women - senate - 1970

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

However as the women wished to have a meal together, and as this was not immediately possible, they were asked to wait outside in the entrance area. [More…]
First of all, I answer the honourable senator by saying that he is charging men and women dedicated in the service of this Department who work untiringly to do their best for ex-service people. [More…]
Salaries for women are slightly lower at present but equal pay will apply from 1972. [More…]
I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate whether his attention has been directed to a statement by Mrs Gwen Benzie, Secretary of the Australian Women’s Basketball Association, in today’s Melbourne ‘Age’ in which she is reported to have said: lt was understood but nol specifically mentioned that no team of coloured players would go to South Africa. [More…]
Federation of Women’s Basketball and Netball Associations and that this condition of entry to South Africa, while not being specific, was well known to all members of the Federation. [More…]
Does the Minister representing the Treasurer recall my request prior to the Budget to reduce sales tax on women’s face powder and requisites? [More…]
Is he aware of the strong protests from women’s organisations throughout Australia on this matter? [More…]
Equal pay for women amounted to $252,000. [More…]
In view of the many church appeals by all denominations for winter relief for the poor, stressing particularly the needs of deserted wives and children, will the Minister appoint within his Department in each State a representative in the form of an ombudsman with the finance and power to act immediately with church or relief organisations to give assistance to any persons, particularly women and children, found to be suffering from hunger, cold or poverty during this coming winter? [More…]
There is the situation in which people could go out armed for the purpose of killing for personal gain and there is the situation in which innocent people - children or women - could be subjected to harm and death in a way which I feel has to be met with a rather harsh and strong penalty. [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service tell me how many married women whose husbands are fully employed are registered with the Department of Labour and National Service as requiring employment? [More…]
Too many young men and women are dying today as a result of the road toll or in unexpected aeroplane crashes for us to be complacent or undisturbed about these events, lt strikes fear into one to read of the death of these young people, some of whom are of very tender years and others of whom are in their young manhood or womanhood. [More…]
how many in each category are women? [More…]
Why is the appointment of women to such posts a rarity? [More…]
How many women hold senior positions in the central administration and State offices of the Department of Social Services and does the Minister agree that the male-female ratio is gravely unbalanced. [More…]
What endeavours, if any, has the Minister made to see that women are given an equal opportunity to serve in the higher positions of his Department. [More…]
There is no restriction on the promotion of women to senior positions on the basis of their sex. [More…]
How many women and how many men are employed at senior levels in the Department of Labour and National Service and its regional offices. [More…]
What endeavours, if any, has the Minister made to ensure that women are given equal opportunity to serve in the higher levels of the Department. [More…]
There is no restriction on the promotion of women to senior positions on the basis of their sex. [More…]
In fact the growth in female pemanent staff and the removal of the barrier preventing female officers pursuing their careers after marriage combined with a principle of promotion based on merit have resulted in an increasing number of women reaching positions in the service at a higher level than formerly. [More…]
How many men and how many women are employed as senior staff of the Commissioner of Trade Practices. [More…]
What endeavours, if any, has the AttorneyGeneral made to ensure that women are given an equal opportunity to serve in senior positions. [More…]
There is no restriction on the promotion of women to senior positions on the basis of their sex. [More…]
In view of the considerable number of women legal practitioners since World War II who are eligible for appointment as Judges, why has none been appointed. [More…]
Appointments to the judiciary are normally made of persons who are senior Counsel and only a small number of women are practising as barrister: in Australia. [More…]
What endeavours, if any, has the Minister made to ensure equal opportunities for women to serve on this important body. [More…]
How many women are employed at the Senior level of the various divisions and commissions under the control of the Minister. [More…]
What endeavours, if any, has the Minister made to ensure that women are given an equal opportunity to serve in higher positions within his area of responsibility. [More…]
Women are employed at the senior level in the 3 divisions of the Department of External Territories as follows: [More…]
How many women hold senior positions in the administration of the Department of National Development or in bureaux or commissions under the Minister’s control. [More…]
What endeavours, if any, has the Minister made to ensure that women are given equal opportunityto serve in higher levels of the Department. [More…]
The number of women who hold senior positions in the administration of the Department of National Development and authorities under my control are as follows: [More…]
Why has a proposed women’s basketball tour of Taiwan, scheduled for November, been cancelled. [More…]
This question should be directed to the Women’s Council of the Amateur Basketball Union of Australia. [More…]
On 15th January 1973. the Women’s Council of the Amateur Basketball Union of Australia wrote to the Minister for Foreign Affairs asking for a considered opinion concerning its proceeding with a visit to Taiwan by the Australian Women’s Basketball team and for advice whether the Government could grant any financial assistance for a visit to China. [More…]
The Government is hoping for an expansion of Australian-Chinese contacts at all levels and a visit to China by the Australian Women’s Basketball Team would fit in well with this, but again it was for the Council to decide whether to arrange such a tour or not. [More…]
Has the Government, as the union alleges, breached an election undertaking, subsequently repudiated after the election, to grant equal pay to women members of the Federated Clerks Union? [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was clearly developed as a Federation to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement and the communication of knowledge and information. [More…]
How many and which countries have ratified or acceded to the Convention on Political Rights of Women and deposited instruments of ratification or accession with the SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations. [More…]
That the undersigned men and women of Australia believe in a Christian way of life; and that no democracy can thrive unless its citizens are responsible and law abiding. [More…]
I can tell the honourable senator that my Department is very much aware of the importance of the role of women in the community generally and is also particularly aware of the importance of the role of women in the media. [More…]
At present my Department is undertaking a project involving the collection of information from various sources such as the Press, the trade union movement, university appointment boards, the Arbitration Commission, women’s action groups and a whole host of other organisations. [More…]
We are also considering a proposal to undertake quite a large survey of the opportunities available for women to engage in occupational work within the media. [More…]
Additionally, realising that next year is International Women’s Year, in conjunction with the Prime Minister’s Department my Department has agreed to convene an international seminar for people engaged in the media, the title of which will be ‘Women in the Media’. [More…]
The honourable senator can be assured that my Department is very active in encouraging opportunities for women in these areas. [More…]
I ask the Minister for the Media whether his Department has undertaken any surveys to determine the contribution, employment conditions and status of women in the media. [More…]
Does the Minister recognise the increasing significance afforded women’s issues both in the media and society generally? [More…]
As at 30 June 1974, 1,438 applications had been received from ex-service men and women who had served in a theatre of war for treatment of malignant cancer under the new provisions of the Repatriation Act. [More…]
-Can the Minister for Repatriation and Compensation provide the number of ex-service men and women who have applied for treatment of malignant cancer? [More…]
Will the Minister consider including single fathers and widowers in a scheme similar to that which now covers women who find themselves in similar circumstances, with a view to allowing them to be retrained in an occupation which would allow them to spend more time with their children? [More…]
What assistance does the Australian Government contemplate providing for the detection of cancer in women at the workshop level, bearing in mind the continuing increase in the number of women in the work force. [More…]
The Government is not contemplating any provision specifically for detecting cancer in women at the workshop level. [More…]
1 ) What special activities and background brought about the appointment of Ms Shirley Castley, Ms Irene Greenwood, Ms Ruby Hammond, Ms Jeanette Hungerford, Ms Maria Pozos, Ms Ruth Ross and Ms Diana Waite to the Australian National Advisory Committee for International Women ‘s Year. [More…]
1 ) Understanding of life pattern of women in our society. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
That the Family Law Bill takes into account the changing roles of women in modern society. [More…]
That the amendment to the bill recommended by the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee will ensure that the rights of women who play the traditional role in society will be protected, as will the interests of the children. [More…]
What is the frequency of absence from work because of illness between unskilled workers and professional men and women. [More…]
I present to the Senate a paper, in the nature of a Green Paper, on International Women’s Year 1975. [More…]
I present a discussion paper entitled International Women’s Year- Priorities and Considerations’. [More…]
-The honourable senator will know that the Australian Government has established a committee to advise the Government on the sorts of activities in which it should engage to assist in the promotion and organisation of International Women’s Year in Australia. [More…]
Film Australia, the film production unit of the Australian Government, has been commissioned by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs to produce a one-hour in depth television program relating to the activities and outlook of urban Aboriginal women. [More…]
In view of the fact that 1975 is being observed as International Women ‘s Year, I ask the Minister whether there has been any appreciable recognition of this fact on the part of television or cinema interests. [More…]
Is the Minister prepared to do anything to see that International Women’s Year gets some sort of a go on Australian screens? [More…]
My question, addressed to the Minister for Manufacturing Industry, refers to a report today by the New South Wales State Secretary of the Clothing Trades Union, Mr Watkins, that 600 men and women in the clothing industry in and near Sydney are to lose their jobs next week. [More…]
If not, has Australia offered assistance or is the Government unconcerned about the fate of thousands of men, women and children who appear to be desperately short of food? [More…]
-The Department of Labor and Immigration has investigated the facts and has found no discrimination against the Chilean women. [More…]
It was later discovered that the matter should have been investigated by the State Department of Labor and Industry because these women were covered by a State award. [More…]
It has come as quite a surprise to me to find out how many readers the ‘Australian Women’s Weekly’ has in this place. [More…]
I refer the Minister representing the Attorney-General to the statement which appeared in the ‘Australian Women’s Weekly’ on legal aid which said that offices of the Australian Legal Aid Office are opening outside ordinary business hours at times that are most convenient for the local community. [More…]
This assistance is being provided through a United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF) project in Zambia involving the provision of educational, medical and welfare assistance for women and children under the care of a number of national liberation movements who have temporarily settled in Zambia. [More…]
That an Australian Government Insurance Corporation will benefit all Australian women and men by offering equal opportunity for employment and insurance cover. [More…]
That an Australian Government Insurance Corporation will benefit all Australian women and men by offering equal opportunity for employment and insurance cover. [More…]
That an Australian Government Insurance Corporation will benefit all Australian women and men by offering equal opportunity for employment and insurance cover. [More…]
That an Australian Government Insurance Corporation will benefit all Australian women and men by offering equal opportunity for employment and insurance cover. [More…]
1 ) What publications have been regularly produced by (a) the Australian National Gallery; (b) the Historic Memorials Committee; (c) the Australia Council; (d) the Film and Television School; (e) the Australian Exhibit Organisation; (f) the Australian Archives; (g) the Office of the Australian War Graves; (h) the Australian War Memorial; (i) the National Library; (j) the National Advisory Committee on International Women’s Year; (k) the National Advisory Council for the Handicapped; (1) the Australian Assistance Plan; and (m) other bodies responsible to the Prime Minister in the areas of the arts, cultural affairs and community development. [More…]
That an Australian Government Insurance Corporation will benefit all Australian women and men by offering equal opportunity for employment and insurance cover. [More…]
-On 27 August 1975 (Hansard page 279) Senator Melzer asked me, as Minister representing the Prime Minister, a question without notice concerning a report from the Australian delegation to the United Nations Conference on Women in Mexico. [More…]
The Australian National Advisory Committee for International Women’s Year will, however, shortly issue a special edition of its Newsletter on the Conference. [More…]
United Nations Conference on Women [More…]
1 ) Was an officer of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation authorised to ‘snoop’ on Ms Joan Coxsedge, a member ofthe Victorian Australian Labor Party’s Administrative Committee, when she attended the recent Women and Politics Conference as an official delegate of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
On 6 June 1975 the former Prime Minister announced a grant to the Women’s Abortion Action Coalition (N.S.W. [More…]
and Victoria) from International Women’s Year funds. [More…]
1 ) Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to the booklet A Woman’s Guide to Abortion-Why, How and Where’ compiled and produced by the Women’s Abortion Action Campaign and the Women’s Abortion Action Coalition. [More…]
For the information of honourable senators I present the report of the Australian National Advisory Committee for International Women’s Year. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to a further report in the Lancet of 25 October 1975, relating exposure to anaesthetic agents in women working in operating theatres to an increased risk of abortion approximately 1 58 to 270 per cent greater than occurs in controls. [More…]
What implications will these results have for women working in hospitals under Commonwealth control. [More…]
1 ) Has recent evidence appeared indicating that the ‘pill’ should not be used by women where elective surgery is planned. [More…]
What steps are being undertaken to draw these conclusions to the attention of medical practitioners and of women generally. [More…]
He would be aware that the Working Women’s Centre in Melbourne is essential to encouraging and assisting women in the work force, researching the needs of working women, running elementary training school and providing essential information as to rates for work and rights to decent working conditions. [More…]
He is also the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister in Women’s Affairs and the Minister Assisting the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations. [More…]
) Do they represent any danger to women using the hair dyes. [More…]
What pension entitlements and additional benefits are currently provided for British ex-servicemen and women residents in Australia who are aged 60 years and over. [More…]
Information for a possible booklet dealing with issues of special interest to women was collected from various sources by my Department. [More…]
Will the Minister reconsider her decision not to publish the proposed directory of services that are available to women in Australia. [More…]
In short, the amendments proposed by the Bill mean that all former members of the Royal Australian Air Force and its women’s services will be equally eligible for the provision of residences that are provided by the Royal Australian Air Force Veterans’ Residences Trust to people who are in necessitous circumstances and who are former members of the Royal Australian Air Force. [More…]
Senator Melzer as usual has made a very thoughtful speech concerning the disadvantaged people in the community, especially those former members of the Women’s Australian Auxiliary Air Force in particular. [More…]
Have cuts in Federal Government funds available to the Australian Broadcasting Commission necessitated the cancellation of a planned special weekly program of captioned television news for the deaf, as was claimed in the article entitled ‘Their Eyes are their Ears’ in the Australian Women’s Weekly dated 1 December 1976. [More…]
How many women were appointed to, or promoted to, senior positions in the Department of Education during 1976. [More…]
Can the Minister for Social Security give an assurance that the entitlement of women to the age pension which now commences at 60 years will not be changed to 65 years in the near future? [More…]
-I crave one minute of the Committee’s time simply to say that during the hearings of Estimates Committee D I did attempt to ascertain whether the Capital Territory Health Commission knew what was going on at the Women ‘s Centre Incorporated in Lobelia Street, which was being used as a front for other operations. [More…]
My interest in this matter arose chiefly out of a leaflet which was distributed and which was allegedly prepared by the Women’s Centre Incorporated in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
As to the part of the question about the Working Party usurping the position of the proposed National Women’s Advisory Body, I do not believe that to be the Government’s intention. [More…]
My question, which I direct to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, relates to the Women’s Advisory Body Working Party. [More…]
To investigate and make recommendations on the role, representation and Function of a possible National Women’s Advisory Body. [More…]
Will the Government ensure that the Working Party does not usurp the position of the proposed National Women’s Advisory Body? [More…]
Women- Butterfield Street, Herston, [More…]
For the information of honourable senators I present the report of the Women’s Advisory Body, Working Party 1977. [More…]
a possible increase in the number of married women registering for full-time employment and applying for unemployment benefit). [More…]
Secondly, what extra cost will be involved because women are now eligible for the sickness benefit? [More…]
and (2) One of the major recommendations of the June 1973 Report of the Working Party on Homeless Men and Women was that the Homeless Persons Program should be reviewed after three years. [More…]
As a result, a survey was undertaken by the officers of my Department among voluntary organisations in the homeless persons field, the men and women in their care, and the Advisory Committees on Homeless Persons in each State, on the services and facilities provided to the homeless in Australia. [More…]
I am unaware of the activities of the Working Women’s Centre or its source of income, with the exception of grants which have been made from the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
That the removal of this item from the schedule would destroy the concept of universal health insurance, and would have the most serious repercussions for women and their health. [More…]
Has the National Health and Medical Research Council ever proposed a regulation which would have served to protect women of child bearing age or pregnant women against exposure to 2,4,5-T? [More…]
Is it true that the United States authorities legislated in 1970 to protect women of child bearing age against exposure to 2,4,5-T? [More…]
It has been estimated also that some 80 per cent of pregnant women have satisfactory blood antibody levels against rubella and that half of the remainder receive immunisation after delivery. [More…]
However, I shall draw to the attention of the Minister for Health the question raised by the honourable senator and his suggestion that further steps should be taken to see that as many young girls and women of child bearing age as possible do have immunisation against rubella because of the disastrous consequences for newly-born children. [More…]
6469 on Health Refunds would affect a women’s right to claim a rebate through Medical Health Insurance. [More…]
6469 would penalize many thousands of women. [More…]
1 ) How many women applied to join the Australian Antarctic program for: [More…]
How many women have travelled to Antarctic bases in each year since 1975. [More…]
At which Antarctic bases are there suitable quarters for women to complete a summer or winter program. [More…]
Will facilities be upgraded at the other Antarctic bases to enable women to participate in a summer or winter program; if so, when will these facilities be upgraded. [More…]
1 ) The number of women who applied to join the Australian Antarctic program for the following periods are as follows: [More…]
Are amniocentesis tests available to all pregnant women who wish to have them, or are there guidelines which restrict eligibility for the tests; if so, what are the guidelines. [More…]
What are the criteria under which pregnant women may claim the cost of amniocentesis tests from the various health insurance schemes. [More…]
466 (Hansard, 16 August 1978, page 1 18) to allot only 4 out of 250 vacancies for trainee technicians to women. [More…]
Why is it necessary for the Department to run a pilot scheme to determine the viability of providing equal employment opportunities for women. [More…]
Will action be taken to ensure equality of opportunity for women in the Defence Force. [More…]
The Remuneration Tribunal determined sitting fees and travelling allowance for the Convenor and Members of the National Women’s Advisory Council in its 1978 Review, to be paid whenever members undertake Council business at the rates set out below. [More…]
Do members of the National Women’s Advisory Council receive travelling allowance under appropriate circumstances. [More…]
1 ) How many English language courses for migrant women have child care facilities. [More…]
How many migrant women have attended English language courses at which child care facilities are provided. [More…]
What women’s retraining programs under the National Employment and Training System are Funded in each State. [More…]
1 ) How many women and men received training under the National Employment and Training Scheme in the year 1977-78. [More…]
In which areas did those women and men receive training. [More…]
The following special courses have been funded under NEAT for women since 1976. [More…]
I would point out that of the courses listed a number were specifically designed for women while the remainder were developed in occupations traditionally favoured by women and therefore could be considered to be directed predominantly at women. [More…]
As part of the flexible approach taken under the NEAT System, there has been no allocation specifically provided for training programs for women. [More…]
Without giving any commitments or making any comments on the tender subject of women’s fashions, I will refer the question to the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs and ask him to provide an early answer. [More…]
For the information of honourable senators I present a report by the National Women’s Advisory Council entitled ‘Migrant Women Speak’. [More…]
The report sets out a series of recommendations based on the views of migrant women themselves. [More…]
I hope that the report will promote a discussion of the needs of migrant women, and I know it will be a valuable resource for the Government concerning our implementation of the Galbally report and our efforts to assist migrant women. [More…]
However, towards the end of the War, the Government decided to establish, from surplus canteen profits, the Services Canteen Trust Fund to assist men and women who served in the Australian Armed Forces between 3 September 1939 and 30 June 1947, and their dependants, who were in needy circumstances. [More…]
The Fund has to date distributed in excess of$ 18m of its capital, and interest earnings, on welfare relief of eligible ex-Servicemen and women and their dependants in needy circumstances, on education assistance for eligible children and on eligible children suffering from serious afflictions. [More…]
Which women have been appointed by the Executive Council to: (a) judicial; (b) diplomatic; and (c) statutory, positions during the terms of the: (i) McMahon; (ii) Whitlam; and (iii) Fraser, Governments. [More…]
1 ) How many women are employed in the Commonwealth Public Service, and how many are employed in the first and second divisions ofthe Service. [More…]
How many women are employed in the Australian Broadcasting Commission and how many of these women are in the first and second divisions of the Public Service. [More…]
The total number of women employed in the Australian Broadcasting Commission as at 31 August 1979 was 1,884. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council has not been democratically elected by the women of Australia; That the National Women’s Advisory Council is not representative of the women of Australia; [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council is a discriminatory and sexist imposition on Australian women as Australian men do not have a National Men’s Advisory Council imposed on them. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the National Women ‘s Advisory Council be abolished to ensure that Australian women have equal opportunity with Australian men of having issues of concern to them considered, debated and voted on by their Parliamentary representatives without intervention and interference by an unrepresentative ‘Advisory Council’. [More…]
I repeat: The purpose of the amendment is to extend a wife’s pension to women who are inmates of approved benevolent homes and also to women who have no child in their care, or who are under 50 years of age, where their husband is an inmate of a benevolent home. [More…]
What was the estimated cost for the year 1978-79 incurred by amateur sportsmen and women in representing Australia in international sporting events. [More…]
For the information of honourable senators I present the first annual report by the National Women ‘s Advisory Council 1979 entitled ‘More than a Token Gesture’. [More…]
3 ) No, however labelling changes were introduced which warned doctors not to prescribe the drug for pregnant women. [More…]
Their support for and endorsement of the National Women’s Advisory Council. [More…]
It states that the recipes have been collected by the Country Party Women’s Auxiliary. [More…]
The Commonwealth will need to watch very closely the organisations which, in the goodness of their hearts, offer to bring young men and women from the Territory to Australia to enter into training programmes. [More…]
No young women were taken out bush by any person in the year 1968. [More…]
for permission to take three young women with their promised husbands 35 miles from the Settlement. [More…]
The three young women were causing considerable trouble in the camp by refusing to go to the men to whom they were promised, and were instead prostituting themselves with the young men in the native village. [More…]
The plan of the village council failed lo reconcile the women to their husbands, and the)’ have since married yoting men of their own choice. [More…]
when another three young women were banished from the Settlement out to the Aboriginal mining camp at Mount Hardy. [More…]
This form of punishment has been meted “out to young- women ‘who have interfered with, or ridiculed, some of the secret corroborees, but not here at Yuendumu, lt is part of the tribal law of the northern tribes, so has rarely if ever been used as a disciplinary measure among- the Wailbri people. [More…]
I wish to touch on the subject referred to by Senator Cavanagh this afternoon: That is the disgraceful conduct exhibited towards Aboriginal women at Yuendumu settlement. [More…]
We long to see that day for we on this side of the Parliament look forward to a world in which men and women the world over can live in peace and contentment. [More…]
In these 20 years there has been this great change in the pattern of the Australian Labor Party so that instead of being filled with representatives of the people - men and women - who were of the people and were part of the people, the men who sit on the Opposition benches in the Parliament are men who belong to a so-called self-elevated elitist group who believe that the mass of the people are bridled and saddled waiting to be ridden. [More…]
This of course culminated in the gaoling of a trade union secretary and a welling up of support throughout the Commonwealth by working men and women who objected to the use of the penal clauses of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
In spite of the destruction of the ordinary life of the country, the burning of villages, the maiming and murder of women and children, the Vietnamese people are resisting. [More…]
On behalf of the young men and women involved, will the Minister try to adjust the petty difference that has arisen between the respective Education Departments and overcome this problem, which affects a number of young Australians and their families’? [More…]
It is men, women and children who rely on the growing of wheat for their livelihood who are involved in this situation. [More…]
We prostituted their women and introduced all manner of diseases amongst them. [More…]
When the slaughter of our Aboriginals was taking place many women were being brought out here from England under atrocious conditions. [More…]
The treatment of those women when they arrived in this country was almost as bad as anything done to the Aboriginals. [More…]
I think it is completely wrong when speaking of the excesses of the past to assert, for instance, that only wealthy squatters were responsible for the degradation and prostitution of Aboriginal women, lt is probable that the responsibility lay more with people with whom as a trade unionist I would have had a greater affinity. [More…]
I think they contributed greatly to the degradation of the Aboriginal women at that time. [More…]
No greater tribute could have been paid to him than that which was paid on the clay of his funeral when great numbers of the people of Canberra turned out - the men, the women and the schoolchildren. [More…]
If he says that there is a scandal then he is charging men and women- [More…]
If so, will the Government explore the possibility of making such arrangements in order to assist those women who have obtained orders in Australia but are unable to enforce them because their husbands or ex-husbands have gone to the United States? [More…]
At page 1278 of Hansard the Minister is reported as having stated that clause 7 of the Bill, when implemented, would mean that Australian women living abroad and married to men of other nationalities and wishing to have their children become Australians by birth, could register the birth of the children at any Australian consulate or embassy. [More…]
I am pretty sure that there must be a lot of other Australian married women living in Europe who have gone to our consulates and have been fobbed off. [More…]
In March 1970 posts were sent instructions regarding the implementation of the provision in question in the Citizenship Act 1969 after proclamation of the provision which is expected very soon, lt is to be expected that overseas posts asked by Australian women about registration of their children’s births would usually have informed them of the impending change in the law. [More…]
Not only must the troops be withdrawn but also this madness on a grand scale, as it has been described, must be stopped, lt certainly is madness when innocent women and children are burned and bombed under whatever guise it is called. [More…]
A contribution of women and children to the Vietnam Moratorium. [More…]
Now, asI said before, I would not mind the able bodied, but why the women and children? [More…]
We seek a group of women, some elderly people and many children to represent the murdered people of Song My in an act of conscience during the Vietnam Moratorium. [More…]
So the Communist Party will be represented by the women, the children and the elderly people. [More…]
If you don’t have such clothes, we will be making black clothcover-alls for women and children. [More…]
There is an endeavour to enlist elderly people, women and children, and to use the children. [More…]
I remind the Government that the boys who are being sent to Vietnam are not only sons of members of the Liberal Party or of members of the Country Party or of members of the Democratic Labor Party but also they are sons of members of the Labor movement - sons of men and women who are violently opposed to participation in the war in Vietnam. [More…]
This is why men, women and students of all faiths, all beliefs and all political persuasions are fed up with the present Governmen’s policies. [More…]
Massacres such as the one alleged to have occurred at My Lai gave the soldiers momentary illusion that by shooting people equated with the enemy - even babies, women and old men - they were finally involved in a genuine military action, he said. [More…]
- the residential qualifying period has been removed for payment of widow’s pension to women widowed in Australia where husband and wife are permanently resident in Australia at the time of the husband’s death; [More…]
Now that the position of the Parliamentary Draftsman is to be considerably elevated in status - with the appointment of 2 assistants who will occupy particularised positions - the job could present itself to young men and women as a viable administrative Public Service career which has at the end of it a rewarding position not only from the point of view of the financial return but also the status it holds and the work it presents. [More…]
As the right to demonstrate has been accepted in our day and age, why are Government supporters not so disturbed about Government foreign policy in carrying on an illegal, immoral and undeclared war against women and children in a foreign country? [More…]
When can we expect a Government statement from the Minister condemning the wholesale massacres of innocent men, women and children by the Americans in Vietnam, reports of which have been published in the Press over the last 6 months? [More…]
I asked: What if there were women and children?’ [More…]
He answered: ‘Women and children in Vietnam fire as many guns as soldiers do’. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service, refers to the announcement of the personnel of a committee on women’s employment which has been appointed by the Minister for Labour and National Service. [More…]
Does the Minister not think, in view of the effect that this committee might have on family life, that there should be included on it some married women who have had experience of running a family? [More…]
On behalf of the young men and women involved, will the Minister try to adjust the petty difference that has arisen between the respective Education Departments and overcome this problem, which affects a number of young Australians and their families? [More…]
For the majority of Vietnamese, poor peasants in the defoliated countryside and destitute workers in the city slums, it is what they have been witnessing for a long time: the search and destroy missions; the ‘free zone’ strikes; the BS2 saturation bombings; the Phoenix operation which from December 1967 to December 1968 killed 18,393 civilian Vietcong cadres; the Song My (‘Pinkville’) type of breakfast massacre in which an American infantry unit allegedly shot down some hundreds of men, women and children in a captured village in the early morning of 16th March 1968; the atrocities regularly described in national United States magazines. [More…]
Yet, Colonel Ton That Khien, chief of the Quang Ngai province (‘Pinkville’), where the March 16, 1969, massacre of Vietnamese women and children took place, refused to dig up the bodies of the victims, saying that ‘they are old bodies’. [More…]
It does not care for how long the fighting goes on or how many civilians are massacred, nor does it care to what extent their land is devastated, how many of their women are turned into prostitutes and how many of the children have been turned into beggars. [More…]
The Reverend Fleming said that the 3 young women were causing considerable trouble in the camp by refusing to go to the mcn to whom they were promised and were instead prostituting themselves with the young men in the village. [More…]
For example, these Ordinances include - an Ordinance providing for the interpretation of Territory Ordinances and statutory instruments; a Juries Ordinance providing for all aspects of jury service and, in particular, for women to serve on juries; an Ordinance making comprehensive provision with respect to maintenance of wives, husbands and children; a new Wills Ordinance; Ordinances enabling married persons to sue each other in tort; a number of amendments to the Court of Petty Sessions Ordinance; an Ordinance facilitating the transfer of marketable securities; a new Family Provision Ordinance - to ensure that the family of a deceased person receive adequate provision out of his estate; an Ordinance enabling a person between the ages of IS and 21 years to borrow on the security of a mortgage of his home; amendments to the Administration and Probate Ordinance; and amendments to the Real Property Ordinance. [More…]
On the days the women did not attend roll call they did not report their attendance on duty at the time nor did their supervisor. [More…]
All work supervisors knew of the roll call procedures and the women concerned had previously attended roll call regularly. [More…]
The Administration however paid the women in a later pay for the amounts that were deducted. [More…]
While the Government adopted that attitude, costs were increasing for the ordinary men and women in the street. [More…]
The Hospitals Contribution Fund o’f Australia has furnished the following details of the public hospital loan of $500,000 shown in the balance sheet for 30th June 1969: The Benevolent Society of New South Wales in respect of the Hospital for Women, Paddington, New South Wales, $294,000; St Vincent’s Hospital, Lismore, $106,000 and the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Waratah, $100,000. [More…]
In respect of 2 halls of residence - the Women’s Hall of Residence at the University of Tasmania and a hall of residence to be known as Roberts Hall at Monash University - unavoidable delays in planning meant that the amounts of State funds expended on these projects up to 31st December 1969 were insufficient to attract the full Commonwealth grant. [More…]
The amounts involved are $47,241 in respect of the Women’s Hall of Residence at the University of Tasmania and $454,930 in respect of Roberts Hall at Monash University. [More…]
Will the Government make a statement condemning wholesale massacres of innocent men, women and children in Vietnam by the Americans, as alleged in newspaper reports over the last six months; if so, when. [More…]
That is what our funds are being used for so that people can have a face lift or so that women may have their breasts made bigger or smaller, whichever they like, at the Government’s expense. [More…]
Inevitably there is a tendency to dispose of quotas in off-peak slots, that is, by the showing of women’s shows, sporting telecasts and what are known as magazine programmes in which one or to people discuss a matter in front of a fixed television camera. [More…]
1 want to stress the point in relation to trade union representation and the representation of women on this Board. [More…]
Medical scientists believe, that about 20% of women reach adult age in Australia without becoming immune through infection. [More…]
Hundreds of births of deformed children each year are attributed to rubella infection in these women during early pregnancy. [More…]
Many young men and women who were called up for Army service during that time contracted it and for a time, because of its severity, the diagnosis of rubella was in doubt. [More…]
Although no mention has been made of what the cost of providing this vaccine to the women of Australia will be, many suggestions have been made as to when the vaccination should take place. [More…]
Some recommendations have been that young women should be vaccinated at school-going age or later and others have been made that all women should be vaccinated with this vaccine. [More…]
The information gathered from those conversations would suggest that, in the minds of those soldiers, Australian servicemen in Vietnam had been engaged in the shooting of civilians including women and children. [More…]
If they cared to see them they would get a combination of colours which would appeal to the most fastidious of women. [More…]
On 17th October 1968 the Queensland Branch of the Union of Australian Women carried this resolution: [More…]
At the Townsville university Professor Burden-Jones leads a small team of very dedicated men and women. [More…]
These are the Women’s Hall of Residence at the University of Tasmania and a hall of residence to be known as Roberts Hall at Monash University. [More…]
I understand that the sums of money concerned are $454,930 for the Roberts Hall at Monash University in Victoria and $47,241 for the Women’s Hall of Residence al the University of Tasmania. [More…]
Therefore we require this second line of defence to give security to our economy, to our standard of living and to our women and children so that the good life that we enjoy may continue. [More…]
Does the Minister not agree that the women of Australia deserve a better deal and should be given a reduction in sales tax on these important items? [More…]
I think women are delightful but when they start cackling across the chamber it takes away from them their dignity and their femininity. [More…]
Women start work al the airport before 7.30 in the morning and work shifts that end after 5 p.m. 1 do not know what the position is at other airports but at Kingsford-Smith Airport the women who are employed at the international terminal in the duty free store are working outside the 7.30 a.m.-5 p.m. spread of hours and getting a loading under an agreement with the employer. [More…]
I can see the area there for negotiation, but I cannot see all these other difficulties and delays which exist in relation to the half dozen oilers who want overalls at Newcastle or 6 women employed at an airport. [More…]
At that time, when events were burning themselves into the brains of those who were experiencing hardship as a result of the depression and when men were out of work, women were worried and children were hungry, Sir Wilfrid Kent Hughes was in charge of State relief. [More…]
By March, notwithstanding the big inflow of migrants and the entry of more and more married women into the work-force, the labour situation had become very tight, with job vacancies well above the number of registered applicants for work. [More…]
With the immigration of skilled workers, and with new developments to increase the work force by the greater use of married women, the Government is doing its best to cope with a work force situation which is, in the words of the Treasurer (Mr Bury) during the course of his Budget Speech becoming ‘very tight’. [More…]
Violence on trains and on unmanned station platforms has caused thousands of commuters, men and women to abandon rail travel after dark once the peak period if over. [More…]
It would be a complete affront, having in mind the policy of the Government in this matter, to those men of ours, and also women in certain fields, who are in the South East Asian area representing Australia and who are confronted by enemies from North Vietnam. [More…]
Is the Leader of the Government in the Senate aware that at a ladies Liberal Party meeting this week Justice Roma Mitchell, Australia’s only female judge and a most distinguished feminist, warned that because of the continual increase in the cost of living all women in the very near future would have to .work to provide a second income? [More…]
I shall deal firstly with that part of the question which referred to a purported remark by a judge who was obviously a guest speaker at a Liberal Party branch meeting or women’s rally. [More…]
One of the Government’s proposals mentioned in the Budget Speech is to train married women to re-enter industry. [More…]
The training that the Minister has proposed should be undertaken by industry, but so that industry will not suffer a loss in absorbing a woman in employment the Government has undertaken the burden of training women so that they will be efficient when they re-enter industry, the cost of such training to be met by increased indirect taxes. [More…]
Young women living in country and smaller urban areas also experience difficulty in obtaining employment because of the narrower range of job opportunities available to them locally. [More…]
This is simply a scheme to train women to meet the requirements of industry not, I venture to suggest, so much for the benefit of the women who will get a job as for the benefit of industry which will receive yet another subsidy. [More…]
If Senator Cavanagh or Senator Bishop were here with me at the moment they would agree that women are hardest to organise in the trade union field. [More…]
They were men and women who believed in social justice. [More…]
Men and women all over the world are trying to stamp out the colour bar in South Africa. [More…]
Women, who probably have reached the age of 35 or 40 and who perhaps worked at clerical jobs in their teens or early twenties may not be able to continue at work because of the demands of child rearing. [More…]
Subsequently when they find themselves widowed or deserted they take part in this so-called fantastic scheme of the Government because they hope they can qualify or retrain to fulfil a reasonable role in society and obtain something better than the miserly handout that is given to young women in these circumstances. [More…]
That is a fair indication, Mr Acting Deputy President, of the great battle being fought by so many women. [More…]
I have said publicly previously, and I say again, that the Government is driving some of these women to a desperate position where rather than see their children starve they will sell their bodies for a night a week. [More…]
There is a minority of women who will do this before they will see their children starve. [More…]
So in the main most of these pensioners are men and women who have blazed the trail, worked hard for very little and never had an opportunity of accumulating any money. [More…]
Senator Keeffe has grievously insulted all those women who are in receipt of assistance and aid. [More…]
It is one thing to be enthusiastic about the question of pensions and to try to help people to gain more, but it is another thing to suggest that any one of these women would lend her body, 1 or 2 nights a week, as he said, to supplement her income from the Commonwealth. [More…]
To make a statement such as that is most unfair, most unjust and irresponsible, and it is a grave reflection on those women throughout Australia who are receiving aid under the social services vote. [More…]
Honourable senators can take my word for it that hundreds of women pensioners club together and put in 20c each to buy food. [More…]
This is a very serious matter and one which naturally reflects very gravely upon the whole body of women who are in receipt of that type of pension. [More…]
However there is a great body of women who now feel that they are under the shadow of that suggestion. [More…]
Once you say that there are some women, who is to say which woman is included and which is excluded? [More…]
Why should ex-servicemen and women who had suffered disabilities through war service find the compensation they receive adversely affected by the need for allocation in other areas of Government expenditure? [More…]
We realise that repatriation benefits result from promises made by governments of varying types and at various times - when recruiting for a war, while men and women are fighting in the war - and from representations that continue after the war when the ravages and results of war become known. [More…]
I believe that the Minister and the Department have every right to make their own decisions in this matter and that, if what I propose is legal and considered to be required in Tasmania, ‘ the Commonwealth and the Commonwealthowned repatriation hospital should take advantage of the many benefits which would accrue to the Commonwealth and to ex-servicemen and women if the scheme were adopted. [More…]
As a member of many women’s organisations I could never understand the complaints re the Department and their offhanded attitude to the patients because usually I meet wilh most courteous attention. [More…]
lt is not my intention to speak at length on this Bill; but I take advantage of it to highlight to the Australian people the niggardly treatment that is handed out by this Government to men and women who have given their utmost in the service of this nation when their service has been required. [More…]
One of the innovations has been the encouragement of women to do certain operative work. [More…]
The trade union movement has not objected to women doing such work purely on the basis of their sex. [More…]
Many industries have been able to employ women operators on certain jobs at 75 or 80 per cent of the male rate. [More…]
That they welcome the statement by the Honourable the Minister for Customs and Excise, Mr Chipp, that the concept of censorship is abhorrent to all men and women who believe in the basic freedoms and that, as a philosophy, it is evil and ought to be condemned - [More…]
As South Africa will be entering an all white women’s team in the Federation Cup tennis series to be held in Perth in December, despite the fact that South Africa has been expelled from the International Lawn Tennis Federation, will the Government take advantage of the occasion to inform the South African Government that in future the refusal of permission to any Australian of non-European origin to enter South Africa would be resented by the people of this country? [More…]
Quite obviously this is an extreme burden on families with young children, and it is particularly strenuous for the women. [More…]
over for women - previously paid no tax if their taxable income did not exceed $1,300. [More…]
For years and years the women of Australia have been asking for sales tax to be reduced or eliminated on all ordinary toilet preparations. [More…]
If they had the opportunity of seeing the women of this country refusing to use any cosmetics at all or any scents or any of the normal preparations they would probably be reduced to the stage of deciding that they ought to remove sales tax altogether and perhaps pay a bonus for the use of these things. [More…]
I have heard all the arguments advanced by Senator Keeffe, for example, on women’s face powder, imitation jewellery and so on. [More…]
Is it a fact that the women’s toilets at the Welfare Centre near Wattie Creek have been damaged and unusable for a period of more than 4 months; if so, when will repairs to the toilets be effected. [More…]
The women’s toilets at the Wave Hill residential centre have been out of order for several weeks. [More…]
In the meantime arrangements have been made for the women to use other toilet facilities at the centre. [More…]
Many men and women in the lower and middle income brackets who have been over burdened in trying to maintain their own families at a reasonable economic level will be digging deeper into their pockets in order to give some financial succour to their elderly parents. [More…]
ls it any wonder that today, because of the economic circumstances in which many Australian live, 2 out of every 5 married women have joined the Australian work force? [More…]
They must ensure that it is replaced by a government that will do something tangible and constructive for the men and women who are entitled to real relief - not relief which is camouflaged, which is deceptive and which is a subterfuge measure of the type encompassed by this legislation. [More…]
The basic wage of $36.45 for men and $27.88 for women should be regarded as fatuous. [More…]
The proposed expenditure of $454,000 includes payments for pre-visa and post-visa services, language training, pre-embarkation training of single women, training of national officials, and contribution for voluntary agency movements of $90 a migrant. [More…]
The decrease in 1970-71 is the net result of a smaller provision for pre-visa and post-visa services, training of national officials, women’s training courses and voluntary agency movements and increased requirements for payments for language training programmes and language supervisors’ salaries. [More…]
These are married women with school children, and during school holidays these ladies are given leave without pay to care for their children. [More…]
Item 01 refers to the employment training scheme for women, and the amount of the appropriation is $350,000. [More…]
It has been stated that it is the policy of the Department to train women for re-employment after they have advanced their family to a certain stage. [More…]
What are the women to be trained for? [More…]
Will the women who are retrained go into various industries? [More…]
I am at a loss to know how women will be trained to re-enter industry. [More…]
We might be training women for a type of employment which is not available or which they are unable to undertake. [More…]
I rise in response to Senator Cavanagh’s inquiry about the vote of $350,000 for the training of women under Division 861, item 01. of the estimates for the Department of Labour and National Service. [More…]
The employment training scheme for women came into effect in September 1970. lt is designed to provide an opportunity for married and adult single women to enter or re-enter the work force by giving the necessary vocational skills. [More…]
those women who, but for their attendance at an approved course of full time training at an educational or training institution under this scheme, would be ineligible to claim the unemployment benefit; secondly, a contribution towards a living away from home expense for women in country towns who have to move to another place to undertake approved training; thirdly, financial assistance for trainees in educational and training institutions for fees and essential books and equipment; fourthly, an incidental expense allowance for full time studies to cover additional out of pocket expenditure; fifthly, a subsidy to employers who, at the request of the Department, provide on the job training for trainees whose preferred occupation can only be obtained by guided experience in the industry. [More…]
I refer firstly to Division 861, item 01, employment training scheme for women. [More…]
If I am incorrect in saying that it has been established for some time it appears to me that the Department of Labour and National Service has been rather tardy in its approach to an employment training scheme for women. [More…]
The International Labour Organisation in 1964 laid down the guidelines for employment for women in the changing world. [More…]
In respect of the Department of Labour and National Service, item 01 of Division 861 relates to an employment training scheme for women to fit them with industrial skills. [More…]
I favour an attempt to train women and I gather from the Minister’s earlier reply on this matter that established schools and institutions will be used for training purposes. [More…]
The Minister said also that a subsidy would be paid to industry where there is an absence of other training facilities for women. [More…]
Women would be placed direct in industry and a subsidy would be paid to employers for training them. [More…]
Either the scheme is doomed to failure or there will be many critical periods for the scheme if the closest cooperation of the trade union movement is not obtained and used at such time as it is sought to place trainee women into industry. [More…]
My wife particularly has taken a great interest in young women who have been in our service. [More…]
Without the need for a permit we would have every Tom, Dick and Harry entering settlements, poking in here and there, creating disorder and mischief, searching for young women and making a general nuisance of themselves. [More…]
But are we doing the right thing by cluttering up the space in our universities with large numbers of young women? [More…]
The Minister could say to me that we want a body that will look into what the nation needs in 5 or 10 years and that we will then go into vocational guidance and get young boys and young women to enter the universities to fill the vacancies that exist in the professions. [More…]
$4,000 Council of Aboriginal Women, South Australia $3,000 Aboriginal Advancement League, South Australia $500 Co-operative for Aborigines Ltd (Tranby) $14,000 Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs $6,000 Aboriginal and Islander Council, Queensland $2,000 New Era Aboriginal Fellowship, Western Australia $500 Walkabout Appeal, Sydney $2,500 Bega Valley Aboriginal Advancement Association $15,000 Aboriginal Advancement Council of Western Australia (Inc.) $15,000 OPAL, Queensland $3,192 Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders [More…]
I repeat that while the hour is late there are many men, women and children who are not sleeping soundly tonight in these flood towns. [More…]
Australia had a proud history in the emancipation of women and in all sorts of matters, but no longer has it a proud history. [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 to participate in the social life, a knowledge of English is essential. [More…]
Special provision has been made for single women with or without close relatives in Australia to be nominated by a relative in Australia or by a friend or by an organisation approved by the 2 Governments. [More…]
In the course of the debate one finds that people indicate that they are insistent that in some way their values ought to be the values of everyone; that in some way the younger generation - these young men and young women - have Strayed from the path of virtue. [More…]
The plain fact is that the young men and women more and more are rejecting the myths, the superstitions, the beliefs and the values of those who are supporting this amendment. [More…]
Whatever the worth of those beliefs and values may be, that is a matter that will be sorted out by the young mcn and women. [More…]
They want to be party lo the decisions which affect them, and that is the attitude of the oung men and women in the University. [More…]
They are’ not children; they arc young men and women and they want to know why decisions are being made. [More…]
I should like a check made to see what facilities ate provided for women employed there to learn English. [More…]
I suggest that a lot of the employers in the clothing industry be asked what they are doing to provide facilities for their women employees to learn English. [More…]
In my own street in Concord there are a large number of Greek and Italian women and children. [More…]
But when I have suggested to the women that they should go out at night to attend English classes they have just smiled at me and said that they are quite happy as they are. [More…]
of course, that these photocopying machines were bought by the P and C organisations through the activities of their own women members. [More…]
Surveys were undertaken concerning the special needs of migrant women and of adolescent migrants. [More…]
Does the Government consider that directors whose negligence or downright dereliction of duty is so plainly shown in their failure to detect the shocking position now revealed, or their deliberate acquiescence in a perpetuation of the same, are fit and proper persons to remain in control of such a vast aggregation of the savings of men and women with small resources? [More…]
Will the Minister investigate the grievances of these women and take action to ameliorate the conditions about which complaints were made? [More…]
At one stage I hoped to see the women very shortly, but I have had to put that off because of the sittings of the Parliament. [More…]
1 draw the honourable senator’s attention to the fact that many of the requests that the women have made are at present being studied by the Kerr committee set up by the Government to investigate the pay and conditions of the three Services, lt would be wrong for me to comment at a time when a top level committee is investigating the matter. [More…]
The importance of attaching men or women from the universities lo committees of the Parliament is that it provides the nexus between the intellectual and academic world and the active world of politics. [More…]
For the first time women will be able to be employed up to the age of 65. [More…]
No words or sentiments of mine would be able to express the full credit which is due to the men and women of the civil defence organisations. [More…]
The organisations which supported he declaration were the People’s Front Struggling for Peace; Saigon Student Union; Van Hanh Student Union, of the Buddhist University in Saigon; Buddhist Student Association; Women’s Movement for the Right to Live; Movement for the Right to Live of Children and Orphans who are Victims of the War; Union of Private School Teachers; Unified Progressive Labor Forces; Progressive Cao Dai Scho lars Group, the Cao Dai being an important religious group; Minh Duc People’s Movement; National Progressive Force; Struggle Committee for the People’s Right to Live; Tin Sang Group, ‘Tiri Sang’ being the largest newspaper, the words meaning morning news’; and People’s Self Determination Group. [More…]
This is brought about, as stated in evidence, by statements such as: ‘You have seen your mates or companions killed not only by armed soldiers but by women and children who carry bombs’. [More…]
This Bill now before the Senate provides for higher war compensation payments by way of increases in the rates of war pension for totally and permanently incapacitated ex-service men and women and those who, because of the severity of their warcaused disabilities, receive payments equal to the TPI rate, namely, the war blinded, those temporarily totally incapacitated, those receiving the special rate of war pension for tuberculosis, and those double amputees who receive additional amounts under the first 6 items of the Fifth Schedule. [More…]
In 1949 we were still recovering from the effects of the Second World War and we were rehabilitating our service men and women. [More…]
Repatriation benefits are provided for certain ex-servicemen and women and their dependants. [More…]
Sir Arthur said: ‘Why should ex-servicemen and women who had suffered disabilities through war service find the compensation they receive adversely affected by the need for allocation in other areas of Government expenditure?’ [More…]
I refer mainly to the group of women who have enough courage to decide that because of circumstances they- cannot marry the father of their child. [More…]
I discussed the trial and the allegations against Lieutenant Calley in America and the upsurge of protests as a result of the verdict of guilty brought in against him, although there was no suggestion that he was not guilty of the 22 murders, which included the killing of civilian women and children. [More…]
Will the Minister look into the problems involved in applications by single ex-service women for war service homes, with a view to having any anomalies rectified? [More…]
I accept what the honourable senator says, but I say quite clearly that I need no urging from him to evoke sympathy for the situation of single ex-service women with regard to repatriation benefits of which war service homes assistance is one. [More…]
Having regard to the demands made under the Act, it has not been considered possible up to date to extend the benefit for ex-service women. [More…]
Surely we should be encouraging large families, not merely because they will provide men and women in this community but also because of the very grave social and economic consequences if we do not do it. [More…]
It has survived on this myth of the Communists of the Kremlin and China raping women, of red arrows coming down and this type of thing. [More…]
I heard on the radio your speech in the Senate on 7th April on the subject of conscientious objection to compulsory training to kilt our fellow men, women and children. [More…]
When Government supporters are at the South Kew Liberal Party Women’s Branch they will refer to China as Communist China or possibly Red China. [More…]
How many married women have been appointed to the service of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, in accordance with section 53 (1) of the Broadcasting and Television Act, in each of the last 5 years. [More…]
Will the Government give consideration to repealing those parts of the Act which appears to discriminate against the employment of married women by the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
The PostmasterGeneral has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: (1), (2) and (3) There is no discrimination in the Broadcasting and Television Act against the employment of married women by the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
To show how irrational that proposition is, I shall refer to the case to which he referred of the women who were prosecuted in Victoria under certain legislation relating to trespass. [More…]
respect of other inquiries 1 have made, 1 find that the only time when any of these women were on the floor is when they were being dragged out or lifted out of the Department of Labour and National Service into the hallway where they could be arrested legally. [More…]
It put 5 women in prison in Victoria recently, but when a week later other people did what appeared to be the same thing it made excuses for their actions. [More…]
As I pointed out last night, it put 5 women into Fairlea prison. [More…]
Fancy them being given a cup of tea while the women had to go to gaol for doing the same thing. [More…]
I happen to know personally one of these women. [More…]
I do not like her politics, but I hate to think that we have laws in this country that put 5 women into Fairlea prison but allowed a federal member of Parliament to get away with committing the same offence. [More…]
AH I am asking is: Why did the Government allow others to get away with breaking the same law that the 5 women broke? [More…]
If the basic philosophy is accepted that a law considered as bad should be broken by the person who holds that view, we have no law; we have no law on public order; no law on property; no law on the rights of man; no law against rape; no law to protect women and children and the weak in our community and no law even against murder itself. [More…]
Two misguided brothers who, because they were alleged to be intelligent young men doing university courses, should have known that a visiting dignitary such as a President of the United States would be accompanied by armed guards to protect his security in an intensely crowded area, by their actions ran the risk of those guards opening fire on them thus involving women, children and babes in arms around them. [More…]
Down through history it has -been said by many philosophers that the civilisation which cannot protect the rights of the babes, the weak and the women in its community fails to be a civilisation at all. [More…]
I hope very sincerely that, if I attend a local parents and citizens or mothers league meeting and if I am told that it is intended to demonstrate against the inadequacy of bus transport in the Lowe electorate - and neither the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) nor 1 would be above interceding in this matter, although it is not our direct responsibility - those women will not be denied that right. [More…]
In determining this level of assistance the Government has taken into account likely increased pressures on technical training facilities arising from demands of such schemes as the retraining of married women, the retraining of farmers displaced under the rural reconstruction scheme and from the public service and industry for higher technician courses, which would have an effect on the programme of the States. [More…]
1 put to the Senate that in fact the great majority of young men and women are not good time young mcn and women. [More…]
It is like the imprisonment of those 5 women - that disgraceful affair in Victoria. [More…]
When Dr Cairns and others went in after the week-end, when the women were released, in similar circumstances, the Government wilted. [More…]
Men and women who hold public office would be compelled, simply because they did hold public office, to lose the comforts and privacy of an unpicketed home. [More…]
I believe that the homes of men, sometimes the last citadel of the tired, the weary, and the sick, can be protected by government from noisy, marching, tramping, threatening picketers and demonstrators bent on filling the minds of men, women, and children with fears of the unknown. [More…]
Senator Greenwood and Mr Forbes, the Minister for Immigration, are aware that J have already raised the problem of another group of Asian men and women who have qualified in accountancy. [More…]
I conmend the report to honourable senators and members and I hope that the Government will endorse its recommendations, for I feel sure many thousands of men, women and children who are handicapped in so many ways - ‘I have in mind, too, families who have the major responsibility of caring for their loved ones who are handicapped - will gain great assistance when the recommendations in the report are acted upon. [More…]
Referring not specifically to this particular line under discussion in this clause but to the general philosophy behind the clause, Dr Cairns made a statement in respect of 5 women who were prosecuted in Melbourne under certain State legislation. [More…]
In respect of other inquiries I have made, I find that the only time when any of these women were on the floor is when they were being dragged out or lifted out of the Department qf Labour and National Service into the hallway where they could be arrested legally. [More…]
As I pointed out in my speech on the motion for the second reading of the Bill, the law took its course against women who were unlawfully in Commonwealth offices - I did not agree with what they were doing - but it did not take its course against others who did the same thing. [More…]
May I say that by allowing such an elastic provision to be introduced into the law I think the Government will get itself into the difficulty where it will not be able to prosecute or it is going to have people putting it in a difficult position, such as the 5 women who went to Fairlea prison. [More…]
We come to understand men and women in the activities of life. [More…]
Through the Parliament there is a recognition of the humanities and of the need for men and women to live in understanding. [More…]
Out of curiosity I took the trouble to tally up the number of years given to the Parliament by the men and women whom we are farewelling today, and it conies to a staggering total of 198 years. [More…]
Their performance is all the more creditable in the light of them being women in an establishment which is occupied predominantly by men. [More…]
Therefore, it is essential in the interests of the nation that we have men and women of integrity, dedicated to their jobs, and I believe that we have such people in this Senate. [More…]
That for some time past the attention of the said Club has been directed to the needs of benevolent institutions for additional accommodation and equipment to cater for the numbers of destitute or near-destitute men, women and children of all age groups. [More…]
Your petitioner therefore humbly prays that the Senate will initiate or concur in appropriate legislation for the purpose of (1) making grants suitable to the financial needs of benevolent institutions for additional accommodation and equipment of a capital nature and the estimated costs of same, in particular for destitute or neardestitute men, women and children of all age groups, and for those in a non-pensionable age category and (2) enabling financial grants of a supplementary nature to be made for maintenance costs of an urgent nature in such institutions. [More…]
That is why the vast majority of young married women go to work - not because they want to go to work. [More…]
The attitude of the DLP is that the emphasis should be on people and not on properties; on the men and women of the rural industries and not on the industries themselves. [More…]
Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONI think we are all reasonable men and women when it comes to the question of time. [More…]
Excluding automobiles and petrol, retailing in Australia consists of some 110,796 separate businesses employing 572,647 people, of whom half are women. [More…]
I know that extremely attractive women and children are employed. [More…]
Had it not been for the existence of independent schools, Queensland’s young men and women who wanted higher education and those who desired to study law, medicine or other professional subjects would have been lost to the State of Queensland had it not been for the Grammar Schools or the few independent denominational schools available to them at that time. [More…]
His wife was one of those women who are not very conscious of day to day things. [More…]
But if that is not acceptable surely there would be some cases where, although there was a lesser period than 3 years, some women might be accepted. [More…]
For example, in 1970, a total of 18,558 men and women enquired about service in the RAN as sailors and WRANS. [More…]
If not, when is the Minister likely to do so and thus enable a standard of service of the highest order to be made available to ex-servicemen and women to which they are justly entitled? [More…]
These include developments in the training of auxiliary personnel, for example dental therapists; wider adoption of the practice of fluoridation of water; and active encouragement of women to enter the dental profession. [More…]
That is particularly important with younger criminals and younger men and women are coming before the courts. [More…]
Mr President, I stand here tonight a senator elected by the people of Western Australia for one express purpose - to convince this Government that it is high time that the death tax laws throughout Australia should be abolished or drastically revised because they are causing hardship, distress and humiliation to thousands of Australians, the majority of whom are women. [More…]
