woman - hofreps - 1970

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

I ask the Minister: Can he inform the House when proceedings will begin against Mrs Berman, the woman connected with the Victorian abortion inquiry, who taped telephone conversations, which is against a Commonwealth Act? [More…]
It affects every person in the Parliament just as it affects every man, woman and child in Australia and as it will affect future generations of Australians. [More…]
Onhow many occasions has a member of the Australian armed forces in Vietnam while driving a motor vehicle accidentally killed (a) a civilian man, woman or child and (b) a water buffalo. [More…]
As a result of this incident a number of young men and a young woman whom I know were taken to the local court and were sentenced rather savagely. [More…]
While I can applaud many of the objectives the honourable member has had in raising this subject tonight - I too deplore some of the practices associated with this trade that he has mentioned - 1 cannot sit by and hear the name of Sir Jack Cassidy linked in the way that it has been, suggesting that he was in some improper way associated with the profiteering that has gone on at the expense of, as the honourable member said, the unfortunate woman involved. [More…]
The right honourable gentleman will have read the submission by the Australian Council of Social Service - the acknowledged professional body - that the inquiry should be held into social welfare and not confined to poverty and should be held by persons with skills and knowledge from Commonwealth, State, local government and voluntary agency fields though not acting as representatives, experts in social welfare and user and citizen members and that the issues are too complex and the skills required too diverse for one man or woman alone. [More…]
I am aware that this young woman is subject to a great number of imputations and that some very discreditable innuendoes are being spread by people in the Senate. [More…]
Where, on or before 30th September, 1973, a woman lodges a claim for a benefit under Part IVaaa of the Principal Act as amended by this Act, the benefit, if granted, is to be paid from- [More…]
in the case of a woman who was a supporting mother on the date of commencement of that Part- that date; or [More…]
in any other case - the first widow’s pension pay-day after that last-mentioned date on which the woman was a supporting mother. [More…]
What has been the average cost per woman of the provision of such training. [More…]
This woman, without being paid or asked, and not being associated with the Liberal Party, the Australian Medical Association or any particular doctor, has probably created a national record in that up till last weekend she had personally collected 7,554 signatures against the Government’s health proposals. [More…]
I thank the Minister for allowing me to mention this woman in my speech. [More…]
I am currently considering the appointment of an eminent lay woman to the National Health and Medical Research Council. [More…]
Enema by Anthony Lovejoy (b) Below the Navel by King Carol, (c) Sensual Appetite by Pierre Duval, (d) Felicity’s Trip by Jeremiah Stone, (e) Inside Linda Lovelace by Linda Lovelace, (f) Adultery without Men by Ann Harris and (g) The Coming of a Woman by Alistair Hunt. [More…]
1 ) What amounts were paid in commission for the paintings (a) ‘Woman V and (b) ‘House under Construction’. [More…]
I could not help thinking of Samuel Johnson’s remarks about woman’s preaching. [More…]
Sir, a woman’s preaching is like a dog’s walking on his hind legs. [More…]
The woman charged was a Liberal Party candidate in the Western Australian State elections in 1 974. [More…]
Does the Minister accept that for a woman to live with another person does not of necessity make her financially dependant. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs aware of Press reports to the effect that a woman who is now in Kalgoorlie and who came to Australia on a visitor’s visa has been asked to leave Australia because her visa has expired and now seeks to have the decision reversed? [More…]
Has the woman complied with all the conditions of her visitor’s visa? [More…]
How much has Woman’s Day paid for the right to publish the directory in its issues of 23 and 30 August 1976. [More…]
How many names have been removed from the Commonwealth Electoral Rolls in each State in each of the last 5 years where (a) an elector’s name was notified to a Divisional Returning Officer as being a woman over the age of 18 years whose marriage had been registered in the State during the month preceding such notification, (b) after each election, for either the Parliament of a State or of the Commonwealth, an elector had failed to vote at the preceding election and had not responded to a letter from the Electoral Office seeking an explanation for the elector’s failure to vote and (c) the Electoral Office discovered that the address of the elector had been changed notwithstanding that he or she had continued to reside within the same sub-division or had continued to reside in the same Division for the purpose of sections 39(3) and 39B of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918-1975. [More…]
For instance, the headline appeared recently: ‘Greek Woman Raped’. [More…]
It does not matter a damn whether the woman is Greek, Italian or Australian. [More…]
The fact is that a woman was raped and - [More…]
In which overseas Australian posts is one of the 3 senior positions held by a woman. [More…]
What is the publication date of the booklet to replace the Directory of Support Services to Women in Australia which Woman ‘s Day published without payment or authority on 23 and 30 August 1976 (Hansard, 8 September 1976, page 789 and 6 October 1 976, page 1613). [More…]
I ask: Has the Government considered approaching the British Government to amend the Act of Settlement of 1 700 to remove that section which rules out marriage between the heir to the throne and any woman who belongs to a specific church on pain of his being excluded from the succession? [More…]
If so, did the Minister mean that when a woman marries she should no longer want employment? [More…]
On 27 September a woman who identified herself as Mrs Grunau spoke by telephone to an officer of my Department located in Townsville. [More…]
Honourable members will know that an eligible ex-serviceman or woman who is single, widowed or divorced may receive a Service pension at the standard rate, namely $15 per week, which is higher than the married rate - currently $13.25 per week - payable to each of a married pensioner couple. [More…]
Whosoever, being a woman with child, unlawfully administers to herself any drug or noxious thing, or unlawfully uses any instrument or other means, with intent in any such case to procure her miscarriage, shall be liable to penal servitude for 10 years. [More…]
Whosoever unlawfully administers to, or causes to be taken by, any woman, whether with child or not, any drug or noxious thing, or unlawfully uses any instrument or other means, with intent in any case to procure her miscarriage, shall be liable to penal servitude for 10 years. [More…]
Whosoever unlawfully supplies or procures any drug or noxious thing, or any instrument or thing whatsoever, knowing that the same is intended to be unlawfully used with intent to procure the miscarriage of any woman, whether with child or not, shall be liable to penal servitude for S years. [More…]
In the case of the married woman, usually with several children, her husband almost invariably knows. [More…]
Funny how it was always Friday afternoon or evening when the poor woman stood on a chair to reach a high cupboard and fell off, or tripped when carrying the weekend shopping home, or fell over a toy one of her children had left on the floor, lt was always the same story. [More…]
The truth, of course, is that they were not spontaneous abortions at all but were induced by the woman herself, a neighbour or a regular backyarder. [More…]
The operation is performed on Friday so that if the woman has to be admitted to hospital - or in any case so that she can rest a bit and recover - her husband is home to look after the house and the children. [More…]
A surprisingly large number - 26% - felt that a simple request from a woman was sufficient justification for an abortion. [More…]
I would go so far as to say that if a doctor claims that he has never helped a woman to have an abortion he must have sent away at some time a woman in great suffering without helping her. [More…]
If a woman loses her husband as a result of war injuries or sickness caused by his war service and she has three children she receives $36.40 per week. [More…]
On the other hand, if a woman’s husband dies at 35 or 40 years of age and leaves her with three children she gets $26.50 per week. [More…]
So unless this woman has relatives or friends she will not be able to farm her children out during the day in working hours. [More…]
In the example I am giving I am speaking of a woman who is considerably younger than her husband. [More…]
This is a gravely deficient standard of income for this woman. [More…]
But because of a severe bed shortage this woman was discharged to a private hospital where equivalent hospital treatment could be given. [More…]
You will know that honourable members have been delighted to notice that a young woman is among the Hansard reporters of our proceedings and has won that position in the face of the strenuous competition that there is for this top job in that calling. [More…]
The Conference Lines of ship owners started off in the 17th century as pirates on the high seas, and they are pirates today to every man and woman in this community. [More…]
In fact the woman’s premiums for a vehicle with what they call a No. [More…]
She was a magnificent woman. [More…]
She was a highly intelligent and well educated woman. [More…]
One might say that to some extent she was self taught becauseshe was a well read woman. [More…]
Mr Chairman, I am addressing my remarks to clause 4, as a general provision, and perhaps the Committee will forgive me if I mention that South Australia has had an inspiring record in relation to Meals on Wheels through the activities of this one woman. [More…]
One reason that has been put forward is that we had an inspiring woman who dedicated her life to doing this sort of thing. [More…]
I direct attention to the interpretation of ‘an aged person’, which reads: aged person’ means a man who has attained the age of 65 years or a woman who has attained the age of 60 years. [More…]
I believe that every man or woman who serves this Parliament is entitled to a 9- hour break between periods of employment. [More…]
It is of the standard of one or two others that I have seen and it depicts a child - if it is a child - or a woman killed quite probably by the Vietcong, lt follows the usual pattern. [More…]
I think the matter is highlighted immediately by referring to the Consolidated Revenue Fund which shows that the amount extracted from every man, woman and child in New South Wales, and indeed in Australia, is $553 and that the reimbursment to New South Wales to carry on essential services is a mere $80 per head. [More…]
Why should the family of a man - or a woman - who throughout his life made his contribution to the development and progress of a country and who has paid income taxes, rates, levies and duties throughout his lifetime, have the savings or the residue from the taxed earnings subjected to a further tax upon death? [More…]
I quote a legal friend of mine who said: ‘It is a curious thing that every lawyer thinks that he can draft, in much the same way as every woman thinks that she can cook.’ [More…]
A person, being a male, who is in excess of 65 years of age, or, being a woman who has attained the age of 60 years, is not eligible for any of this supplementary assistance. [More…]
My question is directed to the Attorney-General and it relates to the removal of a woman from the gallery of the House on Wednesday of this week. [More…]
Was the person who removed the woman a private citizen? [More…]
Indeed, the Government has done its very best to prevent that by putting to the Arbitration Commission a 9-point formula which makes it virtually impossible for a woman to get the full rate of pay if she is doing work that is not normally done by men, such as the work of a triple certificated nursing sister. [More…]
But a woman who is employed as a lavatory attendant in a ladies convenience cannot get it because men are not employed as lavatory attendants at a ladies convenience. [More…]
If a woman wants to buy a motor car she has to pay the same price that a man has to pay. [More…]
If a woman wants a radio she cannot go to the shop and say: ‘Look, I am only on a woman’s rate of pay. [More…]
Nine principles were laid down by the Commission in order to give guidance to other arbitral authorities as to what the tests were to decide whether or not a woman in the work force was entitled to that graduated achievement of equal pay. [More…]
This was an answer that I did not appreciate because it does not take much thought to realise that there would be very few people who would employ a woman in her late fifties even if she were capable of working after devoting most of her life to rearing a family. [More…]
Special attention will be given to the needs of migrant women - the married woman and the housewife - for whom, if they are to become full members of the community and if they are t participate in the social life, a knowledge of English is essential. [More…]
The tape purports to begin with a woman asking: What does it say? [More…]
Has the Attorney-General’s attention been drawn to the report in which Mrs Margaret Berman, a woman connected with the Victorian abortion inquiry, claims that the tape recording that I have referred to now on 3 occasions in the last fortnight was made after her first visit to the office of the Victorian Solicitor-General? [More…]
An amount of $550 is taken from every man, woman and child in Australia, yet New South Wales receives back from the Commonwealth $90 per head of population to carry out all of its responsibities. [More…]
In a period of 5 years a woman now aged 30, wilh her leaving certificate or even her intermediate certificate, could become a qualified teacher with a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Diploma of Education and have perhaps 30 years professional opportunity before her. [More…]
They were led by a woman. [More…]
Again in the State of Victoria the vice squad censured the gaming squad at a display at the police exhibit at the Royal Show by disfiguring playing cards which the gaming squad had set up depicting a naked woman. [More…]
Noone will advocate any proposal that a woman should make a profit from the death of her husband, but no-one I hope will want to see a woman lose from such an event. [More…]
Subsequently it was discovered that he had left the country under an assumed name by having had his name entered on a woman’s passport as the child of that woman although in fact he was not her child. [More…]
Here is in part the plea of the woman concerned: [More…]
I wish to refer now to a matter that is of concern to every man, woman, and child in this country. [More…]
If you talk to any woman in the community she will tell you that prices are increasing alarmingly. [More…]
Why should a woman, just because she is not of pensionable age, be deprived of a reasonable income? [More…]
A woman must be over 60 years of age and a man over 65 years of age. [More…]
For example, it is my personal view that a woman should have sovereignty over her own body in matters concerning the birth of a child. [More…]
Any person who, with intent to procure the miscarriage of a woman, uses any means whatever, is guilty of an indictable offence. [More…]
Any woman who, with intent to procure her own miscarriage, uses any means whatever, is guilty of an indictable offence. [More…]
Whoever, being a woman with child, unlawfully administers to herself any drug or noxious thing; or unlawfully uses any instrument or other means; with intent in any such case to procure her miscarriage, shall be liable to penal servitude for ten years. [More…]
Whosoever unlawfully administers to, or causes to be taken by, any woman, whether with child or not, any drug or noxious thing; or unlawfully uses any instrument or other means, with intent in any such case to procure her miscarriage, shall be liable to penal servitude for ten years. [More…]
that the continuance of the pregnancy would involve risk to the life of the pregnant woman or of injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman or any existing children of her family greater than if the pregnancy were terminated (and in determining whether the continuance of a pregnancy would involve such a risk of injury to health, account may be taken of the pregnant woman’s actual or reasonably foreseeable environment); or [More…]
I wonder what woman would regard deodorants, nail polish, baby powder, hair spray, hand lotions, baby cream, face powder and lip stick as luxuries. [More…]
I do not deny to any woman the right to go out and to earn money in a job. [More…]
Every man, woman and child in Australia is entitled to receive these benefits and the patient has complete freedom of choice both as regards the doctor and chemist, there has been a continuing increase in the expenditure under the scheme and the Commonwealth expenditure has increased from $70.4m in 1961-62 to $ 136.7m in 1969-70. [More…]
Is there any means by which the honourable gentleman can stay ex cathedra announcements by supposedly learned and responsible members of the judiciary such as that reported recently in which culpability for a soldiers strangulation of a defenceless woman was laid partly at the door of the Army? [More…]
Nothing is worse than for a woman with a young family to be suddenly deprived of her husband, lt is a dreadful thing emotionally and economically. [More…]
If a woman desires to stay at home with her children and help to bring them up, she should be able to do so; she should not be forced to go to work because of the inadequacy of the pension. [More…]
Once again there is enough complete degradation and despair for a woman when her husband does desert her without making it all the worse by saying that she cannot obtain a pension from the Commonwealth until she has been deserted for 6 months. [More…]
On occasions the woman has said to me: ‘1 do not wish to sue for maintenance because if I do I can forget that he will ever come back to the home again.’ [More…]
But the woman whose husband is killed at war does not get compensation and we make up to her by way of the pension we pay. [More…]
I would not know what makes us presume that such an adult woman with her commitments would be able to live on $1.75 a week less than her counterpart who happens to have an age or invalid pension. [More…]
When her husband was found alive this woman realised that she had deserted him. [More…]
Unfortunately, because of the present- system in Australia and particularly the system in my own home State, and because the woman of whom I speak is not wealthy, she had to sit by in Brisbane and watch this case go through the courts of New South Wales without being able to defend herself. [More…]
Sanctions are to be found in all criminal codes for giving false information in relation to official processes, and deceiving the woman would be an aggravating circumstance relevant to sentencing. [More…]
Not only have you and thu young woman deceived your friends. [More…]
I want to comment on that and say that for the greater part of a day at Goroka I attended the trial of an indigenous woman for murder. [More…]
Mrs Whitlam, who is known to roost of us in this House as a charming, distinguished and friendly woman is herself a diplomate in social studies from the University of Sydney. [More…]
I think it was at Penrith where a soldier went home from a club with a woman and strangled her. [More…]
I turn now to another case, lt concerns a woman with 3 sons, 2 of whom have already served a 2-year stint in Vietnam. [More…]
Has any honourable member opposite ever thought of the fact that there is the equivalent of 10 million tons of TNT stored up in nuclear weapons for every man, woman and child on this earth today. [More…]
As some magical solution to the problem, the Government must believe that 2 can live as cheaply as 1 woman - that is, not a man and a woman. [More…]
A Service pension may be granted in the case of a man of 60 years or a woman of 55 years provided he or she has served in a theatre of war at a rate not exceeding the maximum payable if he or she were qualified to receive the age pension. [More…]
It was from a woman by the name of Janet M. McPhee. [More…]
The Deputy Chairman is Mrs Crisp, certainly a distinguished woman who, besides being the wife of a former professor, is also a very highly educated woman in her own right and associated with a number of very worthwhile community organisations. [More…]
I refer to the things that he has said and done in this House and been responsible for, such as, as the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) said, the Japanese Trade Agreement which has had an effect on the lives of every man, woman and child in this community. [More…]
Behind every man there is a woman. [More…]
He leaves here with the woman who has been with him for many years, for a good part of his parliamentary life. [More…]
She thus became the second woman to sit in this House. [More…]
It was difficult to believe that this was a woman of about 82 years. [More…]
Mrs Blackburn was a woman of great conscience and personal integrity. [More…]
I believe she was a woman, who was able to mix very effectively in the rough and tumble of politics in the community ‘which I represent. [More…]
She was one of the few independents to enter this- Parliament, and was a woman at that. [More…]
Therefore,’ she carried with her a great capacity and integrity and was a representative of Australian womanhood. [More…]
She was an unusual and rather remarkable woman. [More…]
She was a very gentle woman; she was very humane. [More…]
She soon returned them with the comment that it was ‘a very odd thing that I, an old woman of 80 and upwards, silling alone, feel myself ashamed to read a book which, 60 years ago, I have heard read aloud for the amusement of large circles, consisting of the best and most creditable circles in London.’ [More…]
‘Woman with 1000 lovers.’ [More…]
No woman on this earth has ever heard me use the 4-letter word in her presence. [More…]
contains a scene which depicts a young woman performing cunnilingus on her sister while at the same time a man has intercourse with the young woman by entering her from behind. [More…]
This woman’s son was notified of his call-up in the lottery of death which is supported by honourable members opposite. [More…]
It involves a woman who is a newcomer to this country and who has 3 sons, one of whom has served in Vietnam whilst another is still in one of the Services in Australia. [More…]
This woman approached me after she had had her doctor speak to me about her predicament because of the likelihood of her third son being called up and the agony she would have had to endure as a result of this. [More…]
The quality and quantity of water available involve the life of every man, woman and child in the nation and decide the conditions of health and happiness in which they live in every town and village. [More…]
The same instrumentalities will be charged with the responsibility and the pevention and detection of crime will remain with the man or woman engaged on the job. [More…]
A woman came into my office quite recently. [More…]
As a result of the worry she has incurred the woman is suffering from ulcers. [More…]
A woman, whether she is a deserted wife or a widow, faces a very great problem when she suddenly finds her responsibilities not doubled but -more than doubled. [More…]
I cannot understand why it is that a woman has to wait 6 months before she can receive a deserted wife’s pension. [More…]
Yet this is being forced upon the woman by the decisions of this Parliament. [More…]
Take for example an elderly man or woman who has to seek specialist medical attention. [More…]
Elderly ladies may go there and have their hair done, their fingernails attended to and all the other little things done which make every woman, whatever her age, feel that she is wanted. [More…]
This is an increase of 7c a day for a woman with 3 dependent children. [More…]
In other words, we are asking n woman with 3 children ail over the age of 6 years to live on 35 per cent of the average weekly earnings of the community. [More…]
She is not the cleverest woman in the world. [More…]
In helping this woman he went as far as the State Department of Social Welfare can go. [More…]
1 am not being critical of the Commonwealth Department of Social Services as I have only just made an approach to that office to see whether a way can be found to help this woman. [More…]
It seems to me that the present legislation is a little bit unfair to the woman who has finished rearing her family at the age of, say, 50 or 54. [More…]
It seems wrong to expect such a woman, to repeat exactly what I said previously, to go out at that age and find a job for the first time in her life. [More…]
He was saying that a woman under certain circumstances should not be expected to go out to work. [More…]
The honourable member for Port Adelaide thought he was saying that the woman in question should go out to work. [More…]
The case involves a 45 year old married woman with two young children. [More…]
This woman’s body mechanism which should maintain a temperature within critical limits does not function or does not function adequately. [More…]
There is nothing known to medical science that can be done for this woman and there is nothing known to medical science which can be either administered or prescribed for her. [More…]
Consider a person suffering from chronic bronchitis who is supplied with an oxygen tent for the very same reason that this woman was issued with an airconditioning unit. [More…]
In the second case, if this woman had taken her unit to a medical or surgical manufacturer and he had slapped his brand on the unit she would have complied with the Act. [More…]
Thirdly, had this woman been prepared at great discomfort to sit in a bath and cover herself with cold sheets, provided that they were green sheets supplied by the Royal Adelaide Hospital, she would in all probability have complied with the provisions of the Act. [More…]
In all equity and justice, disregarding the format of the existing provisions of the Act, surely the benefit of the doubt must go to this woman. [More…]
There should be criteria such as these: First, the nature of the illness; second, the fact that it is incurable; third, that medical science can give her nothing and do nothing; fourth, that there is no other known medical alternative; and fifth, for this woman to continue to live a normal life, because she cannot herself control her own body temperature and medical science cannot help, the only ray of hope within the realm of the total knowledge of medical science is for her to get a mechanical substitute. [More…]
The doctor cannot tell the woman where to purchase a patented medical or surgical appliance because in fact, no such appliance is produced any where. [More…]
because it is not patented as a surgical or medical appliance, this woman is denied the right to use the provisions of the Act. [More…]
An emotional woman at the back of the court called out: ‘Why do you not stop sending our boys to gaol?’ [More…]
Some poor innocent woman in the lobby of the offices downstairs was terrified and endeavoured to hide behind the counter. [More…]
Is he able to say whether the Matrimonial Causes Act permits a woman to leave her husband without just or lawful excuse and to engage in prostitution and become eligible in law to claim maintenance from her husband, pending suit, by the simple device of falsely declaring that she has not committed adultery. [More…]
and (2) The question is based upon a false premise that it would be a ‘simple device’ for a woman to make a false declaration that she had not committed adultery. [More…]
Will he consider (a) making the payment of a grant of $250 a year to each ex-serviceman or woman who served on Gallipoli in World War I, (b) permitting all World War I personnel to receive free medical treatment in Repatriation hospitals whether their illnesses are due to war injuries or not, and (c) holding an investigation into the exorbitant charges made by undertakers to the relatives of ex-service personnel. [More…]
In order to qualify for a widow’s pension as a deserted wife, a woman must have been deserted by her husband without just cause for at least 6 months. [More…]
A widow’s pension is payable to a woman, as a dependent female, only if she has lived- with a man to whom she is not legally married, on a bona fide and permanent domestic basis for a period of at least 3 years immediately prior to his death. [More…]
Also, if the woman suffered bad health at this point of time and was 80 per cent incapacitated for work she could be granted an invalid pension which would include allowances for the children even though she had been deserted by her de facto husband in the same circumstances as have already occurred. [More…]
I know what would have happened to this woman in any other country. [More…]
What I have just quoted is the extreme view of an honourable member on the Government side who wanted to chop off the head of a woman because she was a spy. [More…]
How can a woman with, say, 2 children find the incentive to go to work if she has to pay $20 a week for the care of her children at a pre-school education centre? [More…]
One should like firstly to deal with the question of the cost-price squeeze, a matter which is affecting every man, woman and child in this country. [More…]
Then, to prove how ridiculous the situation can become, the unfortunate woman became so ill that she was able to qualify for an invalid pension. [More…]
The best way in’’ which to bring this Government to its senses would be for the unions concerned to declare this kind of conduct black- and to state- that no man or woman would work ‘for the Parliament without a specified- time1 for rest. [More…]
So far as the specific point which has been raised by the honourable gentleman is concerned, my understanding is that it is the policy of the Barrier Industrial Council, which has been applied with some few exceptions, that no married woman can work in that town if there is a single woman available for the job. [More…]
I have always taken the view about political assassinations - when people have tried to justify to me Irish gunmen and so on - that it is no more respectable to murder a man because you disagree with his politics than it is to murder an old woman because you want her purse. [More…]
It was not very long ago that every single woman in the Commonwealth Public Service was automatically sacked when she married, so we have advanced. [More…]
The New South Wales Parole Board is under the chairmanship of a Supreme Court judge, and there must be at least one woman on the Board. [More…]
The Labor Party says that a big problem in Australia is the attitude of the people that a woman will find ultimate satisfaction in housekeeping and child rearing. [More…]
Other problems to be overcome are the manufacturers of consumer goods and others who, through their advertisements, build up the myth of the perfect woman, having got her man and become a glamourous mum with 4 healthy kids. [More…]
This to me is a shocking thing when it is realised that a woman who has raised a family cared for a home for many years and is getting on in years, suddenly finds herself in a position of having to look around for some work to augment the family income. [More…]
It is not news to us that for every man, woman and child in Australia 1 in 7 or 13 per cent of our population is receiving a pension of one sort or another. [More…]
The time spent by members in Parliament is time given to the nation’s legislation which affects every man woman and child from Cape York to Hobart, from Sydney to Perth and from Brisbane to Geraldton. [More…]
woman and child in this country. [More…]
The Social Services Act defines a widow as including a dependent female and a ‘dependent female’ means a woman who, for not less than 3 years immediately prior to the death of a man, (in this part referred to .as the man in respect of whom she was a dependent female), was wholly or mainly maintained, .by him and, although not legally married te him, lived with him as his wife on a permanent and bona fide domestic basis. [More…]
The Social Services Act provides that in addition to a woman whose husband has died, a widow’s pension may be granted to: [More…]
a woman whose marriage has been dissolved and who has not remarried; [More…]
a woman whose husband is a mental hospital patient; and [More…]
a woman whose husband is imprisoned and has been imprisoned for a period of not less than 6 months. [More…]
In my electorate we can produce almost enough stockings to put a new pair on every woman in Australia every week. [More…]
I want to address the House tonight on a matter which I consider to be of the utmost importance to every man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]
An aged person - that is, a resident of Australia aged 65 or more, if a. man, and 60 or more, if a woman - will pay no tax for the current year if his or her own taxable income does not exceed $1,326, and may pay reduced tax if the taxable income is more than $1,326 but not more than $2,286. [More…]
Yet under the social service framework instituted by this Government the woman is almost invariably forced to go out to work to keep her family at a time when her responsibilities within the home and her need to be in the home are greater than they ever were before. [More…]
The woman the article concerns, has been in touch with my office on several occasions and I have spoken to her on the phone. [More…]
I made strong representations on behalf of this distressed woman who was losing the eldest child of her family under the National Service Act. [More…]
It is only in the Territories that a man or a woman can receive teacher education in the same way as he or she can have any other form of tertiary education. [More…]
The journalists are referring to an old woman and state: [More…]
The Department of the Interior will grant a loan to a financially eligible woman who is looking after children or providing a home for her aged parents. [More…]
However, it will not give a loan to a single woman or man, although there have been certain exceptions to this rule. [More…]
In practice, banks and other agencies that provide housing finance habitually require a woman, whatever her age or financial circumstances, to have the backing of a guarantor. [More…]
When questioned the lending agency will say that this is because a woman may get married or become pregnant and then will find it difficult to meet her repayments. [More…]
The woman’s denial - and some women have pointed out the biological impossibility of their becoming pregnant - produces no change in the demand for a guarantor. [More…]
It is difficult to estimate the anger and humiliation of a comfortably off independent woman who has to ask her son, brother or some other man to guarantee her loan. [More…]
The operation involved straightening the woman’s nose, certain foundation work, if one can call it that, about the body, certain facial lifts and so on for this woman who was in her late 50s and who had lived with these problems for many years. [More…]
This woman came from a very high income family. [More…]
In the aged group, the majority are females because the life expectancy of a woman is 74 years compared with 68 for a man. [More…]
Nearly one married woman in 3 now works. [More…]
