has to be put on record so that there may be some informed debate on it just what has occurred in, say, the last 10 years with regard to income security and welfare expenditure. [More…]

• Budget for the year 1967-68 the health and welfare allocation was $1.4 billion. [More…]

• Equally, I give recognition to the growth in the health and welfare expenditure of this country. [More…]

• We have reached the stage where, if our welfare bill is close to $ 1 1 billion, it will represent about $800 for every man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]

• Another figure which I think indicates relativity is that about 85 per cent of all personal income tax collected in this country is spent on health and welfare. [More…]

• In last year’s Budget our welfare expenditure rose by about 7 per cent, but unless we give recognition to the numbers of people who are now social security beneficiaries I do not think we gain any understanding of what has occurred in the responsibilities we must accept. [More…]

• I believe that he understood the magnitude of the welfare bill, he understood the impossibility of making rash promises greatly to increase the rates and other benefits that are paid. [More…]

• The proportion of the national Budget that is spent on income security, on welfare and on social security, is 27.8 per cent. [More…]

• I commend the Territory Government for setting up a board of inquiry into welfare needs, which will look at the problems of pensioners and other people with needs. [More…]

• The way in which my committee operated was not necessarily to go only to bureaucrats to find out what was wrong with the social structure but to go out to the people actually in the field of social welfare. [More…]

• In determining our social welfare policy we went to organisations such as the Catholic Family Welfare Bureau, the Brotherhood of St Laurence, the Australian Council of Social Service, the Victorian Council of Social Service, various other social service councils around Australia, the society for the aging, the society for the crippled and pensioners associations. [More…]

• We really went into the hearts of people who were affected by social welfare. [More…]

• The Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) made much of the numbers of pensioners and the increase in welfare payments. [More…]

• I feel that we want less emphasis on welfare in this area and more emphasis on people’s rights. [More…]

• If more of the wealth of this country flowed back to the people of this country, perhaps we would have less talk about welfare and more people would live with some decency. [More…]

• The reduction in the rate of inflation is the most significant contribution that this Government or any government can make for the welfare of all the people- pensioners and all others alike- in the context of our economy and our society. [More…]

• We have taken politics out of old age pensions and all other social welfare and repatriation pensions by increasing them automatically in line with inflation. [More…]

• It was a very simple political exercise and had nothing at all to do with the welfare of Australians, least of all the welfare of Australian pensioners. [More…]

• Since coming to office in 1975 the Government has raised substantially the level of benefits paid to pensioners and other welfare recipients. [More…]

• The Bill is an integral part of the Government’s comprehensive program for the advancement and welfare of the Cocos people. [More…]

• On the employment and welfare side, the Commonwealth Government has taken steps to ensure that the services of the Commonwealth Employment Service and the Department of Social Security are strengthened as necessary to meet the particular needs of the Whyalla situation. [More…]

• In fact, the States remain responsible in fields such as health, education, welfare and, of course, land, which is of vital importance to Aboriginals. [More…]

• That postponement is aimed at the economic welfare of the country and honourable senators with an interest in transport would know that the cost of road building, rail construction and all the rest has been as much a victim of inflation as any other activity in Australia and actions taken by the Government to maintain a lower rate of inflation are in the interests that we are seeking to serve in this program. [More…]

• Two people or groups of people were thereafter concerned with the welfare of those small children: their maternal grandparents and their father. [More…]

• I hope, similarly, that the Minister will be able to make some comment on the Commission’s desire to take 35 per cent of sales as its agent’s fee, and that in developing the philatelic administration of the Cocos Islands the majority of our concern will be directed towards maximising revenue which can be turned back into providing additional funds for the welfare of the people who happen to live there. [More…]

• The responsibilities for the welfare of the Territory’s people which Australia thus assumed had an international significance as Britain had earlier declared that the Cocos Islands were a nonselfgoverning territory to which Chapter 1 1 of the United Nations Charter applied. [More…]

• It is actually a welfare service. [More…]

• It is no different from the other welfare services. [More…]

• We should examine legal aid services against the same tests by which we examine other welfare measures. [More…]

• We should look at the place of legal aid in a coherent welfare system in the same way as we look at all other welfare services. [More…]

• Whether they are health services, welfare services, housing policies or community development activities, they are all part of the same kind of interventions by government aimed at giving people a better chance. [More…]

• If we in the Senate are going to look at the matter logically, look at these guidelines and look properly at this statement, we must look at legal aid as part of a welfare system and part of the human services area within that system. [More…]

• If in this Senate our concerns are for access for all Australians, for equity, if our concerns are for effectiveness and efficiency, then those concerns can be as effectively examined by looking at legal aid as a welfare service as our concerns can be examined for all other aspects of the welfare system. [More…]

• This brings me to the one central unresolved issue in the whole welfare area in Australia. [More…]

• It is the issue of resources and how resources are allocated, and the kind of crisis which is developing in resource allocation in the area of welfare services generally, of which legal aid is only one part. [More…]

• It does not matter whether it is in health, welfare, legal aid or housing. [More…]

• There is no way that we are going to be able to sustain a situation in which an increased proportion of the gross domestic product is going to welfare programs generally. [More…]

• But the beginning of wisdom is at least to appreciate that this is one area of the social welfare system- I accept what Senator Baume has said about the characterisation of legal aid as properly being regarded as one element in a total welfare system- in relation to which the real level of the funding that is supplied cannot be allowed to drift back in the way in which this Government has allowed it to do. [More…]

• While I agree that of course the total scheme, the total welfare budget and the priorities of one group over another must be looked at, a situation can come where there has to be some limit, when something has to be judged to be of a lesser priority and it must go. [More…]

• I find this suggestion totally inapplicable to the legal aid scheme in this country because where nearly $7,000m is now spent in the medical and social welfare areas, about $20m is spent in the legal aid area. [More…]

• I am sure that the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare, after hearing public evidence, would have been able to shape the Government’s proposal into a workable and acceptable form. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare is watching this matter very closely, watching the passage of the weeks and months. [More…]

• I return to my reference to the international refugee situation which concerns the welfare of people. [More…]

• The whole welfare of the country is at stake when there is a lack of information or wrongdoing that is left uncorrected. [More…]

• I believe that I have seen statements from Dr Santamaria in Melbourne, but I have also seen statements from a wide variety of authoritative sources, including the Academy of Science and the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare, which amount to the same thing. [More…]

• An example given to the Committee of the kind of area in which efficiency audits might operate was the whole area of welfare housing. [More…]

• I now refer to one other very important aspect of this Bill which seeks to extend the range of circumstances in which a court can order the parties to confer with a counsellor or order a counsellor to report to it on the welfare of children. [More…]

• The Bill seeks to extend the range of circumstances in which a court can order the panics to confer with a counsellor or order a counsellor to report to it, on the welfare of the children of the marriage. [More…]

• There are also formal amendments to establish more clearly the separate identity of court counsellors from officers of State and Territory welfare departments. [More…]

• Section 62 is amended to extend the 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 the children of the marriage. [More…]

• This can now be done whenever the welfare of a child under 1 8 is relevant (clause 9). [More…]

• I think it is quite wise of us to have an amending Bill in relation to these issues because when we have a legislative act which impinges so much upon our community welfare, our social practices and indeed our family lifestyle, it is good that there is a review from time to time in relation to detail. [More…]

• It confers certain powers on the courts and makes certain recommendations in relation to the welfare of the children of such a marriage. [More…]

• The Bill makes some formal amendments to establish more clearly the separate identity of court counsellors, separating them from the officers of State and Territory welfare departments. [More…]

• I rise to speak on the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare on ethics in wine promotion. [More…]

• I was not a member of the Standing Committee on Social Welfare during its inquiry into drug abuse, but I joined the Committee in time to see the film to which Senator Melzer referred. [More…]

• The report of the Standing Committee on Social Welfare on ethics in wine promotion is presently being debated in the Senate. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare report which we are discussing has said nothing at all about banning advertising. [More…]

• I think it is known to the Senate that almost 28 per cent of the national Budget expenditure is of an income security or welfare nature. [More…]

• The cost to the Department of Social Security of welfare payments is increasing because the numbers of persons in each category of the income security system are increasing each year. [More…]

• The honourable senator also referred to the encouragement of community support for welfare matters. [More…]

• I would assume that a continuation of those programs will ensure that the welfare dollars which are expended are used in the best way. [More…]

• The moneys which were supposed to be spent on human beings and their welfare are being spent on war materials. [More…]

• In September 1978, the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare published a report which stated that 40 per cent of all cancer deaths in the United States were due to exposure to occupational carcinogens such as asbestos, uranium, benzine, nickel oxide, chromium and petroleum factions, to mention just a few. [More…]

• 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…]

• The Government’s total insensitivity to human welfare is demonstrated by successive decisions to flood the world market with uranium at a time of international tension. [More…]

• On the other hand, Government agencies which ought to be offering support in these circumstances, such as the Health Commission or the welfare branch of the Department of the Capital Territory, are unable to give adequate service to the public because of the Fraser Government’s policies of staff ceilings. [More…]

• Those adjustments, I think, indicate a very great interest on the part of the Government in the welfare of the student population. [More…]

• We are seeing a strict application of regulations, just as in other areas of government assistance we are seeing a definite attempt to cut back the number of people receiving assistance, whether it be welfare benefits, unemployment benefits or any of the other benefits. [More…]

• It is interesting that Senator Baume interjected because he is a constant reminder of these points as the Chairman of that important committee of this Senate, namely, the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare, which dealt with the matter of an intoxicated society. [More…]

• Welfare in its report Drug Problems in Australia -an Intoxicated Society? [More…]

• As a member of the Senate Committee on Social Welfare he should be familiar. [More…]

• It was estimated that in 1972-73 the total cost to the community in heath costs, losses to industry, road crashes and social welfare payments was over $1,1 77m. [More…]

• I am endorsing the recommendations of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare. [More…]

• It should act now to implement the recommendations of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare in its report on the abuse of alcohol, analgesics and tobacco. [More…]

• It appears to me, from the remarks that have been made to date by my colleagues, that a great deal of reference has been made to the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare, over which Senator Baume presides, and its report on the problems involved in cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, the taking of analgesics and matters of that nature. [More…]

• A person or welfare association shall not conduct public functions in or outside a hall or raise money at such functions, unless prior approval has been obtained from the council after consultation with the manager. [More…]

• The report of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare entitled ‘Drug Problems in Australia- an Intoxicated Society?’ [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…]

• 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 1 959. [More…]

• We do not believe that the Government ought to walk away from the welfare of and its concern for the welfare of people who have served in the Australian Services Canteens Organisation, no doubt in many cases for many years. [More…]

• The Government has commissioned a task force on co-ordination in welfare and health, the report of which has become known as the Bailey report. [More…]

• He is the Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]

• It is a net revenue loss owing, of course, to the very sharp rises in health costs and the advances in social welfare benefits and so on. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare did not promote, has not promoted, is not promoting and will not promote prohibition of any legal drug use. [More…]

• I find myself perhaps more inclined to support the views of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare because I like many others would be appalled at the extent to which sport in Australia is being taken over not only by the cigarette manufacturers and the liquor industry but also by Mr Packer. [More…]

• It is correct for the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare to make the sort of recommendations that it has made. [More…]

• We also believe that the evidence from the welfare workers involved with the people concerned is that unnecessary hardship has resulted. [More…]

• This was a matter of major concern to those Greek welfare workers who were faced with the problem of scores of Greek recipients, deprived of their income, landing on their doorstep looking for help. [More…]

• These Greek welfare workers formed themselves into an organisation so that they could exchange views and information and represent their clients as best they could. [More…]

• The New South Wales Council for Civil Liberties is saying so, the Australian Medical Association has made a complaint about it and the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and the Greek welfare workers in their report also have made complaints. [More…]

• They were doing so on the advice of the welfare workers. [More…]

• The impression which they and their welfare workers gained was that if they went without their records of interview they would not get special benefit. [More…]

• Many other questions were raised by the Greek Welfare Workers’ Group and the Redfern Legal Centre which has been involved in the defence of many of these cases. [More…]

• I believe, together with the Greek Welfare Workers’ Group, the Redfern Legal Centre and the Royal College of Psychiatrists, that the time has come for an investigation, not into the guilt or innocence of people but into the manner in which they have been charged and the manner in which those charges have been investigated. [More…]

• I too have had a very useful meeting with the Greek welfare workers from New South Wales. [More…]

• The Acting Director of my New South Wales division at the time of this incident greatly valued the assistance that was given to him by the Greek welfare workers and by other welfare workers in New South Wales. [More…]

• I have found that there were those who felt that they were uncertain and in this way we were assisted greatly by the welfare workers whom I mentioned earlier. [More…]

• Earlier I spoke about assistance that had been given to my Department by Greek welfare officers. [More…]

• Recently I had a meeting with Greek welfare people from Sydney. [More…]

• It has been estimated by a Greek welfare rights officer, Angela Manson, as reported in the Melbourne Age as recently as 31 January this year, that about 800 people who have never been charged have been treated as suspects merely because they were patients of the six doctors charged in this case. [More…]