He was a very shrewd and sensible gentleman, because if a man did not have to pay death taxes until his wife died he would not have to pay them at all, as our women live longer than we do. [More…]
Our women folk should be put on a pedestal. [More…]
I understand that fashions these days, particularly in women’s outer wear, are demanding knitted fabric. [More…]
Yet Senator Byrne is asking that these men and women make a decision tonight that an injustice has occurred. [More…]
Mudginberry and Munmarlary abattoirs each permanently employ 6 Aboriginal men and 2 Aboriginal women. [More…]
I say this to remind us that on 30th June last we lost some record breakers from this Senate - some men and women whose names will live forever in the annals of the parliamentary history of this nation. [More…]
Reports were published of women demanding that the death penalty be reintroduced because of the rapid increase in vicious crimes in their areas. [More…]
Since the formation of my Party 2 Victorian women senators have made noteworthy contributions to the Senate. [More…]
I hope that in future I may add to their contributions, not only as a serving senator but perhaps also as a voice for the women of Australia. [More…]
I acknowledge also the unselfish help which has been given to me by the women of my own Party and I have been very conscious of the interest of the women of Australia in my election as a senator. [More…]
Does this mean that the Government plans to continue conscription for at least another 19 years or, alternatively, is it thinking of widening the scope of the National Service Act to include 70-year old women? [More…]
There is a need for government cash to flow to religious and other institutions which are catering for these various areas of poverty in the community - whether it be homeless men and women, former prisoners who need aid, babies who need homes or societies which at present are looking after physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
An ever-increasing number of the Australian work force today are women, and an ever-increasing number of these women engaged in the Australian work force are married. [More…]
I have said publicly previously, and I say again, that the Government is driving some of these women to a desperate position where rather than see their children starve they will sell their bodies for a night a week. [More…]
He may know of one or two cases but he puts all those decent women into a class of prostitution. [More…]
Two spinster women or a brother and sister who go on living in the old family home would receive more in pensions than a married couple does. [More…]
Married and adult single women whose domestic responsibilities on the farm have restricted them from seeking job opportunities but who now desire to enter into employment can qualify for training under the Employment Training Scheme for Women Restricted from Employment by Domestic Responsibilities. [More…]
Married women and adult single women members of the families of eligible farmers should, generally speaking, apply for training under the Employment Training Scheme for [More…]
Women Restricted from Employment by Domestic Responsibilities. [More…]
What promise can he give to women who need specialised treatment during their pregnancies that the normal general practitioner referral code can be either bypassed or limited in application, particularly in the case of potential mothers in their second pregnancies who feel that they need the skill of the specialist who was available during their first pregnancies? [More…]
There are almost fifty- thousand women in Australia whose husbands were killed on active service or died as a result of their service. [More…]
I think it would be agreed that Sir Arthur Lee could not be described as a radical, but he has seen fit to refer to the fact that it is in the period of life of this Government, the last 20 years, that there has been an erosion or a devaluation of the pension entitlements of ex-servicemen and women. [More…]
That cannot be said of pensions payable to exservicemen and women. [More…]
Honourable senators and members of the other place are constantly taking up cases on behalf of ex-servicemen and ex-service women to whom the Commission has refused repatriation entitlements. [More…]
A vast improvement is needed in the attitude adopted to applications for repatriation entitlements lodged by the remaining few ex-servicemen and women of the Boer War and World War I. [More…]
At the time when the Minister for Repatriation said that he could not justify a request to Cabinet for an extra $100m for ex-servicemen and ex-service women the income of the Government was rising. [More…]
If society is to protect itself as an ordered society, not for cowards but for courageous men, and equally courageous women and children, it must protect the man who must go against a criminal gang in the line of law enforcement and could be murdered when carrying out the obligation of the law. [More…]
We read of cases where people have attacked young women and men. [More…]
But America responded and it was because of that response that we continue to enjoy the freedom and liberty which we have and for which so many noble men and women made the supreme sacrifice in many theatres of war during World War I and World War II and in Korea and Vietnam. [More…]
And this should apply to women too, for that matter. [More…]
A few of those women afterwards said to me: ‘The best thing that ever happened to my boy was that period in camp. [More…]
The point I want to make is this: How can anyone who has a conscientious objection to serving in Vietnam but who will serve in any other theatre of war - he does not agree with what is going on in Vietnam; he does not agree with napalm bombing of children and women; he does not agree that it is other than a war of aggression in Vietnam; he does not agree that we should force a system of government on Vietnam - put his name to an alternative type of service which provides that if the Government declares a state of emergency which is approved by Parliament he shall go to Vietnam? [More…]
In common with many other women who have reached a stage where they have children either at high school or at university, she feels that after a span of 25 years a sum of, say Stg50 would bc very valuable to her at the present time. [More…]
1 think this is a matter in which there should not be any repudiation or delay and in which the Australian Government has a responsibility, as these women are wives, of Australian citizens, to see that they receive the same satisfaction as is often received when there is some . [More…]
I say this on behalf of the men and women who are on what might be termed working holidays: They do not want to feci that the boom will suddenly be lowered and that they will be told: ‘You have to pack up your bags and go’, lt is all right to talk about idle speculation. [More…]
The presiding officers and poll clerks were mostly school teachers and other young men and women who were, no doubt, clerks. [More…]
Irrespective of what government has been in office in New South Wales it has, when determining housing allotments in country areas, sought advice from the local Country Women’s Association, the Returned Services League, trade unions and so on. [More…]
I refer to a question I asked on 28th September, on which I will embellish somewhat, in regard to the bugbear about the referral system for women with pregnancy problems. [More…]
The Minister wants to put the view that this system is an expansive one; but what about the women who have difficult pregnancies? [More…]
Some clearcut answers should be given in relation to a lot of women who have difficult pregnancies. [More…]
Will the Minister arrange for women to receive the benefit of specialist medical treatment, without the need for referral by general practitioners, in cases where they have known medical problems? [More…]
Payment of specialist benefits is dependent upon referral by another practitioner and no general exception can be made in the case of women patients. [More…]
What percentage of the people responsible to pay it were women; in other words, is the collection of probate a problem that to a large extent falls upon women at a fairly difficult time? [More…]
The statistics do not show the extent to which this estate duty fell on women beneficiaries. [More…]
They show that 62,000 men and women were unemployed compared with 44,000 for the same month last year. [More…]
A similar situation applies to unemployed women. [More…]
The scheme is part of a comprehensive range of repatriation benefits for Australian ex-service men and women and their dependants. [More…]
I refer particularly to women in the Arts faculties. [More…]
The statistics that are collected in connection with employment do not record whether the husbands of the women applying are employed. [More…]
The inclusion of non-elected nominated members in the House is a new concept in Papua New Guinea but there is a widespread feeling in Papua New Guinea of the need to provide a means for the representation of special groups, for example, women, or persons having a special expertise, in the legislature. [More…]
In that camp the women are trained in child care, the use of electric stoves, washing machines and other household tasks including ironing and dressmaking. [More…]
By today’s modern standards I think it is essential in tropical areas to have air conditioning installed in houses, particularly when women and little children are involved. [More…]
Will the Minister draw this matter immediately to the attention of his counterpart in the other place and ask the Government to state what action it intends to take to overcome this growing unemployment in rural areas and to stop the drift of people, particularly young men and women, from country areas to the large coastal cities? [More…]
I remind the honourable senator of the programme for training women for employment, which is an initiative which I think he would agree was directed to a special section of the community and a new programme. [More…]
It is designed to provide the opportunity for married and adult single women to enter or re-enter the work force by gaining the necessary vocational skills. [More…]
I wish to quote from a letter which was forwarded by Mr Ben Price, the National Secretary of the Australian Legion of ExServicemen and Women - the second largest ex-service organisation in Australia- to responsible Ministers of the Government. [More…]
Canberra Women’s Bowling Club [More…]
The Democratic Labor Party has sold to the Australian people, through radio and television, this propaganda that the Chinese hordes will come down through the islands, that the Red arrows will come down and that these people will do all sorts of things to our women. [More…]
The tremendous, pitiful problems which were occasioned to farmers, particularly small farmers, and to workers and their women folk and children hit one very starkly indeed. [More…]
There were, as Senator Douglas McClelland says, 4 women in the house but the reason the visit was made was that in the first place there was an anonymous telephone call that Mr Matteson would be in his mother’s house on this particular morning. [More…]
As Senator Douglas McClelland has said, this is a house normally occupied by 4 women but on the clothes line at the back of the house was men’s clothing. [More…]
But this is a situation where, I understand, 4 women were involved and obviously the nuances of their feelings were not completely taken into account. [More…]
Thus in an application by a wife under the Married Women’s Property Act for a declaration that certain property is owned by the wife or held in trust by the husband for the wife, evidence by either spouse of the conversations between them relating to the property is perhaps incompetent because of section 11 of the 1898 New South Wales Act. [More…]
Those who qualify for special benefits, and will receive the increased rate as soon as this Bill is passed, include some women caring for invalid parents or near relatives, some migrants not residentially qualified for social service pensions and certain unmarried mothers. [More…]
Is it a fact also that such sonic booms can cause an abortion in women who are pregnant? [More…]
Women followed from one fashion to another until someone invented the lace-up stays. [More…]
They are men who are more than 65 years of age and women who are more than 60 years of age. [More…]
My Committee has knowledge of thirty women in Australia treated with imipramine in early pregnancy in none of whom were foetal abnormalities of any kind recorded. [More…]
Therefore, in administering the drug to pregnant patients, nursing mothers or women in child-bearing age the potential benefit must be weighed against the possible hazards. [More…]
Therefore, in administering the drug to pregnant patients, nursing mothers or women in child-bearing age the potential benefit must be weighed against the possible hazards. [More…]
Therefore, in administering the drug to pregnant patients, nursing mothers or women in child-bearing age the potential benefit must be weighed against the possible hazards. [More…]
The figures indicate that for last month 396 men and 229 women were unemployed in the Kempsey district and there were only 36 unfilled vacancies for men and 24 for women. [More…]
What forms of cadetship, if any, have been made available in recent years by the Commonwealth Banking Corporation to young men and women who have recently completed their schooling and intend going on to a university, a college of advanced education, a technical college or similar educational institution. [More…]
These take several forms and are awarded to young men and women who have recently completed schooling who seek (and appear suited to) a career in the Commonwealth [More…]
The 1966 Census revealed a total of 686,334 married women in the Australian labour force. [More…]
Most shirt manufacturers employ a high proportion of migrant women. [More…]
The employers stated in evidence that lack of alternative skills tended to preclude many of these women from finding employment outside the clothing industry. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that 2 separate accidents involving young women students occurred this morning when a 17-year old motor cyclist received fatal injuries after colliding with a truck near the college gates and a 19-year old pedestrian received severe injuries when hit by a car near the main college building? [More…]
That industry, as a result of very hard work on his part and as a result of the efforts and dedication of the men and women who have worked for him during that period, has developed into a very successful industry. [More…]
What forms of cadetship, if any, have been made available in recent years by the Overseas Telecommunications Commission to young men and women who have recently completed their schooling and intend going on to a university, a college of advanced education, a technical college or similar educational institution. [More…]
What forms of cadetship, if any, have been made available in recent years by the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories to young men and women who have recently completed their schooling and intend going on to a university, a college of advanced education, a technical college or similar educational institution. [More…]
However, the Council recommended that (a) the use of 2, 4, 5-T in areas where other water contamination could occur should not be permitted; (b) until further evidence is available precautions should be taken to avoid the exposure of women, particularly those in the child bearing age group, to 2, 4, 5-T. [More…]
What forms of cadetship, if any, have been made available in recent years by the Australian Broadcasting Commission to young men and women who have recently completed their schooling and intend going on to a university, a college of advanced education, a technical college or similar educational institution. [More…]
The forms of cadetship made available in recent years by the Australian Broadcasting Commission to young men and women are as follows: [More…]
We feel that, this proposition should be supported particularly in respect of teachers, because there are a great many women teachers and considerable hardship is inflicted upon them at present in many instances because of problems resulting from their having children. [More…]
We believe that the Commonwealth should give a lead in this Bill, which establishes for the first time a Commonwealth Teaching Service, by making provision for women teachers who may well become pregnant and who could well be involved in quite serious problems with their infant children after the birth. [More…]
If we, as human beings, live and act rightly towards our fellow men and women there should not be any need for laws to put people in prison and to inflict other forms of punishment. [More…]
In the basic course 12 scholarships will be provided tenable for 12 months, open in general to young men and women from any part of Australia, who have passed the higher school certificate or its equivalent and who show evidence of being likely to profit from the training provided. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Concorde aircraft while in flight will spread sonic boom up to 60 miles wide on the ground along the whole of its flight path, and is it also a fact that such sonic booms could cause pregnant women to have a miscarriage. [More…]
What forms of cadetship, if any, have been made available in recent years by the Australian Airlines Commission to young men and women who have recently completed their schooling and intend going on to a university, a college of advanced education, a technical college or similar educational institution. [More…]
The people associated with this committee are the Benalla City Council, the Benalla Shire Council, the Benalla Chamber of Commerce, the Benalla Branch of the Country Party, the Benalla Branch of the Liberal Party, the Benalla Branch of the Democratic Labor Party, the Benalla Branch of the Australian Labor Party, the Benalla Business and Professional Women’s Club, the RSL Club of Benalla, the Lions Club of the same city, the Rotary Club of Benalla, the Benalla Junior Chamber of Commerce, and the Benalla Apex Club. [More…]
That institution contains mainly young men and women between the ages of, I suppose, 16 and 25 years who have sustained terrible injuries, principally in motor car accidents. [More…]
More than anything else, it will mean that men, women and children will not be merely existing. [More…]
I believe that in Czechoslovakia in the war years it was necessary for all women to work and for all children to be put in creches. [More…]
Whether we like it or not, women in the future will be working in industry. [More…]
The suggestion that we make is that some establishment should be provided in each factory for the purpose of looking after their children while those women work. [More…]
Of the people in this 5 per cent category who become confirmed alcoholics or confirmed drug takers - I exclude from this group a section of middle aged women with whom I will try to deal directly if time permits - for some unknown reason 4 per cent do give up their addiction during the period that they are addicted. [More…]
It is unusual for a committee to reach such a conclusion after outlining so clearly the health hazard that these drugs present to the community, especially to people in the lower income bracket and women of middle age and over. [More…]
The article in the ‘Australian Medical Journal’ states thai a recent survey in Sydney of aspirin use showed that 8 per cent of men and 15 per cent of women ingested it daily. [More…]
I often see in Liberal youth organisations young men and women who are not in uniform but who are prepared to support a policy that puts people into uniform against their will to undergo national service. [More…]
I believe that the young men, and sometimes the women, who demonstrate and express their opposition to the National Service Act deserve the gratitude of this nation, not the denigration that they get in this place. [More…]
Does the Department of Trade and Industry have details of this overseas control of an industry which has such a marked effect on the cost of living of most Australian women and many Australian men? [More…]
In the coal mines of England there were employed pregnant women, children of 6 years of age and younger. [More…]
Today 40 per cent of our total work force are women. [More…]
They revealed that of the trade unionists in this country 38 per cent voted for the Liberal and Country Parties and 41 per cent of their wives voted in a similar fashion, which may mean that women are more intelligent than men. [More…]
40 per cent of the entire work force will be females and the majority of them will be married women. [More…]
The success or failure of the United Nations International Development Strategy, and therefore the future of millions of men, women and children in the developing countries, will depend on the decisions taken at UNCTAD III and, even more important, on what governments do thereafter. [More…]
The amount expended on women’s magazines was $41,300 and on general manazines, $204,800; making a total of $246,100. [More…]
One recalls just how quickly cigarette smoking was accepted by women in the United States. [More…]
Others have spoken of the affection and admiration which all men and women of the Bar and people having business before the Court held with abiding feeling for him. [More…]
In view of the recent statement issued by the Minister concerning South American women resident in Australia, will the Minister give an assurance that officers of the Department of Immigration and Commonwealth Police have not been used in a sordid battle of call-girl cartels in Sydney. [More…]
The records of the women concerned, who were not residents of Australia, made it quite clear that they, should not be granted extensions of stay. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that 2 separate accidents involving young women students occurred this morning when a 17-year old motor cyclist received fatal injuries after colliding with a truck near the college gates and a 19-year old pedestrian received severe injuries when hit by a car near the main college building? [More…]
No large dietary surveys have since been conducted but 3 smaller studies investigating the diets of nurses, young vegetarians, and pregnant and lactating women were undertaken between 1960 and 1963. [More…]
We tell pregnant women not to take most drugs. [More…]
I found in the week after the release of the report and my attaining it quite quickly that it was a source of very valuable information for speaking to a socially concerned women’s group which at that time had expressed some interest in becoming more informed on the subject. [More…]
As someone who has had some activity in the Young Women’s Christian Association and who knows how that Association and its corresponding organisation, the Young Men’s Christian Association, work in serving the youth of our community, I realise that youth workers, who are close to the people in the relevant age group, have much to contribute in the way of giving information, developing education programmes and in actually taking these programmes to the people who can best use them. [More…]
My question, which is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service, refers to the National Labour Advisory Council Committee on Women’s Employment. [More…]
As the range of subjects recently considered includes part time employment for women, family taxation systems and allowable deductions, and child care, I would appreciate any information which can be supplied from this Committee. [More…]
The National Council of Women is to receive some grant, and road safety is to be supported further. [More…]
Perhaps we should have some regard for those things which go to make our beautiful women a little more beautiful. [More…]
I prefaced my remarks by saying that these are the things which make our beautiful women a little more beautiful. [More…]
I think that he instead of some of the women should be using this stuff. [More…]
Even without these aids the women put him well and truly to shame with their looks. [More…]
This situation has been brought about only as a result of the high standard of men and women in those Services and the equipment which the Government seeks for the use of the Services. [More…]
It is a very good move and one which surely seems designed to attract married women into the work force. [More…]
At the same time, the ALP Federal Conference resolved that it should persuade Australian women not to have more than 2 children - that it was selfish to do so. [More…]
That is what the people concerned think of the women of Australia, lt is high lime that we changed the law relating to wives who are killed in motor accidents. [More…]
On the day before the Budget was introduced the Press, using the Government’s own figures, stated that 112,000 men and women were out of work. [More…]
The education departments in the various States have attracted young men and women to undertake a course in teacher training by offering the bait of certain living allowances which generally are higher than those offered to holders of scholarships or attenders of universities In general. [More…]
Having weighed all the evidence that we took on this vexed question of bonds and inducements to students to embrace the education profession, the problem of retaining teachers in the education system and the problem of deploying them in remote, unattractive locations without the sanction of a bond, which many education authorities pointed out had been an important factor in persuading young men and women to teach in remote unattractive locations, and appreciating all the difficulties, the Committee recommended: [More…]
I believe they show a sensitive regard for the feelings and aspirations of young men and women who are prepared to accept the onerous task of teaching children but who do not necessarily wish to be bound as bond slaves to a calling about which they may be tentative in their original approach. [More…]
Some women teachers are temporarily at home as mothers and will come back later. [More…]
The slaughter by the State of Israel of innocent women and children as well as others is no answer to the kind of atrocity that was committed against the State of Israel. [More…]
They say that because this atrocity was committed at Munich - it was a terrible atrocity - nothing must be said and that by silence we must allow it to be thought that we accept that the State of Israel is entitled to go out and commit the kind of atrocity which was committed against women and children. [More…]
In 2 cases recently pregnant women were placed in a quarantine station in New South Wales because they were not and could not be vaccinated. [More…]
We have decided to abolish the means test within the next 3 years for age pension eligibility for residentiary qualified men and women aged 65 years and over. [More…]
Surely those men and women who have comprised the standing committees and who have worked so hard, compiled reports and presented them to the Senate do not want the Senate to rise and an election to be held without some discussion having taken place on those reports. [More…]
But part of our education system which has been extremely successful in producing very great men and women in Australia is the boarding school. [More…]
These problems concern families, the children of men and women from all walks of life. [More…]
Aged people and terrified women and children paid with their lives. [More…]
If Senator O’Byrne wants to interject, does he suggest that it was never the culture of our race to grab women who were thought to be witches and dunk them in a pond and if they did not drown to burn them at the stake, and if they did not burn to declare that they were not witches? [More…]
So we have had the situation in which students, part time workers - particularly women who are working to supplement the family income - and young people have been paying tax on their wages which is out of all proportion to their ability to pay, which should be the basis of taxation. [More…]
There are new facilities for intensive courses, full time courses and classes for special groups with particular emphasis being placed on migrant women with a view to caring for the family. [More…]
How many persons are employed as Senior Immigration Representative overseas and bow many are women? [More…]
Has the Minister made any endeavour to ensure that women will be given an equal opportunity to serve in these positions? [More…]
The Department of Immigration has 22 Senior Representative overseas and, at present, there are no women in this category. [More…]
There is no restriction on the promotion of women to senior positions on the basis of their sex. [More…]
The repatriation content of the 1972-73 Budget demonstrates clearly this Government’s acceptance of its responsibilities to the ex-servicemen and women of Australia, their widows and their dependants. [More…]
Is he aware that this reported statement indicated that attempts over the last 2 or 3 years have failed to obtain 400 women machinists and that there are only 200 working there at the present time? [More…]
In this country some 50,000 women have lost their husbands as a result of death in combat or as a result of disabilities after their discharge from the Army or the Air Force or the Navy. [More…]
Many women who were widowed in World War I or World War II, others who were widowed as a result of the Korean and Malaysian conflicts and still others who were widowed as a result of that illegal war in Vietnam, none of whom has remarried and may never remarry, are totally dependent on the ungenerous allowance that is paid by the Government by way of the war widow’s pension and whatever fringe benefits such as children’s allowances which may be paid. [More…]
I am thankful that, especially in peacetime - of course, we take it for granted in wartime - there are honourable men and women who are prepared to devote their lives and their energies to the service of the nation in our defence forces. [More…]
I would point out that the Returned Services League and the other ex-service organisations provide strong support to ex-servicemen and women in this regard. [More…]
How many women hold senior positions in the Central Administration, Engineering Planning and Research Division, Engineering Works Division, Telecommunications Division, Postal Services Division and Management Services Division of the Postmaster-General’s Department. [More…]
Has the Postmaster-General made any endeavours to ensure that women are given equal opportunity to serve in the higher levels of the Postmaster-General’s Department. [More…]
There is no restriction on the promotion of women to senior positions on the basis of their sex. [More…]
How many women are employed in senior positions in the Imports/Exports Division, Inland and Special Services Division, Tariff Division and Management Services Branch of the Department of Customs and Excise. [More…]
What are the reasons for the extreme under-representalions of women inthese posts and, what endeavours, if any, has the Minister made to ensure equal opportunity for women to serve in senior positions in the Divisions and Branch listed in (1). [More…]
However, 2 women are employed in senior positions in the Laboratory organisation. [More…]
There is no restriction on the promotion of women to senior positions on the basis of their sex. [More…]
How many women hold positions on the Australian Council for the Arts, and on the Interim Council for a National Film and Television Training School. [More…]
What endeavours, if any, has the Prime Minister taken to ensure that women are given equal opportunity to serve in the higher levels of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and in the various bodies within the Prime Minister’s area of responsibility. [More…]
1 am informed that 2 women hold positions on the Australian Council for the Arts, one of whom is also a member of the Interim Council for a National Film and Television Training School. [More…]
There is no restriction on the promotion of women to senior positions on the basis of their sex. [More…]
How many women and how many men are serving on the Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council and the Commonwealth Publicity Council. [More…]
Has the Minister made any endeavours to ensure that women are given equal opportunity to serve on these bodies. [More…]
Members of the Immigration Advisory Council are, in the main, representatives of community organisations and the 5 women members presently serving on the Council represent a large crosssection of the Australian community - including 3 major women’s associations with a combined membership of more than 940,000. [More…]
It is open for those organisations which have mixed membership to nominate either men or women to represent them. [More…]
I am one of those people who know quite well that many men and women served their country just as valiantly by staying at home, with much sorrow, as those who went to foreign climes. [More…]
My Party is the only one which endorses women and puts them into this place so that women may have a voice in the Parliament. [More…]
We have generally elevated our women candidates to first or second position on the ticket to make sure that they could come into the Parliament. [More…]
On 23rd August 1972, Senator Guilfoyle asked me if there is any information available to honourable senators on the views of the National Labour Advisory Council Committee on Women’s Employment or whether it was an advisory committee which reports only to the Minister. [More…]
The National Labour Advisory Council Committee on Women’s Employment was set up in May 1970 to advise the Government, through the Council, on matters related to the employment of women. [More…]
How many women are employed at a senior executive level in the various bodies within the Minister’s area of responsibility. [More…]
What endeavours, if any, has the Minister made to ensure that women are given equal opportunity, in higher levels of the ‘Department and the various bodies within the Minister’s area of responsibility. [More…]
For February 1972 an attempt was made to provide as much information as possible about a number of separate groups of migrants (males, married women, all females and persons) according to country of birth and period of arrival in Australia, but because of the relatively small numbers of unemployed migrants only 20 of the 52 principal estimates provided for in the published table formats could be shown, the remainder being below the 4,000 limit referred to above. [More…]
I suppose that in this day of Women’s Lib it is rather dangerous to believe still in the old concept of the husband and wife being almost as one. [More…]
How many women and how manymenare engaged as Managers of State or Overseas Branch Offices of Qantas Airways Limited and as Directors of Trans Australia Airlines or as Regional Directors of Trans- Australia Airlines. [More…]
What endeavours, if any, has the Minister made to ensure that women are given an equal opportunity to serve in these levels of the Department of Civil Aviation. [More…]
There is no restriction on the promotion of women to senior positions on the basis of their sex. [More…]
Does the Minister agree that because of the increased numbers of working women with children who have to be cared for, such a change in the law would be greatly desirable in the national interest as well as in justice to working mothers who relieve the community of social service payments? [More…]
How many women occupy senior positions in the Central Office of State offices of the Department of Housing. [More…]
Is there a serious imbalance between the sexes employed in the State offices of the Depart ment; if so, what endeavours, if any, has the Minister made to ensure that women are given an equal opportunity to serve in senior positions. [More…]
There is no restriction of the promotion of women to senior positions on the basis of their sex. [More…]
How many women and how many men are employed at senior levels of the Department of the Interior in the Central Office, Management Services and Property Division, Australian Capital Territory Services Division, the Australian Capital Territory Lands Division and the Northern Territory Division. [More…]
How many women and how many men are employed as information attaches or senior executives in the Australian News and Information Bureau. [More…]
What endeavours, if any, has the Minister made to ensure that women are given equal opportunity within the Department and the various bodies within the Minister’s area of responsibility. [More…]
Fifteen men and no women are employed as information attaches or senior executives in the Australian News and Information Bureau. [More…]
In addition to the work that Mrs McLean has done over the years to make young men of this nation aware of their rights under the National Service Act, quite recently she was responsible for the release of a statement calling for an end to the blatant bombing of women and children in North Vietnam. [More…]
No compensation has been paid and no apology has been made to the 4 courageous women who preferred to be gaoled on a matter of principle rather than pay the fines. [More…]
Apparently Senator Hannan believes that the Australian troops should be still in Vietnam destroying these terrible people of Vietnam - these women, children and old people - and that we should be gaoling all the people in Australia who oppose this principle. [More…]
Subsequently George Crawford was able to prove conclusively in his trial that the first charges made against the 4 women who were gaoled in Fairlea Prison were unconstitutional and that the women should never have been sent to prison. [More…]
There are very few occasions when prosecutions under section 7A of the Crimes Act are not instituted against women who give out pamphlets in breach of that section. [More…]
As announced in the 1972-73 Budget Speech, the Government is committed to abolition, within the next 3 years, of the means test on age pension eligibility for residentially qualified men and women aged 65 years and over. [More…]
Having in mind the policy of the Government to abolish the means test within the next 3 years on age pension eligibility for residentially qualified men and women aged 65 years and over, as announced in the 1972 Budget Speech, to report on - [More…]
Today an honourable senator in all sincerity wanted to know the number of working women in Queensland who would be affected by the Labor ,’Party’s health policy. [More…]
This legislation expresses the Government’s recognition of the rapidly increasing proportion of married women in the labour force and of the consequences of this phenomenon for the care of their children. [More…]
Since 1961 the proportion of married women in the labour force has increased from 17 per cent to over 35 per cent. [More…]
It is evident that, for a wide variety of reasons, an increasing number of married women are choosing to remain in or return to paid employment. [More…]
Consistent with these developments the Government some time ago established a special section within the Department of Labour and National Service - the Women’s Bureau - to examine problems relating to the employment of women. [More…]
How many women and how many men are employed in senior levels of the Attorney-General’s Department as draughtswomen, secretaries or assistant secretaries. [More…]
How many women and how many men are employed as Deputy Crown Solicitors in State Offices of the Department and in senior levels of the Legal Service Bureau and as Chief Reporters in the Commonwealth Reporting Service. [More…]
How many women and how many men are serving on the Commonwealth Practitioners’ Board and the Board of Examiners of Patent Attorneys and in the Trade Marks and Designs Office. [More…]
Will the Attorney-General state what steps have been or will be taken to give women greater oportunities in senior positions within his area of responsibility. [More…]
(2) (3) There are no women employed in any of the categories mentioned. [More…]
There is no restriction on the promotion of women to senior positions on the basis of their sex. [More…]
But when I went to the Villawood Hostel several years ago some of the Slav and Italian women with babies told me at that time that they felt there was a rather loose interpreting service at baby health centres. [More…]
A large number of Greek women live in the electorate. [More…]
Everyone would have some reason to complain about such a state of affairs as, I suppose, women have some reason to complain about the failure to make sufficient appointments of women to positions in the Public Service and in the judiciary. [More…]
How many, persons are serving as Principal or District Registrars, Deputy Registrars, Marshal or Deputy-Marshal of the High Court, and how many in each category are women. [More…]
What are the factors which militate against the appointment of women to those posts. [More…]
Thereis no restriction on the promotion of women to senior positions on the basis of their sex. [More…]
The duties of Marshall include the arrest of offenders and the execution of process and it would not be appropriate to appoint women to this position. [More…]
How many women and how many men hold positions on the Australian Broadcasting Control Board, the Australian Broadcasting Commission and the Australian Broadcasting Commission News Service. [More…]
What endeavours, if any, has the PostmasterGeneral made to ensure that women are given an equal opportunity to serve in higher levels of the Department and the various bodies within his area of responsibility. [More…]
The number of men and women holding senior positions is as follows - [More…]
In Australia, as in other advanced countries overseas, married women - including those with children of pre-school age - are entering regular employment in increasing numbers. [More…]
Thus, in the decade 1960-70 the number of married women in the work force almost doubled - from 9.3 per cent to 18.3 per cent. [More…]
We wish to ensure that the children of these women have every opportunity for the fullest development in both the emotional and physical sense. [More…]
The principal objective of the Commonwealth is set out clearly in a pamphlet entitled ‘Women in the Work Force’ which was published by the Department of Labour and National Service. [More…]
After all, this must be said to represent the Government’s viewpoint - is interested in the developing role of women in the work force and is concerned with encouraging the best possible use of the talents and abilities of Australian women. [More…]
It is true, and I think it can be established across the board, that some women find the need to work for their own mental stimulation. [More…]
I think we should also consider the granting of a special allowance to mothers of children under 3 years old, as is done now in some of the more advanced countries such as Hungary and Austria, so that the financial pressures which force women to work during this period are eased, if not removed altogether. [More…]
They are just as much concerned with the issue of women in society. [More…]
For too long men in legislatures such as this Parliament have been prepared to compel women to stay at home and occupy themselves with domestic duties. [More…]
While most women who work are forced to do so for purely financial reasons, large numbers of them are seeking employment for other than financial reasons. [More…]
Every assistance must be therefore given to women wishing to break out of the traditional housewife role. [More…]
As I said earlier, it is disgraceful that the commencement of any initiative has not occurred until the end of 1972. lt may seem ridiculous to be talking about women’s rights in 1972, but it is even more ridiculous that there is a need to do so in 1972. [More…]
- I wish to use the somewhat limited time available at this stage of the session to comment on the Child Care Bill because it concerns an aspect of social matters which has had my close, attention and the close attention of many women’s organisations in Australia for many years. [More…]
It should be noted that since 1961 the proportion of married women in the work force has increased from 17 per cent to 35 per cent. [More…]
It has been the increasing social change which has had the attention of the thinking women in the community. [More…]
I believe that the influence of the women’s organisations was responsible for the establishment of the Women’s Bureau in the Department of Labour and National Service. [More…]
The Bureau has also given close attention to many aspects of women’s employment and I feel it has been the forerunner to this Bill. [More…]
This Bill is not an inducement by the Government to encourage women with preschool age children to enter the work force, but rather I see it as a Government reaction to the social change which has already occurred. [More…]
If we wish to use the full potential of Australian women some of whom are professionally or commercially trained, some of whom wished to be career women exclusively and some of whom wish to combine the dual role of homemaker and parent and to be gainfully employed, we would want the oportunity to exist for these women to have the right to choose. [More…]
I was interested in the comments about Hungary and the home care allowance which is given to women there. [More…]
My recollection of the statistics in relation to that country, where women have been working and perhaps working without choice for a very long time, is that with the introduction of a home care allowance some 75 per cent of the women, or an even greater percentage, elected to accept the home care allowance rather than employment outside the home. [More…]
I would like to think that the research which is undertaken will show the attitudes of Australian women towards their dual role. [More…]
We might find an election by many Australian women - who work purely for economic reasons - to stay in the home if a home care allowance were provided for them. [More…]
It was of great interest to me to have, the opportunity to talk to someone who had been engaged in the supervision of the Government’s child care centres in Finland for some 30 years, I think, and to hear of her experiences and her understanding of this facility which has been provided in that country where the proportion of married women who work and have pre-school children is very high indeed. [More…]
In one sense perhaps they are part of the social change which women have demanded for themselves. [More…]
I think women have the right to evaluate the way in which they interpret this social change. [More…]
If we see the role of the mother as being a fundamental ethical and cultural influence and if, at the same, time, we wish to allow women to exercise the right of choice which I mentioned, then I believe that a Bill such as the one which the Government is now introducing is necessary for Australia at the present time. [More…]
1 hope that women will be protected in their responsibilities and given some choice as to the way in which they see their role. [More…]
Some women find a marvellous destiny in dealing with 6 or 7 different personalities in a developing country which requires far greater intelligence than is required for the manufacture of shoes or handbags or for stitching a tag on a shoe or a bit of lace onto a dress. [More…]
A woman may be stitching lace onto the same type of dress all day; yet people talk of careers for women. [More…]
Today she can work in a factory or a shop or in any of the 99 per cent of vocations which are open to women, leaving aside the specialised vocations, such as a fashion career or medicine. [More…]
But the women in these specialised vocations do not constitute the great mass of women who are working. [More…]
Senator Georges would not take the women out of the factories. [More…]
the Government some time ago established a special section within the Department of Labour and National Service … to examine problems relating to the employment of women. [More…]
But in actual fact, as we all know, the whole proposition stems from the question of the entry of married women into the work force and so on. [More…]
This is a Government initiative in which we are acting to solve a serious community problem which has evolved as a result of the present community’s activities, and is reflected in the rising proportion of married women in the labour force. [More…]
For example, the Women’s Bureau is part of the Department of Labour and National Service. [More…]
Most of these women have to make arrangements for the care of their children. [More…]
I had previously dealt with the first matter when in response to a question placed on notice on 11th May 1972 by Senator Mulvihill, I gave an assurance that Commonwealth Police and Immigration officers had not been used in a sordid battle of call-girl cartels and that the records of the women concerned, who were not residents of Australia, made it quite clear that they should not be granted extensions of stay (Hansard, page 137). [More…]
How many married women, whose husbands are fully employed, are seeking employment. [More…]
No information is available as to the number of married women seeking employment, whose husbands are fully employed. [More…]
The Government is concerned not to encourage, by these measures, more married women to go out to work rather than to remain at home but is concerned to provide a remedy to meet a need for an existing situation. [More…]
The men and women on the Torres Strait islands do not want the Australian Government to give away their birthright that was given to them not by man but by God. [More…]
We have had tremendous numbers of capable men and women leave Queensland because they have been blacklisted. [More…]
On both floors women with their first baby receive very little supervision of breast feeding or general care to their babies in matters such as bathing. [More…]
The type of doctors who serve in Queensland under the public hospital system are highly qualified and highly dedicated men and women, so there is no criticism of them either. [More…]
Will the Government support the extension of the minimum wage to all women workers to take effect from this wage claim? [More…]
Senator Gair already has a question on the notice paper concerning a tour by a women’s basketball team. [More…]
I hope that all those good ladies of the Women’s Electoral Lobby are listening in because Convention No. [More…]
100 concerns equal remuneration for men and women workers for work of equal value. [More…]
That Convention would not support that part of the Labor Party platform and the Government’s policy which has the effect that pregnant women who are unionists are first class citizens and are entitled to extensive maternity leave but pregnant women who are non-unionists are second class citizens and are not entitled to maternity leave. [More…]
100 in Hansard tomorrow they will find that the term ‘remuneration’ which relates to equal remuneration for men and women workers for work of equal value includes the ordinary, basic or minimum wage or salary and any additional emoluments whatsoever payable directly or indirectly. [More…]
I emphasise the words ‘all workers’; without qualification - of the principle of equal remuneration for men and women workers for work of equal value. [More…]
Let us reflect and remember this: Of all the men and women in Australia who are eligible to join a trade union, despite the abilities of the trade unions to bring their facilities to the attention of these people, approximately half of them at this moment have elected not to join. [More…]
Whether it has regard to hours, annual leave or equal pay, let us not forget that all women are equal with men except that some women, being unionists, are more equal than others. [More…]
All pregnant women are equal, but pregnant women unionists are more equal than unpregnant women. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that under the guise of claiming that they are helping decent Australian working people - men and women - and under the unqualified promises in the policy speech regarding extra leave, equal pay and extra maternity leave, there now emerges the proposition that you must read the policy speech together with the platform; that all these matters are qualified. [More…]
Is the Minister also aware that the cannery is working at only 80 per cent of its capacity due to a labour shortage of some 100 women in the cannery? [More…]
What course of action is now open to women with substantially limited means to sue for divorce, as his amendments have removed any obligation upon a respondent husband to pay costs in undefended cases? [More…]
What of the noble hearted women who work in mothers clubs and parents and citizens organisations? [More…]
These noble hearted women do a wonderful job in working and organising to get improvements for the children. [More…]
Does he not recognise that his amendment to these divorce rules - some supposed advance or reform - denying this right to women causes real and unnecessary suffering? [More…]
In view of the fact that working women who receive pay and status equal to that of a male worker can retire at age 60 years and receive the old age pension, when equal pay becomes the rule in this country will the Minister consider reducing the retiring age for the male to 60 years instead of the present 65 years? [More…]
This would seem particularly fair when we consider that women outlive men. [More…]
As I have just mentioned, the standard rate will also apply to widow pensioners without children in future which means that these women will receive increases of $4.25 a week. [More…]
It has given franchise to women, it has extended the participation of people and today in its Diet it has ventured into foreign affairs and other committees, similar to what we have done. [More…]
My Government is determined that the men and women of the Australian work force will share fairly and fully in the nation’s prosperity and productivity. [More…]
Now even that has gone and there is presently, no other form of legal aid available to this large group of women. [More…]
Now even that has gone and there is at present no other form of legal aid available to this large group of women. [More…]
Bearing in mind that over 190,000 ex-servicemen and women receive a 13 March 1973 war pension within the general rate scale, we have always maintained that the Government’s goal in this direction would have to be reached in stages as resources permit. [More…]
Those who suffer from pulmonary tuberculosis, or who have served in a theatre of war and are over 60 in the case of men, or 55 in the case of women, or, permanently unemployable, qualify for service pensions, if they satisfy the existing means test. [More…]
I can remember when former Prime Minister John Gorton visited Brisbane in July 1969 and addressed an assembly of women belonging to a section of the Liberal Party. [More…]
In attempting to control the situation of making payments only to those in the community in need, I suggest that the Government should consider making grants to those churches and other institutions which have demonstrated an interest in assisting and making their services available to the unemployed, the aged, the homeless men and women, those in the community who have suffered a broken marriage or children who have been left without parents. [More…]
I only wish that the proceedings of the Senate were being broadcast this evening so that the young men and women in Victoria, particularly those between the ages of 18 and 20, could have heard the address delivered by Senator Greenwood tonight. [More…]
The Minister has been reported in the Press as offering free contraceptives to Aboriginal women. [More…]
If not, will the Government now be offering free contraceptives to all Australian women? [More…]
By any standards men and women are as mature at 18 years now as they were at 21 only a generation ago. [More…]
They practise a knowledge of the performing and plastic arts at a much younger age than men and women did a generation ago. [More…]
At 18 years of age young Australian men and women may - or soon will be able to - enter into contracts, dispose of property, take and defend legal action, drink, drive a motor vehicle, marry without parental consent, and under the previous Government could be called up for military service. [More…]
The Prime Minister wrote to all State Premiers in December 1972 advising them that the Commonwealth Government would lower the franchise age for all men and women to 18 years early in the sittings of the new Parliament. [More…]
Although the distribution of 18 to 20-year-old persons is not yet available electorate by electorate, the Commonwealth Statistician estimates that there are almost 700,000 young Australian men and women in this category - all of whom will be entitled to the franchise under this measure. [More…]
By any standards men and women are as mature at 18 years now as they were at 21 only a generation ago. [More…]
In view of the Attorney’s statement that terrorist activities will be stamped out in future will he assure the Senate that the Commonwealth will assist State police and protect international sporting identities, such as rugby players and young women tennis players, from terrorist activities such as occurred after demonstrations which were inspired and led in the last 2 years by some Labor members of Parliament? [More…]
Under the old State Act, you may remember, there were not women co-respondents but a woman with whom a husband was alleged to have committed adultery was given notice and she was allowed to intervene if she wished and she became an intervener. [More…]
Let Senator Cavanagh stand up and deny that there are ample numbers of married women who have been suffering great hardship because their husbands have deserted them and have been living on nothing and run out of their savings. [More…]
That will not mean that there will be easier access to divorce, because everybody knows that throughout the community today, in every legal practice that handles divorce, divorces are delayed primarily because women cannot afford to pay the $150. [More…]
Among those who have written to me are women who have complained of the great costs that had been associated with their causes and appealed to me not to oppose the new rules. [More…]
The women saw no difficulty in them. [More…]
Has a check been made on the number of men and women who have terminated association with [More…]
refer to a certain well publicised event which took place in Canberra last weekend, namely, the presence of 17 applicants who were short listed for the position of what has become known as the Prime Minister’s superwoman I ask the Minister: Does the Prime Minister expect to obtain the services of such a super woman for the salary of $10,000 per annum, which is far less than many women who would be highly qualified for the position and who have much greater security of employment than they are likely to have on the Prime Minister’s staff are now earning? [More…]
Many fine types of men and women have visited my office - one visit occurred as recently as last Monday - and have literally pleaded with me to do what I could in the Senate to prevent the disallowance of the rules we are now debating. [More…]
The truth about Senator Greenwood when he was Attorney-General is this: He was so obsessed with catching 20- year-old boys who did not believe in conscription to fight in an undeclared war and women who decided that this conscription action was so wrong that he never had the time to find out whether terrorism existed. [More…]
But his obsession was such that he had to arrest young university students, pluck teachers out of schools at which they were teaching children, put women in gaol for handing out pamphlets that were against the principles that honourable senators opposite believe in. [More…]
It does not think that the proposal does anything for the women in the community. [More…]
We regard it as merely a symbol for women which does nothing like enough to recognise their true place in the Australian society, which the Opposition will seek to establish as time goes on. [More…]
In view of the fact that working women who receive pay and status equal to that of a male worker can retire at age 60 years and receive the old age pension, when equal pay becomes the rule inthis country will the Minister consider reducing the retiring age for the male to age 60 years instead of the present 65 years? [More…]
This would seem particularly fair when we consider that women outlive men. [More…]
Today, at the CIB, a special conference of 35 detectives is reviewing information received yesterday when 10 members of the Yugoslav community - 5 men and 5 women - were questioned for several hours. [More…]
It was controlling the prices of luxury footwear from Italy and expensive hats imported for the women of Australia. [More…]
I tried to control the price of clothing for men, women and children. [More…]
Only a few weeks ago our electorate secretaries who, I know, are of very valuable assistance to us - most of them, I am sure, are very competent women in their field - received a determination which gives them a salary of $5,000 a year, or $96 a week. [More…]
Total fertility for 1972 was about 2,070 per thousand women. [More…]
The figure allows for deaths among women before they reach child-bearing age, and also for the fact that slightly more males than females are born. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for the Australian Capital Territory aware that a so-called women’s embassy calling for support for abortion reform was set up yesterday on the lawns opposite Parliament House? [More…]
I ask the Minister: If indeed these women are breaking the law, are they not merely obeying advice recently given by a prominent prelate that on the matter of abortion it is permissible for people to disobey the law if their conscience so directs them? [More…]
Last Wednesday was Anzac Day, a day set apart as a national holiday because it is a day of remembrance for those devoted servicemen and women who gave their lives in 2 world wars, in Korea, and lastly in Vietnam. [More…]
He cannot unload the responsibility for this insult to our servicemen and women because it would be grossly unfair to do so. [More…]
I saw men, women and children without arms and without legs. [More…]
That it is a risk to the Australian Government was indicated by the attitude that we took, in alliance with the United States of America, in trying to stem that invasion at the expense of Australian servicemen and women. [More…]
As honourable senators will be aware the war service homes scheme was originally introduced as a repatriative measure to provide homes for returned men and women from the 1914-18 War. [More…]
The present program is intended to assist the States provide buildings and equipment for the training of young men and women undertaking trade and certificate courses in technical colleges and trade schools, and for similar courses at agricultural colleges and rural training schools. [More…]
That abortion should be removed from the realm of criminal law and be a matter for the women concerned and her medical attendants; [More…]
The Labor Government which .cynically exploited the second preference votes of the Australia Party, the Defence of Government Schools party, the Women’s Electoral Lobby and others, will now discard them in case the preferences of those parties should turn against them. [More…]
I have a great respect and regard for the Public Service as such and for the men and women who work in it. [More…]
Has the Minister for the Media yet had an opportunity to read the report on daytime television produced by the Media Women’s Action Group and the Women’s Electoral Lobby? [More…]
I have read the report to which the honourable senator refers and 1 have had discussions with two of the women who were responsible for the compilation of the report. [More…]
I cannot really ask honourable senators to try to imagine that they are old age pensioners - old women and old men living on their own - but if they were, would they not want a doctor to call to see them? [More…]
The classes of women to whom the new benefit will be payable under this Bill are (a) unmarried mothers, including deserted de facto wives and de facto wives of prisoners’, (b) married women not living with their husbands (deserting wives) or wives who have been separated for various other reasons, provided that the women be living with, and have the custody, care and control of a child or children of whom she is the mother. [More…]
These women are those who are not at present eligible for a widow’s pension under the Social Services Act and who, with their children, have been subject to discrimination in the level of assistance available to them in the past. [More…]
As with widows pensions, the supporting mother’s benefit will not be payable if the women return to live with their husbands or if they are living with any man on a de facto basis. [More…]
For the moment, these women will continue to be the responsibility of the States for the first 6 months, and the States will continue to receive assistance from the Commonwealth under the States Grants (Deserted Wives) Act during that period. [More…]
There will, however, be some women who will become eligible for the supporting mother’s benefit who have not received State assistance because they would have been excluded by the State means tests. [More…]
I am hopeful that when these talks are finalised benefits payable to women through these proposed amendments will be paid immediately instead of requiring a 6 months lapse as is necessary now. [More…]
I repeat that we aim to end these anomalies but the important thing about this Bill is that it is a clear demonstration of this Government’s determination to bring an end as quickly as it can to the discrimination that existed against women, and in this case certain classes of women such as unmarried mothers, deserted wives or wives who have been separated for other reasons. [More…]
Its effect will perhaps be felt mainly by the children of the women concerned. [More…]
It is not possible to estimate the exact number of women who will benefit from the proposed legislation. [More…]
However, it is expected that around 3,200 women will be affected each year. [More…]
5m in relation to women employed under the Public Service Act and $800,000 in relation to other female Government employees. [More…]
It takes account of representations on the matter put forward by the Council of Commonwealth Public Service Organisations, and will be applauded by those women in Government employment wishing to reconcile domestic responsibilities with a career in the Commonwealth Service or other Government instrumentalities. [More…]
The ILO Convention is concerned that the existence of maternity benefits should not result in discrimination against women in employment. [More…]
It therefore provides that the individual employer shall not bc individually liable for the cost of such benefits due to women employed by him. [More…]
The Government recognises that it has a role and responsibility, as Australia’s largest employer, in promoting the status of women. [More…]
The Bill will also help women endeavouring to pursue their careers on the same terms as men. [More…]
I conclude by reminding the Senate that this Bill not only provides improved conditions of employment for Australian Government employees but also facilitates the retention of women in the work force. [More…]
Many of these women are experienced and expensively trained. [More…]
When it comes to our overseas image, our sportsmen and women are probably our best advertisement. [More…]
Although the advertisement was in the singular, BHP had 12 vacancies as tally clerks which were open to women. [More…]
It is also considered that the offers of reimbursing travel and removal costs from interstate sources and the availability of housing fall well short of what could be considered an added inducement to undertake arduous work in hot and dusty conditions in a remote location with little in the way of employment for women. [More…]
The Government received representations that an exception from the 10 year rule should also be made for short term endowment policies that are taken out independently of superannuation funds by people who are within 10 years of the common retiring ages of 65 years for men and 60 years for women. [More…]
I ask the Minister whether any action has been taken regarding the fixation of this set of salaries because I think - I am not quite sure of this, I am speaking from memory - that the salaries of these men and women were before the Senate last year. [More…]
I want to refer to the attitude of the Government in this matter because it does give the impression that the granting of these maternity leave provisions has fulfilled somehow the promise to the women of Australia that this Government understands the situation in which women see themselves in this time of social change while it seeks to give a discriminatory benefit to only those women who are employees within the Commonwealth Government instrumentalities. [More…]
The cash and medical benefits shall be provided either by means of compulsory social insurance or by means of public funds; in either case they, shall be provided as a matter of right to all women who comply with the prescribed conditions. [More…]
Any contribution due under a compulsory social insurance scheme providing maternity benefits and tax based upon payrolls which is raised for the purpose of providing such benefits shall, whether paid both by the employer and the employees or by the employer, be paid in respect of the total number of men and women employed by the undertakings concerned, without distinction of sex. [More…]
In no case shall the employer be individually liable for the cost of such benefits due to women employed by him. [More…]
I pose the question: How does the Government see itself to be implementing something which is to be an elimination of discrimination when under this particular Bill it gives a higher benefit to women who receive a high salary and a lower benefit to women who receive a low salary and no benefit at all to those women who are not employed by the Commonwealth Public Service? [More…]
Should it be society as a whole or should it be the industry where the women are employed or should it be part of the whole social service pattern so that some maternity benefit is paid to all women who have a maternity condition and who have the responsibility of the expenses of confinement and other matters related to the birth of the child? [More…]
Is not this part of the convention which we would want to adopt dealing with discrimination against women? [More…]
The fact that so many more Australian women are now seeking to combine employment with their role of motherhood and home maker has brought us to the need for revision of many of our attitudes and to the stage where there will need to be a revision of many of what have been our conventions in this area. [More…]
If we are talking about the way in which a woman should have the freedom of choice to exercise whether she wishes to be wholly engaged as a home maker or to combine this with some career for her own fulfilment and for a national contribution to our economy, we need to consider that perhaps Government assistance will be required in the form of incentives to employers to provide more flexibility in hours and types of services in which women may work. [More…]
We repeatedly hear about the higher percentages of women who are engaged m the work force. [More…]
We have all sorts of statistics to show us how many more of these women are married and who have children of pre-school age, yet it has been some years since the first Gorton proposal, that the Government would create child care facilities for the children of working mothers was announced. [More…]
When we hear all of these statistics about women who are in the work force in Australia, we really do have to ask: Where are they at the top level in our professions and in our commercial activity? [More…]
There has been lack of opportunity for women to find the range of occupation which their capacity would have allowed them to reach. [More…]
If they are not yet at the top level in their chosen professions, whatever employment they have sought, we must then take up the point that was made at the end of the Minister’s speech when introducing the Bill, when he said that these women would be making a contribution because they had had the facilities of education. [More…]
If we regard education and training as a national investment, surely we should allow the aspirations which will flow from that to reach the top level in all of the chosen professions of the women of Australia. [More…]
There undoubtedly has existed in the past a social, sexual, psychological and political discrimination against women. [More…]
Perhaps the activist women’s organisations of Australia are pointing somewhat militantly at present to this discrimination. [More…]
There have been gaps in opportunity for women and the fulfilment of women’s aspirations has not yet been reached. [More…]
I would like to think that this Government or any government in Australia would see the whole question of women, their opportunities, the facilities for them to fulfil their professional careers and the ideal way in which the family structure should be protected, as part of a whole national institution and not one in which a single Bill is sought to give a discriminatory benefit only to those women who are Commonwealth Government employees and then to have, as a rider to that, the fact that the Government would intervene if this principle were to be introduced in the ordinary, commercial sense. [More…]
I would have to support a Bill that gave any benefits to women in their employment situation, but I question the way in which this Bill gives a handout only to the women of Australia who are in the Commonwealth Public Service and discriminates against those who are in other commercial employment. [More…]
Should we really not be asking who should bear the cost of what should be a national policy in order to allow women to have their right of choice in the future, namely, whether they combine their role of motherhood with a career which they may wish to pursue. [More…]
It amounts to a special privilege for women in the Commonwealth Public Service solely because the Government has a focus as narrow as its own [More…]
I congratulate it for recognising its capacity to deliver to the women in the Commonwealth service the benefit of 3 months’ leave as for their maternity requirements. [More…]
For our own employees we will apply the International Labour Organisation Protection Conventions going back to 1919 which guarantee women leave with full pay and benefits for 6 weeks before and 6 weeks after confinement. [More…]
Senator Webster raised what is obviously a very pertinent question as to whether the Government ought not to consider the question of providing this social service benefit to all women in this situation. [More…]
In relation to the present proposal the Government has a liability as a Commonwealth Government to provide funds for those women who would be employees of the Commonwealth Government and who would be entitled to the benefit. [More…]
I particularly put up a plea for women in the armed Services. [More…]
I deal with the position of unmarried women who are in the defence forces. [More…]
But I am unable to see why the position of single men or single women in the Parliament should be denied acceptance and acknowledgment. [More…]
It amazes me that over the years so little consideration has been given to the single men and women who serve in the Parliament and who contribute to this scheme. [More…]
The married members of Parliament - both men and women - now have been very well catered for. [More…]
The married women had to fight for some time to obtain these benefits. [More…]
The husbands of the married women who have been in this Parliament may have been in quite good positions but the trustees sponsoring the fund eventually recognised that they had rights because of the contributions made. [More…]
I think the only area that is now neglected is that of the single men and women who serve in this Parliament. [More…]
Men, women and children are now able to go about their lawful avocations only because of the efficacy of our prisons and the efficiency of our police force. [More…]
I went to the prison to interview a person and was taken into the then empty women’s section in the gaol for the interview. [More…]