It had a crew of 7 - 6 men and a young woman of 21 years of age or thereabouts. [More…]
I was speaking to the woman running this pre-school and she said it has certainly been of great benefit. [More…]
At the beginning of my remarks on this Bill I drew attention to the exploitation of the average man and woman in Australia who buys on hire purchase. [More…]
When a conifer is butchered at its base it is like cutting the limbs off a beautiful woman, if I may use that terminology. [More…]
A tree is like a beautiful woman. [More…]
For example, the honourable member for Oxley dealt with the question of contraceptives, lt is only an assumption as to what tYPe of contraceptive a woman would use if contraceptives were placed on the pharmaceutical benefits list. [More…]
To use intra-uterine devices the cost would be something of the order of a few cents a year for each woman. [More…]
The woman concerned in this matter returned to hospital after having been discharged following the birth of her baby. [More…]
The doctor concerned signed not only this woman patient but also her baby - not for feeding purposes but because it had some gastric trouble - into the hospital. [More…]
I understand that if a woman has a baby in hospital and then has post-operative visits to the doctor, the fees paid for those visits are not refundable. [More…]
Underwhat circumstances would a woman in these circumstances have an entitlement to a dependent child’s allowance. [More…]
Does a woman in receipt of an invalid pension who bears an illegitimate child have any right to a dependent child’s allowance; if so is there any limit on the numberof illegitimate children for whom she can obtain this allowance. [More…]
After two years’ service in the Regular Army or six years in the CMF or, if invalided out earlier, a man or woman should be entitled to a War Service Home loan. [More…]
The young man and the young woman who start work now at the age of 20 or thereabouts will, by the time they are 35 or 40, be working probably only 30 hours a week. [More…]
But if we are to make the most of those opportunities, and if we are to see that the ordinary people of Australia - the man and woman in the street- get .the benefits of making use of those opportunities, then we must combat the root cause of our troubles today which is inflation. [More…]
One of the saddest things in Australia is that whenever one goes to the country one finds in the local newspapers a report of a farewell party for some teenager or man or woman in his or her early 20s who is leaving for the city, by which is meant the State capital. [More…]
4152), have accepted an obligation to comply with its provisions, including Article 6: ‘While a woman is absent from work on maternity leave in accordance with the provisions of Article 3 of this Convention, it shall not be lawful for her employer to give her notice of dismissal during such absence, or to give her notice of dismissal at such a time that the notice would expire during such absence.’ [More…]
95 - Maternity Protection also adopted in 1952: ‘Among the legitimate reasons for dismissal during the protected period to be defined by law should be included cases of serious fault on the part of the employed woman, shutting down of the undertaking or expiry of the contract of employment. [More…]
For the purpose of the Convention the term woman’ means any female person, irrespective of age, nationality, race on creed, whether married or unmarried, and the term ‘child’ means any child whether born of marriage or not. [More…]
The main provisions of the Convention are that a woman, on the production of a medical certificate stating the presumed date of her confinement, is to be entitled to maternity leave of at least 12 weeks, Including a period of compulsory leave after confinement of not less than 6 weeks, and that during her absence from work on maternity leave she shall be entitled to receive cash and medical benefits. [More…]
The rates of cash benefit are to be sufficient for the full and healthy maintenance of the woman and her child in accordance with a suitable standard of living. [More…]
Where cash benefits provided under compulsory social insurance are based on previous earnings, they are to be at a rate of not less than two-thirds of the woman’s previous earnings taken into account for the purpose of computing benefits. [More…]
Other provisions are that while a woman is absent on maternity leave in accordance with the conditions set out above it shall not be lawful for her employer to give her notice of dismissal during such absence or to give her notice of dismissal at such time that the notice would expire during such absence, that a woman nursing her child is to be entitled to interrupt her work for this purpose at prescribed times and that interruptions of work for the purpose of nursing are to be counted as working hours and are to be remunerated according to the applicable laws, regulations or agreements. [More…]
In addition, cash benefits are available before and after confinement subject to a test on financial resources including, where appropriate, the ability of the woman’s husband to maintain her. [More…]
Should we not have another steel industry to compete against this giant monopoly which markets the basic commodities that we require to enable us to provide a decent standard of living for every man, woman and child who wants to work and who has a right to work? [More…]
I suggest that again the difference is accounted for because in this instance it is difficult for a woman to make the diagnosis herself. [More…]
Mrs Gartland is a constituent of mine and she is a woman whom I hold in the highest esteem. [More…]
It is not wise to make the position of a woman teacher who is pregnant analogous in her leave entitlements to somebody sitting in an office who is pregnant. [More…]
Therefore we believe that the leave conditions for a pregnant woman teacher set out in this legislation are insufficiently generous. [More…]
We believe that a woman teacher should have leave on pay long before the time of confinement and long before the time when her appearance could become embarrassing because the circumstances of teaching are special circumstances. [More…]
We also believe that if there are disabilities for the child or the woman after the birth of the child the leave should be longer than is at present proposed. [More…]
The criticisms of the honourable member for Fremantle seemed to hinge fairly substantially, as I recall them, on the fact that we will have an excessive centralisation of power in the hands of one man or woman who, in fact, will operate this system. [More…]
A divorced woman in the United Kingdom could come to Australia for 12 months, pick up a widow’s pension as an Australian citizen and take it to England, Peru, Brazil or wherever she might like to go and live there for the rest of her life drawing a pension from the Australian taxpayer. [More…]
But if, for example, a divorced woman came here from Yugoslavia she would pick up, under this Bill a pension in 5 years and go away and live on the proceeds for the rest of her life. [More…]
We want to avoid the, problems that have arisen in Britain and the United States in recent times because of strikes which are very damaging not only to the general economy but also to every man, woman and child in the country. [More…]
Because of the very large valuation placed on the property - a valuation that is unreal because it could not be sold for that figure - this woman is precluded from receiving a pension. [More…]
I think it can be readily understood that this woman, having lived on the farm for about 50 years, would not wish to leave it and to set up again especially as she is single. [More…]
I wish only that every man and woman in Australia could read the Minister’s statement because it is a very good one. [More…]
It is a war of a thousand My Lais for which no-one is responsible for there is no Lieutenant Calley pointing his rifle at a woman or a child. [More…]
The intention of this amendment is to liberalise the terms of leave for a pregnant woman beyond the time which seems to be implied in the Bill and to give such a woman leave if there is something wrong with the infant. [More…]
That happens to be the function of the woman in the marriage. [More…]
Contraceptives are provided free by the Welfare Division of the Northern Territory Administration to Aboriginal women where contraceptives are required on medical advice or where a woman wishes to plan her family and would otherwise be unable to do so for economic reasons. [More…]
This woman has to repay $410 to the Department simply because she did not know that she was not entitled to receive the supplementary allowance. [More…]
This woman is a well known and popular identity in my electorate. [More…]
Minister to waive the payment of the money which this woman owes to the Department of Social Services. [More…]
How the hell could it be when one woman has given this organisation 5 months notice and the other constituent to whom I referred gave nearly 7 months notice? [More…]
There may be important issues such as education, hospitals and social services, but the most basic important issue which every man, woman and child who has any concern for Australia has to consider is where do we go in the future? [More…]
The honourable gentleman will recall that when he was Minister for Civil Aviation I asked him a question regarding a woman in England who, whilst occupying a toilet facility, was actually catapulted to the floor by the boom of a supersonic aircraft passing overhead. [More…]
The population of South Australia, including every man, woman and child, is just over one million. [More…]
His grandmother, a very frail woman, has always cared for him. [More…]
When the Minister asked the woman of the house how much rent she was paying and she told him it was $25 he nearly fell through the floor; he did not imagine that any landlord would have the audacity to charge $25 a week for that place. [More…]
It is impossible to read any country newspaper outside the metropolitan areas without reading an account of a farewell party to a young man or woman going to what is often called ‘the city’ - by which is meant the capital city. [More…]
These are just a few which one would hardly describe as advanced democratic nations, yet this reform is an established fact in those countries, lt is a tragic fact that Australia, which once proudly led the world by giving equal, democratic vote to every man and woman, now drags at the heels of some of the much less advanced nations of the world. [More…]
Justice not only needs to be done but needs to be done in such a way that every man, and woman in the community at large understands what is being done. [More…]
In other cases 5 years continuous residence is required but this is waived in the case of a woman whose husband has died overseas if she herself had resided continuously here for 10 years at any time. [More…]
It could be driven by a woman. [More…]
I do not know what can be done in this instance, but I have known of specific cases in which it has been possible to arrange for a woman to receive an extra payment. [More…]
It is inconceivable to me that in this country a woman can pay in rent $40 out of her monthly income of $51, leaving her with$11 a month to survive. [More…]
The woman concerned is Mrs Dorothea Kathleen Wright of 186 Scenic Road, Budgewoi. [More…]
I believe that this matter should be further investigated because this woman has a tremendous task in front of her. [More…]
had His Majesty chosen to select any woman, to whom he was legally entitled to be married, as his Queen, I, for one, would not have hesitated in my loyalty to him. [More…]
We acknowledge that after those services were brought to an end he did enjoy peace and love with the woman for whom he gave up the greatest position in the world of his day. [More…]
This man who held the nation in chaos day in, day out - the man who said: ‘When I am ready we can send the men back’ and forgot completely the inconvenience that was being caused every man, woman and child in the nation - went to the nation on Television. [More…]
Not every woman wishes to go into the work force and to leave her children behind. [More…]
The company promised that it would provide this woman with a home if she would give them her money. [More…]
The woman told me that she withdrew from the Penrith office of the Permanent Building Society 2 sums of money - $500 on 22nd March this year and $1,751 on 27th March this year. [More…]
These 3 withdrawals represented the woman’s entire savings. [More…]
I have been informed that the receipts that this woman received from Trelawney Developments are held at present by Mr Peter Young and Mr Mike Willesee who have been investigating on her behalf this serious complaint. [More…]
This poor woman deserves the protection of a responsible government. [More…]
It means, and can only mean, that every able and willing man and woman can find a job. [More…]
He had nothing to say, one notes, about the typical family woman. [More…]
The typical Australian today is, I profoundly believe, a man or woman who wants to believe that he or she lives in a society which is committed to achieving justice and equity and opportunity for all, not just for himself and his immediate family but for all his fellow citizens, and who believes that he can and does contribute to achieving such a society. [More…]
She is the woman who has been my secretary all the time I have been a member of this Parliament. [More…]
They are not used in the electorate, even when that woman is on holidays, and this despite the fact that there are more persons in my electorate than in any other outside the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
This year the Government will spend $53m in direct aid to 144,000 Aborigines, which amounts to about $370 a head, .man, woman and child. [More…]
The essential point is: What is the true policy of the Australian Labor Party and how will it affect every man, woman and child in this country in the future? [More…]
This statutory declaration gives names, addresses and all the details of the sordid arrangement and the manner in which this poor woman has been defrauded by Trelawney Developments Pty Ltd. [More…]
This document provides names, addresses, the manner in which money was withdrawn from the bank and reveals that the men who posed as the salesmen of this company asked for the money to be paid to them in cash and indicates how they defrauded this most valuable woman in our society - this mother, this widow of a serviceman. [More…]
It may be thought that a woman who was employed as a typist for 10 years and who wants to go back into industry as a stenographer ought to be able to do so quite easily and without very much re-adjustment, but even in clerical work the systems have changed and the machines have changed. [More…]
These little things, if a woman is not aware of them and has not been trained to meet them, will make her appear to be incompetent and unsuitable for employment. [More…]
This financial year the Commonwealth will collect from each man, woman and child in Australia about $59 in sales tax, which is more than $1 each a week. [More…]
In other words, a woman could have 6 children but, under this Budget, the only increase she will receive will be $1.75 a week. [More…]
No woman could be expected to stay at home, where she should be with her added responsibilities of parenthood - I stress the words ‘added responsibilities’ - and bring up her family on that amount. [More…]
I know that some women wish to work, but other women do not; they wish to look after their families and I do not think that it is right or just that a woman should be forced into this situation, particularly when she does not have a partner to share the responsibilities of parenthood. [More…]
The third case I want to refer to is that of a married woman whose husband died about 4 years ago. [More…]
Two of the children have now left school but the woman still has one child at school. [More…]
If you had been a woman I would have considered marrying you, even though your head is full of grey hairs’. [More…]
The other suggestion which has been made by the Australian Labor Party and by the Australian Council of Social Service is that it is too much for any one man or any one woman to conduct as wide ranging an inquiry into social welfare as this country needs. [More…]
But it is legitimate to point out that it is too -much for one man or one woman to carry out an inquiry of the magnitude which is heeded. [More…]
If a woman is deserted in the electorate of Mitchell she has to go a very long distance to appear before a chamber magistrate. [More…]
After all, the day when a woman worked by choice is gone. [More…]
One outstanding example was that of a woman whom he told he could not help further. [More…]
Taxation has been reduced by a record amount for every taxpaying man or woman. [More…]
Job security and peace of mind for the ordinary working man and woman must be shattered. [More…]
This is a Budget for every man, every woman and every child in this nation. [More…]
Even in many cases where the mother has been a woman of ill fame the court still has given custody of the child to the mother. [More…]
We have failed them in not ensur ing that their victories are properly recognised as Australian triumphs by Australian men and woman. [More…]
As one of my colleagues pointed out recently, when the aggregate of the sales tax revenue is divided by the total population of Australia it emerges that every man, woman and child bears a burden of about $60 in sales tax. [More…]
A woman employee appearing on the programme said: [More…]
A woman rang me at 7.30 this morning to say that her son had been convicted about 3 or 4 months ago and she was very angry about the conviction. [More…]
We are living today in a country which has both Houses of its Parliament in session but not a single Minister who is in a position to do so is showing the slightest concern that at this very moment in a New South Wales gaol is a young woman of 22 years of age. [More…]
This afternoon I pleaded with the Minister to let this young woman out of gaol. [More…]
The Minister did not even have the decency to say to me: ‘Look, it is not my Department, but this young woman is somebody’s daughter. [More…]
What could be a greater act of violence than the violence that it reflected in the decision that was made yesterday to arrest this young woman, take her against her will outside the Territory in which she resided into another State, throw her into a prison and keep her there? [More…]
The honourable member for Chisholm (Mr Staley) is laughing about this, lt is obvious that the Attorney-General has not the slightest compassion, nor has he shown the least bit of distress at what is happening tonight to this innocent young woman. [More…]
Is the Government going to allow this young woman who is in gaol because she handed out leaflets advising people not to observe an inoperative law - this person who was put into gaol by a person who had no right to impose a penalty on her - to spend tonight in prison? [More…]
It will be a disgrace and a national scandal if this young woman is allowed to stay in prison tonight, lt is high time that the Government took stock of itself. [More…]
Just where do the rights of man end or begin, if this is the way you are going to treat this young woman? [More…]
I say to the Government: If it can act as quickly as it acted last night to correct the defect in the law which made it an offence to have an embassy on the lawns opposite, to get the printing presses going after midnight and to get police storming the countryside in the early hours of the morning, then why in the name of God can it not act with the same alacrity to ensure that this young woman is not kept in gaol tonight against her will? [More…]
According to what he has told my colleague the honourable member for Prospect, if this woman likes to get a counsel she could get out of gaol. [More…]
The rights of the individual are tremendously important to every man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]
During the initial period of 6 months such a woman may be assisted by the State Government if she has one or more children and is suffering hardship. [More…]
I have previously referred to a case in which a young woman, Barbara Joyce Russell, was convicted on 11th September - last Monday - in the Canberra Court of Petty Sessions for distributing a leaflet. [More…]
In the meantime, the woman concerned had been transferred to Silverwater Prison in Sydney and was to be held there for 20 days. [More…]
On Monday of this week a woman came to see me. [More…]
The woman who came to see me on Monday is a deserted wife. [More…]
She is a delightful woman. [More…]
She is a woman of, I suppose, 47 or 48 years. [More…]
Apparently why this woman has had her pension reduced is that the husband, who deserted her, left about a year after the first child was born, and the second child is the product of another relationshipcasual or otherwise, I do not know - and certainly not of the father of the first child, who deserted her. [More…]
So because this woman has a second child born outside wedlock, or however the Department likes to describe it, she is now being told that her pension will be reduced from $57.50 to $36. [More…]
Surely this woman, who already has a family, who is a mother, a housewife and a deserted wife to boot, should not be penalised in such a way on the basis that the child was not of the legal marriage. [More…]
If this shows that a woman who finds herself pregnant is less prepared to enter a shotgun arrangement with a man with whom she has had a clandestine or brief affair, and if she says that she is not going to ruin her life, and the baby’s life and that man’s life, and that she will have the baby as a single person instead, I would not say that this is the sort of thing we should rapidly condemn without some thought. [More…]
I will not mention the name of the woman to whom I have referred, although she has given me permission to do so. [More…]
I would rather not for the sake of the child and the sake of the woman. [More…]
Also there is the exservice woman who applies for a service pen. [More…]
To take this point a little further, a civilian woman is entitled to an age pension at 60 but she is not entitled to a free of means test age pension until she is 65. [More…]
Service pensions are available to cxservicemen and ex-service women if they have suffered from tuberculosis or have served in a theatre of war and are 60 years of age, if a man, and 55 years of age, if a woman, or are permanently unemployable. [More…]
There is a rather filthy cartoon in this little yellow book I referred to earlier which shows a woman lying on a bed. [More…]
The whole idea of imposing taxation on an estate left by a man or woman does not seem to have any real justification. [More…]
The honourable member for Riverina mentioned the poor woman who was left a few hundred Poseidon shares when they had a market value of $250 each. [More…]
I think a lot of the criticism of the migration programme has come about because the suburban man or woman has looked over the fence and said: ‘We have too many people here. [More…]
He proceeded to set out in detail why he should not tell this woman what the needs are and what the criteria are because if she wrote away and asked for the little booklet saying what the standards are she would know the standards and the criteria. [More…]
I remind the House that many people who fall into the age or invalidity categories I have mentioned, that is, where the man is over 65 or the woman is over 60, will immediately become entitled to a pension even though the husband may still be employed in his normal job. [More…]
A parliamentary counsel - a woman - skilled in company law legislation was brought to the Federal Parliament from Victoria to help speed up the legislation.. [More…]
One case came to my notice from a woman that I know very well. [More…]
The other one is from a woman I have never met. [More…]
One woman wrote: Dear Mr Cohen, [More…]
The woman who wrote it is particularly well known to me and I admire her immensely. [More…]
The woman who wrote the second letter had to pay double the money for a very modest home - $8,000 capital and $8,000 in interest. [More…]
It is absurd that this woman should have to live from hand to mouth and find money, perhaps only for a few months - 3, 4 or 6 months at the most - or have to sell her home because of the inability to find this very heavy payment. [More…]
I know of at least one case where a woman received a very substantial telephone bill which the Department eventually admitted was incorrect, when she was not in occupancy of the house. [More…]
Not long ago I received a letter from a woman who said that she had had difficulty with a girl who had come into her home and asked to use the tele phone. [More…]
This woman believed that the girl was making a local call. [More…]
The woman was not blaming the Post Office for that situation, but it is an indication of the sort of thing that can happen. [More…]
A further serious anomaly which came to my attention recently concerns the plight of the deserted woman who has been living in a de facto relationship. [More…]
The particular case I raise is that of a woman who had children by a previous marriage and then further children in a de facto relationship. [More…]
His wife is a very seriously ill woman. [More…]
We accept that if a man is injured and incapacitated or if a woman is injured and incapacitated that person should be adequately and properly compensated for the loss and should not have to depend upon a lottery-like system like being able to bring themselves within the category of workers’ compensation, inadequate as it is, or the negligence category lottery-like as it is. [More…]
the following definition: - “widow” in relation to a deceased employee includes a woman who, although not legally married to the employee, lived with him at the time of his death on a bona fide domestic basis and, in relation to a deceased aboriginal native of Australia or of a Territory of the Commonwealth not forming part of the Commonwealth, includes a person who was recognized as the wife of that aboriginal native by the custom prevailing in the tribe or group of aboriginal natives of Australia or of such a Territory to which that aboriginal native belonged. [More…]
Nobody will convince me that the woman seconded by this Parliament did not go through the ramifications of the Bill with representatives of either the Treasurer or the insurance industry. [More…]
The other case I mentioned in my question was that of a woman who had a 2 year old baby and was 8 months pregnant when she came to my office a fortnight ago and begged for something to be done. [More…]
But New South Wales in particular stands adamantly opposed to helping this type of woman. [More…]
This woman received a consent order No. [More…]
The Government’s view is that the special or total and permanent incapacity rate payable to a man or woman who has been classified as totally and permanently incapacitated because of war related incapacity should not be less than the adult Commonwealth minimum wage. [More…]
I support the view that the special or TPI rate payable to a man or woman who has been classified as totally and permanently incapacitated because of war related incapacity should not be less than the adult Commonwealth minimum wage. [More…]
The Government recognises that a man or woman who served Australia and has been permanently incapacitated because of such service should not receive less than the Commonwealth adult minimum wage. [More…]
Eventually he set up a relationship with a woman and lived with her for 23 years. [More…]
The woman had to make separate application to the Queensland Department of Children’s Services to receive money for the child. [More…]
This benefit may be received, for example, by a woman caring for her husband, a husband caring for his wife, or a daughter and a son caring for sick and aged parents. [More…]
Perhaps I might add, for those who see the changes with regret or sadness, that nothing in the legal change removes a young man or woman from the influence and guidance of parents, if it is capable of being exercised through the relations of trust and reliance that have already been built. [More…]
When 1 first came into the Parliament there was a woman member of the Australian Labor Party in the Senate. [More…]
During the period I have served here there have been a woman in the Ministry and a woman member of the House of Representatives, both from the Liberal. [More…]
The key difficulty, of course, is the problem that a woman has of being a mother and looking after a home, on the one hand, and working on the other. [More…]
A woman should be able to spend at least half the day at home. [More…]
I intended to say - after having said earlier that one of the key difficulties that a woman has is being a mother and looking after a home, on the one hand - that this is where the aspect of abolition of sales tax on contraceptives comes in. [More…]
The fact that a woman tends to leave her work, marry, stay away and return to it does not make natural progress through the ranks of an organisation very easy, but I think that the lack of progress is due in part to the reluctance to give a woman responsibility or a particular job just because she is a woman. [More…]
Its removal in no way advances the very basic and serious question of a woman’s role and her rights which must be pursued, and pursued as a matter of urgency. [More…]
Later my wife inquired whether the woman had actually taken the oral contraceptives. [More…]
The main reason for removing the sales tax is not its effect on population but the right of the individual woman to choose what her own personal contribution to that population will be, and not have her choice thwarted by any Government. [More…]
The fourth example of what I regard as this Government’s double standards concerns the comparison between a woman who takes the contraceptive pill to prevent conception and the woman who undertakes treatment to promote fertility or to prevent a threatened miscarriage or who seeks that sort of treatment. [More…]
Honourable members will find that the position is that the woman who wishes to prevent conception is at a financial advantage against those who desire to protect the life of the foetus or to promote fertility. [More…]
Changes in the chemistry of a woman taking the pill make her more receptive to the disease. [More…]
A woman’s chance of catching VD if she is not taking the pill is reduced by about 40 per cent. [More…]
They now argue - to some extent one can support this sort of argument - that we might change the legislation dealing with abortion on the basis that a woman is entitled to say whether she wants to have babies. [More…]
I think it is purely a personal matter for a woman to decide whether she is to have a child. [More…]
I think it is almost impossible to advance any reasonable argument in Australia to support the contention that a woman who has more than 2 children is harming this country. [More…]
In any case, even if families with more than 2 children were harming this country I think that a woman is perfectly entitled to weigh the pluses and minuses and to come to her own decision. [More…]
I do not know of any Australian government which regards a married woman who may have training as a teacher but who will not regard herself as under an obligation to go and move anywhere, as somebody whom the government has an obligation to employ other than casually. [More…]
In one class, young children were so riveted by a lesson being given in their language by an Aboriginal woman teacher that they paid no attention to the invasion of their classroom by more than a dozen adult Europeans. [More…]
Very often the mother or a woman in the natural situation is absolutely capable of doing this. [More…]
I hope that Kormilda and the other centres with which the Minister is so familar would turn their attention more to turning out, quickly, Aboriginal teachers, particularly Aboriginal woman teachers, who could be used in the pre-school, infant and sub-primary grades. [More…]
The honourable member for Cook (Mr Thorburn) mentioned to me a short while ago the case of a woman who returned from the United States of America only a week ago after having spent 5 years there. [More…]
In Sydney there is the Archibald Fountain which has not merely one but, to my memory, 3 naked male figures for everybody in the park - man, woman and child - to see. [More…]
a - woman in Parliament says something of that kind, that person should be given the opportunity to explain the context in which, the statement was made. [More…]
It is absolutely fair, of course, that a person who has contributed by taxation or in other ways to the Australian revenue throughout his working life, or by his working life has contributed to the Australian economy, whether by actually working himself, or in the case of a woman by helping to raise a family or in other domestic work - if they have actually been contributing throughout their 20 years of working life after the age of 16 years - it is fair and reasonable for them to take their pensions overseas. [More…]
An Australian woman who marries a Greek national thereby automatically acquires Hellenic citizenship unless she files a declaration to the contrary. [More…]
Surely then these people who were under no obligation to go to war are entitled to the same rights and privileges as the returned serviceman or service woman. [More…]
After discharge, the exserviceman or woman will not be faced with the task of financing a home at a much greater cost and over a shorter period, but will have a home which in quality and attractiveness could not be better. [More…]
Very little thought has been given to the practical application of this measure as an inducement to a man or woman to join the Services, lt could be very deceptive. [More…]
But I will say that I know of a woman who is not only a war widow but who also served and who is ineligible simply because she paid out an amount of money while waiting for bridging finance- 1 notice that the Minister nodded his head. [More…]
The day before this decision was given a young woman, Barbara Russell, was convicted of handing out leaflets urging people not to register for national service. [More…]
At the same time, the Government is concerned to ensure that the ordinary man or woman who may be a user of welfare services, or dependent on pensions or other income support programmes, would also have a voice in the development of welfare policy. [More…]
Surely it is natural that a young child or a woman would wish to keep this matter secret. [More…]
It would indeed be a strange society which would allow no compensation to a man or woman injured by deliberate, calculated, conduct, and yet in the end this is what the Minister’s Bill would do. [More…]
The honourable gentleman is so mean that he would stand outside the office of the RegistrarGeneral for births and deaths on a wet winter’s night merely to check up on the age of a woman. [More…]
woman or child - being deprived of a right of relief in the civil courts of- this land. [More…]
If a married woman earned less than $1040 per annum she would pay no contributions, and would pay at a reduced rate up to $1148 per annum. [More…]
During the election campaign I made various statements - that I believed this was a matter of conscience; It was a matter primarily for the woman and her doctor; it was primarily a matter of choice. [More…]
Subject to this Act, it shall be lawful for a person to terminate the pregnancy of a woman who is not more than twelve weeks pregnant provided that the person- [More…]
has reasonablec ause to believe and does, in fact, believe that the woman has been adequately and carefully advised concerning procedures alternative to termination open to her and concerning any institution or person of a public or private character including government departments and social agencies which may be willing to offer the woman, and if she bears a child, the woman and her child, financial and other assistance; [More…]