• She has allowed a situation to develop in which responsible welfare officers and members of the Greek community have found themselves unable to continue to expect just and fair treatment from her Department. [More…]

• How does that statement compare with the statement from the Greek welfare officers who have had to deal with the problems in the field? [More…]

• The Committee, under the chairmanship of Dr Sidney Sax, Chairman of the Social Welfare Policy Secretariat, included representatives from the [More…]

• It is clear that some departments have good welfare officers. [More…]

• But in other departments the welfare officers are never seen and the compensation section is practically nonexistent. [More…]

• I think the matter needs serious thought by all people because all people must make up their minds at some stage or other whether they want all charities, all community services, all educational and cultural activities, all social welfare agencies, religious facilities and others to be provided by governments whoever they are or whether governments whoever they are should provide an incentive and opportunity for people to donate freely and generously. [More…]

• The concept that we have today neither encourages people to give large donations nor, if I may say so, fosters the vital concept that people should be involved personally in the welfare of their fellows to the fullest possible extent. [More…]

• This Government has the temerity and arrogance to threaten the New South Wales Government about its legitimate right to take action in respect of matters which affect the industrial welfare of a section of its work force; yet it refuses to act in respect of its obligations and responsibilities and its promises on many occasions concerning the Aborigines of Queensland. [More…]

• Bearing in mind the statement of the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) to the Senate yesterday that the first Commonwealth Police brief on the matter told her that the word ‘Greek ‘ did not appear at all on placards being held by alleged social welfare offenders being photographed by police but that yesterday she said she has since been advised that in at least five cases a placard bearing the date of binh and the word ‘Greece’ following it was used when police were taking photographs, I ask the Minister for Administrative Services (Mr McLeay) whether he will ascertain and inform the Senate why that information did not appear in that first police brief given to the Minister for Social Security. [More…]

• On 2 1 February 1 979 in reply to a question without notice you asked concerning social welfare benefits, Senator the Hon. [More…]

• They want the best of the cake all the time and they do not want to contribute anything to the welfare of the industry as a whole. [More…]

• Any suggestion that any move is afoot in the Senate adversely to affect the welfare of the Maltese people is certainly and clearly without any substance whatever. [More…]

• In welfare, $2.089m was provided this financial year, as against $ 1.735m last financial year. [More…]

• In welfare, the payments rose from $ 1.308m last financial year to $ 1.346m this financial year. [More…]

• I could give many other examples, but I point out finally that Victoria has the most comprehensive maternal and infant welfare service in Australia. [More…]

• Subsequently, the reports were referred to the Social Welfare Policy Committee secretariat, which has prepared a report for the Government’s consideration. [More…]

• Jobs are disappearing from the health, education and welfare areas. [More…]

• I met with a delegation from the Australian Council of Social Service on 28 October 1977, following the Victorian power strike, to discuss among other things the effects on the finances of welfare agencies of an apparently increasing provision of emergency relief. [More…]

• The basic objectives of this study were: Firstly, to make the best possible assessment of the extent and total value of emergency relief, both in money and in kind, provided by welfare agencies; secondly, to ascertain who are the major recipients of emergency relief and their social and economic characteristics; and, thirdly, to establish the reasons for which emergency relief is sought. [More…]

• They were: To ascertain the operating characteristics of welfare agencies and to ascertain the number of recipients of emergency relief who have applied for, or are receiving, each type of pension and benefit payment. [More…]

• The study found that in April 1978 the annual number of applications to welfare agencies for emergency relief was conservatively estimated to have been between 400,000 and 450,000. [More…]

• The annual value of emergency relief provided by welfare agencies was estimated at between $ 12.5m and $ 14.5m. [More…]

• Consultations will be held with State welfare Ministers and representatives of the voluntary sector regarding the policy implications of the findings of the joint study. [More…]

• In tabling this report, I would like to thank personally all those associated with the study for their assistance, and especially the staff and clients of the many welfare agencies in four States who provided the data on which the report is based. [More…]

• As with many welfare and health areas in this country, we have been bedevilled by a lack of ideas as to the size of the problem with which we have been presented and the nature of that problem. [More…]

• By us I mean the Government, the Parliament and those in the welfare agencies who have a right to make an input in regard to this decision-making process. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that the report says that a conservative estimate of the value of emergency relief provided by welfare agencies in this country is some $1 1m and that this estimate was based on data supplied in the agency questionnaire census forms for the last financial year ended on or before April 1978. [More…]

• Recently it has been alleged in Victoria by people such as the Reverend Kerry Graham of the Broadmeadows Welfare Advisory Committee, and others, that the poor boxes in Victoria now provide almost half of the emergency financial help given in the State. [More…]

• It has been alleged that the emergency relief needs of welfare agencies have at least doubled in the past six months- the six months that have elapsed since the figures were published in this report- and that the court poor boxes in Victoria are in fact becoming drained. [More…]

• It presents a very dangerous position for the welfare agencies, should we have another large industrial dispute or any sort of calamity in a society which would churn people through the welfare agencies looking for emergency relief. [More…]

• We have a picture produced by this study which demonstrates that the most frequent reason for people seeking emergency relief at the welfare agencies was that they were waiting for their first pension or benefit cheque or an overdue social security cheque to arrive, or that they had sudden financial commitments and debt payments becoming due and could not cope with them. [More…]

• We like to think we have a system whereby nobody gets into such trouble that he has to go along and beg for money out of the poor boxes or from welfare agencies which can ill afford to spare that money. [More…]

• As 1979 is the International Year of the Child, I hope that it will not pass with a series of sanctimonious statements about the welfare of children, but at least will result in concrete and positive steps being taken to protect the kids of this country. [More…]

• Therefore he was unable to be registered in my State, despite the fact he had been the only practitioner in this town for several years and had looked after the health and the welfare of the people there to their satisfaction and everybody else’s satisfaction. [More…]

• This imposes on the Government a responsibility to ensure, as 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 1 8 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 senators 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…]

• Commonwealth officials of the Social Welfare Policy Secretariat and the Department of Health convened and had meetings during August and September 1978 with officials of the respective State Health Departments/Commissions. [More…]

• The Government is currently considering advice on the recommendation concerning alcohol advertising contained in the report, of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare, entitled Drug Problems in Australia- an intoxicated society? [More…]

• Is there any other Commonwealth or State welfare financing scheme that is so exceptionally generous? [More…]

• The legislation is causing serious problems not just for the rnining industry, but for all Australians, directly and indirectly, including the Aboriginal people whose welfare the legislation is intended to enhance. [More…]

• 59 Welfare and Health Co-ordination Task Force- Social Policy Development- Papers. [More…]

• The day after the report was tabled I issued a Press release which indicated the new procedures which the Department of Social Security had adopted to reduce the burdens on State governments, welfare agencies and charitable institutions which provide emergency relief as described in the report. [More…]

• The former Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Mr Viner, in his second reading speech on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Reserves and Communities Self-Management) Bill, quoted the remarks of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) with regard to the ongoing commitment of the coalition parties to the welfare of the Aboriginal people in that area. [More…]

• Recognising our mutual obligation with regard to the wishes and the welfare of the Aboriginal peoples at Aurukun and Mornington Island, the two Governments after long and earnest discussion, have reached the following agreement that in order to achieve self-management for Aurukun and Mornington Island communities . [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Social Security whether her attention has been drawn to the statement made last Sunday by the Victorian Minister for Community Welfare Services, Mr Dixon, that the Liberal Party in Victoria, if re-elected, would index State family assistance payments on a six-monthly basis? [More…]

• In view of the Tribunal’s criticism of programs for children, particularly educational programs, will the Minister be prepared to discuss with the Minister for Post and Telecommunications the appointment to the Tribunal of someone with special interest in the educational welfare of the younger generation of Australians before hearings for other licences in Australia take place? [More…]

• Frankly, I think that this is a scandalous statement by the Government insofar as it relates particularly to the health and welfare of the people of Sydney. [More…]

• I believe that the Commonwealth Government stands condemned for its callous disregard for the interests and welfare of the people who live in Sydney in particular. [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…]

• Will the Minister undertake to: (a) advertise widely the eligibility for special benefit of workers refused unemployment benefit in these circumstances, and (b) make the details of special benefit provision available to trade unions which, because of the Government ‘s refusal to do so, take responsibility for the welfare of their members. [More…]

• The Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs currently provides welfare services to migrants and refugees through its Bailey Arcade office in Civic and general immigration functions at the CML office in University Avenue. [More…]

• The Department’s Migrant Welfare Service has for some years produced a basic directory of services to migrants in the ACT. [More…]

• As indicated by the Minister for Social Security, the question of controls over cigarette advertising has been taken up in the context of the Government’s consideration of the Report of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare entitled ‘Drug Problems in Australia- an intoxicated society?’. [More…]

• However, the assurance with regard to social security expenditure is given with the knowledge that to maintain the present pension and other welfare schemes of my Department, we will be requiring something like a 7 per cent to 8 per cent increase. [More…]

• For a more detailed answer, I direct the attention of honourable senators to the news release by the Minister for Social Welfare, Mr Brian Dixon, setting out the policy matters in detail. [More…]

• With the elimination of the hospital building programs altogether and the very severe cuts in housing allocations for welfare housing and co-operative housing it all adds up to an enormous, damaging blow to the economy as we see it. [More…]

• He intends to spend $44m on community welfare services. [More…]

• Minister for Health and Welfare.) [More…]

• On 2 June 1976 the Senate gave to its Standing Committee on Social Welfare a reference on the evaluation of the adequacy of Australian health and welfare services with four particular subreferences, lt is now my honour to present to the Senate the Committee’s report on this matter. [More…]

• In particular, these include a paper to represent the views and concerns of agencies and another dealing with the problems which face any one of us as clients, as users, of our health and welfare services. [More…]

• What we have sought to assess is what mechanisms exist within the health and welfare systems in Australia that will enable anyone to know anything about how the various parts of the system work. [More…]

• Although expenditure on health and welfare dominates annual budgeting at Federal Government level, little seems to be known about what effects this is producing. [More…]

• Questions we have addressed include the following: On what basis do the health and welfare systems make policy and administrative decisions? [More…]

• Do the health and welfare systems know what needs exist in the community? [More…]

• Do the health and welfare systems know what each is doing, or should be doing, or what each has achieved over any period? [More…]

• They are central to the determination of whether our system or any system is or can be effective or efficient, or whether it is even the right system within which health and welfare services should be developing and operating. [More…]

• Nevertheless, for the purposes of this inquiry we have accepted the present system of health and welfare as the framework within which we examined Australian practice. [More…]

• Too little is known of the working or effects of the Australian health and welfare system to enable proper and necessary decisions to be made for its management. [More…]

• It seems inescapable that the health and welfare system has operated without clearly identified policy goals and program objectives, without an adequate system of social indicators, without clearly stated standards of provision or performance, without adequate evaluation technologies, without a pool of people trained to use such technologies as are available, and without resources committed to measurement and to knowing in the health and welfare services. [More…]

• Whilst we would all want efficient health and welfare services, what we are seeking more than anything is services that are effective in doing something useful for the community that they have been established to serve. [More…]

• If a health and welfare system, whether in the government or the nongovernment sector, cannot make itself effective and rational, reasonable observers may be led to conclude that the system itself is inadequate for what society expects from it. [More…]

• I think it is fair enough to say that the Committee concluded that, in the area of health and welfare and its evaluation in this country, we do in fact live in sin. [More…]

• It was also an interesting exercise in that some of those who took a most critical view of the evaluation of welfare programs in this country were representatives of welfare agency groups- the councils of social service- or of individual agencies. [More…]

• It is important to emphasise to those who are involved in the delivery of health and welfare services in this community that no member of the Committee has any desire to flood those who deliver benefits and services in this country with a torrent of bureaucratic red tape, with requirements that would inhibit the effectiveness of their programs. [More…]

• indiscriminate cuts in funds, indiscriminate handing out of funds, continuance of the present ad hoc decisionmaking 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…]

• I say in passing that Labor members of the Committee are certainly not under any illusion that the introduction of proper methods of evaluation or accountability will make unnecessary changes to the distribution of wealth, wages and power in this country, which we see as a basic problem behind the necessity for welfare. [More…]

• I hope the response to the report will not be a feeling of threat or a feeling that anyone in the welfare or health community is under attack. [More…]

• Did the Prime Minister promise in 1977 to put aside money to assist welfare organisations which are providing financial support to people in dire financial need; if so, what sum has been made available for this purpose. [More…]

• J have already had consultation with State Welfare Ministers. [More…]

• The Australian Council of Social Service representing the voluntary welfare sector is continuing to be involved in discussions about emergency relief. [More…]

• The National Advisory Council on Welfare has also been consulted and a report is expected shortly. [More…]

• Will this money be expended by the Uniting Church in Sydney at another welfare centre: if so, what action does the Minister propose regarding the use of this account, considering the large allocation of funds her Department has directed into Westwood and other Church and community projects. [More…]