Custom, tradition, the thoughts of men and women are such that a Bill is introduced, the Minister makes a second reading speech and when thi debate is resumed the Opposition, the Country Party, the Democratic Labor Party and the independent group each have the right to have at least one of their senators speak. [More…]
If the Committee deprives the community of that last defence for women and perhaps children - innocent passengers - against a malicious, deliberate criminal planning hijacker, I say that it marks a great step in the decadence of Parliament. [More…]
Calley, a mass murderer who has destroyed women, children and babies is still living in comfort in the United States and being treated as a hero, I suppose, makes a mockery of all the pretentions of the rest of the world to introduce humanity into war. [More…]
What Senator Greenwood is putting to the Committee is that if there is a Lieutenant Calley in our community subject to our laws, we will not have him living in honour, or in immunity or at all because the community that Senator Greenwood’s proposal expresses is nobler than that which gives continuance to the life of a person who has shot women and children and nobbled men in massacre. [More…]
He has 3 women and a man held as hostages. [More…]
Sakharov told 14 Western journalists that Soviet psychiatrists were injecting the depressant drug halobiridol into sane men and women in asylums. [More…]
Between 2 per cent and 5 per cent of women aborted may subsequently be sterile . [More…]
It also allows the women of Australia to exercise a choice whether to be totally engaged in household responsibilities or to combine them with some form of employment for which they are trained or for which they seek to be trained. [More…]
I hope there will be some acceleration of the proposals in this regard and that a child care centres program will be developed to enable the expec- tationwhich the Treasurer has mentioned of a growthinthe number of women in the workforce tocomeabout and also to enable those women whoareatpresent occupied outside of the home tohavetheir children cared for during their workinghours. [More…]
This is why so many women joined in these crusades. [More…]
I refer to a request forwarded by the National Committee for International Women’s Year to the Prime Minister on 6 June. [More…]
Has the Government given consideration to the request to issue an invitation to the Secretary-General of the United Nations to hold a world-wide intergovernmental congress in Australia in 1975 as a major feature of the program for International Women’s Year? [More…]
It proposes complete abolition of the means test for residentially qualified men and women aged 75 or more. [More…]
The rate of training allowance for women undergoing full-time courses under the training scheme for widow pensioners and supporting mothers is to be increased by $4 per week to $8 per week. [More…]
Ex-service men and women who served in a theatre of war and who suffer from malignant cancer will be provided with free medical and hospital treatment for that condition. [More…]
They have not been overlooked; but, as a matter of priority, benefits for ex-service men and women, and the dependants of deceased ex-servicemen, have been given preference on this occasion. [More…]
About 190,000, or 90 per cent of those ex-service men and women who suffer war-related incapacity, are pensioned under this rate at percentage from 10 to 100 per cent. [More…]
It also gave the women in the Public Service maternity leave of 3 months. [More…]
When he was asked why, he said: ‘Because in Australia there are more women voters than men voters and they have always been taught to say no’. [More…]
Living women certainly ought to be engaging in activities that are far better than being used as furniture. [More…]
It is a reflection upon the status of women in our society that any such questions should arise. [More…]
It ought to be the most natural thing in the world for women to occupy the Chairs of our legislative bodies. [More…]
Women ought to be on the bench in our courts. [More…]
It is a grave reflection on the status of women in our society, without exception or exclusion, that such questions should arise in this field. [More…]
There could be a reduction of 8 per cent in employment opportunities in those industries engaged in the manufacturing of women’s and girl’s blouses and frocks. [More…]
In general women’s and girl’s clothing there could be a reduction of 7.6 per cent in employment opportunities. [More…]
I was talking to a small business man recently and he said that when this maternity leave provision flows through to private industry, as he employs mainly women it will add an additional 15 per cent to his wages bill. [More…]
He said he had devised a scheme in their factory which provided an incentive for the 30 to 40 single and married women employed there. [More…]
This fellow told me that under this scheme women who might otherwise expect to receive a wage of something like $40 a week would in fact receive an average wage of $80 a week. [More…]
The effect of this policy on the child can only be guessed but there are outstanding examples of young Aboriginal men and women in our society who have overcome this trauma without loss of their cultural identity. [More…]
Also, unfortunately, there are many women who have been deserted by their husbands and who have to support children. [More…]
I know that men and women with whom lam associated have been looking forward to the implementation of the promise of the Labor Party that the means test on pensions would be abolished. [More…]
I have reservations about giving free treatment for malignant cancer to ex-servicemen and women who have served in a theatre of war. [More…]
I believe that to bribe men and women now to join the forces by saying that the Government will provide repatriation benefits if they stay in the forces for 3 years- [More…]
Also ex-servicemen and women who served in a theatre of war and who suffer from malignant cancer will be provided with free medical and hospital treatment for that condition. [More…]
There is no compensation as is provided to ex-servicemen and women under the repatriation system. [More…]
Minister representing the Minister for Housing recall stating on 11 September in answer to a question by me that ex-servicewomen qualify the same way as ex-servicemen for defence service homes finance? [More…]
I now ask: Do single exservicewomen qualify, and what are the factors governing their eligibility? [More…]
Does the provision apply to single women who served in World War II? [More…]
Wherever in the world we see a gross violation of human rights I believe it is the duty of all mankind and certainly any men or women in the position in which we are, as representatives of others, to speak out and to do what we can to declare these basic truths. [More…]
The third Bill introduced a completely new benefit known as the supporting mother’s benefit, to assist unmarried mothers and married women who are no longer living with their husbands, to adequately care for their children. [More…]
-Will the AttorneyGeneral outline to the Senate the measures he proposes to take to give women equal status, in a Bill of Rights later to be drawn up, after the 23 years of neglect of such an important and widely accepted principle by the previous Government? [More…]
It is proposed to introduce legislation, in effect, to implement the international covenant on civil and political rights and to take whatever other legislative measures are open to us to ensure that women are given equal status in this community. [More…]
More important perhaps is the taking of whatever administrative and judicial proceedings might be open to us to ensure that women have equal status. [More…]
Although in theory equal status is conferred upon women, honourable senators will recall that there has been no woman judge since Federation, no woman permanent head of any Commonwealth department and, I think, only one woman in about 800 officers in the Second Division of the Public Service. [More…]
-My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, concerns the ban which has been placed on the Rhodesian delegates of mixed racial origin who wish to attend the fourteenth triennial conference of the Associated Country Women of the World which is to be held in Perth in 1974. [More…]
Considering the fact that after a thorough investigation by the United Nations the Associated Country Women of the World still retains its status with that organisation and works in close harmony with its specialised agencies, does the Government’s refusal to allow the mixed racial Rhodesian delegates to the conference to enter Australia contravene the United Nations General Assembly’s resolution of approval? [More…]
It is for the benefit of all of us to see a healthier and more economically sound labour force in the community and to see that conditions are provided for working men and women so that they will be interested in their work and have genuine enjoyment, or as much as there can be, in a life which they must spend gaining income for themselves or their families. [More…]
All that money on one building and one ceremony while black babies continue to die and while black men and women continue to rot in their tin shanties and prison cells. [More…]
She has no conception, no idea, that there are certain law places where white women may not walk or where black women may not walk. [More…]
As honourable senators may know, a considerable proportion of the staff employed in the refreshment rooms are married women, and finishing duty at or about 7.30 p.m. suits their domestic circumstances. [More…]
Among them are men and women who went there at an early age and who have devoted their lives to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
It has been pointed out that rehabilitation has proved most successful when it is carried out in a work orientated atmosphere, with men and women of all ages and with varying degrees of disability all working together under the supervision, guidance and encouragement of a well-balanced team of experts. [More…]
But quite apart from the promises given and acknowledged by the various delegations which were in King’s Hall today there is a fundamental principle: Shall a government, and not just this Government but governments of the future, have the right to nominate the whole of a schools commission so that it can stack it if it wants to with yes-men and women of its own outlook? [More…]
Also it is interesting to note from the report that the majority of the clients of mealsonwheels organisations are women. [More…]
Four million meals were provided last year by these people, most of whom are women, driving their own motor vehicles, probably averaging a couple of miles for each meal they deliver. [More…]
I refer to people living in the densely populated cities and to the encouragement that is given to women or to mothers in our community to go out to work. [More…]
The Petition of the undersigned citizens, being members of the Country Women’s Association in Tasmania, repectfully showeth: [More…]
We are told that thousands of cheering men, women and children lined the streets of Peking, presumably shouting Vive l’Emperor’ or ‘Vive Whitlame’, or whatever way one says it. [More…]
The Bill also deals, in clause 15 (2) with the right of women to hold public office on equal terms with men, without discrimination. [More…]
The enactment of this provision will enable Australia to ratify the Convention on the Political Rights of Women which has been in force since 1954. [More…]
He is one of the freedom fighters; one of the people who cross the borders of Rhodesia and murder black women and children. [More…]
The Bill will withdraw the tax exemption for social service and repatriation pensions, but not war pensions, paid to men aged 65 years or more and women aged 60 or more. [More…]
Pensions paid to women less than 60 years of age by reason of their being wives of men aged 65 years or more will also become taxable. [More…]
We know that the position of women is to be elevated and that there is to be equal pay for the sexes but leave that matter aside for the purpose of this calculation. [More…]
It can concern itself with training men and women to be teachers, but hardly to be purveyors of a ‘Catholic theory of education’. [More…]
The purpose of this piece of propaganda is to give 13 reasons why the women of this community should say no to the Government’s proposed health scheme. [More…]
We are on the verge of equal pay for the sexes and not many women will be working for $50 a week. [More…]
I have already received letters both from woman lawyers and women law students expressing their interests. [More…]
Then some idea crept into the oddity of mind that conceived this scheme to say that if a partnership were composed of a husband and wife, it would get only one payment of $1,500; and that single women sharing in a partnership or a company were to qualify for assistance only if actively participating in orchard activity. [More…]
It does seem that the fact that many women now receive equal pay for equal work is not always taken into consideration by judges. [More…]
Remove certain provisions relating to the employment of women; make certain changes in the provisions relating to long service leave; modify the current blanket prohibition on officers accepting directorships; remove the requirement for officers to take oaths or make affirmations; and change the title of the Service. [More…]
Section 54a contains special provisions relating to married women. [More…]
The repeal of these sections is one of the results of a review of aspects of employment of women in the Australian Public Service conducted by the Public Service Board. [More…]
The attitudes of the Australian community and of women themselves to their role in society are changing. [More…]
Increasingly it is being accepted that women will assume a more important economic role and will combine marriage with a career which will extend throughout their adult lives. [More…]
Honourable Senators 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 women to the Service were removed in 1966. [More…]
It was announced in August that as a result of the Board’s review, all positions in the Australian Public Service are to be open equally to men and women applicants who can perform the full range of duties required. [More…]
The Prime Minister indicated that the Government had agreed to repeal these provisions in the Public Service Act which could be said to discriminate against women but which had become redundant. [More…]
The Government has emphasised that it has a role and responsibility as Australia’s largest employer in promoting the status of women. [More…]
This amendment is one of the steps taken by the Government since coming to office in its endeavour to eliminate possibilities of discrimination and promote opportunity for those women wishing to contribute to the economic prosperity of Australia as members of the work force. [More…]
One needs men or women in this field who have the highest expertise and experience in order to carry out major explorations and developments. [More…]
As announced in the Budget Speech, the means test on age pension eligibility for residentially qualified men and women aged 65 years and over is to be abolished within the life of the Parliament. [More…]
There was never a women in there. [More…]
One of the women I rang emphatically denied that she ever signed the petition. [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was clearly developed as a Federation to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement and the communication of knowledge and information. [More…]
I refer particularly to those ex-service men and women who were not accepted for superannuation entitlements because of war-caused disabilities but who have soldiered on and now, in retirement, are in great financial difficulties which they would not have suffered had they not enlisted for war service. [More…]
Quite frankly, the onus falls back on to the companies which accept the premiums of the ordinary men and women of this country in terms of insurance payments. [More…]
I refer to the announcement that the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia has been pressured by the Government and told that it should not send a team of women to South Africa to play tennis. [More…]
As at 27 February 1974, seventy-four countries had ratified or acceded to the Convention on the Political Rights of Women. [More…]
That the undersigned men and women of Australia believe in a Christian way of life; and that no democracy can thrive unless its citizens are responsible and law abiding. [More…]
I refer to the governmental direction to the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia not to send an official team of 2 women players to South Africa later this year to compete in a Federation Cup selection event that is described by the Association as a multi-racial event. [More…]
It should be remembered that about 190,000 ex-servicemen and women receive their pensions under this rate at percentages ranging from 10 per cent to 100 per cent. [More…]
The next words are: -men and women are standing behind Whitlam because of his courage and ability and we wont be put off by the hillbillies or the hicks who represent that section of the community who . [More…]
One photograph shows the early part of the demonstration as being peaceful and orderly, with women with children in pushers quietly going about their normal procedures- a normal scene at election rallies. [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was clearly developed as a Federation to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement and the communication of knowledge and information, and whereas our existing Australian flag and our national anthem, ‘God Save The Queen’ are perpetual reminders of these hard-won freedoms and of the wise British principle of the division of power, so well reflected in our own Australian Constitution with its careful separation of powers as between the Crown and Commonwealth Parliament, the Senate, the State parliaments, the Government-General and State Governors, and the independent courts of justice, and whereas all such rights, liberties, heritage, advancement and prosperity, etc., are of no avail if our armed forces are unprepared or incapable of repelling invasion of our shores or withstanding other military threats, so therefore must all these things be accorded the highest national concern and priority. [More…]
What he does not appreciate of course is that millions of men, women and children have been killed by conventional weapons from conventional aggressors ever since World War II ended. [More…]
Perhaps the most important of these changes will be to give married women an independent domicile. [More…]
New clause 57 deals with the power of the court to make declarations of interest in property and supersedes the similar power under State and Territory married women ‘s property legislation. [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was clearly developed as a Federation to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement and the communication of knowledge and information, [More…]
It will give this country a reorganised CMF which is not only attractive to the young men and women who wish to serve in it but with the Regular Army will also provide a viable base for expansion should this be necessary in the future. [More…]
I said then that there must be no doubt that this Government is determined to improve the CMF, that it will give this country an Army Reserve which is attractive to the young men and women who wish to serve in it, and which, with the Regular Army, will also provide a viable base for expansion should this be necessary in the future. [More…]
What I am submitting to this House, therefore, is a record of achievement in regard to the nation’s defence capability; major improvements in conditions of service of our servicemen and women; greater efficiency and economy in defence organisation and spending; and a prudent and responsible defence posture for present circumstances and the future strategic prospect. [More…]
It was typical of the former Senator McKenna that he advocated these great causes in the interests of the ordinary men and women, especially the young people, of Australia. [More…]
One concerned migrants who seemed to me to be at a very great disadvantage in this community; the other concerned women who were as disadvantaged as were migrants, Aborigines or those other people that we traditionally think of as being disadvantaged. [More…]
Another area of very great need concerns migrant women. [More…]
A home tutor scheme has been introduced so that women- some of the mature women who do not really want to go back to school but who really do want to communicate with others- can have a tutor in their own homes or can get together in groups with a tutor to learn the language and to communicate. [More…]
The other area I spoke of concerned women also. [More…]
The thing that impresses me about women at the moment is that one-third or more of our work force is made up of women and that the commercial world, it is obvious, could not get on without them. [More…]
That is one thing that women require that men do not. [More…]
So, the Government brought into effect maternity leave so that women could take time off work before and after the birth of their babies if they wanted to continue working. [More…]
Only then can women be truly equal in the work force. [More…]
If women stayed at home the commercial world would collapse. [More…]
It is obvious these days that most young women go to work. [More…]
It is up to the Government and the unions to ensure that women work under the best possible conditions. [More…]
I think it is up to us to ensure that women are used to their very best capacity. [More…]
But many women are not educated to their full capacity. [More…]
So often when a women reaches middle age and her children are no longer fully dependent on her she feels lost. [More…]
So often these days with so much glib talk about women’s lib women feel that they have not contributed anything and that they are in some ways useless because they have stayed at home, had babies, looked after them and did not go out and build bridges. [More…]
I think this is the community’s fault that women feel that way. [More…]
We do not really want to get to the position where women are forced out to work because in some way that proves that they are emancipated. [More…]
We want women to have the choice. [More…]
When we give women the choice we have to safeguard the children that they have had. [More…]
If mothers are to go out to work-it is obvious that they are going to go and nothing is going to stop them, be that right or wrong-we, as people who have some conscience and some role to play must make sure that the children who are born of these women learn things that they would have learned from their mothers. [More…]
The Labor Party is asking the little men and women of Australia to find an extra $50 a month out of their pockets to finance the inflation which has been introduced and which is being fed by this Government. [More…]
I am pleased that there are 3 other women senators. [More…]
I have devoted my opening remarks to women for a purpose other than that I am one. [More…]
Senator Melzer, in her speech yesterday, spoke about the needs of women in our society. [More…]
I put it to the Senate that a great number of issues which are loosely termed women’s issues have developed only because there has been an inequitable number of women members of Parliament, not only in this chamber but also in the other place. [More…]
Out of 1 87 members there are only 5 women. [More…]
In earlier discussion mention was made of discrimination against women. [More…]
Women in our society are finding difficulties and even impossible barriers in some areas. [More…]
There are also the consumer protective areas of industrial activity and legislation- the important legislation designed to protect the living standards, the skills, the welfare and the safety of the working men and women of this great country. [More…]
On the status of women, may I say that I have always held the ladies in the highest regard. [More…]
I apply again the second test to this question because we have said that we are standing here as men and women of principle. [More…]
Is the Minister able to give any information as to why the Government has chosen to give financial support of the type he outlined for the observance of International Women’s Year without giving the traditional grant for administrative assistance to the voluntary committee representative of women’s organisations which was established through the United Nations Organisation to celebrate International Women’s Year in Australia? [More…]
Will the Minister also give consideration to granting financial assistance to the International Women’s Year committee for the work it has programmed to highlight the observance of International Women’s Year? [More…]
In connection with the matter raised by the honourable senator, my Department has merely undertaken to conduct a seminar in Australia on the role of women in the media in conjunction with the celebration of International Women’s Year next year. [More…]
There are women and children in Melbourne who, if they wake up in the night, have no recourse to the services of a doctor. [More…]
It is no wonder that in some areas of Australia women have been forced to set up their own health centres. [More…]
We believe in women’s lib so we will tax the one million working wives in this country as well’. [More…]
This is being done by these people who talk about looking after the women of the world. [More…]
So here we have a scheme which will cost more, which will penalise all working women and young single people, which will provide for only standard ward accommodation and which will shrink the number of private hospitals - [More…]
In that same year the Income Tax Assessment Act was amended to make pensions and similar benefits payable to people of pensionable age (65 years for men and 60 for women) taxable as from 1 July 1973. [More…]
I know that I speak not only on behalf of the women in Australia who seek to have a greater participation in our economic activity but also on behalf of those women who need the child care facilities to enable them to give members of thenfamily what has been established now as the average standard in education and opportunity. [More…]
Perhaps we can talk at some later stage and at greater length of child care programs and of those initiatives which the women of Australia hope to see. [More…]
Parliament is an assembly of men and women. [More…]
Why has the Minister not discussed the matter with the men and women of the Territory who know? [More…]
My Party is made up of a great number of men and women who have been involved in social welfare programs, in local government and with many other planning problems associated with the great developments of our cities in recent years. [More…]
It affirms our belief that all men and women should be equal in making the law as they are before the law. [More…]
Women and kids last. [More…]
There can be no doubt that since coming to office this Government has sought consistently to remove all forms of discrimination from our laws, whether it be discrimination against women, Aborigines, migrants or in the various other forms that it appears in our statutes. [More…]
It is the attitude and conviction of men and women who look upon the Senate as a chamber of frustration and who misunderstand its historic role and its purpose. [More…]
He reminded me of all the campaigns in history and of all the occasions on which people have opposed every attempt to change any social situation- from putting the Plimsoll line on ships to the 40-hour week, to giving people the vote at 21, to giving women the vote at all and to the roads of ruin of which politics are always so full. [More…]
Is it a fact that the students had legitimate grievances and these included greater student participation in course design, freedom of choice of the means of assessment, reduced class sizes and the introduction of a women’s study course? [More…]
We are conscious of the fact that the Attorney-General (Senator Murphy) found it necessary to contact many organisations in the Australian community, in particular women’s organisations, to seek their support for the consumer protection part of the Bill. [More…]
I ask those who think that it is being fastidious to consider the textile manufacturer who produces only boys’ wear and not women’s wear or men’s wear. [More…]
The consensus of the working men and women with respect to the fundamental institutions of a free economy will be secured, for strong and vigorous unions will continue to exist. [More…]
The undersigned men and women of Australia vigorously protest against your Government’s reported provision of Government funds amounting to $150,000 to African Liberation Movements this year, which amounts to contravention of United Nations Charter and is direct interference in internal affairs of African countries. [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was clearly developed as a Federation to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement and the communication of knowledge and information. [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was clearly developed as a Federation to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement and the communication of knowledge and information, [More…]
I suppose that within our traditional male chauvinist society it did cause a little confusion that the Government was at least recognising the fact that there were men who were placed in the position, which has traditionally been ascribed to women, of having the responsibility of looking after children without the assistance of the mother of the children. [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was clearly developed as a Federation to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement and the communication of knowledge and information, [More…]
She spent some time with the Family Welfare Bureau and in Melbourne with the Australian Imperial Forces Women’s Association. [More…]
During the war years, she worked with the Family Welfare Branch and the AIF Women’s Association. [More…]
Is the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs aware that finance has been requested by the National Council of Aboriginal and Island Women for the payment of rental for the headquarters of the Council which is presently at 99 [More…]
In my position as Minister I receive many applications from the National Council of Aboriginal and Island Women for financial assistance. [More…]
I think the honourable senator will find that the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Council of Women, through its Secretary, Mr Briggs, is especially thankful for the Australian Government’s contributions to the organisation. [More…]
The men and women employed by the Commonwealth Railways belong to 14 unions. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, concerns International Women’s Year. [More…]
I ask: Is the international seminar which the Minister for the Media announced a short time ago would be arranged as part of International Women’s Year a charge against the grant? [More…]
Is this seminar to be arranged by the Status of Women Commission of the United Nations or by the National Advisory Committee or by the Department of the Media? [More…]
As at least 2 members of the National Advisory Committee have stated that crisis referral and counselling centres for women are typical of urgent community needs, is it envisaged that the $2m will be spent in the establishment of these services? [More…]
If recognition is given to this urgent need and if the initial grant is rapidly absorbed in the establishment of such centres, will the Government assist with further funds to enable the diversity of voluntary organisations to express their priorities to accent the needs and achievements of the women of Australia? [More…]
Is this the way the Government looks after women’s interests? [More…]
Surely it is not to sanction this sort of action that this Government has appointed a special adviser on women’s affairs, or does this Government believe that by donating $2m to International Women’s Year it will silence vocal women’s organisations? [More…]
Yet for the sake of paltry short-term savings, as the price of losing the time and talent of men and women who have agreed to serve their country, judges, academics, State public servants and businessmen our opponents propose to throttle these new activities; they intend to cut off the source of expert and public advice so essential to any planning for the effective, efficient, most humane and least expensive ways of dealing with Australia’s accumulated social and economic problems for the rest of this century. [More…]
In respect of child endowment payments it was alleged that this would bring about all sorts of promiscuity and women would have babies just for the sake of being paid this benefit. [More…]
It needed more bodies than the baby stakes were providing and therefore management started to tempt women back into the work force. [More…]
With the morals appropriate to that action, industry wooed the women back to the work force without a care or thought for the fate of the children. [More…]
For many women in that area the rent is not paid and the furniture is not paid for. [More…]
Such women find that all sorts of debts have accumulated. [More…]
As honourable senators are aware, men receive the age pension at 65 and women receive it at 60 years of age. [More…]
As women become eligible for the age pension 5 years earlier than men, why could not the Government abolish the means test for women over 70 years of age? [More…]
We are told in the Budget Speech that next April the Government will abolish the means test for men and women over 70 years of age. [More…]
Why could the Government not abolish it for women over 65 years of age? [More…]
Why should there be this difference when women are paid the pension 5 years earlier than men? [More…]
The Treasurer announced in the Budget Speech that eligibility for service pensions would be extended to ex-service men and women of Commonwealth countries who had theatre of war service in wars or warlike situations in which Australian forces were involved. [More…]
The proposed legislation will apply not only to British exservice men and women but also to ex-service men and women from other Commonwealth countries. [More…]
For example, Indian ex-service men and women who now reside in Australia also will be eligible for those benefits. [More…]
The proposal is that Commonwealth ex-service men and women who had theatre of war service in these conflicts will be eligible for the same service pension entitlements as Australian ex-service men and women. [More…]
If I may add something to this, I am at the present time having inquiries made to see how it will be possible for us to extend these benefits not only to Commonwealth ex-service men and women but also to ex-service men and women of other allied countries who were engaged in wars or warlike conflicts alongside the Australian forces. [More…]
With regard to Commonwealth ex-service men and women, they will become eligible for the benefits as soon as the appropriate legislation has been passed through the Parliament. [More…]
Once the Bill does become law, Commonwealth ex-service men and women will be eligible for the benefits and they will be able to obtain them by applying to the officers of the Department of Repatriation and Compensation in their respective States. [More…]
The eligibility of Commonwealth ex-service men and women will be widely advertised throughout Australia. [More…]
There has been reference to women’s rights. [More…]
Probably it will be money well spent because the products of the labours of these women will be future taxpayers. [More…]
I say unquestionably that under this concept of the new family life where for various reasons women return to work after a period of years, the provision of pre-school child minding facilties is a must. [More…]
These days it is most essential to bring women into the calculation because a very big percentage of the work force is women, and they will be hit- stunned would be a better word- by this tax on unearned income if Caucus permits it to be brought into legislative form in the next few weeks. [More…]
Women were to paint some public building in Hobart as an alternative form of employment. [More…]
In the same year the Income Tax Assessment Act was amended to make pensions and similar benefits payable to people of pensionable age, that is, 65 years for men and 60 for women, taxable, as from 1 July 1973. [More…]
From now on those people who previously were described as ex-service men or women are being described as veterans. [More…]
Men and women who offend against the laws of society, as we accept them, must pay for their social sins but we have no right in a so-called civilised society to treat those who have been deprived of their liberty and personal freedom with physical punishment and undignified procedures that label them as less than animals. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
I should emphasise that the capital fund has not been a ‘hand out’ operation but has provided loans on reasonable terms to Aboriginal men and women who have sought to improve their economic circumstances by their own efforts. [More…]
A petition which has been signed by some 200 women on King Island exemplifies the concern and the attitude of a number of people on both those islands. [More…]
Women seem to have a particularly keen eye for doing so. [More…]
The money is to go to meet half the cost of a new Launceston general hospital and to build a new women’s hospital in Hobart. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not provide or protect the legal or social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not provide or protect the legal or social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Under existing conditions women whose husbands die overseas may qualify for a widow’s pension immediately on their return to Australia if they have resided here for a continuous period of not less than 10 years at any time. [More…]
However, cases have arisen where Australian women have been widowed on account of desertion or divorce while residing overseas and, upon their return to Australia, have had to wait a period of 5 years before becoming eligible for widow’s pension, notwithstanding that they may have lived in Australia for most of their lives. [More…]
This applies to married women who separate from their husbands while residing overseas. [More…]
During this speech I shall be using the term veterans to describe those exservicemen and women who are covered by repatriation legislation. [More…]
In 1960- the latest figures I have- 6 per cent of women and 7 per cent of men only were unmarried in Australia. [More…]
Remarriage rates in the U.S. and U.K. are high (local figures are not available), with around 75 per cent of U.S. divorcees being remarried within five years of divorce, and the divorced-not-remarried group representing at any one time around 2 per cent of the population for men and around 3 per cent for women. [More…]
In an era when women are asserting more and more successfully and more justifiably their equality before the law and in all respects with men, I suggest it is not appropriate that marriage should be regarded as constituting a right to permanent support no matter what the circumstances and no matter whether or not a woman is capable of taking her place in the work force. [More…]
On this question which is embedded in the modern debate on the relationships between men and women, on authority- Professor L. Neville Brown- had this to say on the general philosophical question of maintenance: . [More…]
In certain parts of the country opportunities for work are too few and industry too one-sided to enable employment to be provided for all the women who want to undertake gainful employment. [More…]
In other words, whilst I think we can look forward to a social consciousness developing which will eliminate the notion of maintenance altogether, at the present stage of the development of our institutions, having regard to the fact that there is still a large generation of women who have undertaken as their sole life work the upkeep of a home and the nurture of their children, account has to be taken of these people with these attitudes and in this situation in life. [More…]
Our Committee was very conscious of the situation of such women. [More…]
The real causes of the disintegration of marriage, I suggest, are to be found in such things as increasing urbanisation, increasing industrialisation, greater social mobility, the emancipation of women, the weakening of religious sanctions and, I suppose we could say, the increased all-round prosperity. [More…]
That law is peculiar to this country, but the relationships between men and women tend to be more universal and more important. [More…]
Many of the patients to whom I have spoken in the last few years- young men and womenhave impressed me with the morality of their relationships. [More…]
For example, each of us understands, whether we are men or women in terms of our genetic make-up, that we are caught in a situation in which we see our functioning in terms of our being male or female. [More…]
If women become better educated and liberated they may wish to return to the work force, and the men in society may have to take over more of the role of home making and child rearing. [More…]
If we are to protect the institution of marriage, if we are to stop women being slaves, caught in the home, and men being free and able to work, we may need to look at this social aspect. [More…]
Women have been liberated and have different expectations, not only because their attitudes are different but also because their education is better. [More…]
Modern contraceptive practice has enabled women to control child bearing. [More…]
So there are smaller families rather than larger families, and women are tending to return to the work force in their mid-thirties whereas previously they worked in that brief period between school and marriage. [More…]
If one examines the death rates, sickness rates and psychiatric illness rates of married men and single men and married women and single women one will find that married men are healthier than single men and have lower mortality rates. [More…]
One will find also that married women are worse off than single women. [More…]
Marriage, as it exists at present in Australia, has a very marked medical disadvantage for women. [More…]
There has been a lot of concern in society that many women would be disadvantaged. [More…]
I think it is fair to say that women will be potentially disadvantaged. [More…]
I am anxious that we should get justice for the women who have been a disadvantaged group in our society up to now. [More…]
All that this tells me is that there is an area of potential hardship for some women, especially ibr the mature woman to whom Senator James McClelland referred who may have had only a brief period in the workforce. [More…]
I am very keen to ensure that under this Bill we do not create the situation where a whole generation of women who have contributed to family life and to the bringing up of children are now left with nothing but the chance to go back and work for subsistence. [More…]
I hope that the kind of factors taken into consideration will enable these women to get adequate protection for maintenance, because I again draw your attention to the comments on the British divorce Bill and to the actions which followed it. [More…]
I see them operating to offer therapy to people at a time of crisis, to help children through a period when they are likely to get very disturbed, and to help men and women who have to make decisions about their own worth and future. [More…]
The second point that I want to emphasise early in this speech is that the Minister and, I presume, the Government have initiated and put into the record the term ‘veterans’ which the Minister defines as those ex-servicemen and women covered by repatriation legislation. [More…]
There is the conflict of interest of women who assert that there is economic value in the work that they do. [More…]
This must raise the question: Does the Minister have some intention or do his advisers have some intention of instituting some sort of assistance on a basis different from the assistance given to women? [More…]
We have talked much in public and in the Senate today about equal treatment for men and women in Australia. [More…]
I am in fact sorry, in a way, that there has been specially privileged treatment given to women in this area in the past. [More…]
I do not think it has done the women of Australia any good to have this special privilege in the area of widows pensions because it makes it look as though it is a problem germane only to women in Australia instead of what it truly is, namely a family problem in Australia. [More…]
There may be special mitigating circumstances in the case of women in terms of their earning capacity. [More…]
I think in the case of a man who wishes to stay at home to care for his children full time or who wishes to take a part-time job and receive a part-time pension, there should be no difference made between him, in that reduced earning capacity, and women who have been in that capacity traditionally for a long time in Australia. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said BUI does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Basically there is a changing role for women today. [More…]
Today a third of the work force in Australia i comprised of women. [More…]
There must be an ongoing opportunity for women to take a role other than that forced on them in the past when they were tied down to the home. [More…]
It is of the essence of our recommendation that the Judges appointed to this Court (men and women) - [More…]
I truly believe that they are very harsh on a wide section of women. [More…]
It is not enough just to say that equality is desirable and is being attained by women. [More…]
Many women can and will manage. [More…]
There is a whole generation of women who have devoted their lives to home, children and husband. [More…]
Some women, whether they come from the working class or the most affluent, have never had any money of their own. [More…]
While I am waving the women’s lib banner, let me point out that even some of the younger wives are not trained to earn their living and do not expect to go out into the work force, and it is hardly fair of us to force them out. [More…]
While that goes on- we all know that it does; it is not a thing of the past- we have not a work force or a community of women who are fitted for outside work. [More…]
Those who do work generally work in the lower paid jobs at the moment, and many women in professions are more lowly paid than the men in those professions are. [More…]
The women who do work ease the financial burden on their husbands. [More…]
I feel that society is placing more and more pressure on people at the moment, and it is certainly placing more pressure on women. [More…]
One must admit that older women are sometimes abandoned when their sexual attraction fails. [More…]
Young women are abandoned when the pressure of supporting a family forces husbands to desert them. [More…]
I ask the Senate to acknowledge that, although our society is changing, the cry of women’s lib is not an excuse for bypassing social and economic justice. [More…]
The Government sees this measure as being of such importance to the Australian community that we have welcomed any views which any person or organisation, including representatives of the insurance industry, women’s organisations, trade unions, and of course the Opposition parties in this Parliament, wish to place before us. [More…]
In particular the submissions which weighed heavily with me were the one from the National Council of Women and the one from the Family Life Movement of Australia. [More…]
I think women in that position must be very much more adequately protected than this Bill would provide. [More…]
One would assume from the argument of those people that the Victorian era with its low divorce rate was a period of unparalleled marital bliss, but today few men and women would wish to return to those days when a wife was frequently just one of her husband’s chattels. [More…]
The change from the extended biological family we had in the past to the more fragile nuclear family, the increase in the breadth of education for women in our society and the changing role of opportunities for women have all made marriage a more stressful situation. [More…]
I believe that honourable senators have to take account of the fact that provided reasonable protection is given to any party to a marriage which has broken down, we have to acknowledge the fact that social mores are changing and that more and more women in fact are undertaking lives which are independent of the home, of their family and so on. [More…]
Much debate is yet to take place at the Committee stage but there are a number of points that I would like to make generally as to how this Bill affects or will affect the women of the community. [More…]
I am a little concerned at some of the pressure that has been put on the women of the community in relation to this Bill. [More…]
I have had many approaches from women who have expressed their concern, not necessarily for their own cases, but for what they believe to be the potential of this Bill and its possible effect on women in Australian society. [More…]
Many personal contracts are undertaken between individuals in our society and between men and women which are voluntarily broken. [More…]
Mr President, I wish to speak at quite some further length on the effects of this aspect on children and on the potential effects of this Bill on the status of women in our society, as a reflection of their status and on just how we can hope through a Bill which deals with personal relationships to come to a fair law which will enable reality to be reflected and will enable people to live believing that they have been justly treated, knowing that they have behind them what is regarded as a social failure but also knowing that they at least have an equal chance of living a decent life. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Yes, I have noted with pleasure how the women senators are coming into the chamber of an evening. [More…]
The honourable senator referred to the discrimination which is practised against the women senators. [More…]
That the Family Law Bill takes into account the changing roles of women in modern society. [More…]
That the amendment to the bill recommended by the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee will ensure that the rights of women who play the traditional role in society will be protected, as will the interests of the children. [More…]
That the Family Law Bill takes into account the changing roles of women in modern society. [More…]
That the amendment to the bill recommended by the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee will ensure that the rights of women who play the traditional role in society will be protected, as will the interests of the children. [More…]
First, I draw attention to the fact that in October 1974 the Australian Drug Evaluation Committee circularised all doctors in Australia, drawing attention to a possible association between the use of a drug and the development of cancer of the breast in women. [More…]
It is the cause of much distress and considerable mortality among Australian women. [More…]
But I would wonder why if we have a situation in which there is even a hint that a drug used for the treatment of a common condition and a drug not unique in its properties might be causing cancer or might be contributing to cancer in Australian women we do not seek the voluntary withdrawal of the drug by the appropriate drug company until the facts are known. [More…]
There is even a suggestion from those studies that there is a possible association between a common cancer in women and a drug used for a condition for which other treatment could be effective. [More…]
What is the virtue in protecting the women of the United States of America and not offering the same protection to the women of Australia? [More…]
But here we have a situation where we are being warned by the Drug Evaluation Committee of a complication which could mean the death of women. [More…]
It is the kind of contraceptive arrangement which is often used for women who cannot afford to use the oral contraceptive pill. [More…]
It is the kind of complication which, if neglected, could lead to the death of these women. [More…]
We should let women have part of the say when they attend a doctor and when a choice is made of a proper contraceptive device for them. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does NOT provide or protect the legal or social rights of Women and Children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
That the Family Law Bill takes into account the changing roles of women in modern society [More…]
That the amendment to the bill recommended by the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee will ensure that the rights of women who play the traditional role in society will be protected, as will the interest of children [More…]
That we have read the petitions concerning the Family Law Bill and support the Bill as sufficiently protecting the legal and social rights of women and children in the family [More…]
That we have read the petitions concerning the Family Law Bill and support the bill as sufficiently protecting the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
That we have read the petitions concerning the Family Law Bill and support the bill as sufficiently protecting the legal and social rights of women and children in the family [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was clearly developed as a Federation to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech movement and the communication of knowledge and information, [More…]
Certainly there will be problems, teething troubles, at the start, but I am sure that, with co-operation between the regions and the various charitable and voluntary organisations that work in every State, it will be in the best interests of those people in the community who are less fortunate than others in difficult times, particularly women and children. [More…]
That the Family Law Bill takes into account the changing roles of women in modern society. [More…]
That the amendment to the bill recommend by the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee will ensure that the rights of women who play the traditional role in society will be protected, as will the interest of children. [More…]
Does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children; [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was clearly developed as a Federation to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement and the communication of knowledge and information. [More…]
The stated risk of breast cancer in women taking Rauwolfia derivatives ranged between about two to four times that for women not taking those agents. [More…]
If that is a bit hard on the manufacturer, I am sorry, but it is probably not hard on the women of Australia who may unwittingly be using a product which might just possibly be dangerous. [More…]
In relation to what Senator Keeffe said, from my experience I think it is ludicrous that he should say that these things were never provided in these communities because in my day on Palm Island I was the assistant settlement overseer responsible for a workforce of some 350 men and women. [More…]
When I visited there I saw Aboriginal women and their children, babes in arms, living in a series of constructions which consisted of 2 sheets of galvanised iron 6 feet long and 3 feet in height, side by side, with a sheet of iron over the top. [More…]
That we have read the petitions concerning the Family Law Bill and support the bill as sufficiently protecting the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The Tasmanian Government has put forward the point of view, in which the Australian Government concurs, that however desirable it may be to have women trained as school dental therapists, men should not be precluded from undergoing that training and becoming school dental therapists. [More…]
Experience has shown that the definition of aged person in the principal Act- namely men aged 65 and over and women aged 60 and over- is somewhat arbitrary and that people in younger aged groups often suffer from handicaps or disabilities which result in them also needing accommodation of the type provided under the Aged Persons Homes Act. [More…]
On 30 October Senator Melzer referred to the situation of women in Australian society. [More…]
She referred to whether this BUI reflected or in fact determined the status of women in Australian society. [More…]
I suggest to the Senate that for all that many honourable senators have said, women in Australia today are not equal and it is not the province of the Family Law Bill, this Bill being basically a divorce BUI, to determine the status of women. [More…]
This sort of BUI can only reflect the status of women in Australia today. [More…]
Australian women are not equal in the sense that many honourable senators argued when they rose to speak to this BUI. [More…]
I said a minute ago that in fact the Family Law BUI can only reflect the situation of women and children in society today. [More…]
But I suggest to the Senate that Australian society, having been what it is for so long and only so recently undergoing change, does not put Australian women generally in the same economic situation as men are. [More…]
It would be nice if the theory could be carried out that women did not need maintenance and that child maintenance were the only sort of maintenance we needed to consider. [More…]
We have to recognise that in Australia in 1974 when we talk about women’s economic and social status we are dealing with conditions which were set 20, 30 or 40 years ago. [More…]
We are not dealing with conditions which are currently being set for the advancement of women in Australian society nor with conditions as recent as 5 years ago. [More…]
There are many women in Australian society today who are in a particular social and economic position as a result of very different attitudes which overwhelmingly obtained for a long period of time and indeed until just very recently. [More…]
The dependent members of our society who have been put in the position of being dependent because of those attitudes- basically the women and children of our society- must be guarded. [More…]
If the Government- this Government or any future government- brings forward legislation which will genuinely enable women to be more independent, particularly economically, then I shall welcome it. [More…]
But there has been very little recognition given to the fact that the overwhelming majority of women who have undertaken what we call home duties, who have occupied the traditional social role of wife, housewife and mother, have had a very large bearing in many cases on their husband’s earning capacity. [More…]
There are many examples of cases such as this where, through their supportive dependent role, women in our society have enabled the men to reach a higher degree of proficiency and a higher earning capacity. [More…]
Our laws have treated women very badly in this respect. [More…]
I suggest to the Senate that there will be no real equality for women in Australia until there is some coming to grips with the economic status of this type of woman. [More…]
But we must recognise- as against groups such as the Divorce Law Reform Association which want to see the pure theory followed without looking at these sorts of mitigating facts- that until other laws which actually determine the economic and social role of women are changed, this Bill if and when it is passed must reflect those other facts. [More…]
The general statement can fairly be made that most women between the ages of 25 and 40 withdraw from the work force because they become mothers and they have to care for their children to the stage when they feel the children are old enough or independent enough to look after themselves and where harm will not be done to the families if the women do go out to work. [More…]
I think it is important that the Senate recognises and that Australian society recognise the very simple fact which is known to anybody who has pursued a career, either man or women. [More…]
The women or the individuals who withdraw from the work force at age approximately 25 years and attempt to re-enter at 40 can make some progress in their professions but they can never make the sort of progress which compensates for losing those crucial years. [More…]
I mentioned before that there has been a conditioning of women in society. [More…]
The situation has changed rapidly, but the fact is that very many young women in their late twenties and early thirties are now in the position that they left school at the age of 1 3 or 14 years, possibly did a 6 months’ training course in business studies to teach them shorthand and typing, if they were lucky. [More…]
These women are not now fit to go out into the work force and earn anything like a reasonable income. [More…]
I have encountered many women, just a little older, who never went to work at all. [More…]
It would apply to many women now at about the age of 40 years who, when they finished their primary school, did not go to work at all. [More…]
So we have very many women, and not necessarily even middle aged women, who are in no situation at the moment to go out and start earning anything like a reasonable living income in today’s society. [More…]
The provision that there be some special maintenance to enable women in that situation to achieve a reasonable degree of job skill which would enable them to live decentlynot just to survive- is a very important one. [More…]
We have always known that there were battered wives and battered children in Australia, but only recently have enough of these women come forward, had access to groups like Women’s Electoral Lobby and others which have made their mark in this area, for us to start to count just how big a problem this is in Australian society. [More…]
Previously these women were too ashamed to admit that this was their way of living. [More…]
It is appropriate that there be some sort of safeguard in this Bill for women and children in that situation whereby they can be protected promptly through a court injunction so that they may be given some hope of getting out of this absolutely appalling situation. [More…]
Is there dignity in clause 5 1 which seeks, at a time when women are being moved more and more to full equality within the law and within society, to set back women’s rights in this community by centuries? [More…]
If clause 51 were passed I would advise all young women approaching marriage to so equip themselves professionally before entering marriage and to so keep up by refresher course their professions that they can waterproof themselves against dissolution. [More…]
What an extraordinary situation in a government which professes to believe in equality for women. [More…]
Fundamentally, it is a Bill which discriminates wickedly against women. [More…]
We must surely ask ourselves what this legislation contributes to the betterment of the relationships between men and women in the total Australian community. [More…]
Further, Mrs Whitlam said, with regard to marriage, that she thought that within a period of about a quarter of a century there would be fewer marriages, that marriage would be less common but would be more secure, and that marriage would be confined more to women who were in their thirties. [More…]
In recent times, along with many other members of this Parliament, I have had an opportunity to meet and to mix with a large number of people, men and women of varying religious and political attitudes, and it has become more and more evident to me that in reference to this piece of legislation there is in their minds a determination that they need a full measure of time to examine something which is basic to them, something which must come with a measure of change but something which they are not prepared to admit in its present immense and virtually unresearched form. [More…]
Only last week the Women’s Electoral Lobby in Victoria made further submissions on this very measure. [More…]
Family law, as I understand it, is the law which governs the relationships between men and women and parents and children and particularly when that relationship is governed by the institution of marriage. [More…]
Men and women may marry when and whom they will, provided that they are sufficiently mature to undertake the commitment … [More…]
I point out that in our community are some older women who never expected to enter the work force or who have never been trained to enter the work force and who may not reasonably be expected to do so. [More…]
It was disquieting to hear earlier in the debate that in the marriage situation men are bad for women but women are good for men. [More…]
Perhaps we owe women a debt that has to be settled now. [More…]
The affairs of men and women are no simple matter. [More…]
I point out to the Senate that most of the major wars in history have been fought over love between men and women or the want of it. [More…]
The advent of the pill and other advanced means of contraception has emancipated our women in a most unprecedented way and it has altered our outlook on the man/woman relationship. [More…]
In emancipating women it has brought them to a position where they are able to philander in much the same way as men have been able to do always. [More…]
I would point out that 62 per cent of the work force in China is women because most of the men are in the armies which police the country because being a socialist country it has to be a police state. [More…]
The psychology there is that the people should try to deny the right of women to become pregnant. [More…]
The object will be to fill these positions with mature persons (both men and women) who have a respected status in the Aboriginal community in these areas where they are stationed. [More…]
That the Family Law Bill takes into account the changing roles of women in modern society. [More…]
That the amendment to the Bill recommended by the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee will ensure that the rights of women who play the traditional role in society will be protected, as will the interests of the children. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Will the Minister inform me whether all those people, men and women, who enlisted in the forces are eligible for a housing loan? [More…]
The brief answer to the question of whether all men and women who enlisted are eligible for a housing grant is no. [More…]
The report continues: In March of this year three young Jewish women of Damascus by the name of Zebah and a friend of theirs named Saad slipped out of Damascus together with 2 Moslems supposed to guide them across the Lebanese border. [More…]
As we know women in Queensland demonstrated and carried placards because they are out of jobs in the clothing industry. [More…]
I wish to say to my colleague from Queensland that I believe in the sincerity of the women who turned up for the demonstration. [More…]
Those women are out of work and they are asking for jobs. [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was developed on the Rights of Magna Carta to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement, the communication of knowledge and information. [More…]
It refers to the distribution of the $2m allocated to advance the United Nations proposal to make 1975 ‘International Women’s Year’. [More…]
I refer to a submission by the Co-ordinating Women’s Group, a large politically unaligned group of women concerned to organise forums throughout Australia where women can meet and exchange views on basic social and economic matters. [More…]
I ask that the Minister seek to hasten an allocation of the money sought by this significant and growing group of women in a worthy national cause. [More…]
Indeed, he may even add the weight of his promotion to their objectives so that they may, the sooner, make their contributions to the aforementioned coming International Women’s Year and beyond. [More…]
As I said during the second reading debate, family law is the law which governs the relationships between men and women and parents and children, and particularly when those relationships are instituted by marriage. [More…]
Is the Women’s Health Centre at Leichhardt, New South Wales, funded with Federal moneys. [More…]
Last year we amended the Act to permit single women with the necessary service to qualify. [More…]
The judges of the Family Court will need to be men and women of compassion who have a deep understanding of the subtleties of human conduct and marital relationships. [More…]
Often maintenance matters have to be pursued in those courts because the Commonwealth authorities require women who are deserted to take proceedings and the State incurs the expense. [More…]
Women’s Organisations and Civil Liberties Organisations. [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was developed on the Rights ofthe Magna Carta to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free nien and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement, the communication of knowledge and information. [More…]
The Minister has been made aware of the demonstration yesterday by members of the Women’s Electoral Lobby and others at the Canberra Rex Hotel. [More…]
These are intelligent men and women who were elected by their community to serve their communities. [More…]
It is remarkable that last year we found an anomaly so far as it related to women exmembers of the defence forces. [More…]
If a single justification were needed for the level of expenditure we propose, it is given by the fact that the 1971 census recorded that some 67 per cent of men and some 80 per cent of women in the workforce claimed no formally recognized post-school qualification of any kind. [More…]
In its examination of the barriers preventing ready access to technical and further education, the Committee refers to the special problems faced by people in rural areas, by women and girls, and by handicapped persons and migrants. [More…]
That assistance under the Act is not to be granted to a person who served during the 1939-45 War in the Citizen Military Force or in the Women’s Services with similar conditions of enlistment, unless that person served on land outside Australia or was employed on sea-going service outside Australia. [More…]
100 on equal remuneration for men and women workers for work of equal value, adopted at Geneva on 29 June 1951. [More…]
Accordingly, on 26 February 1973, the Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden) established a working party to examine and report on the problems of homeless men and women in Australia. [More…]
On the occasion he said that the Government had decided to introduce a program to help meet the material needs and raise the dignity of homeless men and women. [More…]
The homeless men and women to be assisted are in poverty in the sense that they have few independent resources and lack a conventional home with most of the social or economic supports a home normally provides. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to assist eligible organisations engaged in providing temporary accommodation and personal services for homeless men and women and, in one-parent family situations, their children. [More…]
Many of the men and women who will benefit from the improved services for the homeless are now receiving income security benefits at rates and under conditions which, in accordance with the Government’s enlightened and progressive policy, have been liberalised dramatically since the end of 1972. [More…]
The measures proposed within the Bill are based on a compassionate understanding of the needs and very real problems and homeless men and women and of their alienation, their loneliness and their despair. [More…]
I know of girls and women working in offices who are renting flats and homes and the increases have already been passed on to them. [More…]
The people whom I know of who are paying these increased rents are girls and women who are not receiving the minimum that is allowed in this legislation. [More…]
I deplore this type of legislation which imposes upon thrifty people additional taxation which, as Senator Greenwood has pointed out, can be passed on to girls, women and young men who are renting flats from people who will have to pay this additional tax. [More…]
On 21 November (Hansard, page 2630) Senator Scott asked me, as Minister representing the Prime Minister, a question without notice concerning International Women’s Year 1975. [More…]
I am informed that the submission by the Co-ordinating Women’s Group requires elaboration before an assessment can be made. [More…]
The Australian National Advisory Committee on International Women’s Year has consequently requested more details from the Chairman of the Group. [More…]
When this additional information has been received consideration can be given to this particular request in relation to the many other requests for support under the program m for International Women ‘s Year. [More…]
Clause 3 of the Bill provides money for the purpose of assisting men and women to purchase, erect or extend homes. [More…]
Grants totalling some $2.2 m are now paid to organisations which will be caring for homeless men and women throughout the community. [More…]
The Government has asked the Textiles Authority within the Industries Assistance Commission to inquire into and report on a wide range of men’s, women’s, children’s and infants’ clothing, hosiery and gloves. [More…]
I invite all members of the Senate, men and women, to join us at a small function this evening without any great prolongation of this adjournment debate if the Leader of the Opposition, as I am sure he will, and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition will permit. [More…]
That the Senate compliments the Government on recognising 1975 as International Women’s Year, and asks the Government to take urgent and immediate steps to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women in Australia and to actively encourage the elimination of discrimination against women in all parts of the world. [More…]
In particular can the Minister advise why the police bashed women and children? [More…]
Among those who were allegedly battered in this confrontation were a number of women and children. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Northern Development and the Northern Territory been drawn to newspaper reports that the women of Darwin are pressing for a bigger say in the reconstruction of the city because the old city had ample resources for male leisure and recreation but little for women and children? [More…]
As women under 40 and children made up 60 per cent of the city’s population will the Minister assure the Senate that every step will be taken to consult both with the women of Darwin and with professional women such as architects and designers and, further, to use the expertise and assistance of all these people on the various bodies and committees set up to handle the reconstruction of Darwin? [More…]
-On behalf of the Minister I ask: How could anyone help but hear the voice of the women on reconstruction or anything else? [More…]
I believe that the women of Darwin have been active in making their presence felt when seeking some say in the reconstruction of Darwin. [More…]
We have established an advisory group for reconstruction which, I think, includes Dr Stack as the women’s representative for the purpose of presenting the viewpoint for the women of Darwin. [More…]
Honourable senators can be assured that at a time when women are receiving equal pay- as they have done gradually over the last year or two- the cost factor, especially in the textile industry, obviously had to be much greater. [More…]
This has been a significant factor in ensuring that a lot of those women unfortunately have been laid off as, indeed, have many males. [More…]
Can the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs explain to the Senate the delay that is occurring in providing funds to the National Council of Aboriginal and Island Women? [More…]
The year 1975 has been declared as International Women’s Year and $2m has been allocated to fund women’s groups and promote women’s causes. [More…]