acts at the request of the woman; and [More…]
lt is quite evident from the wording of that Act that the intention was to preserve the life of the woman involved in an abortion. [More…]
Unfortunately the situation in practice means that those women who are well informed about the necessary procedures and/ or have sufficient money are more likely to be able to obtain a termination of pregnancy than a woman less well informed and/ or who does not have sufficient funds. [More…]
Whosoever, being a woman with child, unlawfully administers to herself any drug or noxious thing; or unlawfully uses any instrument or other means, with intent in any such case to procure her miscarriage, shall be liable to penal servitude for 10 years. [More…]
Whosoever unlawfully administers to, or causes to be taken by, any woman, whether with child or not, any drug or noxious thing; or unlawfully uses any instrument or other means, with intent in any such case to procure her miscarriage, shall be liable to penal servitude for 10 years. [More…]
In a 4 to 3 decision the Court held the statute unconstitutional on 2 principal grounds: Firstly, that the phrase ‘Necessary to preserve life’ was so vague as to be violative of the due process requirements for a criminal law, and, secondly, that the law was in violation of a woman’s fundamental rights to life and to choose whether to bear children. [More…]
It is a long decision but basically, by a majority of 7 to 2 the Supreme Court laid down that in the first 3 months of pregnancy the decision whether or not to abort is a matter between the woman and her doctor and the state cannot interfere with their judg ments on the matter. [More…]
When the foetus becomes ‘viable’, that is when it could exist outside the woman, that state has an interest in protecting the unborn child and ‘may go so far as to prohibit abortion during that period, except when it is necessary to preserve the life or health of the mother’. [More…]
It is interesting to note that these figures from Britain show an improvement in the position despite the fact that if a woman applies to an unsympathetic doctor she may well find that she cannot obtain an abortion under the national health service and subsequently is forced to go outside the law. [More…]
Any Act which does not give the woman concerned a reasonable amount of choice during the early stages of pregnancy is doomed to failure. [More…]
Statistics show that much greater psychological damage is done to the woman who is forced to have her baby adopted than is the case with an abortion. [More…]
I believe that a woman has the right to choose. [More…]
In response to a survey of over 2,000 women conducted in Sydney and Melbourne by the Women’s Electoral Lobby, an overwhelming number of women answered in the affirmative the question: Do you believe a woman has a right to an abortion if she wants one? [More…]
I am strongly of the opinion that the state has no right to compel a woman to accept that risk. [More…]
I believe that no one, least of all any member of this House, can ever really understand how a woman feels in this situation. [More…]
It is said that any woman who wants an abortion can obtain one under the present law. [More…]
The only conclusion that can be drawn is that the great majority of people consider abortion is a matter between a woman and her doctor, and that the law has a limited place in the matter. [More…]
Consider the hypocrisy of a society that expects a woman to bear children against her will and then does little to support those children if in need or even suggests adoption so that other women can be happy at her expense. [More…]
Currently a woman can have no ultimate choice on this matter unless she breaks the law. [More…]
Because abortions are more likely to be carried out earlier in the pregnancy there are less mental and physical complications for the woman and backyard abortions have almost ceased to exist. [More…]
The Bill is unique in that it provides that following termination of pregnancy it shall be incumbent upon the doctor to advise the woman of the use and availability of contraception appropriate for her. [More…]
Not every woman or man can use contraceptives due to aesthetic, religious or physical reasons. [More…]
It should be a moral-medical one, that is, a matter between a woman and her doctor. [More…]
For the next 12 weeks or so conditions may be imposed to protect the woman, and after this abortion may be forbidden except to save the life of the woman. [More…]
Our Bill is guided by these rules and the common law as they relate to the protection of the life of the woman and to the developing rights of the foetus as the gestion progresses. [More…]
It provides a unique advice clause that ensures that every woman who requests an abortion is made fully aware of all the private and government family support programs available to her during and after her pregnancy, and of adoption facilities. [More…]
This procedure will allow a woman a meaningful choice and help to ensure that abortion is truly a last resort. [More…]
It will place the responsibility on the government to provide all clinical, medical and social and financial assistance possible to the woman so that she may bear her child whether that pregnancy was planned or not. [More…]
The Bill ls an attempt to rationalise the law on abortion, eliminate the back-yard abortionist, reduce the number of abortions and recognise that an abortion is, first and foremost, a matter between a woman and her doctor. [More…]
lt should be stressed that a royal commission into abortion - this is my opinion; of course, every member will take his own view in relation to this question - is not justified when there is ample international evidence to reveal the full extent of its harmful effects - of the toll on the woman’s health, especially on the health of young women, as the College of Obstetricians’ report evidenced in detail to the Lane Committee; of the psychological damage done to abortees; of the disruption to hospital facilities and services; and most importantly of the steady erosion of civil liberties involved in destroying the life of the unborn. [More…]
There is the myth that it is a woman’s right to have an abortion in order to control her fertility. [More…]
It is a woman’s right to control her fertility, but once she becomes pregnant it is my personal view there is a new human being with an equal legal right to life. [More…]
The notion that a woman has a private, right to abortion, asserted here today, cannot be legitimately advanced. [More…]
There is one myth which has had serious consequences for the woman who is aborted and suffers harmful complications. [More…]
When evaluated with the risk of subsequent pregnancies, and with the incidence of incapacity for a woman to have a child or retain a pregnancy, the complication rate rose to between 30 per cent and 40 per cent. [More…]
Abortion is a totally inadequate solution to a pregnant woman’s economic and social needs. [More…]
It is a short term view of the surface symptoms of a woman’s problems. [More…]
It leaves the aborted woman to pay the price, sometimes with physical and psychological illhealth and, at the same time, fails to resolve her basic problems. [More…]
Nor is there anything in the Bill which makes a difference to the factor of poverty or the factor of wealth in a woman being able to pay for an abortion. [More…]
It is enough that the woman wants it destroyed. [More…]
In March 1970 Hawaii became the first State of the United States to legislate that abortion should be a personal matter to be decided between a woman and her physician. [More…]
I think the main point put forward to support the concept of abortion on demand or on request is that the matter is entirely private between a woman and her doctor. [More…]
On the face of it, this seems a reasonable thing to say, and it would be reasonable if the matter did concern only the woman and her doctor; but it does not. [More…]
This point of view is put forward again on the ground that the matter is a private one between the woman and her doctor. [More…]
Others will argue that if there is a fundamental right is belongs to the woman. [More…]
However the flexibility of the present legal system in Canberra would permit a gynaecologist, after consideration of these and other factors, and after proper consultation, to terminate pregnancy when he considered it to be in the best interests of a woman and her potential child. [More…]
to be not an expression of the liberation of a woman but an affront to her womanhood and a denial of her rights if it is suggested that all responsibility for avoiding or terminating an unwanted pregnancy should rest with that woman alone. [More…]
It may be that a time will come when the mores of the community are such that it would be regarded as an antisocial act for a woman to seek an abortion unless for due and proper reason. [More…]
For example, a thoroughly healthy woman with a small family and more or less unlimited financial resources would not dream of seeking an abortion simply because she would prefer to have, say, a Mercedes car. [More…]
Here we are, a Parliament of all men; there is not a single woman in this chamber. [More…]
The woman may be married or unmarried, but she keeps the child. [More…]
Are we going to legislate without paying regard to the experience that the British people have had over four or five years and to the review by a woman of that kind regarding the operations of that Act? [More…]
On the other extreme there are the people who say that a woman has an absolute right to have pregnancy terminated, even for the most transitory reason of selfish personal convenience. [More…]
A woman who is educated, who can gain access to good advice through a sympathetic doctor, coupled with financial means, who can shop around for the right doctor can have an abortion or, if you like, terminate her pregnancy or procure a miscarriage. [More…]
The poor woman who is not so well informed and who does not have the money, cannot do any of these things and worries herself sick as does the man who is involved with her, and her parents and her family. [More…]
If a responsible woman, accepting that we live in a pluralist society, wants to have a pregnancy terminated at an early stage why on earth should she not have it done? [More…]
A woman can complain of a few headaches and things like that and if she has a sympathetic psychiatrist the abortion can be done with assistance and sympathy. [More…]
Is that not a reminder of what the honourable member for Bradfield said, that we sit here as men making decisions for women when there is not a woman amongst us? [More…]
Subject to this Act it shall be lawful for a medical practitioner to terminate the pregnancy of a woman provided that - [More…]
(a) the person acts at the request of the woman; [[More…]](https://historichansard.net/hofreps/1973/19730510_reps_28_hor83/#subdebate-21-0)
(b) the person is of the opinion that the continuance of the pregnancy would Involve greater risk to the life of the woman, or injury to the physical or mental health of the woman than if the pregnancy were terminated; [[More…]](https://historichansard.net/hofreps/1973/19730510_reps_28_hor83/#subdebate-21-0)
(3) However if the medical practitioner's refusal is on the basis of conscientious objection, he shall notify the woman of this at the time of his refusal.' [[More…]](https://historichansard.net/hofreps/1973/19730510_reps_28_hor83/#subdebate-21-0)
that an unmarried pregnant woman would be advised as to what help was available to her. [More…]
Judge Gray in this judgment relied on the fact that the police surgeon when cross-examined admitted that it would be difficult not to justify a therapeutic abortion if a patient was in a state of depression, contemplating suicide and determined not to go through with the pregnancy.On this evidence the woman in question could have had a lawful abortion. [More…]
The suggestion is that a woman can have an abortion and that is the end of it and no ill effects follow it. [More…]
No change in the law is necessary to enable a woman who has a justifiable case for abortion to have that abortion performed lawfully. [More…]
The person whom this Bill will affect most, the woman, has almost no say in deciding what control she has over her body. [More…]
I would say only this in reply to K. Shaw of Carlton: There is someone whom this Bill concerns and will affect far more than the woman, and that is the child who will have his or her life denied under the provisions of the Bill. [More…]
Many of us would like to marry 12 pretty girls but most of us can handle only one woman. [More…]
(a) To a woman who buys monthly, the cost of a month’s supply of oral contraceptives is one dollar, where the prescription was written after 1st February, 1973. [More…]
To a woman who buys every two-months, the cost of a month’s supply of oral contraceptives is either: [More…]
I now want to refer to a woman who was receptionist and trained nurse at the Heatherbrae Clinic at Bondi for some years, working for 2 qualified medical practitioners who were carrying out a large scale abortion racket. [More…]
Even though, as a liberal, one could get oneself to the view that a woman has every right to do with her body as she pleases - that could be a liberal view - once one overcomes, if one can, the hurdle that a foetus has a right to life, I was finally persuaded by a report by Dr and Mrs Wynn who had some evidence that once a woman had had 3 or 4 abortions and then decided to have a child the chances of that child suffering some serious pre-natal or perinatal handicap were increased considerably. [More…]
The Parliament will be glad, of course, to recall that my Government recently appointed Justice Evatt, a most outstanding woman in the. [More…]
It was not an empty meaningless gesture to women but a recognition .aid acknowledgement of the tremendous capabilities and competence of a woman. [More…]
The supporting mother’s benefit will be portable on the same basis as widow’s pension, that is, a woman receiving supporting mother’s benefit may continue to receive this benefit outside Australia so long as she remains a supporting mother. [More…]
We know something of the factors governing demand but the best description of future market behaviour is that as fashion is one of the major parameters, the future demand may ultimately be given by the whims of the weather and the woman’s mind. [More…]
1 would like to bring to the attention of the Minister the specific possibility of a young woman eligible for the benefit under the terms of this legislation who comes to Australia, perhaps even under assisted passage provisions, acquiring the right through the portability provision to this benefit and then leaving Australia. [More…]
This woman, assuming she did not marry again or take up some de facto relationship - and incidentally I will ask the Minister how he proposes to guard against the latter possibility occurring overseas without his knowledge - would be entitled to a lifetime income even though she was not then living in Australia. [More…]
These days a young married woman usually works until she has her first child. [More…]
Where, within three months after the commencement of this Act, a woman lodges a claim for a benefit under Part IVaaa of the Principal Act as amended by this Act, the benefit, if granted, is to be paid from - [More…]
in the case of a woman who was a supporting mother on the date of commencement of this Act - that date; or [More…]
in any other case - the first widow’s pension pay-day after that date on which the woman was a supporting mother. [More…]
I have had a third case, again only in recent weeks and following the same line, of a woman dragged into a scheme while looking for work following a nervous breakdown during which time she was on an invalid pension for over 6 months. [More…]
The saving can be done either by a man or a woman. [More…]
It is important that we take steps to ensure that the standard of living of a man with children compares favourably, or at least not intolerably badly, with that of a single man or a single woman. [More…]
But any woman could be affected. [More…]
One can imagine the situation of a man marrying a woman who was already pregnant to some other man. [More…]
An Aboriginal woman who attended the meeting said: [More…]
Another Aboriginal woman pointed out: [More…]
This woman appealed to an educator for a lift, but the educator got into her car and drove away. [More…]
The woman hitchhiked to Bairnsdale in heavy rain, was admitted to hospital and died there 3 days later from pleurisy. [More…]
We should remember that as long ago as 1968-69 expenditure on food was $272 per head or in excess of $5 per week per man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]
It is a great thing to create in the Commonwealth Public Service an elite but it may be important to ensure, for ez ample, that the 12 weeks maternity leave for the young woman graduate in the Public Service does not prejudice the very job of the low income woman factory worker in Redfern because of the inability of her employer to match this benefit, among other measures. [More…]
For the purpose of this Convention, the term woman’ means any female person, irrespective of age, nationality, race or creed, whether married or unmarried, and the term ‘child’ means any child whether born of marriage or not. [More…]
A woman to whom this Convention applies shall, on the production of a medical certificate stating the presumed date of her confinement, be entitled to a period of maternity leave. [More…]
In case of illness medically certified arising out of confinement, the woman shall be entitled to an extension of the leave after confinement, the maximum duration of which may be fixed by the competent authority. [More…]
While absent from work on maternity leave in accordance with the provisions of Article 3, the woman shall be entitled to receive cash and medical benefits. [More…]
Where cash benefits provided under compulsory social insurance are based on previous earnings, they shall be at a rate of not less than two-thirds of the woman’s previous earnings taken into account for the purpose of computing benefits. [More…]
If a woman is nursing her child she shall be entitled to interrupt her work for this purpose at a time or times to be prescribed by, national laws or regulations. [More…]
While a woman is absent from work on maternity leave in accordance with the provisions of Article 3 of this convention, it shall not be lawful for her employer to give her notice of dismissal during such absence, or to give her notice of dismissal at such a time that the notice would expire during such absence. [More…]
The Convention provides for a woman to interrupt her work after the termination of her maternity leave for the purpose of nursing her child. [More…]
That is, during the period when a woman has a young family it may be possible for employment to be provided on the basis of a 2 or 3-day working week. [More…]
The Opposition believes that society has a direct responsibility to ensure that the dual role of the working woman who becomes pregnant does not affect her health or that of her child. [More…]
In the same manner as the Bill discriminates against the non-working woman it discriminates between the high wage earner and the low wage earner by gearing maternity leave to normal pay. [More…]
Twelve weeks’ leave on good pay for the well-paid woman, on low pay for the low-paid woman and on no pay for the unpaid woman worker might not be a palatable proposition to women generally. [More…]
In the terms of the Government’s social services program, the needs of the pregnant woman regrettably are going very much by default. [More…]
In addition, it made provision for any pregnant woman without another source of income to be eligible for a ‘special benefit’. [More…]
At the present time in the Commonwealth Public Service a pregnant woman is entitled to a maximum of 26 weeks maternity leave and she must take 6 weeks leave before the expected date of confinement and 6 weeks leave after the date of confinement. [More…]
I also consider that a much more equitable method of providing maternity allowance would be to make that allowance at the same rate to all women who are in need of it rather than at a rate determined by the actual rate of pay received by the woman involved. [More…]
The provisions in the Bill would obviously favour a woman receiving a higher rate of pay by comparison with a woman on a lower rate of pay. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, I am privileged that you are sitting in the chair at the moment because I know you had a very difficult task, probably one of the most difficult tasks, on King Island and that was to minister to the population which at that time consumed 5.5 pints of beer per week for each man, woman and child. [More…]
A woman had to take her S children to Bairnsdale to be immunised. [More…]
The allocation amounts to about 50c for every man, woman and child in Australia, compared with $3.24 a head in Holland, $2.40 in France, and $2.3 1 in West Germany. [More…]
We have all rejoiced many times in the past when an Australian sportsman or woman scored some brilliant win in top international company. [More…]
Anyone in the office can see how many times a person has been in a mental hospital, how many times a woman has had an abortion, how many times a person has had veneral disease and so on. [More…]
After all, in one city in America, by using a computer in its social welfare agency it was found that a woman who had been receiving social security payments for 15 years had never had a medical examination. [More…]
Does he accept these things and does he therefore agree that a tremendous burden is falling upon the ordinary man and woman in this community as a result of the Government’s policy announced last Sunday? [More…]
The present effects of inflation upon the people are not so dramatic, not so publicly evident, as the sight of a man or woman on the dole but they are no less insidious and no less damaging to the individual and the nation. [More…]
It is an ominous one for the private sector, for businessmen big and small, from the major corporations to the self-employed man or woman. [More…]
What the libertine proponents of abortion on demand may refuse to regard as an important side issue is: how far should abortion be a matter of serious concern to people other than the woman herself, and how are the lives of her parents, husband or future husband and past or future children affected? [More…]
Firm evidence can be produced that abortion frequently reduces a woman’s future reproductive capability and subsequent children come at a. higher risk. [More…]
We all have been around long enough to realise that it is possible to select your man or woman according to the end result you want to achieve. [More…]
But it is not fair to leave such enormous responsibility to only one man or woman whose personal bias, one way or another, may influence his or her decisions. [More…]
In other words, what are the medical and what are the psychological effects on a woman who has had an abortion? [More…]
I would have thought that the opponents of abortion who demand that if a woman is pregnant she has that child have a great responsibility to ensure that once that unwanted child is born the utmost in adoptive facilities and counselling facilities should be provided to help that mother have that child adopted. [More…]
If honourable members look at the statistics on how many charges are laid and convictions obtained they will see that there has been none in the last 12 months in New South Wales because there is a complete let-out - and it is a valid one - if the person performing the abortion is a medical practitioner and the abortion is done in the interests of the woman’s health. [More…]
What I would like to see is an inquiry into the circumstances which cause an abortion; the consequences of it; the action required to assist women in avoiding it; the action required to deter people from aiding and abetting it; the adequacy and effectiveness of family planning techniques; the action required to ensure that medical practitioners always act in the interests of the woman’s health; the action required to ensure that all services are available free of cost; the action required to establish the necessary supportive services; and, generally, the action required to ensure the preservation of the lives of the mother and her unborn child. [More…]
Pregnancy is not a crime and no woman should be cast aside because she is pregnant, irrespective of her marital state. [More…]
At present, a working woman confronted with pregnancy is often placed in the position where she stands to lose considerable sums of money by way of lost long service leave payments simply because she fails to qualify by a few months. [More…]
The medical and social consequences of abortion including the health, security, well being and future enjoyment of life by the woman concerned; [More…]
The adequacy and effectiveness of existing family planning techniques; (0 The action required to ensure medical practitioners will always act in the interest of safeguarding a woman’s health and well being when abortion is sought. [More…]
If we are going to say, perhaps years later, This man or woman should be hanged for a crime that occurred many years ago’, again I suggest that we would be in trouble. [More…]
Why should a woman of say, 58 years of age get about $3 a week less than she would have got when she turned 60 years of age? [More…]
The Opposition can take its own gallup poll - it is pretty keen to take them for the matters which suit it - and ask the woman who comes out of a shop what she thinks about the prices system. [More…]
We members of the Country Party are concerned with every man, woman and child living in this country. [More…]
I do not see that by the arbitrary laying down of a law which says that sovereignty must be exercised by the Australian Parliament we will necessarily be providing that protection for the average man and woman of his heritage - that heritage being the wealth beneath the sea. [More…]
The Australian people will not accept irresponsible strikes initiated by a communist in a sneaky way, a strike caused by an internecine union jealousy, a jealousy which would not allow a woman to be given a position of responsibility. [More…]
Every man and woman wants security for himself or herself and family, and want and expect a reasonable share of the affluence that Australia can offer. [More…]
The unfortunate history of the Hill End hostel shows that, after the public meeting I referred to earlier, a woman had been threatened that if she ever came into South Brisbane she should watch out. [More…]
If it were not for the Meals on Wheels organisation doing more than it had to do and other voluntary community organisations who helped that particular woman then she would have found it very difficult to manage. [More…]
The Commonwealth has acted against the interests of every family and of every man, woman and child in the State of New South Wales and in Australia. [More…]
That woman cannot find an institution - a bed - to take the pressure off heT family, not even so that she can take a 2weeks holiday after a year of strain. [More…]
It has been defined as a man, a woman purporting to be his wife, 1.27 children, plus 2 social workers. [More…]
If a woman wants to work, that is her business and her privilege. [More…]
The Labor Government is determined to make a permanent commitment to the education of every Australian child and every Australian young man and young woman. [More…]
We are spending $1,000 for every man, woman and child in the Aboriginal population. [More…]
I believe it is completely distasteful to the average man and woman in this country who I think would prefer to have nothing to do with it. [More…]
I cannot understand any decent man or woman opening the door wider to these kinds of things. [More…]
It was stated in the court that Armstrong had played a part in obtaining evidence of collusion by a woman who had admitted committing adultery with MajorGeneral Eskell, a leading Liberal. [More…]
Recently during a strike in mental homes in Queensland - I spoke about this previously in this House - I drew the attention of Australia to the sinister attitude of unions which, on a very narrow demarcation issue and because of jealousy among the men because a woman was granted a position of authority, saw fit to place in jeopardy the very existence of many people who unfortunately had been committed to these homes. [More…]
There appears to be no reason why a young man or woman trained at a school or technical college for one or two years to acquire skills in a particular vocation cannot be as fully competent as a tradesman, technician or clerk after one year of job experience as would be an accountant after one year of job experience following the completion of his academic course. [More…]
He abused every privilege that he had, including using an employee of the divisional returning officer for Lilley - a poor unfortunate woman whom he got hold of and on whom he used his vicious influence to get her to send out propaganda for him and to send out together with the ballot papers for the postal vote applicant a how-to-vote card for Kevin Cairns, the Liberal candidate for Lilley. [More…]
He left it to the poor unfortunate woman who worked in the electoral office to bear the responsibility for actions taken on his behalf and on behalf of his organisation. [More…]
Not very long ago it was fairly uncommon for a woman to leave her husband and abandon him with the children. [More…]
The woman has a problem in earning an income while she looks after the house and the children. [More…]
A woman, if she has one dependent child, can work and earn up to $26 a week before the benefit of $32 a week is reduced. [More…]
The single male parent usually has a greater earning capacity than has the woman so the general benefit level cannot be applicable. [More…]
A woman in the same position without any other means besides income who is deserted, would attract a pension benefit of $45.45. [More…]
But I think that the honourable member for Chisholm, in fairness, must agree that the Australian Labor Party has led the field in eliminating areas of inequality between man and woman in our country and in following the principles of the International Labour Organisation. [More…]
Margaret, a former officer of my Department, is an enthusiastic and intelligent young woman with a sound understanding of people and their problems. [More…]
They know that if a man or a woman comes into this Parliament and is subject to character assassination, that person does not have the courage and the freedom at all times to pursue the issues that he or she feels ought to be pursued in the way that they ought to be pursued. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that barriers against the permanent appointment of women to the Third Division were removed in 1949, and restrictions against the permanent appointment of married woman to the service were removed in 1966. [More…]
If we add on to the amount to be spent by the Commonwealth the amount which the States are spending the total expenditure is probably nearly $1,000 per year per head for every Aboriginal man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]
I remember the nursing sister saying to me one day that she could be treating somebody for something on the bed and an Aboriginal woman would be having a child on the floor. [More…]
If one goes and asks not so much the man in the street but the woman in the shop whether she is satisfied about prices one will inevitably get the reaction that she is not. [More…]
I believe that the good book, from which the honourable member frequently quotes in this place, says that he who looks after a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his own heart, so I do not really hold much hope for improving the morals of people by making another method of birth control more freely available than in the past. [More…]
I have no reason to doubt that the Australian public servant is as diligent and effective during his long hours of duty as it would be possible for any man or woman to be. [More…]
There is nothing in his motion to that effect, if we support this motion today we would be voting to require a total vote of the Australian people to decide the question - that is, every man, woman and child in the country. [More…]
The motion moved by the honourable member for Warringah deserves to be treated with a certain amount of ridicule because it is an impossible proposal embracing, as it does, every man, woman and child voting on every suggestion - good, bad or indifferent - which will be presented to and decided on by the Australian people at tremendous cost. [More…]
Irrespective of what the Tories opposite say, I believe that every Australian - man, woman and child - will endorse our action as being appropriate in this age of changing times, advancement and Australian nationhood. [More…]
Does the Minister really suggest that a woman in a public ward would be able to have a doctor of her own choice attend her and deliver her baby? [More…]
What we propose is that a woman will be able to attend her general practitioner at his surgery during pregnancy and be attended, if she wishes, by the same doctor as a public patient during confinement. [More…]
At a certain period in life a woman may wish to return to the nursing profession. [More…]
But that woman could be available to work a ;number of hours each day. [More…]
Can he say whether (a) the bound edition of Elaine Morgan’s ‘The Descent of Woman’ is available in Australia from Australian book-sellers at $8 per copy, (b) a paperback edition of the book published by British publishers, complying with Australian copyright laws, is available from booksellers in Noumea and Djakarta for $1 per copy and (c) the paperback edition of this book is currently available in Australia; if it is not available, why not? [More…]
Hardcover copies of Elaine Morgan’s book ‘The Descent of Woman’ are available from Australian booksellers; I understand the recommended retail price is $7.30 per copy. [More…]
In addition to providing an increase in the pension because of the inflationary spiral, steps should also be taken to stop this inflationary spiral in which case, of course, not only would the pensioner be better off but also every man, woman and child and every industry in Australia would be better off. [More…]
In this respect, we would view the appointment of a woman as most important. [More…]
I am not talking only of the more obvious examples, such as military applications, nor even of space research, which though it has an endless fascination for the man and woman in the street has nevertheless come to be regarded by many as an enormously expensive deviation from the search for solutions to mankind’s most pressing problems. [More…]
It gets to the point where, at a meeting I had last Monday, a young woman with young children told me that the burden of taxes and prices on her family was such that though she did not want to do it - she wanted to remain home with her young children - in order to preserve her family’s standard of living she was going to be forced to take employment. [More…]
I refer to Dame Dorothy Tangney, who relinquished her teaching career in Western Australia to become the first woman member of the Commonwealth Senate in 1943, and serving West Australians, and Australia as a whole, during which time she held many responsible positions, including that of Temporary Chairman of Committees in the Senate. [More…]
Dame Dorothy Tangney was the first woman senator in Federal Parliament. [More…]