• I can assure the honourable senator that in considering the proposals the Government will take into consideration a range of factors, including the views of the States concerned, the welfare of the Australian fishing industry, any views expressed by the industry, and any research programs related to the fisheries in question. [More…]

• This matter is raised by the Opposition at this time because the Parliament is in its last weeks before the next Budget sittings, because the Government is preparing for the Budget and because a counter view needs to be presented to the rising tide of speculation and opinion in the community as to the possibility of cuts in welfare expenditure in general. [More…]

• A counter view needs to be given to the concerted and rehearsed chorus of cries for cuts in welfare expenditure by members of Government parties, and by their supporters in the manufacturing and mining industries and in the media. [More…]

• The Australian Financial Review on the same day had this headline: Budget cutters still to consider welfare’. [More…]

• It is expected to start vetting welfare expenditure in earnest in the next fortnight. [More…]

• Some very senior Ministers have stepped outside the area of their portfolios and commented on social security and health and welfare. [More…]

• They regularly advocate a cut in government expenditure in the fields of welfare, health and education. [More…]

• -Mr Fry of the Metal Trades Industry Association has recently been heard calling for cuts in welfare expenditure in Australia. [More…]

• Sir Roderick Carnegie and others also dutifully advocate cuts in the fields of health, welfare and education. [More…]

• Someone, in this case the Opposition, must put an opposing view on behalf of the recipients of welfare expenditure in this country and on behalf of low income earners in this country. [More…]

• A look at the expenditure on welfare as a percentage of the gross domestic product in countries in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development demonstrates that Australia is by no means a generous supplier of welfare. [More…]

• I repeat: The purpose of these rumours and statements, which I believe are mostly government-induced, is to brainwash people into believing that health and welfare expenditure in Australia is some sort of luxury. [More…]

• Their purpose is probably to signal massive cuts in welfare expenditure apparently so that pensioners and beneficiaries, finding the Budget only half as bad as they expected, will be twice as grateful to the Government. [More…]

• The Government seems to be making taxpayers resentful of the fact that their taxes are used to pay social welfare benefits to the less fortunate. [More…]

• The Government aims to make social welfare recipients believe that they are to blame because a government, specifically this Government, has over-run its deficit. [More…]

• It aims to have the country believe that good economic management is the same as slashing a welfare program. [More…]

• Nor is it sound economic management to suggest that welfare expenditure will have to be cut to correct this situation. [More…]

• When we talk about welfare expenditure in this country we are talking about something over $7,000m being paid out this financial year by the Department of Social Security. [More…]

• Over fourfifths of the expenditure on welfare goes to the aged, the invalid, the single parents and the unemployed- in other words, the people who are prevented by age, by disability or by circumstances of the job market, from obtaining employment to enable them to receive an income. [More…]

• We intend, by this motion, that the Senate should ensure that the Government is reminded of that promise and in the next Budget will not make a cut in welfare expenditure, thereby permitting economic recovery at the expense of those less well off. [More…]

• The Government cannot be surprised by the anxiety and insecurity felt by pensioners and welfare organisations if promises firmly made are to be changed because of subsequent Budget decisions made in exactly the same climate of economic self-righteousness which was whipped up by Government sources, representatives of manufacturing industry, et cetera, last year when they called for cuts in welfare payments. [More…]

• Welfare recipients and agencies are entitled to ask how seriously the Government is taking its responsibilities to provide services for the disadvantaged groups, such as the aged, the handicapped and the homeless. [More…]

• The Government has only itself to blame if its statements on welfare expenditure are not taken seriously. [More…]

• The aim of this motion is to draw the attention of the Senate and the Parliament to the fact that a campaign is being conducted in the Press, by leaders of industry, by senior ministers of the Government and by back benchers in the Government to reduce the amount of expenditure on welfare, health and social security in particular, but also on education, in the Budget this year. [More…]

• The Opposition believes that any attempt to reduce the welfare vote, as is advocated by many Government supporters and people in the community, should be resisted strongly. [More…]

• I think it could be said that Senator Grimes who commenced the debate has canvassed widely the expenditure on welfare and on the other areas of economic responsibility of the Government. [More…]

• Pensions, benefits and welfare programs are of very great importance to those people who need the support of the Government to maintain themselves. [More…]

• I agree with Senator Grimes that it is important in the pre-Budget context for those people who receive benefit from income security or welfare programs to have a voice in those matters. [More…]

• If we relate what is paid through the Department of Social Security on income security and other welfare matters, we find that about 85 per cent of all personal income tax collections are spent on health and welfare. [More…]

• I think we cannot ever have a discussion on anything relating to the Budget without recognising that, last year, health and welfare was a $10 billion figure. [More…]

• If we look at figures that were expended on health and welfare we can see that expenditure on the age and invalid pension in 1939 represented about 20c for each employed member of the work force. [More…]

• At the same time as looking at welfare expenditure I think we need to look at those other programs of government and talk of what has been able to be done in the matter of child care and children’s services, services for handicapped people where the three-year program has given a much wider spread and improved service in our rehabilitation services, and in the very many excellent services which are conducted by the community groups, in some cases where we with State governments are jointly sharing projects. [More…]

• Whilst there may be speculation from many people in regard to the forthcoming Budget, I simply stress that in each of the Budgets there has been improvement in the income security system and there has been improvement in welfare programs. [More…]

• Without impinging on what are necessarily Budget considerations and decisions, I simply say, as I have said before when referring to widows and others, that it is thoughtless and extraordinary that at this time each year speculation about every social welfare program causes anxiety to many people. [More…]

• In this country there is a Social Services Act, there are income security programs, and there is a National Welfare Fund from which payments under the Social Services Act are met. [More…]

• Under the Social Services Act those benefits continue to be paid from the National Welfare Fund on the appropriate dates with the consequent adjustments. [More…]

• Regardless of whether additional Appropriation Bills are passed, the National Welfare Fund makes the payments under the Social Services Act in accordance with the terms of eligibility. [More…]

• Fears about a Budget deficit being overrun, whether there are funds to cover the next issue of cheques, should be laid to rest by stressing that in this country the National Welfare Fund expenditure is automatically paid in accordance with the appropriate Act. [More…]

• It may not be the intention of Senator Guilfoyle to reduce unemployment benefits or to reduce social welfare payments, but the decisions in these matters are made collectively by Cabinet and the men making these statements are influential members of the Cabinet. [More…]

• There are many unmet welfare needs in this community. [More…]

• He did not in any way relate his remarks to the wording of that motion; rather, he gave a surprisingly responsible speech, based on his record of participation in these debates, urging responsible actions in the social welfare area. [More…]

• He urged Government members and senators in particular to make sure that the needs of welfare recipients and those who receive benefits from the Department of Social Security are not overlooked in the forthcoming Budget in August this year. [More…]

• Indeed, the record of achievement of the Government in the last three years is such a very good one that it gives a great deal of security and confidence to the people of Australia that the Fraser Government will continue to enact responsible Budget decisions in the area of welfare services. [More…]

• I cite the figures in the social security and welfare budget over the last three years of the Fraser Government. [More…]

• The rather woolly speech that he gave was one that I, for my part welcomed as one which supports the views of those honourable senators who wish to see the momentum of the Government’s welfare record continue into the next Budget. [More…]

• Senator Ryan sought to support her colleague with a more flamboyant and caricaturing speech about the reallocation of resources and did not in any way refer to the substantial gains by welfare recipients in Australia. [More…]

• I should acknowledge the long and careful statement that was made by the Minister for Social Security this afternoon itemising the achievements of her Department and of the Government in a broad range of government measures in the welfare area. [More…]

• I believe that the next step in the welfare areas will be for the Government to reintroduce six monthly indexation of pension rates. [More…]

• Mr Gee, as I have said, has given conclusive proof that the Labor Party in its wisdom did something concrete to establish this laboratory, despite the fact that honourable senators opposite try to create the impression in the minds of country people, particularly primary producers, that we are not concerned with their welfare. [More…]

• We note the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare entitled ‘Through a Glass, Darkly; Evaluation in Australian Health and Welfare Services’ which was tabled in the Senate on 3 May 1979. [More…]

• The Committee, in its report, expressed its primary concern over the lack of evaluation of Australia’s health and welfare system and also stated that bodies should be accountable for the public moneys which they use. [More…]

• Will the Minister refute the allegations that valuable information identifying warning signs of possible child abuse has failed to reach the welfare agencies because the co-ordination which used to operate through the Children’s Commission is no longer in existence? [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that in this letter the Victorian Refuge Group states that the original and continued funding of the refuge program was for more than emergency accommodation for women and children at risk, and that in an attachment to the letter the refuge group declares that women’s refuges are ‘primarily concerned with the status of women in society and not with providing welfare and health services’. [More…]

• Will the Government ensure that sufficient funds are made available through the community health program to groups with bona fide welfare experience to meet the needs for women’s refuges? [More…]

• He advises that it is legitimate for a women ‘s refuge organisation to be concerned with women’s welfare and the advancement of the status of women in our society. [More…]

• The Acting Minister for Health further advises that the Victorian welfare authorities, which have the immediate responsibility for the supervision of refuges in that State and through which the Commonwealth funds are channelled, will be requested to obtain from the organisation a firm written undertaking that future advertisements will not contain statements of this type and further that in the course of their employment refuge workers will be engaged fully in the care of refuge residents and not in any other outside activities such as political actions. [More…]

• Community service clubs, including exservice, Apex, Lions, Rotary, senior citizens and the Country Women’s Associations; benevolent and welfare organisations, including Red Cross and Legacy; homes for handicapped persons; church and religious bodies; ethnic organisations; and sporting clubs. [More…]

• The list includes service clubs, welfare organisations, the Red Cross Society, Legacy, homes for the handicapped, church and religious bodies, ethnic organisations and sporting clubs. [More…]

• Since 1970, the Westwood Sheltered Workshop and Hostel for handicapped people has received Commonwealth grants totalling $588,930 from my Department under the handicapped persons welfare program. [More…]

• It is, of course, legitimate for a women’s refuge organisation to be concerned with women’s welfare and the advancement of the status of women in our society. [More…]

• Accordingly, the Victorian welfare authorities (who have the immediate responsibility for supervision of refuges in that State and through whom the Commonwealth funds are chanelled) will be requested to obtain from the organisation a firm written undertaking that future advertisements will not contain statements of this type and, further, that during the course of their employment, refuge workers will bc engaged fully in the care of refuge residents and not in any other ‘outside’ activities such as political actions. [More…]

• Earlier this month- to be precise, on 6 May- I read the Sunday morning paper in Brisbane and I was dismayed to read an article which was headed: ‘Savage welfare cuts likely in Budget’. [More…]

• The Fraser Government is considering savage cuts in welfare spending, including a means test on family allowances and pensions for people over 70 . [More…]

• Those who are dependent upon the Government for their livelihood- I include the age pensioners, the invalid pensioners, the widow pensioners, service pensioners and those on supporting parents benefits- should not bear the brunt of what the Sunday Mail called savage welfare cuts. [More…]

• It will be used for health, welfare, education, defence, communications and transport. [More…]

• As I have said, it should be capable of use in the fields of health, welfare, education, defence, ordinary communications, transport and so forth. [More…]

• Insofar as certain minimum standards of justice, social welfare and income guarantees are applicable to Australian citizens, in our view they should also be applicable to the people of Norfolk Island. [More…]

• At the beginning of my speech I said that there was a dichotomy between protecting the interests of the people of Norfolk Island and giving them as much self-government as possible- perhaps more than the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) would desireand recognising at the same time that the standards which are applicable to the Norfolk Island people should be as far as practicable the same as the standards which are applicable to the Australian people in matters such as income tax and social welfare legislation. [More…]

• What normal accountability procedures are used by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs under the Housing, Health, Education, Employment and Welfare States Grants Program for the performance of State Government Departments. [More…]

• The Tasmanian Department of Social Welfare, which has immediate responsibility for supervision of women’s refuges in that State and through which Commonwealth funds are channelled, has expressed the view that this advertisement was not discriminatory since it stated that ‘a feminist principle would merely be an advantage ‘. [More…]

• Accordingly, the Department of Health will be requesting the Tasmanian Department of Social Welfare to advise the Hobart Women’s Refuge that, for the reasons stated above, future advertisements should contain no such statement. [More…]

• The 64 refuges more recently approved for funding include refuges conducted by organisations such as community service groups, the Lutheran Church, the Legion of Mary, the Salvation Army, the St Vincent de Paul Society, an ethnic welfare organisation, the Baptist Church and the Save the Children Fund. [More…]

• We do not have to look further than the Fitzgerald report entitled Contribution of the Mineral Industry to Australian Welfare’, which was commissioned during the Labor Government, to realise who is profiting from the mineral and mining development in this country. [More…]

• Why reject the feasibility of making the sort of tax inroads into profitability which would enable governments to carry out their responsibilities, lt is interesting to note that most of the calls that are coming to this Government to cut back on public sector spending and social welfare programs and to reduce other welfare payments are coming from the very groups of people to which I am referring in the mining companies. [More…]