Does the Minister understand the frustration and dissatisfaction being experienced by the National Council of Aboriginal and Island Women when large sums of money are to be allocated to other women’s groups in Australia and it has not received any finality in relation to its submission? [More…]
-With the funding of hundreds of organisations and various activities one cannot keep track of any particular case., The National Council of Aboriginal and Island Women has put in a yearly budget which is to be processed by my Department to ascertain what funds will be made available and for what activities. [More…]
Earlier I was asked by Senator Rae a question concerning the National Council of Aboriginal and Island Women. [More…]
-I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Labor and Immigration whether an investigation is contemplated into the circumstances in which 9 Chilean migrant women were dismissed at the W. D. and H. O. Wills (Australia) Ltd tobacco factory in Sydney, particularly in view of the evasive attitude of the company which was compounded by the arrogant attitude of the personnel manager, Mr Reidy. [More…]
As a result of the sacking of the Chilean women the case was brought to the attention of Mr Grassby, the special consultant in community matters, who has been preparing a report. [More…]
If it is possible in such an evacuation when women and children are being carried it is devoutly to be desired that commercial aircraft, and not Hercules or Starlifter aircraft, be used. [More…]
We have the men and women who can properly advise us in these matters. ‘ [More…]
The said Bill does not provide or protect the legal or social rights of Women and Children in the family. [More…]
The men and women employed by the Commonwealth Railways belong to 14 unions. [More…]
Presently, and instantly there is employment for a number of women and also school leavers. [More…]
The hospital bureaucrats decided- it is a very mundane subject- that the women operatives would have to fend for themselves as far as toilet facilties were concerned. [More…]
It is a pretty poor situation when women who have been only 6 months in Australia, many of them coming from Latin America, are confronted with this type of treatment by a Gorgonian matron or rather peculiar foreman working for the contractor. [More…]
The problem to which I have referred was compound by the fact that the State Factory Welfare Board was not doing its job, as it should, in this International Women’s Year, by providing adequate toilet facilities in some of our big industries. [More…]
-Will the Minister for Repatriation and Compensation tell the Senate what women’s rights are under the existing repatriation legislation? [More…]
If the answer is no, and if he has not already done so, will he take action to ensure that any discrimination against women is eliminated, particularly during International Women’s Year? [More…]
I ask the Minister for Repatriation and Compensation: If there is this discrimination, be it against men or against women, will he make recommendations for it to be removed, particularly during International Women ‘s Year? [More…]
For example, in most recent times reference has been made to equal pay for women and 4 weeks annual leave. [More…]
The classes of contributors are pregnant women and uninsured people who become recipients of unemployment, sickness or special benefits paid by the Department of Social Security. [More…]
They involve human emotions; they involve human happiness; and they involve the quality of life of some 35,000 men, women and children in or near the affected area. [More…]
Can the Minister inform the Parliament of the amount spent with his Department by organisations advertising events associated with International Women’s Year? [More…]
Has the Department paid for or otherwise funded any advertising program for women’s organisations in Australia in connection with Internationa] Woman’s Year? [More…]
I think an amount of approximately $2m has been set aside by the Government for the promotion of International Women’s Year in Australia. [More…]
There is another organisation called the Women’s Abortion Action Coalition. [More…]
One women is the organiser of the Socialist Youth Alliance and uses the Women’s Abortion Action Coalition as a front to attract women into the Socialist Youth Alliance and the Socialist Workers League. [More…]
It is an organisation which asked for $20,000 for International Women’s Year, as Mr Weschler said, so we can have 6 full-timers’. [More…]
The Women’s Abortion Action Coalition is an innocent women’s group but it is also a manipulated Socialist Workers League and Socialist Youth Alliance front organisation. [More…]
It has organised large public meetings and the International Women’s Day march, and it is selling Pathfinder books for the Pathfinder Press which is the Trotskyist publishing house in the United States of America. [More…]
20 on the priority list of the people who count- the people in the local government councils, the people in the areas where men and women are unemployed and where they must be employed. [More…]
It is known that there is a lack of mobility, particularly with married women, in the Sydney metropolitan area which means that teachers are not readily moving to where vacancies are located. [More…]
Who decided that the Aboriginal person known as Truganini, deceased, should be included in the women’s stamp series? [More…]
Was the Prime Minister’s adviser on women’s affairs, Ms Elizabeth Reid, instrumental in drawing up the list of persons, including Truganini, without any reference to the Post Office Stamp Advisory Committee? [More…]
Was the Aboriginal community consulted in any way through any of its acknowledged spokesmen or spokeswomen about the Aboriginal community’s probable attitude towards a Truganini stamp? [More…]
Finally, does the Post Office propose to withdraw the Truganini stamp from the women’s series? [More…]
The classes of contributors are pregnant women and uninsured people who become recipients of unemployment, sickness or special benefits paid by the Department of Social Security. [More…]
The use of the special account for this purpose does give a benefit and a cover to pregnant women who are contributors to a private health fund. [More…]
In the first place, pregnant women are excluded by the rules of private health funds from benefit if they are not members at the time that their pregnancy is incurred or during their pregnancy. [More…]
Firstly, will he assure us that nothing contained in the Bill will do anything to alter the preference which has applied in the past in respect of interest rates charged to ex-service men and women for defence service homes? [More…]
Women’s Year stamp series? [More…]
The names are: W. B. Butler, Aboriginal community, Port Augusta, South Australia; E. W. and D. Irwin, Western Australia, Quakers -noted for their interest in Aboriginal affairs; D. Squires, State President of the Women’s Service Guild of Western Australia; G. Elphick, President, Council of Aboriginal Women; Tim Aguis, Executive Secretary, Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement; Dick Roughsey, Chairman, Aboriginal Arts Board; the Institute of Narrative and Music of Aborigines and the Adelaide Aboriginal Orchestra- Dr Ellis, I think; Mrs L. Hume, President, Aboriginal Advancement Council of Western Australia; and Ken Colburg, Aboriginal Cultural Co-ordinator. [More…]
I also said that another $4,000 had been received from the organisation established under the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, to deal with International Women’s Year. [More…]
I heard that, in appreciation of that, the conference carried a resolution condemning the holding of International Women’s Year. [More…]
I ask the Minister for the Media whether there have been any moves towards greater job opportunities for women within his Department, particularly in the Australian Information Service. [More…]
If this is true, is anything being done to right, in International Women’s Year, what seems to be a most discriminatory wrong? [More…]
I thought there was quite an imbalance between the number of men and the number of women, and I suggested that my Department should take action to employ more women journalists. [More…]
The number of women journalists in the employ of the Australian Information Service is now about ten. [More…]
I still say that more women journalists have to be employed. [More…]
It has particular regard for the needs of women, of country students, of migrants, and of handicapped persons. [More…]
I simply remind people of the important role which the average Australian can play because the War Memorial can be built up by a consciousness in the community that this sort of action would be to the benefit of the War Memorial and to the memory of those servicemen and women and other people associated with the Services who lost their lives during the various actions in which Australia has been involved. [More…]
Why should the Women’s Electoral Lobby not be able to form a party and run groups without having big brother, the Chief Electoral Officer in Canberra, saying that its party will have a name that he approves or its name cannot be printed on the ballot paper? [More…]
Certain Women (now a continuing series) Rush [More…]
I wish to draw the Senate’s attention to a letter I have received from the Women’s Abortion Action Campaign. [More…]
4) 1974-75, made the statement that the Women’s Abortion Action Coalition was a front for the Socialist Youth Alliance and the Socialist Workers League. [More…]
The Women’s Abortion Action Coalition is simply, as the name implies, a number of women, joined together in the hopes of repealing the laws limiting abortion in this country. [More…]
It is true that some of the women are connected with the SYA and SWL. [More…]
We were not the main organising force behind the International Women’s Day march, and we have not been organising large public meetings. [More…]
We combined with many other women s groups on International Women’s Day to organise and take part in the march. [More…]
We object to being labelled as an innocent women’s group being manipulated by the SYA and SWL [More…]
That person had indicated that those bodies were Trotskyist bodies and that the Women’s Abortion Action Group, to which Senator Melzer referred, was one of the bodies which these Trotskyist organisations regarded as their own. [More…]
But I would be interested to know whether this Women’s Abortion Action group repudiates the Socialist Youth Alliance and the Socialist Workers League, particularly as it is conceded that some of the members of the Women’s Abortion Action group are in fact members of those organisations. [More…]
What we got from him tonight was that a person told him- there is no identification of that person and no verification of whether a person ever did tell him- that someone who was a member of the Socialist Youth Alliance and the Socialist Workers League was also a member of the Women’s Abortion Action Coalition. [More…]
I think that rightfully the Women’s Abortion Action Coalition has protested at the allegation that it was associated with those other groups. [More…]
It does not matter whether they are women with an ideal who are demonstrating, if they can be used for his cause Senator Greenwood will use them without verification of or justification for the utterances he makes. [More…]
I think that Senator Melzer is to be congratulated for rectifying an injustice that has been done to these women who are fighting for a cause which they believe is right. [More…]
It is prompted by the interest of a group of women in Devonport, Tasmania, who desire to be identified with and contribute towards efforts to relieve the suffering and distress of the civilian victims of the Vietnam war. [More…]
Will the Minister also give the Senate any information which is in the Government’s hands concerning reports of mass atrocities by communists against women and children in South Vietnam? [More…]
I received the same sort of communication that my colleague Senator Melzer received from the Women’s Abortion Action Campaign. [More…]
Senator Greenwood accepted this newspaper’s highly coloured story of this man going to bed with women in order to get their secrets from them. [More…]
In all societies there have been romantic young men and romantic young women who thought that they could take society by storm, that they could rush up to the barricades. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the AttorneyGeneral is appearing on television promoting the sale of a women’s journal because it contains a booklet on the Government’s Legal Aid Office? [More…]
As it is International Women’s Year, I wish to draw the attention of the Senate to various incidents which show how diligent a government must be and how difficult it is, until one actually has legislation to enforce an idea, to bring people to realise that they have a blind spot and that when it comes to matters such as discrimination between the sexes, unfortunately, a deal of discrimination still exists. [More…]
The matter that I wish to bring to the attention of the Senate concern discrimination against women. [More…]
As this year has been designated International Women’s Year, it is well for governments to realise the extent of that problem. [More…]
This is a scheme under which women who have been out of the work force for some time may be retrained and then take their skills and knowledge back into the work force. [More…]
It has been brought to my attention that in some areas the people who are interviewing women for this retraining scheme are getting very close to the knuckle by asking those women for personal details about themselves. [More…]
I am afraid that in many instances in which government departments appoint officers overseas women find it very difficult to secure such overseas appointments and married women find it practically impossible. [More…]
In many instances, in interviews for such appointments women applicants are asked whether their husbands are happy about the prospect of their going overseas, whether it is the husband’s wish that the woman should go overseas and whether the husband will find suitable work and be happy in the country to which the appointee will be posted. [More…]
Perhaps I should have; perhaps a number of other women in the community should have this matter brought to their attention, whether they like it or not. [More…]
The Board of Works there obvionsly regards women as second class citizens. [More…]
If women who work for the Board of Works marry they have to resign. [More…]
Temporary employees- married women- cannot be members of the Board’s superannuation fund. [More…]
Married women, as temporary employees, are not eligible for paid study leave. [More…]
The same Board of Works lays down conditions of dress for its women employees to wear. [More…]
Unless the women wear the uniform that is picked out for them they are liable to be sacked because it is said they are not amenable to discipline. [More…]
These women wear a blue dress and a blue cardigan probably because the members of the Board, being men, think blue is the loveliest colour. [More…]
Obviously this employer does not take into account the fact that so many families now are 2-income families and that so many women do not work to fill in idle hours; they go to work because they have to work. [More…]
Work is a necessity to keep their families in the state in which the women think their families should be kept. [More…]
These examples give some idea of the immense problems that still have to be faced by this Government because for a long time nobody has worried about the real equality of women in the work force or in the community. [More…]
I commend the Government for the steps it has taken to ensure that women are treated as human beings with equal rights. [More…]
We look forward with confidence to the day when women go forward, not as someone’s daughter, wife, mother or secretary but in their own right as whole and complete human beings with much to offer this world in general and our country in particular. [More…]
We still have men and women working on the factory floor who are there for reasons of lack of education. [More…]
Honourable senators will be aware, of course, that discrimination against women is nothing new in Australia. [More…]
It is perhaps best described as a ‘hangover from medieval times’ when women were considered less valuable even than the household animals. [More…]
For instance, it is not long ago, it is claimed, that women were given the vote. [More…]
Women were never given anything. [More…]
In 1975, appropriately enough International Women’s Year, it is at long last taking its place on the statute book. [More…]
Women have traditionally met discrimination when they have endeavoured to obtain finance, particular for housing and major purchases. [More…]
Financial institutions tend to regard women less favourably than their male counterparts when they want to borrow money. [More…]
Yet I put it to you, Mr Deputy President, that a lot of women in this day and age would be more financially stable than their male counterparts. [More…]
A group of women desired to have a drink in a bar of a hotel and they were told that it was a public bar. [More…]
A public bar is for the use of the public and yet this group of women was told by the management that it was for males only. [More…]
Women were required to drink in another part of the hotel where they also had to pay more for their liquor. [More…]
If we are looking at discrimination against women in general we cannot bypass what happens in the Parliament. [More…]
I remind Senator Wright, who is trying to interject, that Aboriginal women are included in the Racial Discrimination Bill. [More…]
We do not find women in this chamber except as senators- there are precious few of us- and as Hansard reporters. [More…]
-Mr Deputy President, I put it to you that any male who would make such a fatuous statement as that would never have seen women at work in a supermarket. [More…]
Any man who says that a woman is incapable of lifting heavy loads and files of paper must have rocks in his head when one considers the work the women do in the supermarket. [More…]
Things are really bad in Australia- 200 000 declared unemployed are official, but unofficially 100 000 more, especially women have not registered. [More…]
It refers to the fundamental human rights, the dignity and rights of a human person and the equal rights of men and women, and of nations large and small. [More…]
That little union of prejudiced men and women practising as doctors, aided and abetted by conservative governments, denied any opportunity to these people, who were more eminent in many respects than those who were practising medicine in this country, solely because they were displaced persons from war-torn Europe, to carry out their profession. [More…]
I understand it was basically a march of women by women for women. [More…]
You see this happening time after time in respect of women’s fashions and how they look after their faces. [More…]
People come here and say that the skin of Australian women is the worst in the world. [More…]
Probably such people have never met more than a dozen women in this country. [More…]
Am I to be accused of discriminating against women or are women to be accused of discriminating against me? [More…]
Can the Minister tell me whether there is any difference between the benefits enjoyed by men who served with any of the defence forces during the last war and those enjoyed by women who served in any of the women’s auxiliary services during that period? [More…]
There is one difference which I think I pointed out some time earlier this year in answer to a question by Senator Coleman about repatriation benefits, and that is that the widows of male veterans are entitled to war widow benefits whereas the widowers of deceased women veterans are not entitled to similar benefits. [More…]
They began at a time when it was quite uncommon for women to be earning incomes. [More…]
These changes include a growing number of families where both parents work, and of single parent families, as well as a frequently increasing sense of isolation affecting women looking after children at home. [More…]
It will permit those intentions to be translated even further into action and it will be yet another example, and a major one at that, of the recognition by this Government of the rights of women in Australian society. [More…]
It is with conviction that we are taking steps to introduce this legislation during International Women’s Year. [More…]
This has been given emphasis by people who question opportunities in education and who question the role of women in Australian society. [More…]
I would see the Curriculum Development Centre as having an opportunity in this area to do some national project work- the sort of work that would place emphasis on the fact that it is preferable that a society sees the need to develop to the full the talents and skills of all its people and does not segregate them into traditional roles or limit the opportunities which some of the women of this country may find ahead of them. [More…]
She attacked the whole problem of racial discrimination on the basis of sexualism that is to say, women are a deprived element in the community. [More…]
Racial discrimination against women as a sexual problem will not be remedied by passing laws. [More…]
I am dealing now with arguments put by women’s lib organisations. [More…]
If the father leaves to go walkabout he knows full well that the women and children will be looked after by the community. [More…]
He would also no doubt be aware that the program is produced and presented entirely by women. [More…]
Can the Minister tell the Senate whether this is a genuine attempt by the ABC to involve women in all aspects of program production and presentation, or is it just a sop to International Women’s Year? [More…]
The show apparently has resulted from a women’s workshop program within the ABC which has been designed to give any female ABC staff member a chance to participate in all aspects of program making. [More…]
One basic aim of the women’s workshop program is to involve women in more technical fields with the result that typists, librarians and other staff engaged in that sort of activity will become producers, technical operators and so on. [More…]
An ABC women’s co-operative has been formed to organise the venture with workshop results being channelled into a weekly radio program that Senator Melzer has referred to as ‘The Coming Out, Ready or Not Show’. [More…]
I am told by the Commission that 2 female staff employees have been seconded from their usual work to co-ordinate the project and that they will be travelling to other States to encourage women to form similar workshops elsewhere. [More…]
I am told that as a result of this co-operative over 200 women are attending radio workshops, 50 of them on a television course, and that there is a steadily growing waiting list. [More…]
As a result, the Australian Government, which is committed to a policy of housing all Aboriginal families, whatever requirements they meet, within 10 years from the time of elections, has provided funds to the Western Australian Government for a housekeeping service whereby women who are employed for the purpose will visit the homes and try to instruct the tenants as to how properly to look after a European home. [More…]
It is most appropriate in International Women’s Year to honour her as a great Australian. [More…]
The Convention to which I have referred takes up this reference to the community’s role and the role of men and women in society. [More…]
They have become angry young men and angry young women. [More…]
Because of past discrimination and things that have happened in the past, a group of young Aboriginal men and women could become angry, and outside this place they could shout, ‘Down with the whitey ‘, or something about some race of people. [More…]
The main impetus for their establishment has been that there has been a requirement for women in the workforce. [More…]
This has been modified in the last 10 years or so by the increasing exercise by women of their right to work. [More…]
The ‘Women in the Workforce’ series released in the late 1960s by the Women’s Bureau of the Department of Labor, which was a Bureau established by Mr Snedden when he was the Minister, was a step in the right direction but this has not been followed through subsequently. [More…]
Whilst we are not in any way denying the right of women to choose to work, nor are we failing to recognise the need for many women to work, we wish to remind the Government of the importance to a child of having its mother able to look after it rather than having some substitute care provided. [More…]
The Minister said also: it will be yet another example, and a major one at that, of the recognition by this Government of the rights of women in Australian society. [More…]
To take a somewhat gratuitous approach to the rights of women in Australian society during International Women’s Year is perhaps not something that is welcomed by the thoughtful women of the Australian community. [More…]
To relate any provision of child care simply to the women in Australian society overlooks the fact that both parents have equal responsibilities in the care of their children and that the children have the fundamental and essential rights which are part of the Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
The Government claims that the establishment of a Children’s Commission is a further recognition by the Government of the rights of women in Australian society. [More…]
I am not saying that the women’s place is in the home, but I am saying that she should not be forced out of her home by government mismanagement. [More…]
Furthermore, on the reverse basis, for women in that condition, subject to the viciousness of cruelty, drunkenness, misbehaviour physically, perversion or any of those things, to have to wait for 12 months after a separation before getting a sufficient remedy is a very great injustice. [More…]
The other aspect I was about to get on to is from the woman’s point of view, which is of particular interest to me from the humanitarian angle, and thinking of not every women being one of those liberated people who can earn $lm whenever they feel like it, or so they say. [More…]
Women will have equal employment rights and opportunities as men. [More…]
I strongly supported the Prime Minister when he said that the Government will encourage the AGIC to extend to women the same opportunity to take out policies as men now enjoy. [More…]
Many men and women devote their working lives to the railways and they have collectively formed some of the finest traditions in any government service. [More…]
The Minister for Transport (Mr Charles Jones) is also arranging for detailed discussions with the Australian Council of Trade Unions and officers of the railway unions to establish methods of consultation and liaison which will ensure all railwaymen and women are fully informed on the progress of the transfer. [More…]
For the information of honourable senators, I present a report on a survey conducted for the Young Women’s Christian Association by Robin Anderson with assistance from Sheryl Ward entitled: ‘Leisure- An Inappropriate Concept for Women?’ [More…]
This situation in Australian society is tending to become reversed in that the Public Service, with great respect to a body of fine men and women, is tending not only to receive higher pay and higher benefits but also to retain better security of employment. [More…]
37 to clause 83 when women throughout the world are having to fight for recognition as equal human beings. [More…]
The honourable senators on the benches opposite are the very people who will try, by fair means or foul, to turn all women back into pumpkins at the end of International Women’s Year. [More…]
The staff ceiling limit that was imposed was later eased and accordingly some months ago one of the two women remaining, who was previously on part-time only, was advised that she would be appointed permanently to the vacant full-time position. [More…]
Productions like Seven Little Australians’, ‘Marion’, ‘Rush’ and now ‘Certain Women’ have all been sold on the export market, which seems to evidence that these things can be done when shows are properly and effectively produced. [More…]
That is one very good reason why the ABC has been able to increase its .list of successful productions such as ‘Seven Little Australians ‘, ‘ Rush ‘, ‘ Marion ‘, ‘ Certain Women ‘-to name a few- all of which have been sold by Australia on the export market. [More…]
I would think it is expected to go into the nursery and preside over the juveniles and poor women who have been deserted by their husbands. [More…]
-Has the Minister representing the Attorney-General seen a report in yesterday’s Sydney ‘Sun’ headed Soviet Amnesty for Women’ which stated that the Soviet Government had announced a qualified amnesty for women and minors in prison or under investigation, as a gesture to International Women’s Year? [More…]
Will the Minister confer with the Attorney-General to determine whether the same remissions can be extended to women and minors in prison in Australia, also as a gesture of leniency in recognition of International Women’s Year? [More…]
1 ) I am aware that a number of reports suggesting an increased incidence of spontaneous abortions and congenital malformations of offspring of pregnant women exposed to volatile anaesthetics in operating theatres have appeared in medical literature over the last few years; the Australian Drug Evaluation Committee (ADEC) is currently reviewing the subject. [More…]
She was also vitally involved in the role of women in politics and in the work force. [More…]
It was she who first suggested that the Government should set up a women’s secton within the Department of Labor and Immigration. [More…]
Women’s International Year will mark the death of a woman who must be judged to be one of the most notable and successful women of Australia. [More…]
This honour has been accepted by women from both political sides of Federal Parliament. [More…]
She had been active, of course, in the Australian Women’s National League and in the women’s sections of the Liberal Party after the Women’s National League disbanded in 1945. [More…]
She was, I think, one of the first women chairmen of committees appointed by the Australian Senate. [More…]
She has written into the history of the Liberal Party and I think it will be recognised that she has written into the history of women in political activity in this country. [More…]
She knew that women needed to be integrated into the political system if they were to have the influence that we believe Australian women should have in political life. [More…]
The women in Victoria benefited greatly from the activities of Senator Dame Ivy in Canberra. [More…]
I would like to place on record her long service as President of the Australian Women’s Liberal Club, which was very active during her presidency. [More…]
That an Australian Government Insurance Corporation will benefit all Australian women and men by offering equal opportunity for employment and insurance cover. [More…]
That an Australian Government Insurance Corporation will benefit all Australian women and men by offering equal opportunity for employment and insurance cover. [More…]
Will the Minister not agree that the voice of the RSL should be heard on all committees relating to the welfare of ex-servicemen and women? [More…]
That an Australian Government Insurance Corporation will benefit all Australian women and men by offering equal opportunity for employment and insurance cover. [More…]
That an Australian Government Insurance Corporation will benefit all Australian women and men by offering equal opportunity for employment and insurance cover. [More…]
While I have spoken on this subject a number of times I feel constrained to do so this evening in this debate because I am the only women who will be speaking on this Bill. [More…]
In particular I question whether women, who make up more than 50 per cent of the total population of this country, are aware of some of the discriminatory clauses in most of those policies. [More…]
Young women can and do mature- physically at least- as early as 1 1 or 12 years of age, and that is a perfectly normal occurrence . [More…]
For an insurance company, or anyone else for that matter, to deny women their rights because of that normal maturation process is nothing short of criminal. [More…]
No one appears to have complained about it, except a handful of women who are concerned. [More…]
I have already said that more than 50 per cent of the entire population of this nation are women. [More…]
There are bound to be some who have or could develop some disability resulting from pregnancy or childbirth, or even both; but all women are not in that category. [More…]
Yet all women are penalised by the restrictive clauses in insurance policies. [More…]
I repeat: That clause is included in a personal accident and illness insurance policy dated this year, this enlightened year, this International Women’s Year, 1975. [More…]
Let us look at another aspect of insurance and discrimination as far as women are concerned. [More…]
After all, we women are the weaker sex. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) has said, in addition to referring to employment opportunities for women, that the [More…]
Government will encourage the AGIC to extend to women the same opportunity to take out policies as men now enjoy. [More…]
Many women do work in that way. [More…]
If you are a professional who is paid a fee for service, if you are a musician, an artist or a singer or if you work in the area of advertising- if you work not for a full 12 months but on a fee for service basis- and on top of all those things or any of them you have the audacity to be a woman, at the moment you need not expect to be able to get coverage from an insurance company because the policies specifically state that women are excluded if they work on a commission, fee for service or part time basis. [More…]
I wonder just how many women who earn their living as doctors and are paid a fee for service are aware of those discriminatory clauses. [More…]
Yet it is only the women who are excluded from insurance cover if they work on a part time basis. [More…]
Many women work on a door-to-door commission sales basis. [More…]
Women who operate the party plan system throughout our communities are paid either a fee or on a commission basis. [More…]
A male who works on a door-to-door sales commission basis can obtain insurance coverage, but the women are not entitled to it. [More…]
I am rather shocked and disturbed to find that many women do not even appear to be aware of the discriminatory clauses. [More…]
I am shocked and disturbed that the men who work with those women, who live with those women and who rear those women, have not done much about the situation. [More…]
Let us examine the formal discrimination that is normally shown to women when, among other things, they want to take out insurance policies. [More…]
Very few women have ever been able to become more than an officer, which is slightly higher than a clerk, but is possibly considered to be a reasonably high appointment for a woman in the industry. [More…]
I think approximately three or four women have actually been able to become actuaries and are still operating in that capacity. [More…]
I hope that more women will have the opportunity to be in on the decision making side of insurance. [More…]
She would seem to me to be somewhat of a latter day Germain Greer because she has been expounding the cause of women. [More…]
I support the view that there are some areas in which women are discriminated against and I believe that those matters ought to be corrected. [More…]
I have a high regard for women. [More…]
I believe that women have a very important role to play in Australia. [More…]
Obviously honourable senators on the other side do not regard women as I regard them. [More…]
I believe very strongly that the 8 million policy holders, many of whom would be women, would be very anxious to preserve the capacity of those insurance companies to invest their money in order to provide policy holders with the bonuses to which they are entitled. [More…]
In other words the Liberal-Country Party Opposition seems to take the view that it is just too bad for those who suffer a disadvantage as a result of any experience, any unforeseen circumstance, any accident of any illness, which Senator Coleman referred to yesterday as specifically applying to women, if in fact the insurance companies say: ‘We will not cover such an eventuality’. [More…]
In the light of the evidence presented, does the Minister believe that the prescription of such preparations by medical practitioners needs to be reviewed, and that in association with this, more educational information needs to be provided for women who are using oral contraceptives. [More…]
These women were exposed to significantly greater numbers of a variety of hormonal preparations given for various reasons during pregnancy, compared to the exposure suffered by a control group of mothers having normal children. [More…]
That an Australian Government Insurance Corporation will benefit all Australian women and men by offering equal opportunity for employment and insurance cover. [More…]
The Bill will also remove the discrimination against women wage earners which is in the present legislation. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Prime Minister whether he is aware that very little material concerning the Women in Politics’ conference has been distributed among women in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands communities in Queensland? [More…]
Is he aware that Queensland Aboriginal and Island women have organised their own International Women’s Year seminar to be held at Townsville this weekend? [More…]
I address my question to the Special Minister of State who I understand is the Minister administering the financial aspects in regard to International Women’s Year. [More…]
Is the Minister able to provide the Senate with a detailed account of the items on which moneys have been expended or authorised to be expended as part of the Government’s allocation of $2m for International Women’s Year? [More…]
It is a fact that my Department provides the administrative support for the National Advisory Committee on International Women’s Year which as a body is responsible to the Prime Minister. [More…]
Last year some $2m was made available by the Australian Government to that committee for purposes of International Women’s Year. [More…]
The Minister would be aware that the Government sent a delegation to the United Nations Conference on Women that was held in Mexico this year. [More…]
Ex-servicemen and women can expect this year to have expenditure on health costs increased by $12. [More…]
It also refused to recognise for treatment cancer which had been contracted by ex-servicemen and women. [More…]
However, the men and women in the Services will retain their separate entities but will be responsible to the Minister. [More…]
On the other hand, if the Committee itself seeks out and finds defects, are we not men and women enough to look at those defects and to correct them? [More…]
We do not go out for migrants, women, Aboriginals or 2-headed goats. [More…]
After all, one would think that a Liberal-Country Party government would have taken into account that there are children, that there are parents and that there are women who live in extraordinarily isolated circumstances and who have as much right to a good education and to converse with their fellows as has anybody else, but what did it do about it? [More…]
Are Opposition senators suggesting that pensions paid to ex-servicemen and women, which have risen in the comparative 3 year period by some 54 per cent, or the war widows pension, which has risen by some 80 per cent, or the single rate age and invalid pension, which has risen by 93 per cent, or the married couples pension, which has risen by 87 per cent? [More…]
We also know that last year and this year $2,300,000 has been voted for International Women’s Year and for the gabble that is going on around this place. [More…]
Anybody who saw Monday Conference the other night would wonder just why those women are here. [More…]
I am talking about these women yabbers. [More…]
The way they are talking, one would think that there was a great division between men and women. [More…]
As one who has always had a very high appreciation of women because of the wonderful mother I had, it disgusts me to hear the sort of nonsense they go on with. [More…]
What has this women Reid, who is the chief adviser to the Prime Minister on women’s affairs, done for the money that she is getting? [More…]
That is the type of woman who is appointed as the chief adviser on women’s affairs. [More…]
Sometimes these people are called the ordinary men and women. [More…]
I suggest that the present Conference on Women and Politics needs no better demonstration of how the Australian Press and the Opposition are unwilling to judge a woman on her merits and how they seek to sensationalise the routine appointment of women to public jobs on the basis of totally irrelevant matters. [More…]
Before 1 January of this year the Anzac Agency of the British Commonwealth War Graves Commission had responsibility for the care and maintenance of the graves of Australian servicemen and women. [More…]
I understand that these proposed arrangements for the care of the graves of Australian servicemen and women have been favourably received by the various veterans organisations. [More…]
The Minister for the Media, and indeed the Minister representing him in this place, would be aware that because this is International Women’s Year the Australian Broadcasting Commission made time and facilities available to women employed in the ABC to produce a radio program entitled The Coming Out Ready Or Not Show. [More…]
-The decision to establish the radio program The Coming Out Ready Or Not Show was taken by the Australian Broadcasting Commission itself in conformity with the general conception that this year is International Women’s Year. [More…]
I know that a seminar is intended to be conducted by the Department of the Media on the role of women in the media in this year, International Women’s Year. [More…]
It teaches that the wealth of a society should be administered in the interest of all; that every one of us, men, women and children, has an equal stake in our community, and equal duty to it- to do our best- and an equal right to share in its fruits. [More…]
The position is grossly understated because the Government does not include in the figures women married to an employed breadwinner. [More…]
Perhaps they were concerned that women in New South Wales might be enlightened enough to take some action against the publican. [More…]
They might have thought that the following Saturday afternoon women would go to the saloon bar of the Stop and Rest Hotel; decide to stay there; refuse to leave and not go into the lounge where they would be required to pay more; and have a sit down strike especially as the female bar attendant who would serve them had had the audacity under instructions, presumably from the licensee, to request that another member of her sex leave the house or that part of the house. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for the Media: How many women employed in the Australian Information Service now represent Australia overseas? [More…]
Is a statement of the previous Minister for the Media that more women will be posted to Australian Information Service posts overseas as soon as they have completed language training in accordance with the policy of the present Minister for the Media? [More…]
When I was Minister for the Media I was commencing to institute a system whereby women journalists in the employ of the Australian Information Service would be posted to Australian Information Service posts abroad. [More…]
The present Minister for the Media has advised me that he is in complete agreement with the policy of posting overseas women serving in the Australian Information Service but that no women are presently employed in language training courses as a preparation for overseas appointments. [More…]
However, it is expected that in the near future some women will be posted to English speaking countries where a second language is not required. [More…]
We are now finding that women who started smoking some decades later than men are starting to show the same increase in relation to the risk of lung cancer. [More…]
This is the first occasion on which I have spoken in the debate on the motion that the Senate do now adjourn, but I feel obliged to seek this opportunity to put on record a few facts in relation to some statements which have appeared in the newspapers over the last couple of days on the subject of the Queensland Government and the women of Queensland. [More…]
Glaring headlines were given in the newspapers yesterday and more coverage was given again today to a statement by Miss Elizabeth Reid, the former adviser of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) on women ‘s affairs. [More…]
It is a pity that they are being written off by people who are not prepared to acknowledge the contribution of women. [More…]
Miss Reid stated also that Mr Bjelke-Petersen had not enabled women to hold high places or high office under the policies of the National-Liberal Government in Queensland. [More…]
If she has made the activity of the Queensland Government in the area of legislation on women her business, she did not reveal it in the Press statements that appeared Australia wide yesterday and today. [More…]
In 1973 the Minister for Justice in Queensland, Mr Bill Knox, set up a Commission of Inquiry into the Status of Women. [More…]
While many women welcomed it, it was not in response to any specific pressure or request from women or from any group within the community. [More…]
This commission of inquiry was asked to recommend to the State Government areas in which legislation or policy initiatives were needed, which would combat any complaint based on fact about disadvantage to women in Queensland, insofar as the State Government is capable of legislating. [More…]
That commission had 4 members- 2 men and 2 women. [More…]
One of the most controversial, probably so far as the public and the Parliament were concerned, but which was carried by an overwhelming majority, was a Bill to ensure that women are not required to state their marital status on legal documents. [More…]
I shall take it as implicit that the ladies and gentlemen of this chamber realise the significance and the great importance of that Bill to women. [More…]
In Queensland women have served on juries for a number of years, but they were able to claim certain special exemptions. [More…]
Women in Queensland serve on juries, in response to their stated desire, on exactly the same terms as men. [More…]
Since that legislation was passed there have already been several juries in Queensland comprised entirely of women. [More…]
In its election promises the Government also committed itself to a policy of ensuring that women would be appointed to all Government boards and advisory bodies, wherever there is a woman in the State who is capable of contributing to such a board or such a body. [More…]
So much for Miss Reid ‘s statement about reluctance to have women in high places. [More…]
Consumer affairs is an area in which women are particularly involved since they are major consumers on behalf of the families in our society. [More…]
More recently the Government took another initiative which was not a recommendation of that commission of inquiry but which was a very important one and one which has been welcomed by all women. [More…]
The area of estate duty has been one which has been particularly cruel to women. [More…]
Its implementation has shown the poor recognition that previous governments have given to the economic status of women in our community. [More…]
Queensland is the State which leads the way there and recognises that in that area some very simple justice is due to women. [More…]
Probably one of the most important initiatives, in my opinion, and one which refutes Miss Reid, was the setting up by the Government- again as a direct result of a specific recommendation of the Commission of Inquiry into the Status of Women- of a body called the Council of Queensland Women. [More…]
It is the principal advisory body to the Government on issues as they affect the women of the community. [More…]
These women work with the State Government to advise it and they are not therefore, as somebody might suggest, lackeys of a National Country Party-Liberal government. [More…]
On the contrary, when the Government moved to set up this Council it invited any women of Queensland who were interested to serve on the Council and, who thought they may have qualifications to assist the Council’s deliberations, to nominate themselves. [More…]
The Government did not select those women whose opinions it knew would conveniently fit in with its own opinions. [More…]
It did not require that groups should nominate the women. [More…]
It recognised that there are many women in the community who have much which is worthwhile to contribute and who have opinions which are valuable, particularly in the area ofthe needs of the family in our community and who do not necessarily, as a direct result of those commitments, have the time to become heavily involved in community groups. [More…]
From the many hundreds of women who nominated themselves the State Government made a choice. [More…]
In my opinion it has made a quite successful attempt to get together a combination of individuals in employment, the professions, the arts, politics, community and welfare activities and women who just occupy the traditional role of homemaker. [More…]
It sought to ensure that women from all parts of the State were represented on that Council, which is particularly important in a State such as Queensland where size and distances can invoke very particular problems for special regions of the State. [More…]
I do not propose to give all the names of the women on the Council because I do not have all the individual names. [More…]
Although the women were not nominated by groups it is interesting to look at the sort of groups to which the women who are now on that Council belong. [More…]
There is the State President of the Liberal Women’s Council. [More…]
There are women from the Queensland Country Women’s Association and from the National Council of Women. [More…]
There is the Chairman of the International Women’s Year United Nations Association Committee. [More…]
There is the President of the Queensland Status of Women Committee. [More…]
There is a representative from the Women’s Employment Committee. [More…]
There are representatives from the Business and Professional Women’s Club, Quota Clubs, the College of Ophthalmologists, the Good Shepherd Lodge, and the Girl Guides. [More…]
I hoped that she would succeed in her job and that the women of Australian would reap some benefit from it, but I was critical of the administrative tactics of the Government in this type of appointment. [More…]
One of the reasons that I think some women in the community have criticised Miss Reid, sometimes unfairly, is that they feared that one person’s opinion was to be foisted on all women in Australia. [More…]
Women have a characteristic in common with the community at large. [More…]
I am not saying that Miss Reid has necessarily tried to do that but I contrast it with the very genuine attempts by the Queensland Government to try to gather together the opinion of women in Queensland in a way which would benefit all women in Queensland. [More…]
There has been no objection to the composition of that Council of Queensland Women. [More…]
It has been welcomed by women of all groups and of all political persuasions in Queensland. [More…]
He provoked Miss Reid by some outrageous statements concerning the variety of women’s organisations which have been sponsored and assisted by this Government since it came to power. [More…]
Surely Senator Martin will not deny the initiatives which this Government has take on behalf of the rights of women. [More…]
They advocate the sale of women - [More…]
We only need to recall that Senator Martin was here to answer an allegation which was patently stupid and false, namely, the work which the NationalLiberal Party Government in Queensland has done in the area of women and their advancement. [More…]
These figures have been confirmed by the International Committee of the Red Cross which also reports that a high proportion of the refugees are women and children. [More…]
Such means should be directed at the maximal reduction of controllable sources of mercury emissions to the environment and the provision of adequate regulations that minimise exposure of vulnerable sub-groups, such as children and pregnant women, to mercury from fish. [More…]
-On 27 August 1975 (Hansard page 274) Senator Keeffe asked me, as Minister representing the Prime Minister, a question without notice concerning Aboriginal women and the recent Women and Politics Conference in Canberra. [More…]
Information concerning the Women and Politics Conference was sent through the Department of Aboriginal Affairs to Aboriginal women’s groups and to those Aboriginal organisations in country areas which were considered to have a particular interest in the Conference. [More…]
In many cases the organisations were also contacted personally by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs to encourage the participation of Aboriginal women. [More…]
Additional efforts were made by the International Women’s Year Secretariat to encourage such participation. [More…]
Aboriginal and Island women from throughout Australia, including Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland, attended the Women and Politics Conference in Canberra. [More…]
Moreover, in cases of hardship, Aboriginal women were not required to make any financial contribution themselves. [More…]
It is not known whether any of these Aboriginal women had attended the seminar in Townsville. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Department of the Media stands to lose some $37,000 deposit as a result of the late cancellation of the conference Women and the Media planned for International Women’s Year for later this year? [More…]
You finally decided that as well as an 1 8-year old being old enough to go out and be killed and old enough to kill the sons of other women we can also have a say in government. [More…]
These figures have been confirmed by the International Committee of the Red Cross which also reports that a high proportion of the refugees are women and children. [More…]
That position has been brought about by the mismanagement of this Government, and the citizens of this once great stable country, where men and women were keen to work and to achieve, were proud to know that as good Australians they were creating one of the most outstanding countries in the world, now face a position where their country is noted abroad for the double standards and irresponsibility of its political leaders. [More…]
ablution block with two showers for men, two for women, two wash tubs and two washing machines, built in about April 1974, hot water added in December 1974, two new washing machines in February 1 975 and improved drainage in July 1 975; [More…]
-When I learnt that the insurance companies were opposing equal pay for their women employees I was not shocked. [More…]
This has been typical of their attitude, not only in relation to the employment of women but also in relation to the formulation of policies regarding women. [More…]
They will make sure that not only the 70 000 Service men and women but also all the people in the civilian services will not have funds and will not receive wages after 30 November. [More…]
These men (no women on the bridge at W.A. [More…]
When Morony made one of his rare excursions into the outside world and met the Country Women’s Association he was astounded at their anger. [More…]
They wanted the Women’s pages abandoned because they claimed these segregated women from the rest of society. [More…]
What was Mr Morony ‘s answer to the people from the Country Women’s Association? [More…]
He removed the heading ‘For Women’ from across the top of the pages in the newspaper. [More…]
He even includes the listing ‘Women’ in the index. [More…]
It is soul-destroying in my opinion for good young men and women looking for a job simply to be unable to find a place. [More…]
This will mean that in future a de facto wife who is living with a man on a bona fide domestic basis will qualify for wife’s pension or attract additional unemployment or sickness benefit without any regard to a qualifying period on the same basis as women who are legally married. [More…]
Generally this means that women and children go first and then there is a cutting down of the Embassy staff until the very last moment. [More…]
There was an upheaval about the organization called Women for Peace Against Vietnam and a Minister then triumphantly produced in the House of Representatives information that the lady had a long history of peace activities and that her son- this was the crime of the century- refused to join the cadets at the local grammar school. [More…]
The South Australian Methodist Conference meeting in Adelaide and comprising men and women of differing political party sympathies, believes that there are times when matters of principle and national well-being must clearly be put above party loyalty. [More…]
The South Australia Methodist Conference meeting in Adelaide and comprising men and women of differing political party sympathies, believes that there are times when matters of principle and national well-being must clearly be put above party loyalty. [More…]
It requires new institutions, new scales and priorities, new social attitudes, new political guidelines, new efforts at co-operation, new men and women in positions of authority. [More…]
We remember the things that this Government has done for women and children. [More…]
For 23 years women and children were forgotten people in Australia. [More…]
This Government has come in and given women, as people, rights and dignity. [More…]
We have given women and workers some hope that they may be able to go about their daily tasks with some peace of mind as to how the children- our dearest possessionswill be looked after while the women work for a living, in the main, and for so me while they work to give their expertise to this country. [More…]
I quote a statement which the honourable senator made: ‘We remember the things that this Government has done for women and children’. [More…]
One million, two hundred and fifty thousand married women were in sustained full employment on real wages with real purchasing power. [More…]
What has this Government done for the women and children? [More…]
Do they want me to state it in terms of women and unemployment? [More…]
This is what the so-called Whitlam Government has done for women. [More…]
Yet the Government tells us what it has done for the women and children of Australia. [More…]
Yet it has the gall and humbug to come to us now and say: Remember what we have done for the women and children ‘. [More…]
May we come back to the women and children whom Senator Melzer asked us to remember, to the 500 000 unemployed, to the prospective 150 000 to 200 000 students and school leavers who will not get jobs, to the lack of housing - [More…]
I am sorry; this is International Women’s Year and I should have included girls. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of a differential of up to 25 per cent in rates of pay for men and women in the Australian defence forces? [More…]
Has the Department of Labor and Immigration been involved in any studies of the usefulness or work value of women in the defence forces? [More…]
It has had a part in encouraging the women of the community to go into the work force so that there are 2 wage earners in the family. [More…]
The age rebate, which has been referred to by several speakers in this debatethe rebate allowed to aged persons who are men aged 65 years or more and women aged 60 years or more and the wives of some of these personshas been abolished. [More…]
That the Senate ask the Government to make such funds available as will enable projects commenced during International Womens Year 1975 to continue and be expanded, and take urgent and immediate steps to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women in Australia, and to actively encourage the elimination of discrimination against women in all parts of the world. [More…]
But I particularly welcome it and the special provisions that are now to be included which will enhance the position of women in the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]
I will be especially interested in the conditions of service of public servants, particularly women, with respect, for example, to employment availability and the provision of child care facilities for those wishing to work. [More…]
This is equally important, of course, to parents, particularly women, who wish to work or who require such facilities for their children so that they can participate more fully in community affairs. [More…]
At 1 1 a.m. on that day His Excellency the Governor-General was laying a wreath at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra in remembrance of Armistice Day and in remembrance of men and women of this country who had given their all in defence of the principle of the right of democratic government. [More…]
I want honourable senators on the Government side to ponder seriously these events because I believe that those honourable senators are as interested as we are in seeing the preservation of parliamentary democracy in this country- a system whereby men and women are elected to come to this Parliament to speak on behalf of their constituents and whereby the party with the greatest number of people elected to the floor of the House of Representatives forms the constitutionally elected government. [More…]
My friends opposite and those who write for the media have to understand the feelings of men and women- the little men and women- and kids who worked, toiled, strained and fought for nearly a quarter of a century to see a Labor Government elected. [More…]
In view of claims by the socalled Deputy Governor of the Indonesian held areas of East Timor that 60 000 people, mostly women and children, have been massacred by Indonesian troops or so-called volunteers, I ask: What protests have been made to the neo-fascist Government of Indonesia by the Australian Government? [More…]
We heard Senator Knight speak about his interest in women’s affairs. [More…]
There have been claims made by the puppet Governor of the Indonesian-held areas of East Timor, Lopez da Cruz, and published in the Australian Press that 60 000 people, mostly women and children, have been massacred in East Timor. [More…]
The women’s health refuges do not know whether in the future they will be able to provide facilities for the people who come to them in their hour of need. [More…]
The women’s refuges in Western Australia are dealing to a large extent with people who find it necessary, sometimes in the middle of the night and for a variety of reasons, to quit their matrimonial home. [More…]
There is provision also for assistance for the Women’s Child Care Collective in Canberra. [More…]
The development of those programs has been greatly assisted by nearly 1000 experts, both men, and women from all over Australia who have given their time and energies freely to the work of those committees. [More…]
The Board’s women’s adviser has been especially active in this way. [More…]
But just as the benefits of Labor’s social reform policies were quickly felt in the Territory- for example, in the reduction in the price of land, the establishment of an Australian Legal Aid Office, community health centres, women’s refuges, cheaper loans for home buyers, child care services and land rights for Aboriginals at Wreck Bay, so also the detrimental effects of the present Government’s ill conceived anti-Canberra policy are already causing distress and hardship to people living here in the seat of government. [More…]
I wish to comment now in particular on the anxiety felt by many women in our society about possible reductions in Government support for programs and policies that have been of particular significance to women. [More…]
Women are as badly under-represented here as they are anywhere else in our society where power resides or where decisions are made. [More…]
And, as elsewhere in society, women are most heavily represented among the workers who keep this institution running. [More…]
Although honourable senators will have heard many comments on the fact that there are now 6 women members of this chamber- and, indeed, some of those comments have been so phrased as to suggest that a membership of 6 women senators is almost an excess- I think that there will be agreement that neither the Government nor the Opposition has cause for complacency on this matter. [More…]
But the sexist organisation of our society has many more important ramifications than the fact that there are not many women members in Parliament. [More…]
Until very recently, women in our society, through a variety of formal barriers, traditional prejudice, and sheer neglect by policy makers, were denied equal access with men to education, health care, job training, employment, wage justice- in all, to the possibility of real independence. [More…]
In 1973, the Henderson Inquiry into Poverty estimated that there were approximately 132 000 fatherless families- that is, families supported by women- in Australia at that time. [More…]
Thus, half the families supported by women were poor or very poor. [More…]
Figures from the 1971 census showed that 80.7 per cent of women in the work force had no qualifications. [More…]
But 1.9 per cent of women in the work force have trade qualifications as compared with 20.3 per cent of males. [More…]
The child care survey in 1973 showed that a quarter of a million women with dependent children aged 12 or under were in the work force and about 125 000 women with dependent children under 6 years of age were in the work force. [More…]
These few statistics should remind honourable senators who need to be reminded that in education, training, employment and income, most women have been seriously disadvantaged. [More…]
When setting about the immense task of creating a just society based on an equitable distribution of power and resources, the Labor Government did not overlook the inequities suffered by women. [More…]
For the first time all women who, for any reason, were the sole support of children were entitled to a modest level of government assistance. [More…]
I find it ironical and very disappointing that this long overdue measure- the first step towards giving supporting mothers a modicum of independence and dignity- has been questioned by some adherents of the Liberal philosophy on the grounds that it may be creating an unhealthy dependency in these women. [More…]
More than half the applicants under this program have been women thus demonstrating to honourable senators on the other side of the chamber who need to have this pointed out to them that women, when given the opportunity, are in fact anxious to acquire skills that lead to independence. [More…]
The application of the means test introduced by the present Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, Mr Tony Street, and the reduction in training allowance represents a positive disincentive to retrain for women of low dual-income families. [More…]
Such women are usually the first to be retrenched. [More…]
I hope that the Minister will give further thought to this anomaly and that he will re-establish positive incentives for training, particularly for women. [More…]
In 1974 the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission extended the minimum wage to women. [More…]
The injustice to women implicit in the concept of the male breadwinner, which was first applied by Justice Higgins in the Conciliation and Arbitration Court in 1907, has finally been removed. [More…]
I point out that in speaking of working women I am not speaking of a small group or of a group of recent origin. [More…]
Working class women have always worked. [More…]
For example, between 1904 and 1910 women constituted about one-third of the employees in factories and workshops in the Sydney metropolitan district. [More…]
Under the Whitlam Government women were given access to wage justice. [More…]
But a number of steps remain before wage justice becomes a reality for all working women. [More…]
Prejudice by employers impedes opportunity and promotion for women. [More…]
I have mentioned those of relevance to women. [More…]
But honourable senators may agree that improvements in education, training, legal aid services, welfare services and child-care, benefit the whole of society and not just women. [More…]
Many thousands of men and women throughout Australia give one and sometimes more days a week to local government. [More…]
We all have a great admiration for those men and women. [More…]
Let us turn our attention to women. [More…]
What does the Speech say about women? [More…]
The Government is firmly committed to furthering the equality of opportunity for women in education, employment and in public life. [More…]
The Government will encourage the full participation of women in all aspects of Australian life u> ensure that their contribution of skills and talents is used lo the full. [More…]
The Commonwealth Public Service Superannuation Scheme to be introduced shortly has been amended to make better provision for women employed by the Government. [More…]
What about the majority of women? [More…]
What about the most discriminated against of all women in this country? [More…]
Married women should have a true freedom of choice but they should not be forced through economic circumstances- and that is the situation at present- to go out to work in order to maintain a decent standard of living. [More…]
Why were married women forced into the workforce? [More…]
It was a deliberate plan by the employers and the then government in the 1 960s, together with the Department of Labour and National Service, to recruit married women into the workforce as a source of cheap labour. [More…]
When the trade union movement- nobody else, but the trade union movement- won the true equal pay case in 1973, a situation developed where, because minimum wages had not been raised to acceptable levels many of those women remained in the workforce simply to maintain family economic standards. [More…]
It must be remembered that people in this category are not all elderly pensionersit includes women with small childrenand the public hospital may be a long way away. [More…]
Many people, particularly women with small children in the household, go to their doctor with some regularity and are given many prescriptions. [More…]
We sat under the trees at the Aurukun Mission surrounded by some 500 or 600 Aboriginal people- men, women and children. [More…]
If there are some of these unscrupulous men and they go on to the Aboriginal community, which is a group of 700 unsophisticated simple-living people, with flagons of wine and with certain thoughts in their minds and they do take advantage of some of the young men and perhaps some of the young women, what protection are the Aboriginal people going to have from that kind of behaviour? [More…]
I shall refer to the cuts that are being made in just some of the schemes that are dear to my heart because they have done something for that depressed area of Australia’s population- the women of Australia. [More…]
It is a scheme that was designed to provide training for varying types of people- not only women. [More…]
There was another scheme that was designed to deal just with getting women back into the workforce. [More…]
It gave some hope not only to women who had been out of the workforce and who wanted to go back and be retrained but also to women who knew that they were going to have the responsibility of raising their families. [More…]
Some of them were women who were on their own and who were going to have the responsibility of raising their family and some of them were women who knew that, because of the type of man to whom they were married, they would always have to accept part of the responsibility of looking after their families. [More…]
To so many of these women for so long the earning of some money was better than earning no money at all. [More…]
There were even single women who were keeping their children and who wanted to go on keeping their children without having to do what perhaps their mothers had done and go out and shop for a husband. [More…]
So many of these women cannot possibly go on in that area existing on some $24 a week. [More…]
It was said in some areas that a Federal pension could make many young women permanently dependent on welfare. [More…]
The whole manufacturing and industrial section of this country would come to a standstill if those women stayed at home. [More…]
To demonstrate how many women are engaged in the workforce at the moment I would like to quote from a document entitled Girls, School and Society, which was a report to the Schools Commission, in which it is said: [More…]
A quarter of a million women with dependent children aged 12 or under were in the labour force in 1 973 - [More…]
We know the figures have gone up since then- and about 12S 000 women with dependent children under 6 were in the labour force. [More…]
I am waiting with interest to see what the Government does about equal pay for women. [More…]
It introduced equal pay for women. [More…]
Women become machinists and men become technicians. [More…]
Some allegations were made during the last Federal election campaign, and never denied, that confidential talks had taken place with employers who employed large numbers of women and that certain things had been said about terminating equal pay. [More…]
I say to them: You just try to knock back equal pay and take us back to the days when women received 60 per cent of the male wage. [More…]
Some women were lucky to receive 40 per cent of the male wage. [More…]
Women in the textile industry will not go back to receiving 60 per cent of the male rate and neither will the rest of the women in Australia even countenance the idea. [More…]
In view of claims by the so-called Deputy Governor of the Indonesian-held areas of East Timor that 60 000 people, mostly women and children, have been massacred by Indonesian troops or so-called volunteers, I ask: What protests have been made to the neo-fascist Government of Indonesia by the Australian Government? [More…]
In an interview given to several Indonesian newspapers in Jakarta on 12 February, Mr Lopez da Cruz, a leader of the UDT party in East Timor, was reported as stating that there had been some 50 000-60 000 casualties since the outbreak of fighting in East Timor, many of them women and children. [More…]
Women of such quality will be employed irrespective of their age, race, religion, colour or any other form of discrimination which anybody might be able to dream up. [More…]
I advise Senator Melzer and other honourable senators that of the 49 ministerial officer positions- they are the top positions of the 24 Ministers- which have been filled, seven are filled by women. [More…]
If my mathematics are correct, 4 Ministers from the Liberal Party and 3 Ministers from the National Country Party are employing women in top positions. [More…]
In view of the labels which are occasionally placed on people, I thought that I ought to make available the names of Ministers who currently employ women in top jobs in ministerial offices. [More…]
I should like now to speak briefly about some matters affecting women. [More…]
During my campaign I was frequently asked questions relating to women. [More…]
I replied then, and I still maintain, that women’s issues are Australia’s issues and Australia’s issues are women’s issues and any problems must be dealt with by all Australians. [More…]
We women are not an underprivileged minority group as the radical feminists would have us depicted. [More…]
We women in Australia are equal with our menfolk, and only those who wish to denigrate our sex would have us believe otherwise. [More…]
However, one thing we must fight is not our male population but ourselves; for the only things standing in the way of women are the psychological barriers we ourselves impose. [More…]
But we cannot change society’s attitude overnight, and to try to do so only harms the women’s cause. [More…]
We are now drawing to the end of International Women’s Year. [More…]