There are many calls on a man who has been GovernorGeneral or on a woman who is the wife or widow of a former Governor-General arising from the position they have held. [More…]
One woman in the Walgett area, after being on the roof of her house for 2 days was rescued by helicopter and brought to Walgett with very little more than what she stood up in. [More…]
My Party congratulates the Minister for Education upon his meaningful contribution and thought to promoting the idea of education of the whole man and woman. [More…]
We are here this morning to choose the man - or perhaps the woman - to preside over this House. [More…]
I refer to his speech about the Labor health scheme meaning disaster not only for every man, woman and child in Australia but for generations yet unborn, generations not yet thought of and, one gained the distinct impression, even generations long since perished. [More…]
I feel very deeply honoured at being the first woman elected to this House as an endorsed Labor Party candidate. [More…]
No working man of woman can increase his or her income at the drop of a hat, but flat owners can grab all that the traffic can bear without any restraints at all. [More…]
They deliberated on this question and to a man and to a woman they said that in no circumstances would they agree to any significant extension of their term of office, and that they were elected by the people of the Northern Territory for 3 years. [More…]
A man or woman goes to court to have his or her rights litigated or responsibilities settled, not to have some dry jurisdictional problem settled. [More…]
If I had a record like his in the treatment of a woman who served him so well as his secretary, I would never speak in this Parliament on parliamentary affairs. [More…]
If we are talking about women’s lib and things like that, as we do, why should we deny to the supporting father with dependent children the same kind of privileges a3 we give to the deserted woman or widow? [More…]
I see every reason why, if she so chooses, a married woman who has no family responsibilities should take outside employment. [More…]
However, I see every reason why a married woman who has family responsibilities should not be compelled by economic exigencies to take outside work against her will. [More…]
I have consulted medical specialists on this matter and they agree that many types of cancer - there are hundreds of types - would not be caused because a fellow or a woman served in a theatre of war. [More…]
The honourable member for Griffith has made an unprincipled attack under privilege upon an innocent, competent and defenceless young woman and it is to be deplored. [More…]
As to the second question of the employment of the lass concerned, I repeat what I said last night: Without casting any particular aspersions upon the woman concerned, I do not believe that any person who had a background such as that woman possesses should be thrown into a situation in which she has to work, like it or -lump it, for the man - seeing that the Minister has mentioned the name of her previous boss - who actually defeated the man for whom she worked. [More…]
To them I say: They can jolly well laugh me out of court if they wish because I believe that every fair minded man and woman in Australia must consider some ways and means of encouraging and improving the general standard of production output in Australia. [More…]
The speech that the honourable member for Bowman made was as despicable as that which was made by the Minister who raved on about a woman who used to be my secretary. [More…]
The fashionable fallacy is that a child care centre exists to release a woman to express herself in society. [More…]
Child care centres may encourage a stable female work force and may release a woman to express herself in society, but neither is the purpose of a child care centre. [More…]
Certainly, we on the Opposition side do not believe for one moment that an employee, a man or woman of the work force, is to be regarded as a chattel, to be bargained for and sold. [More…]
We believe that there should be a reduction in the rate of taxation, which is imposing an increasing burden upon the ordinary working man and woman. [More…]
The former Senator Tangney was the first woman member of the Senate; and jointly the first woman member of this Parliament. [More…]
The individual must be able to say that he wants to have in local government man X, woman A, woman B or whoever it may be. [More…]
Remember that the greater the variation the more the value of a man’s or woman’s vote is diminished or inflated. [More…]
To a man and a woman, the Opposition totally rejects the Bill before the Parliament. [More…]
Many measures that concern the people of the Australian Capital Territory are debated in that chamber but the people of the Australian Capital Territory do not have a representative to participate in any debate in the Senate, as they ave no opportunity to send a man or a woman to express their point of view in that chamber. [More…]
Under the existing scheme, if a woman is uninsured and becomes pregnant she is not covered. [More…]
One woman said: ‘Why watch that bunch acting like children when you can see the real thing in “Romper Room”?’ [More…]
But the fact is that today, 23 August, the Parliament is assembled in the form of the House of Representatives and while this House is assembled, with all its members here, if there is no discussion of the major matter occupying the attention of every man, woman and teenager in Australia, it will be an abandonment and an abdication of the true role of the House of Representatives. [More…]
1 ) Does he recall my representations to him on behalf of Miss Kathleen Birmingham, a noted journalist, and the first woman reporter on the Sydney Morning Herald, who many considered worthy of receiving recognition of her work. [More…]
Lady Kerr, for all her eminence as wife of the Governor-General and for all the lustre she brought to the role of consort, was a woman of distinction in her own right- a woman of rare qualities and remarkable gifts. [More…]
It is a cruel blow that she was taken from us so soon and that Australia has lost the services of a woman richly equipped to support her husband in the high and difficult office he has undertaken for Australia and her people. [More…]
Lady Ken’s death was all the more tragic because Australia has lost a woman who had a fine personal quality and who gave dedicated community service over a long period. [More…]
On behalf of all members of the Liberal Party I extend sympathy to Sir John and his family in the loss of a distinguished woman. [More…]
We believe in the individual human worth and dignity of every man, woman” ‘and child, regardless of race or colour . [More…]
His wife- I mention this fact because our condolences go to Mrs Kirk- is a very lovely woman, who was completely dedicated to the work of her husband. [More…]
If that is the case, is the Treasurer prepared to impose a head tax of $8 on every man, woman and child in Australia to enable the wages and salaries of other Australians to be transferred to this sectional interest? [More…]
He spoke to the woman in charge, who was also one of the persons identified by the boys, about the sale of these articles to minors. [More…]
Why not index every man, woman and child so that we can put a tab on everybody? [More…]
That is me, Kevin Cairns, whom he named- abused every privilege that he had, including using an employee of the divisional returning officer for Lilley- a poor unfortunate woman whom he got hold of and on whom he used his vicious influence to get her to send out propaganda for him and to send out together with the ballot papers for the postal vote applicant a how-to-vote card for Kevin Cairns, the Liberal candidate for Lilley. [More…]
He left it to the poor unfortunate woman who worked in the electoral office to bear the responsibility for actions taken on his behalf and on behalf of his organisation. [More…]
They involve the electoral officer for the Division of Lilley in 1972; they involve a woman in that electoral office- and there are so few women in that electoral office that the woman referred to can almost be identified as one person; and they certainly involve me. [More…]
The integrity of his electoral officers needs to be defended and the integrity of a woman in that office needs to be clarified and, I believe, defended. [More…]
Is he aware also of a fatal accident which occurred because of a semi-trailer hitting a pothole and then ramming a car and killing a woman? [More…]
What the new capital gains and unearned income taxes mean is this: A man or woman will work for a living and they will pay very heavy taxation on their earnings. [More…]
I make it quite clear here and now that a statutory declaration signed by a woman in Zillmere had been produced and made available to officers of my Party prior to the House of Representatives election in 1972. [More…]
A statutory declaration had been signed by a woman in the Zillmere area and the ballot papers were sent to her aged father, together with his how-to-vote card. [More…]
Only last week a lady in my electorate, 50 years of age, a small frail woman, told me that she has to sponge, care for and help her 32 year old son out of bed, onto the toilet, and to walk about the house. [More…]
We have purchased the paintings ‘Woman V and ‘Blue Poles’. [More…]
Some of the other books were entitled: ‘Poor Alice ‘, ‘ Dangerous Game ‘, ‘Adultery Without Men’, ‘Stag Film Girls’, ‘First Experience’, ‘The Coming of a Woman’, ‘The Painter of Passion’ and ‘The Wife Will Play’. [More…]
Was it a matter of finance when the Government decided to buy Willem de Kooning’s ‘Woman V for $646,000? [More…]
The Government would unshackle itself from some of this needless harassment which affects every working man and woman in this country and would step in with legislation with the same boldness which the Government has displayed in ‘bringing to heel’- I put those 3 words in inverted commasthe manufacturers, the industrialists, the foreign corporations and so many others in an attempt to bring about orderly marketing. [More…]
Let us consider another current topic, the paintings ‘Blue Poles’ and ‘Woman V. Perhaps this is a good one to tout around the country and a good one to embarrass the Government with, but I would point out that when some group can spend $4m sailing off the coast of the United States of America trying to win a cup this seems to be thought to be a good thing, but when the Government sets up the most intelligent group of people it can to buy works of art for the benefit and the appreciation of future generations, this is thought to be a terribly bad thing because people do not exactly understand what they are buying. [More…]
On the other hand the residence qualification for widow’s pension is immediately satisfied if a woman and her husband were residing permanently in Australia when she became a widow. [More…]
To be consistent with the residence requirement for de jure widows it is proposed to enable any woman who becomes a widow or a supporting mother as defined in the Social Services Act while residing overseas to be residentially qualified for widow’s pension or supporting mother’s benefit, as appropriate, immediately on her return to Australia provided she has been continuously resident in Australia for not less than 10 years at any time. [More…]
On passage of this Bill the residence qualification for widow’s pension will be satisfied if a woman and her husband were residing permanently in Australia when she became a widow. [More…]
In other cases, S years’ continuous residence immediately preceding lodgment of the claim will be required, but this will be waived where the woman became a widow overseas if she had lived in Australia for a continuous period of 10 years at any time. [More…]
A woman with a child of her own or a child who entered her care before she became a widow is a class A widow and attracts payment of a mother’s allowance and additional pension for the children. [More…]
A woman who ceases to be a class A widow because her qualifying child turns 1 6 or ceases to be a full time student, may become a class B widow if she is at least 45 years of age at that time. [More…]
On the other hand an unmarried woman may be granted an age pension at age 60 or an invalid pension and, in addition, receive additional pension for each child in her care, and guardian’s allowance irrespective of whether she is the mother of the children and irrespective of the date the children entered her care. [More…]
There is a great and growing concern in the community that child care should, firstly, be made available to those people who have a real need but ought to be available also to any woman and to any family wishing to have facilities for minding their children if those people wish to be employed or wish to exercise some freedom of choice in regard to working or undertaking other activities. [More…]
My intention is not to question the validity of the purchase of such paintings as ‘Blue Poles’ or ‘Woman V, which as I understand it is closely identified with the tastes of the Director of the National Gallery, Mr Mollison. [More…]
There was a headline in the ‘Melbourne Herald’- the sort of paper from which we would have expected something better- which stated: ‘We will spend an extra $77,000 on that woman’. [More…]
I noticed a lot of hilarity on the other side of the chamber when he said that the purchase of ‘Blue Poles’ and ‘Woman V has created tremendous interest. [More…]
Will a woman whose husband continues to provide adequately for the family and who is able to undertake training on her own behalf, be given the same opportunity to take advantage of the retraining scheme as for example a woman with dependent children. [More…]
Let us hope that the Government’s proposal to require determining authorities to give the reason for the decisions following a study of a claim from an ex-service man or woman will prove to be successful. [More…]
But in the case of desertion or divorce overseas, when the woman has returned to Australia, perhaps with children who were born overseas, the residence qualification has been 5 years. [More…]
In other words, a woman has had to stay in Australia 5 years before qualifying for the widow’s pension or the supporting mother’s benefit. [More…]
In cases like that, provided the woman has previously lived in Australia for at least 10 years, the widow’s pension or the supporting mother’s benefit will be qualified for immediately on her return to Australia. [More…]
I know of one case recently in which for 3 months, no matter what was done in this city of about 10,000 people, the social security inspector would not accept that this woman had ended such a relationship. [More…]
But this woman had no pension and no income at all during this time and one of the children actually was taken into protective custody. [More…]
It is the woman of the household who appears to suffer most. [More…]
They do not want to be deceived, and this applies equally to the woman as to the man of the home. [More…]
I want to join with my colleague the honourable member for Petrie (Mr Hodges) in identifying the problem of inflation and stagflation not only as it affects the governments of this country but as it affects the average man and woman. [More…]
It means that some young man or woman who has had a brilliant academic career at school and university and who is just embarking on a career as a doctor, lawyer, architect or in his own business as a carpenter or builder, if struck down with a permanent total incapacity before age 30, his future earning capacity is not taken into account. [More…]
But take the case of a woman 53 years of age. [More…]
But if the driver happened to have sneezed at the time of the accident, the likelihood is that that woman would receive absolutely nothing at all from our courts. [More…]
For the purposes of this Part, where a woman, although not married to a man, lived with him on a permanent and bona fide domestic basis immediately before his death and- [More…]
the woman had so lived with the man- [More…]
the man was survived by a child who was a child of the union between that woman and that man and was dependent on that man immediately before his death, then- [More…]
that woman shall, unless she has re-married, be deemed to be a widow of that man; and [More…]
I remember a woman who came to see me not many weeks ago whose husband was killed by a bus. [More…]
The damages would have proved inadequate even if they had been given to the woman. [More…]
But then it was decided that as the woman had happened at the time of the accident to have a casual or temporary job she was not dependent on her husband and therefore was not eligible for any compensation. [More…]
If a man or a woman of 25 years of age is injured in a way which directly affects his or her earning capacity in the future, why should not the community compensate them for that loss? [More…]
The top $500 a week is contrasted with the miserable $50 a week that is going to be the base of computation for a woman or a housewife. [More…]
The fact remains that a class B widow, a woman 43 years of age, gets a lump sum payment of $1,000 and assistance for 12 months. [More…]
It is very difficult for a person like this woman to face up to this additional heavy charge particularly when in her own mind she cannot see any reason why the account should increase so substantially. [More…]
One woman had to fight a bushfire to keep it away from the house in which she was living. [More…]
I do not know whether the same thing is happening to ‘Woman V. [More…]
The Labor Party, which claims to look after the ordinary working man and woman of this country, has betrayed them. [More…]
Indeed, I recall the words of a woman who lived in Germany during the blitz when Germany was subjected to the most severe nightly raids. [More…]
I recall a case in Newcastle some years agosince I have been a member of this Parliament -in which a constituent of mine was in the process of paying out some $300 to have dissolved a marriage which in my view was not a marriage at all because the woman concerned, who was of [More…]
My advice to her was that she should not spend a penny on having the form of marriage dissolved because it was an invalid marriage, that virtually she was like a single woman who had had 2 children out of wedlock and that she was free to marry whom she wished. [More…]
I saved the woman $300. [More…]
International Women ‘s Year, or as one woman has called it Mother’s Day 363 times over, has been allocated $2m. [More…]
The present problems and the present conditions are these: A woman teacher must cease work 4 months before or, if the approval of the Minister is given, 2 months before the expected date of delivery. [More…]
Before the Minister can exercise his discretion in this matter a woman must have a medical certificate saying that she is fit to work for 2 months more and a letter from the principal saying he wants her to continue teaching. [More…]
But the woman teacher who raised this matter with me had a large number of sick leave credits. [More…]
Adam’s Woman, Age of Consent, Squeeze a Flower and They’re a Weird Mob fall into this category. [More…]
We have concentrated on the moral aspects of the relationship between a man and a woman and debated the propriety of extramarital sex. [More…]
We have concerned ourselves with the need that society has for ensuring that the relationship between a man and a woman is stable and that the family life surrounding them is balanced. [More…]
But in the midst of those concerns we have largely ignored the needs of the third person- the child born to an unmarried mother, a widow, a separated wife or to a married woman who has a relationship with a man who is not her husband. [More…]
We are each the product of a union of a man and a woman. [More…]
It will be of benefit to any person in immediate need: To the permanently homeless, to the deserted or disturbed woman and her children, to the Aboriginal or teenager in want or distress, to the battered woman or the battered child, to the single parent- in short, to anyone without support or an income. [More…]
The Tasmanian Act also provides that except in special circumstances a married woman cannot be recommended for appointment when there is a man or single woman available who can perform the duties of the office. [More…]
There is a principal Australian manufacturer who makes a good quality woman’s fashion shoe which retails for $21.50 a pair. [More…]
We took action in respect of that matter to grant protection and to achieve the correct balance between protecting Australian industry and Australian jobs and giving the consumerthe customer, the woman who wears shoes of that sort- access to shoes of that kind because she is entitled occasionally, when she wants to do so, to buy the imported goods. [More…]
If honourable members like to do the sum, they will find that of the total Australian population of 13,500,000 people every man, woman and child ought to have about 200 coins in his possession. [More…]
It is designed to help the battered wife who quite often puts up with bashings day and night, sometimes several nights a week, who is virtually a prisoner in her home and who suffers unspeakable agonies at the hands of some monster who takes some sadistic pleasure out of woman bashing. [More…]
Half-way houses are absolutely necessary because if a woman goes home to her sister or to her mother her husband finds her. [More…]
I am not too sure about the need for the homeless men to have the care or love of a good woman because in the last 2 years I have come in contact with a number of these men who have had very happy childhoods with parents with whom they had good communication, and they have still hit skid row. [More…]
So I do not know whether the love of a good woman can save a man from everything. [More…]
It will be of benefit to any person in immediate need: To the permanently homeless, to the deserted or disturbed woman and her children, to the Aboriginal or teenager in want or distress, to the battered woman or the battered child, to the single parent- in short, to anyone without support or an income. [More…]
I suggest to honourable members that if I had chosen a man or even a woman who was not good looking, perhaps nothing would have happened. [More…]
I refer to the case of woman having a baby. [More…]
The chances are that he has delivered other children from that woman. [More…]
I know that the Minister for Social Security is desperately trying to devise a means so that that present system in this regard can be maintained so that even under his health care scheme a woman will still be able to go to her own doctor. [More…]
The day of a woman having her doctor attend her in hospital when she has her baby will eventually be over. [More…]
What Labor proposes is simply this: As a result of this legislation every working man and woman in Queensland who earns more than a couple of thousand dollars a year will be forced, whether they like it or not, to pay 1.35 per cent of their income as a levy. [More…]
If a young woman under 1 8 years arrives in Australia other than in the care of a relative or is not joining a relative who will accept responsibility for her, legal guardianship is vested in my colleague, the Minister for Social Security under the provisions of the Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Act. [More…]
It is a little sad to see the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron), this once socalled gladiator of the ordinary working man and woman and of the trade union movement acting as an apologist and making excuses for the Government’s appalling policy in allowing 5.2 per cent of Australia’s population to become unemployed. [More…]
These apologies and excuses expose the sham of the man who claims that he is genuinely interested in the welfare of the ordinary working man and woman. [More…]
This clause cuts all ties with the traditional view of marriage as a monogamous union according to law, of a man and woman to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life. [More…]
that full and proper recognition be given to the status and rights of a woman as wife and mother; [More…]
This Bill, if it is passed, will allow a man or a woman to walk out on his marriage partner, and their children, move in with his or her fancy of the moment and after 12 months demand a divorce. [More…]
How absurd it is that what the law does not allow a person to do in respect of his or her financial contracts, that is, terminate them at will, this Bill will allow a man or woman to do in respect of a lifelong commitment or contract which he has made with his marriage partner. [More…]
It calls for a woman to pay her own costs, and a mother with a young family who has chosen to stay at home and care for the children will be liable to pay for costs of proceedings which may not have been initiated by herself and which she may not be able to afford. [More…]
In view of the fact that this year is International Women’s Year, it is sad to see a Bill before this Parliament which not only takes away rights to which every Australian woman has always been entitled but which also imposes upon them new obligations. [More…]
This legislation overlooks a woman’s incapacity for job continuity and the psychological adjustment which a woman would face. [More…]
It overlooks that for a lengthy period of time a woman with children is unable to support herself. [More…]
What is the situation of the older woman in her fifties or sixties who has raised her children? [More…]
Of course, it cannot solve every problem which arises between a man and a woman and their children before, during or after their marriage. [More…]
I would not like to be a member of a generation of Australian citizens which, whilst not destroying those time honoured and respected concepts, sought to break down the golden rules which have served us well, by adopting a policy of straddling the issues, being over sympathetic to the point of view- no matter how honestly held- that man or woman is licensed as it were to be absolutely free without any responsibilities to society. [More…]
But the husband, the offender, can have his financial position alleviated by his statement that he is now responsible for keeping the woman with whom he is now cohabiting. [More…]
I say that the Bill is unfair to women because it does, unfortunately, give to the man the power of casting off a woman. [More…]
It is, unfortunately, physiologically irrefutable that a man’s sexual life is longer than that of a woman. [More…]
If a woman commits adultery and becomes pregnant and the period of gestation is less than 12 months, the man has no redress and would have to adopt as his own and maintain as his own a child which he knows is not his own. [More…]
In fact, this type of investigation reveals that the only references that Christ made to marriage were in terms of answers to such questions as this: If a woman was married to two or three men on earth, who would her husband be in Heaven? [More…]
The definition of marriage enshrined in Australian law has hitherto been phrased: Marriage, according to law in Australia, is the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all ethers, voluntarily entered into for life. [More…]
A woman fulfilling her home making role is normally engaged in a full time occupation which generally precludes her from earning income through outside employment. [More…]
Let me trace what it will mean for a wife in a not uncommon case in divorce- the woman who, because of her husband’s persistent cruelty and violence, is required to leave home with her children for her own and the children’s safety. [More…]
The amendment claims that full and proper recognition be given to the status and rights of a woman as wife and mother. [More…]
Another honourable member suggested that a woman’s sex life ran out far faster than a man’s sex life and that, therefore, like a dirty dishcloth the woman was to be thrown into the sink or into the rubbish bin and no longer have the chance to gain special protection. [More…]
I believe that clause 75, contrary to many of the arguments put forward or the furphies spread in this place, sets out on a needs basis to provide for a woman and her family. [More…]
Contrary to the views expressed by some people, I do not believe that if the family of a married couple has grown up and only the husband and wife remain living together, and that couple then separates and is divorced and the wife is well provided for the husband should, for the rest of his life, be required to pay the penalty for having married that woman in the first place. [More…]
These advertisements included the one showing the Latvian woman telling us about the fears she held for the future of Australia. [More…]
My wife is a responsible woman. [More…]
Imagining the position of a woman in such circumstances, that is a fair comment and it is a fair practice. [More…]
The woman may have fallen pregnant. [More…]
It is no good for that woman who is still carrying his baby saying: ‘What have I done? [More…]
Consider the position of that woman. [More…]
In June of the subsequent year when the woman has the child and is a patient in the maternity hospital, are honourable members going to say that that is divorce without indignity? [More…]
When one examines the object of this Bill in clause 43(a)- the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life- one might well expect the remainder of the Bill to carry those objects into effect. [More…]
Let us imagine the position of a woman who goes to a solicitor and says: ‘He has committed adultery and I have proof’, and whose solicitor says: ‘I am sorry, lady, but you cannot have a divorce. [More…]
A man or woman who, at the time this Bill becomes law, has suffered injustice for 10 years, for instance, will, immediately it becomes law, lose any rights he or she has at present because he or she has not taken out a petition having been concerned to maintain the marital relationship. [More…]
The Bill in clause 43 professes that the courts should take into account the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life. [More…]
When they were given a definition they then said: ‘Look, you will have to cut out all references to the Holy Spirit but let us have the effects of it which is the permanent union of man and woman for life to the exclusion of all others ‘. [More…]
If a woman enters into a de facto relationship, the present presumption is that the obligation to maintain her rests upon the de facto partner, but if she proves while in a de facto relationship that she cannot maintain herself the way in which this Bill is drafted means that the husband must pay alimony to sustain the adulterous relationship. [More…]
When a woman is in a de facto relationship it can still be a duty of the husband to maintain her. [More…]
He spoke about the case of a young woman who had fallen pregnant and who had then been deserted by her husband. [More…]
The fact that in theory people are still married does not help the woman or the baby in the least, as she knows. [More…]
No person, no man, no woman, can go before that court fearful that justice will not be done. [More…]
At the present time a woman who becomes a contributor to a medical or hospital benefits fund when pregnant is not entitled to benefits in respect of fees incurred in connecton with the pregnancy. [More…]
The Bill enables a health benefits organisation operating a special account to transfer to that account a woman who becomes a contributor to the fund when pregnant. [More…]
Medibank will provide free medical insurance cover for every man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]
They say: Medibank will provide free medical insurance cover for every man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]
I think that until we have had some kind of proper investigation, and some of the files that I have named have been produced and we know the facts, it would be very unwise, indeed improper, for the Treasurer to continue in this sensitive post a woman who at least on such a large number of statutory declarations as I have, and this signed declaration, and on other evidence - [More…]
The problem has been that blockbuster purchases like ‘Blue Poles’ and ‘Woman V, and blockbuster subsidies of monolithic groups, tend to distort the whole meaning and thrust of what an arts department should be doing. [More…]
For instance, one could well ask whether the purchase of the paintings ‘Blue Poles’ or ‘Woman V, irrespective of the varying opinions of their artistic value, will do as much for promoting the public appreciation and enjoyment of the arts as would a tour of the Sydney and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras to many of the regions of Australia, similar to the tour which was made by the orchestra to Europe, as mentioned by the honourable member for Franklin (Mr Sherry). [More…]
If you can give it to a woman who is a deserted wife, a widow or whose husband is unemployed, it will be all the better.’ [More…]
If the Parliament accepts the fact that there is a need to preserve and to protect the institution of marriage as a union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life, as stated in the Bill at clause 43(a), I contend that divorce made too easy is not the medium by which that objective can be attained. [More…]
They are, firstly, that full and proper recognition be given to the status and rights of a woman as wife and mother; secondly, that there should be full and proper protection of the wife and children in the event of the dissolution of a marriage; and, thirdly and lastly, but not least, that there is need for children to be reared and cared for by a present parent. [More…]
By the same token, a female doctor, for example, would not be forced to work if she chose to remain within the house to care for the children, but she would be expected to work when the youngest child attained 18 years of age, provided that the woman’s age and state of health enabled her to do so. [More…]
the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life; [More…]
I believe that the question of a married woman working is althogether different from the question of a duty being imposed on a married woman to work. [More…]
I have sincere sympathy for a man who is put in gaol because of the actions of a vicious woman who may not .be morally entitled to receive maintenance. [More…]
The older woman will not be left in a position where she will be told just to get out and fend for herself. [More…]
It has been argued that a woman who has raised a family and in the process has lost her ability to earn a respectable income can be told to get out and fend for herself. [More…]
However, this matter was the subject of an amendment by the Senate and the effect of clause 72, when read in conjunction with clause 75, is to protect the older woman. [More…]
We probably all know or have seen the misery of the unhappy marriage in which one or other of the partners, and usually the woman, is unable to escape from this disastrous partnership for social, economic or psychological reasons. [More…]
Take the case of a woman who has been married to a man for 12 to 15 years and during a very considerable part of that time has been subjected to immense cruelty and great distress. [More…]
For example, one suggestion was that a woman would allow, under the new Family Law Bill, her husband to flaunt his intimacy with his mistress - 1 suppose the same goes for a woman flaunting u. intimacy with her lover- for 12 months in the same house in front of her and the children and that still she would have no comeback. [More…]
That suggestion is not only fantasy and improbable but also reduces a woman or a man to an idiot. [More…]
It ignores the fact that the woman- or the man- and her family would be better off without the scoundrel or that she could apply for an injunction pending divorce proceedings. [More…]
the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life. [More…]