• These people are suggesting that our medical and welfare commitments should be cut so that these mining companies can get even greater access to profitability in order to exploit further the resources of this country. [More…]

• This was advanced in the other place as one of the suggestions that had been made by Turnbull; that eventually the royalties would be sufficient to ensure that no money from the taxpayers need be spent on Aboriginal communities for education, health, welfare and so on. [More…]

• That first admission of a liability to the Aboriginals has been followed through by various governments with payments being made for Aboriginal welfare. [More…]

• The liabilities which the Government has accepted in relation to Aboriginals have meant the expenditure of large amounts of money for welfare purposes and for the establishments on the settlements. [More…]

• They are the ones who hold the money on the settlement for distribution for the welfare of the community or for some other purpose. [More…]

• Such payments may be for some settlement construction, a welfare hall or for housing. [More…]

• There was a cut in the allocation for welfare housing of $70m; a cut in hospital funding of $42. [More…]

• It exposed the total failure of the Government’s economic strategy and the chaos of its health and welfare programs. [More…]

• The effects on social welfare and health services of the mini-Budget are, I believe, of basic concern to the entire community. [More…]

• If we look again at figures- and I do not like using figures too much in a speech because I believe that people can lose track of what is being said- we find that in the Australian Labor Party Budget of 1975-76 a total of $5,000m was spent on social security and welfare and this represented 23.2 per cent of the Budget. [More…]

• So, on a percentage of the Budget, and on funds that are being extended on social security and welfare, the record of this Government is second to none and ought to be acknowledged. [More…]

• I think it would be understood that, at a level of $8,000m which is to be spent on social security and welfare, there is not much room in this country for anyone to make wild or elaborate promises, if a reasonable level of tax or other charges on the Australian people is to be sustained. [More…]

• If we look at a cost of some $8 billion- remember that I said $8 billion was spent on social security and welfare payments- we start to see the magnitude of the commitment of government to maintain its programs in health and welfare. [More…]

• Let me remind Senator Guilfoyle and other members of the Government of* something that was set out in the last Budget Speech under the heading of ‘Social Welfare Payments’. [More…]

• The 1976 decision to subject to tax a wide range of social welfare payments has been extended; [More…]

• Never did the Government say during the 1977 election policy speech that it would impose a tax on social welfare payments. [More…]

• Just recently in Melbourne the Minister for Industry and Commerce, Mr Lynch, the former Treasurer, said that too much is being spent in social welfare payments to the Australian community. [More…]

• Nothing is more damaging to the retired generation- those people on social welfare- than rapidly increasing inflation rates which erode savings and destroy expectations. [More…]

• This, of course, is in line with the general Government policy on health care and social welfare benefits. [More…]

• Where the money is distributed to an Aboriginal community or an Aboriginal person for purposes related to the advancement and welfare of that group- indeed, for any pupose which is not related to the direct administration of the payment of the salary of that person- it is not assessable. [More…]

• If anybody has been despicable it has been the Minister, for attempting to defend an indefensible policy of his Government, that of cutting back expenditure on Aboriginal affairs, health, welfare and education, and in regard to land and mining rights. [More…]

• This information is taken from a report by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and is authorised by the most distinguished governmental scientists in carcinogenesis statistics. [More…]

• I believe that the Standing Committee on Social Welfare of which Senator Baume is the chairman and of which I am a member, should and could do a great service to this country if it looked at this problem. [More…]

• I am not suggesting that at all, but I believe that the safeguards taken in any industry should be looked at with the welfare of the worker in mind. [More…]

• I will be taking action on the matter as a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare. [More…]

• The upshot of all of this was the part that the Department of Productivity played in regard to health, safety and welfare was explained to the Committee. [More…]

• I was asking whether, in matters of health, safety and welfare, the Commonwealth would be subject to the state inspectorates. [More…]

• Frankly, I do not believe in gentlemen’s agreements when it comes to health, safety and welfare. [More…]

• I also give fair warning to the Department of Productivity that it should make available its experts in the field of industrial health, safety and welfare because I intend to find out just how far the Department has gone. [More…]

• Except in Western Australia, these block grants are administered by the State welfare authorities. [More…]

• After various investigations were conducted into the Hobart shelter, the State Minister eventually ordered that child social welfare workers should from time to time enter that shelter and keep an eye on it. [More…]

• The follow-up work entails obtaining information about the welfare benefits which it is the right of these women to receive. [More…]

• Many women do not know that welfare agencies exist. [More…]

• I said that it was the most progressive and exciting development in social welfare ever introduced into the Parliament. [More…]

• Similarly, it can be said that there were similar expenditure increases on social security and welfare, which increased from $922m to $2, 236m for assistance to the aged. [More…]

• Expenditure on total social security and welfare was lifted from $2, 100m to $5,077m. [More…]

• The Government is under tremendous pressure to cut back deficits, money supply and welfare payments. [More…]

• It is reported that Australia’s biggest industry body, the Confederation of Australian Industry, in its submission to this Government in respect of the Budget preparations that are taking place at the moment, has called upon the Federal Government to cut spending in social security, health and welfare payments. [More…]

• All of the leaders of our private sector have been suggesting to this Government- and it does not matter whether it is Conzinc Riotinto of Australia Limited with Sir Rod Carnegie or all the other captains of industry- that it ought to cut back public sector spending and welfare payments, and to reduce taxation. [More…]

• At the recent annual meeting of the Council of Social Welfare Ministers of Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea, the Ministers and I agreed to move towards a common definition of child abuse to enable a national assessment of the serious problem to be made. [More…]

• That conference will be attended by and have the support of members of the Council of Social Welfare Ministers. [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…]

• Honourable senators will remember that at that time there was considerable comment about the over-expenditure of money on welfare. [More…]

• In addition, the Commonwealth provides other financial assistance through local government bodies to other programs which, as I think we all know, are generally of a social welfare nature. [More…]

• It is pointed out that it is the policy of both State and Federal governments to require local government authorities to accept a much higher level of responsibility for locally based programs such as community programs, health programs and welfare programs. [More…]

• As a result this inadequate funding prevents improvement in such things as welfare services. [More…]

• It would also give local government the opportunity to provide a higher level of welfare services and the things which a modern community expects local government to provide. [More…]

• Question 6: What legal, financial and welfare responsibilities does the Northern Territory Government have in the administration of Aboriginal affairs in the Northern Territory? [More…]

• They put their own short term political welfare before the long term welfare of the people for whom they purport to speak. [More…]

• The welfare of his party was put before the welfare of the country. [More…]

• The importance of immediate and automatic indexation to the welfare and security of pensioners. [More…]

• This is the point which has been emphasised over and over again by pensioner organisations and welfare agencies. [More…]

• In 1975, when the Liberal Party was reforming its policies, I was shadow Minister for Social Security and chairman of a committee on social welfare policy. [More…]

• According to the Melbourne Age of Friday, 1 June, Mr Jona, the Victorian Minister for Community Welfare Services, criticised the Federal Government- his own party- for abandoning its responsibilities in the area of income maintenance, and added: [More…]

• I refer the Senate to the consequences of that broken promise insofar as it affects the persons who might be subject to the provisions of Senator Chipp’s Bill if it is dealt with by those Government senators who, like Senator Baume, are rightly concerned about this matter as a welfare issue. [More…]

• It can be seen that education, as an item, ranks only behind social service and welfare payments to the States and health as the most important single component of a Commonwealth Budget. [More…]

• Any legislation in the welfare area has some impact and effect. [More…]

• The Liberal-National Country Party governments have a poor record in the second area, that is, what we might call the social wage area, because cuts in social welfare areashealth, housing and social services- all have an effect upon education. [More…]

• We must consider, if we look at the contribution that the Government makes, what it is doing in this other part of the social welfare field. [More…]

• Other than health and welfare programs to relieve stress and anxiety, the Government is also providing young unemployed people with various means of support. [More…]

• Department of National Health and Welfare [More…]

• Department of Health, Education and Welfare [More…]

• The present arrangements included a provision whereby 10 per cent of the profits from poker machines in Australian Capital Territory clubs were to be allocated to local charitable, welfare and community organisations by the Legislative Assembly, the elected body of the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• He has, I suggest, no genuine, ongoing interest in what happens to the various community and welfare organisations in this Territory. [More…]

• So instead of the poker machines generating some extra money for community and welfare organisations in the Territory, that $2m net gain to the citizens of the Territory will be lost by this arbitrary decision of the Minister. [More…]

• Welfare and other community organisations simply cannot meet the needs that have been generated in this Territory by the hostile policies of the Fraser Government. [More…]

• But instead of making a genuine attempt to meet the welfare needs of the Australian Capital Territory through proper appropriations, the Government is merely using this ploy of taking the poker machine funds to give to the Minister as an excuse for proper welfare funding. [More…]

• There are demands from welfare bodies, sporting bodies and other community organisations. [More…]

• It is another arrogant, undemocratic act by a Minister in the Fraser Government and it represents yet another attempt by the Fraser Government to evade its responsibilities in the area of welfare and community services in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• The Assembly subsequently proposed that some of these funds should go to welfare and other similar organisations. [More…]

• It seems to me most appropriate that some of the money that citizens of this Territory put through poker machines and some of the profits from poker machines should go to welfare organisations in the Territory which are now in need and always will be in need in one way or another. [More…]

• lt is also worth noting that Mr Ellicott, while speaking in the House of Representatives yesterday- Senator Ryan has no doubt read what he said- pointed out that he would like to draw all of these moneys together in a single fund to assist welfare and other community organisations in the Territory. [More…]

• The Minister for the Capital Territory (Mr Ellicott) can seek the advice of the Assembly, and he has done so recently with respect to $150,000 for welfare agencies. [More…]

• The Department of the Capital Territory is studying the rationalisation of welfare moneys which come from poker machine funds, the Totalisator Agency Board and by way of grants so that they can be better used for community development. [More…]

• This would include social welfare, sporting and cultural activities, and other broad community purposes. [More…]

• The Government complains that Australia’s social welfare bill has risen over the last 17 months. [More…]

• This provision enables Commonwealth medical benefits payments under the Health Insurance Act 1 973 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…]

• In implementing this measure, the Government now recognises the significant contribution made by the people concerned towards the welfare of younger patients requiring similar long-term nursing care to those patients presently covered by the domiciliary nursing care benefit arrangements. [More…]

• Medibank, pensions, education and social welfare will all be strengthened by honest, responsible government. [More…]

• ) That, if the Senate be not sitting when the Standing Committee on Social Welfare has completed Volume Two of its Report on Evaluation in Australian Health and Welfare [More…]

• They are building the nuclear power stations because they need them to maintain the welfare of their people and their industries. [More…]

• Under clause 15 and appeal against a redeployment declaration can result in firstly- I will say this slowly because it is tremendously important to the lives and the welfare of people- a redeployment declaration being confirmed or revoked at the expense of another person’s job. [More…]

• The reports cover specific aspects of the implementation of the Australian Assistance Plan in Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia as well as general issues of interest to people and groups involved in community development and social welfare programs. [More…]

• 1 ) That, if the Senate be not sitting when the Standing Committee on Social Welfare has completed Volume Two of its report on Evaluation in Australian Health and Welfare Services, the Committee may send this Volume of its Report to the President of the Senate, or, if the President is unavailable to the Deputy President, who is authorised to give directions for its printing and circulation, and in such event the President or Deputy President shall lay Volume 2 of the Report upon the Table at the next sitting of the Senate. [More…]

• I think that was a welfare report from Senator Baume. [More…]

• It seems to me that all these chickens will come home to roost with this Government: There will be an increase in the use of the social welfare system; an increase in the incidence of breakdown in the health of people employed in the work force, and an increase in health costs because of these breakdowns. [More…]

• I would like it to refer to the three big spending areas- health, education and welfare. [More…]

• We could bring in the best teaching facilities, the best buildings, the best hospitals, the best technology and the best welfare of any country in the world. [More…]

• But if the Government introduced the best health care system available- with the best technology- the best education system and the best social welfare system, our taxes would go up tremendously. [More…]

• It wants more services in health, more in welfare and less taxes, if you please! [More…]

• The fact that the Australian community is now barely reproducing itself must recommend immigration policy to all persons who genuinely have the future welfare of this nation in mind. [More…]

• That sounds like a great deal of money, but it is only as much as we spend on education, it is less than we spend on health and it is only a third of what we spend on social security and welfare. [More…]

• A similar suggestion was made by the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare in its report entitled Drug Problems in Australia- An Intoxicated Society?. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present a report entitled ‘Education and Training for Social Welfare Personnel in Australia ‘ by Ms Eva Learner. [More…]

• With the exception of that well-known welfare State of Queensland, the Commonwealth [More…]

• Child, family and social welfare; [More…]

• Allowing for this approach and with an awareness of Charles Colson ‘s involvement with Watergate, the Minister authorised a visit to Australia to allow Mr Colson to speak publicly on prison reform and prison welfare. [More…]

• At a later stage I intend to seek a reference to the Standing Committee on Social Welfare to investigate the conditions under which prisoners who are in breach of Federal law are held in Australian prisons. [More…]