One thing is certain: It has brought women to notice more than any other single event has ever done. [More…]
To me, the conference in Mexico City was successful in that it pointed out the diverse problems of women all over the world. [More…]
Women from the underdeveloped nations were quite at a loss to understand the militant western women’s attitude to matters they thought were trivial. [More…]
The women from the western world were unable to comprehend, far less sit and listen, to such simple demands; for here in Australia we already have this. [More…]
So the feminist activists have in our country turned the full circle and are no longer interested in assisting women in the home. [More…]
Here I would like to quote Elizabeth Reid, the former adviser on women’s affairs to the previous Prime Minister, who said that to assist women in the home: [More…]
is one of the most backward steps that could happen to the women ‘s movement. [More…]
It’s one of the most effective means of keeping women where the fascists think we ought to be- in the house. [More…]
This statement expresses more clearly than anything else could the lack of comprehension of some of the women activists. [More…]
Governments have, over the years, assisted women to enter the work force through subsidies to child care centres, maternity leave and retraining schemes. [More…]
It is this meagre allowance that induces women to put their children into child care centres and join the work force to keep up with the Joneses- the working sisters with their ever-increasing financial commitments. [More…]
If women are to remain in the home they need to be given realistic endowment so that they have money of their own and can feel the same independence as that of their working counterparts. [More…]
It is only then that women will be able to do what they like with their lives and reach their full potential. [More…]
The Government’s stated intention of continuing financial assistance to voluntary welfare organisations will be welcomed by the Young Men’s Christian Association, the Young Women’s Christian Association, the Northern Territory Council for Social Services and other agencies at present operating in the Territory. [More…]
How many of these people are women and how many will now be forced to leave their NEAT training? [More…]
She spoke of the need to widen the employment opportunities of migrant women by developing their natural skills by, amongst other things, assisting them with language problems. [More…]
Senator Guilfoyle said- I agree with this-that it is futile to expect women who are working in factories all day and at home all night to go out to night school. [More…]
-The Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations will be aware that many men and women presently training under the National Employment and Training Scheme are about to be forced to take a wage cut- in fact, a cut of approximately $68 or $70 in their weekly income. [More…]
Many young men and women who have a tertiary education probably are unable to obtain a job in society. [More…]
We deliberately have made and shall make local government a vehicle for our legislation on aged persons homes and hostels, sheltered employment, handicapped children, Meals on Wheels, home care and nursing, nursing homes, and homeless men and women. [More…]
In the debate on the Address-in-Reply a few remarks have been made about women. [More…]
Debates have taken place in this chamber about the role of women in our society. [More…]
I thought that Senator Walters made a very interesting and worthwhile contribution- interesting because in my experience it certainly reflected the attitudes of many Australian women. [More…]
I remember that Senator Walters said something about the need for an increase in child endowment to enable women to stay at home, if they so choose, to look after their children. [More…]
Senator O ‘Byrne would need to have a little more contact with Australian women if that is his opinion. [More…]
Perhaps he thinks that the majority of Australian women in that role are fascists. [More…]
Women in Australia, the wives and mothers of our society, face a very difficult situation at present. [More…]
Their theory was to arrange the economy so that it would be just about impossible for a family to subsist on one wage and, by doing so, men and women would be discouraged from having children. [More…]
Much of the activities of the women’s movement was based on an objection to the idea that women, by their biological destinies, ought to remain in the home and ought not to pursue careers. [More…]
That objection was based on the notion that if women could obtain satisfaction from careers- and they ought to be able to do that if they have that talent and that talent is not suppressed- women should have that equal right. [More…]
It seems to me also that this error is flowing into the thinking of society concerning the role of women. [More…]
It certainly is not being applied in that context to women who are pursuing a specific job- this is, the role of homemaker and the role of child raiser. [More…]
The fallacy on the part of the women’s movement argument is that while is rejects what it calls the sexist assumption that women, by reason of their biological makeup, were destined to follow a particular sort of course in their life and that it was unnatural for them to want to do anything like follow another careerand I would agree obviously wholeheartedly with that rejection- I fear that the women’s movement has appeared to impose on women a different sort of assumption. [More…]
But very many women, I must say to the Senate and specifically to Senator O ‘Byrne, who do like the job that they are doing- that is, the traditional job, the biological destiny type job- are now fearful. [More…]
We ought to consider that particular task for which so many women do opt, willingly, happily and gladly, and for which they have the necessary talents; we ought to consider that a job. [More…]
It has been estimated that the contribution of women to the gross national product is approximately 25 per cent. [More…]
Another aspect is the failure to have the time to make the type of household economies which most women are not able to make when they take on a full time occupation. [More…]
If women had a trade union, this situation would not have gone on for so long. [More…]
It is a fear that has been expressed to me by both women in that position and women who are acquainted with other women in that position. [More…]
There have been suggestions that governments ought to pay women a wage for staying at home. [More…]
However, I think governments must find some way of making an equitable recognition of the contribution that women do make to their family economy and thereby to the economy of the nation. [More…]
I suggest that at present many Australian women are not truly free to choose; they need to go out to full time employment in order to keep their family decently and to educate them to the point which is so necessary in this modern society. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Social Security whether widows and women who receive supporting mothers pensions will receive the 6.4 per cent increase recently announced by the Government? [More…]
Special consideration was also given to the difficulties encountered by women, particularly deserted wives and unmarried mothers, who were unskilled. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of voluminous reports which indicate that migrant women are often discriminated against and coerced by unscrupulous employers? [More…]
In view of the Government’s new guidelines for unemployment benefits, will the Minister advise what steps have been taken or are proposed to be taken to prevent the sexploitation of migrant women by some employers who can now threaten such persons not only with the loss of employment but also with their being ineligible for unemployment benefits for at least 6 weeks? [More…]
In particular there is no intention to exploit migrant women. [More…]
The matters which have been referred to concerning unscrupulous employers who make undue demands upon migrant women, with the threat of dismissal and loss of employment, are matters that concern us all. [More…]
It has come to my notice that this office is refusing to register as unemployed those men and women who do not conform to Mr Carrigan’s idea of being well dressed. [More…]
Does the Minister for Social Security accept that in the community there are many women who are bringing up children on their own and who, at the moment, arc struggling to make ends meet on the supporting mother’s benefit? [More…]
Does she accept that many of these women have no current qualifications which would lead to constant employment at a wage which would enable them to bring up their children in a life-style similar to that of the majority of the rest of the community? [More…]
Does the Minister accept that there are many women who are not receiving supporting mother’s benefit but whose domestic circumstances are such that they also need qualifications to enable them to earn a living that will cover the responsibilities, which they have taken on, of raising a family? [More…]
What has been suggested with regard to training programs for supporting mothers or for other women who have family responsibilities is also consistent with our attitude towards the personal development of the individual with the opportunity to take part in the mainstream of activity in our community. [More…]
Last year as a delegate to the United Nations conference for International Women’s Year I was very privileged and interested to meet many of the women who had attended the population control conference in Romania as delegates for their countries in 1974. [More…]
The women of the Third World became very angry at the kinds of population control programs that were being inflicted on their sisters because those programs were based on Western values and Western technologies and completely ignored the spiritual and cultural values of the women who were supposed to fit into those programs. [More…]
It was from many tragic experiences where women involuntarily were subjected by visiting specialists to forms of birth control that were totally alien to their values of family and child rearing and child bearing that opposition to Western-type population control grew to the extent that there was a massive political rejection of these programs at the Romanian conference. [More…]
I think if Senator Sheil had considered what was said by women delegates at that conference he would be better informed as to why some of the population control programs in the Third World had failed. [More…]
It was the view of those women, women who were intimately involved in what is happening to their sisters in the Third World countries, that if population control is to be successful, it must bc something that the women themselves want and understand and which does not destroy their whole fabric of family life. [More…]
But it is certainly totally unacceptable to say this to the women in villages in India or parts of Africa. [More…]
I point this out because I think that it was rather incomplete for Senator Sheil to talk about the failure of population control programs in the Third World without talking about what seemed to me to be the most morally significant aspect of that failure, namely, that the women on whom these programs were inflicted were never consulted. [More…]
Enrolments in this program have now been reduced to, I think, 30, which means that women are being deprived not only of employment but also of the opportunity to acquire the skills which could lead to employment in better times. [More…]
The National Council of Aboriginal and Island Women has had its budget cut by at least 50 per cent. [More…]
That the Senate ask the Government to make such funds available as will enable projects commenced during International Women’s Year 1975 to continue and be expanded, and take urgent and immediate steps to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women in Australia, and to actively encourage the elimination of discrimination against women in all parts of the world. [More…]
I rise on this matter because I feel that, as International Women’s Year finished about two or three weeks ago, the matter should not be dropped but should be kept before the Government and the people of Australia. [More…]
Because when International Women’s Year was first mooted the government of the day had long recognised that discrimination against women was incompatible with human dignity and with the wellbeing of society, it saw International Women’s Year as a chance to highlight areas to which the community had turned a blind eye for so long. [More…]
In the year 1974 it was thought necessary to give the world 12 months in which to recognise that there had been discrimination against women, that there was discrimination against women and that unless steps were taken to bring women out of themselves and to realise their full potential, the world was missing out on the potential of over 50 per cent of the population. [More…]
So it was thought necessary to nominate a year to ensure that the basic human rights of women were recognised. [More…]
International Women’s Year was seen as a year to provide opportunity to stand back and assess what had been achieved and what needed to be done. [More…]
In many areas nobody had thought it necessary to do anything for women in a particular fashion. [More…]
Some of the projects that were taken up during International Women’s Year, of which I think we should not lose sight, have only just begun and should be extended. [More…]
I refer for instance to the continued establishment of a network of community centres to respond to women’s problems and to encourage their activities. [More…]
People talk a lot about suburban neurosis, about the problems of the nuclear family, about the problems of women from other countries who do not speak English and who are isolated in outlying areas of our major cities. [More…]
Up until this point nobody thought that by providing the sheer physical environment, a place where women could meet, talk and discuss their problems, we might be going a long way towards curing some of those very real, very nasty and very modern complaints that do so much to tear the fabric of our modern society apart. [More…]
As I was about to say, women in country areas sometimes have an even harder row to hoe because at least in some areas of our cities people can occasionally board a tram- when the tram runsand go to communicate with their fellows, with people who speak the same language or with their families, although that is becoming increasingly difficult in the cities which we have created. [More…]
Women isolated in the country where they have not even a telephone cannot communicate with their fellows. [More…]
Other areas in which women needed the establishment of some sort of community centre were the areas of health, shelter, refuge, counselling and rape. [More…]
Some very hard things have been said about the sort of women who have taken advantage of these centres and the sort of women who have set up these centres. [More…]
But I suppose that it is a bit hard for men to understand that there are times when women want to talk to people who understand exactly what their health problem is- and that is not a man. [More…]
For very little outlay and upkeep such centres can be established where women can go and find out that they are not freaks, that the things that happen to them happen to other women and that somebody ought to be taking some notice of the things that happen to them. [More…]
By the same token, women who because of their domestic difficulties, because of overworkthere will be more of them- have broken down and have found that they cannot stand the pressure of working, keeping a family and looking after a house, need some place where they can go after the first violent reaction so that they can find their way back into the community, talk to their fellows or their peers, talk about ways to manage their lives and ways to manage the seemingly endless problems that come up. [More…]
But in this instance I am very much aware of the fact that there needs to be a place where women can go to seek shelter and refuge and some advice. [More…]
Too often these days I meet women who, when I ask them what they do, hang their heads and say, ‘We are only housewives’. [More…]
This was one of the areas that International Women’s Year wanted to cover and I think started to cover. [More…]
Another of the areas that we wanted to look into was the effect of the education system on women’s self-image. [More…]
So many women had no confidence in themselves. [More…]
It had seen women as filling in their time between leaving school and having a baby. [More…]
The isolation of women, on which I have touched, is a very real problem. [More…]
It is a very real problem in an understandable way for migrant women who come to Australia and who do not understand our language. [More…]
It is terrifying for women more so because while their husbands go out to work and of necessity must have some contact and learn something of the community they live in, those women can be locked up inside 4 walls day in day out. [More…]
Until the International Women’s Year conference raised that problem it was not even considered to be a problem. [More…]
For those women it is a diabolical problem. [More…]
But it can be a problem also for women living in outer suburbs and who spend their days in conversation with 3-year-olds. [More…]
International Women’s Year wanted to cover the participation of women in the area of films, television and radio programs. [More…]
We found that in those areas women were very good clerks, filing clerks, telephone answerers or letter-typers and they gave a great deal of advice. [More…]
Women are working hard in that area and have a great deal of expertise. [More…]
But because they are women not very much notice is taken of them. [More…]
It was written by women for women and was broadcast by women. [More…]
I am amazed that commercial stations which profess to have such a great concern for women and which certainly, day after day, try to sell women goods worth hundreds of thousands of dollars cannot take up the challenge and do something along their own lines to provide a program for women which is produced by women. [More…]
For once, they should listen to what women want and provide it. [More…]
International Women’s Year provided an opportunity to stand back and assess what had been achieved up to date in this area and what needed to be done. [More…]
When the national secretariat for International Women’s Year advertised the fact that money could be devoted to various projects coming under the heading of International Women’s Year, by 4 December 1974 the costed submissions it received amounted to $3.5m. [More…]
But they all came from areas concerned for women’s rights, for women’s lives, for women and their children and the sort of lives they had been living. [More…]
It proved that although until that time other departments and institutions had had some responsibility in that area- they had had it for a long time- they had not done anything about communicating their ability to deal with those problems to women in the community. [More…]
There had been no communication between those departments and institutions and women in the community. [More…]
Nobody could say that $2m spent in 12 months for International Women’s Year in a big country like Australia, a country as wealthy as Australia, is a lot of money. [More…]
I am not saying that discrimination does not exist in other areas, but in this instance we will not find out how far discrimination against women goes unless we give women a chance to speak out, to talk about their needs, thoughts, worries, hopes and dreams. [More…]
That needs more time, and that is why I want this Government to extend some of the funding that went into International Women’s Year. [More…]
In 12 months we got articulate women to speak out. [More…]
In 12 months there were women to whom the idea of speaking out filtered through. [More…]
There are some women speaking out, but there are thousands upon thousands of women who do not know that they are oppressed, who do not know that life could be better and who do not realise what society is doing to them. [More…]
Discrimination against women exists in Australia in many different ways and some of the things that we have found out give us an idea of the direction in which we should go. [More…]
In the following few weeks I received letters from individual women, groups of women, scientists and doctors saying that no research had been done and that up to that point nobody had thought it terribly important that research like this be done. [More…]
One got the distinct feeling that, because it was something that was happening to women who, after all, do have babies and always have had babies, and because everybody knows how it happens- although I am not sure that everybody knows how it is brought about- nothing had been done. [More…]
Many women around Australia have said for a long time that people do not really know what effect the pill has on some women, women in certain conditions. [More…]
Because society now is in some ways dependent on the pill and because so many women are pressured into using the pill, one would think that science would investigate very promptly, as it concerns such a large proportion of the community, the effect that the pill has on women ‘s systems and the effect that it has on women mentally, and would take immediate steps to make sure that women were safeguarded against any excesses. [More…]
In International Women’s Year there was a group which tried to get funding in order to spread the news about breast-feeding and about how well babies did and how much better they were for it. [More…]
We sat back very smugly in the last couple of years and said that equal pay had come in and therefore women were right in that area. [More…]
We all know of cases where women are machinists and mcn are technicians. [More…]
This is a basic principle, because in enticing women into the work force in many ways we arc getting them out there as cheap labour. [More…]
We accept that cheap labour, that slave labour; but, when those women get put off their jobs, do they get unemployment benefit? [More…]
I talked about enticing women back to the work force. [More…]
To make it better, more pleasant and easier for women to go back, in government circles we brought in maternity leave. [More…]
Perhaps we should think of a new name for it, because I find that in the community there are people who think that women who leave work to have babies get 12 months leave on full pay. [More…]
That entitlement has not filtered through to women in industry. [More…]
We entice women back into industry; but what do we do about retraining them for a proper place in industry? [More…]
It is important that the women who feci that they want to come back into the work force should be able to do so under the best possible conditions, but it is even more important that the women who have to come back into the work force are able to do so under the best possible conditions. [More…]
I ask the Government to look at this matter as a matter of great priority: There are women being trained under the NEAT scheme who have lived on the supporting mother’s benefit for a long time or who, if they have not lived on the supporting mother’s benefit, have done menial jobs in the community- scrubbed floors, taken in washing and kept house for other people- to provide the sort of income they need to enable them to keep their children as best they can under the same conditions as those enjoyed by the rest of the community. [More…]
By the same token there are women in the community who because of their domestic circumstances- they may have a husband who is an alcoholic and upon whom they can never depend to bring in a regular income but who brings in some income- should be given the chance to achieve those qualifications that will enable them to look after their families in a solid fashion without, as has been suggested to some of them by some government employees, having to leave their husbands and so entitle themselves to the supporting mother’s benefit. [More…]
If we are really talking about women coming into the work force and we are not doing more than paying lip service to retraining we ought to look at these things. [More…]
I would like to quote from a booklet put out by the Women’s Bureau of the Department of Labour entitled ‘How to find the job you want’. [More…]
One knows that it is directed to women because it has a rose on the cover. [More…]
Only men would do that to women. [More…]
The conditions under which women in the workforce are employed smack of discrimination to the nth degree. [More…]
The Metropolitan Board of Works in Melbourne has some rather delightful guidelines for the employment of women. [More…]
Married women, as temporary employees, cannot be members of the Board’s superannuation fund. [More…]
Married women, as temporary employees, are not eligible for paid study leave. [More…]
So that puts paid to any thought that the Board really accepts women as a real part of the workforce, as real citizens. [More…]
Women are at some disadvantage in the area of legal aid. [More…]
This applies especially to women who are at home and who have no income. [More…]
We went to the extent of establishing legal aid offices because we believed that nobody should be at a disadvantage before the law and that everybody, even women, should be equal. [More…]
But somebody has to look at the area of the women in the home who have no income and who therefore go along to a legal aid office to get some advice on, say, divorce because of the conduct of their husbands. [More…]
I feel that the present governments and future governments will have to look at how taxation affects women. [More…]
As long as husbands and wives are taxed differently, even though in most instances the working wives work twice as hard, there will be many women around who feel that they are being discriminated against. [More…]
I think that it is the duty of governments to take up those sorts of matters and to come up with some proposals for the relief of what in some ways I think is indiscriminate taxation when it comes to women. [More…]
I know that it raises a bit of a giggle among my male colleagues and even my male constituents, but the fact of the matter is that women are depicted on radio and television and in the newspapers as happy little twirps who have no mind of their own and as some sort of a vegetable that has a continual smile on its face, that is never allowed to lose its temper, that is never allowed to be a human being and that is never allowed to have hates and loves of its own. [More…]
Newpapers should treat women as adult human beings. [More…]
I do not suppose we can legislate to ensure that newspapers present us with the sort of material to read that would broaden our outlook, broaden our minds or give us more information, but at least governments could legislate for women to be treated as whole human beings and not as some sort of cardboard cutout that is propped up either to sell soap powder, trucks, carpets or any other thing that happens to be going at the moment. [More…]
This puts women under undue pressure to conform to an image that the media cuts out for them. [More…]
If women do not see themselves depicted in that area as real human beings then I feel they are never going to take themselves seriously as human beings. [More…]
In the motion which is before us we ask that this Government take steps to ensure that discrimination against women in all parts of the world is brought to an end as quickly as possible. [More…]
Surely we could advise our representative on the United Nations to watch out and to encourage movements in other countries towards cutting down discrimination against women. [More…]
The Chinese say that women hold up half of heaven. [More…]
If that is so it seems to me that women are entitled to recognition in their own countries as full, well meaning, well disposed intelligent human beings who can contribute so much to the good of their country. [More…]
In view of the fact that the Women’s Liberation Movement believes that women and men should be equal and that the Government has appointed a women’s adviser at a salary of $24,000 a year, following the silly nonsense of the previous Government, will the Government consider appointing a special men’s adviser to the Government on such problems as abandoned husbands in order to spend more of this country’s money and to bring about equality of the sexes, as desired by the Women’s Liberation Movement? [More…]
I suppose that, not having the benefit of a wife, he understands little about women. [More…]
I think it is fair to say that those of us who are happily married certainly get the right advice on how to look after women properly. [More…]
The argument is that couples have deferred the birth of their first child for several years, perhaps in response to economic circumstances or to changed attitudes towards women working. [More…]
I am concerned that it is heavily weighted against women and, perhaps, only lightly weighted against men. [More…]
At the moment my prime concern is that women are discriminated against whether they stay at home or choose to go to work. [More…]
As a taxpayer he may be interested to know that there is discrimination against women. [More…]
Perhaps this is why there are only 5000 women among the 46 000 top money earners in Australia. [More…]
I am concerned that this is perhaps one of the reasons that women stay out of Parliament. [More…]
After all, we have only 6 women in this chamber while there are 58 men. [More…]
My situation is no different from that of any number of women who work in the community, whether from economic necessity, because they are concerned that having only a male breadwinner places a strain on the man and could leave them widows in early life, or whether purely and simply they desire to go out to work to fulfil themselves. [More…]
These women are not allowed to claim such things as child day care charges or after school care charges. [More…]
Today I was interested to receive in the mail from the Women’s Electoral Lobby a representation relating to probate. [More…]
I assure honourable senators that many men and women in the community also await that decision with interest. [More…]
I return to the submission of the Women’s Electoral Lobby. [More…]
Perhaps 1 could refer to what the Women’s Electoral Lobby says in its covering letter. [More…]
In its letter the Women ‘s Electoral Lobby says: [More…]
But there are laws there which make it extremely difficult for women who suddenly find themselves widowed. [More…]
One other point that I wish to raise tonight concerns women’s refuges which are operating in all States. [More…]
I can speak only about the situation in Western Australia because I have close ties with the Nardine women’s refuge there. [More…]
I am concerned about the situation where people are caring for women who find it necessary, generally in the middle of the night, to leave their matrimonial home, quite often in a distressed state and quite often accompanied by children. [More…]
The Nardine women’s refuge can accommodate 9 families. [More…]
Up to the present I think that about 500 women and more than 1500 children have been turned away from the refuge. [More…]
I would not like to deprive people who require emergency housing of this accommodation, but I can see no reason why women who clutter up women’s refuges- quite often they clutter up women’s refuges purely and simply because they have nowhere else to go- could not be housed in this type of accommodation. [More…]
Yet there does not seem to be any realisation on the part of the State Housing Commission that these women are in drastic need of emergency housing. [More…]
Whence, bludger (sometimes a man living on immoral earnings of women). [More…]
While I am speaking on this matter I refer to the matters mentioned by Senator Coleman in relation to women’s refuges. [More…]
The persons eligible for assistance under this program are men and women without a settled home through social factors such as alcoholism, inadequacy, domestic conflict or similar reasons. [More…]
However, it is felt that refuges for women and children made homeless by domestic conflict are funded under the community health program which is administered by the Hospitals and Health Services Commission. [More…]
The arrangement with regard to women’s refuges is being reviewed by the Department of Health and the Department of Social Security. [More…]
As the honourable senator knows, the women’s health centres and refuges, as we refer to them at the present time, come under the responsibility of my colleague the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt). [More…]
If there is any further information which I am able to offer with regard to my program for homeless persons or the women’s health centres and refuges I shall obtain it for the honourable senator. [More…]
What evaluation is being made by the Australian Drug Evaluation Committee and what recommendations have been made about the use of Diazepam during pregnancy, in view of two clinical reports establishing a possible association between the use of Diazepam in pregnant women and the birth of children with cleft lip. [More…]
It considered that care should be exercised when prescribing diazepam for pregnant women or those likely to become pregnant. [More…]
I refer to reports, which were widespread in the Australian Press earlier this month, of allegations made at a women’s conference in Brussels that Aboriginal women are being compulsorily sterilised in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I am able to inform the Senate that investigations were carried out following the statements that were made with regard to the forced sterilisation of Aboriginal women. [More…]
This resulted in detailed investigations being made by the Northern Territory health authorities into sterilisation procedures involving Aboriginal women in Northern Territory hospitals between 1 January 1973 and 31 December 1973. [More…]
The increasing number of girls qualifying to enter the medical faculty at the University of Sydney has been a great source of distress to some of the more conservative elements in the profession who argue along the lines that it is a waste of time for the Government to invest money in training women as doctors because we all know what women do: They do not repay it the community - [More…]
It is said that women go off and do unproductive things like having children. [More…]
I draw the Minister’s attention to the fact that in the past women have been extremely severely disadvantaged in obtaining access to technical education. [More…]
However, the time has come in our society when women are called upon for a number of reasons to support themselves and, as that time has come, it is incumbent upon a responsible government to ensure that technical education is available equally to women as it is to men in our society. [More…]
I have mentioned in this chamber before that the latest census figures available showed that 80 per cent of women in the work force had no skills. [More…]
The figures show that, whilst it may be desirable to talk about providing a wider range of choice to enable women to remain in the home, the cost of increasing child endowment to the extent suggested would have those economic consequences. [More…]
As a woman, perhaps I should explain that the majority of women who I know wear stoles or scarves that would be approximately 5 feet to 6 feet in length. [More…]
It would appear that Senator Sheil would have us believe that we have the right and the responsibility to tell what he calls Third World countries to control their population growth but that we should not seriously think of doing it in the way that perhaps the women who are not only physically and emotionally involved but also financially involved in this area would wish it done. [More…]
I am concerned that Senator Sheil obviously does not think that the women in those countries have any rights to determine what methods of birth control will be used. [More…]
Perhaps it could be said that it is the women who are withering on the dried vine. [More…]
The women of the Third World became very angry at the kinds of population control programs that were being inflicted on their sisters because those programs were based on Western values and Western technologies and completely ignored the spiritual and cultural values of the women who were supposed to fit into those programs. [More…]
It was from many tragic experiences where women involuntarily were subjected by visiting specialists to forms of birth control that were totally alien to their values of family and child rearing and child bearing that opposition to Western-type population control grew to the extent that there was a massive political rejection of these programs at the Romanian conference. [More…]
I think if Senator Sheil had considered what was said by women delegates at that conference he would be better informed as to why some of the population control programs in the Third World had failed. [More…]
It was the view of those women, women who were intimately involved in what is happening to their sisters in the Third World countries, that if population control is to be successful, it must be something that the women themselves want and understand and which does not destroy their whole fabric of family life. [More…]
Special attention has been given to the position of women in the scheme. [More…]
This significant reduction in the qualifying period will be of particular assistance to women who interrupt their careers for reasons such as child rearing. [More…]
It works for the release of prisoners of conscience- men and women detained anywhere for their beliefs, colour, ethnic origin, religion or languagealways provided that they have neither used nor advocated violence. [More…]
But Mr Lopez da Cruz, who has been in Indonesia and who is now a member of the provisional Government, said at a Press conference in Jakarta that there had been some 50 000 to 60 000 victims of the fighting in East Timor and that many of them were women and children. [More…]
1 ) Did four Aboriginal men and women, a John Lester, Dianne Mumbler, Andrea Carriage and Neil Thorne graduate as primary school teachers from Armidale Teacher s College in 1975. [More…]
Will the Minister tell the deserted women and children in Australia why she felt it necessary to return them to the Draconian preFamily Law Act times? [More…]
How such women do this on the amount of money we give them is a mystery to me. [More…]
But here we have a band of professional women who do what is probably the most important job in this country, that of bringing up our children. [More…]
and (2) The National Advisory Committee for International Women’s Year recommended the grant as consistent with its guidelines as set out in the paper, International Women’s Year- Priorities and Considerations, a copy of which has been forwarded to the honourable senator. [More…]
This Centre was recently established to form part of the general health services available to women from the Women’s Health and Community Centre, Perth. [More…]
Well over 12 months ago, at the request of the Chilean community in Sydney I raised a question about certain Chilean women who were being underpaid by W. D. & H. O. Wills. [More…]
To this day I do not know to what extent those women recovered wages. [More…]
I have been advised by Timorese citizens now in Darwin that there are numerous women and children in Timor who have lost their husbands and fathers in the present Timor debacle. [More…]
There were 40 men, 15 women and 21 children in the 3 vehicles. [More…]
The police sent some of the elderly men, the women and the children into the bush and promptly proceeded to arrest the others. [More…]
Certain of my comments later will indicate that honourable senators opposite were not entirely the men and women of high principle that they have suggested this year that they were. [More…]
But the Bill does include some of the original features of the Labor Party’s legislation, and for its provision for Provident Fund contributors and for women employees of the Public Service it is to be commended. [More…]
I refer also to the innovations relating to women public servants, particularly the introduction of equality of benefits and the preservation of benefits while the career of a public servant is interrupted for such reasons as the rearing of a family. [More…]
Of course, the provision relating to part time employees is likely to have special relevance to women public servants. [More…]
This recognises that married women are eligible for permanent employment with the Commonwealth Government and in other conditions of service receive the full benefits consequent upon such employment. [More…]
My question concerns the apparent anomalies between provisions for widows pensions payable to divorced women under sections of the Social Services Act and provisions under the Family Law Act. [More…]
Can the Minister confirm not only that the Government is concerned about any hardship that divorced women may be under but also that it is determined to assess and resolve any anomalies which it might have inherited in this regard from the Twentyninth Parliament? [More…]
Is it a fact that the National Advisory Committee for International Women’s Year handed its report to the Prime Minister approximately a month ago? [More…]
She spoke of the need to widen the employment opportunities of migrant women by developing their natural skills by, amongst other things, assisting them with language problems. [More…]
Senator Guilfoyle said- I agree with this-that it is futile to expect women who are working in factories all day and at home all night to go out to night school. [More…]
The statistics maintained under the program have not to date differentiated between male and female workers, but it has been estimated that women make up approximately 33 per cent of migrants enrolled in courses in Victoria. [More…]
Courses in some firms are weighted in favour of women- GloVVeave, Rosella, Kraft and L M Ericcson for example. [More…]
The development and further expansion of courses in industry and the extent to which the language needs of migrant women in particular can be reached in this way are areas to which the Government is committed as a matter of policy. [More…]
In view of the reported poor circumstances of people living in Timor, will the Government give urgent consideration to allowing arrangements to be made with authorities in Timor to permit the transfer of Timorese, particularly women and children, to the mainland of Australia? [More…]
By way of preface to my question to the Minister for Social Security, I point out that I have had referred to me the case of a woman who was concerned with home duties for 1 3 years and who, being advised that she could qualify as a librarian by doing the higher school certificate under the women’s retraining scheme, was transferred to the National Employment and Training scheme when the women ‘s retraining scheme was transferred to NEAT. [More…]
I ask: In view of the great importance to women of the issue of housing have any women been included in the Australian Government delegation? [More…]
Were views of women’s organisations sought in the preparation of the Australian delegation’s brief? [More…]
Were any women involved in the actual preparation of the Australian Government’s delegation brief? [More…]
I do not know specifically the composition of the delegation as between men and women but I shall certainly seek the information for the honourable senator and let her have an answer. [More…]
I can imagine that a please explain went to our Embassy in Bangkok, to find out how these 2 browneyed women were apparently able to charm people. [More…]
There were also some difficulties with married women and other temporary teachers who were anxious to remain in certain areas. [More…]
I preface my question, which is directed to the Minister for Social Security, by stating that in the period 1 July 1974 to 30 June 1975 approximately 4400 women employed under the Commonwealth Public Service Act commenced maternity leave, at a cost of approximately $7m. [More…]
Our country has always freeloaded on these women. [More…]
They have been women who have looked after children, who have made a real contribution to the economy in a diverse number of ways but who have never received proper recognition. [More…]
We three women, undersigned are residents of the Menindee Aboriginal Caravan Site. [More…]
I would like to make this point: It is important that ethnic radio continues because nobody can understand the loneliness of women who are unable to speak English, who are at home all day and who crave for the broadcast in their own language. [More…]
These most recent figures do not reflect the true picture because of the stipulations regarding married women who, in many cases, do not register as unemployed because they cannot draw unemployment benefit. [More…]
However, when one looks at the other things that are going to happen to women in need one cannot feel particularly sanguine that their position is going to improve greatly. [More…]
The availability of the National Employment and Training scheme has been reduced so that many women who are halfway through a training course will be forced to withdraw through lack of financial support and because this Government changed the terms under which they were undertaking their studies. [More…]
No jobs are available for women seeking to support themselves or their families. [More…]
If they will be, has the Minister yet been able to calculate whether this will lead to cases where women in receipt of child endowment will actually lose a supporting mothers benefit or the training allowance currently being paid? [More…]
For a long period of time Senator McLaren has been advocating the need for a club room for women visitors, especially wives, who come to this place. [More…]
Service pensions available to ex-servicemen and women between the ages of 60 and 65 and 55 and 60 respectively are to become taxable for 1976-77. [More…]
-My question which is directed to the Minister for Social Security arises out of a query which I received from the Working Women’s Centre in Melbourne. [More…]
1 ) What do Australia’s Defence Authorities regard as the present optimum number of servicemen and women necessary for the (a) Navy, (b) Army and (c) Royal Australian Air Force. [More…]
What numbers of servicemen and women are presently engaged in the (a) Navy, (b) Army and (c) Royal Australian Air Force. [More…]
I ask a series of questions of the Minister representing the Prime Minister which arise from the news of the cancellation of a grant of $100,000 made under the International Womens Year program for the purpose of investment in a television series on human reproduction to be produced by Dr Germaine Greer. [More…]
To what extent, if at all, were members of the International Women’s Year Committee consulted regarding the breaking of this contract? [More…]
I mention, as I am sure she will mention, that we have in this measure one of the first and most major efforts to redistribute cash resources in favour of women in Australian society. [More…]
It will also enable a redistribution of income within families by giving money to women. [More…]
This Bill will, in an economic sense, work towards the liberation of women in a way which has not been tried in Australia previously. [More…]
The other advantage of the Bill is that women will receive a direct and major benefit from these proposals. [More…]
They are measures by which we will give to women something which has been too long denied. [More…]
I hope that this Bill represents the first of a number of steps which our Government will take to alleviate poverty and to try to attack some of the problems which the commission of inquiry into povery recommended to aid the poor, to improve the status of women and to sustain families. [More…]
One of the things that Senator Baume said was that the Government will be giving the money to women and that this will liberate women more than the provisions of any other legislation. [More…]
I put it to Senator Baume that it will not liberate women any more if some of the other essential social services in actual fact are taken away from them. [More…]
Senator Baume also said that running a house is productive in economic terms and that women who run houses are discriminated against in the taxation sense. [More…]
-In rising to support this Bill I must correct the Government speakers in their supposition that this is the first time that women in Australia have received some recognition. [More…]
I should have thought that the people who have been so concerned with women’s rights and the role of women in society, as Senator Baume has been, would have remembered the supporting mothers’ benefit which the Labor Government introduced and which for the first time gave mothers a real chance to choose between staying at home and looking after their children or parking them somewhere and going out to work. [More…]
In talking about paying some extra money to women, let us look at the sorts of things that governments should be doing to support women who are contributing so much to our society by being mothers and home makers. [More…]
Poor women have always needed the money badly and have always spent it and will continue to spend it. [More…]
Women who are better off have always put the money away for their children and they will continue to do the same thing. [More…]
Senator Bonner has said that we will be giving women money that they can spend as they see fit. [More…]
Does he not know how the women who need child endowment deal with it? [More…]
Women who need the money will have to spend it as they have always spent it-on paying the milk bills and the grocer’s bills and buying children’s shoes. [More…]
What has the Government really done for women in need? [More…]
The Government has not played God and it has not brought a new liberty to women. [More…]
This Bill does not give recognition to women as homemakers. [More…]
What do these women go out and spend money on? [More…]
I felt at the time that it was the only method open to the Government to give women the real choice they have been seeking for so long. [More…]
Some radical liberationists preach that the freedom of women is the eradication of family responsibility. [More…]
At a women’s centre in Hobart the words ‘A Family is Woman’s Bondage’ depict this attitude better than I can describe it. [More…]
Women are assured that their brains will stagnate and that they are real no-hopers if they stay at home and bring up their families in the time-honoured tradition. [More…]
Past governments have joined these pressure groups, and again women were told what fools they were if they did not work. [More…]
Recently I attended a seminar in Hobart relating to women in the unions which was conducted by the trade union movement. [More…]
Many women present claimed that, given a real choice, they would much prefer to stay at home with their children but that up to date a real choice had not existed. [More…]
On 6 May 1976 (Hansard page 1618) Senator Ryan asked me, as Minister representing the Prime Minister, a question without notice concerning the tabling and publishing of the Report of the Australian National Advisory Committee for International Women’s Year. [More…]
The Report of the Australian National Advisory Committee for International Women’s Year was tabled in the House of Representatives on 25 May 1976. [More…]
We on this side of the chamber recognise that the Bill will make certain improvements in the financial situation of some very poor women and some very poor families. [More…]
There is no question of the provisions of this Bill providing independence for women, as some speakers on the Government side have claimed. [More…]
In fact, by its very nature child endowment will benefit only women who are dependent on their husband’s income or on a government benefit. [More…]
I am not criticising this measure but I am criticising the claim that this improvement in the child endowment payment, by itself, constitutes some sort of independence for women. [More…]
Poor women, particularly poor women with large families, are still oppressed and powerless in this society. [More…]
I think there has been something of a misdirected moralism from some speakers on the Government side of the chamber which has appealed to the prejudice of some sections of the community towards the belief that somehow being a poor mother is a better position to be in than any other position a women can be in in society. [More…]
I bring this matter up in this debate because this kind of division of women into the deserving poor mothers and the other kinds of women who have jobs or who think they may like to train or study to get jobs is very mischievous. [More…]
It causes hostility between different groups of women who should be supporting each other because, after all, they do have common objectives. [More…]
The situation in Australian society today- it has been the situation for a long time- is that all women work at some stage of their lives. [More…]
There are very few women now who do not work at some stage. [More…]
So working is an experience which virtually all women in our society have. [More…]
I think it is very mischievous for some spokesmen and spokeswomen for the conservative elements in our community to talk as though there were some contradiction between working women and women who say at home- as though there were some serious conflict of interest. [More…]
Just as most working women have children and are therefore aware of the needs of families, particularly poor families, and are happy to support an increase in child endowment, so I think we should encourage women who are at present at home with their children to think in terms of supporting policies for women who need or wish to work. [More…]
There is no point in setting women in different life styles up against each other for the purpose of appealing to certain prejudices in the community. [More…]
The extent of discrimination against women in the work force is still very great. [More…]
I hope that the Government in making this admirable small measure towards helping the position of poor women at home will not feel that it has done enough for women and will not ignore the extent of discrimination which is still suffered by women in the work force. [More…]
On pages 6 and 7 of this report there is evidence to show that discrimination against women in the work force on the basis of sex is still extremely widespread and extremely disadvantageous to those women. [More…]
I will not read the findings of this Committee but I recommend the report, particularly to those members of the Government who may be tempted to feel that the Government has done enough for women by increasing the child endowment benefit. [More…]
If we are to talk about giving independence and real choice to women, there is much more a responsible government needs to do. [More…]
The Labor Government, which was a responsible government, started to do many things in the areas of improving educational opportunities for women, in providing training opportunities for women so that when they went into the work force they could take skilled and rewarding employment, and in such things as removing tertiary fees which allowed women who had never had the opportunity to undertake tertiary studies to do so. [More…]
Perhaps the most important thing done by the Labor Government in relation to giving women real choice and independence was the formulation of a national child care program. [More…]
I was quite amazed last night to hear Senator Baume, speaking for the Government, claim that this Bill, which increases child endowment payments, represented some sort of radical program for a genuine redistribution of wealth throughout the community, that it was innovative and that nothing like this had ever been done for women or families before. [More…]
I suggest that programs started under the Labor Government, such as the National Employment and Training scheme which for the first time gave women and men an opportunity to train for employment on an allowance comparable to average weekly earnings, were a much more radical step. [More…]
Of course, the removal of discrimination within the Public Service gave more opportunities to women, as did the introduction of maternity leave and, to a lesser extent, paternity leave for government employees. [More…]
The other claim that has been made during the course of this debate is that women now will have a choice to stay at home and not work and that this is a choice which most women want. [More…]
I also found Senator Baume ‘s suggestion that this Bill recognised the productivity of women in the home to be rather insulting. [More…]
I return to the question of choice for women to enter the work force. [More…]
I think that we in the Australian Labor Party have always considered it desirable that women have a genuine choice as to whether they go to work or stay at home; but we recognised that for many women there was no such choice. [More…]
Many of these, like the National Employment and Training scheme, have been wound down almost to a standstill by the present Government, thus actually reducing the genuine choice available to women in this circumstance. [More…]
She said that the high proportion of women in the work force in the last couple of years came about somehow as the result of a Labor Government. [More…]
It gives some indication of the fact that the participation of married women and mothers in the work force has been increasing steadily since 1947. [More…]
For example, in 1 947 the proportion of all working women who were married was 15.3 per cent. [More…]
Similarly, the proportion of all married women who were in paid employment in 1947 was 6.5 per cent; in 1 97 1 , again still during the period of a Liberal-National Country Party Government, it was 32.8 per cent; and in 1974 it was 40.5 per cent. [More…]
I hope that my reference to those figures will prevent from being made yet again in the Senate the claim that somehow the high participation of mothers and married women in the work force was a phenomenon that came about only as a result of the Labor Government and somehow as a result of pressures put on families by the Labor Government. [More…]
It was these sorts of pressures that caused women to go out to work. [More…]
Other sorts of pressures that caused women to go out to work in the 1 950s and particularly in the 1960s included the fact that Federal funding of education was so low that women felt they had to go to work to be able to improve the educational opportunities of their children by sending them to private schools, which they considered at that time to be better, or by supplementing their children’s educational resources through the purchase of books, extra lessons, tutoring and things of that kind. [More…]
I suggest that, if we really want to understand why married women went into the work force in such large numbers during that period, we can gain enlightenment on the subject from the sorts of policies pursued by the Liberal-National Country Party Government during that time. [More…]
It is totally inaccurate to try to look at such a complex social change as the change in life style of married women and families in terms of anything that might have happened during the 5 years of the Labor Government. [More…]
There are certainly many more steps that this Government can take if it is at all interested in improving opportunities for women. [More…]
As to my first reason for speaking, I agree with Senator Ryan that part of the reason why women were forced into the work force was the development of consumerism and materialism to the extent that there were socially created wants instead of needs. [More…]
These forced women out into the work force. [More…]
That factor was the combination of forces resulting from employers and the Department of Labour and National Service seeking to attract women into the labour force as a source of cheap labour prior to the introduction of equal pay. [More…]
The trade union movement was conscious of the fact that if the employers and the Department of Labour and National Service were allowed to get away with their campaign to attract a large number of women into the work force as a source of cheap labour, obviously that would have a most disastrous effect on employment opportunities and wage standards of breadwinners. [More…]
In addition, and most importantly, the trade union movement sought to achieve equality- that is, equal pay for work of equal value- for women as of right. [More…]
We did have a large number of complaints whilst I was a member of that Committee from women because they were discriminated against in their employment and occupation. [More…]
To emphasise the point that I made on a previous occasion that many women at home are discriminated against in their occupation, I wish to quote from a letter that was written to the Tasmanian Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation by a Mrs H. M. Speden. [More…]
Of course I love my family; but the idea that women produce children purely for their own pleasure is a fallacy sponsored by an affluent and short-sighted society intent on genocide. [More…]
Women produce children because of a biological urge to perpetuate the species-the pleasure is an incidental side-effect necessary to ensure that they will stick at the job. [More…]
The present Prime Minister (Mr G. Whitlam) has gone on record with the claim that his Government has been the first to grant ‘equal opportunity’ to women. [More…]
Are they not women, too? [More…]
According to the International Labour Office Report vI (I) 1964 (Women Workers in a Changing World) … No woman should be forced by economic circumstance to work outside her home . [More…]
Women with family responsibilities, particularly those with young children, should be able to stay at home if they so wish. [More…]
This emphasises the general desirability of formulating and implementing fiscal and social policies which would enable such women to stay at home if they so choose. [More…]
How can the Federal Government expect to maintain credibility with women as mothers when it not only refuses to recognise their rightful occupation, but actively promotes discriminatory propaganda against them such as that currently displayed by Commonwealth Employment Service on a poster entitled ‘Mother’s Liberation urging mothers to leave their children (with whom whilst they enjoy the ‘liberation ‘ of going out to work ( at what? [More…]
How can the Federal Government expect to maintain credibility with women as mothers when it not only refuses to recognise their rightful occupation, but actively promotes discriminatory propaganda against them such as that currently displayed by the Commonwealth Employment Service on a poster entitled ‘Mother’s Liberation’ urging mothers to leave their children (with whom?) [More…]
Whilst the Committee of International Women’s Year frowns upon that sort of concept, I would think that the Government ought to have a look at it and see whether it is practical of implementation. [More…]
VI (i) of 1964 entitled Women Workers in a Changing World states: [More…]
Women with family responsibilities, particularly those with young children, should be able to stay at home if they so wish. [More…]
This emphasises the general desirability of formulating and implementing fiscal and social policies which would enable such women to stay at home if they so choose. [More…]
The women of Australia owe it not only to Jack Lang but also to Albert Monk in his negotiations with the then Federal Government that child endowment payments are made directly to mothers. [More…]
So he insisted with the then Federal Government that the money be paid to the women directly. [More…]
I am sure that there are many women in Australia who are very grateful to him for that suggestion. [More…]
All of the matters that were raised by Senator Ryan with regard to women- discrimination against them in the work force and so on- seemed to have some relevance to the matter that is under discussion, but they are not matters to which I wish to refer in detail. [More…]
If we have that stability in the economy and the expectation of the future remaining less unpredictable than it has been in the past few years, we might then see women accepting responsibilities within the home for a period when they believe that their children can benefit from the full time attention that they can give. [More…]
1 ) Does Medibank meet any costs associated with abortions carried out on women in Australia; if so, what costs are met by Medibank. [More…]
What is the total amount outlayed by Medibank for each item listed in ( 1 ) to women in each State of Australia. [More…]
Under the Australian Assistance Plan such schemes as the handyman services for pensioners and the home help schemes organised with the Country Women’s Association were established with very modest funding. [More…]
Arrangements are also being made to develop regular consultation between the Department of Social Security and organisations representative of women’s interests. [More…]
This will ensure that the very valuable contribution which these groups can make in relation to the special needs of women is available to the Government in formulating its social welfare policies. [More…]
Among the men, women and children who marched were dairy farmers who had travelled many miles to attend, trade unionists in their overalls and dust coats, and businessmen in smart suits and ties. [More…]
Those matters then would have to be dealt with under the State Married Women’s Property Act, unless they relate to an ancillary matter where the normal divorce proceedings are concerned. [More…]
Street to assist him in women ‘s affairs matters and Mr A. [More…]
A younger generation of members who sit not only in this Senate chamber but also in another place will little understand the life of this notable man and will little know how much the men and women of this country owe to men of Lord Casey’s nature. [More…]
1 ) Who was responsible for the decision to cancel a grant of $100,000 made to Dr Germaine Greer under the International Women’s Year program for the purpose of investing in a television series on human reproduction. [More…]
To what extent, if at all, were members of the International Women’s Year Committee consulted regarding the cancellation of the grant. [More…]
1 ) to (5) In June 1 975 the Australian National Advisory Committee for International Women’s Year recommended, and the Government of the day endorsed, that a loan of $100,000 be made available through the Australian Film Commission for Dr Germaine Greer towards funding a series of television programs to be entitled ‘Human Reproduction’. [More…]
It was intended that the loan be an investment, the proceeds from which would go to the Women’s [More…]
The $100,000 has now been absorbed into the Women’s Film Fund as was originally intended should happen with proceeds from the project. [More…]
This Fund is administered by the Film Commission and used to encourage the production of worthwhile films about women or films scripted, directed, produced, etc. [More…]
by women. [More…]
One almost revolutionary change as it seemed at the time was the appointment in 1 970 of the first of a succession of women to the staff. [More…]
Far from turning the lights on as members of the Government Parties undertook to do, they have dimmed the horizons of many hundreds of thousands of young men and women in this community. [More…]
Senator Guilfoyle this week refused to see a delegation of women because no good purpose would be served; that is what one of her staff said to the delegation. [More…]
One group to which I refer is a delegation of Aboriginal women which wanted to see you yesterday and which you refused to see. [More…]
United Nations Regional Conference in Australia/International Women’s Year. [More…]
There are many women, who formerly had an opportunity to go out to work and support their families, but now exist on the supporting mother’s benefit. [More…]
There is to be a national consultative committee, there are to be State consultative committees and there is to be a women’s consultative group. [More…]
Street, the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, as Minister Assisting the Prime Minister in women’s affairs matters and to the proposed creation of a women’s advisory committee. [More…]
Its composition is to be as widely representative as possible of all the varying interests of women in Australia. [More…]
Its role will be to coordinate the views of women. [More…]
We have had debates over the years also about whether people of certain ages should be free to go into hotels, whether women should be free to go into hotels, and so on. [More…]
The United Nations has declared this decade ( 1975-85) as the Decade of Action for the needs of women. [More…]
Believing that women have a major need for adequate, low-cost health care, the undersigned declare their wholehearted opposition to the changes intended by the present Government to Medibank, and affirm that any changes should be designed to further liberalise the original scheme, not to weaken it. [More…]
The program, called The Coming Out 1976 Show, was concerned with the experiences of several women in receipt of the supporting mothers’ benefit. [More…]
If so, can the Minister comment on allegations made by women that they have been repeatedly subjected to prurient and intimidatory questioning by field officers of her department with regard to their personal relationships? [More…]
Just as an aside, the Governor-General came to Western Australia in 1974 to open the World Conference of the Associated Country Women of the World. [More…]
This figure does not take into account all the hidden unemployment caused by the number of people who do not register, the fall in the employment of women, the reduction in the number of people who have second jobs, etc. [More…]
We went from there to a large customs launch and brought to Cooktown, Candy and Sandy went by chopper with 2 police women to Cooktown air strip then to the police station. [More…]
All clothes, personal belongings and food in the houses were destroyed and the fires left about 18 men, women and children homeless. [More…]
The United Nations has declared this decade ( 1 975-85 ) as the Decade of Action for the needs of women. [More…]
Believing that women have a major need for adequate, low-cost health care, the undersigned declare their wholehearted opposition to the changes intended by the present Government to Medibank, and affirm that any changes should be designed to further liberalise the original scheme, not to weaken it. [More…]
The United Nations has declared this decade ( 1 975-85 ) as the Decade of Action for the needs of women. [More…]
Believing that women have a major need for adequate, low-cost health care, the undersigned declare their wholehearted opposition to the changes intended by the present Government to Medibank, and affirm that any changes should be designed to further liberalise the original scheme, not to weaken it. [More…]
Rush in relation to the Women and Politics Conference held in Canberra last year and the possibility of holding such a conference in each State towards the end of this year. [More…]
Miss Rush, inviting women who attended the Women and Politics Conference to set up State committees to organise further conferences. [More…]
There was a pitifully small group of women demonstrating outside Parliament House. [More…]
They require the money that was made available to them last year for women’s refuges, health care centres and the like. [More…]
The women who were here did not have the money to spend on coming to Canberra to demonstrate. [More…]
The people who actually man those places, who provide the services to the women, do not have the time or the money to come to Canberra to demonstrate. [More…]
MR FRASER, MAKE IT A REAL CHOICE FOR WOMEN! [More…]
Women’s Refuges have been set up to provide short-term emergency accommodation for women and children undergoing severe crises in their normal domestic situations. [More…]
Refuges assist women to obtain welfare, legal and medical help. [More…]
They are shelters where women have an opportunity to make a real choice about their future living situation . [More…]
If women know there is somewhere to go to escape that violence, then at least they have a CHOICE. [More…]
Women’s Refuges are NOT anti-male. [More…]
They do NOT try to encourage women to leave their husbands. [More…]
WOMEN‘S REFUGES DO TRY TO OFFER WOMEN AN ALTERNATIVE TO A HOME SITUATION THAT HAS BECOME UNBEARABLE. [More…]
I wonder whether members of this Senate are aware of the actual number of women who leave their homes for a number of reasons in the middle of the night with an armful of children or a bunch of toddlers at their side, with generally the clothes they stand up in and nothing more because they do not have the means to carry anything more. [More…]
BUDGET CUTS TO WOMEN‘S REFUGES AND HEALTH CENTRES ARE BETWEEN 35-50 PER CENT OF LAST YEAR’S FIGURES. [More…]
In addressing itself to the provision of educational facilities and services it will examine amongst other things the overall pattern of institutions and courses including their objectives, the magnitude of the provision including the desirable balance between sectors, the relationship of educational provision to community and individual needs and preferences and the accessibility of education and training including reentry and transferability and the problems of special groups such as the handicapped, ethnic groups, Aboriginals and women. [More…]
In the period from 1934 to 1936 Mao Tse-tung led a small group of men and women from one end of China to the other, and 15 years later- on 1 October 1949- he proclaimed the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The most critical areas of unemployment are amongst the young, the Aborigines, migrants and women. [More…]
I know that the subject I am about to mention is not within the terms of the Bill but we do have a number of elderly women who, from time to time, seek accommodation through the women’s shelters. [More…]
Women’s Refuges are crowded with needy, supporting mothers. [More…]
The Company also has one hostel catering for women and their dependent children, the capacity being 38 beds. [More…]
I support censorship and control of things like violence in children’s programs, exploitation of women as sex objects in advertising and other programs, and the general exploitation of consumers and of children as consumers that we see through advertising and other commercial programs. [More…]
Let me say loudly and clearly that the working men and working women of this country are those who produce the real wealth of Australia. [More…]
During his absence the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs, the Honourable John Howard, will act as Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations and will assist the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in Public Service matters and women ‘s affairs. [More…]
-Has the attention of the Minister for Social Security been drawn to the statement by the Minister for Welfare in Tasmania that the Federal Government has avoided all its responsibilities in respect of the women ‘s shelter in that State? [More…]
Is this not a distortion of the facts, as the Government already has allocated $2.5m to the State for community health services and women’s shelters come within that category? [More…]
I understand that the Prime Minister has written to a State Premier advising him that the Commonwealth Government is concerned that assistance should be made available to those in distress, including women in crisis situations and those who use the women’s refuges and other projects which have been developed under this program. [More…]
Town committees comprising representatives from the Returned Services League, the Country Women’s Association, the Australian Labor Party and the Trades and Labour Council and one or two other bodies were formed. [More…]
This was an extremely useful technique because a lot of people, particularly women, seeking family planning advice are without an income. [More…]
During his absence the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs (Mr Howard) will act as Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations and Minister assisting the Prime Minister in respect of Public Service matters and women’s affairs. [More…]
These include renovations to the State Works Department administration building, contracts for Macgregor, Kedron and Coorparoo State high schools, Royal Brisbane Women’s Hospital and the administrative centre of the State Harbours and Marine Department. [More…]