If this Bill is carried in its present form, a married woman facing divorce from a husband earning, say, the average weekly earnings is worse off financially under this legislation. [More…]
A divorced woman who is without a profession, who has not had a career before marriage or who has been away from her career, profession or area of skilled employment for a number of years, does not easily find a way to adjust to re-entering the employment stream; nor does she, in most cases, readily adjust psychologically to her new situation. [More…]
Clause 43 states that the Family Court shall, in the exercise of its jurisdiction, have regard to such matters as the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life. [More…]
The first sentence of that principle establishes ‘the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others’. [More…]
It is an attack upon marriage, the family, the woman, the homemaker, the mother. [More…]
If a woman wants to go out to work because it is her desire to do so, it is a different matter. [More…]
the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life. [More…]
Despite all this that woman can be- divorced. [More…]
Today it is no longer so shocking or so difficult for a married woman to work for her living as once it was. [More…]
the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life; [More…]
I believe that the Parliament needs to be convinced that the Bill does not weaken marriage, that it does not destroy the rights that attach to individuals -in particular perhaps to a woman who, throughout her life, wants to be nothing more than a wife and mother. [More…]
I can see little justice and little reason in that kind of amendment or in that kind of approach to the problems of human relationships between a man and a woman. [More…]
While obviously not all marriages are permanent or secure, that is the objective to which the law ought to address itself, insofar as it possibly can with fairness to everyone involved - that full and proper recognition be given to the status and rights of a woman as wife and mother; that there should be full and proper protection of the wife and children in the event of the dissolution of a marriage; that there is need for children to be reared and cared for by a present parent; [More…]
I believe, especially having in mind clause 72 and its consequences and the fact that it comes before clause 75, that there is in the legislation an impetus or a thrust that would require a woman to go to work if a marriage were in fact dissolved. [More…]
There might well be circumstances in which a woman who has been working before or during a marriage would wish to go to work, but I also believe that, if a woman wants to make her vocation or her career being a good mother and a good wife to her husband, that opportunity ought not to be denied to that woman. [More…]
There is the situation in which a married woman would not be eligible for normal unemployment relief but she would be eligible for income maintenance. [More…]
-The only way to cure the anomalies in the allowance is to go back to the old system of saying that a married woman should not receive as much as a married man. [More…]
Of course a woman loses her widow’s pension if she becomes eligible for $93 a week. [More…]
Medibank will provide free medical insurance cover for every man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]
I imagine that any student of the English language who reads or hears on television that ‘Medibank will provide free medical insurance cover for every man, woman and child in Australia’ is free to accept that this is not going to cost him anything. [More…]
Medibank will provide free medical insurance cover for every man, woman and child in Australia and free public hospital care in those States the governments of which agree to allow such treatment to be made available. [More…]
In the past society has denned what a woman might do and what she might expect from life. [More…]
Whether many people like it or not the fact remains that a woman’s capacity to work and earn is more likely to be adversely affected by marriage than is her husband’s. [More…]
Clause 43 (a) of the Bill provides that the family court in the exercise of its jurisdiction shall have regard to the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life. [More…]
In fact, the onus is quite clearly on the woman to show that she cannot work and not on the husband to show why he should not pay maintenance, which is provided for in existing legislation. [More…]
It is not possible that the nightmare of Vietnam will ever pass from the memory or the conscience of any man or woman of our time. [More…]
I am also concerned about the attitude expressed in paragraphs (d) and (e) of the amendment, namely, that full and proper recognition be given to the status and rights of a woman as a wife and mother and that there should be full and proper protection of the wife and children in the event of the dissolution of a marriage. [More…]
This man and his lifelong friend, who was also a member of the Parliament, were able to persuade a perfectly innocent woman to go into the witness box and swear false evidence that she had committed adultery with the member of Parliament who wanted a divorce quickly. [More…]
Not only did this man refuse to defend his mate, Armstrong, but he also used the privilege of Parliament to further denigrate the woman whom he had divorced. [More…]
This same gentleman- Stanley Mowbray Eskell, Chairman of Committees of a Liberal State Government- who gave false evidence in the New South Wales divorce court to obtain a quick divorce was then able to marry a wealthy woman. [More…]
These and other matters listed would direct the court’s attention to the problems relevant to the situation of a woman left without adequate means and would ensure that she was properly provided for. [More…]
With reference to the matter of providing maintenance to enable the applicant to re-train for work, this is not a direction to the court to drive a woman out to work; it is a direction to have regard to the possibility that a woman, in appropriate circumstances and with the necessary ability, could be retrained. [More…]
With regard to the question of maintenance, I believe there is a need to protect adequately a woman who leaves the workforce for marriage and a family. [More…]
the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life. [More…]
In that situation, a woman who is separated from her husband, divorced or widowed and who has a man living in her house, whether she be having some relationship with him or not, finds that the Government and the Department of Social Security take the view that she should not be in receipt of a social security pension. [More…]
A woman may live with somebody and be regarded as separated in terms of divorce requirements, but she cannot live with somebody and be regarded as separated with respect to qualification for the receipt of a social security pension. [More…]
The fact that a man and a woman can live together in the same home and under the Act be deemed to be living separately and apart, indicates to me that situations can and will arise where a man and a woman in agreement about divorce can say: ‘We will tell the court that we have been separated for the last 12 months. [More…]
It seems to me to be a harsh and unreal situation that, under the provisions of clause 72 of the legislation which is presently before the House, if a relationship dissolves the woman can be expected to return to the work force and may be expected and required to change the way of life to which she has been accustomed and which she has been encouraged to adopt over a lengthy period during the marriage relationship. [More…]
If a woman comes home and finds her husband in bed with another woman, she should not be faced with a situation where the only alternative is to pack her bags and move out of the marital home for a period of 12 months and support herself for that period, if she does not wish to subject herself to the ignominy of remaining in that matrimonial home for the 12-months period with that man who has done the wrong thing by her. [More…]
that full and proper recognition be given to the status and rights of a woman as wife and mother; [More…]
Clause 72, as presently contained in the Family Law Bill, can have this effect: A man and woman many. [More…]
It is not justice that the good wife who has done nothing to end the marriage, who has been deserted by her husband for another woman and who wants to contest the divorce or contest custody of children should have to pay her own costs even if she wins. [More…]
the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life; [More…]
If it is a grievous misfortune of life for a young woman to marry a man who turns out to be an irresponsible person, then she will suffer this misfortune no matter what, and I cannot see how any legislation is going to protect and buttress her position. [More…]
A woman or a man is able to terminate the marriage almost instantly. [More…]
If there is a problem at home, perhaps involving cruelty, and a woman goes to court to obtain an injunction to restrain her husband she will have to go to court a number of times and the question of behaviour will be raised. [More…]
If a good, conscientious woman wants to preserve a marriage, under the Bill she is dependent on the good will or the ill will of her husband. [More…]
If a woman is able to care for herself she is on her own. [More…]
I think that when maintenance is considered, particularly in respect of children, the question of the behaviour of both parents must come into consideration, as must the fact that a woman may have given up her profession to be a faithful and conscientious wife. [More…]
It is not espousing the interests of women today to say of a conscientious woman who is trying to preserve a marriage and is doing the right thing by her husband and family that because her husband does not want her companionship any longer and she is forced from the house she must go to the Government and receive social services. [More…]
It is curious that in the House of Representatives, where there is only one woman member, it falls to the lot of most male members of the House to protect women’s rights against the wishes of many women’s organisations. [More…]
But the one subject on which I would like to speak at some greater length is that of the woman involved. [More…]
I do not want to get dramatic about this but it is usually a situation where a woman, usually a fairly young woman, is left with two or three children and suddenly finds that she has to do a number of things. [More…]
I think this emotional demand on a woman is probably more critical than any other of the considerations involved. [More…]
This brings one back inevitably to the woman of the house. [More…]
In my judgment and evaluation, after listening to the debate and studying the Bill, I think that without the amendment as moved by the Minister for Tourism and Recreation the woman would find herself in a pretty difficult situation. [More…]
Let us look at another situation where a man and a woman are living in a de facto relationship. [More…]
Is he aware of the job being done by Dr Penny Keyes, an Australian woman, who struggles to help these unfortunate people in the most indescribable conditions? [More…]
The proposal simply means this: A woman who may be pregnant and does not know precisely on what day she will have to go into hospital may have to go to hospital late on the Thursday. [More…]
He went to school with the woman who was the interviewer. [More…]
Many Australians, regrettably I believe, have seen the purchase of ‘Blue Poles’, ‘Woman V and so forth as merely flamboyant examples of conspicuous waste but, as I said earlier, I think that Australia should now be a nation which has come of age. [More…]
Too much attention has been given to ‘Blue Poles’ and ‘Woman V. This has distracted attention from the excellence of many other pieces of art that have been bought. [More…]
As the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron), said, of course the Government is going to pour millions of dollars into Medibank to ensure that every man, woman and child is covered by a health scheme and not by the patched up job that existed under the control of 113 private health insurance companies. [More…]
In the first place, to become a paid official of a union, a man or woman in effect has to change his occupation. [More…]
If one man, one woman or one child dies because of the weakness of this Government, through its inept and incredible belief in doing nothing to upset the victor of tomorrow, we will have let ourselves down badly and we will have committed our own crime against humanity. [More…]
If an ex-serviceman or woman feels that he or she has a just claim, he or she applies for pension. [More…]
No one would suggest, particularly in this International Women’s Year, that we should deny in any shape or form the right of a woman to fulfil herself in whichever venue or through whichever avenue she might so desire. [More…]
A contrary view held equally strongly by other people is that the overriding role of a woman is as a mother and it has to be a full time role. [More…]
The view is that a woman should not be forced by economic necessity to forsake her role as mother and become industrial cannon fodder. [More…]
I do not share the ideological view of the honourable member for Lilley (Mr Kevin Cairns) that the woman’s place is as a full time mother. [More…]
The question of the appeal was the question of the reasonableness or the propriety of the judge’s direction on whether the belief of the men that they had the woman’s consent was reasonable. [More…]
In this sense, under the law historically and as it stands today the prosecutrix, the woman who has been raped or claims to have been raped, is put on the same par as an accomplice, because the same rule applies to an accomplice in a crime; the judges are required to give a similar direction there. [More…]
There was little real evidence until this blatant case which involved a woman of 55 years of age with 1 1 years service. [More…]
As the son of a woman who lived on the widow’s pension for many years I say that I do not take kindly to the sorts of comments which are being made by the Australian Mutual Provident Society. [More…]
There are some brave and magnificent souls, both male and female, who are minded to see things through to the very utmost, but then something happens and the woman says: ‘I can stand this no longer. [More…]
If the honourable gentleman accepts the circumstances that I have presented, surely that woman is entitled to secure her relief instanter or virtually instanter. [More…]
It is a piece of absurdity to suggest that if a man or a woman finds, after marriage, that he or she has married a homosexual and there is total incompatibility, the marriage must subsist for 2 years to prove separation for 2 years in order to dissolve it. [More…]
If a woman has put up with cruel beatings for 5 or 7 years, must the marriage be sustained for another 2 years or one year in order to bring an application for divorce? [More…]
She has been deserted by her husband, as happens very often when a man becomes infatuated with a younger woman. [More…]
The honourable member for Moreton and the right honourable member for Bruce spoke of the wrongs of a woman who could not obtain instant relief. [More…]
It does not help the child and it does not help the relief of bitterness that a woman should be able to say to a man: ‘This child will be yours in terms of our marriage. [More…]
A strong view also exists that, in a limited number of special cases, it is intolerable to ask a party to a marriage, be it the man or the woman, to wait even for a period of 12 months before commencing proceedings. [More…]
I do not intend to name the woman concerned because she is personally involved. [More…]
Nothing could drag us back more surely to the dark ages, to bitterness, acrimony and the worst things in human behaviour between a man and a woman who are married than the reintroduction of fault. [More…]
Earlier in the debate I gave the example of a woman who could be in a position where her husband desires to separate from her and, under the cohabitation procedures contained in the Bill, with which I agree, where she could be expecting a child in four or five months’ time but the computer says that the marriage is over. [More…]
They argue the ground of a woman or a man who has acquired a partner who has developed or who possesses homosexual tendencies is required to continue that marriage for at least a year. [More…]
In this connection I would add that it is not justice that the position of a woman who is, say, being subjected to constant beating and who has come to the point of seeking relief, can be ‘settled’ by an injunction under clause 114 of the Bill, and yet not by the granting of a dissolution of marriage. [More…]
Paragraph (b) states: the domicile of a woman who is, or has at any time been, married shall be determined as if she had never been married; . [More…]
Clause 43 (a) of the Bill states: -the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life; [More…]
A married person can leave Australia and marry again in another country, and he is entitled to claim that woman as his wife. [More…]
In that case the judges espoused the principles of voluntary union between a man and a woman for life to the mutual and complete exclusion of all others. [More…]
In 1962 this policy led the Victorian Supreme Court, quite correctly as the law then stood, to refuse matrimonial relief, including custody and maintenance, to an Australian woman who had married a Pakistani in Karachi in a Muslim ceremony, even though both parties were by then settled in Australia and the husband had not taken another wife. [More…]
This condition led to further hardship a few years later when the West Australian Supreme Court held that a young Australian woman who was domiciled in Australia and had married a Malaysian in Penang in a Muslim ceremony could not, upon her return to Australia after the marriage broke down, invoke the jurisidiaion of the court to dissolve the marriage. [More…]
If that view is correct, all clause 6 will do is to permit an Australian court to decree the formal annulment of such a marriage, unlike the West Australian court in the case earlier mentioned which had to tell the unfortunate young woman concerned to go away not knowing whether she was or was not married under Australian law. [More…]
Very often, where the parties in fact separate, they do so because there is a breakdown in communication between man and woman, and very often the communication has very little opportunity to be reinstated unless there is some machinery whereby that communication can be re-established. [More…]
Surely the Committee will accept that it is absolutely inequitable for circumstances to arise in which a man or a woman can be divorced by legal processes in Australia, without ever knowing or having a chance to know that the petition was being lodged. [More…]
the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life; [More…]
(Mr Fraser)- After paragraph (c) insert the following paragraph: (ca) the need to protect the position of a woman who wishes only to continue her role as a wife and mother; ‘. [More…]
the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life; [More…]
The origin of the words marriage is a union of a man and a woman voluntarily entered into for life and can be found in an interpretation of the Divorce Act 1865 of the United Kingdom. [More…]
It states that the marriage is: the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life; [More…]
There is, and has been I think, an impetus in different parts of this legislation to establish circumstances in which a woman whose marriage has broken down must go out to work to look after herself if she is fit and able to do so. [More…]
I believe that a family court should take into consideration circumstances which have been traditional and which still are present through much of our community, that a woman who gets married expects to be looked after by her husband and, even if the marriage breaks down, expects still to have some right to the protection of the law and some right to be looked after by the person she married at an earlier time. [More…]
The amendment would seek to protect the position of a woman who believes that marriage and looking after children is a lifetime and honourable vocation. [More…]
Part of the atmosphere of support that has been generated for this Bill has been among those who have felt in the past that our laws have presumed far too much, and that to far too great an extent the only role for a woman in marriage is the traditional role of a wife and the bringing up of children. [More…]
As I see it, in no way does this amendment destroy some of the other objectives of the Bill so far as maintenance is concerned, but I think the amendment does bring back to the Bill, certainly so far as the principles to be applied by the Court are concerned, a much needed balance so that we do have, hopefully, something approaching the ideal situation where, if a woman does opt for the traditional role of a wife and a mother on a completely full time basis, she should not in any sense be at a disadvantage. [More…]
If the purpose of clause 43 is to state the broad principles which ought to be applied by the Family Court in exercising its jurisdiction, and if we are to include any principles in that, surely there ought to be room for the expression of the principle that there is a need to protect a woman within marriage who, in the exercise of choice, opts for the full time wife or mother role. [More…]
I also pose the question: What if the husband establishes grounds for divorce, albeit that there may be in normal circumstances a general desire on the part of the woman to continue her role as a wife and mother but on other occasions she may so break that role as to occasion proper grounds for divorce. [More…]
I hope that it is the sort of amendment that some people I see sitting opposite might be prepared to support in order to stop this drift and to recognise the fact that a woman who stops at home and looks after the children may be entitled in the coming years to some sort of wage. [More…]
I want to posit this to him: A woman may be married for 15 or 18 years and the union, for “one reason or another, may break up. [More…]
Whatever a woman’s skill may have been, having been away from her vocation for so long she would be so utterly bereft of accomplishment in the field that pro tanto she would find herself placed in a position of difficulty. [More…]
If one is to seek reasons why a woman should be encouraged to continue as a wife and mother, they can be found by imposing the responsibilities on her husband to support her. [More…]
I believe it will be most unfortunate if the Parliament passes these laws which tend to thrust people out into the work place and which do not recognise that the traditional role of a woman in the Australian society still has a place within the laws of this Parliament. [More…]
While it could be argued, as the AttorneyGeneral undoubtedly will argue, that for example a woman who has taken action against her husband has merely helped him in time of sickness and so on, one does have to draw a distinction in terms of the interpretation of ‘living separate and apart’ in clause 49 and the provision in sub-clause (2) relating to the rendering of some household service to the other party. [More…]
between a man and a woman who is, or has been, his- [More…]
Daughter’s son’s wife between a woman and a man who is, or has been, her- [More…]
After all, I ask the Attorney-General: ‘Would a prohibited relationship be a marriage between a man and a woman who is his wife’s daughter’s daughter?’ [More…]
I ask: ‘Would it be a prohibited relationship between a woman and a man who is her husband’s son’s son, or between a woman and a husband’s daughter’s son?’ [More…]
Would the Attorney-General, as the principal law officer of the country, seriously contend that a judge should say to a woman who has been so utterly bereft of family and parental responsibility that merely because sheisthe mother she should not have custody of the children? [More…]
That, of course, immediately raises or questions the position of a woman who has not worked for many years during marriage, who has lost old skills and must retrain herself if she is to be able to support herself. [More…]
I speak of the woman because it is a rare situation where the innocent husband needs to be supported by the wife. [More…]
I made the point that in this legislation there is a thrust that compels to go out into the work force a woman who has been married and who is capable of working but who might well have looked forward to a life and a proper and traditional career as a wife and mother. [More…]
A woman will have to go out and get a job even though she might have regarded both being a wife and a mother as being in the traditional sense a true and proper vocation in which to spend her life. [More…]
If honourable members want to have legislation which absolves any male from any responsibilityfor his own actions and for the woman he marries- I say again that that is not the sort of legislation that ought to be passed by this House- they should agree to this clause being passed as it stands for that is what it seeks to do. [More…]
But there also ought to be an element that takes account of the position of a woman who believes that a woman’s role is to be a wife and mother and who believes that that is an adequate role for a woman in Australian society. [More…]
It does not compel a woman to do certain things. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition has proposed the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph 3 of clause 75 (2): (ca) the need to protect the position of a woman who wishes only to continue her role as a wife and mother; [More…]
What the present amendment proposes to do is to say in plain, clear and unmistakable words that there is a need to protect the position of a woman who wishes only to continue her role as wife and mother. [More…]
This world in which we force the woman to go from home to industry where she has to meet obligations of very great costs- maintenance and other debts. [More…]
The court will not look upon her as the woman, the mother, the wife, the bearer of children, the one responsible for the upbringing of the family; it will look upon her as just another person, another party. [More…]
I want the Committee to remember that of the widows pensions that the Government pays over half are paid not to de jure widows but to notional widows- that is, to separated and divorced women- it is the availability of this pension which makes this amendment which has been moved by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Fraser) so much desired, because what is happening is that only a small subvention from the husband or the ex-husband will be capable of keeping a woman in domestic circumstances rather than sending her out to work, as the pension will be available also. [More…]
As a matter of practicality I think it is very often for a woman not a choice between part time work and full time work but a choice between full time work or no work, and that will, of course, affect her aligibility for the widows pension. [More…]
But beyond these practical aspects I think it is very desirable, because it does add something to the whole tone of this clause and makes clear, as surely we want to make clear, that an elderly woman whose marriage has broken up should not have to go out to full time work. [More…]
Let us remember that, in the nature of things, there will be many cases where an elderly woman is deserted without just cause by a husband of similar age who is able to find a young partner, whereas the woman would have the same capacity to do so. [More…]
I see in paragraphs (c), (k) and (n)- those paragraphs referred to by the right honourable member for Lowe (Mr McMahon)sufficient protection for the woman who wants to continue her role as a mother. [More…]
I think she would find it very difficult after separation to continue her role as a wife but she may be able to continue her role or want to continue her role as a woman. [More…]
Obviously, in many cases the earning capacity of the woman has been affected by her married life. [More…]
The third point that worries me is that the proposed amendment states: the need to protect the position of a woman who wishes only to continue her role as a wife and mother; [More…]
But in all seriousness I ask: How can an amendment be proposed which deals with ‘the need to protect the position of a woman who wishes only to continue her role as a wife and mother’ when the marriage has been dissolved? [More…]
The honourable member for Macquarie (Mr Luchetti) rightly interjected on the honourable member for Angas and asked: ‘At what stage does a woman cease to be a mother?’ [More…]
The honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth) instanced the case of the elderly woman whose marriage has broken up and who must go out to work. [More…]
It is my belief that this clause affords that woman the full protection of the court in the determination of maintenance. [More…]
It amazes me that so many honourable members in this chamber are attempting to find excuses for not upholding the position of a woman who wants to remain a wife and a mother. [More…]
Therefore the clause is appropriate to describe the position of a woman who is going to continue to be a wife and going to continue to be in the matrimonial home. [More…]
The proposal before the Committee is to put emphasis on the position of the woman who wants to commit herself to the marriage, and to make it quite clear that what we said with regard to clause 41 we really mean, so that when the question of maintenance comes up the woman who does want to commit herself as a mother and a wife will be taken into consideration and will not be treated as a second-class citizen, a deprived person, a person who has to be considered for social services in this country. [More…]
Now the farmers have forced her off the inquiry because she is fundamentally a very honest woman, and a woman with great respect for the Industries Assistance Commission. [More…]
She is a woman who will discharge those honours with great credit to herself and to the people she represents. [More…]
He is opposed to the one woman in the House of Representatives. [More…]
Obviously, she does not pander to him enough and therefore he makes sure the boundaries are drawn in such a way that the only fair woman in the House will leave us if this redistribution is agreed to. [More…]
On both claims the woman described herself as the foster mother of the children. [More…]
On the second claim, which was made some 14 months after the first claim, the woman concerned showed again the first child’s given names exactly as they appeared on the original application. [More…]
I also remind honourable members that there was a 14 months’ lapse of time between the first and the second claims for child endowment and that on the occasion of the second claim the woman concerned still showed herself as a foster mother and still gave the original or given name of the child as it was before adoption when it was changed. [More…]
One could say that almost every man, woman and child at some stage must have been driving roofing nails into the roofs of houses in Darwin. [More…]
Will this concession end once the baby is delivered and will the woman then have to elect to be a private patient paying $30 a day for the postconfinement period in the hospital if her own doctor is to be retained? [More…]
There is another case of a woman who applied for and was granted housewife’s retraining last year. [More…]
I mention next the case of a woman who received some help through the widows retraining scheme last year. [More…]
I refer next to a single woman, aged 30 years, who was in the work force for 15 years in unskilled occupations. [More…]
Each man and woman must learn to cope with it and utilise it for its purposes just as we have coped with and learnt to utilise other products of technological advancement. [More…]
The Government claims with respect of midwifery cases that the woman patient will have the choice of her own doctor. [More…]
The woman conducting the survey justified her presence by saying that Mrs Simpkins had already received a letter saying that she had been selected. [More…]
Simpkins explained to the woman that she was not interested the woman responded by saying that she had been chosen. [More…]
This letter clearly documents the position of this woman. [More…]
On a per capita basis that represents about $22 for every man, woman and child in Tasmania. [More…]
It is a matter of considerable concern to us that he should be the right person, man or woman. [More…]
I suppose that what really brought this to my mind was one middle aged woman in my electorate who was driven almost to suicide by people who were telephoning- it seemed to be a bit of a campaign- impugning her morals. [More…]
First of all a woman who wanted one had to go and get a medical prescription. [More…]
She was also rejected for assistance under the NEAT scheme, but there is in fact no record of correspondence from the honourable gentleman supporting the woman’s application. [More…]
Every Australian, especially every working man and woman, must realise that to finance this Government’s grandiose and often wasteful schemes the Government not only has to tax those with means and wealth but also has to reach down to tax the average man and woman. [More…]
If a woman’s husband is working she has no right to be regarded as unemployed. [More…]
Only 3 weeks ago a woman came into my office with a request. [More…]
This particular woman had 5 children, including 2 teenagers, who at that stage were living in a caravan for four in a person’s backyard. [More…]
I had to look at that woman and say: ‘I cannot help you’. [More…]
It deserves the derision of every man, woman and child who lives outside the cities, and it has got it. [More…]
It took that woman 5 months to get a response. [More…]
Every man, woman and child in the community benefits from it, and it is necessary that problems of local government be studied seriously and that realistic decisions regarding assistance be made. [More…]
It outlays an amount of $22,000m, which is approximately equal to $1,398 for each man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]
My Government has appointed a woman as the Chief Judge of the new Family Court of Australia. [More…]
My Government is going to appoint another woman as chairman of the consumer protection authority which is about to be established. [More…]
Members interject that there is also Commonwealth Hostels Ltd. My Government appointed, for the first time, a woman to the Board of Commonwealth Hostels Ltd- a very well qualified woman indeed. [More…]
I do not believe that a well qualified woman should be denied an appointment appropriate to her talents because she is the wife of the head of a government department, as Mrs Wilenski is, or because she is the wife of the Prime Minister. [More…]
The last Labor Government made the only provision in Australian legislation for a woman to be appointed to a position which is open to governments to fill, namely, the position on the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
The Chifley Government amended the law to say that at least one member had to be a woman. [More…]
But for the first time my Government appointed a career woman to a diplomatic post. [More…]
The first is that it is no longer the rich who suffer according to this principle, but every working man and woman in Australia through the impact of taxation. [More…]
They ought to be proud that they are members of free enterprise parties when 290 companies are being investigated because of their activities in New South Wales, at the risk of more than $2 70m of public money going up the spout This represents more than $70 for every man, woman and child in New South Wales. [More…]