• I am supported in that view by the very explicit statement of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare, which on page 129 of its report stated ‘There is no agreement on the extent of cannabis used in Australia’, and then went on for several pages to explain why. [More…]

• As Senator Button said, I was a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare and we did not believe in guessing. [More…]

• We had a most courageous and magnificent report by the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare, chaired by Senator Peter Baume. [More…]

• I draw his attention to reports received from the Australian Catholic Study Circle for Animal Welfare relating to actions by Australia’s representative at the International Whaling Commission meeting in Tokyo last December. [More…]

• That is 1974- the Prime Minister a week ago, informed us that wc would get no more money than was prescribed in the formula, although that would be plainly insufficient to meet the needs ofthe State, which has no means of reducing its expenditure markedly from revenue sources except to reduce the very programs of importance in schools, hospitals and welfare, upon which, in accordance with Labor Party policy, we have concentrated. [More…]

• As the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare pointed out and as many other committees have pointed out, the problem of drug abuse is a socio-medical problem. [More…]

• I am very pleased to draw the attention of the Senate, including Senator Bonner, and if necessary of the Queensland Government to the fact that for the first time we have earmarked part of the general welfare housing funds for Aboriginal purposes. [More…]

• I am sure that Queensland will be delighted to know- of course, the State has been so advised- that $6m of the general welfare housing funds are to be used specifically to alleviate the housing situation of Aboriginal people. [More…]

• I think the fact that welfare funds have been so earmarked is a notable first for this Government. [More…]

• We are members of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare. [More…]

• That is not surprising, considering the contribution made by Senator Baume, with his medical knowledge and having worked as Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare, which produced a notable report on the subject. [More…]

• The point I make is that nuclear power reactors are a part of life in the world today; they are required for the good living and welfare of the very many nations. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition spoke as if the 1979-80 Budget had not given priority to social security and social welfare programs. [More…]

• I wish to refute that statement and place on record briefly the fact that the income security programs of my Department- social welfare programs- will rise by about 10 per cent this year. [More…]

• Mr Hayden criticised the Government for failing to index some basic social welfare benefits, such as allowances paid for dependent children of pensioners and the unemployment benefit for single people. [More…]

• There is no specific commitment in Mr Hayden ‘s speech to index all these basic social welfare benefits. [More…]

• It seems that if the Government really had the welfare of the penioners at heart it would provide indexation now so that pensioners would not have to wait until November for their first rise. [More…]

• In an area with a population of 17,000, medical attendances last year totalled 36,436, paramedical and welfare attendants totalled 35,498 and health, education and other meetings accounted for 11,677 attendances. [More…]

• The services include those of doctors, a welfare officer, a psychologist, a physiotherapist, a chiropodist, a dentist, an optometrist, a psychiatrist, a family planning clinic, a slimming club, immunisation, acoustic testing and pathology. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare took on board with some trepidation the task of making an assessment or evaluation of Australia’s health and welfare services. [More…]

• What we did not expect, first of all, were the reactions we experienced in the welfare and health service community generally to the fact that we were to look at the state of the evaluation of health and welfare services. [More…]

• The aim of the exercise was to study the quantity and the quality of the evaluation of health and welfare services in this community. [More…]

• At no stage did the Committee seek to evaluate any particular welfare services, any particular health services or any particular organisation. [More…]

• This was very hard to get across to the welfare community in general. [More…]

• As soon as we started to call for evidence and to question people about the evidence that they were producing we found that there was a great deal of suspicion in the welfare community as to why we should be doing this. [More…]

• It took a considerable time for us to convince the people in the welfare area that we were not sitting down to assess the effectiveness of what they were doing. [More…]

• We lost a year, I believe, reassuring most of the health and welfare community in this country that we were not about tearing them to pieces. [More…]

• We found in general that there had not been much evaluation of any quality of any of the health and welfare service in this community. [More…]

• This does not mean that we found that the health and welfare services of this community were particularly inefficient or particularly efficient. [More…]

• It berated the Committee for wasting three years in order to discover that the welfare services in this country were inefficient. [More…]

• Some of the reactions from the public servants in the social welfare field in this country were, to say the least, interesting. [More…]

• One pleasing thing is that there was an upsurge of interest in the evaluation of our health and welfare services, within both the Public Service and the voluntary sector, as a result of the inquiry and even before the report came out. [More…]

• We had very few means of measuring some of the most basic health and welfare problems because in the past we had not thought that this was necessary. [More…]

• Unfortunately, some journals have misused the report to confirm their own political or philosophical prejudices about the state of health and welfare delivery in this community. [More…]

• I believe that it should be read by anyone involved in the health and welfare area, and that includes everyone in this Parliament. [More…]

• I hope that more people in this very important area, which is an area of huge expenditure in this country, will look seriously at the recommendations in the report in order to develop a more rational, economic and humane welfare and health system in this country. [More…]

• -As I understand the matter, the Federal Department of Housing and Construction receives a half-yearly return from each State and that return includes a statement of the number of dwellings completed by the States using Commonwealth welfare housing funds, State funds, public housing funds and the revolving funds to which the honourable senator referred in this place on a previous occasion. [More…]

• Of course, they arise from previous investments in welfare housing. [More…]

• On behalf of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare I present volume II of the report of the Committee’s reference on the evaluation of Australian health and welfare services. [More…]

• -On 2 June 1976 the Senate referred to its Standing Commitee on Social Welfare the matter of the evaluation of the adequacy of Australian health and welfare services. [More…]

• The Fraser Government established the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare under Senator Peter Baume in 1976, to report on evaluation . [More…]

• Some were written by academics with Australian and overseas expertise and others by professional people who have been active in programs and services in health and welfare. [More…]

• We believe that the papers are valuable additions to the body of knowledge available and we hope that this volume will help to improve the understanding of evaluation in the Australian health and welfare context. [More…]

• Dr Lois Bryson wrote a paper on the views of clients, What People Think of Welfare Services. [More…]

• John Davoren, contributed a paper on The Evaluation of Health and Welfare Services in Australia, With Particular Reference to Agencies. [More…]

• Also, a paper was written jointly by Anne Stevenson and Wendy Chew on need and demand in the making of planning decisions in the evaluation of health and welfare services. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare has put down three reports, and none of them has produced a ministerial response. [More…]

• The erection of trade barriers against imports from ASEAN nations is not only inimical to our own economic welfare, but also it highlights to those nations the conflict between our trade and foreign policies. [More…]

• From the time that the pension had been cancelled, the State Department of Social Welfare in fact had paid Mrs Clarke a pension to support herself and her children. [More…]

• That is a reference to Whitlam- although that would be plainly insufficient to meet the needs of the State which has no means of reducing its expenditure markedly from revenue sources except to reduce the very programs of importance in schools, hospitals and welfare upon which in accordance with Labor Party policy we have concentrated. [More…]

• I again refer to welfare. [More…]

• When the Labor Party was in government it tried to make a monopoly out of welfare services. [More…]

• The private welfare services tended to atrophy. [More…]

• So, there was a whole bureaucracy of social welfare workers who needed to go out and find more clients, to tell people what their rights were as opposed to getting people off welfare, which should have been the policy. [More…]

• They were generating more welfare, making people become more conscious of welfare and telling them that they were entitled to these things by right. [More…]

• We make no apologies for the fact that in our first Budget we increased education expenditure by four times; that in our second Budget our allocation for social security went up by 50 per cent; that in our first Budget we increased by 339 per cent the amount of money going to the States for public housing; that we increased by 1 93 per cent the allocation for urban affairs in the previous Liberal Budget; that we increased the money going to culture and recreation by 85.6 per cent; and that in our third Budget we increased the money allocations for health and welfare by 130 percent. [More…]

• The incorporation in Hansard today of a question which was asked on Wednesday of the week before the Parliament rose and which is the same as the question that the honourable senator from South Australia asked this week- this is done for the purpose of emphasising a comparison with other countries- shows how low statesmen will go for the purposes of political achievement, under the guise of considering the welfare of the State. [More…]

• This year, the Prime Minister a week ago informed us, we would get no more money than was prescribed in the formula, although that would be plainly insufficient to meet the needs ofthe State, which has no means of reducing its expenditure markedly from revenue sources except to reduce the very programs of importance in schools, hospitals and welfare, upon which, in accordance with Labor Party policy, we have concentrated. [More…]

• Government house commencements were one third less in 1978- 79 than previously and the Budget cuts in welfare housing will ensure a continuation of this downward trend in 1979- 80. [More…]

• I have had a reasonable amount of experience with welfare housing in the electorate of Wannon. [More…]

• Towards the end of the period of the Whitlam Labor Government, the waiting time for people in the electorate of Wannon whose names appeared on the waiting list for welfare housing had dropped from some 2 to 3 years to around six to eight months. [More…]

• My time in my electoral office is taken up largely with problems concerning welfare housing. [More…]

• Whereas the need for such special safeguards has been stated in the Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child of 1924 and recognised in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the statutes of specialised agencies and international organisations concerned with the welfare of children. [More…]

• The Tasmanian Parliament expects shortly to have introduced a Bill on criminal investigation which, amongst other things- and this emerged from a committee of which I had the privilege to be Chairman- will stipulate that when a child under 16 is under police restraint, his parent or guardian should be immediately notified, and that no questioning of a child under 16 should take place except in the presence of a parent, relative, adult friend, lawyer, welfare officer or teacher. [More…]

• The report, which was on the plight of Victoria ‘s mentally retarded children, was prepared almost three years ago by a 12-member governmentappointed committee comprising doctors and specialists in social welfare and treatment of the handicapped. [More…]

• Under those conditions Australia will not be believed in Third World countries when it postures about the new international economic order and the Common Fund when its contribution to the welfare of those nations declines year after year, as it has done. [More…]

• The Report of the Standing Committee on Social Welfare entitled ‘Drug Problems in Australia- An Intoxicated Society’ has made this point clearly enough. [More…]

• What progress has been made in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands towards providing the inhabitants with the rights and responsibilities of Australian citizenship, in particular as regards wage rates, health, education and welfare. [More…]

• The Council has responsibility for welfare payments to members of the Cocos Malay community. [More…]

• We now have credit addicts who have to be looked at in the social welfare field. [More…]

• Social welfare agencies, church agencies and State consumer groups all show an increasing number of people being affected by over-commitments in the area of consumer credit. [More…]

• I note that it has been reported that nearly all of the 30,000 calls received by Lifeline- a Sydney welfare agencylast year had some element of financial difficulty involved. [More…]

• If ever a cause needed supporting in this chamber by the elected representatives of the people, surely it must be the cause of the injured worker who sacrifices his physical fitness, and perhaps the welfare of his family, through an accident at work, serving industry for the benefit of the nation. [More…]

• I ask the Minister whether, in view of the miraculous figures produced by Premier Wran and his Treasurer last night, figures which have been so praised by the Sydney daily Press, boasting of no tax increases for the fourth year and a big Budget welfare boost - [More…]

• However, I wish particularly to direct attention to the double standards that are quite implicit in the Budget in relation, on the one hand, to the poor and underprivileged in terms of social welfare, employment and other matters and, on the other, to Ministers of this Government. [More…]

• Early in 1978 Mr Joseph Califano, then Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the United States, had this to say about smoking? [More…]

• The first concerns social security and welfare. [More…]

• Whilst supporting and applauding the humanitarian reasons behind this appropriation, I think that it is timely to draw attention to the magnitude of the task that the Australian people have assumed in servicing social welfare policies which now total yearly nearly $9,000m- 9.6 per cent more than last year’s outlay- and representing more than 28 per cent of all Federal Budget expenditure. [More…]

• Some other aspects of welfare merit our attention. [More…]

• The biggest expenditure in the area of social welfare is upon the age pension and amounts to $3, 625m annually. [More…]

• My second general observation on welfare concerns the way in which the Government has become its own sub-contractor in providing many welfare services. [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Social Security seen a statement by the Victorian Minister for Community Welfare Services that payments of pensions under the States Grants (Deserted Wives) Act will stop on 1 January next year? [More…]

• What were the recommendations from the State welfare Ministers on the payment of a lone parent pension? [More…]

• I believe that the report is completed and will be considered at a State welfare administrators meeting later this month. [More…]

• I think it would be accepted that there is considerable common ground between the recommendations of that committee and the recommendations of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare. [More…]

• I understand that the Social Welfare Policy Secretariat has been developing some papers on this matter, but the Government has not made any decisions with regard to changing eligibility. [More…]

• The Social Welfare Policy Secretariat did develop some papers on it, in conjunction with other matters that were before the Government. [More…]

• 1 ) Has the joint task force established to study the case for a uniform Commonwealth pension for lone parents reported to either the Commonwealth Government or the Council of Social Welfare Ministers; if so, is the report to be made public. [More…]

• 1 ) The Task Force prepared a Report for the Council of Social Welfare Ministers in May 1979. [More…]

• 1 ) What progress has been made in relation to the request by the Council of Social Welfare Ministers for the provision of grants through a guaranteed fund on a continuing basis for emergency relief, as specified in March 1 979. [More…]