I will show tonight that there is a direct correlation between the increase in the number of married women in the work force since the early 1960s and the increase in juvenile unemployment. [More…]
Figures show that in 1961 married women made up 9.47 per cent of the work force. [More…]
Married women now represent 21.71 per cent of the work force. [More…]
Those figures establish a direct correlation between the increase in the number of married women in the work force and the increase in juvenile unemployment. [More…]
Why has there been such a dramatic increase in the number of married women in the work force? [More…]
I have always upheld and fought for equality and freedom of choice of married women to enter the work force. [More…]
A recent survey showed that the majority of married women in the work force- almost 80 per cent- are there for economic reasons, either of socially created want or of need. [More…]
A number of women are forced into the work force through economic reasons or economic pressures. [More…]
Many young married women must work for eight to ten years to get the basic requirements of a home. [More…]
In this economy now we enjoy a rate of pay equal to the highest in the world- a higher proportion of women is working, there is a high standard of minimum pay rates and there is equal pay for women and so on. [More…]
Let us look at what has happened in the areas which are particularly involved with women, with juveniles, with migrants, with the handicapped and with the Aborigines in particular. [More…]
We have to consider the substantial proportion of the work force that now comprises working women. [More…]
These women do this by individual choice and they take the individual consequences. [More…]
In Tasmania as well a lot of women have been in employment for many years. [More…]
Unfortunately, the women employed there have suffered very greatly in the present down turn. [More…]
Such questions involve issues such as the generation gap, women’s liberation and censorship. [More…]
My question to the Minister representing the Minister for Health relates to the continuing unacceptably high loss of trained women graduates and diplomates from the health professions. [More…]
I remind the Minister that only 50 per cent of nurses are in practice 5 years after graduation while similar drop-out rates apply to other women health professionals. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of the scheme started in New South Wales by the former Liberal Government to offer flexible working hours for up to 20 women medical graduates to be retained in practice on a part-time basis? [More…]
Since this arrangement is a start towards better retention schemes for women and is consonant with views expressed by the Women’s Electoral Lobby and other women’s groups, I ask whether in the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern territory there are any similar schemes in the helping professions such as medicine, nursing, social work or physiotherapy offering flexible part-time employment to the pool of trained women whose skills at present are lost to society? [More…]
1 ) How many women were employed by the Australian Information Service in December 1972. [More…]
) How many women are now employed by the Service. [More…]
How many women have been appointed to overseas information posts. [More…]
Can the Minister give an assurance that women in the Service will not be discriminated against for overseas posts. [More…]
1 ) In December 1972, 52 women were employed in those areas of the then Australian News and Information Bureau which later became the Australian Information Service. [More…]
We draw your attention to the plight of the aboriginal people at Saunders Street, Henley Park, Western Australia (approximately seventy women, children and men) particularly that they are in danger of eviction by the Swan Shire Council because they cannot conform to the Building and Health by-laws. [More…]
I do not know whether the Women’s Electoral Lobby has as yet received a reply from the Honourable R. I. Viner but we hope that eventually it will and that he will have something concrete to put before it. [More…]
Reference was made in the Women’s Electoral Lobby letter to the Bropho house. [More…]
I draw to the Minister’s attention the fact that during the reign of a Labor government the application of the old war service homes legislation was extended to further categories of ex-servicemen and women, at a higher interest rate. [More…]
I reject and my Party rejects completely and unequivocally the proposition that the spending of money on improving a road, providing a library service, or opening up a new beach, a women ‘s rest centre or a baby health centre is the reason why we have inflation. [More…]
Readers of the National Times were served up by Mr Bond, by W. D. Scott and by Sir Charles Court a romantic vision which depicted potential Rhodesian immigrants as rugged frontiersmen and women, and as farmers and miners who possess special skills and enterprise with which they would develop Australia and particularly northern Australia, Queensland and Western Australia. [More…]
At the William Jolly Bridge there was an assault- I can use no other word- on one of the women students. [More…]
In reply to a question by Senator Grimes the Minister stated quite clearly that the Federal Government, the Fraser Government, has abrogated to the States the responsibility for the funding of women’s refuges. [More…]
In reply to the point of order, I point out that the information on the funding of women’s refuges about which I wish to speak this evening is available from sources other than the Estimates Committee debate. [More…]
It will mean a decrease in the resources available to women’s refuges throughout Australia. [More…]
It will mean in some cases the closure of women’s refuges. [More…]
Indeed 2 women’s refuges in Queensland have already been closed as a result of the Federal Government’s decision to cease funding and to hand its responsibility to the Queensland Government. [More…]
In practical terms this means that many women and children who would have been able to seek assistance from refuges will not have that source of assistance. [More…]
I raise this matter tonight to draw attention to the difficulties faced by these women and children, in the hope that the Government may reconsider its policy and may give consideration to continued assistance. [More…]
I wish to make a few remarks on the background of women’s refuges. [More…]
They were begun by women who were committed to assisting other women experiencing the trauma of domestic violence or some other domestic crisis. [More…]
I would have thought that the self help concept so admirably demonstrated in the operation of women’s refuges would have recommended itself to those who profess a Liberal philosophy. [More…]
In many cases they provide short term assistance which enables women and their families to continue a normal existence afterwards. [More…]
They are often the stepping stone for women towards economic independence or a more peaceful arrangement with their husbands whom they have had to leave. [More…]
I submit to the Senate that the provision of normal welfare type services, normal welfare type housing for families in distress, homes for children and so on is a much more expensive operation than the subsidisation of women’s refuges for a few thousand dollars a year to enable them to provide the sort of assistance that they do provide. [More…]
I should like to cite figures prepared by the National Women’s Refuge Co-operative, which show that 23 refuges are operating in Australia, although the 2 refuges in Queensland have been closed down. [More…]
In their period of operation the refuges have assisted 1 1 985 women and children. [More…]
Or has the Federal Government abandoned the refuges because of lack of concern by it about the particular kinds of distressed women and children who find themselves in refuges? [More…]
It is certainly true that many of the women in the refuges are poor, they are unskilled, they are in poor physical and mental health, and they are without alternative resources to cope with the crisis which faces them. [More…]
I submit to the Senate that there are probably no more needy persons than some of those who find themselves in women’s refuges. [More…]
I have been told by spokeswoman from the refuges, who I might point out have now made two fairly fruitless and expensive trips to Canberra to seek assistance, that the Minister has discussed the possibility of introducing some time in the future a Bill for the funding of women’s refuges on a national basis. [More…]
Not a great number of women are suited to this kind of work. [More…]
Volunteers often find themselves unable to maintain their assistance to refuges in this way because of the excessively depressing and unhappy aspect of the work involved in running women’s refuges. [More…]
Women’s refuges have no organised fundraising bodies to assist them, as yet. [More…]
I believe that the Minister must know that many refuges currently giving vital assistance to thousands of women and children throughout Australia will close down in the next few months if they do not receive assistance. [More…]
The refuges were an initiative by women to help other women, and that initiative gained the support of the Whitlam Government. [More…]
The Fraser Government has inherited the responsibility of the women’s refuges and should accept the responsibility. [More…]
Arguing federalism will not save the refuges and will not help the thousands of women and children who need this help. [More…]
In attempt to break the revolution, numbers of Hungarians, including some women, were deported to the Soviet Union and some may not have been returned to their homes. [More…]
I will not delay the Senate long to respond to Senator Ryan, who raised the matter of women’s refuges. [More…]
She fairly asked: What has been the Government’s policy with regard to the women’s shelters and the community health program being handed to the States. [More…]
I agree that in Queensland, despite the fact that bulk grants were forwarded to that State, women’s refuges have not been funded by the Government. [More…]
I have had discussions with a deputation of members representing women’s refuges. [More…]
It is also fair tq say that the Prime Minister and I and other Ministers met representatives of a very wide cross section of women ‘s groups recently. [More…]
The Prime Minister expressed his hope that a national advisory committee on women’s matters would be formed. [More…]
He hoped that that Committee would be instrumental in putting forward programs and matters that are of concern and of interest to women in Australia. [More…]
I shall bring these matters which have been raised this evening with regard to women’s refuges under the community health program to the attention of the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt). [More…]
At page 12 of this publication figures indicate that there are 285 000 women with children 14 years of age or under who would like to work if proper child care arrangements were available. [More…]
Does the Minister consider that the reduced allocation of funds for child care in the recent Lynch Budget and the reduced resources for planning and administration following the abolition of the Children’s Commission, will enable the mounting of a child care program adequate to meet the needs of the children of these 285 000 women who wish to exercise their choice of undertaking paid employment? [More…]
The matters raised by the honourable senator with regard to the number of women with children who would like to enter the Australian work force are known to me. [More…]
I would like to say one other thing about the 285 000 women who may wish to enter the work force. [More…]
I see another problem as being a very real one, that is, the lack of employment opportunities for women and others in the Australian community at present. [More…]
It has been drawn to our attention that in some States child care facilities are not fully utilised at present- this would be so in some areas outside metropolitan citiesbecause of the lack of availability of suitable employment for women. [More…]
I think this is another matter of concern to all of us who wish to see that women are able to exercise their own choice in the way in which they determine their own lives consistent with their family responsibilities. [More…]
We live in a world striving to find ways for men and women to improve their standards of life and, at the very least, to achieve one of the fundamental freedoms- freedom from want. [More…]
This would cause more hardship as the women workforce are unable to get alternate employment in this area. [More…]
I noticed quite a few vehicles inside the police station yard and various men and women also there. [More…]
Usually women have their babies on the Island, but Mrs James had to come to Townsville Hospital as they were going to perform some operation on her to stop her having more children. [More…]
I am referring, of course, to unemployed women in the community. [More…]
There are women in Melbourne who will never have families because they cannot afford to stop working. [More…]
Those women are not paid unemployment benefits. [More…]
They have a husband who goes to work and if he loses his job he is the person who should go on the unemployment statistics, but they, as women, just go out to work to provide this extra money and are not to be counted. [More…]
I query the unemployment figures because I truly believe that many women in the community are really unemployed but are not registered and, therefore, are not counted. [More…]
What will happen to the lives and to the economic fabric of this community if those women lose their jobs and there is no unemployment benefit for them is something that I think the Government has a duty to look at. [More…]
As it is, those women tend to turn up on the doorsteps of local doctors asking for drugs such as valium so that they can stop thinking about the terrible situation in which they find themselves. [More…]
Real concern should be shown for these women. [More…]
By the same token, real concern should be shown by this Government for women who need rape crisis centres, women’s refuges and women’s health centres. [More…]
I believe that the Government knows quite well that women need to have rape crisis centres and that the situation as regards women, the law and rape in our community is serious. [More…]
I believe the Government knows that women for all sorts of reasons find they have to leave home in the middle of the night, with or without their children, with or without their goods, and have to find somewhere to go, someone to talk to and some time to assess the situation. [More…]
I believe that members of the Government know that women have to do that. [More…]
I believe they know that in many ways the medical profession in Australia has failed women and that the women’s health centres are trying to grow up as a result of that failure. [More…]
How many votes can be gained from around women’s centres, women’s refuges or rape crisis centres? [More…]
Little research is being done into women’s troubles, into the effects of the pill, into illnesses that are peculiar to women, and little research has been done into the fact that births are now taking place in office hours. [More…]
The Government’s excuse at the moment for not doing anything from a Federal point of view about rape crisis centres, women’s refuges and women’s health centres is that these matters have been handed over to the States. [More…]
While we were in government we certainly made money available- for instance, to Victoria for a Women Against Rape centre and for a Women’s Health Collective. [More…]
The Women Against Rape Centre had money made available to it in June 1974, but not one penny of that money has been seen yet because the Victorian Government stands between that money and the people who need it. [More…]
The Women’s Health Collective in Victoria was advised in May 1975 that money had been made available to it, but not one penny of that money has reached the Women’s Health Collective to this date. [More…]
In fact, the Women’s Health Collective does not have any money and the last request it received from the Department was that it should inform the Department on what it would spend its money in 1975-76, yet it has not received one penny of the money that was made available for 1974-75. [More…]
The Victorian Government is on record as having appointed a women. [More…]
So, it appointed a women’s adviser and then took every step to tie her hands, to ignore her and to show that the appointment was really window dressing. [More…]
The Victorian Government in fact pointed out to the more conservative groups of women in Victoria that in fact the women’s adviser had no power. [More…]
No substantial change has occurred in the Victorian Government’s feelings towards women or to what should be done ibr women. [More…]
Victorian Government supporters have accepted without a murmur cuts in welfare housing that effect all those groups of women who are vulnerable and cannot assist themselves. [More…]
This shows that they do not give a damn about women who hold positions and need care for their children. [More…]
They had done very little about family planning before and are not, under the influence of groups such as the Womens Action Alliance, likely to do anything about family planning in the future. [More…]
Senator Melzer stuck mainly to unemployment, women’s shelters and women’s groups. [More…]
Senator Melzer also referred to women’s shelters in the various States being left alone by our Government. [More…]
The money that we have given our State Labor Government has been handed over to the shelters, except to the women’s centre in Hobart. [More…]
In some States up to 70 per cent- in some cases higher in the case of women prisoners- of prisoners are Aboriginal. [More…]
On 25 August 1976 (Hansard, page 279) Senator Missen asked the Minister representing the Prime Minister a question without notice concerning the proposed Women’s Advisory Committee. [More…]
The Acting Minister Assisting the Prime Minister in Women’s Affairs has now supplied the following information for answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The concept of an advisory body relating to women was foreshadowed in the Government’s policy statements. [More…]
At consultations between Government Ministers, Members, representative non-government organisations and officials held on 7, 8 and 9 September 1976 it was generally agreed that a working party be established to formulate proposals for such a body, and that reports of the working party would have wide circulation among women and women’s organisations to allow for the broadest possible consultation and comment. [More…]
One of the major problems faced in repatriation hospitals is the high proportion of women who are employed in them. [More…]
-I am grateful to have from Senator Melzer an account of the work of the Working Women’s Centre, which is of great interest to me. [More…]
In the meetings that took place with the Acting Prime Minister at the time, Jim Cairns, and with Mr Snedden, it was agreed that the pressure on Darwin should be relieved by evacuation of the women and children, the infirm and the ill. To Major-General Stretton ‘s credit, he entered into that exercise with great enthusiasm. [More…]
But the guidelines were set down that only women, children and the infirm were to be evacuated and that Darwin was not to be stripped of its work force. [More…]
On the third day all the women and children who wished to leave - [More…]
All my time had been spent at the airport and the instructions were that only women and children should be evacuated. [More…]
But one does not deal with that sort of thing by ‘women’s weapons, water-drops’. [More…]
He then goes on to say that the commissioners, who will be nine in number, will be representative of each of the 6 States and at least two of the nine will be women. [More…]
The other extraordinary thing is this nice token gesture of having 2 women on the Commission. [More…]
We could have 6 women on the Australian Broadcasting Commission now. [More…]
Those of my colleagues who are more expert in these matters than I am would be able to tell the Senate that that form of tokenism is regarded as reprehensible in some circles where it is believed that the same result can be achieved without written positive discrimination in favour of women. [More…]
Senator Carrick represents the Prime Minister in Federal Affairs and I think Senator Durack represents the Prime Minister on Women ‘s Affairs via Mr Macphee. [More…]
There were many alarming and contradictory intentions revealed in that statement, but there is one particularly confusing aspect on which I seek clarification, that is, the intention to legislate for 2 women commissioners on the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
Does the Minister agree that the present provision for one woman on the Commission is outdated and discriminatory and does not reflect current attitudes to women in positions of influence? [More…]
Does the Minister agree that to provide for only 2 women on the Commission would be just as discriminatory in that it would suggest that without such a provision, ungenerous as it is, no women at all would be appointed? [More…]
Would not such a provision be treated as an upper limit and thus prevent more than 2 able women being appointed to the Commission; or is the provision merely a strategy to enable the Government to sack the staff representative, Marius Webb, and replace him with a partisan female appointment, while making a transparently token gesture towards equality of the sexes? [More…]
-The Government’s attitude is quite clearly that there should be equality of opportunity for women in all aspects of society, and it will direct itself to that end. [More…]
The result is that many people are injured, women are bashed. [More…]
The cases of women who go into women’s refuges, for example, are usually complicated by the women’s inability to get rental housing at a rate they can afford to pay. [More…]
As I understand the position, the group comprises the captain and 3 crew members, 14 men, 13 women, and 19 children aged between 5 and 17 years. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs who is also the Minister assisting the Prime Minister in Women’s Affairs. [More…]
I refer to the report in the Australian of 15 November 1976 which alleges that women are being discriminated against in their dealings with banks, especially by the imposition of discriminatory interest rates on loans. [More…]
Because this is the only apprenticeship school in Victoria for hairdressing that gives women any sort of go there is obviously no hope at all for it in respect of funding for technical and further education. [More…]
In November 1974 women comprised one-third of the workforce in Australia. [More…]
Honourable senators would not be surprised to know that although women comprise one-third of the workforce they are at its lowest level. [More…]
With more direct funding from the federal body women could be encouraged to take up many positive careers in the community. [More…]
Women could play a very important role in that area. [More…]
Another area in which women could play a vital role is in the area of community health care. [More…]
In many of the rural areas no doctors are available to assist people but there are many devoted women who have a great deal of knowledge and who, with a little more assistance and broadening of that knowledge, could really carry rural health care. [More…]
The Federal Government needs to inject money into the technical and further education area to make sure that crash courses are made available and to make sure that women undertake courses and go out into the community and become part of the workforce. [More…]
Unless specific funds are made available women and girls in our community will not be able to take their places as skilled people and courses will not be expanded to include them. [More…]
The Victorian Department of Education has given no indication that it even knows that these women and girls exist or that they should do anything for them. [More…]
While grants of this amount are made in this way to States like Victoria there is no way that the motor mechanics of the future will love or create painting, there is no way that the plumbers of the future will love or create music, and there is no way that the women of Victoria will ever be anything else but the base factory process workers which they are at the moment. [More…]
I think parents will agree that it is much better to have the young men and women stay at home than go interstate. [More…]
As many honourable senators would know, there are some ethnic groups in which the women of the family are not allowed to go out to classes. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs aware of allegations made by Ms Elizabeth Reid, a former adviser to the Labor Prime Minister, that the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Peacock, has blocked her application for a senior position in the women’s section of the United Nations Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs? [More…]
I conclude by saying that the number of Australian nationals in the secretariat presently exceeds our quota, but I add that the percentage of Australian women is well above the total percentage of women employed in the secretariat. [More…]
Of the 4 Australian applicants appointed in 1 975-76, two were women. [More…]
I have a feeling of uncertainty whether the 7 wise men or women will be able to radiate out far enough. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to widen the eligibility of former women members of the Royal Australian Air Force for benefits under the Royal Australian Air Force Veteran’s Residences Act 1953. [More…]
For example, they exclude ex-members of the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force raised during World War II, who were not liable for service outside Australia. [More…]
A similar condition on exservicewomen was removed from the then War Service Homes Act in 1973. [More…]
The amendments proposed by the Bill will mean that all former members of the RAAF and of its women’s services will be equally eligible for the provision of residences under the Act. [More…]
I address a question to the Minister representing the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister in Women’s Affairs. [More…]
Could the Minister advise whether this is evidence of the Government’s commitment to the dignity of women as human beings or is it still content to sell us as some sort of commodity? [More…]
There is no doubt that on so many occasions estate duty has created hardship for surviving spouses, particularly women. [More…]
The arguments that have been advanced on this issue by the Women’s Electoral Lobby, amongst other organisations, I have found to be sound and convincing. [More…]
To put men and women back to work. [More…]
Of course, as my colleague the shadow Minister for Primary Industry said, it is a crying shame that in a nation where women and children in the industrial areas in the cities of Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth cannot afford to buy fruit the only solution that can be found to try to improve the lot of the canned fruit industry is the scheme brought in by the McMahon Government to pull trees out so that fruit would be dearer. [More…]
Gietzelt pointed out, it is a shame that we have to make money available to producers to wreck an industry, to curtail production, when there are so many women and children and elderly people in this community who could well do with that fruit if the Government could see its way clear to help that fruit to be placed on the market at a cheaper price. [More…]
Are they not men and women who understand and comprehend, or will they always resort to petty party political jibes to try to fool all the people all the time? [More…]
This is the second time today that I have had to rise to express my concern on behalf of the women in the Australian community. [More…]
I presume that the word ‘those’ includes exservicewomen, because at the moment there is no provision in most of the previous Acts, including the War Service Homes Act, for a great number of ex-servicewomen who were in the Services during the war but who did not serve overseas. [More…]
It was not their fault that they did not serve overseas, because only women who had specific skills were able to serve overseas. [More…]
Therefore, members of those Forces raised for active service abroad, the AIF, the RAAF and the RAN, some members of the Nursing Service and persons enlisted for service in the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service (AIF), are eligible for benefits. [More…]
On the other hand, persons who were enlisted in the Citizen Military Force, the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service (CMF) and the Women’s Auxiliary Forces, which were raised primarily for home service, are not eligible unless they actually served outside Australia. [More…]
There is, therefore, no distinction, in this regard, between men and women. [More…]
To my mind, there is a very great distinction between the men and women who can be covered. [More…]
No government has yet had the guts to concede that women played a vital part in the Services during the war. [More…]
Ex-servicewomen enlisted voluntarily for service but, as I mentioned, they could not, even if they wanted to, enlist for service overseas unless they were skilled in particular areas. [More…]
They could not do so simply because they were women. [More…]
That is the attitude of Senator Sir Magnus Cormack to women. [More…]
The work that those women performed freed a lot of men and enabled them to go overseas. [More…]
Those men are eligible for housing benefits and the women who replaced them are not. [More…]
Those women worked hard and they worked long. [More…]
I want the Government to explain to me why it does not have the guts in this day and age, when it is abolishing the Australian Housing Corporation and replacing it with the Defence Service Homes Corporation, to cater for those women. [More…]
So we are now talking about women as well as men who have served in the defence forces in peacetime as being eligible for a benefit which is not available to women who served in wartime. [More…]
They are the women about whom I am talking; they are the ones for whom I am seeking the benefit. [More…]
At the same time, I am given to understand, consideration was given to extending the scheme to cover those women, but it was considered that the cost would be too high. [More…]
Are we talking about thousands of women who will suddenly apply for this benefit, or are we talking about a few hundred women who are at an age- the war finished 30-odd years ago- at which they need security and the advantage of knowing that they have decent, comfortable accommodation for which they can afford to pay and which will be provided for them in their old age. [More…]
Perhaps a few hundred women find themselves in those circumstances. [More…]
The lending institutions and the banks look rather unkindly upon women, especially if they happen to be single women. [More…]
They do not see that women contribute a great deal to the running of Australia, any more than Senator Sir Magnus Cormack recognises that women in the Parliament play a great role. [More…]
Those women have the same difficulties as men in saving for a reasonable deposit on a home in an endeavour to keep monthly repayments at a minimum. [More…]
I am talking about women who are no longer young. [More…]
I am talking about women who are now in their fifties and who may find that it is not possible to commit themselves for a great amount of money at widely varying monthly repayments which they may not be able to afford. [More…]
I spoke a little earlier about the qualifying period which now applies for ex-service women. [More…]
Women who have served continuously for 3 years in the defence Services can at this point in time have a loan made available to them if they are married or are about to marry or have dependants. [More…]
I have been informed that a number of single ex-service women have applied for and received loans and have their dependent parents living with them. [More…]
Single ex-servicemen get loans for homes and nobody begrudges the widows of ex-servicemen the benefits that they receive; but I am talking about the women, particularly those women who were quite prepared to sacrifice themselves if necessary, who sacrified their time and their human resources in wartime service. [More…]
The excuse that the claims of these women could not be considered unless the claims of the men who served in the Citizen Military Forces could be considered is, to my mind, quite spurious. [More…]
But I wish to make the simple point that the women to whom I am referring volunteered; the men of the CMF were conscripted. [More…]
The women voluntarily enlisted out of a desire to serve their country. [More…]
May I say, for the benefit of Senator Sir Magnus Cormack, that in 1944 women comprised two-thirds of the defence forces serving in Australia. [More…]
Men could not have gone overseas unless the women were prepared to step in and do the messy work that the men had left behind here. [More…]
At this point of time, those women want an assurance of proper, permanent, decent accommodation for the rest of their lives. [More…]
I hope that the Defence Service Homes Corporation will bring before this Parliament in the very near future a Bill for an allocation of land so that a housing project, a block of units perhaps, could be established for the aged amongst those exservice women and, if necessary, for their husbands who may not necessarily have contributed in the war effort. [More…]
As I have already stated, I do not believe that the extension of this scheme to wartime exservice women would commit this Government or any other government to a great deal of money. [More…]
I do not think we should be endeavouring to put a cost on the services of those women between 1939 and 1945. [More…]
Senator Coleman raised a matter concerning discrimination against women in relation to the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
I point out that there is no question of discrimination against women because the defence service homes scheme always has been confined to persons who have served on active service outside Australia or on a ship at war. [More…]
That applies to both men and women. [More…]
Therefore, there is no discrimination against women. [More…]
There is no discrimination between men and women as far as service in Australia is concerned. [More…]
There is no firm evidence to my knowledge that women using these hair dyes are exposed to any danger. [More…]
In the intervening 30 years, despite the warnings and the tragedies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, men, and to avoid being a chauvinist I would say women also, do not seem to have learnt much. [More…]
The commissioners imply that they should not be considered decision makers, that the Parliament should not be considered as the decision maker, but the ordinary man and women in the street should be considered the decision makers. [More…]
On 3 November 1976 the Yuendumu Women’s Society sent me a telegram demanding that the Tanami Desert be included in the Bill for land rights. [More…]
I urge the publication of this material on 2 grounds; firstly and most importantly, to protect the health and well being of our young men and women and, secondly, to ensure that at least the Australian athlete will be able to exhibit all the high ideals of true amateurism and not be tempted to succumb to this outright cheating by the use of drugs to attain tainted international honours. [More…]
The report refers to the women who voluntarily visit migrants’ homes. [More…]
It breaks the sound barrier with married women. [More…]
In addition there is recognition of the considerable interest which is being taken in the improvement of programs for children as well as those of more specific interest to women. [More…]
Considerably increased attention is also being given to the social consequences of broadcasting, and it has therefore been decided to increase the minimum number of women on the Commission to at least two. [More…]
It has also seen fit to state that there will be a minimum of 2 women on the Commission and to enlarge the Commission from 9 to 1 1 Commissioners. [More…]
-Oh, yes, we will have 2 women on the Commission. [More…]
Obviously women must be concerned about children, so we have a prerequisite for 2 women, God help this Government if 10 women turn up who are eligible for appointment. [More…]
I must say that not all women feel all that much concern for children, and even fathers have some concern for children. [More…]
When these stations applied for their licences they were very pious about what they were going to do for the people of Australia in regard to television, what they were going to do for the performers, musicians, actors and writers, and even occasionally for the children and women of Australia. [More…]
Films that would be called women’s programs or would be shown at times when women would watch television comprised 5 hours of viewing time. [More…]
I am tempted to comment again on the two women who may be members of the Commission. [More…]
May I say in passing that I think it is patronising nonsense, and I wonder what this Government will do if it finds that 8 women are eligible to sit on that Commission. [More…]
1 ) Particulars of ex-servicemen and women employed in the Department are not kept as a primary record. [More…]
However, a survey conducted in the Queensland Branch has indicated that there are 334 ex-servicemen and women currently employed in the Branch. [More…]
However, for the information of the honourable senator, the policy of the Repatriation Commission over the years until its staff was brought under the Public Service Act in 1947 was to give preference to employment of exservicemen and women. [More…]
An amazingly anachronistic and uncalled for provision is contained in this legislation requiring the appointment of 2 women commissioners. [More…]
At that time the rights of women to participate in public institutions and public life had suffered a great setback since the early feminist movement because of the Depression of the late 1920s and early 1930s and the subsequent world war. [More…]
The argument about the status of women was probably at an all-time low in 1942. [More…]
But if one is proffering some sort of egalitarianism through this legislation, I should have thought that a provision for at least 4 women out of the 9 members would have been more realistic. [More…]
I refer to programs such as Seven Little Australians, Rush, Luke’s Kingdom, Certain Women, Bellbird and Power Without Glory. [More…]
As to the question of the women representatives on the Commission we find that a quite extraordinary and Neanderthal sort of provision. [More…]
With regard to the appointment of 2 women Commissioners, it is all right to say that there is no need to have this provision. [More…]
But in fact we live in a society where I think we need to ensure that there are at least 2 women Commissioners. [More…]
On the one hand, the Government is prepared to make a quite unnecessary, anachronistic and even sexist provision for the inclusion of 2 women on the Commission. [More…]
In order to accommodate the quite unnecessary provision of 2 women Commissioners, the Government has actually had to go to the length of saying that the number of commissioners shall be increased from nine to eleven if this is necessary to achieve the balance. [More…]
Here we have a measure aimed at the possibility of having 11 commissioners simply to accommodate an unnecessary provision for 2 women. [More…]
We oppose, for the reasons I have given, the unnecessary sexist and patronising provision for 2 women commissioners. [More…]
By what authority and procedures were the funds allocated by the National Advisory Committee for International Women’s Year for investment in the television series The Story of Human Reproduction directed by Dr Germaine Greer retained by the Australian Film Commission. [More…]
At what date was this substantial allocation of $100,000 absorbed into the Women’s Film Fund which is administered by the Australian Film Commission. [More…]
As the Director of Projects for the Australian Film Commission, Mr John Daniell, has informed members of the advisory panel on the Women ‘s Film Fund that they have no decision-making powers regarding sponsorship of projects by the Fund, by what means will the original objective of the Fund, i.e., assistance for production of worthwhile women’s films that have no alternative source of assistance, be safeguarded. [More…]
Will the Prime Minister undertake to consult with the Australian Film Commission regarding the Commission’s guidelines for the Women’s Film Fund, in order to ensure that the $100,000 absorbed from the cancellation of the Greer investment grant and the rest of the funds in the Women’s Film Fund are used solely to sponsor projects in keeping with the stated objectives of the International Women’s Year Program and not merely to supplement the general allocation ofthe Australian Film Commission. [More…]
1 ) to (5) The matters raised in the honourable senator’s question were canvassed by the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister in Women ‘s Affairs in a repiy to a question without notice in the House of Representatives on 9 December 1976. [More…]
As Dr Greer was unable to comply with requirements of the Australian Film Commission Act, this Government has agreed that the funds be made available to the Women’s Film Fund. [More…]
All decisions to allocate money will be in accordance with the Australian Film Commission Act and guidelines agreed to after discussions between the Australian Film Commission, the National Advisory Committee for International Women’s Year and the Women’s Affairs Branch of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. [More…]
He is Vice-President of the Australian Society of Accountants and Honorary Treasurer and member of the Council of the Melbourne Women’s Hospital. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister in Women’s Affairs, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) When will anti-discrimination legislation be introduced in the Federal Parliament to protect women from discrimination in such areas as home buying, house rental, employment, education, job training, credit, and superannuation. [More…]
-The Minister Assisting the Prime Minister in Women’s Affairs has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
Individual cases of discrimination under Federal jurisdiction can be raised with the Women ‘s Affairs Branch of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. [More…]
There are also women’s units being established in various Government departments and agencies which are charged with the task of monitoring policies and programs to identify discriminatory aspects. [More…]
-It was men and women who did that. [More…]
He was here every week advising Labor men and women what they should do. [More…]
In looking back at that time, I am reminded of the purported conversation between 2 women who were also looking back. [More…]
The Public Service Board has recently introduced an executive development scheme directed to men and women in the senior levels of the Third Division who have the capacity to undertake higher administrative duties and who require further experience in practical and theoretical aspects of administration, policy advising and management. [More…]
-I rise to support the Bill because it gives recognition to what one can call the forgotten women of Australia, those in the Women’s Auxiliary Services who volunteered to defend Australia in the Second World War. [More…]
These women are now approaching the age when they want to make provision for old age and this Bill goes some way to giving them some peace of mind about their lives in the next few years. [More…]
It provides for women who are in necessitous circumstances. [More…]
There are in the community women who served in the WAAAFs and want assistance to help themselves and to buy a home. [More…]
Under this Bill men and women, comrades in war, are equal in receiving help when they are in necessitous circumstances. [More…]
However, although the same men and women, widows and children and women who are currently in the Services receive assistance by way of loans to buy homes, the women who served in wartime auxiliary Services do not. [More…]
Women in the Services now serve beside the men. [More…]
Women in time of war went even further. [More…]
In 1944 two-thirds of the defence forces serving in Australia were women. [More…]
In wartime the musterings, working hours, duties, leave benefits, courses, living conditions and food were the same for men and for women. [More…]
The motif that these women wore on their wartime caps was the RAAF motif. [More…]
They volunteered for service in the women’s Services. [More…]
The women worked hard to gain skills that were strange to them. [More…]
Their male comrades will say that the Services could not have operated the way they did without the unselfish work that these women put into their wartime jobs. [More…]
If governments acknowledge that women in the Services are now eligible for equal pay, equal opportunity, equal conditions and equal repatriation conditions, including home loans; if ex-servicewomen are eligible for repatriation benefits, for equal assistance when in dire or necessitous circumstances; if ex-servicewomen now are eligible for assistance with home loans; if the widows of ex-servicemen and, one would hope, the widowers of exservicewomen and Service personnel are entitled to repatriation benefits, including home loans, why discriminate against a handful of exservicewomen who seek assistance, not charity, to provide for their old age? [More…]
There were 40 000 Australia servicewomen during the last war. [More…]
Those women estimate that 12 to IS of their comrades require a loan and one would expect the same sort of proportion to apply in all other States. [More…]
It has been very successful and there is no reason to believe that these women would be any less successful than the men and would fall behind in their commitments when their male comrades have not. [More…]
I am talking about the women who worked in hard circumstances without complaint in Australia to enable men to go overseas to fight in that wretched war. [More…]
Unless these women had volunteered and left their homes and loved ones there would have been many fewer men able to go overseas. [More…]
Nobody can say that the Women’s Auxiliary Services were well paid. [More…]
So I ask the Government, even though it has presented this Bill which is very good and extends the benefits as they should be extended to the women who served in the Air Force during the war, to remember more than the WAAAFs in necessitous circumstances. [More…]
These women deserve their share of the spoils but they prefer the peace of mind that they gain from looking after themselves in the later years of their lives. [More…]
These women have not had that right before. [More…]
The present Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) experienced this when she transferred the funding of the women’s refuge and women’s health centre in Brisbane through the States. [More…]
They have set up counselling services, operated buses for handicapped persons, and set up handyman services for the aged, women’s shelters, leisure clubs, children’s groups- a vast variety of schemes all over Australia, depending on the needs in the various regions. [More…]
I suggest that if people in the Australian community who have special expertise that would interest a government were asked to come forward and serve the government and the community for a brief period, there are men and women who would accept that challenge, knowing that the position they would hold would be for a limited period. [More…]
I have always been interested in encouragement being given to Australian women to participate in industry, politics, the Public Service and so on. [More…]
It is certainly surprising that there are only a few women in senior positions in the Australian Public Service. [More…]
The fact that the senior positions have been described in this legislation as being for men and women must surely give some encouragement to those women who wish to become involved in or who are involved in public life. [More…]
I do not think Australian women are not in senior positions in the Public Service because of a lack of efficiency, competence or whatever. [More…]
I believe that it is because Australian women have become frustrated by the restrictions that have been imposed upon them over the years. [More…]
I am sure there are many women who are capable of participating in public life. [More…]
I believe that eventually we will see such women come forward. [More…]
I look forward to seeing more women occupying senior positions in the Australian Public Service. [More…]
I have been motivated to rise by articles in the Melbourne Herald yesterday and the Melbourne Age today wherein it is claimed that Mr Jim Dunn, after visiting Portugal, released a report containing some rather frightening allegations, including allegations that Indonesian troops in East Timor at the time of the initial occupation and thereafter rounded up young girls in trucks and raped them, shot 1 50 men in a south coast town because they tried to stop troops interfering with their women, shot entire families which lived in houses which displayed Fretilin flags, killed as many as 500 Chinese in the first days after the invasion, dug up graves and removed valuables, and used cigarettes and electrical instruments to torture women in a special interrogation unit in the top floor of the Tropical Hotel in Dili. [More…]
The Government is also aware of reports that Fretilin used civilians, including women and children, to shield its soldiers in combat. [More…]
It tortures men and women in that country by applying electrodes to the various parts of their bodies. [More…]
Do Aboriginal and Islander women living on reserves in Queensland not receive family allowance. [More…]
Aboriginal and Islander women living on reserves in Queensland are entitled to receive family allowance payments under the same conditions as all other women with children. [More…]
If the honourable senator is aware of instances where Aboriginal and Islander women living on reserves in Queensland entitled to family allowances are not receiving their correct entitlement, I would be grateful if he would inform the Director of Social Services for Queensland or myself of the details so that further consideration may be given to their case. [More…]
Of course, there are numerous examples of other women in the community who successfully combine these dual roles. [More…]
I stress these figures as being relevant also to the consideration of the role of women in society today. [More…]
Indeed, in the current climate of unemployment one would think that women with family responsibilities should be discouraged from entering the work force unless doing so is a matter of economic necessity. [More…]
Also I suggest that the Government should consider paying some allowance to such women in lower income families. [More…]
In the present unemployment situation the voluntary reduction in the number of married women in the work force should assist in dissipating the problem of youth employment which is one of the grave problems of the day. [More…]
Almost 6 per cent of Australians are unemployed- 346 688 Australians- and we know also that there are many women and others in the community who do not appear in the statistics but who would work if suitable jobs were available or who would work if child care facilities were available. [More…]
We know that there are married women who previously worked who are now at home not working and do not appear in the unemployment statistics. [More…]
By way of preface, I state that I was particularly impressed by the spectacular parade of 1600 service men and women in the Silver Jubilee Review by the Queen in front of Parliament House on Tuesday. [More…]
As Senator Wriedt will appreciate, the then Minister for Repatriation in the Labor Government was Charlie Frost, who was a big, powerful man but who did not relish meeting an army of 50 angry women seeking to learn who would repair the houses and the fences since the War Service Homes Commissioner was not noted for speedy decisions. [More…]
It so happened that my mother was one of those 50 irate women. [More…]
Voluntary organisations and governments work together in many areas including aged persons homes, services for the mentally and physically handicapped, special services for migrants and youth, crisis centres, such as Lifeline, pregnancy support, women’s shelters and drug contact centres. [More…]
This is especially evident in connection with the employment of migrant women. [More…]
We know the response of those women who have come through such an experience, the response to their unborn child that ‘you have sought me and found me and I will not let you go’. [More…]
Given pregnancy support, advice and understanding the women concerned always come to the decision that the life to be preserved is a life which they have no right to destroy. [More…]
It advertises the service known as the Women’s Centre Incorporated, the abortion counselling service. [More…]
Its service are directed towards working women and it functions on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays with morning and evening sessions. [More…]
An adjoining pathology unit is staffed by 4 salaried medical technologists who carry out tests on all women clients. [More…]
Dr Davis and PSI are studiously ignored by the ideologically motivated Women’s Abortion Alliance Coalition and its journal. [More…]
The changing roles of men and women in our society make it less unthinkable than it once was for a man to contemplate trying to bring up a family on his own. [More…]
I am not saying that the women who find themselves in this situation are not entitled to have someone or some department to turn to. [More…]
Now it is quite common for women to leave their husbands, and often to leave their husbands with the children. [More…]
Senator Walters again got on to the subject of family allowances and the question of putting money into the hands of women. [More…]
Let us have less of this nonsense about having finally done something for women. [More…]
It was said at one stage that it was women’s finest hour. [More…]
But they are not very realistic and they do not look on women as human beings. [More…]
Women make up 39.3 per cent of the Australian work force. [More…]
Some 40 per cent of Australian women are in paid employment. [More…]
More women were registered as unemployed than men, even though women are discouraged from registering by the employment offices and by their own life style. [More…]
Most of the women in this community who work need to work. [More…]
Very few women go to work to express themselves. [More…]
Women go out to work because they need the money. [More…]
Some 97.4 per cent of single parents in the labour force responsible for children under 12 years of age are women. [More…]
Those women must go out to work to keep their children in a reasonable sort of life style. [More…]
In the 1975 survey of inner city women, taken for the purposes of the Henderson report, women said that they worked for money for essentials like food and shelter and rent and wages to get to work. [More…]
They do not work for wall to wall carpet and a second refrigerator and a second car, although there are women going to work for those things. [More…]
Women are as susceptible to that sort of pressure as anybody else, and they are under pressure to go out to work to provide those things for their families. [More…]
There are women in parts of Melbourne, and I can speak only of Melbourne, who go out to work because they and their husbands are paying between $90 and $150 a week off the mortgage on the house they live in. [More…]
Those women are terrified that if they lose their jobs, if they become ill or if the children become ill and they have to stay at home, they will lose all that they have worked for. [More…]
Those women are not out in the work force because they want to express themselves, because they do not like being wives and mothers. [More…]
Of course, women get the worst paid jobs. [More…]
For so many women some money is better than no money at all, some job is better than no job at all. [More…]
It is interesting to note that while 36.2 per cent of students enrolled for degree courses are women, only 1 1.6 per cent of administrative, executive and managerial positions in the work force are held by women. [More…]
For Senator Kilgariff’s benefit, may I say that the women of Australia are not going to be used as brood mares to supply large numbers of people to fill up the holes in this country because we might be invaded by the yellow peril. [More…]
The day has long gone when women were prepared to have sons to send off as cannon fodder. [More…]
Again may I say that it is a woman’s decision whether or not she has an abortion, and I will be damned if the women of Australia are going to put themselves and their families at risk to provide this vast number of Australians who are going to people this country, including the far north. [More…]
I do not need to have anybody else keeping my conscience for me and telling me what I will do, and I do not believe that the women of Australia need to have that decision made for them. [More…]
This Government has done very little about women’s health centres. [More…]
The Liberal Government in Victoria has done little about women’s health centres. [More…]
These centres are places where women can go with confidence to find out how they work, how they should be treated, what is wrong with them, without being embarrassed, without being stood over, and with other women to assist them with their problems. [More…]
One of the reasons why the funds had not been passed on was that the Women’s Health Collective had a special condition, again stipulated by the Hospitals and Health Services Commission, that the centre should relocate if there was sufficient medical opposition. [More…]
Again, the hopes and desires of women were as nothing against the medical profession. [More…]
If money was going to be made out of women’s ill health then the medical profession was going to make the money. [More…]
I think it is up to this Government to remember that a vast number of women who have no other place at which they can receive help want these women’s health centres, and it should cut through such nonsense. [More…]
Senator Walters spoke about women’s refuges with some pride that this Government had assisted them. [More…]
Women’s refuges, such as they are, exist with little money, little hope of future money, and a great deal of lack of confidence about what their future will be. [More…]
It should tell it to the women who are living in terror of the night they wake up and find that the kiddy has a fever, that they cannot go to work and that they will lose their jobs. [More…]
If it is talking about equality it should tell that to the migrant women in this community who have so many distressing things happening to them with no relief and who cannot, in so many cases, even speak the language. [More…]
The report alleges that 150 men in the town of Suai were murdered because they attempted to prevent the Indonesian troops form interfering with their women. [More…]
We have a responsibility as men and women concerned with human rights and justice not to let the situation in East Timor fade. [More…]
Previous meetings have dealt with the environment in general, population, food, the role of women and human settlements. [More…]
Is any special study being undertaken of the needs of dependent children of lone fathers or are the grants given to the Working Women’s Centre in Melbourne and the Working Women’s Trade Union Commission in Sydney, a combined sum of $32,400, for investigating the problems of lone fathers or just those of working women? [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the women’s refuge in Canberra has made a public announcement recently that it has inadequate funds to continue its operations? [More…]
am aware that there is some concern on the women’s refuge in Canberra with regard to future funding arrangements. [More…]
At present, assistance for women’s refuges is provided through the community health program which is administered by the Department of Health. [More…]
For the current financial year the Canberra women’s refuge has received a grant of $20,000 from the Health Commission. [More…]
At present we are looking at the funding for the future programs of women’s refuges and a decision is expected to be taken by the Government some time in the near future. [More…]
As soon as I am able to say what future funding arrangements will be the Canberra women’s refuge will be advised. [More…]
Have all the views of Government departments been obtained and assessed by the Minister on a possible booklet dealing with issues of special interest to women? [More…]
I am not aware of the position at this stage but other departments’ views have been sought as to whether a booklet of special interest to women should be prepared. [More…]
Some people, men and women miss out of voting. [More…]
With respect to the problem of nutrition and alcohol, surely it is not beyond any government of goodwill to make adequate protein and calorie diets available where Aborigines are living on settlements, especially to make it available to pregnant women, to babies and to growing children. [More…]
It is of the essence of our recommendation that the Judges appointed to this Court (men and women) should be chosen for their experience and understanding of family problems and should be drawn from existing Judges, members of the bar and solicitors, according to their particular suitability. [More…]
Approximately 30 judges have been appointed to the court- men and women, barristers and solicitors. [More…]
She was well known in the 1840s as the first exponent of the functions of a good neighbour immigration service for women who came to this country, some as ticket of leave prisoners and others as bonded servants. [More…]
She is perhaps the most famous of all Australian women to date. [More…]
He faced a massive counter-campaign by the Right-to-Life Association and others who would deny the rights of women in these matters. [More…]
Are women, who are in receipt of family assistance allowance from the Queensland Department of Children’s Services, eligible for any benefit from the Department of Social Security. [More…]
He was VicePresident of the Australian Society of Accountants and Honorary Treasurer and member of the Council of the Melbourne Women’s Hospital. [More…]
That is something like the statement made yesterday by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) when he promised all sorts of things to women in industry. [More…]
On many occasions the women did not see another white woman for perhaps 6 months or a year, but at least they had friends among the Aboriginal people. [More…]
I have dealt with political refugees but I know that many Latin American women who have acquired Australian citizenship and gone back home and married there have been subjected to considerable delays. [More…]
Perhaps honourable senators read recently in the Sydney Press articles about the difficult nauseating jobs that women have to perform in industry. [More…]
Women pluck the chickens and generally work in difficult conditions. [More…]
No doubt, in due course further mechanisation will be introduced and women will not be needed in the industry. [More…]
The real heroes of industry in some migrant families are the women who do slushy work as domestics in motels and other places. [More…]
In families in Sydney and Melbourne there are women who are doing unpleasant work because it needs no linguistic skills. [More…]
We should have remedial classes for young people in this position as well as language classes for immigrant women. [More…]
But it worries me that women after working for 9 years and 9 months in a job are suddenly told that they are redundant on the assembly line. [More…]
It must have been a very unobservant foreman who suddenly discovered that these women did not measure up to what was required of them. [More…]
Special assistance needs to be given in this area and I hope the Committee will address itself to the particular problems faced by these young people at school and by the men and women living in the community to see what assistance can be given to allow them to make an adaption to the community. [More…]
Many of these men and women who came here were not backward in accepting menial tasks. [More…]
Whence, bludger ( sometimes a man living on immoral earnings of women). [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Social Security and follows a question on the subject of Queensland women’s refuges which was asked in the House of Representatives on 3 1 March by the honourable member for Petrie. [More…]
It is a fact that all States, with the exception of Queensland, are funding women’s refuges from the Community Health Program funds which were given to them in the Budget of last year. [More…]
Only 3.3 per cent of males in the work force had degrees, and only 1.8 per cent of women in the work force had degrees. [More…]
As I quoted those statistics, honourable senators may have noticed the very seriously disadvantaged situation of women in relation to skills for employment. [More…]
At a seminar held in New South Wales last weekend on technical and further education and on the crisis in technical and further education a lot of time was devoted to analysing the access of women to technical and further education. [More…]
Women have been virtually excluded from most avenues of obtaining marketable skills in technical or trade areas. [More…]
Although the present method of collecting unemployment statistics does not give anything like the true indication of the rate of unemployment among women, there is still reason to believe that women who were employed in the manufacturing industries suffered a much more serious degree of unemployment than virtually any other sector. [More…]
For example, I hope we will see several women from the technical and further education sector appointed to that Commission. [More…]
I hope we will see appointed people with other specialised knowledge of the particular difficulties our various disadvantaged groups- ethnic groups and women generallyhave in gaining access to post-secondary education. [More…]
Many women are serving on the appeals tribunals. [More…]
As has been found, many women are serving on tribunals at present. [More…]
This framework, not being an amalgamation, is a two-tired system- in the first place a Tertiary Education Commission co-ordinating, rationalising, a visionary body in itself, a body which will look forward to the future; look forward to the dreams and hopes of men and women; look forward to the things of the heart, the soul and the mind in the quality of education and its fulfilment; look forward to vocational orientation, and in doing so recognise a changing world; recognise the need for changing institutions, recognise that in a world of limited resources there is a need for a balance, a rationalising or a co-ordinating. [More…]
A third message came over that the Indonesians were not respecting the Timorese women. [More…]
Again there was silence and a young man leaned across to me and said: ‘Respect of women is very important in Timor’. [More…]
What is the number of Aboriginal women arrested in each of these years. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development: In view of the apparent lack of housing for rehabilitation purposes through the women’s refuges, can the Minister say whether pressure can be put on the States to give priority in allocation of welfare housing to the clients of the refuges? [More…]
Those who come from women’s refuges need requisite housing and need it at a low or subsidised cost. [More…]
I am not aware whether any priority is given to women coming from the women ‘s refuges at the moment. [More…]
-Has the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs become aware of the fact that a number of Australians, particularly members of Amnesty International, are concerned about the imprisonment for alleged political offences of large numbers of Indonesian men and women particularly on Buru Island? [More…]
They are flesh and blood- men and women who work in factories and men and women who supply the factories with materials and services. [More…]
Those members of the Senate who have been in contact with the various aid programs sponsored by this Agency will have come in contact with thousands of young men and women who have come from underdeveloped countries for training within Australia and they will be aware of the effectiveness with which that program has been carried out. [More…]
I would like the Minister representing the Minister for Defence to inform the Senate who is responsible for approving an advertisement currently being shown on commercial television aimed at seducing young men to join the Australian Army by suggesting a number of totally unrealistic enticements to Army life, in particular by a most blatant and offensive piece of visual sexism which suggests that the army provides its soldiers with the use of beautiful young women. [More…]
In addition, and not to be forgotten, are the men and women who work in the industry in the various processing plants and shops. [More…]
Is the Queensland Government withholding from use funds provided to it by the Commonwealth Government for women’s shelters. [More…]
The Queensland Government has not passed on funds from the 1976-77 Commonwealth block grant under the Community Health Program to two women’s refuges, one in Brisbane and the other in Townsville. [More…]
The principle is that each allied country or Commonwealth country accepts responsibility for their ex-service men and exservice women by giving them benefits similar to our repatriation benefits. [More…]
Our understanding is that it is a women’s team which does indeed comprise 4 players and a manager. [More…]
The Federal Government gave funds to the Queensland Government to cover such projects as women’s health centres and shelters. [More…]
The present Government changed its method of funding to the States for the provision of women’s shelters. [More…]
The present Government gave the Queensland Government a block grant to support the women’s shelters which existed in Queensland. [More…]
Is the Queensland Government withholding from use funds provided to it by the Commonwealth Government for women ‘s shelters. [More…]
The Queensland Government has not passed on funds from the 1976-77 Commonwealth block grant under the Community Health Program to two women s refuges, one in Brisbane and the other in Townsville. [More…]
The simple fact is that when a national government sees a national need to set up and to support any sort of welfare funding, be it for women’s shelters, for aged persons’ housing or for anything else, it should do so. [More…]
I turn now to the disadvantaged groups in the community- the younger people, the juniors, those who are leaving school and women especially. [More…]
The majority of married women whom I know work because of economic necessity, not because they particularly want to. [More…]
The North- West Star of 1 1 May of this year carried the headline ‘Juniors and women now 60 per cent of Isa unemployed’. [More…]
Traditionally adult men make up the bulk of unemployed, but last month women and junior men comprised 60 per cent of the city’s workless. [More…]
Of the 563 out of work 1 1 1 were junior men, 137 junior women and 86 adult women. [More…]
Tell that to the Aborigines in Western Australia or the women’s refuges in Queensland. [More…]
The number of women appointed to, or promoted to, senior positions in the Department of Education during 1 976 was ten. [More…]
Did the Minister approve an advertisement currently being shown on commercial television aimed at seducing young men to join the Australian Army, which suggests a number of totally unrealistic aspects of army life, in particular a most blatant and offensive piece of visual sexism, suggesting that the army provides its soldiers with the use of beautiful young women. [More…]
It is a fact that the present entitlement of women to the age pension commences at 60 years. [More…]
The Hancock superannuation inquiry report which has been tabled recommended that women should no longer be paid this pension at the age of 60 years. [More…]
I assure the honourable senator that the Government has not in mind any proposal to change the age of eligibility to 65 years in the case of women. [More…]
I am referring to the extremely high participation in the work force of married women of migrant background. [More…]
The rate is much higher than the comparable rate for Australian born married women. [More…]
This extremely high rate of participation by migrant women in the work force exists because of the need for migrant families to become established in Australia. [More…]
Most of the migrant women working in Australia were working in areas such as manufacturing industry. [More…]
Thousands upon thousands of married migrant women working in manufacturing industry have lost their jobs in the last 2 years. [More…]
Those women do not appear in the unemployment statistics, because if they are married and the husband is earning more than $70 a week they are not eligible for the dole. [More…]
If Senator Lajovic is genuinely interested in the extent of unemployment in migrant groups, I suggest that he address himself to investigating the unemployment amongst married migrant women. [More…]
I refer to the financial plight of women’s refuges in the Australian Capital Territory and throughtout Australia. [More…]
I shall read to the Senate a letter written to the Prime Minister (Mr Fraser) by the Co-ordinator of the Canberra Women’s Refuge, because I think it summarises and expresses very clearly the problems being faced by women’s refuges and the failure to date of the Government to face its responsibilities in that regard. [More…]
The total bed occupancy of women and children at the Canberra Women ‘s Refuge in the first three months of 1 977 only, was 1896 people. [More…]
It is estimated that in the financial year ending this month that 200 women and 300 children will have used the Canberra Women’s Refuge. [More…]
Over and above this fact however, the members of the Canberra Women’s Refuge wish to stress the urgency of the need for funding for all community-based women’s refuges presently struggling to function throughout Australia. [More…]
None of the women ‘s refuges that have been opened since your party came to power in 1975 have received any government funding. [More…]
This will be a tragedy for Australian society as a whole and for the individual women and children who will be forced, because of no option to remain at the mercy of violence and/or alcoholic and mentally cruel husbands and fathers. [More…]
The relatively small cost of funding fifty women’s refuges throughout Australia should be compared with the escalation in costs to our society if refuges cease to function. [More…]
For instance, in many cases women under pressure from their home situations may finally succumb to the extent of requiring psychiatric and in-patient treatment, with complete care of their children usually being taken over by a government institution. [More…]
As we believe that you and the vast majority of parliamentarians regard women’s refuges as worthwhile and necessary to Australia in 1977 and the immediate future, we ask that you guarantee funding for all these women ‘s refuges that are constantly filled to capacity. [More…]
Yours sincerely, CHRIS HILVERT Canberra Women’s Refuge [More…]
I conclude my remarks with the plea that the Government take note of the plight of women’s refuges throughout Australia. [More…]
To put men and women back to work. [More…]
My letter to Estimates Committee D specified: ‘Department of Health (Capital Territory Health Commission) Division 332.1- Grants in aid to other organisations (Family Planning Association, Community agencies engaged in health activities, Canberra Women’s Refuge).’ [More…]
This matter related to the grant by the Government to the Women’s Centre Incorporated. [More…]
This controversy, which was part of the discussions at Estimates Committee D, prompted some people in Canberra to look a little more closely at the activities of the Women’s Centre Incorporated which was located at 3 Lobelia Street, O’Connor. [More…]