Our attitude is that the earnings of a man or a woman from the work that they do is theirs primarily for their own benefit and use. [More…]
In doing that we would be providing to the people, to the working man and woman of Australia an economic freedom which equates with personal freedom. [More…]
One of us (Lovejoy) has estimated that, if the 1973-74 expenditure on Aboriginal welfare of $1 1 7.4m had been given directly to Aboriginals (estimated to be 140 000), there would have been about $838.00 for every man, woman and child. [More…]
A report tided ‘Rural Poverty in Northern New South Wales’ by the Poverty Commission of Inquiry noted that if the 1973-74 expenditure on Aboriginal welfare of $1 17.4m had been given directly to Aborigines, then estimated at 140 000, it would have meant $838 for every man, woman and child. [More…]
But Medibank is something of value and assistance to every man, woman and child in the community. [More…]
It should be made clear to her that a woman has the option of making motherhood a career in itself, that she has the option of combining motherhood with a career outside the home and that she has the option of making a total commitment to the work force. [More…]
The honourable member for Darling read out a letter which was signed by Mrs Marcia Badgery, a woman I know extremely well and a woman who happens to live in the electorate of Darling. [More…]
She is a very fine woman, a very temperate woman, but a woman who is concerned about the way in which this Government has been performing. [More…]
When Collarenebri was in my electorate I was a very frequent visitor there and saw this woman frequently about many problems which they had in that area. [More…]
I read a letter from a woman living at Collarenebri. [More…]
That clearly indicated that I knew the woman was speaking about me. [More…]
Recently the AttorneyGeneral (Mr Enderby) announced that assistance to the value of about $5,000 to $6,000 would be given to a woman at Ferntree Gully to fight against quarry operations which were allegedly despoiling the environment and encroaching onto the communal rights of nearby residents. [More…]
The interpretation was that the Australian Government interfered in areas outside its concern and it sided with the woman and the environmentalists, whereas the facts were that after the woman had established that she had a prima facie case against the quarry company she required legal assistance, to take her case to the court. [More…]
I mentioned in another debate that the Australian Government had given $5,000 to $6,000 in legal aid to a woman in Ferntree Gully to argue in the Supreme Court of Victoria against the extension of a licence for the quarry in the area to operate. [More…]
The Government did feel that it had an obligation to provide assistance so that this woman had equal access to the law as did the company equipped with its own lawyers and finance. [More…]
The Conference was widely advertised as one to which all interested persons were invited to attend and every woman or man who applied for registration was accepted. [More…]
We appointed a royal commission into human relationships under the chairmanship of a woman judge. [More…]
In 1974 we introduced the supporting mothers’ benefit which is payable to any woman provided she has custody, care and control of a child. [More…]
A Medibank claims computer has gone bust because it refused to accept that a woman has two separate breasts. [More…]
The Bill also contains a provision which will give specific authority for the exclusion of a woman living with a man on a bona fide domestic basis from entitlement to a widow’s pension. [More…]
Every man, woman and child knows that the Government has the numbers in this place. [More…]
This was, I think, outrageous because at that time the man concerned was a Minister of this Government and favours were done by him for that woman whom I mentioned earlier. [More…]
At a recent meeting in my electorate a woman speaker brought up the question of the present policy of the Victorian Housing Commission in building homes costing $30,000 and the difficulties faced by people trying to buy them. [More…]
I believe that every woman who launches a ship- from the Head of State, the Queen, downwards- receives a gift.- 1 will, if the honourable gentleman places the question on notice, see whether I can compile a list of ships which have been launched by Ministers’ wives over the last 3 years or the previous 23 years. [More…]
Every worker who is unemployed as a result of that action, every public servant in Canberra who does not get paid, any industry that has to close down and any man or woman in the Northern Territory who may be out of work because of it should blame the Leader of the Opposition and the top members of the Country Party. [More…]
Does the Prime Minister remember Samuel Johnson being asked about women’s preaching and his answer: ‘Sir, a woman’s preaching is like a dog walking on his hind legs. [More…]
The thing which shocked them most- I do not put it as being right or wrongwas that women should have the same kind of vote as men, because the idea that the woman and man are equal is absolutely foreign to the Aboriginal concept. [More…]
I know that a woman and 2 children had to spend the night between the ceiling and the roof of a house. [More…]
I said she should not be under estimated as she was a pretty smart woman who did her homework and knew what she was talking about. [More…]
There are interesting questions to the ordinary man and woman who must try to assess whether Medibank will be maintained by the Government and encouraged to develop or whether it will be permitted to wither. [More…]
Most important of course is that the health of every personman, woman and child- has become less of a worry with the advent of Medibank. [More…]
There are in our towns and in our cities people who will work on committees or welfare and charitable programs without any personal gain except for the feeling of satisfaction that they are doing something for their fellow man or woman. [More…]
The former Senator Tangney was the first woman member of that chamber and indeed the first woman member of the Federal Parliament. [More…]
One man in every twenty and one woman in every one hundred are suffering from alcoholism in Australia. [More…]
However, I could not altogether agree with him when he said that Mr Daly was deliberately endeavouring to ensure that democracy was working to the full, that every man and woman was entitled to a vote, and all these sorts of things. [More…]
Does the Government suggest that there is no suitably eminent or qualified man or woman to take his place at the head of the Commission? [More…]
Woman with Parasol [More…]
The higher $40 benefit is payable to an age, invalid or widow pensioner, including a woman in receipt of supporting mother’s benefit, liable for the funeral costs of a spouse, a child or another pensioner. [More…]
the first and the only woman member of the Commission, Mrs Hylda Rolfe, who withdrew from the original inquiry on conscientious grounds. [More…]
This Opposition which talks about priorities, subsidies and things of this nature, when in government, introduced arrangements under which there is a $4,000 subsidy for every man and woman working in the motor vehicle industry in Australia. [More…]
I instance the example of a woman who came to see me recently. [More…]
However, this woman wanted a job to take her mind off some personal problems relating to her family in Sri Lanka rather than for economic reasons. [More…]
I believe that there is nothing worse for the morale of a man or a woman than to wish to work and to know that the opportunities simply are not there. [More…]
To prevent a husband from welshing, a woman sometimes has to go to court for an order over his property or for an order to garnishee his wages for maintenance payments. [More…]
Because of the complications of the new Family Law Act- the protection is much greater than under the old Matrimonial Causes Act but the new Act is much more complicated and accordingly needs qualified legal opinion and legal assistance for interpretation- such a woman who may be on a deserted wife’s pension, for example will be forced to go to a private solicitor and pay $120 to protect her legal rights. [More…]
I can understand the turmoil that must have been in the mind of a woman when she was contemplating that offer. [More…]
A deserted woman with 2 children, as in the example I gave, would have been receiving roughly $ 1 16 a week, which was barely enough. [More…]
Even if one dismisses the humanitarian grounds on which I am speaking, surely on a hard, economic, cost benefit analysis the Government’s case is unanswerable because that woman would have then gone off social welfare benefits and would have been earning wages and paying taxes. [More…]
Such a woman is now allowed to have assets amounting to $419 if she has no dependent children. [More…]
But how can our sensible ideals be upheld, especially in this time of change when the heart of the home, the woman, the mother, is being inveigled out into the workforce and children are more and more being farmed out to professional quasiparents? [More…]
But how can they get it when so many mothers work, either for economic necessity or because they have been conned by feminist movements and propaganda into believing the role of mother in the home is somehow a degraded one- a kept woman as one of the members of those movements put it, a vegetable? [More…]
I believe we should upgrade the special nature of the woman as wife and mother within the home, encourage more women to take up that role and restore its pride, and remove from our society any pressures that might militate against any woman choosing that role if she wishes. [More…]
As I understand it, it would be possible for a woman to remarry several times and, provided her new husband was a public servant on each occasion, to collect a number of separate pensions. [More…]
I do not think it is any more than giving a woman her right. [More…]
Any pension a woman receives upon the demise of her husband in my view is her right. [More…]
I cannot agree that a change in marital status should disadvantage a woman. [More…]
I put this to the Minister: If, for instance, a person has lost his father, if a family has lost its home, or if a woman has lost her husband, does he seriously say that that does not come within the ambit of special circumstances? [More…]
This clinic had been advertised extensively on television by the well-known woman’s cookery writer, Margret Fulton. [More…]
Firstly, the qualifying or vesting period for preservation of rights has been reduced from 20 years to 5 years, so that if a woman wishes after 5 years to leave the Public Service for reasons of child rearing, she can do so, return at a later date and have her rights preserved. [More…]
The wealthy man or woman will not be permitted to spend his or her way into office, nor will he or she enjoy the substantial advantage that money formerly held over the less well-to-do candidate. [More…]
The cost of earnings foregone should a mother give up her job have concomitantly increased and the role of the career woman as opposed to the housewife has become increasingly attractive to the female section of the population. [More…]
The woman concerned elected to have the matter of search determined by a Justice or Principal Officer of Customs; but before suitable arrangements for this could be made, she disrobed in the Customs Hall at the Terminal. [More…]
Behaviour which represents commendably strong leadership and resolve in a man is seen as unladylike and unacceptably dictatorial when exhibited by a woman. [More…]
A case which received some publicity earlier this week involved a woman travelling on a British passport who went overseas to visit her sick mother without obtaining the necessary endorsement before she left. [More…]
In the case of the particular woman concerned, as soon as my department heard of the situation it cabled authority to the Australian authorities in the United Kingdom to allow that endorsement to be placed in the woman’s passport. [More…]
I give an example of what is meant by that: A woman may be married and her husband may die. [More…]
People who insure privately, or who pay a premium to Medibank or who are eligible for exemption as a repatriation beneficiary or serviceman or woman will lodge a certificate from the body concerned with their tax returns. [More…]
I repeat what I said to the honourable member for Herbert, that is, that a man or woman who is in receipt of full medical treatment from the Repatriation Department will receive a full Medibank levy exemption and a man who has a wife or family will receive a 50 per cent exemption. [More…]
The result of those administrative economies has meant one thing, that is, that those high standards have been maintained and no veteran- man or woman- has been disadvantaged. [More…]
Because the provision of certain public goods adds to the ordinary persons standard of living, the pattern of cuts in government spending announced on Thursday night will mean maximum losses of public services to the ordinary man and woman. [More…]
The policy concerning family allowances for the family man and woman helps such people. [More…]
In Australia a woman has twice the chance of losing her uterus. [More…]
I cite the case of a woman who has been receiving maintenance payments from her husband or former husband which one assumes have been geared on the basis that they pay for the child’s upkeep. [More…]
On the other hand, the woman who is looking after the child will get significantly increased child endowment. [More…]
In Aboriginal belief in that area the earth spirit enters a woman to fashion the child when the woman first feels the quickening. [More…]
If a woman cannot look after her own family then someone else has to and it does then become a matter of dollars and cents-either for the husband or the State or some combination of the two. [More…]
That seems a rather onerous, unfair burden to impose on a woman in that situation- $ 1 a year more would mean $1.50 a week, or $78 a year, extra penalty as a contribution to Medibank. [More…]
The concept of a marriage being the union of a man and a woman for life to the exclusion of all others is to be applauded. [More…]
One elderly working woman said that she would be quite happy to do time for non-compliance and have a holiday. [More…]
The special conditions applying are briefly that: a claimant is in special need of financial assistance; a claimant ceased to live in Australia before 8 May 1 973; in the case of a claimant for age pension the applicant lived 30 years in Australia and left the country after reaching 60 years of age in the case of a man or 55 in the case of a woman. [More…]
In his life he was assisted at all times by his wife, Lady Casey- a remarkable woman in her own right. [More…]
After the success of that venture the same woman was seen by independent witnesses to be dragged from the hospital, screaming, with Ugandan soldiers forcing sponges down her throat to stop her plaintive cries. [More…]
Wire service reports clearly indicate that the body of this unfortunate woman, whose only crime was to be an innocent tourist, was found charred and burnt beyond recognition on the outskirts of Kampala. [More…]
I was the first Minister to appoint women to the Federal judiciary; the first Minister to appoint a woman as an arbitration commissioner I appointed two of them- and the first to insist upon the appointment of a female first assistant secretary. [More…]
I was the first Minister to insist upon the appointment of a woman to the executive of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. [More…]
The previous speaker laboured the point about what happens to the young couple when the woman has fallen pregnant and they have to wait a month to be married. [More…]
Section 43 (a) of the Family Law Act says: the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life; [More…]
I thought it was very noticeable that the occasion tonight so far as he was concerned was a family affair, and if I can speak of that particular marriage, it is one of a union of a man and woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life, and he is the issue of it. [More…]
One example that perhaps to some extent goes the other way is from a woman from Victoria. [More…]
the domicile of a woman who is, or has at any time been, married shall be determined as if she had never been married; and [More…]
I have had drawn to my attention- I have not got details with me- a specific case in which a woman incurred debts on the understanding that the debts would be met by the Treasury out of payment in lieu of accrued long service leave following the death of her husband. [More…]
The woman concerned has had her claims rejected by the Treasury on the basis of some decision which I understand was initiated last year, not this year. [More…]
Are we all so wealthy that we can afford almost $400 for each man, woman and child in Australia, to be locked up in savings accounts? [More…]
If one considers the provision of this leave, it actually discriminates against a pregnant woman with a number of children compared with one who has a small number of children because the first woman has less opportunity to get back into the work force. [More…]
Senator Jessop, when referring to these points, stated in the Adelaide Advertiser of the same day that he knew of a woman public servant who received 14 months maternity leave on full pay. [More…]
They are a tribute to what an Australian woman will do in bringing up her family. [More…]
Does the Government still consider it appropriate that women wishing to have access to this important information, which was collected and compiled at government expense, can have it only by purchasing Woman’s Day oi 23 and 30 August? [More…]
Not content with a sojourn into the game of ‘Guess The Deficit’, the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) came into the fray with his election assertion that every man, woman and child owed the Government $500 because of the deficit. [More…]
a woman whose marriage has been dissolved and who has not remarried; [More…]
a woman whose husband is a mental hospital patient; and [More…]
a woman whose husband has been convicted of an offence and is imprisoned and has been imprisoned for a period of not less than six months, including any period of imprisonment prior to and continuous with a period of imprisonment following upon the conviction. [More…]
but does not include a woman who is living with a man as his wife on a bona fide domestic basis although not legally married to him. [More…]
There is a television program about a $6m man and a $6m woman. [More…]
He said that if he were performing a hysterectomy on a woman and discovered that she had a clean appendix, he would whip out the appendix anyway because she might run into trouble later on in life. [More…]
And that we then say to the sportsmen and to the world that we grant the opportunity to every sportsman and to every sportswoman, irrespective of race or colour or creed, to reach the highest rung, unrestricted, within his own national bounds. [More…]
And further to grant every sportsman and woman in S.A., irrespective of colour, race, creed or whatever, the opportunity to compete with the sportsmen of other nations in S.A., and with the best sportsmen of any other country in the world.’ [More…]
I quote from section 75 (2) (1): … the need to protect the position of a woman who wishes only to continue her role as a wife and mother. [More…]
In cases cited people are complaining that the courts are inclined to lean over backwards to protect the woman and they are not taking a great deal of notice of whether the woman should have custody of the children. [More…]
The first rights which they were given by the Commonwealth and the States were fornication rights, so that it was no longer a crime for a white man to cohabit with an Aboriginal woman. [More…]
The Minister for Health (Mr Hunt) today notified me of a decision in relation to a woman of 95 years of age whose 60 year old daughter has been taking care of her. [More…]
I hope that in his wisdom the Minister will agree that a woman who looks after her 98 year old mother should receive the payment for domiciliary nursing care. [More…]
I am aware that there is employed in Kalgoorlie a woman who is seeking to have her visitor status changed to that of resident status. [More…]
But some of the smaller employers in the suburbs, smaller retailers who just want to employ a couple of people and do not want an enormous training program that they have to maintain, much prefer to employ a mature woman coming back into the work force, in terms of her attitude to her work and her attitude to the customers, than to take on a young person fresh out of school and have to train him or her from scratch. [More…]
The Department of Social Security did not provide a copy of the manuscript for the Directory to Woman’s Day nor authorise its publication. [More…]
The article itself is about a 65-year-old migrant woman from Yugoslavia who is picked up at 5 a.m. by a contractor in a bus and transported to a market garden where she spends 8 hours in the field hoeing and gets for doing so $17. [More…]
This 65-year-old woman catches a bus at 5 a.m. and works for 8 hours for $17 but that is only one of the unfortunate positions in which many migrant women workers find themselves. [More…]
I think honourable members will remember my colleague the honourable member for Batman (Mr Garrick) raising the subject of a woman who was killed in a rail accident. [More…]
What is disturbing is that the migrant woman worker goes into that position without the protection of understanding and without the ability to communicate. [More…]
They are provided at night, when the woman who has been working in the factory and who has had a long day in the factory has to be at home as a housekeeper and as a mother. [More…]
It is only when we have a migration program that allows the migrant woman worker to feel the confidence that she can communicate, can make her demands, can understand the conditions under which she works, can feel a position of equality and dignity in the work force that we can be satisfied with that migration program. [More…]
Non-government enterprise in this country includes every man or woman who makes an investment or takes a risk to set up a business operation, to do something for themselves and thereby do something for others, who employs other people and contributes through taxes to the national resource. [More…]
Who knows, they may even appoint a woman. [More…]
Men outnumbered women by just under 2 to 1 in universities; in the colleges of advanced education 37 per cent of enrolments were male; in technical and further education there were nearly 3 men for every 1 woman. [More…]
They were able to put a case for Whyalla, looking at the matter from the woman ‘s point of view and at the social effects. [More…]
The quantity and the quality of water resources are involved in the lives of every man, woman and child in the nation, and to a large degree decide conditions of health and happiness in every town and village. [More…]
The existing legislation also provides for at least one commissioner to be a woman. [More…]
At present the Act requires that only one of the nine be a woman. [More…]
He wanted to charge a senior police officer for excessive use of a baton against a woman in the course of a demonstration. [More…]
A woman who was working as a typist in local government in Sydney, who was shifted with her family to Canberra, who took the opportunity of settling her family in the Canberra community, who was off work for no longer than 12 months and who then decided to take a job with the Public Service, would continue to have an entitlement to long service leave credits. [More…]
They include the famous work of art by William Dobell, ‘Regent’s Park London’, and the Russell Drysdale paintings ‘Halfcaste Woman’ and ‘Country Boy’ and others. [More…]
I am amused to hear the honourable member for Kingston (Mr Chapman) say that as a Liberal he is interested in women’s rights, particularly as just 2 nights ago the Liberal Party had a woman jumping out of a cake in Parliament House, demeaning not only the status of women in this country but also the status of the Ministers and members who were there. [More…]
But in the Parliament of this nation you and your Ministers are involved in a party in which you have a woman jumping naked out of a cake. [More…]
Why did we need to say that at least one commissioner should be a woman? [More…]
There is no reason why one of the 3 vacancies could not have been filled by a woman appointed by the Government. [More…]
That woman was living in a home provided by the Australian National Railways. [More…]
This amendment will allow the appointment of a representative from Tasmania, a representative from South Australia, which are not represented on the Commission at the present time, plus another woman, without in any way interfering with the term of office of the current commissioners. [More…]
The fact that in the past we have had only one woman commissioner is no argument for showing our generosity by increasing the number to two. [More…]
I should have thought that irrespective of whether it had to be a woman or a man he would have been able to find at least one from Tasmania. [More…]
I believe that if a man or a woman is appointed to the Commission at well under 60 years of age, he or she should not automatically have to retire after serving for 10 years. [More…]
It is a pretty notion that in this day and age man and woman should have achieved equality. [More…]
Proposed new sub-section 31(2) is not a condescending accommodation of woman’s aspirations but is a very practical device to ensure that when people address themselves to electing commissioners they do not by oversight miss the essential qualifications of women for appointment to the Commission. [More…]
1 ) Did broadcasting station 2JJ between 12.20 and 1 2.30 a.m. on Wednesday, 10 November 1976, broadcast in a woman ‘s voice a filthy and degenerate narrative. [More…]
But the question raised is this: Is every man or woman appointed from outside the Public Service to be regarded as a political appointee? [More…]
After that time every casual vacancy until 1974 was filled by a State government and then by a State parliament by a man or a woman belonging to the same party as the former senator, however the former senator ceased to be a senator. [More…]
If the best man or woman for any of these jobs is to be found in the Senate or the Legislative Council, he or she should be eligible format appointment. [More…]
In the name of efficiency and economy the Fraser Government is simply transferring its responsibilities to the pocket of every man and woman in Australia. [More…]
As I am reminded by my colleague, the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron), who recently, I have no doubt, has taken the opportunity to see some comprehensive and valuable collections in the United States of America, questions were asked from time to time about the wisdom of purchasing Blue Poles or Woman V. As we all know, if the Australian Government were now to dispose of those 2 works on the international art market, Australia would reap a very good profit indeed. [More…]
In 1976-77 all levels of government spending reached $2,339 for every man woman and child in this country, out of which social welfare alone accounted for over 30 per cent. [More…]
Again on 8 March of this year I had to sit in the Parliament and listen to a woman, who I am sure is looked up to by all in this land and in other lands, so embarrassed that she got her words confused and spoke about this being the silver jubilee reign of her year. [More…]
It was our Constitution which forced the Governor-General to take the decision he took- to allow every free man and woman of sane mind an opportunity to decide that issue by way of a democratic election. [More…]
I do not think that the Government will come up with any ideas that will attract a woman to have more children than she desires when she is first married and to give up the opportunity of going back to work. [More…]
As well as being an outstanding monarch, our Queen is also a remarkable woman. [More…]
I know the woman. [More…]
There are other initiatives to which I could refer but it is enough to refer to those mentioned to demonstrate the concern of this Government with the individual, the ordinary man and woman in our community. [More…]
There is no greater affront to a man’s dignity or a woman’s dignity and to their confidence and sense of purpose, quite apart from the financial strains involved, than unemployment. [More…]
Every woman who needs or wants to work will have the right to work, to work with equal pay, to work on terms of genuine equality, to have the same access to job training schemes, wage indexation and unemployment benefits- [More…]
If a woman is working - [More…]
If a woman is passed over for a job and appeals to a tribunal, there is usually a man who can claim longer experience and seniority. [More…]
As a result, nearly every statutory body now has a woman at the top, on its board or in a senior position. [More…]
The next Labor Government will provide a full charter of job security and equality of opportunity for every woman who wants or needs to work. [More…]
Every woman who needs or wants to work will have the right to work, to work with equal pay, to work on terms of genuine equality, to have the same access to job training schemes, wage indexation and unemployment benefits, to enjoy the same protection from exploitation, and to enjoy adequate child care services if she is working or if she is not. [More…]
I accept the right of every woman to pursue basically what she wishes to pursue in life consistent with the law, but if women are forced through economic circumstances against their will to work when they would prefer to remain at home or to have additional children the resources of our society should be directed where possible to overcome that situation. [More…]
If one compares the various income alternatives of a man working on average award rates, a woman working on average award rates and a couple with one income and the benefits and rebates accruing to their family of, say, two, three or four children, there is no doubt that the family group is disadvantaged in relation to the others. [More…]
I think governments have a responsibility to provide a framework within which the decision by a woman to stay home and raise a family should be encouraged and not discouraged. [More…]
At the present time the woman who undertakes this task- the most important job imaginable in my opinion- is penalised compared with the wife who chooses to work. [More…]
Also she is much maligned by women’s activist groups who can see no merit in the role of the woman who stays at home to raise and care for her children. [More…]
Rather, they believe that the woman with the pay packet is the liberated woman. [More…]
What I am trying to say is that she should not be discriminated against when compared with the woman who chooses not to have a family but would rather work. [More…]
Most of those people who receive other social service payments get that entitlement through something definite that has happened: A person is over 70 years of age or 65 years of age; a person is handicapped; a woman is widowed. [More…]
The members of the Liberal Party in South Australia, as has the honourable member for Kingston tonight, have used the privilege of Parliament to attack a woman who has been prepared to go down to what the honourable member for Kingston would have to admit are some of the worst slums in Adelaide and do one of those jobs that many people would not be prepared to do. [More…]
I suggest that honourable members who hide in their cowards’ castle as we have seen tonight and as has been the case on 2 occasions in the South Australian Parliament to run down this woman in the manner in which they have, should examine their morals. [More…]
If the Australian Public Service is prepared to pay the extra taxes needed to extend its superannuation benefits to everybody else, I am all for a generous superannuation scheme for every Australian man and woman in the work force. [More…]
-Has the attention of the Minister for Post and Telecommunications been drawn to a sadistic, brutal attack upon a young married woman in Hotham Street, Elsternwick that might have been avoided if 2 telephone boxes where she endeavoured to ring a taxi had not been rendered inoperative by obviously sick, senseless vandals? [More…]
Unforgettable was the tragedy of the older woman having her baby killed as she talked to a reporter. [More…]
As the television audience watched, his male reproductive capabilities were destroyed, incidentally by a woman doctor. [More…]
If a man and a woman choose to live together and to experience a normal sexual relationship that does not seem to me, as it seems to the honourable member for Swan, to have the connotation that an endless chain of children should be produced by that relationship. [More…]
He says that a woman finding herself pregnant, perhaps after taking the best precautions in the world, who is not prepared to bear the child, should be forced to go ahead and bear the child. [More…]
-The problem with the honourable member is that he is not a woman. [More…]
That warning is that the man or woman is not obliged to answer any questions asked of him or her and that he or she may at any time consult a lawyer or communicate with an appropriate relative or friend if he or she wishes to do so. [More…]
He referred to a Dubai woman who lives at times in Mt Pleasant. [More…]
He will remember that the woman, who has been made bankrupt because she cannot pay the Telecom Australia account, and her husband have sworn under examination at bankruptcy hearings in Townsville that the calls were made and accepted on behalf of the Federal Government and that one of the services- an unlisted service- was installed for that very purpose. [More…]
Any man or woman who cares to listen to or read this speech should consider carefully whether they believe that the views expressed by the AUS in fact represent, as they allege, the majority view of students in Australia which has not been tested. [More…]
Did the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s radio stations 2NA and 2UH, on their program Talking Point from 5.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday, 22 May 1977, broadcast an interview by a woman with 2 lesbians that was filthy and degenerate, with the interviewer appearing deliberately to lead the conversation on to what they said? [More…]
It is the inherent right and desire of every decent woman to reproduce. [More…]
Mrs Pearl Buck, a prominent United States woman, said: [More…]
This point has been picked up by Rydge’s magazine which recently reported a study of industrial relations in the Pilbara region by a woman who turned out to be the daughterinlaw of the Premier of Western Australia, Sir Charles Court. [More…]
This woman, Mrs Court, found that the major reason for bad industrial relations in the Pilbara was not that there were evilminded trade union officials operating there but that management was largely the cause. [More…]
The Government is not going to settle industrial disputes by the use of force or threats, particularly when a person’s livelihood is at stake, because immediately the sympathy of fellow workers is encouraged and they act in unison to protect that man’s rights or that woman’s rights. [More…]
If the Australian Public Service is prepared to pay the extra taxes needed to extend the superannuation benefits to everybody else, I am all for a generous superannuation scheme for every Australian man and woman in the work force. [More…]