• 1 ) The Government announced in the Budget that in 1979-80 $500,000 will be made available to nongovernment community welfare agencies which are in financial difficulties or are providing emergency relief. [More…]

• It was pointed out that the Victorian Minister for Community Welfare Services had announced that the State Government would refuse to pay pensions under the States Grants (Deserted Wives) Act as from 1 January next year. [More…]

• I refer also to her reply yesterday to a question on notice from me in which she stated that this matter would actually be finalised at a meeting of the Council of Social Welfare Ministers in March 1980. [More…]

• I think that Senator Grimes and others are aware of the committee of administrators that was set up by the Social Welfare Ministers to look at the introduction of a sole parent pension. [More…]

• It is almost as much as total government spending on welfare. [More…]

• The report of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare in regard to these matters is also under study. [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 stage; 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 to 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. [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…]

• I refer to the proposed new clause 7E where one of the specific grounds upon which an authorised officer can refuse a passport is a situation where the Minister has formed the opinion that if an Australian passport were issued to the person, the person would be likely to engage in conduct outside Australia that might, among other things, disrupt public order in the country or would endanger the health or welfare of persons in a country other than Australia. [More…]

• It seems to me that the grounds upon which that opinion can be formed about disruption of public order and endangering the health or welfare and so on are potentially enormously wide. [More…]

• This imposes on the Government a responsibility to ensure, as 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…]

• 1 ) An authorised officer shall not issue an Australian passport to a person if the Minister has notified the authorised officer that, having had regard to the conduct of the person, the Minister has formed the opinion that, if an Australian passport were issued to the person, the person would be likely to engage in conduct outside Australia that might prejudice the security of, or disrupt public order in, a country other than Australia or would endanger the health or welfare of persons in a country other than Australia. [More…]

• Department has the Overseas Telecommunications Commission (Australia); the Department of Primary Industry has the Bureau of Animal Health, the Commonwealth Council for Rural Research and Extension and the Australian Wine Research Institute; the Prime Minister’s Department has the Australian Science and Technology Council; the Department of Productivity has the industrial research and development bodies; the Department of Science and the Environment has a whole string of them; the Department of Social Security has the National Advisory Council for the Handicapped and the Social Welfare Policy Secretariat; the Department of Trade and Resources has the Uranium Advisory Council; and Treasury has the Bureau of Statistics. [More…]

• Australia’s scientists have made notable contributions in the past, not only to the advancement and welfare of their own country, but also to the international pool of shared scientific knowledge which is available for the benefit of all peoples. [More…]

• Unless this occurs we will not be able to employ people which is something which is necessary for the welfare of the Australian community. [More…]

• Alterations have been made to the Australian Capital Territory Child Welfare Ordinance, one of our most recent inquiries. [More…]

• They ignore the tremendous work being done by Tangatjira Council to provide housing and by the Homemakers group funded by the Department of Community Welfare to assist Aboriginal people into settling into homes and caring for them. [More…]

• These houses were constructed many years ago by the welfare authorities as emergency accommodation for families in crisis. [More…]

• As each day, each month and each year go by it is becoming increasingly clear that the Government’s Budget policies, economic policies, social welfare policies and federalism policies are not producing the sort of response sought from the Australian community. [More…]

• In the light of this and other questions which have been raised since the Government produced its nuclear safeguards proposal, will there now be a reexamination to ensure that those safeguards are adequate for the health and welfare of people involved in the mining, processing and transportation of uranium or yellowcake and particularly the health and welfare of those people who are presently living in the vicinity of the nuclear installation at Lucas Heights? [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare produced a report entitled ‘Drug Problems in Australia- An Intoxicated Society’. [More…]

• The only other comment that I have to make is that this will be an excellent opportunity for the senators from Queensland to demonstrate their commitment to the welfare of Queensland ‘s primary industry. [More…]

• Not having it made a great deal of industrial disruption and there’s finally a need to protect the public interest where the safety health and welfare . [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 Minister by his own action can march before the Full Bench, and the Full Bench obviously has to make the declaration if there is what is claimed to be a substantial adverse effect on the safety, health or welfare of the community, which could be anything. [More…]

• In defence, it is argued by the Minister that there has to be a substantial adverse effect on the safety, health and welfare of the community. [More…]

• The provisions to which I have referred will remain, so the court will retain those powers but similar powers to act will be granted to the Executive after a Full Bench of the Commission has determined that industrial action by an organisation or a group of its members has had, is having or is likely to have, a substantially adverse effect on the safety, health and welfare of the community, or a part of the community. [More…]

• The situation under the Bill is that the Government will go to the Commission and seek a declaration that the industrial dispute is harming the welfare of part of the community. [More…]

• Finally, they 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- in other words, I believe, the public interest- of the community are put at risk by industrial action. [More…]

• There is no shadow of doubt that this sort of severe penalty would be applied only in the most severe circumstances, which under this legislation are a threat to health, to welfare and to safety. [More…]

• The Minister can ask that a matter be considered by the Full Bench of the Commission as it is a threat to the safety, health or welfare of the community- in other words, a threat to the public interest. [More…]

• Minister of the Crown a right to start deregistration proceedings against a union or part of a union engaging in any industrial action that is considered to be harming community safety, health or welfare. [More…]

• This legislation before the chamber tonight is further evidence that my Government is prepared to fight for the rights of the individual and the rights of the Australian people to be able to go about their way of life- I quote from the legislation- free of any: substantial adverse effect on their safety, health and welfare. [More…]

• That is the amendment which says that if the Minister believes that industrial action is likely to have or is having substantial adverse effects on the safety, health and welfare of the community he may apply to the Full Bench of the Commission for a declaration. [More…]

• It is then up to the Full Bench to say whether it believes that that industrial action is having a substantial adverse effect on the safety, health and welfare of the community. [More…]

• I believe that that is a typical example of a strike affecting the safety, health and welfare of the community. [More…]

• The Full Bench must agree with the Minister that there are in fact grounds for a declaration of substantial adverse effects on the health, safety or welfare of the community. [More…]

• a ban) which has had a substantial adverse effect on the welfare of part of the community. [More…]

• The town is Fitzroy Crossing and the man involved is Stan Davey, a former community welfare officer. [More…]

• Mr Davey has a long history of work with the Department of Community Welfare. [More…]

• He worked with the Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement and he worked with the Community Welfare Department at Wyndham and at Oombulgurri. [More…]

• It was the Director of Community Welfare in Western Australia who asked him to go to Fitzroy Crossing because of the racial problems that were emanating there, to make an assessment of the total situation and possibly to make recommendations on what could or should be done. [More…]

• It is pretty obvious that Stan Davey was well thought of by the Department, to have the Director of Community Welfare himself suggest that this might be an area where he could find fulfilment and where he could be helpful to the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• It complains about the transfer of Stan Davey from Fitzroy Crossing by the Western Australian Department for Community Welfare. [More…]

• We have been told that Stan Davey is going to be transferred by the Community Welfare Department from Fitzroy Crossing to Kalgoorlie. [More…]

• I have half a dozen letters from various communities to the Director of Community Welfare. [More…]

• The Department of Community Welfare could face strike action in the North- West if officials insist on transferring a popular Fitzroy Crossing field officer. [More…]

• And the Opposition spokesman on community welfare matters, Mr Harman, says he will demand a judicial inquiry. [More…]

• Particular reference will be made to the proposed transfer of a community welfare officer, ‘ he said. [More…]

• In the court Mr Justice Smith found that the Labor candidate had been improperly denied votes by the tactics of the Liberal candidate, Mr Alan Ridge, who was then the Minister for Community Welfare. [More…]

• It is a little bit distressing to me- and I would hope it would be to other members in this chamber- to read in the Daily News of 15 October, two days ago, an article under the heading ‘Welfare officer resigns’. [More…]

• He said that he was prepared to negotiate his finishing date with the Department of Community Welfare and help to settle a new officer into the job that he had held for four years. [More…]

• Today the Opposition spokesman on community welfare, Mr J. J. Harman said: ‘This is another classic example of the government getting its way against someone who dares to oppose or question them. [More…]

• Mr Davey was to move today, but on 3 October the Minister for Community Welfare, Mr Young, told Parliament that it was off until the end of the school year. ‘ [More…]

• His welfare programs with Aboriginal communities at Fitzroy Crossing had several months to run. [More…]

• As I outlined to this Parliament before, Bartters are the same people who dumped contaminated egg pulp in Victoria and could not give a hoot about the health and welfare of people in cafes and baker shops and those sorts of places who used their contaminated pulp. [More…]

• In these circumstances, I would like to stress to Senator Coleman and to the Opposition as well as to honourable senators on this side of the chamber that it is critically important that all people who are involved, whether they are from State agencies such as the Community Welfare Department and the police or Commonwealth agencies such as my own Department, pursue means of reducing these tensions and removing the difficulties which I have described. [More…]

• Therefore I ask whether the Prime Minister will take up directly and personally with President Carter the release of these supplies of avgas, given the importance of avgas to our great agricultural industries and to the general welfare of people in Australia living outside the great urban centres. [More…]

• by leave- In November 1978 the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare presented a report on ethics in wine promotion. [More…]

• Senator PETER BAUME (New South Wales -by leave- As the Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare I would like to welcome this response from the Government and to thank the Government and the Australian Wine Board for the way in which they have responded to the Committee’s fairly modest recommendations. [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…]

• It will have a threshold role of making a declaration if an application is made to it- a declaration which can be satisfied in really the most extraordinarily trivial circumstances- for example, if there are but two or more individual unionists engaged in some form of industrial action which could be taken by the Commission to constitute and to amount to some substantial interference with the health or welfare of the community. [More…]

• When one considers- I am afraid that I do not have the text of the clause before me at the moment- the precise language and the way it is put together one will appreciate that the key word pivots in that clause on the notion of the welfare of the community; indeed, not the community as a whole, but a part of the community. [More…]

• Honourable senators know how wide the definition of industrial action is since the recent amendments to this legislation- and (b) 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 . [More…]

• A strike by two milkmen in a country town of 35 people could constitute a substantial threat to the health and welfare of a part of the Australian community. [More…]

• In relation to this matter of deregistration the words used must refer to a substantial effect on safety, health and welfare of the community or part of the community. [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, [More…]

• I believe that is another area of great significance to the welfare of the workers of Australia. [More…]

• I get very cross when I hear people on the Opposition benches say that the Government is not interested in the welfare of trade unionists in Australia. [More…]

• As far as I am concerned, the action we have taken as a Government has been in the interests of the welfare of the people about whom we are concerned. [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 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. [More…]

• Safety, health and welfare are very vague terms, and a small part of the community may well be affected by some industrial action. [More…]

• Therefore, the welfare of that part of the community is affected. [More…]

• There is a provision in the legislation which says that the declaration must be made if the health, safety and welfare of any people are affected. [More…]

• If we go to page 2 of the second reading speech, we find the Minister saying that the legislation will 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 and welfare of the community are put at risk by industrial action. [More…]

• There is no thought for the health and welfare of the workers at large who have to go on strike to get justice. [More…]

• The legislation will require a commissioner to consult with his deputy president before making or varying an award relating to wages and conditions; prohibit the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission from ordering, recommending or sanctioning an employer paying wages to an employee for time when the employee was engaged in industrial action; provide for the expeditious hearing of a stand-down application, 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 stage; 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 to a Full Bench; and provide increased protection for the community by creating an alternative path to the deregistration of organisations in cases where the safety, health or welfare of the community are put at risk by industrial action. [More…]

• This provision means that in special cases where there is a substantial adverse effect on the safety, health or welfare of the community because of industrial action, application can be made to the Full Bench of the Commission, which has to hear the application and to deter mine whether those conditions are satisfied. [More…]

• The Full Bench has to determine whether in fact 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 a part of the community. [More…]

• It is only because of the urgency of the matter in the particular threat to the safety, health or welfare of the community that the Government is proposing these additional and more expeditious powers. [More…]

• Noting that, while millions starve, expenditure on the arms race is $1,000 million per day for the World, and $7m per day for Australia; and noting that the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has listed ‘peace and disarmament’ as a theme for the International Year of the Child; and further noting that a reduction in expenditure on arms could contribute in both developed and developing countries to the eradication of hunger and disease and to the provision of more adequate housing, education, health services, economic security and social welfare for all people: [More…]

• What is the situation of the migrant welfare groups in this country, of which there are many? [More…]

• In my opinion that should be seen as a genuine welfare measure in this country. [More…]

• Does this mean that when people from overseas seek information through a member of parliament, they will not be subject to this charge but that if they go somewhere else, such as the Migrant Welfare Service or any of the welfare agencies in this country, there will be a charge? [More…]

• This Bill does extend the program, but neither the Bill nor the second reading speech tell us very much about the future of the program, except that some youth refuges will be established under the Youth Services Program in the Office of Child Care, that some homeless people already receive support under the Community Health Program- that is, women’s shelters, and they have done so for four or five years- and that other homeless people receive support from welfare housing and the Family Support Services Scheme. [More…]