These included the Women’s Electoral Lobby, Women’s Liberation, Rape Crisis Counselling, Feminist Bookshop, the Women’s Information Service and the Abortion Counselling Service. [More…]
The Abortion Counselling Service says that the money goes to the Women’s Housing Information Service which, as far as I can determine, is a non-existent organisation. [More…]
An advertisement for the Women’s Information Service at Lobelia Street states that it answers queries on abortion, amongst other things. [More…]
A survey reported in the Canberra Times is attributed in the first instance to the Abortion Counselling Service and then, 10 days later, to the Women’s Health and Counselling Service. [More…]
The Capital Territory Health Commission states that it gives money to the Women’s Centre at Lobelia Street to assist with the payment of the salary of an education/information officer for the Women’s Information and Health Counselling Service’. [More…]
At pages 103 to 105 they will see some preliminary questions by me in which the Women’s Centre became confused - [More…]
At that stage there became, not on my part but presumably on the pan of officials, some confusion between the Women’s Centre and the Women’s [More…]
Estimates Committee D returned to the Commission on page 106 and my questioning about the grant to the Women’s Centre continues until page 109. [More…]
Yet 5 months later grants to Australian Capital Territory organisations under the community health program were announced in the Press including one for the so-called Women’s Information and Health Counselling Service at Lobelia Street. [More…]
I suggest that even if the Government and the Health Commission do not know what goes on, the Women’s Centre, the Women’s Information Services, the Abortion Counselling Services, the Women’s Housing Information Service, the Women’s Information and Health Counselling Service- call it what you will- knows what goes on and is grateful that important officials in government agencies are making it extremely difficult for members of Parliament to get to the truth. [More…]
I did not do so earlier because I did not have time and it is not related strictly to the report of Estimates Committee D. I am quite happy to proceed with detailing the situation in respect of the Women’s Centre in Lobelia Street. [More…]
The answer came from a Canberra woman who phoned the telephone number referred to by the Health Commission authorities as being the number of the Women’s Centre Incorporated. [More…]
She asked to be put through to the Women’s Information and Health Counselling Service which is the organisation receiving government finance. [More…]
She was given full details about how the service helped women to go to Sydney for abortions. [More…]
She asked whether any financial assistance was provided to help such women, and the person at the other end replied: ‘No. [More…]
That caused confusion between the Women’s Centre Incorporated and the Women’s Refuge. [More…]
Is it a condition of government grants-in-aid to organisations running women’s health centres that they do not counsel about abortion, that they oppose abortion or that they favour abortion? [More…]
I think it is sensible that in the Australian Capital Territory, which is situated in the centre of a State in which the abortion laws are perhaps more liberal than they are in the Territory, and the Women’s Health Counselling Service should provide information for and against abortions. [More…]
Must be totally devoted to Abbo’s; the PLO; AUS: Women’s Lib; Woodchip bombings; Anti-Uranium Demonstrations; Russian Imperialism; Gough Whitlam and poofters. [More…]
I think the facts are not only as may have been suggested by the honourable senator- that the Commonwealth Government is building child care centres in some areas- but also that more women are finding it difficult to obtain employment, and what may have been a need in some time past is no longer the same need. [More…]
One would be if women working in a factory under very poor conditions wished to take some sort of industrial action to gain a benefit, such as child care facilities or the facility to learn English during the course of their working day. [More…]
I refer very briefly at this point to a study of such workers, which was a study of women migrant workers in factories in Melbourne. [More…]
This report was undertaken in 1975 as a research report for International Women’s Year by the Centre for Urban Research and Action in Fitzroy, Victoria. [More…]
Women are a quarter of the work force and in some sectors eight out of ten. [More…]
This report, to which I have referred, explored the claim about married migrant women in industry being trebly disadvantaged and found that that was the case. [More…]
If the conditions of married migrant women working in such places are to be improved, they will be improved only by actions of the workers themselves. [More…]
She referred to the example of women who take some industrial action for the purpose of trying to have English classes established in their work shop or to have child minding centres in their place of employment. [More…]
These women would not be exempted under section 45d (3). [More…]
I would say that any honourable senator who has had to deal with fringe cases involving women who have suffered some strain and who did not have a union available to them but had to rely on the solicitor acting for the insurance company will know that these workers are bled white, whether it be by the insurance company or by the legal eagle. [More…]
It is only the trade unions, warts and all, that can protect some of the Greek women and ensure that they get their entitlements. [More…]
These have been brought out in reports of unsupported mothers and various other women who have had to cop an arrogant foreman because although they wanted to take militant action they could not afford to have even a week ‘s stoppage. [More…]
What was once considered to be something of a way of life for many men, women and children has become something of a trauma. [More…]
Women and children are being shot in the streets, ‘ then goes dead. [More…]
She is a member of the Gippsland Regional Council, president of the Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women and a member of various other voluntary organisations. [More…]
Will that finance be in the form of a block grant which will enable a State Premier to refuse to pass it on for the very purpose for which it was intended, as the Queensland Premier has done with a block grant for the women’s refuges? [More…]
What is the number of Aboriginal women arrested in each of these years. [More…]
Will the Minister investigate and following his investigation inform the Senate of the number of men and women who are not attending universities or colleges of advanced education and who have been issued with student travel concessions on Qantas Airways Ltd by the Australian Union of Students travel service? [More…]
Will the Minister undertake to investigate the men and women engaged upon ministerial and departmental staffs who hold student concessional tickets on Qantas issued by the AUS Travel Service Pty Ltd? [More…]
I preface my question, which is directed to the Minister for Social Security, by referring to a letter that I wrote to the Minister on 3 August regarding Federal funding for the Namoi Women’s Shelter in Adelaide. [More…]
From these numbers, how many in each of the four divisions are (a) women, (b) Aborigines, (c) migrants, and (d) physically or mentally handicapped persons. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Social Security: Why, after approving a grant of $24,400 to the Women’s Trade Union Commission for the co-ordination of a child care project for working people, has she refused funds for the resulting Eden Park industrial estate child care project? [More…]
If so, why was the Women’s Trade Union Commission not informed of those changes? [More…]
A further factor not seen in the unemployment figures is the so-called hidden unemployed-the large numbers of married women who have lost their jobs in the last two years due to the continuing downfall in employment opportunities in this country. [More…]
Men like me and I suppose women in the Parliament sometimes can be most frustrating to a committee secretariat. [More…]
In discussions that I have had with my colleague Mr Young we agreed that in view of the high degree of unemployment that exists in these industries and the problems that are created by men and women being put out of work in these industries, there is little that the Government can do other than what it is doing. [More…]
1 ) Did the Australian Federation of University Women, A.C.T., resolve ‘that this Association protest at the brevity of time allowed for making submissions to the various Governmental Inquiries’. [More…]
Since there are a number of women in Parliament now we had discussions about the sorts of goods we could buy in the bar. [More…]
Does the Minister representing the Minister for Health agree that despite the Government’s declaration of support for women’s refuges its withdrawal from direct funding, the reduction of 25 per cent in Commonwealth contributions to capital costs and the reduction of 1 5 per cent for operating costs mean that there is now a disincentive for the States to fund existing refuges and no hope of the funding of new refuges? [More…]
My colleague the Minister for Health issued a statement with regard to the funding of women’s refuges following the Budget Speech on Tuesday night. [More…]
Mr Hunt released information which showed that the Government was providing continued funding to 19 women’s refuges already approved for assistance under the program and that up to a further Sim had been set aside within the vote for the funding of additional refuges. [More…]
Mr Hunt said that the Government was concerned that assistance should be available to women and children in crisis situations and that it regarded the funding of women’s refuges as a matter of the highest importance. [More…]
I believe that statement by the Minister shows Senator Ryan that the Commonwealth wishes to discuss with the States the matter of continued funding for women’s refuges and that it shows the continuing concern which the Government has for support for crisis and emergency accommodation. [More…]
We want to see the great majority of ordinary members of trade unions, decent working men and women, having their say. [More…]
There are many women working at the Redfern Mail Exchange who support children and who have to make arrangements for the care of those children during working hours. [More…]
He always believed that working men and women should be able to enjoy the benefits and facilities of licensed clubs as much as those who had the benefit of membership of very prestigious and salubrious institutions. [More…]
I think that he was unique because he was one of the few men- I cannot readily recall any women qualifying for this distinction- who had served in the three arms of government. [More…]
-Is the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations aware that a number of married women have already lost, and others are in danger of losing, their employment, particularly in the unskilled and semi-skilled areas in the textile industry, the footwear industry, the food processing industry and in other areas of manufacturing industry because of the Commonwealth Youth Employment Scheme? [More…]
Is the Minister aware that this $63 a week, which I understood was to be an incentive to employers to create additional employment, is in actual fact being used by some employers to replace married women with younger people, which means that the employers are paying less wages, and the scheme is not being used to create additional employment at all? [More…]
In view of the fact that married women do not show up in the general unemployment figures, I ask: Is this another method being used by the Government to cook the books and make believe that unemployment figures for the future are not as bad as they would otherwise appear? [More…]
The Adult Migrant Education Program provides a range of English language learning opportunities including full-time courses, courses for migrants in industry, part-time courses and continuation courses, correspondence and radio lessons, classes for migrant women and home tutoring. [More…]
I am unable to state the exact amount for Queensland women’s refuges, but I am aware of a statement by the Minister for Health in which he said that the Commonwealth would pay directly to the Queensland women’s refuges the amounts that were available to them as there had been some difficulty last year with the State Government undertaking this expenditure through the community health program. [More…]
When I made a statement about these refuges, in response to an earlier question, I indicated that an additional Sim was available this year under the community health program for women’s refuges. [More…]
This is seen as discriminating against women. [More…]
This is the most despicable and contemptible thing this Government has done second only to its refusal to provide $900,000 for women’s refuges, to provide somewhere for women who were bashed up by brutal or alcoholic males. [More…]
Free treatment is provided to women in receipt of widows pensions and no other income, who have a dependent child or children, and also in cases of genuine hardship. [More…]
Mune, ‘Social Worker Referral of Clients to Family Planning Clinics’; W. Salter, T. Selwood and J. Leeton, Non-Attendance among Post-Natal Women at a Hospital Family Planning Clinic’; T. Murrell and J. Moss, ‘Health Care for Infants and Mothers’: in Family Planning and Health Care for Infants and Mothers (AGPS, Canberra, 1977). [More…]
There be continuing and expanding funding for the Hunter Region Working Women’ s Group so that it can continue to provide child care, legal aid, community health, welfare and educational services to the women of the Hunter Region. [More…]
This extension is something that the women of Australia have been seeking for quite some time. [More…]
I have attended many meetings in the rehabilitation area at which people have been pushing for the women who work in the home- the wives and mothers -to be able to enter the Commonwealth rehabilitation centres at no cost to themselves and take advantage of the facilities provided. [More…]
This extension will be a geat blessing to my State because the Sir Douglas Parker Rehabilitation Centre, to which the Commonwealth Government is contributing along with the State Government, will be able to introduce these women to this area. [More…]
About 100 men, women and children have traditionally camped out under the bridges of Guildford, 20 km from Perth, until this winter when the church grounds were made available and white supporters gave them tents. [More…]
In that State, small groups of men and women in their own time take on a massive responsibility to meet a program of needs for their communities with very little funds indeed. [More…]
The work of local aldermen and alderwomen is unpaid work which they have to do in their spare time. [More…]
But because of an action of the State Government in Queensland it is impossible for many men and women who seek to be represented on local authorities to do so. [More…]
It seems to me that we are rapidly reaching a stage at which we need to provide funds to these local authorities in order to pay the aldermen and alderwomen to carry out their activities so that any person who wishes to nominate, stand and achieve election should be able to carry out the work of local authority representation. [More…]
-On 25 August 1977 (Hansard, page 513) Senator Thomas asked Senator Withers, as Minister representing the Prime Minister, a question without notice concerning the role of the Women’s Advisory Body Working Party. [More…]
The Minister Assisting the Prime Minister in Women’s Affairs has supplied the following information for answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]
The Women’s Advisory Body Working Parry was established to draw up recommendations for the Government to set up a national women’s advisory body. [More…]
and will consult as widely as possible with women’s groups around Australia’. [More…]
During the subsequent consultations, women and organisations were invited to raise any aspect considered by them to be relevant to the establishment or operation of such an advisory body. [More…]
These were referred through the Office of Women’s Affairs to the relevant authorities. [More…]
The Premier there, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, refused to pass on funds to two women’s refuges- one in Brisbane and one in Townsville. [More…]
I mentioned a little earlier the women’s refuges in Queensland. [More…]
These women visit people at the rate of six a day each for every day of their working lives. [More…]
If so, why is the Government procrastinating in the implementation of this program while increasing numbers of people, especially young men and women, are being thrown out of work or are unable to find jobs? [More…]
-I preface my question, which is directed to the Minister for Social Security, by referring to the fact that women receiving supporting mothers’ benefit are allowed to earn only $20 per week if they wish to retain full benefit and that this limitation on permissible earnings is a disincentive for women to get work and rise above the poverty line. [More…]
Does the receipt of supporting mothers’ benefit preclude these women from registering as unemployed? [More…]
Equal rights with women when claiming custody of their children. [More…]
Other women 1 have tried have been first- and second-year university students who are almost completely naive to children’s needs and that has been a failure. [More…]
of spouse) for men (or women) comparable to the ‘C class widows pension. [More…]
It is little comfort for supporting fathers to hear the Minister for Social Security, Senator Guilfoyle, acknowledge that they are the victims of a gap in the social security system or remark, in a historical context, that social-welfare legislation was written initially to safe-guard women’s interests. [More…]
I was even more surprised when this morning in my mail I received a letter from Kathleen Edwards, who fortunately still quotes herself as chairman of the Women’s Welfare Issues Consultative Committee. [More…]
Only two weeks ago in this House a report was brought down giving a wide ranging number of issues in relation to women’s affairs that we should look at. [More…]
That is the Women’s Welfare Issues Consultative Committee- were very pleased to have opportunity of meeting with you and discussing women’s issues during their meeting on 28 and 29 March. [More…]
The thing that interested me about Mrs Edwards’s letter to me was that she enclosed a Press release in which she said that the sorts of issues covered in the submissions received from the community and matters raised by the members themselves included the question of increasing the mother’s allowance paid to women pensioners with dependent children and the possible extension of this benefit to all lone parents. [More…]
As I mentioned, a report from the Women’s Advisory Committee to the Prime Minister was brought down in this Parliament two weeks ago. [More…]
Apart from such delightful things as what the Committee should be called and the fact that its advisory role should be defined in relation to the Prime Minister and his needs, the Women’s Advisory Committee advises that it should set up sub-committees, working parties or task forces as necessary, drawing on its own resources when appropriate and on resources in government and non-government areas. [More…]
The establishing and maintenance of effective communication with women and women’s organisations and all interested groups and individuals was done four or five years ago when Ms Elizabeth Reid was the Prime Minister’s adviser on women’s affairs. [More…]
The Committee recommends that the Women’s Advisory Committee explore means of overcoming language and other communications barriers. [More…]
It is also recommended that the Women’s Advisory Committee should raise awareness within the community of the situation of women and of their varied and changing roles and aspirations. [More…]
That was also in operation when Ms Reid was the special adviser to the Prime Minister on women’s affairs. [More…]
While we are talking about women, we cannot go past women’s refuges. [More…]
He has failed to recognise that the women’s refuges provide a security, a haven, for people in need in our community. [More…]
We have seen over the past few years the emergence of women’s refuges, and we have seen a change not only in the amount of funding for these refuges but also in the method of funding them. [More…]
When and how did he become aware that the Queensland Government had decided in July 1976 not to pass on any Federal funds for women ‘s refuges; [More…]
1 have been informed that the Queensland Department of Health informed the Hospitals and Health Services Commission by letter of 20 July 1976 that women’s refuges in Brisbane and Townsville would be excluded from consideration when financial allocations under the Community Health Program were determined. [More…]
We have a situation in Western Australia where our own Premier not so long ago had his little bit to say on women’s refuges. [More…]
On a talkback program on the Australian Broadcasting Commission one morning he said something to the effect that women in our community would not need the services of a refuge if they sought solace from their church and if they involved themselves more in parents and citizens associations and community activities. [More…]
Can honourable senators for one minute imagine that women racing off to a person whom she has met as a result of activities in the parents and citizens association at the local school and asking for solace and help? [More…]
During an ABC talk-back show, Sir Charles Court, after extolling the virtues of his own 41 years of happy marriage, said that his Government would not consider making funds available for further shelters for women in need of refuge. [More…]
His advice to such women was to seek solace from the church, local parents and citizens associations and other community resources. [More…]
A women’s collective has requested that the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, clear up the great confusion that exists about who is responsible for funding women’s refuges. [More…]
Many letters and telegrams have recently been sent to the Minister for Social Security, Senator Guilfoyle, and the Minister for Health, Mr Hunt, urging continuation of federal funding of women ‘s refuges in the coming Budget. [More…]
Since the number of bettered women and children far exceeds the capacity of present refuges, compelling them to turn away many more than they can assist, it will be seen that if funds are cut any further the position of these women will be indeed desperate. [More…]
Sixteen per cent of women interviewed in the study were knocked unconscious during attacks, 83 per cent had bruises, 8 per cent burns and scalds, 8 per cent broken bones and 12 per cent had internal injuries. [More…]
Perth’s emergency night shelters are so overtaxed that dozens of women and children are turned away each week. [More…]
The lack of emergency accommodation available to women in distress was raised in the State Parliament this week by a Labor back-bencher, Mr K. J. Wilson (Dianella). [More…]
He said yesterday that about 2S0 women and children were turned away each month. [More…]
The pressures on women in unhappy domestic situations were immense. [More…]
There has not been any move by this Government not only to increase funding for the women’s refuges which are at present operating throughout the States but also to spend more money on providing the shelters for which women, particularly those in Western Australia, have a need. [More…]
It is obvious that there are many women’s organisations which are concerned about the matter. [More…]
The Women’s Electoral Lobby in Perth wrote to me on 10 August 1977 pointing out the fact that one refuge per thousand head of female population is necessary to provide adequate shelter. [More…]
In fact, one of the statements made by the Women’s Electoral Lobby is that 20 to 30 women with their children are turned away each day from the five existing women’s refuges in Western Australia, all of which, incidentally, are located in Perth. [More…]
The Women’s Electoral Lobby goes on to say: [More…]
These women have no option but to return to their homes, to continued mal-treatment which can lead to permanent physical and mental damage, and in some cases death. [More…]
There is a great need for women’s refuges. [More…]
We must not say that purely and simply because it is women who are seeking to have this facility made available to them that they are the only ones who would use it. [More…]
Of course, the refuges also provide women with an opportunity to make a real choice about their future living situation. [More…]
They provide women with information on social security facilities that are available to them. [More…]
They also provide women with information on child care facilities, what they can expect under the State Housing Commission welfare housing project and all these things. [More…]
As I said, the refuges provide women with information about child care centres. [More…]
We have had massive expenditure cuts in real terms to most of the needy areas, such as in respect to Aboriginals and the women’s and children services about which I have spoken already. [More…]
I should now like to deal with the subject of women and unemployment. [More…]
But at that time the report said that almost half the married women in Australia were income earners in the 1973-74 year but that most received less than $5,000 a year. [More…]
That does not surprise me because we live in a society which has always tended to say that it does not matter how much work women do, they are not entitled to the same facilities or to the same wage rates as men. [More…]
It is only in recent years that we have found that women are gradually getting equal pay for equal service. [More…]
In May 1975, 42 per cent of all married women were in the work force. [More…]
In the years between 1968 and 1975 there was an increase of 12 per cent in the number of married women who were working. [More…]
Perhaps the figures for this year, when they eventually become available, will show that there has not been a great increase and that in actual fact there are still about 42 per cent of married women in the work force. [More…]
Married women, whether their income is required in their family unit or not, are not able to receive unemployment benefits if their husbands are working. [More…]
We might have a lot of different ideas about why women who are married go to work. [More…]
I believe that a great number of those married women who go to work do so because of economic necessity. [More…]
A lot of these women to whom I have spoken do not even want to work. [More…]
Perhaps we should examine the situation that would exist if women were not able to go to work. [More…]
We are always reading reports of women who are taking a great number of pills such as Valium and Librium to keep them reasonably sane during an ordinary working day or a non-working day if they happen to be nonworking women. [More…]
Perhaps we could say that if those women were unable to go to work a great number of them would be potential suicide cases. [More…]
In times of economic stress it is the married women who are first to be put off from their positions. [More…]
A former Minister for Education in the Western Australian Government not so long ago said that he was quite sure that women really should not have higher qualifications because they were not going to be used in the main, and therefore, were not of any benefit and were only tying up funds that could be better used for other purposes. [More…]
The impression that I gained from his speech was that he actually could not see any reason for women in our community not being content to be factory fodder or office fodder. [More…]
Mr MacKinnon suggested that women studying for higher qualifications may be wasting their time . [More…]
The 1976 government statistics indicate that SO per cent of women in the work force are unskilled. [More…]
Evidently, Mr MacKinnon wishes to see women remain in the lowest paid, lowest status jobs. [More…]
If women move out of these jobs, who is going to fill them. [More…]
This is a valid concern, and I do not doubt that some people will support Mr MacKinnon’s view because they do not wish to see the better jobs (men’s jobs) filled by women. [More…]
However, women must not remain the lackeys. [More…]
The attitude that women belong at the bottom of the employment barrel will change only if women do aspire to and do attain these positions. [More…]
We have to look too at the schemes which are introduced by governments to sometimes threaten the livelihood of married women. [More…]
I was told that married women are being put off their jobs and a position is therefore being created by an employer to take on a young person who has been unemployed for six months. [More…]
But the Bantus gained great respect for these hardy white men and women who were fiercely honest and prepared to fight to the death for their rights and freedom and, Mr President, they still are. [More…]
The Bantu women understand work a lot better than do the men. [More…]
As I have said before the Bantu women appear to be more susceptible to this process. [More…]
I refer to the example of the funding of women’s refuges. [More…]
Women’s refuges throughout Australia are still without the commitment of a federal properly funded program for their support. [More…]
For example there is extensive unemployment amongst married women who are not registered as unemployed but who are anxious to seek jobs. [More…]
She describes a situation where 1,000 women applied for 80 jobs recently advertised by the Public Service Board. [More…]
I think the fact that 1,000 women turned up to seek 80 jobs demonstrates something of the extent of unemployment amongst married women in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
According to this affidavit there are 142 prisoners, 60 of them women, held in solitary confinement in cells l.S meters long, one meter wide and just over one meter high. [More…]
One might add to those bald unemployment figures the fact that a survey done by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in May 1977 showed that in Australia there were 72,500 people working part time who were anxious to obtain full time employment but could not do so, and that there were another 200,000 women in Australia who wanted to obtain employment but could not do so. [More…]
We can spend $2m for people in Mr Fraser ‘s electorate who want better television reception but we cannot do anything for people who are migrants, who are women, who are unemployed, who are educationally handicapped and so on. [More…]
The figures we are using do not include what people often call the hidden factor, the women who comprise 3.8 per cent of the adult work force, who do not normally apply to the Commonwealth Employment Service and therefore are not registered. [More…]
To put men and women back to work. [More…]
I refer to the very large number- in fact the unmeasured number- of unemployed married women workers in our community. [More…]
It is probably known, even to honourable senators on the government side, that women in recent years have comprised about one-third of the work force. [More…]
It is probably acknowledged by them that women workers contributed significantly to the growth of Australia during the boom period. [More…]
However, what is not acknowledged by the Government or by anyone else, it would seem, is the circumstances facing women, particularly married women, who have lost their employment and their livelihood because of the current economic recession. [More…]
Yet, if we look at what has happened to women in our community who have exercised the choice to be part of the work force, who have shown the incentive to go out to work for the improvement of their families or for thenself fulfilment, who have had the motivation to be constructive and energetic about their community and about their families, we find that the Government has totally ignored what has happened to them when they face unemployment. [More…]
Let us examine some of those international covenants and compare what is contained in them with what is the real situation in Australia today, specifically in regard to unemployed women workers and what the Government has done, or to be more accurate, has failed to do about them. [More…]
All measures shall be taken to guarantee women’s right to work as the inalienable right of every human being and to revise, as necessary, existing laws, collective agreements, practices or customs which limit the integration of women in the workforce on a footing of equality with men. [More…]
The State Parties shall undertake to adopt all appropriate measures to ensure to women, married or unmarried, equal rights with men in the field of economic social life and, in particular [More…]
Despite the fact that women have constituted one-third of the work force until very recently, the unemployment rate for women as measured is higher than the rate for men in every category, and this is despite the fact that the mechanisms for recording the number of unemployed women are quite unsatisfactory. [More…]
I say ‘married persons’, not ‘married women’, because the Act does not discriminate on the basis of sex. [More…]
Because of that extremely discriminatory situation, most married women who lose their jobs and whose husbands remain in employment simply do not go to a Commonwealth Employment Service office to register as unemployed. [More…]
The overworked and understaffed staff at the Commonweath Employment Service offices do discourage women in these circumstances from registering as unemployed because they recognise that those women, or men if that happens to be the case, are not eligible for the unemployment benefit and indeed their chances of finding employment through the Commonwealth Employment Service are very small indeed. [More…]
Generally speaking, married women do not register as unemployed and therefore they are not counted in the unemployment statistics which are measured regularly by the Commonwealth Employment Service. [More…]
Despite the fact that so many women do not register, for the reasons that I have just explained, the unemployment statistics still show a higher rate of unemployment amongst women than amongst men in every category and in some categories it is quite disastrously higher. [More…]
Despite the difficulty of measuring the extent of unemployment amongst women, an Australian Bureau of Statistics survey called ‘Persons not in the Work Force’ which was published recently claims that at least 200,000 women- that is nearly a quarter of a million women- are looking for jobs but cannot enter the work force either because there are not any jobs available or because child minding facilities are totally inadequate. [More…]
It shows that 17,500 women had insufficient work experience to gain work. [More…]
Yet, of course, this Government has failed totally to establish proper retraining or work training facilities for women in this circumstance. [More…]
It shows that 15,900 unemployed women are considered by employers to be too young or too old for work, whatever that may mean. [More…]
So, in a way that is quite different from that for men and in a way that shows that they are much more disadvantaged than men, women often are judged to be too young or too old for work which they would be qualified to do. [More…]
We find- I think this is particularly significant 11,000 unemployed women giving unsuitable hours- that is, shift work- as the reason why they cannot take employment. [More…]
It is the case, of course, that the Government has maintained in a way the child care program which was initiated by the Labor Government, but it certainly has not been prepared to put resources or planning into it so that the majority of women needing child care facilities to enable them to take employment would be in a position to do so. [More…]
So, those 11,000 women who are unable to take employment, even if they could find it, because of a lack of child care services will continue to experience a lack of child care service in the forthcoming year. [More…]
The survey shows that 19,000 unemployed women seeking employment found that there were no vacancies in the sort of work for which they were qualified. [More…]
What honourable senators may be aware of is that if women with dependent children are looking for work and cannot find it their fate, of course, is to be relegated to the supporting mothers’ benefit. [More…]
Yet that is the fate facing 7,400 women with the care of dependent children who are unable to find work. [More…]
There are no attempts to assist these women towards economic independence. [More…]
What has happened in the current economic circumstances is that women who were welcomed by employers in the late 1950s and the 1960s because they were prepared to do the unskilled, the unpleasant, the low paid, the low status jobs- the production-line jobs in factories, the cleaning jobs in hospitals and so forth- are no longer wanted. [More…]
Many of the workers who have lost those sorts of jobs are women and, having lost their jobs, they are faced with permanent unemployment, with no support at all from the present Government. [More…]
At that time the employers were glad to have the unskilled, low paid labourer women, particularly migrant women. [More…]
Senator Mulvihill has often raised in this chamber the plight of women, particularly migrant women in factories. [More…]
An excellent study was done of women, particularly migrant women in these circumstances who, not even speaking the language, were not in a position to claim decent wages and decent conditions and were not in a position to enlist the support of their union officials to fight for justice for them. [More…]
So these women are thrown onto the unemployment market with no assistance whatsoever. [More…]
Indeed they do, although it is heartening to see that the Labor Government in New South Wales is taking some steps to prevent this particular kind of exploitation of women. [More…]
The figures for April this year showed that of the 17,500 persons currently training under the NEAT scheme, only 7,100 were women; 2,171 were women training onthejob; 1,250 were women in full-time training, a very low figure; and 230 were women in parttime training. [More…]
Compared to the estimated figure of the Australian Bureau of Statistics of 200,000 women unemployed, the 7,000 who have some sort of training available to them under the NEAT scheme is a mere drop in the ocean. [More…]
I raise this subject tonight because it seems to me that this particular group of unemployed married women, in most cases with dependants, has been totally neglected by the Fraser Government. [More…]
It seems to me that the plight of unemployed married women, whose families are dependent on their incomes, is at least as serious as the plight of unemployed school leavers and for that group of unemployed no schemes have been proffered. [More…]
It seems to me that it is the ultimate hypocrisy by a Government which professes the philosophy of individual choice and persons having the right to pursue employment if they so choose to ignore completely the fact that at least 200,000 women throughout Australia have been deprived of that very basic right; that is, the right to earn a living. [More…]
It is outrageous that most of those women have suffered in financial terms and in personal terms. [More…]
Is the Minister for Social Security in a position to comment on the criticisms made by the Archbishop of Sydney, Sir Marcus Loane, on the funding and operation of women ‘s refuges and health centres in Sydney? [More…]
I am aware that my colleague, the Minister for Health, had drawn to his attention the reported criticism of the Archbishop of Sydney regarding the funding of women’s refuges. [More…]
The Minister for Health said that in considering this reported criticism by the Anglican Archbishop it is important to distinguish between the services which are provided by the women’s refuges and the individual philosophies of some groups which support the need for such centres. [More…]
However, that does not appear to be sufficient justification for disregarding the services which are provided to women in crisis and emergency situations. [More…]
Basically, the centres have received financial support in recognition of an assertion that the existing system of health care is not entirely adequate to meet all the special health care needs of women. [More…]
Furthermore, the rate at which the centres are being utilised by women seems to provide clear confirmation of the need. [More…]
They are using the innocent men and women of the union. [More…]
Fortunately, that move failed; but we have what appears to be a concerted effort within the union movement by only certain sections and certain leaders to destroy our way of life and to use the men and women of Australia to do it. [More…]
These bare statistics do not take into account the number of married women who would like to work but who are not registered and those people who have left school, been unable to find employment, and gone back to school. [More…]
They included the development of a Navy supply centre and Army workshop facility at the defence establishment at Zetland in New South Wales; sleeping accommodation for the Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps at Puckapunyal in Victoria; the consolidation into Bankstown of the Bankstown and Lidcombe government aircraft plants; modernisation of facilities, stage 2, H.M.A. [More…]
We have had elections that perhaps were thought would be elections on other issues, but basically the Australian people are concerned with what group of men and women is best capable of continuing to operate the economy of this country. [More…]
Many women like this sort of arrangement. [More…]
In Victoria this problem has been taken up by an organisation called the Women’s Action Alliance under a very capable president, Mrs Joan Adamson. [More…]
Jobs for the young will remain scarce years after the economy recovers because of the number of married women in the work force, a top employers’ spokesman warned yesterday. [More…]
The director of the Australian Council of Employers Federations, Mr George Polites, said the present youth unemployment crises was largely a result of the increasing proportion of married women in the labor force. [More…]
The publicity which has been given to women’s libbers and equal pay provisions for women have brought some married to feel inferior, to think that they are not making a worthwhile contribution. [More…]
He mentioned the concern of the Women’s Action Alliance for this matter but I notice that he was fairly careful not to go on and advocate the proposal put by the Women’s Action Alliance for a housewife’s wage to be taken out of the husband’s salary, which would involve the setting up of a bureaucracy and the active discouragement of women to go into the work force. [More…]
This will probably involve the establishment of a guaranteed minimum income scheme in the form suggested by Professor Henderson rather than by way of legislation which I believe, in the case of Senator Lewis’ suggestion, will in fact actively discourage women from working. [More…]
One wonders why women should not be allowed to use their skills and get the same satisfaction as men in the community if that is what they wish to do. [More…]
I do not believe families, including children, will be happy if women who have skills and expertise are discriminated against in the work force as used to be the case in the 1950s and 1960s before we had equal pay. [More…]
Women were actively encouraged to enter the work force in the 1950s and 1960s by the government of the day and by industry of the day because they were a source of cheap labour in a growing economy. [More…]
I believe that to attribute the present unemployment problems to married women in the work force, as Senator Lewis did, or to people having two jobs, as Senator Kilgariff did earlier, or to the left wing unionists, whoever they may be- we could talk about that at length- is getting away from the whole basis of the problem. [More…]
If we took the arguments of Senator Kilgariff and Senator Lewis concerning married women to the extreme, I do not believe Senator Walters, Senator Martin or Senator Coleman would be very impressed when we insisted that they stay home rather than have incomes. [More…]
Women who sew in factories have special skills that are needed in the community. [More…]
The statistics on the unemployed do not contain thousands of married women who once they have lost their jobs, do not bother to register for employment. [More…]
Young women are facing a 19.1 per cent unemployment rate. [More…]
The severe effects of unemployment on women generally are evidenced by the fact that two-thirds of those who are unemployed in the clerical and administrative category in New South Wales- which comprises some 25,500 people- are females and the clerical and administrative category represents more than 25 per cent of total unemployment in New South Wales. [More…]
Sixty-two per cent of the total female unemployment comprised women under 20 years of age. [More…]
In numerical terms, 1,259 young women were looking for jobs in Wollongong in September- last monthand registered job vacancies totalled a mere 27. [More…]
Young women are the most seriously affected group in what one must describe as an appalling situation. [More…]
Studies undertaken by the United Kingdom Department of Labour indicate that the great percentage of this hidden ingredient are women. [More…]
In these circumstances one must conclude that the true position for young women seeking employment is worse than the statistics indicate. [More…]
Volumes have been written on the psychological effects of enforced idleness on young men and women. [More…]
In government we will take every step possible to alleviate the dire situation in which young men and young women are now finding themselves. [More…]
They come from changes in the composition of the work force and particularly of course in recent years from the increased participation of married women. [More…]
What is the economic advantage of employing a junior in many industries if it costs more than it is worth, especially in view of the move in our society towards the increasing employment of married women. [More…]
Married women may be better value economically. [More…]
In 1964, 33.4 per cent of our work force consisted of married women. [More…]
Equal rights with women when claiming custody of their children. [More…]
But when unions get to the stage of holding the whole nation and the people to ransom without regard for the suffering of women and children, it is time we took a second look at ourselves as Australians and asked: ‘What are we doing? [More…]
The figures do not include many of the women in the communitythe group that quite often is referred to as the hidden unemployed. [More…]
I think Senator Grimes made a comment about women being the hidden unemployed; I add this other group. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs whether he is aware that minimal increases in some pensions paid to veterans has placed many single or widowed ex-servicemen and women in a situation in which all fringe benefits have been eliminated. [More…]
I ask the Leader of the Government: In view of the fact that this woman does not rate very highly with a very great proportion of people, particularly the women, of Australia- [More…]
1 per cent of Greeks and 70.6 per cent of Yugoslavs had not undertaken English language courses, and that the percentage was likely to be worse for other family members, particularly women. [More…]
The commission was set up after an incident on January 5 last year in which vehicles carrying 74 men, women and children were intercepted by a party of police at Skull Creek, near Laverton in western Australia. [More…]
He had received reports of police dragging aboriginal men and women from Gertrude Street hotels by their feet and hair, and taking them away. [More…]
It is well known that there would be approximately 30-40 Aboriginal men and women in Townsville who are forced to live in the parks in and around the city area. [More…]
I refer particularly to the ability of some police to harass and exercise brutality towards Aboriginal children and Aboriginal women. [More…]
Many Aboriginal women are treated by some police officers as easy sex objects. [More…]
Many of the old and young women who frequent the parks with the homeless alcoholics are usually the victims in these cases. [More…]
The lady who compiled the report says, in relation to Aboriginal women: [More…]
What is the number of Aboriginal women arrested in each of these years. [More…]
We as a government are prepared to stand by the honest, decent working men and women of this country. [More…]
We have introduced these amendments to the legislation to make sure that the rights of the working men and women of this country will be protected. [More…]
He said that because these women told him that he was not interested in providing amenities. [More…]
They worked in slave labour conditions, they had appalling pay and appalling conditions until intelligent women worked in the area and moved to reform it. [More…]
They worked to give women who had the real talents to be nurses- not the lady bountifuls- the right to work as nurses in decent conditions for decent pay. [More…]
This Bill will allow this Government to force women workers back to working for the least possible pay that industry will pay them. [More…]
Already this Government has claimed that women demanding equal pay is a cause of inflation. [More…]
For 23 years a Liberal-Country Party Government allowed women to be exploited and to work for the worst pay in the worst conditions. [More…]
Thousands of working women are dependent on awards for their legal entitlements. [More…]
This Bill could be used to reduce the standards of these women. [More…]
Unions are the only backstop working women have as a reference for wages and conditions. [More…]
In many cases they have been a pretty poor backstop, but they are the only backstop the women have. [More…]
The Anti-Discrimination Board in New South Wales has said that most of its complaints have come from women in industry and that this is really the area in which women need most protection. [More…]
What sort of protection are they going to get if their unions are deregistered and the women have no reference point. [More…]
If a group of women were really concerned about and fought for, say, child care facilities and their union backed them, it could be deregistered. [More…]
If women, say, objected to producing munitions for the next war and went on strike because they had a moral feeling about the material they were producing, their whole union could be deregistered. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that I have said here from time to time that a substantially increased demand for adult migrant education is emerging for a variety of reasons, including the nature of refugees, the nature of migrants, the emergence of women in the field and, to some degree, unemployment. [More…]
We have had evidence of women admitting to the taking of more than 50 compound analgesics a day, and such people represent 20 per cent of those who suffer kidney failure. [More…]
We believe that at the moment men might be the greater drunks, but they are addicted also to tobacco; that at the moment women might be in even greater danger with the use of analgesics and sedatives, but they are turning increasingly also to tobacco and alcohol; that our children are turning increasingly to alcohol and tobacco and we are afraid that they are now turning also to cannabis. [More…]
One of the frightening things in the report is that analgesics which until now have not been seen as a problem are affecting the health of a great number of women in the community who have no idea of the problem they are causing themselves. [More…]
In very many ways this is a formula for these women’s death and they do not know it. [More…]
To point up that problem I shall quote from a circular put out by the Working Women’s Centre which refers to a survey conducted by the New South Wales Department of Health in 1971. [More…]
Sedatives/Tranquillizers: 10 per cent of men and 23.6 per cent of women are regular users and 30.5 per cent claim to be taking them every day. [More…]
A recent study of workers in Melbourne showed that the greatest group of workers under stress, dissatisfied with their jobs and life in general, were semi-skilled women workers. [More…]
In particular, some of the factors which have influenced today’s decision include the increasing number of refugees entering Australia, the Government’s desire to improve access to language classes for migrant women, a general increase in demand for English language classes for migrants, and the commendable way in which some employers are encouraging their employees to develop facility with the English language. [More…]
This will be of particular importance for migrant women employees. [More…]
The women’s shelters meet a great need in our society. [More…]
Any humanitarian will admit to the need for women’s shelters because of the inconsistencies of the capitalist system, whereby profit, selfishness and greed are the No. [More…]
1 priorities and men are influenced to the extent that they feel as though they can use women as their serfs or vassals and can ill treat them and get away with it. [More…]
There are now places where women can go for shelter. [More…]
Governments prior to the previous Government treated women as vassals. [More…]
We have heard Senator Walters speak about the role of women and say that they should be paid for being in the kitchen. [More…]
People in the textile industry have said that they could have continued to produce textiles and make fabrics in this country but for the introduction of equal pay for women. [More…]
There are people in this industry who are saying today that the reason why the textile industry failed was that the Labor Party supported the principle of equal pay for women. [More…]
Be that as it may, many women hold the opinion, and I support them, that they are as capable as men of putting an effort into the economy on any level. [More…]
They used to steal sheep and they objected to their women being violated, and for that reason they had to be obliterated and annihilated. [More…]
With the removal of Terry Lane from morning radio, it’s back to the kitchen sink and the soap opera for women who must comprise the majority of his audience. [More…]
Is this the latest move in a planned campaign to set women back to their former situation of ignorance and impotence? [More…]
In regard to additional funding, the honourable senator will know that in recent months a growing demand has emerged, for a variety of reasons including the specialised needs of refugee migrants, because of women seeking more education, and becuse of the desirabilitywhich the Government fully supports- of upgrading the ability to speak English of those seeking jobs. [More…]
In the light of this serious disadvantage facing women seeking employment, does the Government propose to set up any job creation schemes or employer subsidy schemes designed specifically to improve the employment situation for women? [More…]
As to her question regarding employment opportunities for women and what action has been taken by the Government in this regard, I simply point out that the various schemes the Government has intitiated in regard to employment, particularly of young peopletraining under the National Employment and Training scheme and the expansion of that scheme which the Government has undertaken, and the many other schemes to which I have referred from time to time- make no discrimination between men and women. [More…]
Those schemes are directed towards assisting and are intended to assist both men and women, without any discrimination against one sex or the other. [More…]
-I do not think that those figures reflect in any way upon the success of the Government’s actual programs but they may indicate some special difficulty in relation to vacancies for women. [More…]
I remind the Minister of a recommendation made by the Prime Minister that women’s units should be set up in the relevant departments to deal with the special problems facing women. [More…]
I ask the Minister why his Department so far has appointed only one officer to its women’s unit despite an agreement if reached with the Public Service Board that two officers are needed to made the unit effective. [More…]
Will the Minister explain why there has been a delay of almost a year in the establishment of a women’s unit in his department? [More…]
My own Department has been interested to establish, and has established, a women’s unit. [More…]
In view of the fact that earlier this year the Premier of Queensland refused to pass on funds that had been allocated by the Federal Government to two women’s refuges in that [More…]
The honourable senator is talking about specific women’s refuges. [More…]
I do not know of this Parliament ever appropriating money for a particular women’s refuge in Australia. [More…]
The community health program, which involves a block grant to the States, covers funding for women’s refuges. [More…]
In the case of the community health program for Queensland, the Government of that State did not give to the women’s refuges the funds which the block grant was given to cover. [More…]
It was arranged by the Commonwealth Government for funding to be given direct to the women’s refuges which were the subject of funds that had been made available by the Commonwealth. [More…]
The Homeless Persons Assistance Act was introduced in December 1974 on the basis of a report by a Working Party on Homeless Men and Women, which recommended, amongst other things, that capital grants totalling up to $5m a year should be made available over a three-year period to voluntary agencies and local and statutory authorities for approved projects- such as night shelters, reception and assessment centres, hostels, flats, day centres, special clinics and detoxification units- in order to upgrade and replace existing inadequate accommodation and to build new facilities for permanently and chronically homeless men and women. [More…]
I asked what had happened to the money that had been paid to the Queensland Government to fund two women’s refuges. [More…]
I referred earlier to the amount of money that is reported to have been spent on bringing 1,000 additional policemen and women into the centre of the city of Brisbane on a Saturday morning to control a rally. [More…]
I am given to understand from a policeman who was involved that policemen and policewomen who approached their senior officer and questioned whether this action would result in a confrontation between the police and people who had a difference of opinion in respect of uranium were left behind. [More…]
Removal of a provision which discriminates against married women in relation to sickness benefit and bringing the income test for sickness benefit into line with that applying to unemployment benefit. [More…]
The Government has decided to remove an element of discrimination existing in relation to the eligibility of married women to receive sickness benefit. [More…]
This provision is considered to discriminate against women. [More…]
It was thought that at the end of three years the Government and the Parliament would be in a better position to decide, for instance, whether refuges for women, which are at present funded under the community health program, should become part of the homeless persons program. [More…]
She has said that a wider program may be needed and that the Homeless Persons Assistance Act may be a suitable vehicle to cover such things as women’s shelters generally. [More…]
Senator Grimes spent some time;I think not inappropriately;discussing women’s refuges and setting out his views on how they might most appropriately be funded. [More…]
The fact is that under the provisions of the Budget and under the programs of this Government the funding of women’s refuges has been assured for this financial year. [More…]
I have not mentioned the effect of governmental neglect upon homeless women and women who may be seeking refuge. [More…]
The Government claims, in classic doublespeak, that it is removing discrimination against married women but, in fact, brings sickness benefits into line with unemployment benefits by altering the benefits available to married men. [More…]
-The Social Services Amendment Bill is concerned primarily with assisting the family and righting in some of our legislation anomalies which exist at the moment in relation to women. [More…]
We have not found it necessary to scream women’s lib. [More…]
We have not found it necessary to appoint representatives from radical women’s movements as advisers to our Government as the last Government did just to appease some of the minority vocal members of the community. [More…]
Instead, we have quitely and practically set about passing legislation which will assist the family and women in particular. [More…]
This has assisted women who were, I believe, the most disadvantaged in our community. [More…]
Previously women were not recognised as participating in the contributions which their husbands made to that superannuation fund. [More…]
The amendments mean that women are now recognised along with their husbands as contributing to that fund. [More…]
Women are entitled, as a right, to have widows’ superannuation. [More…]
We have extended the free Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service to include women and not just the pensioners and beneficiaries who previously had eligibility to the fund. [More…]
The provision has been extended to women who are not necessarily going back into the work force but just going into the home. [More…]
I now wish to say something about the sickness benefit, especially as it relates to women. [More…]
That is, the provision which will be affected by the legislation- is considered to discriminate against women. [More…]
Indeed, I think, Senator Walters said something about the situation of women being improved by this provision. [More…]
It is not that a new entitlement is being extended to women; it is that an entitlement has been taken away from husbands whose wives are in employment. [More…]
Certainly a sort of technical equality- one could say an equality of disadvantage- has been introduced in the legislation, but I find it quite amazingly hypocritical that this change has been expressed in language which suggests that some new provision has been extended to women. [More…]
That will be the real effect achieved by this provision, which is supposed to have some beneficial effect for women. [More…]
I am looking for the figure representing women in the work force. [More…]
I did have the figure for the number of married women in the work force, but I do not seem to be able to find it now. [More…]
This time I shall not quote from an ABS publication, but there are roughly 1,500,000 women in the work force. [More…]
I think about two-thirds of those women are married. [More…]
So approximately 1,000,000 women would represent dual income families. [More…]
Otherwise, it will be a very bleak Christmas indeed for many hundreds of thousands of men, women and children, because parents do not have a fulltime job and cannot provide for their families the most meagre Christmas. [More…]
At Blackall he described one of the most beautiful women in this country as a crow. [More…]
Children and women on reserves in Queensland can be gaoled under the by-laws and regulations of those Acts. [More…]
In the same recommendation Professor Henderson recommended that the supporting mothers’ benefit should be a Commonwealth responsibility, and that to maintain justice in the community home care help, infant welfare, child care and general accommodation services for women in distress and children in distress should be upgraded and should be funded. [More…]
The same goes for the consultative committees in the States and the Women’s Welfare Advisory Committee. [More…]
Those who used to laugh at the domino theory should consider what has been happening in Cambodia ever since then and the senseless, mindless slaughter of innocent women and children, let alone male political opponents. [More…]
Just as I do to you, honourable senators, I express appreciation to those splendid men and women who in all departments serve us so well. [More…]
His wartime experience gave him a deep and continuing concern for exservicemen and women and over many years he was a powerful and effective advocate in the Parliament on their behalf. [More…]
As you may well know, Mr President, ‘railroad’ carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of 1 5 miles per hour by engines’, which in addition to endangering life and limb of passengers, roar and snort their way through the countrysides, setting fire to the crops, scaring the livestock and frightening women and children. [More…]
that a better society can only be realised by giving the men and women of Australia a greater measure of choice, power and freedom. [More…]
I will endeavour to uphold the dignity of the Senate, to pursue the interests of my home State of South Australia, and to add, if possible, to the ever increasing regard in the community for women parliamentarians already engendered by that small but effective group which graces this chamber. [More…]
However, it is not my intention to restrict myself to so-called women’s issues or to put only the woman’s point of view, whatever that is. [More…]
It emphasised that it would ‘continue its efforts to improve the status of women in the Australian society’, that it wished to contribute to the ‘further development of internationally accepted principles of human rights’ and that it would ‘work to improve the quality of education at all levels.’ [More…]
Women, individually and as a group, are faced with a similarly frustrating situation. [More…]
Once again, nice noises are made about the necessity to increase the status of women but the only way that the Government can see of going about this is to recommend the setting up of yet another council. [More…]
How can this be more valuable, how can it achieve more than active, positive measures on the part of the Government to improve the general attitude to women amongst the community as a whole and within government departments in particular? [More…]
No amount of advisory counselling will improve the status of women if the Commonwealth Public Service refuses to promote equal numbers of women as of men into senior positions, when married women are singled out by some sections of the community and held responsible for youth unemployment, although these same critics conveniently ignore the 152,000 men who hold down two jobs, when the Federal Government allows into the country, and State governments permit the sale of, the amount of degrading pornographic material which is at present available? [More…]
How can women ever respect themselves if their bodies are photographed being subjected to treatments that are not legally permitted to be done to animalssimply for the perverted pleasure of some men? [More…]
Again, the Government has two perfect opportunities for positively improving the standing of women in the community, namely, insisting on equal promotional opportunities for women in the Public Service and in banning all imported and locally made pornographic literature from sale. [More…]
The rights of Aborigines and women will never be assured if the Government and other bodies continue to blinker themselves, continue to look at the problem from the wrong end of the telescope so that individuals disappear into the middle distance and injustices and anomalies are treated by talking rather than doing. [More…]
We should consider the married women who were in the work force and have now gone out of it but who would work and who would register for employment if work were available. [More…]
I rise to comment on that portion of the GovernorGeneral’s Speech which indicated the Government’s concern with women in this country. [More…]
They consider it divisive and rather silly and believe that there is an idiotic fringe which indulges in it and that every time we have a debate on a subject some silly woman has to stand up and say where women stand. [More…]
However, I think it is time that people as serious as senators remembered that women are people and acknowledged that governments, employers, trade unions and husbands do not take seriously the very real problems of women in this community. [More…]
I was disappointed to find that the only paragraph in the Governor-General’s Speech which dealt with women directly was the following: [More…]
My Government will continue its efforts to improve the status of women in Australian society and a permanent National Women’s Advisory Council will be established. [More…]
I would have thought that we were all very well aware that in the current situation women are rapidly being reduced in status and that this country needs something much more than a permanent council to give them status, maintain their status and raise their status as citizens and human beings. [More…]
On this side of the Parliament we are certainly concerned with unemployment but I would have thought that even this Government would have taken into account the effect that continuing high unemployment has on women in the community. [More…]
Not only has this Government up to this point blamed the right to equal pay, which women won under the Whitlam Government, for the high rate of inflation that we have been suffering but also it has peddled the myth that married women in the work force are the cause of youth unemployment. [More…]
The reality is that the women who work have to work so that their families may survive. [More…]
When I consider the fact that 41.9 per cent of all married women 1 5 years and over were in the labour force in May 1977 and that those women were doing two or perhaps three jobs- being a housewife, mother and worker at the one time- I am tempted to say: ‘Stop; give it up. [More…]
We hear people maintaining that women should stay at home and mind their children, that they should let others do their jobs. [More…]
How would society like it if all those women stayed at home? [More…]
How could industry, which thinks that it can entice women out to work when it needs a cheap labour force and send them back to the kitchen when there is a recession, get on without those workers? [More…]
The May 1977 figures show that 43.4 per cent of all women 15 years and over were in the work force in Australia. [More…]
These women made up 35.6 per cent of the total labour force. [More…]
At that time 323,300 unmarried women- women who had never married, were widowed, divorced or permanently separated- were heads of families. [More…]
That figure did not include the women who had sick or alcoholic husbands and spent their lives maintaining their husbands and families. [More…]
So if the working women of this country stayed home what would happen? [More…]
What would happen in the general manufacturing area where women comprise the bulk of the work force? [More…]
Nevertheless, women can still be subjected to receiving less than equal pay and to having less than equal provisions and opportunities in the work force. [More…]
Women now make up over 32 per cent of the work force. [More…]
When one thinks of the problems for women who have the responsibilities of home and children as well as work, one is entitled to ask why those matters were not studied. [More…]
Evidently, women are to be regarded as working solely to earn pin money. [More…]
If this was the case, when women had fulfilled that most important and satisfying role of mother, they could contribute during the 30 years of vigorous life they have left. [More…]
We need legislation to ensure that women are not ‘last in first out’ as is happening at the moment- last taken on and the first most easily sacked- because, it is argued, they have a husband to keep them. [More…]
Why are there not training schemes for women in areas where there is a serious and increasing lack of skilled workers, thus enabling women to fill those vacancies? [More…]
Why cannot those sorts of programs be put into effect here and now and why cannot women play an equal part and have an equal opportunity to participate? [More…]
There are many women in the community who want to work and who need to work but who do not even know some of these jobs exist. [More…]
Why is there not some sort of imaginative information program so that women can select a satisfying job, decide to have a go at it and train for it? [More…]
I know that child care’ has become another expression which people tune out of their thinking in the same way as they do when one talks about women ‘s rights. [More…]
At the moment these difficulties place tremendous pressure on women. [More…]
But what is the Government doing to relieve some of the terrible pressures put on women when they are unemployed? [More…]
We already know that more women are suffering heart attacks than was previously the case because of the pressure of being in the work force and of performing two jobs. [More…]
What effect will all this pressure have on the health of the women of Australia? [More…]
More women will drink, smoke and take analgesics because of this pressure that is being put on them. [More…]
Some research of a minimal nature shows that, when women take the pill and drink alcohol, the alcohol becomes very dangerous because it stays in their systems longer. [More…]
Research also shows that smoking by women who take the pill is extremely dangerous. [More…]
Many women take the pill because they have to stay in the work force. [More…]
Where is there evidence that this Government is prepared to sponsor major research in many areas of health that concern women generally? [More…]
The pill has been introduced to free women. [More…]
It has been introduced to free women from having children, so that they can be sold into slavery all their lives, doing two jobs I might suggest. [More…]
But does anyone care that thousands of women have been used as guinea pigs because there are so many effects ofthe pill that are not understood? [More…]
If the Government truly believes those words it will take urgent steps to provide employment for women. [More…]
It will look to alleviate pressure on women caused by unemployment across the community. [More…]
It will ensure that working women are treated as workers with real equality of opportunity. [More…]
It will remember that women are human beings and that their good health is important to this nation. [More…]
It will remember that there is more to life than working, that too many women work too hard for too long; it is vital that they have some recreation. [More…]
It is time governments looked to the recreational needs of women and did something in a very real sense about those needs. [More…]
I hope that his statement that governments really do look at some of the things we say and really do attempt to solve some of the problems is correct and that the women of Australia will be able to look forward to having a government that really meets their needs and does not just establish committees that may take submissions. [More…]
She took the example of Australian women and the example of the Australian Aborigines. [More…]
The record of that Government was characterised by the establishment of committees such as the Women’s Welfare Issues Consultative Committee, the Women’s Advisory Committee which still has not been established but which we are told will be established one of these days and various other committees while, at the same time, the Government is cutting back on programs which were giving assistance to people in need. [More…]
We are aware of cutbacks in areas such as child care, women’s refuges, Aboriginal health programs and so on. [More…]
By imposing such ceilings on government departments, many of which are of course here in the Australian Capital Territory, the Government has virtually said to many school leavers, to many graduates of tertiary institutions, to many women seeking to rejoin the work force in the Australian Capital Territory: ‘There are no jobs for you’. [More…]
In addition to these immediate measures, the Government believes it of the utmost importance that a review be undertaken of the whole area of protective security in Australia by a person who has an appreciation of intelligence and security operations, and a concern for the liberties of individual men and women of Australia. [More…]