During the recess a woman in Sydney wrote to me drawing my attention to the state of the grave of Australia ‘s first Prime Minister, Sir Edmund Barton. [More…]
Did the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s radio stations 2NA and 2UH, on their program Talking Point from 5.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday, 22 May 1977, broadcast an interview by a woman with two lesbians that was filthy and degenerate, with the interviewer appearing deliberately to lead the conversation on to what they said? [More…]
Every man, woman and child in this country would be an equal shareholder in it so that no foreign multinational corporation could exploit them as is being done in so many other industries. [More…]
He wanted to see the Australian people- every man, woman and child in Australia- being an equal shareholder in the exploitation of Australia’s resources of gas on the North West Shelf. [More…]
Productivity per man or woman was predicted to rise in this period by 4 per cent. [More…]
I pointed out to His Excellency that barely three months ago two members of the United States Congress, including a woman, had been in East Timor. [More…]
Not many years ago there was an incident in New South Wales which many honourable members may remember and in which a presiding officer of the Legislative Assembly was harassed by a private prosecution on information laid by a woman whose legal aid was provided gratis by the Liberal Party of New South Wales. [More…]
He has insulted every woman in the Riverina electorate. [More…]
These restorations amount to an average of more than $700 being returned to each employed man and woman. [More…]
I mention the case of a constituent, a young woman with two children. [More…]
This woman is separated from her husband because of a breakup that occurred after the husband became unemployed. [More…]
The woman ‘s four-year old son has a pain in his mouth. [More…]
Will the council seek the best man or woman for the job of chairman of that council? [More…]
It is difficult to believe that this great woman, who was 99 years of age, did such great things in the area in which she lived. [More…]
She was a great woman. [More…]
She was a great woman and a great member of the Labor Party. [More…]
Three judges of the Court of Criminal Appeal in Britain reversed the decision of a trial judge who had sentenced a man to three years’ imprisonment for attempted rape of a defenceless woman. [More…]
One of the judges said that if this woman had not fought so vigorously to preserve her virginity she would not have incurred these serious injuries. [More…]
I am not objecting to both parents working nor am I wishing to justify the hoary old statement that a woman’s place is in the home. [More…]
Coming as they did so soon after a visit by two of our colleagues from the United States Congress- one of them a woman- they represented in our judgment an affront to those of us who without fear or favour wished to visit East Timor to establish the facts. [More…]
The Minister for Social Security, who is a woman and is sympathetic said that fees would not be raised. [More…]
We get to the ridiculous situation where both orders could be enforced and the unfortunate woman could be in a position of occupying a home which could be sold to someone else. [More…]
But they should always remember that the most important commodity on God’s earth is the human being- man and woman. [More…]
The shock he feels has been echoed this week by the French Press and the Paris an establishment, which cannot understand why anybody should not want to admire Braque ‘s idea of the perfect woman- even if she does have angles where most girls have curves. [More…]
Now that there has been this appreciable increase in benefits paid to nursing homes it is time for nursing homes to cut out that nefarious practice of charging pensioners, even a woman who has her husband in a nursing home, up to $ 10 per week to cover various necessities such as laundry costs and this type of thing. [More…]
That woman, being Japanese by birth, was most upset and aggrieved because she thought that Mr Grassby was making a reflection on her and her people. [More…]
I think he knows that the woman concerned lives in his electorate. [More…]
For instance, the migrant services outreach program has been taken from a competent migrant welfare officer and placed in the hands of a woman with no casework or community work experience with migrants. [More…]
This womanthe fault does not lie with her- has no linguistic skills, no experience of working directly or indirectly with migrants and no direct knowledge of the politics and problems associated with ethnic community work. [More…]
This situation is unfair both to the woman herself and to the other staff. [More…]
That was a somewhat more sensible time-table for a measure that would affect the lifestyle of every man, woman and dependant in a case where the family breadwinner relied on wages or salary for income. [More…]
At present the Social Services Act provides that a married woman is not entitled to sickness benefit if it is reasonably possible for her husband to maintain her. [More…]
In future a married woman will be able to qualify for a sickness benefit on the same basis as a married man. [More…]
We- every man and woman on this side of the House and the Senate- deplore the constant attacks by the Opposition and its desire to pursue a destructive campaign with the intent of talking down Australia. [More…]
It is important that the Australian people remember that the commentary I am now giving from a Reader’s Digest analysis of what happened in the Australian economy over those years is the sort of view that the average man or woman in other countries is getting of the Australian status under a Labor government. [More…]
What does the woman who is on a widow’s pension do for six weeks to look after her child who is unable to find a job? [More…]
ii) in the case of a man who is a married man living apart from his wife or a man who has ceased to live with a woman as her husband on a bona fide domestic basis although not legally married to her-who was an adopted child of, or in the custody, care and control of, that man on the relevant date; [More…]
is not living with, and for a period of at least 6 months has not been living with, a woman as her husband on a bona fide domestic basis although not legally married to her; and [More…]
in the case of a married man- is living apart from his wife and has been so living apart for a period of at least 6 months, but does not include a man who is qualified to receive a pension under Pan III, or a benefit under Part VII, of this Act, a service pension under the Repatriation Act 1920 or an allowance under the Tuberculosis Act 1948 or is in receipt of a benefit provided by a State that, in the opinion of the Director-General, is similar to a benefit provided by the State that is an approved benefit within the meaning of the States Grants (Deserted Wives) Act 1968; ‘supporting mother’ means a woman (whether married or unmarried) who- [More…]
was born of that woman; or [More…]
in the case of a woman who is a married woman living apart from her husband or a woman who has ceased to live with a man as his wife on a bona fide domestic basis although not legally married to him- was an adopted child of, or in the custody, care and control of, that woman on the relevant date; [More…]
in the case of a married woman- is living apart from her husband and has been so living apart for a period of at least 6 months, but does not include a woman who is qualified to receive a pension under Part III or IV, or a benefit under Part VII, of this Act, a service pension under the Repatriation Act 1920 or an allowance under the Tuberculosis Act 1948 or is in receipt of a benefit provided by a State that is an approved benefit within the meaning of the States Grants (Deserted Wives) Act 1 968; ‘supporting parent’ means a person who is a supporting father or a supporting mother. [More…]
the relevant date, in relation to a woman referred to in sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of that definition, is whichever of the following dates is applicable to the woman or, if both dates so applicable, the later date: [More…]
the date on which the woman commenced to live apart from her husband; [More…]
the date on which the woman ceased, or last ceased, to live with a man as his wife on a bona fide domestic basis although not legally married to him; and [More…]
a woman shall be deemed not to be, or not to have been, living with a man as his wife on a bona fide domestic basis although not legally married to him, being a man who has been convicted of an offence, during any period during which the man is, or was, imprisoned in connexion with the offence, being a continuous period of not less than 6 months, whether or not the period commenced before the conviction. [More…]
the date on which the man ceased, or last ceased, to live with a woman as her husband on a bona fide domestic basis although not legally married to her, and [More…]
b) a man shall be deemed not to be, or not to have been, living with a woman as her husband on a bona fide domestic basis although not legally married to her, being a woman who has been convicted of an offence, during any period during which the woman is, or was, imprisoned in connexion with the offence, being a continuous period of not less than 6 months, whether or not the period commenced before the conviction. [More…]
a reference to a woman who is living apart from her husband shall be read as a reference to a woman who is so living apart by reason that she and her husband are estranged; and [More…]
a ) in the case of a woman who is a supporting mother in relation to a child born of her- that child was born while she was residing in Australia; [More…]
in the case of a woman who has ceased to live with a man as his wife on a bona fide domestic basis although not legally married to him- she was residing in Australia immediately before she so ceased or last so ceased; [More…]
in the case of a man who has ceased to live with a woman as her husband on a bona fide domestic basis although not legally married to her- he was residing in Australia immediately before he so ceased or last so ceased; [More…]
a beneficiary, being a woman, commencing to live with a man as his wife on a bona fide domestic basis although not legally married to him; or [More…]
a beneficiary, being a man commencing to live with a woman as her husband on a bona fide domestic basis although not legally married to her. [More…]
When a woman remarries she is still able to stay at home with her children. [More…]
When the husband of the woman concerned died her entitlement ceased, although she was not aware of this fact. [More…]
This is an area where, quite clearly, the Minister should have discretion to take action in order to allow the woman’s application to be received as if it had been made prior to her departure from Australia. [More…]
In which overseas Australian posts is one of the 3 senior positions held by a woman (Hansard, 16 November 1976, page 2746). [More…]
I do not suggest that every job presently occupied by a woman would otherwise be occupied by a school leaver or somebody else who is on the unemployment lists. [More…]
But that person, in being elected to the Commonwealth Parliament, also achieved another distinctionthe distinction of being the first woman member of the Senate. [More…]
They could not care less about what it actually means to people- what it means to be a middle aged worker without work for the first time in his life; what it means to be a woman ready and eager to return to the work force but with nowhere to go; what it means to be young and well educated and to have door after door slammed in one’s face; what it means to be parents who see their children gradually lose their self-esteem and self-confidence in the face of this continual demoralising rejection; and what it means to these kids who, when they attempt to find other ways in which to fill their time, are hounded by police, scolded by courts and admonished by governments. [More…]
How can the family man and the working woman, majority of Australians, live under these conditions? [More…]
The other day I had the experience of speaking to a woman who went to a surgeon in Melbourne to have a lump removed from her leg. [More…]
The woman concerned was billed to the extent of $85,000. [More…]
Any man, although obviously in appearance a white person, who is married to an African woman is a member of the African group. [More…]
A man married or single who is ‘obviously in appearance’ or ‘by general acceptance and repute’ a white person and who attempts to have sexual intercourse with a woman who is not ‘obviously in appearance’ or ‘by general acceptance and repute’ a white person is guilty of a criminal offence punishable by imprisonment with compulsory hard labour for up to seven years, unless he can prove to the satisfaction of the court that he had reasonable cause to believe, at the time that the alleged offence was committed, that she was white. [More…]
Here is a highly respected woman who wants to join her widowed brother in Australia. [More…]
My constituent then went back to a member of the Alitalia staff on duty and asked her to take her to the manager, whereupon the girl led her along a corridor to a room and said to the people in the room: ‘This woman is harassing me’. [More…]
The Commonwealth could be held liable for any damages which may have been caused to my constituent as a result of this incident and the continuing stress and anguish which, of course, is natural in a woman of her age being so brutally and callously treated upon arrival back in her own country. [More…]
The only other notable improvement concerns the case where a contributor or pensioner dies and leaves more than one spouse, such as where a married male contributor lives in a de facto relationship with another woman. [More…]
In the case of widow s pension and supporting mother’s benefit, it may also mean that pension or benefit is not payable because the claimant is treated as a married woman and not as a widow or supporting mother. [More…]
The basic rationale behind the interpretations applied is to ensure that a man and woman, who for any reason live together in circumstances similar to that of husband and wife, are not placed in a better position than a legally married couple. [More…]
The ‘Rhodesian situation’ means many things to many people; but for the sake of the record I dare to express the opinion that legally there is nothing in this Bill to prevent any man or any woman if he or she so chooses from leaving this country today to serve in the armed forces of the present Government of Rhodesia if conscience so directs. [More…]
In addition, the actions that we have taken over Aurukun and Mornington Island also indicate a very basic commitment to the equality of man with man and woman with woman in Australia, which I was not aware of noticing from the Opposition when it had an opportunity to do something in this area. [More…]
John Trlin says he is looking for 30 men, and a woman, from 1 5 to 52 years of age wanting to earn up to $50,000 a year. [More…]
One woman lost her husband. [More…]
This method is illegal in Japan because it is highly risky for the woman, but it is still used here in Australia. [More…]
Another method of killing the child before birth is exsanguination, by which the baby’s umbilicus is drawn outside the woman’s body and cut to allow the baby to bleed to death while it is unborn. [More…]
It is then scraped out of the woman’s body. [More…]
Perhaps there have been instances of bank managers making these excuses as an easy way out when in fact the application for credit has been refused either because of the inability of the business involved to meet the requirements of trading banks, which are not in a position to provide developmental finance, or because of the incapacity of the business man or woman to show proof of an ability to service a larger debt in the necessarily short term nature of trading bank overdrafts. [More…]
Does he think that it is right and proper that the ordinary man and woman, who just cannot afford to utilise tax avoidance schemes because they cannot afford to pay the legal and accounting fees involved and because it would not be worth their while anyway in view of the lower levels of taxation that they pay, should have to pay a higher amount of tax because people on much higher levels of income and wealth are avoiding their tax? [More…]
Let me say again on behalf of the Labor Party, as I have said so many times previously, that it believes in the right to work for all those desirous of working and to the Labor Party a married woman has just as much right to go to work as any other citizen. [More…]
That is a very cynical, heartless approach which has no respect whatsoever, as I said earlier, for the right of a man or a woman to work or for the dignity of men and women. [More…]
If ever a thimble and pea trick were played on the Australian family man and woman it was done by his Government when it decided to cut out the tax rebate for dependent children and introduce family allowances. [More…]
The only prison where age does not seem to have a significant criterion is Bukit Duri women’s prison in Jakarta where the releases included a young woman of 30 who would have been a teenager at the time of her arrest. [More…]
In relation to the question of the rents that have been charged, I cite an example which was brought to me of a woman whose house has not been rehabilitated is at present paying $18 a week. [More…]
A woman who belongs to the Hibernian Society does so on the understanding that she will no longer be paid for the termination of a pregnancy. [More…]
It knows very well that if a woman who is a subscriber to the Hibernian Society wants to have a pregnancy terminated all she has to do is allow her financial standing with the Hibernian Society to lapse some weeks before she decides to have that termination. [More…]
Let me give the House just one individual example: Only one week ago the relations of a 92 year-old blind woman came to me and said that she had been discharged from the Port Kembla Hospital on the advice of a doctor and had been taken home just two weeks before the relations consulted me. [More…]
The Labor Government took the attitude that a woman in a de facto relationship should be considered differently from a woman in a legal relationship. [More…]
My own electorate is burdened with people with enormous problems, such as the woman in the matrimonial home who is wondering whether she will be able to remain in the home. [More…]
the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life; [More…]
the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life; [More…]
I cite one particular marriage involving a woman from a poor background and a man who was rather well off. [More…]
And while it has made these changes which adversely affect the family, the Government will still continue to pay a maternity allowance to the Canberra bureaucrats which is worth $2,400 to a woman on $200 a week. [More…]
Machine and computer power is replacing man and woman power. [More…]
It is quite obvious from the speech just made by the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street), who is sitting at the table, that the Minister does not understand that there is such a thing as a man’s and woman’s inherent right to work. [More…]
What we are concerned with is the very important and fundamental issue of the maintenance of the dignity of man and woman. [More…]
Indeed, the total treatment of Tasmania comes out something like this: From Canberra this year Tasmania will be receiving $501,894,000, which on a per capita basis works out at something like $1,100 for every man, woman and child in Tasmania. [More…]
They include the family man who has been sacked or retrenched, the man who is the sole breadwinner of the family, and the man or the woman of the house who has to pay rent, who has to clothe the children and themselves as well. [More…]
The general principle that age pensions may not be granted to people outside Australia was relaxed in March 1974 to the extent that an age pension may be granted to a claimant who has not resided in Australia since 7 May 1973, but had lived 30 years or more in Australia, was aged 60 years or more (55 in the case of a woman) at the time of leaving Australia and is in special need of financial assistance. [More…]
It has long been the policy in the administration of the Social Services Act that a man and woman, not married, but living together and sharing the economies and advantages of a legally married couple, will not be accorded benefits greater than those granted a married couple, (see also Instruction 8.2). [More…]
The definition of “wife” in Section 18 of the Social Services Act includes a “dependent female” so that a woman coming within the definition of a “dependent female” is treated, for pension purposes, as if she were the legal wife of the claimant or pensioner. [More…]
A “dependent female” means a woman who has lived with a man as his wife on a bona fide domestic basis, though not legally married to him ‘. [More…]
As the honourable member for Banks has pointed out, the cost of the Commonwealth Parliament last financial year was $14,218,786 or, in round figures, one dollar for every man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]
I am aware of the fact that there is not one woman member of this Parliament which has 123 members. [More…]
It really is disgraceful that there is not one woman member of the House of Representatives. [More…]
I am not aware of any woman being appointed as a senior counsel officer or a Clerk of this Parliament. [More…]
There is not one woman attendant in this Parliament. [More…]
I note with interest that the Australian Labor Party has selected a woman candidate, Mrs Ros Kelly, as its candidate for the seat of Canberra at the next election. [More…]
At least this Government has a Cabinet Minister who is a woman, but the voice of women is not often heard in government. [More…]
The Bill will ratify these sorts of arrangements and will acknowledge that the de facto relationship between a man and a woman is as solid and as strong as the normally accepted relationship of marriage. [More…]
by adding at the end of sub-section ( 1 ) the following definition: “Widow”, in relation to an eligible person who died after the commencement of section 3 of the Defence Service Homes Amendment Act 1978, includes a woman who lived with the eligible person as his wife on a permanent and bona fide domestic basis, although not legally married to him, for not less than 3 years immediately before his death. [More…]
by inserting after sub-section (3) the following subsections: (3a) A reference in this Act to the wife of a man shall, in relation to any time when a woman is living with him as his wife on a permanent and bona fide domestic basis, although not legally married to him, be read as including a reference to that woman if she has so lived with him for not less than 3 years immediately before that time. [More…]
(3b) A reference in this Act to the husband of a woman shall, in relation to any time when a man is living with her as her husband on a permanent and bona fide domestic basis, although not legally married to her, be read as including a reference to that man if he has so lived with her for not less than 3 years immediately before that time. [More…]
I think the honourable member for Moreton, the Minister for Defence, would agree that a woman some day could become the Minister for Defence, and that women should be given - [More…]
I found her to be a most broad minded woman. [More…]
Total government borrowings overseas has now reached the level where the Government owes foreign financiers $280 for each man, woman and child in this country, compared with only $90 a head when the Fraser Government took over in November 1 975. [More…]
If we take them into consideration, for each man, woman and child in this country, we are going to be owing $320 as against the $90 at the time the Fraser Government came to office. [More…]
It seems to me to be reasonable, desirable and just where a married woman is holding down a position and an unemployed youngster is getting the unemployment benefit for the unemployment benefit to be paid in the form of an allowance to the mother to enable her to stay at home and for the young person to be given the opportunity to work. [More…]
The latest borrowing of another $600m from Japan puts every man, woman and child in the country into hock for $324. [More…]
The report stated further that a woman had been refused a seat on a Qantas flight between London and Tullamarine via Damascus because she was Jewish. [More…]
Is it also a fact that every Australian man, woman and child now owes overseas financiers over $280? [More…]
For the benefit of the honourable member for Gellibrand, this financial year Tasmania will be receiving from Canberra a record $50 1.894m which, on a per capita basis, works out at about $1,100 for every man, woman and child in Tasmania. [More…]
As far as I am concerned Tasmania has never had it so good and as long as this Government is prepared to pay $1,100 per annum for every man, woman and child in Tasmania it will have my full and continuing support. [More…]
If one compares the various income alternatives of a man working on average award rates, a woman working on average award rates, and a couple with one income and the benefits of rebates accruing to their family of say, two, three or four children, there is no doubt that the family group is disadvantaged in relation to others. [More…]
I am sure that many honourable members on both sides of the House can appreciate the anguish of a young man or young woman out of school, out of a job and down in the dumps. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party believes that maternity leave is a basic element of a woman’s right to work, her job security and her ability to compete on equal terms in the work force. [More…]
In February this year one in every three people working was a woman. [More…]
Why blame the pregnant woman for these inefficiencies? [More…]
A typical example is one woman who availed herself of the full and total provisions of the 1973 Act. [More…]
At the end of the 52 weeks, this woman submitted her resignation and was paid accrued annual holidays and received superannuation benefits for a period in which she did not work one day. [More…]
Maternity leave is essential to a woman’s right to work and her ability to achieve equality in the work place. [More…]
In 1972 one woman was a Second Division officer in the Commonwealth Public Service on a full-time basis. [More…]
They would be made a great deal more generous in this home of male chauvinism which has 123 members not one of whom is a woman. [More…]
Probably all of us, who are of another generation, were brought up with the well-known attitude about a woman’s place: A man got married expecting his wife to look after the home, have children and look after him when he got home. [More…]
Thus it would seem that provision for a woman to return to her previous job at the same salary and seniority level, with accrued entitlements, for example long service leave and superannuation, has given some women a choice of returning to the paid work force or not. [More…]
The previous speaker on this side of the House, the honourable member for Macquarie cited the example of a woman who took sick leave, which accrues at a fairly rapid rate, and her holiday leave and in fact was absent from work on full pay for some 52 weeks. [More…]
I do not contest the 12-weeks provision, but I cannot for the life of me see why, because a woman has a particular job, she should have an advantage over the rest of the Australian work force. [More…]
If a woman has not recovered at the end of that 12-week period she has access to her sick leave entitlements as long as she provides a doctor’s certificate. [More…]
Do these people really believe that any sane woman would behave in such a way? [More…]
They have cited the alleged case of a woman who used the full provisions for benefit, resigned and then picked up her leave entitlements. [More…]
Is it the intention of the Government to blackguard every young woman in the Public Service because of the actions of several people who have abused the system? [More…]
On 19 February 1976 a woman walked from the Speaker’s Gallery on to the floor of the chamber. [More…]
This Government’s foreign borrowings have pushed our debt obligations up to a record level of $325 per head of population- $325 for every man, woman and child in the nation. [More…]
The excellent article written by Professor Audrey Donnithorne in the issue of Quadrant on China- she is a woman with an impeccable reputation- pointed out, for example, that in the wage structure in that country there had been no adjustment in wages whatsoever from the late 1 950s to 1977. [More…]
There is no discrimination between a woman and a man receiving a supporting parents benefit The concessions available to all Supporting Parents are the same as those provided by the Labor Government to female Supporting Parents. [More…]
However, those levels of wage rates result in them getting proportionately a much larger amount than they would receive per man or per woman from the co-operative. [More…]
2 in Case K44 78 Australian Tax Cases 419, it is a fact that, as a result of the decision, where a woman has been divorced and has remarried and is receiving maintenance in respect of the children of the former marriage her new husband may have his entitlement to a tax rebate for his dependent wife reduced or eliminated because maintenance payments for the children are regarded as income of the woman. [More…]
As a result of the decision, will a woman receiving maintenance in respect of children be liable to taxation on these receipts. [More…]
Where a woman has been divorced and remarried, her husband would be entitled to claim a concessional rebate in respect of her maintenance. [More…]
Is it a fact that showers are provided in the men’s toilets at the Commonwealth Parliament Offices, Brisbane, on the 12th floor of the Australian Government Centre, whereas the women’s toilets in that same complex do not have showers even though one member of Parliament whose offices are on the 13th floor is a woman and all the secretaries in the 1 2 Parliamentarians ‘ offices are women. [More…]
In the current financial year, 1978-79, expenditure on health and welfare is expected to rise to $10.9 billion- almost $800 for every man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]
In 1977, the Social Services Act was amended to remove provisions which prevented a married woman from qualifying for sickness benefit on the same basis as a married man. [More…]
Why has a Fijian woman, Miss Rokocko, been detained for about two months when she has indicated that she wishes to many in Australia? [More…]
The matters raised in this Bill are matters of great concern to every citizen of this nation because they affect the basic legal rights of every man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]
Access to the High Court of Australia by every man, every woman and indeed every child, where an action is brought on behalf of a child, should be unrestricted. [More…]
I do not want it to become a court to which the ordinary man and woman will not have access. [More…]
To that extent, in giving my support to this Bill, I urge that governments, regardless of party affiliation watch carefully to ensure that there has not been created a situation in which the highest court of the land has become a court which is inaccessible to the ordinary man, woman and child. [More…]
I cite the case of a woman who had just finished paying off a freezer worth $800. [More…]
Recently a warrant was issued for the bailiff to seize a woman’s washing machine. [More…]
It seems to me from the remarks you have made that because this debate is restricted no honourable member who wants to support a woman’s right to decide whether she will have an abortion will have an opportunity of entering this debate. [More…]
Again in simple terms, if the woman had cancer of the womb which could be treated in no other way than by termination of the pregnancy and her life was in danger, then benefits would be paid if the doctor so certified. [More…]
necessary to preserve a woman from the serious danger to her life or her physical and mental health, not being merely the normal dangers of pregnancy and childbirth, which the continuation of the pregnancy would entail; and [More…]
But there are other rights to consider also- the rights of the pregnant woman. [More…]
This difficult decision of the woman affects another personthe unborn life. [More…]
There is no conflict for me, just as there is no conflict for those who accept this right of the woman to abort when they believe that a separate life does not exist from conception. [More…]
must have honestly believed on reasonable grounds that the act done by him was (a) necessary to preserve the woman from a serious danger to her life or her physical or mental health (not being merely the normal dangers of pregnancy and childbirth) which the continuance of the pregnancy would entail; and (b) in the circumstances not out of proportion to the danger to be averted. [More…]
Every State law provides that a medical practitioner may terminate a woman’s pregnancy if the woman’s life is in danger. [More…]
The majority of States in Australia permit the termination of pregnancy if in the opinion of the medical practitioner the woman’s physical or mental health is at risk beyond the ‘normal risk’ of pregnancy and childbirth. [More…]
In the course of this debate we must not forget that the decision to terminate pregnancy is that of the woman. [More…]
The 40-year old woman pregnant as a result of rape may seek the advice of her husband, her children and her doctor. [More…]
Not one of us men in this House can speak of the personal experience which a woman or child undergoes in circumstances where she has to make a decision to terminate her pregnancy. [More…]
To follow the certification procedure further, it would be necessary for a doctor to distinguish between, for example, the diagnostic procedure to determine whether a woman has a carcinoma of the uterus, whereby a foetus would be removed by curettage of the uterus, and the case where a woman ‘s life is at risk if her pregnancy continues. [More…]
It is personal to the woman and to her medical practitioner. [More…]
The basis of the motion and the amendments is to persuade members of this House that abortion should be carried out only where the life of the woman or child is in danger. [More…]
Another example to consider is that of a 40- year-old married woman, the victim of a pack rape. [More…]
I would not turn my back on the woman facing that grinding mental devastation which can occur if a woman is unable to legally terminate her pregnancy. [More…]
The reasons which may lead a woman to consider abortion as a solution are basically the reasons given for a pregnancy being unwanted. [More…]
Of the ten reasons given in the report only one has anything at all to do with the mental or physical condition of the woman concerned, and that is the inability to cope emotionally. [More…]
Accordingly to establish that the use of an instrument with intent to procure a mis-carriage was unlawful the Crown must establish that the accused did not honestly believe on reasonable grounds that the act done by him was necessary to preserve the woman from serious danger to her physical or mental health or that the accused did not honestly believe on reasonable grounds that the act done by him was in the circumstance proportionate to the need to preserve the woman from the danger to her physical and mental health, (not being merely the normal dangers of pregnancy entails). [More…]