• In Victoria bands of concerned individuals from various welfare organisations and churches have got together in organisations to co-ordinate activity in this area. [More…]

• The Victorian Consultative Council on Social Welfare has produced a report on the result of a survey which indicates that the major causes of youth homelessness are youth unemployment and family difficulties caused by unemployment among other members of the family. [More…]

• For instance, I have had brought to my attention the circumstances of Gordon House in Melbourne which is run by the Hanover Welfare Services. [More…]

• The term homeless person’ may include such casual, seasonal or migratory workers who present welfare problems while passing through a community or staying in it for a relatively short time. [More…]

• And noting that the U.N. Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has listed ‘peace and disarmament’ as a theme for the International Year of the Child; and further noting that a reduction in expenditure on arms could contribute in both developed and developing countries to the eradication of hunger and disease and to the provision of more adequate housing, education, health services, economic security and social welfare for all people: [More…]

• -I refer the Minister for Social Security to a statement put out by her and the then Minister for Community Welfare Services in Victoria, Mr Dixon, in April of this year in which she and the Victorian Minister announced matching grants for youth services totalling $526,200 a year for emergency accommodation and related services for homeless youth in Victoria. [More…]

• Expenditure from the National Welfare Fund on pensions and benefits payable under the Social Services Act is estimated to be $7390m for 1 979-80 which will be an increase of $650m over expenditure in 1978-79. [More…]

• They wish to talk with me about the future of the homeless persons welfare program. [More…]

• When I wrote the foreword to the booklet ‘A Place of Dignity’ I said that an estimated 10,000 homeless men and women in Australia were being assisted by welfare agencies. [More…]

• Recurrent support for meals and accommodation in respect of all of the projects that we are talking about is met from the National Welfare Fund. [More…]

• Indeed, organisations which at present are not approved for capital funding may nevertheless apply for meals and accommodation subsidies, which will be provided from the National Welfare Fund. [More…]

• At that time welfare agencies in Victoria were flooded with people in distress. [More…]

• Mr Dixon, who was the social welfare Minister in Victoria, telegrammed the Federal Government warning it not to introduce the proposal because it would increase the number of family breakdowns. [More…]

• At a time when we have the Fraser Government- dominated by bureaucrats in the Treasury, dominated by one or two people in the Cabinet- cutting expenditure at any cost, while we might be critical of cuts in social welfare expenditure and I agree with almost everything Senator Grimes said tonight, to be fair, we ought to pay tribute to the Minister, who has held firm and preserved certain things in the Cabinet room. [More…]

• I do not think it needs much imagination to understand the rapacity of Mr Fraser to cut welfare benefits to the unemployed, to aged pensioners, to young people. [More…]

• Noting that, while millions starve, expenditure on the arms race is $ 1 , 000m per day for the World, and $7m per day for Australia; and noting that the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has listed ‘peace and disarmament’ as a theme for the International Year of the Child; and further noting that a reduction in expenditure on arms could contribute in both developed and developing countries to the eradication of hunger and disease and to the provision of more adequate housing, education, health services, economic security and social welfare for all people: [More…]

• I briefly remind the Committee that when I was the chairman of the Liberal Party’s Social Welfare Committee we researched this matter very deeply with almost every social welfare agency in the country- the Australian Council on the Ageing, the Catholic Welfare Bureau, the Brotherhood of St Laurence, the Australian Council of Social Service and so on- all of which said that indexation was the most pressing social reform needed. [More…]

• As a result, an enormous burden was placed on the welfare agencies of Melbourne and of Victoria in general. [More…]

• That move threw a great strain on the State Government community welfare departments and on the voluntary welfare organisations. [More…]

• The only people to whom they could turn were the community welfare departments or the voluntary welfare organisations. [More…]

• Mr Ron Payne, who was the South Australian Minister for Community Welfare, had to make a special trip to Canberra to talk to departmental officers about the possibility of getting some assistance to relieve the strain that was being placed on his own State department. [More…]

• There is no mention in this Bill that the Government will provide extra funds to voluntary welfare organisations to allow them to carry the extra burden which will be imposed upon them as a result of the Government refusing unemployment benefit to many people who may be put out of work by a strike which is not of their own making. [More…]

• I ask the Minister whether it is the Government ‘s intention to make extra moneys available through some other avenue, not only to the community welfare departments or whatever they are termed in the States, but also to the voluntary organisations so that they can provide the necessary food and clothing or whatever else may be needed for the people who are out of work, and their wives and dependants. [More…]

• My question directed to the Minister was whether she would be prepared to provide extra funds to the voluntary organisations and to the State community welfare departments to cover an emergency which may arise out of the imposition of this legislation. [More…]

• Welfare workers have cited often the case of the young woman working in an office who has been exploited by her employer, has had advances made to her, has left her employment but has been unable to prove that such advances were made. [More…]

• But the reason that they survive is that they go straight to the emergency relief agencies, the Salvation Army, the Brotherhood of St Laurence, the Catholic Welfare Bureau- these magnificent groups of people who virtually save lives. [More…]

• A welfare worker in Shepparton in my State recently counted 30 homeless young people sleeping out under bridges, in railway carriages or whatever. [More…]

• Almost every report by social welfare workers that I have read indicates a direct link nowadays from youth unemployment to drug addiction, unemployment and crime of various descriptions, particularly prostitution. [More…]

• Many of the problems in the areas of social welfare and health stem from the fact that families are under economic pressure. [More…]

• I believe that if we are to hear the alternative policy, those matters spoken about could well have been added to the end of the motion so that we could have had a full expression of the priorities in a welfare Budget of the Opposition party in government. [More…]

• Indeed, in that area of the welfare system I think we need to take note of some of the other comments that have been made by the Opposition with regard to pensions for those who are over 70 years. [More…]

• The Australian Medical Association considers that it is the best judge of who is disadvantaged in this country and who is in need of assistance; it is not the Government or the elected representatives of the people and not the welfare workers or researchers in the community who view the statistics and look at the social problems we have, but the doctors who are the best people to judge. [More…]

• For instance, the unemployed have become second-class welfare recipients. [More…]

• Whilst aware that some students who come here have adequate means, those of us involved in the welfare of overseas students know only too well, that this is not true of all students. [More…]

• by leave- I wish to make a statement outlining the Government’s response to the report from the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare entitled ‘Through a Glass, Darkly- Evaluation in Australian Health and Welfare Services’, which was tabled by the Chairman of the Committee, Senator Baume, on 3 May 1979. [More…]

• In doing so I should like to express the Government’s appreciation of the Committee’s work and the valuable opportunity which the report has provided for an examination of evaluation policies and procedures in the health and welfare area. [More…]

• The report recommends a major increase in data gathering and evaluation activity throughout the health and welfare system to assist decision-making by parliaments, Commonwealth, State and local governments, and voluntary agencies. [More…]

• In more precise terms the Committee’s recommendations seek: Development of a continuing set of social indicators and substantial upgrading and refinement of other data on the health and welfare of the Australian population and the provision of relevant services; development and dissemination of comprehensive standards for health and welfare services; a commitment by all levels of government to identify and declare needs in Australian health and welfare and to assess these factors continually by reference to these data and standards; clear and public declaration by the Commonwealth Government of broad strategic goals and precise and testable objectives in terms of intended impact on needs for each of its health and welfare programs, whether funded wholly or only in part by it; and continuing evaluation of health and welfare programs. [More…]

• The Committee suggests that, because there is little evaluation of the kind it favours, the health and welfare system is ‘out of control’. [More…]

• No particular areas of unmet needs or waste were outlined, though I am of course aware of the desire of many people to improve health and welfare programs. [More…]

• I believe the Committee may have overestimated the extent to which it is possible to achieve purely objective measurements of concepts such as ‘adequate standards’ and ‘unmet need ‘ in the welfare field. [More…]

• Over the past four years the Government has, in fact, reviewed very carefully every health and welfare program. [More…]

• It has given priority to those in need and has introduced important health and welfare reforms. [More…]

• Other actions include: The establishment of the Social Welfare Policy Secretariat to review health and welfare policy; the introduction of vigorous audit and review processes to monitor the efficiency of social security and welfare programs- the Department of Social Security has allocated additional resources to improve the control of programs following major reviews of the Department’s administrative processes; the review by health and welfare departments of available evaluation techniques and the progressive development of capacity to utilise them where shown to be worthwhile; the establishment of the Social Welfare Research Centre at the University of New South Wales; the establishment of a number of mechanisms to ensure that outside advice on programs and current need is provided to the government- for example, the National Consultative Council on Social Welfare; and the development of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine as a resource for evaluation. [More…]

• Nevertheless, evaluation clearly must play an important role in the Government’s health and welfare programs. [More…]

• Recommendations 10, 14 and 1 6 through to 1 9 suggest greater attention by all levels of government and relevant voluntary agencies to the assessment and articulation of need for health and welfare services. [More…]

• To this end, recommendations 11, 12, 13, 15 and 24 through to 3 1 suggest ways in which health and welfare data might be expanded and/or improved and recommendations 2 1 through to 23 suggest ways in which a comprehensive set of standards for health and welfare services might be developed. [More…]

• While it will rarely be possible to measure need in an objective fashion, reliable data on health and welfare status and service provision is essential for sound policy formulation and assessment. [More…]

• The nature of data requirements related to the assessment of health and welfare status, and of priorities for the identification and collection of basic program outcome data will continue to be kept under study. [More…]

• A proposal for a similar study involving Commonwealth and State governments in the welfare area will be referred to the Council of Welfare Ministers. [More…]

• The Australian Bureau of Statistics, in consultation with the Social Welfare Policy Secretariat and the functional departments, will prepare a discussion paper on social indicators to guide further development of these statistics. [More…]

• The Social Welfare Policy Secretariat will coordinate: The identification of data requirements by the health and welfare sector, including nongovernment organisations; the preparation of a report to the Government on priorities for data collection; and approaches to the Australian Bureau of Statistics for additional data collections. [More…]

• While it would not be proper for the Commonwealth to become involved in standard setting in relation to those health and welfare services that are the responsibilities of the States, the Social Welfare Policy Secretariat will assist as appropriate in consultation with the departments of Health and Social Security in the development of a co-operative strategy. [More…]

• The Public Service Board will give attention to the development of adequate evaluative skills within the Public Service, including in the health and welfare field. [More…]

• -The Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) has responded to a report by the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare which contains 35 recommendations. [More…]

• The three recommendations which were rejected included proposals to make Commonwealth governments identify the real costs of welfare programs. [More…]

• This will leave nongovernment welfare agencies less advantaged for their administrative costs are included and their programs may therefore appear to be more expensive. [More…]

• Over the past four years the Government has, in fact, reviewed very carefully every health and welfare program. [More…]

• Those statements are from one of the departments actually involved in health and welfare programs. [More…]

• The Department’s submission merely reinforced other comments by the Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration, by the Bailey Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health and by the Commission of Inquiry into Poverty, all of which set out areas in which evaluation in health and welfare is inadequate and continues to be insufficient in amount or quality. [More…]

• That is the big unanswered question in welfare in this country today. [More…]

• Nevertheless, evaluation clearly must play an important role in the Government’s health and welfare programs. [More…]

• The Committee suggested at one time that it thought the health and welfare system was out of control. [More…]

• Our report identified that we lack techniques for estimating the need for government programs, that we lack facilities to undertake evaluation of many programs and that, as has been indicated in a number of reports to government in recent years, we lack data on the majority of our health and welfare services in regard to whether they are achieving any objectives, let alone their specific objectives. [More…]

• by leave- As a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare which brought down the report on evaluation in Australian health and welfare services, and as a member of the Opposition, I wish to contribute something to this debate. [More…]

• It certainly is pleasing to read in the Minister’s report that the Government at last recognises the importance of the gathering and processing of data and the setting of goals and standards in the welfare field. [More…]

• The aims of this Committee were to examine the extent, the quality and quantity of evaluation in this community, particularly in the health and welfare field. [More…]

• The report of the Committee does not cast judgment on any welfare or health program in this community. [More…]

• That is what the Committee meant by the health and welfare system being out of control. [More…]

• Over the past four years the Government has, in fact, reviewed very carefully every health and welfare program. [More…]

• It has given priority to those in need and has introduced important health and welfare programs. [More…]

• For evaluation to be effective and to be able to judge welfare programs to be effective, first of all we have to have the data to enable us to ask the right questions and get the right answers. [More…]

• The Government has reviewed very carefully expenditure in the health and welfare field, but only to the extent that it has reviewed these programs to see where it can cut Government expenditure. [More…]

• I would suggest that the results of those expenditure cuts have not been to give priority to those in need and have not resulted in the introduction of important health and welfare reforms. [More…]

• We had the welfare rights officer program. [More…]

• The words used by the staff of the Sydney office were: ‘The welfare rights program is dead’. [More…]

• The ethnic welfare rights officers were first transferred to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs from the Department of Social Security. [More…]

• In 1976 the Social Welfare Commission was abolished. [More…]

• It was the only body in this country that had really taken an overview of welfare services. [More…]