It is our opinion that the only circumstances in which a deliberate and intentional procurement of a mis-carriage would not be unlawful within the meaning of Section 65 of the Crimes Act 1958 (Victoria) may be in the case of the imminent death of a pregnant woman where no other means, medically, are available to preserve her life. [More…]
The person who suffers in the abortion is the woman and only the woman. [More…]
In the area of sexuality, the woman is burdened with almost the entire responsibility for birth control. [More…]
Existing contraceptive methods are not reliable or are dangerous to the woman’s health. [More…]
Let me say in passing that the argument that a woman is entitled to do what she will with her own body begs the question: Is she entitled to do what she likes with another human life? [More…]
I believe that if a woman does not want to bear a child, she should not have to. [More…]
I emphasise the following words- necessary to preserve a woman from the serious danger to her life or her physical or mental health (not being merely the normal dangers of pregnancy and child birth) which the continuance of the pregnancy would entail; and … in the circumstances not out of proportion to the danger to be averted. [More…]
The House will see that the first phrase that is used in the definition by Mr Justice Menhennitt is ‘necessary to preserve a woman from serious danger’. [More…]
I have taken those cases seriously because eventually it is the woman’s decision whether she has the termination. [More…]
The effect is not suffered only by the woman; it is suffered by the family- the children and the other parent- and society generally. [More…]
Many of these honourable member’s regardless of the way they feel, claim that we have no justification to interfere with a woman’s right to do what she wishes with her own body. [More…]
A woman in such a circumstance is entitled to every consideration and assistance. [More…]
But society cannot escape its responsibility to the unfortunate woman who does not get this assistance by simply saying: ‘You can do what you like with the unborn child and we’- that is society or the government- ‘will pay the medical or surgical bill’. [More…]
The single girl with an unplanned or unwanted pregnancy is often in the same predicament as a married woman whose husband refuses to share the responsibility. [More…]
I believe that the conception and life of a child in a mother’s womb and its birth concern not only co-operation between man and woman to bring new life into the world but are also the very basis of Christian belief in the creator and in the sacredness of human life. [More…]
It is not a man’s function to determine what a woman should do with her body. [More…]
He has very cleverly seized on this issue because he knows, first, that the majority of voters are women and, secondly, that the majority of people, men or women, favour the right of a woman to decide what will happen to her own body. [More…]
No honourable members know what it feels like to be in the position of a woman. [More…]
There is not one who has not released his passion upon the body of some woman. [More…]
If we are endowed with an ounce of Christian charity we should not be indifferent to the anxieties that torture the mind of every woman who is pregnant with an unwanted child. [More…]
If, by our deliberate act as parliamentarians, we become guilty of passing laws that send a poor woman to her death from blood poisoning or some other complication caused by a non-medical abortion, then that is a death that will haunt us to the day we face our maker. [More…]
No woman can get pregnant without the help of a man and most of the honourable members in this House tonight have been responsible for helping some woman get pregnant. [More…]
The burden of guilt varies little between one woman and another. [More…]
The anguish and worry could vary considerably between a rich woman and a poor working woman or a wife of a poor working man but a rich woman can at least face her abortion without medical risk and without financial embarrassment. [More…]
What clearly has brought the matter on is the large and increasing number of abortions financed in part by public funds, notwithstanding the law which provides that abortion is unlawful, except where the life or the physical and the mental health of the woman is seriously endangered. [More…]
Any woman, insured or not, can have her pregnancy terminated in a public hospital according to the law operating in her State. [More…]
One has to understand the emotions of a woman in this situation. [More…]
I would hope that an unmarried pregnant woman would be advised as widely as possible of the help that is available to her, not only from churches but also from State and Commonwealth governments as well. [More…]
Another matter I want to raise is the effect of the abortion on the woman who has been aborted. [More…]
Too many people feel that a woman can have an abortion and that is the end of the matter, that there are no further worries about it and she is back to where she started. [More…]
The question was whether or not a woman’s life was in any way in danger, physically or mentally. [More…]
In my view it would be for the jury to decide whether there existed in the case of each woman any economic, social or medical ground or reason which in their view could constitute reasonable grounds upon which an accused could honestly and reasonably believe there would result a serious danger to her physical or mental health. [More…]
Which one of us will send a woman to gaol? [More…]
What about offering a living wage to the woman who is pregnant and has no other source of income? [More…]
I cannot understand any government not offering help to a woman in need in those circumstances. [More…]
Is the woman the only one that is to be penalised in all these circumstances? [More…]
But when a woman says: ‘In the circumstances, I cannot see my way clear to live because of all the factors surrounding me ‘, we get this sort of result. [More…]
I would like to have thought that they had enough gumption to move a motion about the payment of a living wage to any pregnant woman who needed support. [More…]
The question would be whether one is preserving the life or health of the woman. [More…]
Can a woman undergo the stress and strain of a pregnancy with seven months yet to expire? [More…]
A woman can have an abortion or a termination of pregnancy in a standard ward and he will say nothing about it. [More…]
Many arguments are raised by people of goodwill against the practice of abortion itself, but it is simply not practicable to oblige women to have children they do not wish to have, and it is not realistic or fair to argue that if a woman did not want a child she should not have become pregnant in the first place. [More…]
Under that ruling a doctor must honestly believe, on reasonable grounds, that it is necessary to perform an abortion because the woman’s life or mental or physical health would otherwise be in danger. [More…]
Furthermore, doctors performing other gynaecological operations, such as curettes or hysterectomies, will have to certify that, in doing so, they did not procure an abortion unless it was to save the woman ‘s life. [More…]
A curious aspect of the cost-saving approach of this motion is highlighted in this morning’s Age in an article written by Claude Forell who points out that, on the logic of this motion, medical benefits ought not to be paid to women for prenatal treatment or for childbirth unless such treatment is to save the woman’s life, as such treatment is not prescribed for the ‘physical, pathological condition’ described in this motion. [More…]
If, in having the abortion, a woman has transgressed a teaching of her church, that is between her and her church. [More…]
In our view the persons best placed to assess the need for abortion are the woman herself and her doctor. [More…]
The woman should have counselling to enable her to consider the options free of pressure. [More…]
The nub of the problem is that the community does not agree on precisely what so-called rights’ should be accorded to a woman and the foetus she might be carrying. [More…]
The Right To Life Association expresses with great militancy its conviction that the alleged ‘rights’ of the foetus prevail over those of the woman carrying it. [More…]
I do not believe that the majority of people adopt a holier-than-thou approach to a woman who decides, after appropriate counselling and medical advice, that she wants an abortion. [More…]
No woman would undertake it lightly and the period of decision-making would be one of great mental anguish for any woman. [More…]
The effect of the motion now before the House would be to place major obstacles in the way of a woman seeking an abortion. [More…]
Presumably, even in the event of a mental breakdown a woman is to be denied medical benefits for an abortion unless her life as well as her sanity is endangered. [More…]
Perhaps, above all, it ill becomes a group of men to tell the women of Australia what their responsibilities are and that they should save their housekeeping money to pay for abortions which are deemed by doctors under State laws to be legally necessary in the interests of the woman ‘s health. [More…]
All of the speakers who have taken part in the debate have had one thing in common- namely, the protection of the woman and the child. [More…]
Some of our submissions stressed the need for skilled counselling for a woman seeking abortion. [More…]
The woman often needs help in considering the options which are available to her in her situation and in exploring her own feelings. [More…]
Is it argued by the Right to Life Association that a woman should carry on with an ectopic gestation even though there is for practical purposes no possibility of having a live birth? [More…]
It is further argued that the Parliament should not consider this matter because it is a woman’s right to choose if she wants an abortion. [More…]
There are those, such as the Right to Life Association of Victoria, who argue that it does not go far enough in that it allows one avenue of escape, that is, when the life of the pregnant woman can be saved in no other way. [More…]
Firstly, where the woman’s health, although not endangered to the extent of likely death, could be seriously and permanently impaired by the continuation of the pregnancy. [More…]
It has been put by a number of speakers in support of the main motion that there must be some cases where it is necessary to condone a woman having an abortion; that is even if one considers on first principles that abortions in general should not be allowed. [More…]
Whilst having respect for the principle of the right to life, I find it extremely difficult to disregard the right of a woman to resolve the issue for herself in the early stage of a pregnancy. [More…]
The same weakness appears to lie in the assertion by certain women’s groups that it is, in their words, the basic right of every woman to control her own body. [More…]
But I ask the question: Does every pregnant woman have the basic right to determine whether her unborn child shall be permitted to live or to die regardless of circumstances? [More…]
Where an abortion was necessary to protect such a woman’s life, she would be eligible to obtain a gynaecological procedure resulting in the termination of pregnancy in a hospital standard ward at no cost to her, the cost being shared equally between the Commonwealth and State governments. [More…]
I believe that it is quite fallacious to say that a disadvantaged woman who had occasion to have such a procedure would be discriminated against under the terms of the amendment 1 am supporting. [More…]
On the other hand, the wealthy woman using a clinic for the purpose of an abortion that did not conform to these criteria, a woman who is seeking an abortion primarily to satisfy her own convenience, would not be eligible to receive benefits, particularly if she were privately insured. [More…]
However, if there were sound medical reasons why an abortion was necessary to protect her life, she would be entitled to receive benefits in the same way as any other woman in that circumstance. [More…]
I regard it as an undemocratic procedure that this House of Parliament, with not one woman member, with no mandate, and with no direct power in relation to abortions, should be asked to subvert the rightful duties of State governments elected by the majority of voters in those States. [More…]
The evidence, at least in relation to one substantial clinic, is that the main reasons persons have gone to have abortions are as follows: Firstly, in 32 per cent of the cases it was felt that future plans might be impaired by a child being born to the mother; secondly, in 35 per cent of the cases it was felt that there would be additional financial strain on the rest of the family; thirdly, in 1 7 per cent of the cases it was felt that the girl concerned was too young or too immature to deal with a child; and, fourthly, that in 5 per cent of the cases the woman was pregnant to a man other than her husband. [More…]
A woman is very personally involved. [More…]
I hope that everyone who in effect holds views about where to draw the line is a man or woman of conscience. [More…]
This place does not have a woman member but that does not mean that we do not discuss matters relating to women. [More…]
These rulings indicate the point where I believe that the various interests are appropriately resolved- that is, the sanctity of life, the protection of the woman and the social implications of abortion. [More…]
The only way to have an effective system is to put those principles into legislation and to require every woman who wishes an abortion to appear before two doctors, get the appropriate certificate and then have the abortion. [More…]
Now, take the example of the young woman who wants to have a baby but who cannot get pregnant, although she is trying to do so. [More…]
Imagine the burden on a woman facing the prospect of losing her sexuality in her eyes and, she would then fear, in the eyes of her husband. [More…]
Imagine the fears for her life, in the first instance, and then her fears for the survival of her relationship if she sees herself as a non-woman. [More…]
How would we check up on the doctors to be certain that they are bothering to make sure that a woman is pregnant before they perform one of these procedures that are indicated for the range of conditions I have mentioned, which are not related to pregnancy, and I emphasise that? [More…]
Before birth we are confronted with a pregnant woman who also has rights, rights that might be in conflict with the rights of the foetus she carries within her. [More…]
Of course, I agree with any steps that might be taken to support a pregnant woman and enable her successfully to give birth to a happy, healthy child. [More…]
On the question of abortion, I take the view that any individual woman has the right of access to comprehensive medical care. [More…]
If, in the particular circumstances relating to any woman, after full examination and the advice of legally qualified medical practitioners, the conscientiously advised course of treatment involves termination of pregnancy, then that treatment should be provided in a properly licensed and managed hospital and should entitle the patient to draw the medical benefit to help cover the cost of treatment. [More…]
Mr Speaker, before dinner I was discussing the indications for abortion and indicating that if, under particular circumstances, it was conscientiously suggested that any woman after full medical examination should require termination of her pregnancy, then in my view she should be entitled to have it in a properly licensed and managed clinic or hospital and she should be able to draw medical benefits for it. [More…]
I do not advocate that every child should have its tonsils removed, that everyone should have his appendix removed, or that every woman should have an abortion. [More…]
I would never be so arrogant as to deprive a pregnant woman of the right to avail herself of such treatment. [More…]
Let us take the case of a woman who has, say, three young children, who becomes pregnant again and is then deserted by her husband. [More…]
Apparently the honourable member for Hume sees no moral distinction between a woman having an abortion as a privately insured person and a woman having an abortion as a standard ward patient in a public hospital. [More…]
In other words, if I take out what I see as the heart of that ruling, he was saying this: The person committing the abortion is ‘innocent if he honestly believed on reasonable grounds that the act done by him was, in the circumstances, proportionate to the need to preserve the woman from danger to her physical and mental health’. [More…]
Nobody has said that the abortion will be illegal if the woman is wealthy, or if she is in the situation of having very few children, no children or one child. [More…]
A woman in the second month of pregnancy could use a strong insecticide on these pests. [More…]
Here we sit, 124 men deliberating on what I see is essentially an issue between a woman and her doctor, a husband and wife and their doctor, a woman and boyfriend and a doctor or a teenager, her parents and their doctor. [More…]
There is not one who has not released his passion upon the body of some woman. [More…]
The honourable member for Hume believes that a medical benefit should be available only when the woman’s life is endangered. [More…]
I do not believe that any woman would allow herself to be aborted without seriously contemplating not only what would happen to her but also how she would feel for the rest of her life. [More…]
How does a woman feel about tomorrow as she places herself on that table? [More…]
Both laws have proved singularly ineffective in preventing abortion or suicide, and any attempt to drag every woman who had an abortion, or every failed suicide, into court to face a possible gaol term, would cause such revulsion in this country that both laws would become dead letters. [More…]
If a desperate woman finds herself in the hands of the backyarders because she cannot find a hospital abortion, or if she attempts suicide for the same reason and has to go to the hospital to be patched up, would the compassion of the honourable member for Hume allow her to claim medical benefits, or would he say: ‘If she can’t pay for treatment, she can’t hope for hospital benefits’. [More…]
Should it be the doctor involved, a panel of doctors who do not know the woman in question, a gaggle of public servants, a stipendiary magistrate or a jury of matrons? [More…]
The joy that will occur in a few months time when that woman brings the little babe in and says: ‘Here he is’ equals any trauma commented on by the honourable member for Scullin. [More…]
If only every pregnant girl or woman desperate for help could share from society generally the love and assistance which these girls receive from these nuns, both in their pregnancy and at the birth of their child, this problem would not be in its present proportion. [More…]
The problem in most cases of abortion is in my view a matter of society’s mores rather than evil intent on the woman’s part. [More…]
I know that there are militant feminists who destroy this theory somewhat by trumpeting aloud, as some individuals do, about their five or six abortions, but I do not think that the average woman seeking termination parallels that scenario. [More…]
You can sit there and pontificate but what would you do in a practical sense to encourage a woman to go on with her pregnancy? [More…]
There is no doubt that life exists in the woman’s womb from the time of conception. [More…]
One relates to the right of the individual woman to choose whether to terminate a pregnancy. [More…]
The contrary argument, expressed by the honourable member for Hume (Mr Lusher), which I support, is that a pregnant woman in fact must consider not only her welfare but also that of the child to be. [More…]
For too long there has been a current view in our community, supported by the courts, that somehow or other pregnancy is the fault of the woman alone and that the young buck, for example, must be excused for doing what comes naturally. [More…]
There was a woman who had two diseased valves of the heart- the aorta and the mitral. [More…]
I know all about that case because that woman was my wife. [More…]
There is absolutely no evidence to suggest that the conscience of any member of this House, including my own, on the issue of abortion is any more profound- and I believe it probably is less profound- than the conscience of the woman who, in a moment of agony and trauma, has to make what I believe to be a truly awful decision- to terminate her pregnancy. [More…]
Who says that the conscience of the honourable member for Hume or the conscience of the honourable member for Melbourne Ports ought to be superimposed upon the woman who has to make that choice? [More…]
If I have to choose between the consciences of members of this House and the conscience of the woman who has the right to make that decision, I believe that safety lies in saying that the average Australian woman will make that decision with more conscience than some of the consciences I have seen displayed in this House today. [More…]
In Victoria the Menhennitt decision ruled that abortion was lawful if it was necessary to preserve the woman from serious danger to her life or to her physical or mental health. [More…]
In South Australia a woman must be hospitalised and two doctors must agree that an abortion is necessary. [More…]
The point is that abortions can be legal and, if they are, this House has an obligation to provide medical benefits to protect the woman’s health. [More…]
No consideration at all is given to a woman ‘s mental health: The suicidal tendencies to which pregnant women are prone and the extreme mental anguish perpetrated on a woman by social or economic circumstances. [More…]
He points out that a woman can have her pregnancy terminated in a public hospital. [More…]
A woman can decide not to have an abortion. [More…]
That is her right, as it is the right of every other woman to make her own decision. [More…]
No parliament and no man has the right to impose on that woman’s right. [More…]
The Right to Life movement talks a great deal about the right to life but it fails to consider the right of a woman to her own life. [More…]
Until a woman can raise her child in an acceptable environment and fully accept the responsibility parenthood entails, society has no right to condemn a child to the horror and misery of abuse. [More…]
What about the woman’s right to obtain benefits as a full legal member of a health fund? [More…]
That oath, which I understand most doctors take when they succeed in their studies and go into practice, states in part: ‘I will not aid a woman to procure abortion. ‘ [More…]
The honourable member for Barker (Mr Porter) mentioned that a woman can demand to have an abortion. [More…]
The woman concerned had wanted to purchase a home. [More…]
The husband had previously established a liaison with another woman. [More…]
After the aircraft had been sprayed for quarantine purposes, a man grabbed a woman, forced her back into the aircraft and closed the door from the inside. [More…]
It was at that time believed that the man and woman were unknown to each other. [More…]
The woman has apparently been freed and we are to be thankful for that. [More…]
She is still alive and she is a lovely woman. [More…]
Can the Minister say whether Ansett Airlines has refused employment to a woman as a pilot on the grounds that women are unsuitable as pilots, despite the evidence of the applicant’s qualifications and the fact that many United States airlines employ women pilots. [More…]
Yet they are in need too when we compare their situation with a single man, a single woman or a married couple with no dependent children. [More…]
I would invite all those honourable members who are suggesting that means tests should be put on the family allowance or that the family allowances should be withdrawn at certain income levels, to ask any woman in a single income household whether she believes the cash benefit should be replaced by a tax rebate. [More…]
I would like to mention a quotation made by a woman called Barbara Rodgers at the National Children’s Bureau Annual Conference held in Great Britain in 1976. [More…]
One woman bled to death over a period of two days in the presence of a registered nurse. [More…]
Just because a man or a woman walks through the gate of his or her work place, it does not mean that democracy should stop. [More…]
In June 1973 the cost of overseas borrowings was $96 for each man, woman and child in the country. [More…]
Whether we win this fight depends not just on governments but on every man and woman in this country recognising that certain restraints are necessary. [More…]
Every man, woman and child in Australia is now in hoek to overseas bankers to the extent of $325 per head. [More…]
The evidence which has been obtained because the narcotics agents were looking for evidence dealing with a narcotics offence can be used to prosecute the woman and the doctor for a completely different offence. [More…]
It is not a question of who can take a technical point as to which people will not be called to give evidence but what is done to every man and woman in this country when the fear of God is put into them by the prospect of their conversations being taped when they go into a solicitor’s office and are engaged in a conversation which they believe is confidential. [More…]
No drugs were found in the car but there was the body of a woman who had just been murdered. [More…]
In their search they found 24 editions of the Australian Women’s Weekly, 15 editions of Woman’s Day and 10 editions of House and Garden. [More…]
To a man and, I strongly suspect, to a woman they will say that the purchase of these aircraft is thoroughly j justified [More…]
Maureen Stewart is a magnificent woman- dignified, proud, compassionate, and a typical mother. [More…]
In fact, she is a perfect example of Australian womanhood and a perfect parliamentary spouse, if I may use that term. [More…]
It is for that reason that the man or woman in the street continually asks the Government and me: ‘What about the registered unemployed if there are these jobs available in the factories and the shops of Australia?’ [More…]
The standard length for a woman’s dress was in the vicinity of 42 inches. [More…]
But it meant that a garment for a fully grown woman was 3 1 inches or, in a lot of cases, 29 inches. [More…]
Last financial year’s health expenditure represented about $504 for every man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]
One involved a blind person who was being looked after by her daughter and the other involed a woman 99 years of age who was being looked after by a daughter 60-odd years of age. [More…]
He was questioned about the identity of the woman. [More…]
That woman is a friend of my family and she is known to my wife’. [More…]
The policeman’s wife said at the hearing of the appeal tribunal that she knew the woman. [More…]
But neither she nor her husband would disclose the identity of the woman. [More…]
What sort of reaction do honourable members think will arise in the community when- the average man and woman read that sort of headline showing that a senior Minister of the Government of Australia is part of a family company organisation about which a respected conservative newspaper writes as its main headline on page 1: ‘Sinclair firm got “milked” funds’? [More…]
) In the period since 1 945, has there been an increase or decrease in the average time between retirement and death (for example does a man or woman who retires at 55 or 60 enjoy a longer period of retirement than a man or woman who retires at 65). [More…]
At this moment we are discussing the financial arrangements for one of the world’s most wealthy countries, man for man and woman for woman, a country in which the citizens have behind them, I would think, a greater economic potential than in any other, and that does not exclude America, Canada or anywhere else. [More…]
But on the basis of man hours and woman hours our productivity is a match for anybody. [More…]
That hit the hip pockets of every man and woman who works in this country. [More…]
It is any man or woman in this country who earns more than $26,000 a year. [More…]
He received a letter from a woman on the coalfields where I was reared. [More…]
The aim of these policies should be to ensure that the standard of living of a family with children compares favourably, or at least not intolerably badly with a family with no dependent children or with that of a single income man or woman. [More…]
An article in the May 1 979 edition of Lancet entitled Cardiovascular Risks and Oral Contraceptives’ pointed out that a woman of 35 who uses oral contraceptives and smokes 25 cigarettes a day or more may have a 5 to 10-fold greater chance of a myocardial infarction than those who never smoke. [More…]
The death rate increased with the duration of oral contraceptive use, the age of the woman and the smoking of cigarettes. [More…]
As the WHO report and the paper of Dr Donovan spell out, there is clear and unchallengeable evidence that a woman who smokes throughout her pregnancy, causes the child in the womb to become an average 200 grams lighter at birth than the child of a woman who does not smoke. [More…]
That these sorts of abuses can happen is best illustrated by the behaviour of none other than the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) who, as Minister for the Army in 1966, publicly used for political advantage information on the political activities of a woman in order to discredit the opposition of her son- a high school cadet- to the war in Vietnam. [More…]
We know that no man or woman in this world is perfect and therefore it is understandable that Mr Justice Hope said that: [More…]
When the Labor Government left office in 1975 the national debt stood at approximately $75 per head for every man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]
These can be put roughly into the category of those things that cause an employer to employ, say, a married woman in preference to employing a young, single, unemployed person. [More…]
Under the existing law, that woman is not eligibile for payment in respect of that child by way of an additional payment to her war widow’s pension. [More…]
That woman cannot make a claim under social security legislation in respect of that child because, in assessing the child ‘s entitlement to assistance, the amount of her war widow’s pension is counted as income. [More…]
What is left to a woman who is entitled to a war widow’s pension because of the death of her husband through war-caused injuries is that she must forgo her war widow’s pension and claim a social security pension in order to obtain what would be her right if the law were consistent in both instances. [More…]
At least one woman has been appointed to each settlement council and we are urging that women to be included on the committees of management that run the migrant resource centres. [More…]
We are told that at least one woman has been appointed to each settlement council and we are urging that women be included on the committees of management that run the migrant resource centres. [More…]
Why, at least one woman? [More…]
Another woman has complained to me that, although her employer has been deducting union dues and forwarding these to Victoria for use by the union, she has been denied a vote because she is not on the roll. [More…]
Other titles of courses include ‘The Sensuous Woman’, Business Motives’ and ‘Sales Training’, although the most frightening of all could well be the one entitled ‘The Fascinating Girl’, which is a special course for young ladies aged between 1 6 and 1 8 years. [More…]
It merely declares the position of the woman and her relationship with the Department of Immigration. [More…]
Why are you slandering, under privilege, a defenceless woman who cannot defend herself? [More…]
That is the very amendment which would have prevented the events which were described by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, namely, when the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), when Minister for the Army, used the Parliament of Australia to name a woman and her son simply because he had this sort of access. [More…]
A young man or woman returning to Australia carrying enough of what is fashionably termed pot, or marihuana, to fill his or her personal use, could be caught within the provisions of this legislation. [More…]
The case I refer to is that of a women who, having been widowed, subsequently has a child and that child is treated by the Department of Veterans’ Affairs as nonexistent where the woman receives a war pension. [More…]
The Department of Veterans’ Affairs takes the position that the child, not being the child of the husband as a result of whose war service the woman receives a war widows pension, is not the responsibility of that Department. [More…]
The situation of a woman who has a child not covered by a war widows pension because it is not a child of the deceased exserviceman whose offspring attract a pension, is that if she applies to the Department of Social Security for coverage of that child, the war widows pension is applied as a means test against her in assessing whether the childrens allowance will be paid in respect of that child. [More…]
In one case the Department of Veterans’ Affairs says that it is not the child of the ex-serviceman and in the other case the Department of Social Security says to the woman: ‘Your widows pension is such that it excludes you, because of the means test, from getting coverage for that child ‘. [More…]
It was corrected in the case of social security pensions where such children who were born subsequent to a woman being widowed were excluded. [More…]
What it is really saying to that woman is that she has to give up her war widows pension and take a social security pension in order to get coverage for that child because of the cross use of the means test. [More…]
This report should be compulsory reading for every visitor, sportsman and woman and official who will visit the Soviet Union for the 1980 Moscow Olympics. [More…]
Last week a woman telephoned me. [More…]
I refer to the case of a war widow who now has an illegitimate child, and I raise the question of the rights of the child and the rights of the woman. [More…]
In correspondence with the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs and the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle), the only information I am able to obtain is that in order to receive coverage for the child under any form of benefit other than family allowances the woman would have to resign her war widow’s pension. [More…]
However, I do dispute that the war widow’s pension should then be used to deny the woman social security cover for the same child. [More…]
1 ) In very broad terms, an Italian age pension is payable to a person in respect of whom appropriate contributions have been made for a period of not less than IS years and who, in the case of a man, has reached 60 years of age or, in the case of a woman, has reached 55 years of age. [More…]
) A person is qualified to receive an Australian age pension if that person has, at any time, resided in Australia for a continuous period of not less than 10 yean, is residing in, and is physically present in, Australia on the date on which the claim for an age pension is made and, in the case of a man, has reached 65 years of age or, in the case of a woman, has reached 60 years of age. [More…]
In addition, an Australian age pension may be granted to a claimant who is living outside Australia if: he lived for 30 years in Australia; he has not resided in Australia at any time since 7 May 1973; in the case of a man, he was 60 years of age before he left Australia (the relevant age for a woman is 55 years); and he is in special need of financial assistance. [More…]