• We were told in August 1976 that a social welfare research centre would be established at the University of New South Wales to perform the functions of the Commission which was abolished four years ago. [More…]

• It has taken four years to get that part of the Social Welfare Commission’s programs off the ground. [More…]

• We were told that there would be an effective mechanism for co-operation and an interchange of ideas with groups interested in the welfare field. [More…]

• We were told that the National Consultative Council on Social Welfare would play an important part in that and that important consultations and evaluations would take place. [More…]

• When one hears rumours one can only suspect that in fact the setting up of the Council was a public relations exercise and has little to do with the independent evaluation and advice which we were told would be its function when the Social Welfare Commission was abolished. [More…]

• Other honourable senators and I have asked questions on matters that we believe would be essential in the planning of any future welfare priorities and programs, but over and over again we get the reply- it was given to me three times today- that the information is not available or that the information is too difficult to obtain. [More…]

• I find it difficult to understand how the Minister can really put in her statement that over the past four years she has very carefully reviewed every health and welfare program and that no other government has carried out a more rigorous assessment, et cetera. [More…]

• It is not the way to develop a rational welfare program. [More…]

• It has nothing to do with helping any of us in this place to judge the effectiveness of welfare programs. [More…]

• We are now told that the Social Welfare Policy Secretariat is taking part in some important evaluations. [More…]

• It seems to me that the Social Welfare Policy Secretariat is to provide work on policies that the Government is putting up, and that in fact we will not have independent policies or independent evaluation of programs. [More…]

• What evaluation there is is kept from this Parliament, is kept from the public, is certainly kept from the clients who receive welfare assistance and is certainly kept from those who are charged with delivering welfare services. [More…]

• If the Government continues to conceal what evaluation is done and if it continues to accept that what is going on now as a rigorous and careful assessment of its health and welfare programs, I suggest, as in the past, we will get nowhere. [More…]

• I hope that in the future we have more evidence and a more serious look at evaluation and welfare planning in this country. [More…]

• I think the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare is most serious. [More…]

• That the Commonwealth Government direct the Australian Bureau of Statistics to raise to an appropriate level the proportion of its budget spent specifically on health and welfare statistics. [More…]

• However, the proportion of resources available to the Australian Bureau of Statistics which should be allocated to the development of health/welfare data is a matter for judgment in the light of a continuing examination of competing claims . [More…]

• there are areas of unmet need for data outside the health/welfare sector, e.g. [More…]

• Surely the Senate has to recommend whether it considers essential data to be that dealing with the health and welfare of the Australian population or structural change recommended by the Crawford group? [More…]

• I feel it important to start by pointing out that one of the things which those of us in this Parliament who have been concerned about drugs and drug trafficking have expressed concern about over and over again, particularly in the reports of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare on drug trafficking and drug abuse in this country, is that debate on this subject and consideration of it should be carried out in an unemotional and rational way. [More…]

• I was a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare, which produced a report called ‘Drug Problems in Australia- an intoxicated society?’ [More…]

• They also are involved in social welfare, nursing and other services, all of which have a relationship with local government. [More…]

• There are some minor exceptions, but these minor exceptions rely on other Acts which allow certain moneys to go to local authorities because they are carrying out certain functions such as welfare functions. [More…]

• It appears as though Mr Bertoni, who is a member of the National Party, has taken it upon himself to castigate and denigrate a very responsible and respected member of the Mount Isa community because he is endeavouring to do something for his own people to promote their welfare and lift them out of the doldrums in which they find themselves at the moment. [More…]

• -One of the basic objectives of the Government during negotiation to give foreigners access to the 200-mile Australian fishing zone is to protect fully the welfare of the Australian fishing industry. [More…]

• Can the Minister advise whether the Federal Government has issued instructions which would mean that there would be no funding unless these addresses were made available to welfare departments and social workers in the States? [More…]

• An interview has been an essential element of determination of eligibility and provides the claimant and the department with the opportunity to discuss entitlements to the pension applied for and welfare and fringe benefits generally. [More…]

• Anyone who is seriously interested in the welfare of the Timorese people should concentrate his or her energies on helping them. [More…]

• The other day I tried to have read the response to recommendations of the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare. [More…]

• On 9 August 1976 Mr Ellicott, the then Attorney-General, addressing the Citizens Welfare Service of Victoria, said: my own view is in favour of each arm of government maintaining its traditional role; the Executive should make policy, the Parliament should legislate and Judges should judge. [More…]

• That the following matter be referred to the Standing Committee on Social Welfare: [More…]

• Continuing scrutiny of relevant aspects of the reports of the Standing Committee on Social Welfare ‘Through a Glass, Darkly’, tabled in the Senate on 3 May and 1 1 September 1979. [More…]

• The Western Australian Minister for Health and Community Welfare, Mr Ridge, who holds the seat of Kimberley, has admitted in a Western Australian newspaper that the Liberal Party devised and executed a plan deliberately aimed at denying Aborigines in the Kimberleys an effective vote. [More…]

• I did not want to indicate that there will be a vast amount, but of necessity there will be adjustments to the legislation purely for the administration and good welfare of the people of the Northern Territory. [More…]

• It is right, too, that those annual reports and financial statements should go to the Minister because, after all, the Minister is the person reponsible in law for the welfare of Aboriginal people. [More…]

• The first group of ordinances to which this Government agreed in 1978 in complementary legislation included the Aboriginal Land Ordinance, the Territory Parks and Wild Life Conservation Ordinance, the Aboriginal Sacred Sites Ordinance, the Mining Ordinance, the Petroleum (Prospecting and Mining) Ordinance, the Coal Ordinance, the Crown Lands Ordinance, the Social Welfare Ordinance, the Special Purpose Leases Ordinance and the Cemeteries Ordinance. [More…]

• If this is taken to the obvious extreme- to absurdium, as the lawyers would say- this sort of philosophy would suggest that everything gets paid for out of the royaltieshealth, education, welfare, legal aid and the whole lot. [More…]

• It also showed that its attitude to AUS was one of vindictiveness because the legislation had little concern for the welfare of the institutions or their students. [More…]

• Student bodies are an integral part of campus life at Australian Universities and provide a wide range of services for their members including food services, welfare services, social and cultural activities, spotting facilities and student representation. [More…]

• ) All monies returned were re-used on welfare housing. [More…]

• Mr President, you and I and many other people who have a great interest in the welfare of wine grape growers, know that the Gorton Government imposed the 50c a gallon excise on wine. [More…]

• This situation is extremely dangerous for the welfare of Australia. [More…]

• The Victorian Housing Minister has advised that in 1978 the Victorian Government made available $ 18.6m from Consolidated Revenue, Treasury funds and semi-government borrowings for welfare housing purposes. [More…]

• This is in direct contrast with reports that welfare housing has been forced to become self-financing as a result of cuts in Commonwealth funds. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare in its Report ‘Drug Problems in Australia- An Intoxicated Society?’ [More…]

• It was proposed that the congress be attended by up to 2,000 participants from more than 100 countries, including Ministers of justice, judges, criminologists and leading figures in the field of corrections, police, social welfare, mental health, education and a number of related areas. [More…]

• It is not even clear whether these reports will be tabled in the Parliament or whether they are to be produced only for the Government, making it far less like an institute and far more like a private advisory body to the Government- a body like the Social Welfare Policy Secretariat which reports to the Government. [More…]

• We have just witnessed the case of the small welfare rights program which was transferred to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs from the Department of Social Security, where it was very effective. [More…]

• Once the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs got hold of this welfare rights program, it quickly cut it off in its prime. [More…]

• We need statistics- we are very short of them in the welfare’ field particularly- on migrants who have never done an English course, on those who have had only minimal tuition, and on the personal work and psychological problems that result from this. [More…]

• Does the Department lack adequate welfare staff to help the refugees settle into Canberra; if so, what measures has the Minister taken to overcome this problem. [More…]

• In so far as there may be, or may later develop, specific welfare problems amongst refugees the Welfare Branch of the Depanment of the Capital Territory would be expected to help. [More…]

• I have recently corresponded with the Victorian Minister for Community Welfare Services and, as the matter is still under consideration at ministerial level, it is inappropriate to comment further on this particular case, as this time. [More…]

• However, I should mention that it would be a matter for the Victorian Minister for Community Welfare Services to decide what officers of his Department were to be provided with refuges’ addresses and I would hope that the situation would not be reached where it became necessary to consider cessation of Commonwealth funding. [More…]

• I can only suggest that perhaps a reference to the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare, that is, to Senator Baume and his diligent senators, may assist in resolving some of the points that have been raised. [More…]

• We want welfare funds to go to the people who need it. [More…]

• All monies returned were re-used on welfare housing. [More…]

• As with previous PER’s I would like to envisage that a senior level task force should undertake the reviewthe members of the task force drawn from the Departments of Aboriginal Affairs, Health and Finance, Prime Minister and Cabinet, and the Social Welfare Secretariat. [More…]

• Senior level task force drawn from PM&C, Aboriginal Affairs, Health, Social Welfare Policy Secretariat and Finance. [More…]

• 1 ) Yes, it was estimated in a joint study by the Department of Social Security and the Australian Council of Social Service and tabled in the Parliament on 29 March 1979 that the value of emergency relief provided by both nongovernment and State government welfare agencies in Australia in a year was about $ 1 1 m. [More…]

• No, the study indicated that welfare agencies were able to meet most demands for assistance, but were unable to meet all demands for emergency relief at the level requested. [More…]

• 1 ) What has been the total amount of Commonwealth funding of Aboriginal health and welfare projects undertaken to mark the International Year of the Child. [More…]

• 1 ) It is not possible to estimate the total amount of Commonwealth funding of Aboriginal health and welfare projects undertaken to mark the International Year of the Child (IYC). [More…]

• In respect of the Department of Social Security, funds have been provided from the Children ‘s Services Program for projects concerned with the welfare of Aboriginal children. [More…]

• 1 ) What has been the total amount of Commonwealth funding of migrant health and welfare projects undertaken to mark the International Year of the Child. [More…]

• 1 ) It is not possible to estimate the total amount of Commonwealth funding of migrant health and welfare projects undertaken to mark the International Year of the Child (IYC). [More…]

• In respect of the Department of Social Security, funds have been provided from the Children’s Services Program for projects concerned with the welfare of migrant children. [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…]

• 1 ) When was the North- West One-Stop Welfare Centre (the NOW Centre) established in Coburg. [More…]

• Was it originally intended to function as an experiment in welfare delivery and for how long was it intended to function. [More…]

• 1 ) The North- West One-Stop Welfare Centre (the NOW Centre) was established in Coburg in July 1 97 5. [More…]

• lt was set up as an experiment in welfare delivery and the experimental stage /as terminated by agreement between the Commonwealth Government and the Victorian Government on 30 June 1979. [More…]

• The concessions include: immediate deduction of general mining exploration expenditures against mining income; deduction on a diminishing value basis over a maximum life of mine of 5 years of allowable capital expenditures, including certain development expenditures and certain ‘ housing welfare ‘ at or adjacent to a mine site; deduction on a straight line basis over 10 or 20 years at the taxpayer’s discretion of allowable capital expenditure on railway, road or port development; exemption from taxation of income derived by a bona fide prospector from the sale, transfer or assignment of rights to mine certain specified minerals; an additional deduction by way of investment allowance of 20 per cent of the installed cost of eligible new plant contracted for or on which construction commenced in the period of January 1976 to 30 June 1985, if the plant is first used or installed ready for use by 30 June 1986. [More…]

• The Department’s office space in Wyndham is rented from the State Government and will become available for the use of the State Depanment of Community Welfare. [More…]

• the Senate Committee on Social Welfare made several recommendations concerning the equivalence of excise on alcoholic beverages according to alcohol content. [More…]

• In the case of a second political activist, Ms Fu Yuehua the Australian Ambassador in Peking was directed to make enquiries about her current welfare. [More…]

• Firstly, can he clarify the lines of authority between the Commonwealth Minister for Immigration and the various State ministers for child welfare in the case of desired adoptions of Asian orphans? [More…]

• I hope to be making further announcements shortly with regard to the Social Welfare Research Centre at the University of New South Wales and with regard to the membership of the consultative committees which I am in the process of forming. [More…]

• I believe that reports from the Social Welfare Research Centre would be of great interest to the wider community and would certainly be of such a nature that they could be made public. [More…]

• In the short term, many ofthe programs already sponsored by the Government in respect of Aboriginal affairs have the capacity to meet the needs of discharged prisoners for transient accommodation, employment and employment training, personal and family welfare support services, legal advice and liaison services. [More…]

• Such programs include support for Aboriginal Hostels Limited, Special Work Projects and Community Development Employment Projects, Aboriginal welfare co-ordinating and referral agencies, and Aboriginal field support associated with Aboriginal Legal Services. [More…]

• In addition, the Government has assisted specific initiatives to meet the particular needs of this group, including the appointment of Aboriginal welfare officers with Prisoner Aid Associations in South Australia and New South Wales; and a national Symposium in May this year to consider the care and rehabilitation needs of Aboriginal juveniles in corrective custody. [More…]