I conclude with a few words about the role of women in society and the importance of the family as a basic unit in society. [More…]
In her maiden speech, Senator Haines referred to the necessity to improve the status of women; Senator Melzer and Senator Ryan made similar references. [More…]
As this will certainly be the last AddressinReply speech I shall be privileged to make in the Senate, I remind the Senate that in my maiden speech some two years ago I referred to the role of women in society. [More…]
Of course, there are numerous examples of other women in the community who successfully combine these dual roles. [More…]
But the argument I am putting is that if we were to support women in the home this situation might not arise- families might stay together. [More…]
But in the past 30 years there has been a dramatic increase in the number of working women. [More…]
In 1947, 15 per cent of women in the work force were married and only 7 per cent of married women worked outside their homes. [More…]
By 1966 the number of women in the work force had doubled and 50 per cent of them were married. [More…]
By 1975, 35 per cent of the work force were women and 63 per cent of them were married. [More…]
The Bureau of Statistics figures for 1975 indicate that there were 505,300 married women and 23,300 other females without children under eleven in the work force. [More…]
Studies of women in the work force in several countries show that, although a woman is fully employed outside her home, she still does some 70 per cent of the child and home care. [More…]
Over half of these women state that they would prefer either not to go to work or to have part time work. [More…]
The issue is not necessarily whether married women in the work force are depriving unemployed juveniles of work. [More…]
If there is a relationship between the over employment of married women and the under employment of juveniles it springs from this major factor. [More…]
The real position is that, as in every other sphere of social and political life, freedom of choice should be available to married women in this situation. [More…]
Surveys by the Brotherhood of St Laurence and the Electrical Trades Union of New South Wales showed that those married women who have children but who are currently in the work force would prefer to stay at home and care for their children if they were paid a relatively small amount of money for doing so. [More…]
Senator Tehan said that he wanted to say something about women. [More…]
I was surprised that he appeared to adopt the attitude of getting women back into bed and behind the kitchen sink. [More…]
In Ingham and Atherton one in every seven or eight men, women and children is out of a job. [More…]
In spite of the growing numbers of women in the workforce, women still have a socially acceptable choice about working or staying at home. [More…]
But kids will adjust remarkably well if the parents do’, said Wenda Pleasance, a Women’s Electoral Lobby representative and secretary of the Blacktown Community Aid committee. [More…]
I should dearly love someone to tell me what light work a nurse can do because nursing is one of the many heavy working professions which women undertake. [More…]
In May 1976 women constitute 32.9 per cent of the work force working part time compared with males constituting 4.5 per cent of the work force working part time. [More…]
Comparing the female unemployment rates for Western Australia with rates in other States over a fiveyear period, we can see just how badly women have fared in Western Australia, the State of excitement. [More…]
Figures show that two Labor States, Tasmania and New South Wales, have actually experienced a decrease in the percentage of unemployed women and the third Labor State, South Australia, has the lowest percentage increase. [More…]
It is no less criminal than his action in 1976 in refusing to accept a grant from the Department of Health to fund two women’s refuges, one of them in Brisbane and one in Townsville. [More…]
Returning to the speech that I was making last night and getting back to my ‘State of Excitement’, because we in Western Australia find ourselves a little parochial, I cited some figures on unemployment in Western Australia, particularly the unemployment of women. [More…]
I hope they have been able to assess the statement I made in respect of two of the three Labor-controlled States, that there has been a dramatic decrease in unemployment as it relates to women and that in the third State there was the minimum possible increase. [More…]
But from the point of view of ethics- this will be repugnant to a few Government senators- I have been to eastern Europe many times and seen things with which one would agree and with which one would not agree, but I have never known a European radio or television station to use women as show ponies in order to sell goods. [More…]
From her involvement with various women’s liberation movements she has been in the forefront of some of this exploitation. [More…]
I just wonder at these people who talk about the virtues of private enterprise and how they try to exploit women with some of these gimmicks to sell commodities, many of which are pretty shoddy. [More…]
I think it is important that society recognises that of all the provinces in which women are occupied- they vary- she makes no more important contribution to society than she does as the organiser, defender and promoter of the home. [More…]
That is, the Government’s fundamental belief- is that a better society can only be realised by giving the men and women of Australia a greater measure of choice, power and freedom. [More…]
It is not without significance that there is a correlation between the increase in juvenile unemployment since the mid- 1 960s and the increase in the number of married women entering the work force during the same period. [More…]
The problem cannot be solved by discriminating against married women in the work force, as some have suggested; rather, the solution lies in Government financial measures which will recognise the economic worth of the homemaker, contribution to family support programs and thus reverse the economic discrimination now experienced by single income families. [More…]
If those programs are adopted the majority of married women in the work force who, according to recent surveys such as those conducted by the Brotherhood of St Laurence and the Electrical Trades Union, have been forced to enter the work force through economic pressure will have a true freedom of choice and the option to leave jobs, thus creating employment opportunities for the young. [More…]
Furthermore, there are thousands of young married women who want to leave the work force and start a family but cannot do so because of housing finance problems. [More…]
I am concerned that the advice that is being given to the Government, for example in the area of women’s affairs, comes from people who do not have the home experience, the motherhood experience, that is necessary to give a balanced view to the Government on women’s affairs. [More…]
We have seen the Government appointing as its women’s adviser such people as Sara Dowse, who has latterly departed. [More…]
Sara Dowse was selected in March 1 976 to head the office of Women’s Affairs in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. [More…]
I will enlighten the Senate by reading a parable by Sara Dowse- it was given to a conference of the Women’s Electoral Lobby in Canberra between 17 and 19 February 1978- so that the Government knows what type of people are advising it. [More…]
It was at this time that she was able to persuade him that she needed assistance, and he commanded her to fetch several wise women in the kingdom, to help her in her work. [More…]
And just outside the palace walls there grew a tree of magic, and in that year that tree of magic, which was tended well by all the women in the kingdom, grew many leaves and branches, and the branches brought forth a profusion of purple flowers. [More…]
The king’s lady-in-waiting brought in several wise women to serve with her, but most of the wisest women stayed outside the palace to tend the magic tree. [More…]
There was much rejoicing in the land, among the women who had been for many years unjustly treated, and they thanked the king for his special concern. [More…]
Outside the palace, the women mourned the loss of their lady-in-waiting, and worried about their fate under the new regime. [More…]
In the meantime the women in the land grew more alarmed. [More…]
Many women feared to leave their houses. [More…]
And outside the palace walls, the tree of magic began to wither, for the women were not coming to care for it. [More…]
Some women came to break off branches, and these they put across the thresholds of their houses, or over the cradles of girl babies, to ward off evil spirits. [More…]
Fewer and fewer women came to the tree, and those that did kept breaking off the branches, in the hope that these would guide and protect them wherever they might be. [More…]
And soon the word spread that the handmaidens were captive in the palace and that only the women could save them, and save themselves. [More…]
It was at this time that she was able to persuade him that she needed assistance, and he commanded her to fetch several wise women in the kingdom, to help her in her work. [More…]
The parable then tells of a magic tree outside the court- this being the Women’s Electoral Lobby. [More…]
I imagine that refers to the banishment of the Women’s Affairs Office from the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet to the Department of Home Affairs. [More…]
The point I am making is that the Government must have a balance in the advice that it receives on family matters and women ‘s issues. [More…]
12 published in December 1977 that an adviser on women’s affairs has begun work in the Department of Education. [More…]
Sue Harlow, the new adviser on women’s affairs, began her duties in early November. [More…]
Her continuing concern will be to ensure that all management policies take women into account. [More…]
She feels that more could be done to ease the problems facing women who wish to re-enter the work force. [More…]
Women often have babies between the ages of 25 and 30 when many crucial opportunities for promotion are available. [More…]
Sue suggests that society ought to move in the direction of creating more part-time and half-time jobs for women with young children to look after. [More…]
I should have thought that the greatest problem confronting women and girls in the employment area is the fact that young girls cannot get work. [More…]
Certainly, as she realises and as I realise, there are problems for women who have performed their family responsibilities and want to get back into the work force. [More…]
I have no doubt that we misread the political thermometer when we proposed the abolition of the proposed tax cuts in order to get men and women back into work. [More…]
What police force is responsible for issuing Press releases which by innuendo identify potential suspect groups as Arabs, Indians, swarthy men, or women opposed to abortion laws? [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the Association has had to raise its fees for this valuable service following the removal of the grant and that as a consequence some women will be deprived of this service? [More…]
As I pointed out by implication in a question yesterday, they include Arabs, Indians, swarthy men and women opposed to abortion laws. [More…]
All honourable senators will be aware that the crime of rape and associated crimes of sexual violence against women pose a serious and grave problem in our community today. [More…]
I think honourable senators will agree that current laws regarding sexual offences against women are totally inadequate. [More…]
I should like to give a very brief summary of the current state of the law which relates to sexual offences against women. [More…]
One of the very distressing consequences of this requirement is that many women believe that they must have been beaten half to death if they are to get the court to believe that they have been subjected to assault. [More…]
This is one probable outcome, yet at the same time lawyers, policemen and other persons in authority often advise women not to resist sexual assault once it begins so that they will not be as severely beaten and will not be subjected to even increased violence. [More…]
The situation for women who find themselves victims of an attack of this kind is totally contradictory. [More…]
Several thousand women in Sydney were able to celebrate International Women’s Day by having a march and a demonstration without any arrests, but some 200 women who tried to do precisely the same thing in Brisbane found a quarter of their number charged for breaking the law. [More…]
If I might briefly explain the situation of Timorese refugees in this country: There are some 2,000 refugees from Timor, most of whom are women. [More…]
In the course of the meeting last Saturday we met a number of women with children who husbands are in Timor and are anxious to come to Australia. [More…]
Most of the adult Timorese refugees are women. [More…]
I might add that the plight of women who encounter this sort of difficulty in any country is made much more difficult in the Timorese people by the particular relationship between the father and the Timorese family. [More…]
When one adds to that the kind of separation factor which is now of two years’ standing and the stress that causes to women with children who are on their own in Australia, one sees that a very real social problem is developing about which we believe the Government should be quick and alert to do something. [More…]
All these things are emphasised even more by reason of the fact that these people are mostly women and children. [More…]
These women were helping not only to support their children but also they were attempting to help their husbands and other children in Timor by trying to get money through to them. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Health whether she can give any indication as to what progress has been achieved in respect of the joint Commonwealth-State funding under the community health program for women’s refuges in Hobart and Launceston. [More…]
I understand that for some months there have been consultations between the Commonwealth Government and the State Government with regard to the proposed funding of women’s refuges in that State. [More…]
It is my understanding that the Minister for Health is now awaiting a response from the Tasmanian Minister for Health about the terms of a joint statement, so that details can be announced of the funding arrangements with regard to women ‘s refuges in Tasmania. [More…]
It could perhaps be said that Australian women are seeking independence in many ways. [More…]
The lesser opportunities given to women in other countries to assert their independence and to express their personalities may be attractive to Australian men. [More…]
I refer to the statement made by the Minister for Home Affairs, Mr Ellicott, on the occasion of International Women’s Day on 8 March 1 978, in which he said: [More…]
The Working Women’s Centre in Melbourne … is the only organisation within the union movement providing support for women. [More…]
Is that not a calculated affront to all those registered industrial organisations, including my own, which have women members and which in fact have supported programs for their women members over many years? [More…]
I know members of the Working Women’s Centre in Melbourne. [More…]
One comment I make is that I would have expected that the trade union movement would have given greater financial support to the Working Women’s Centre in Melbourne because it is a group which is putting forward representations on behalf of working women. [More…]
I do not take exception to the fact that Senator Harradine claims that all unions make representations on behalf of their women members. [More…]
I just say that they have had remarkably little success in achieving many of the things that working women require in this country. [More…]
The women at the Working Women’s Centre require support if they are to continue the work that they are doing. [More…]
I should hope that whatever statements were made by Mr Ellicott would lead to recognition of the fact that the working women’s centre has not had any continuity of supportive funds since it was formed some years ago. [More…]
I would say that many voices can be heard on women’s issues but some of the voices have not been heard as loudly or as clearly as they could have been over the past years. [More…]
If the statement were made that one centre provided the only voice for women, I would have to argue that other voices are expressing the needs of women in industrial and working conditions and in social conditions. [More…]
There is, of course, a universal assumption that members of Parliament are not women; so some attendants have made that assumption and when a woman has attempted to enter the chamber they have not bothered to check their memories to find out whether she does have rightful access to that chamber. [More…]
However, that is apparently one of the difficulties for women in this place. [More…]
I have seen women come and go in this place with large handbags, to which Senator Primmer referred. [More…]
These people ranged from girls of her own age to women aged 20 years and 30 years. [More…]
Have they ever seen the misery experienced by mothers with half a dozen children, children separated from parents or women whose husbands are still in East Timor? [More…]
During a war involving a civilian population in tragic circumstances, a war which involved women and children, there were no medical supplies and there was no capacity for hospitalisation or any form of international supervision. [More…]
My wife meets the women folk in the town and I meet the men. [More…]
Mr President, I regret having to speak on the adjournment but I must do so in view of an answer that was given to a question by me on 16 March concerning the Working Women ‘s Centre in Melbourne. [More…]
My question on the Working Women’s Centre was asked more out of sorrow than out of anger, even though I did confuse some of the metaphors at the time. [More…]
Before attempting to explain why Mr Ellicott ‘s fulsome praise of the Working Women ‘s Centre, which prompted my question to Senator Guilfoyle, was thoroughly inappropriate, there is one matter which I should make clear at the outset. [More…]
That is precisely why I incorporated in Hansard the parable written by Sara Dowse, the former adviser on women’s affairs to this Government. [More…]
Quite simply, the Sara Dowse parable indicates that while she was working as an adviser to this Government her first loyalty was always to a non-Public Service organisation, the Women ‘s Electoral Lobby, and that she saw the Women’s Electoral Lobby and its attitudes as providing an integrated backdrop for the Women’s Affairs Branch of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. [More…]
It would be a mistake for this Government to believe that the Women’s Electoral Lobby expresses the wishes and aspirations of a majority of Australian women. [More…]
It may be very vocal but increasingly other women’s groups are coming to the fore to oppose the extreme viewpoints put forward by the Women’s Electoral Lobby, Women’s Liberation and the radical feminists. [More…]
The Minister for Home Affairs, Mr Ellicott, has stated- and Senator Guilfoyle has given qualified endorsement to his remarks- that the Working Women’s Centre in Melbourne is ‘the only organisation within the union movement providing support for women’. [More…]
The Working Women’s Centre in Melbourne is unrepresentative. [More…]
It involves itself in matters not directly relevant to women workers, is hostile to the official trade union movement and is a politically motivated organisation favouring the extreme Left and radical feminists. [More…]
It is simply untrue to state, as Mr Ellicott has done, that it ‘is the only organisation within the union movement providing support for women’. [More…]
The Victorian office of my union, that is, the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association, which has a substantial female membership component, has a special women’s unit employing five women. [More…]
That makes it larger than Mr Ellicott ‘s Working Women’s Centre. [More…]
I stated that the Working Women’s Centre was not endorsed by the Australian Council of Trades Union, and that is true. [More…]
I do not know how many women members are in the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
I stated that the Working Women’s Centre was not endorsed by the Victorian Trades Hall Council. [More…]
I have been told by a union official in Melbourne that a possible reason for the official trade union hostility is that on several occasions women associated with the centre have attempted to by-pass the elected officials of unions and enter factories and work places in order to spread their propaganda. [More…]
The person who approached the organisation, being that union’s women’s organiser, was Gail Cotton. [More…]
I have stated that the Centre involves itself in matters not directly relevant to working women. [More…]
Certainly, abortion is of interest- controversial interest- to all men and women, whether they are working or not, but is the promotion of abortion the purpose for which Federal Government funds are used? [More…]
Another item collected from the Centre was a broadsheet entitled ‘women and employment’. [More…]
One might think that we are getting closer at last to something which deals directly with working women but the purpose of the broadsheet becomes clear when one reads right through it. [More…]
This was a special issue devoted to women’s issues, but with a particularly unrepresentative moral and political approach. [More…]
The two principal women at the Centre- Sylvie Shaw and Mary Owen- have both been prominently involved with the Women’s Electoral Lobby. [More…]
When Senator Guilfoyle announced last year the Government’s grant of $8,000 to the Centre and another grant to an organisation in Sydney, she stated in her Press release that she was particularly pleased that the Government had been able to assist these two organisations ‘which had been established by working women to help themselves’. [More…]
Certainly, the women of the WWC in Melbourne are ‘helping themselves’. [More…]
They are helping themselves to the right to speak on behalf of all working women. [More…]
For that matter, by their involvement in non-working issues, they are claiming to speak on behalf of all women, not just those in the work force. [More…]
Mr Ellicott ‘s remarks were an insult to all of those unions which, in their own way and under their own rules, free of pressure from extreme radical feminists, are attempting to do something for their women members. [More…]
There are vast amounts of work to be done in the field of women’s affairs for working women. [More…]
This cannot be achieved by confusing the real issues confronting working women with the type of radical feminist rubbish portrayed through the Working Women’s Centre. [More…]
It is an insult not only to women but to the whole of the community and it is recognised as such. [More…]
The official trade union movement has refused to recognise and endorse the Working Women’s Centre. [More…]
There was also the case of the Capital Territory Health Commission’s grant to the socalled Women’s Information Service in Canberra. [More…]
They do not wish to see women’s working issues become obscured and abused with non-working subjects such as abortion. [More…]
They are sceptical of the so-called Women’s Centre idea of the planned socialist economy. [More…]
Fundamentally, they do not believe that the Women ‘s Electoral Lobby is a fully representative organisation. [More…]
If the Working Women’s Centre in Melbourne got rid of its partisan political propaganda attitude, confined itself to genuine working issues and was not so closely identified organisationally with WEL and other groups one might anticipate that the official trade union movement would reconsider its approach to it. [More…]
I understand that an announcement has been made to the effect that the Federal Government has set up a Year of the Child Committee consisting of representatives from the National Council of Women, the County Women ‘s Association and the National Council of Jewish Women. [More…]
As those three bodies represent specific groups of women- professional women, country women and women from one religious group -and in view of the fact that when last September the Union of Australian Women was told by the Government Office of Child Care in Canberra that it was one of only three organisations that had shown any interest in the Year of the Child, will the Minister increase the membership of the Committee to give wider representation, including representation of the Union of Australian Women which has done a deal of work on its own on this important matter? [More…]
Many organisations, including the Union of Australian Women, which have made representations to be on a national committee or to work in connection with the observance of the International Year of the Child may find that they are invited by State governments to be on their committees. [More…]
The Act also fails to make clear to people the fact that the Federal Government has made special laws and provided special treatment to many groups within our community, particularly disadvantaged groups such as migrants and women, in an attempt to develop greater equality within the Australian community. [More…]
His appeal to the young women of Aurukun was that they would get nice white husbands. [More…]
Just yesterday I had contact with somebody associated with the northern section of the women’s organisation in the National Country Party and I know the feelings of these people about the perks that are being given out to those who claim to be Aboriginal. [More…]
King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women confirmed last night that the diamonds had been hidden in her body. [More…]
In November 1977, sickness benefits for the temporarily incapacitated were made available to women on the same basis as they are available to men. [More…]
No longer do married women have to establish that it is not possible for their husbands to maintain them during a period of illness. [More…]
I do not think that there is any need to go over the important innovations in the original legislation of 1 976- for example, the introduction of a uniform 5 per cent contribution provision with an option to contribute to up to 10 per cent, a wide range of new benefits, and some special provisions important to temporary employees, women and the handicapped. [More…]
This concept was described succinctly by the then Attorney-General (Mr Ellicott) as follows in an address delivered at the ‘Women- Today and Tomorrow’ Seminar held at Castle Hill, Sydney, on 13 August 1977: ‘A fundamental change has been the abolition of fault as an element in marital breakdown. [More…]
However, as pointed out in the monthly publication of the International Labour Office (ILO), The World of Labour and Development (issue of September 1977, Geneva), ‘often the heaviest cross is borne by divorced women ‘ under systems of dissolution of marriage in which fault plays no role or only an increasingly residual part (ibid., p. 13). [More…]
If the Commonwealth were to provide employer financed benefits for divorced men and women who were formerly married to scheme members or for non-dependent separated men and women married to scheme members, public and private sector schemes would criticise the Government for pacesetting. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Social Security: Is it true that women who are single parents and who lose employment are given a single mother’s allowance rather than unemployment benefit? [More…]
As women on single mother’s pensions are subject to security officers investigating their premises and their beds to ascertain whether or not they have regular male visitors but those on unemployment benefits are not, will women who are placed on a single mother’s pension in those circumstances be exempt from such supervision? [More…]
If women who lose their employment wish, they are eligible for unemployment benefit. [More…]
I hope that day will come and I hope that they will be better than some of the traditional women drivers of motor cars, if those women drivers are as bad as they are sometimes alleged to be. [More…]
I rise on the adjournment debate to acquaint the Senate with some of the real facts regarding the Working Women’s Centre in Melbourne. [More…]
It seemed to be an attempt to smear hard-working devoted women with the obvious purpose of denying government funding for the Centre because these people who run the Centre are not identified with Senator Harradine ‘s faction in the trade union movement. [More…]
At a time when women in the work force are under great pressure, at a time when they need assistance and advice, it is irresponsible in my opinion for a member of Parliament to add to that burden and it is particularly irresponsible for a member of Parliament who pretends to have expertise and experience in the trade union movement to add to that burden on women. [More…]
At the moment 43.4 per cent of all women 15 years and over are in the Australian work force. [More…]
That is, 2,204,600 women make up 35.6 per cent of the total labour force in Australia. [More…]
In May 1977 41.9 per cent of all married women 15 years and over were in the labour force. [More…]
In February 1977 322,300 unmarried women were heads of families. [More…]
This survey excluded women who had alcoholic or sick husbands not earning an income and so had to be the bread winners in the family. [More…]
In May 1977 41.5 per cent of employed married women worked part time on average 14.2 hours a week and 40 per cent of married women were looking for part-time work. [More…]
That is the situation in which this Women ‘s Centre operates in Melbourne and this is the Centre that Senator Harradine sets out to rubbish and to give all sorts of strange connotations. [More…]
The ACSPA Committee on Women’s Affairs established the Working Women’s Centre in July 1975 through an International Women’s Year Grant from the Federal Government. [More…]
The Centre was set up with the intention of informing unions about specific problems facing women in the work force; to encourage women to join their appropriate union; to educate women about trade unions and to encourage them to participate in union activity and to seek decision-making positions within the unions; to provide information and support for women who have problems which affect their work or ability to get work; to bring a grass-roots woman’s view of the effect of government policies and legislation to the attention of government Ministers and departments. [More…]
The Centre was represented on the ACTU committee that set up the Federal Union Conference that discussed the ACTU Working Women’s Charter. [More…]
We urge that in the proposed unification between ACSPA and the ACTU that both Peak Councils recognise the role of a Working Women ‘s Centre and the need for its continuity. [More…]
The ACTU in conjunction with other Peak Councils and through its affiliated branches and unions should initiate the investigation of the possibility of establishing centres similar in concept to that of the Working Women’s Centre, in other States, which would be accessible to all trade unionists’. [More…]
Senator Harradine cast doubt on the fact that this was the only working women’s centre in Australia. [More…]
Nobody has ever claimed that it is the only women ‘s centre but it is the only centre that provides a service for all women who want to work. [More…]
In fact, the Centre has been invited to join several government committees including the Women’s Welfare Issues Consultative Group in the Department of Social Security, the Victorian Government Department of Labour and Industry’s Ongoing Activities of Safety Convention, the Victorian Premier’s Migrant Advisory Committee and Equal Opportunities in Schools committees. [More…]
The Centre also represents ACSPA on the Australian Public Service Joint Council Sub-committee on Women. [More…]
The inquiry into human relationships praised the work of the Centre and recommended that similar centres be established in other States because of the advice, assistance and encouragement that it gave to working women. [More…]
Senator Harradine maintained that the Centre had become involved in matters that were not directly related to women. [More…]
It is to provide information and support for women who have problems which affect their work or their ability to get work. [More…]
That covers a multitude of problems, including the sorts of problems that this Centre attempts to assist women with. [More…]
There is nobody else to whom working women can turn, nobody who even attempts to answer the sorts of problems that arise in the everyday working lives of these women. [More…]
The question of abortion always excites Senator Harradine, but it is just another piece of information for women who work. [More…]
Under the current economic climate brought about by this Government’s policy and brought about by the pressure these women are under because this Government will do nothing about unemployment, especially unemployment as it affects women, women are not able to have babies which they may want to have. [More…]
The trade union movement in this country has done precious little about the fact that it now takes two people’s wages to keep a family and the days when one man’s wages were sufficient to keep a wife and family and women did not have to work have gone. [More…]
But what has Senator Harradine done to make sure that in the first place women do not have to go to work to keep their families above the bread line? [More…]
What has he done to make sure that information on contraception, for instance, is readily available to women who work, to women who do two jobs all their lives? [More…]
What has he done to make sure that counselling is readily available to women who work at two jobs all their lives? [More…]
Senator Harradine does not know the pressures that push women to have abortions. [More…]
Most humane understanding men who want to understand the pressures and the problems of women who face abortion do not understand because they are not women, and certainly Senator Harradine with his narrow inhibited view would find it impossible to understand the pressures to which women are subjected. [More…]
He exhibits a great desire to be the keeper of women ‘s consciences but we do not need him as a keeper. [More…]
Might I remind Senator Harradine that that is exactly how the majority of women in Australia feel about the matter. [More…]
If a woman in distress and under pressure facing abortion rings the Centre for advice, she not only gets information about where to find a counselling service but also she is directed to the Women’s Action Alliance which gives information and assistance in some ways to women who do not want abortions and advises women against abortions. [More…]
The Centre does not exist to push working women into having abortions. [More…]
For instance, it has information on what the Tenants Union is all about; invalid pensions; Medibank for school leavers; venereal disease; the Clyde Cameron College courses for 1 978; the United Nations Decade for Women; interuterine contraceptive devices; the Working Women’s Charter Campaign Conference; the Working Women’s Centre and why it was set up. [More…]
It publishes a paper- the one I have is devoted to women and unemployment. [More…]
It has information on the Resource Centre for Equal Opportunity; what disarmament means and the coming conference by CICD on disarmament; women’s poetry. [More…]
It has a working women’s charter pamphlet on the number of women who are unemployed and why they are unemployed. [More…]
Some examples of the sort of material on which these discussion papers are written are: Should Unions be Concerned About Women ‘s Issues? [More…]
’, ‘Do Women Really Get Equal Pay? [More…]
’, Occupational Health’, ‘Women and Shiftwork’, Occupational Health- Hazards for Pregnant Women’ and ‘Outworkers and Homeworkers’ They are examples from a list that covers 25 discussion papers. [More…]
I- Should Unions Be Concerned About Women’s Issues? [More…]
3- Should Unions Be Concerned About Migrant Women Workers? [More…]
4- Do Women Really Get Equal Pay? [More…]
6- Do Women Have Equal Opportunities in Employment? [More…]
12- Women and Shiftwork. [More…]
14- Occupational Health- Hazards for Pregnant Women. [More…]
18 - Women and Retirement - Part 1: Superannuation. [More…]
20- New Patterns of Industrial Democracy for Women. [More…]
22- Women, Work and Technological Change. [More…]
23- Trade Union Training for Women. [More…]
24- Is There a Need for Health Services for Women at the Workplace? [More…]
25- Married Women Working. [More…]
-That is the sort of material on which the Working Women’s Centre concentrates and which the women work very hard to produce and to make sure that it reaches people who need it and who need to be reminded of those sorts of problems. [More…]
Groups leave material of a very varied nature and whatever is left there for women to read and mull over is not necessarily endorsed by the Centre; nor is it necessarily endorsed by ACSPA. [More…]
But these people believe that this sort of information has to be made available somewhere to women and this is one way of doing it. [More…]
I have been told by a union official in Melbourne that a possible reason for the official trade union hostility is that on several occasions women associated with the Centre have attempted to by-pass the elected officials of unions and enter factories and work places in order to spread their propaganda. [More…]
In the first place, there is no official trade union hostility to the Working Women’s Centre and, secondly, Senator Harradine gives no information of those instances when the Centre has bypassed the elected officials of unions. [More…]
In fact the representatives of the Centre assure me that at no time have employees of that Centre entered a union shop without the consent of the union concerned and that on most occasions when they have gone into union shops they have gone with a trade union official to assist the trade union official and to have him assist them in speaking to the women on the shop floor. [More…]
What contact has the Working Women’s Centre with the trade union movement? [More…]
The two hard working and over-worked women who work in the Centre personally visit trade unions for discussions with officials- evidence can be given of that. [More…]
Their paper Women at Work’ is distributed through trade unions and in some instances unions have acknowledged that whereas the women tend not to read the official trade union journal, they most certainly read this publication because it includes matters which appeal specifically and immediately to them, and is of some assistance to them. [More…]
The Working Women’s Centre refers women who approach the Centre to the appropriate union for their jobs and they give information to the organisers to follow up. [More…]
The Working Women’s Centre is the only centre in Victoria set up solely to support all working women, and those women who want to work. [More…]
It is providing valuable and worthwhile service to those women and it deserves the utmost support from all thinking people. [More…]
I am forced to rise to answer the statements which have been made by Senator Melzer in respect of the Working Women’s Centre. [More…]
This is a matter which is of significance and importance not only to the women of Australia but also to those people working for the Federal Government who are concerned with ensuring that public moneys are properly accounted for. [More…]
For the record, the Working Women ‘s Centre, which is not recognised by the Australian Council of Trade Unions or by the Victorian Trades Hall Council, has received $40,000 from the International Women’s Year Secretariat, $8,000 in January 1977 from the Department of Social Security for child care study, $6,300 in April 1977 from a Federal Government grant, $200 in July-August 1977 from the Australia Council for arts information for the Working Women’s Centre newsletter, a total of $54,500. [More…]
Firstly, I rose because I was angered by the statement of the Minister for Home Affairs (Mr Ellicott) that the Working Women’s Centre was the only organisation within the trade union movement providing support for women. [More…]
I did so because I am President of a trade union, 70 per cent of whose members are women, and I take strong exception to that sort of statement. [More…]
I went on to make a well-founded comment that the Working Women’s Centre in Melbourne is not the only organisation within the union movement providing support for women. [More…]
The Working Women’s Centre in Melbourne is unrepresentative, it involves itself in matters not directly relevant to women workers, it is hostile to the official trade union movement and it is a politically motivated organisation favouring the extreme Left and radical feminists. [More…]
It is simply untrue for Mr Ellicott to say that it is the only organisation within the union movement providing support for women. [More…]
Senator Melzer referred to the ACTU’s Special Unions Conference on the Working Women’s Chaner. [More…]
That Conference passed a resolution which purported to support the Working Women’s Centre. [More…]
That Conference purported to pass a resolution which purported to give supported to the Working Women’s Centre. [More…]
The resolution purporting to give support to the Working Women ‘s Centre was ruled out of order by President Hawke as being contrary to the decisions of the Biennial Congress of the ACTU in Sydney on 13 September 1977. [More…]
That resolution, which was proposed at the ACTU’s Special Unions Conference and second by Mr Ted Bull, the Vice-President of the Communist Party of Australia, Marxist-Leninist, and the Secretary of the Melbourne branch of the Waterside Workers Federation, of which there are no women members, was opposed and rejected by the ACTU Congress. [More…]
Since the unit wage was introduced I have been vocal in my support for increased child endowment and in my support for a mother’s allowance which would entitle and enable women to make a true free choice as to whether or not they will go out to work. [More…]
The facts of life are these: Because the Women’s Working Centre and its like oppose a proper mother’s allowance women are forced to go out to work to make ends meet. [More…]
Let it not be forgotten that these are the radical feminists who are the real enemies of justice for the vast majority of women, women who are working in the home doing the most important job in the world, raising future citizens. [More…]
I refer the Minister to the fact that the Working Women ‘s Centre does in fact promote a profit-oriented abortion clinic in Melbourne, namely, the clinic operated by Dr Bertram Wainer and associates. [More…]
Here are documents from the Working Women’s Centre. [More…]
I was pointing out that the Working Women’s Centre is a proponent of and an agent for Dr Bertram Wainer’s profit oriented abortion clinic in Melbourne. [More…]
We have an admission by Senator Melzer that the Working Women’s Centre is a politically oriented organisation. [More…]
She admits that this is the sort of literature that is available at and distributed and disseminated by the Working Women’s Centre. [More…]
Sara Dowse was formerly the Assistant Secretary of the Office of Women’s Affairs in the Department of Prime [More…]
Put quite simply, the Sara Dowse parable indicates that whilst she was working as an adviser to this Government, her first loyalty was to a non-Public Service organisation, the Women’s Electoral Lobby and that she saw WEL and its attitudes as providing an integrated backdrop for the Women’s Affairs Office of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. [More…]
I deny the statement she made that women have been referred to Women’s Action Alliance - [More…]
-Because I have contacted Women’s Action Alliance and it denies that any women have reached it. [More…]
Of course, it cannot deny what it does not know, but it can say that no women have come to it from the Working Women’s Centre. [More…]
Now Senator Melzer, in supporting this situation, is supporting those who support also the Union of Australian Women. [More…]
I think she yesterday, or on Friday, raised a question as to why the Union of Australian Women was not associated with something or other. [More…]
We all know what the Union of Australian Women is: It is really an arm of the Socialist Party of Australia. [More…]
It is affiliated with the Women’s International Democratic Federation. [More…]
I am raising it because the Government gets into problems with the Working Women’s Centre because of the advice it gets from its Home Affairs Office. [More…]
The Government could get into a lot of international trouble if, as has occurred, reports going to international bodies from the Women’s Affairs Bureau of the Department, via the Department of Foreign Affairs, put forward the concept that the Union of Australian Women and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom are the only organisations in Australia dealing with women’s affairs. [More…]
Senator Melzer put up a great case and the only thing with which he disagreed concerned some association with the Women’s Action Alliance. [More…]
I hope to God he never does it again while we are here, because Senator Harradine then wanted to show that there was more than one women’s organisation in Australia; that there were a number. [More…]
He then went on to suggest that the Working Women’s Centre has received $54,000 of government money for various purposes. [More…]
Not one accusation was made by the honourable senator in the whole of his remarks about this money being spent for some other purpose by the Working Women’s Centre. [More…]
No one can say that the Working Women’s Centre in Victoria has not done a good job in advising women. [More…]
We know the necessity for women to be part of the work force, and the assistance which is required to enable them to be part of the work force is justified. [More…]
This assistance is necessary in view of the difficulties of married women undertaking this new role and their entry into the trade union movement. [More…]
The honourable senator uses this as an argument to suggest that the Women’s Centre should be ostracised and that the trade union movement has no time for it. [More…]
I think that the Senate should be somewhat indebted to Senator Harradine for clarifying this matter and should be greatly indebted to Senator Melzer for the role she has told us that these women play in Victoria. [More…]
Although there is no evidence of an association with Mrs Chisholm, the brig Waverley was a ship of the period and its incorporation in the design of the $5 note is not considered by the Bank to be inappropriate in the context of showing Mrs Chisholm against a background of women and children of her time and ships and Sydney streets of the period. [More…]
My question to the Minister for Social Security refers to an allegation made by Senator Harradine in the adjournment debate last night to the effect that the Working Women’s Centre is a proponent of and an agent for Dr Bertram Wainer’s fertility control clinic in Melbourne. [More…]
Because this allegation maliciously and mischievously implies that the Working Women’s Centre gains some sort of agent’s fee or commission from Dr Wainer’s clinic, I ask the Minister to confirm the fact that the Centre receives no payments from the clinic for making information of this kind available to those women who seek it. [More…]
On behalf of the citizens of Darwin and the Northern Territory generally, I would like to express my deep appreciation for the contribution made by the Darwin Reconstruction Commission and all those people, men and women alike, who have been associated with it. [More…]
It is an insult to the intelligence of an assembly of men and women, 60 in number, maintained at great cost, that a Budget should be presented in which there is not one item out of thousands that their judgment requires to be revised. [More…]
1 ) Does the Commonwealth Government intend to allocate funds to Queensland women’s refuges before the end of the 1977-78 financial year, as was indicated by the Queensland Minister for Welfare Services, Mr John Herbert (The Telegraph, 27 March 1978); if so: (a) what is the total amount of funding involved; (b) which women’s refuges are to receive funding; and (c) how much will each receive. [More…]
Have previous Commonwealth funds provided to the Queensland Government for women’s refuges not been passed on by the Queensland Government; if so (a) what are the details of the funds involved; (b) has the funding concerned been returned to the Commonwealth; if not, to what use has it been put; and (c) does the Government have any guarantee that the funds listed in ( 1 ) will be passed on by the Queensland Government. [More…]
1 ) In the 1977-78 Budget context, I announced that up to $1m of Community Health Program funds would be made available for the funding of additional women’s refuges throughout Australia. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government had every intention of allocating a proportion of the $lm to Queensland to fund additional women’s refuges in 1977-78. [More…]
It follows that I am not yet able to provide details concerning the total amount of funding involved, which women’s refuges are to receive funding or how much each will receive. [More…]
Commencing in 1976-77, Commonwealth assistance under the Community Health Program has taken the form of annual block grants to each State for the State’s total program of approved projects including women’s refuges. [More…]
When the 1976-77 Community Health Program block grant to Queensland was approved, two on-going women refuges in Queensland- one at Brisbane and one at Townsville- were included in the approved program. [More…]
Because of the Queensland Government’s stand on this matter, the Commonwealth has departed from the block grant system in relation to the two women’s refuges mentioned above and direct Commonwealth funding of these two refuges was commenced during this financial year. [More…]
One of the basic issues encompassed by the current negotiations referred to above is that Commonwealth funds will be passed on to any additional women’s refuges which may be approved under the Community Health Program. [More…]
I refer to a joint Press statement issued on 28 April by the Commonwealth Minister for Health and the Queensland Minister for Welfare which related to funding arrangements for women’s refuges in Queensland. [More…]
I do clarify the position to the extent of saying that a statement was made by the Minister for Health on the agreed arrangements for the funding of women’s refuges and, as was stated by Senator Martin, there is now an arrangement between the State and Federal governments to fund this welfare measure. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Health aware that under the medical benefits tables there is no provision for reimbursement for the purchase of dental mouthguards by sports men and women? [More…]
Relations seen in today’s Australian Financial Review a letter citing statistics that demonstrate the extent of unemployment amongst women? [More…]
For example, the figures show that the total unemployment amongst women is 10.4 per cent compared with a 6 per cent male unemployment rate. [More…]
The figures go through the various categories showing that in every category, including married and unmarried women and so on, the unemployment of women is very much higher than unemployment of men. [More…]
If so, does the Minister agree that they establish that women are severely disadvantaged in the current unemployment crisis? [More…]
The 1945 Act sets out the then Government’s policy for re-establishing discharged men and women, and re-settling civilian war workers. [More…]
I fail to understand why it is considered offensive to draw the attention of women and girls to the fact that there are men in the community who could attempt to rape them but had your complainant contacted me at the time to express her feelings I would have immediately and publicly apologised for causing offence where it was not intended, and explained again the educational purpose of the segment. [More…]
The petition of the undersigned women of the A.C.T. [More…]
That the removalof this item from the schedule would destroy the conceptof universal health insurance, and would have the most serious repercussions for women and their health. [More…]
Many members of this Parliament have, at some time, stressed the need for men and women of vision and ability to stand for Parliament, especially if those men and women believe that they can make a significant contribution to serving their fellow Australians. [More…]
This group includes large numbers of those who are isolated at home (especially women), elderly migrants (whose numbers are expected to increase dramatically in the course of the next decade), those from smaller ethnic groups (whose own support services are limited), migrant women at work and the children of migrants. [More…]
The Government is conscious that many of the initiatives it is taking have been designed with regard to the special needs of migrant women. [More…]
In addition, for these women and for their young children, the Government will encourage establishment of more child-care facilities at places of work. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Social Security been made aware of recent Press reports stating that pensions and other social welfare benefits have been denied to women who are living at the same address as a male? [More…]
I have not seen recent Press reports regarding the withdrawal of pensions or other social security benefits from women because they are living at the same address as a male. [More…]
He would be aware, I think, that there are eligibility requirements for those people who claim either a deserted wives pension, a supporting mothers benefit or other women’s benefits. [More…]
Only two women are members of the Commission. [More…]
The Fraser Government introduced an amendment to provide for two women commissioners. [More…]
One hopes that in future appointments that very small number will be increased and that the interests of women staff members will be reflected in the choice of commissioners. [More…]
I would consider that to be as impertinent as asking a man whether he preferred men or women. [More…]
I only have suspicions about it but quite early in the piece, a few years ago, an organisation known as the Women’s Electoral Lobby, whichI regard as an important and exemplary organisation in Australian society and an organisation which has made a vital contribution to the democratic life of this country, became hung up about the abolition of death duty between spouses. [More…]
Of all people, the first person to catch up with this cry from the Women’s Electoral Lobby was Mr BjelkePetersen in Queensland. [More…]
Not only the Returned Services League but also the Legion of Ex-servicemen and Women and other ex-service bodies have expressed these sentiments at numerous conferences. [More…]
Prison cells were filled to overflowing and, in some, men and women were confined together. [More…]
Good Neighbour movement has provided thousands of tutors to instruct migrants in Englishmainly women who have been isolated in the home by a language barrier. [More…]
The Report does not focus on important matters such as the particular education situation of women and girls, and the inner city environment which affects education. [More…]
6469 would be penalising thousands of women, (particularly those aged 50 years and over) who must have a curette for medical reasons having nothing to do with pregnancy. [More…]
6469 would be a discrimination against women, as rebates are paid for vasectomy and prostate operations for males. [More…]
The organisations which were invited represented state schools, pre-schools, independent schools, the Child and Family Welfare Council, the Country Women’s Association, the National Council of Women of Australia and a great number of co-ordinating bodies. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs: In view of the request from the women’s section of the National Party of Australia, Far Northern Division of Queensland, for an investigation into the use of funds supplied to Aboriginals, has any step been taken towards meeting the request because of the apparent misuse of the money and also the quite prevalent misconduct as a result of such misuse? [More…]
I am unaware of any resolution passed by the women’s section, National Party of Australia, Far Northern Division of Queensland. [More…]
She also has the distinction of being one of only 13 women to have entered this place. [More…]
We need more women in this Parliament, and she has proved that we need more women. [More…]
Perhaps more women on this side of the House would be a great help. [More…]
But once that person gains access to those areas surely it is not necessary for that person to wear rather prominently a badge which, especially for women, is not in keeping with the rest of that person’s outfit. [More…]
1 ) How many vacancies for the positions advertised by the Department of Defence in the Age, dated 29 April 1978, inviting applicants to train as Electronics Technicians in the Air Force which stated female vacancies had already been filled were open to women and to men. [More…]
If there was a less than 50 per cent quota on the number of vacancies open to women, will the Minister explain the reasons for the Department ‘s decision to limit the number of female trainees. [More…]
The decision to limit the female vacancies for electronics training to 4 only has been taken until a pilot scheme to determine the viability of the employment of women in this mustering has been evaluated. [More…]
Are officers in the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service paid only about 80 per cent of the pay of equivalent officers in the Royal Australian Navy, whereas Petty Officers and other ranks in the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service receive 98 per cent of the pay of male petty officers and sailors. [More…]
When will equal pay be extended to Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service officers. [More…]
When will the ranks of Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service Officers (currently Third Officer, Second Officer, First Officer and Chief Officer) be changed to the male equivalent, namely Sub-Lieutenant, Lieutenant, Lieutenant-Commander and Commander. [More…]
Male rank titles for the categories mentioned will apply to female officers in the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service from the date of gazettal of amending regulations. [More…]
It is clearly necessary for me to present the true position of aviation safety in Australia to defend our pilots, our air traffic controllers, and other officers of my Department, men and women who, I believe, are doing a difficult job magnificently, maintaining our aviation safety standards as perhaps the best in the world. [More…]
Exceeding the terrible examples set by the Nazi masters during the war, they brutally exterminated fellow Croats who dared to hold opposing views, a huge number of our brother Serbs, other Yugoslav nationals and numerous men, women and children of Jewish faith. [More…]
As we move down the list we find some very substantial consumer items which concern the every day family, including woven shirts, knitted undergarment shirts, babies napkins, women’s blouses, knitted coats, female outer garments, dressing gowns, swim wear, men’s shorts, men’s trousers. [More…]
And women, yes; I am sorry. [More…]
The amount of work and research that went into this submission indicates a growing interest in the area by the young men and women of Australia. [More…]
That this item covers a legally and medically approved procedure, and its removal or modification would have the most serious social, economic and medical repercussions for many thousands of Australian women. [More…]
In May 1977 the unemployment rate for women was 7.3. per cent; a year later it was 8 per cent. [More…]
If we look at the hardest hit group, young persons 15 to 19 years of age, looking for their first jobs, we find that in May 1977 there were 16,100 women unemployed; a year later there were 23,900 young women in this category; that is, 18.7 per cent of women between 15 and 19 years of age looking for their first jobs were unemployed. [More…]
The unemployment rate now for migrant women in the 1 5 to 19 years age group is 1 9.7 per cent and for males 19.2 per cent. [More…]
1 per cent for women and 5.6 per cent for men. [More…]
However, he did not mention what is perhaps the largest and most neglected category, the category of unemployed women. [More…]
It emerges very clearly in the statistics I have just read to the Senate that unemployment amongst women in all age groups, but particularly in the younger age groups, is significantly higher than unemployment amongst men. [More…]
What is happening with regard to unemployed married women is that their plight is being hidden. [More…]
Because unemployed married women whose husbands are in employment are not entitled to benefit they usually fail to register at CES Offices. [More…]
Another situation about which I have received many personal complaints occurs when married women are laid off, thus being deprived of the income upon which their families were dependent, either solely or partly, for the maintenance of their standard of living. [More…]
I have had many reports of married women actually being discouraged from reporting regularly to the CES. [More…]
We do not really know how many unemployed women are in this category; that is, unemployed but not counted in any of the mechanisms for counting the unemployed. [More…]
However, a recent study in the United States showed that for every 100 women who were laid off, 70 of themthat is 70 per cent of women who had lost thenjobs dropped out of the labour force and were no longer counted. [More…]
From my own experience and study of this problem I believe that the situation of unemployed married women is a very grave one indeed. [More…]
I have no indication that the legislation before us will offer any better services to unemployed married women seeking employment. [More…]
However, if the CES offices are going to become more efficient and better co-ordinated, if they are going to have more and better trained staff- all the things suggested in the Minister’s second reading speech- then I hope that married women who lose their jobs will get assistance from the CES in the same way as any other person who loses his job. [More…]
Servicemen had to be rehabilitated and the wonderful women of this country who kept the wheels of industry moving and the home fires burning had to be gradually withdrawn from industry and replaced by the men who were returning from the Services. [More…]
The Government has also deplored the trials and sentencing of other courageous men and women associated with the human rights movement in the Soviet Union. [More…]
The means test will be the same means test as that applied at the age of 65 years or, in the case of women, at the age of 60 years. [More…]
We have the incredibly stupid situation in a so-called civilised country of hundreds of thousands of young couples wanting to build homes, with thousands of men and women who can build homes unemployed or being diverted to other industries, and all we can do is to go back to 1972 or 1973 to what the Labor Government did. [More…]
The women who served in the defence forces in the last war so far have been denied Defence Force loans to build houses, and I emphasise the word ‘loans’. [More…]
Women have not gone to work to express themselves: They have gone to work to provide the money to buy the house. [More…]
Rising unemployment- especially in the areas in which women work- and so many women being out of jobs, mean that the family income has been cut in half. [More…]
We have been witnessing the arrival on our shores of the technological revolution, particularly now in communications and information processing, and the accelerating replacement of men and women with machines and integrated circuits at a hitherto undreamed of pace and scale. [More…]
Telecom Australia when massive manpower replacement programs are set in train, then they need apologise to no one for vigorously fighting back to protect the interests of their members, of the ordinary working men and women of the community. [More…]
The only submissions received from South Australia were from Professor W. D. Williams of the University of Adelaide, the National Council of Women of South Australia (Inc.) Adelaide, the Nature Conservation Society of South Australia (Inc.) Adelaide, the South Australian Government and people in the Callington and Strathalbyn districts in South Australia who are concerned with water quality in that area. [More…]
Figures are available to show that while average smoking levels in the Australian population are dropping, smoking is increasing among young adolescents and women. [More…]
I hope that in future the debate on drug abuse in Australia will be more rational and will be conducted more by reasonable men and women who look at the facts and at the possibilities of control of abuse in a sensible way rather than just consider the two alternatives of prohibition and complete libertarianism. [More…]
It is not without significance that there is a correlation between the increase in juvenile unemployment since the mid 1960s and the increase in the number of married women entering the work force over the same period. [More…]
The problem cannot be solved by discriminating against married women in the work force, as some have suggested but rather by implementing the Government’s financial measures which will recognise the economic worth of the homemaker and contribute to family support programs, thus reversing the economic discrimination now experienced by single income families. [More…]
The union to which I belong currently is undertaking a major survey of membership to see what the reaction would be to governmental policies designed to eliminate the discrimination that is currently being experienced by full-time homemakers, to see whether that would be sufficient attraction for women with dependent children to enable them to do their most important work, that is, the nurturing of their children, the future citizens of this country. [More…]
According to previous surveys that were conducted by at least one other union, the majority of married women in the work force are there through economic circumstance, whether socially created want or need. [More…]
I do not agree with the suggestion that there should be discrimination against married women in the work force. [More…]
I believe that there should be a true freedom of choice but not by virtue of the fact that there are not sufficient supportive policies of the Government to provide that true freedom of choice for married women with dependent children, to take the economic pressure off them and to enable them to become full-time homemakers. [More…]
Furthermore, thousands upon thousands of young married women want to leave the work force and start a family, but they cannot do so because of housing finance problems. [More…]
It’s legally accepted as a means of fertility control; just one option available to women in this State and its fitted into the health system and the medical system. [More…]
6469 would be penalising thousands of women (particularly those aged 50 years and over) who must have a curette for medical reasons having nothing to do with pregnancy. [More…]
6469 would be a discrimination against women, as rebates are paid for vasectomy and prostate operations for males. [More…]
That the removal of this item from the schedule would destroy the concept of universal health insurance, and would have the most serious repercussions for women and their health. [More…]
Reports emanating from a group of ambassadors, including an Australian ambassador, who visited Timor recently at the request of the Indonesian Government indicate that it appeared that the Timorese resistance has now succumbed to the Indonesian forces and that survivors, including innocent women and children, were dying of starvation. [More…]
In my opinion worst hit are young women residing outside the metropolitan area. [More…]
If those young men and I suppose the young women with whom she was living in the house were to turn her out onto the street because she was not bringing in any income, what would happen to her? [More…]
That is the sort of situation into which this Government is pushing women particularly young women. [More…]
There are reports in Victoria that young women are transporting themselves from country areas to the metropolitan area to work in the massage parlours to get money. [More…]
I do not know whether the reports are correct, but this situation is indicative of the sort of thing that is happening particularly in relation to young women in country areas. [More…]
Highly intelligent young men and women who call at my office and to whom I speak cannot quite understand why they are in this situation. [More…]
Cannot honourable senators hear the Prime Minister, the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations and field officers of the Department of Social Security running around the countryside labelling every young person who happens to live in a communal situation as living in a de facto relationship, inferring that young women are living in sin, that they are going to bed with every Tom, Dick and Harry? [More…]
My information is that that is the situation in which these young women are being placed. [More…]
Men and women were in fairly close agreement on each of the first four sources of energy named on the card, but nuclear power was favoured by nearly twice as many men as women (29 percent against 15 percent). [More…]
The proposal was favoured by definite majorities of men, older people and Liberal-NCP voters, but opposed by women, younger people - [More…]
I would like to deal with the women ‘s centres in the various States. [More…]
New South Wales is quite committed to women’s centres. [More…]
Out of the community health program, it funds five women’s centres. [More…]
On the other hand, Victoria is not committed to women’s centres and in fact does not fund any. [More…]
If the people of New South Wales look at the Leichhardt and Liverpool women’s centres, for instance, and decide that that is how they want their money spent that is fair enough. [More…]
However, when the Commonwealth has a special commitment, as it does have in the area of women’s shelters, I believe that the whole aspect changes. [More…]
However, later it was reported that women from the shelter had said that the allegations were exaggerated, that there was no improper conduct and that in fact children in the shelter were not at risk. [More…]
The State is responsible for general administration and oversight of the Women’s Refuges. [More…]
Elim House is a women’s shelter operated in exactly the same way as is the Hobart women’s shelter, but the latter has received all of the funding. [More…]
It has gone about its work in a quiet fashion and, according to the people who operate it, if it were funded on the same lines as the Hobart women’s shelter, it could expand and take in a number of women who are requiring this service. [More…]
I believe that the Salvation Army ought to be asked if it will expand, if it will add to Elim House and take over the responsibility for these women, who so desperately need this service. [More…]
Women’s shelters are, of course, very important. [More…]
The whole program of supporting women’s shelters, which was introduced by a Labor government, has been very important to the community in the last few years. [More…]
How many hundreds and thousands of women and children who have got into difficulties through the problems associated with nuclear families in this country, who have become split away from the nuclear family, and who have had nowhere to go, have been helped by women’s shelters in the various States. [More…]
There may have been some difficulties in the Hobart women ‘s shelter. [More…]
Most of us who have been interested in women’s shelters have been careful to keep them out of the limelight as much as possible, to keep the publicity level low. [More…]
In this way the women who go there can indeed be protected and sheltered. [More…]
The difficulties arose in this case because some photographs were allegedly taken at the women’s shelter in Hobart- photographs allegedly showing behaviour which was not very proper in such a place. [More…]
The women who conducted the shelter admitted that something had gone on. [More…]
I believe that the men and women who went to Edmonton and all men and women and boys and girls who go into amateur sport not only devote their time but also go to a lot of personal expense. [More…]
This myth can be exploded and will be exploded when we as a nation realise that when we expect men and women to go overseas to represent Australia in either the Olympic Games or the Commonwealth Games we have a responsibility to ensure that they are not victimised and that they do not suffer any hardships. [More…]
If we as an Australian people are not prepared to make the facilities available to them, are not prepared to fund these sporting bodies, why blame the sports men and women? [More…]
They must be given that assistance here before they go so that they are able to compete with other sporting bodies or other sports men and women in other countries. [More…]
As honourable senators will be aware, the Homeless Persons Assistance Act was introduced in December 1974 on the basis of a report by a working party on homeless men and women. [More…]
The working party on homeless men and women recommended amongst other things, that capital grants totalling up to $5m a year should be made available over a three-year period to voluntary agencies and local statutory authorities for approved projects- such as night shelters, reception and assessment centres, hostels, flats, day centres, special clinics and detoxification units- in order to upgrade and replace existing inadequate accommodation and to build new facilities for permanently and chronically homeless men and women. [More…]
The Government has no doubt about the importance of this program or its effectiveness in helping to upgrade the standard of facilities for homeless men and women in many areas of Australia. [More…]
Complementary to the assistance that has been provided under this program, 76 women ‘s refuges have been approved for funding, at an estimated cost of some $3m this financial year, through the Community Health Program. [More…]
This is in line with the spirit of the report of the working party on homeless men and women, which recognised the need for consultation concerning the continued development of service by all levels of government and voluntary agencies to meet the needs of homeless people. [More…]
These groups include women who need protection in shelters, the increasing numbers of young homeless people as job opportunities decrease and as society’s problems become difficult with increasing unemployment. [More…]
Many areas, including homeless women and children, and girls in need of protection, could well come under such a program but have not done so in the past. [More…]
As Senator Grimes has said, this Act was introduced in December 1974 by his party when it was in government as a result of a report by a working party on homeless men and women. [More…]
The Federal Government has a special commitment to homeless persons, not only under this Act but also, as I mentioned last week, in respect of women’s shelters. [More…]
The problem embraces young people, people with acute psychological problems, and many more of the people now concerned than previously are women and children and many are Aborigines. [More…]
Many middle-aged men and women now find it impossible to get work. [More…]
To the credit of Australian Liberals belong the following firsts: National old age pension system; arbitration system; tariff protection of local industries; federal railway system; compensation legislation; Commonwealth involvement in education; votes for women and 18-year-olds; free compulsory and secular education; the free Press; the secret ballot; the opening of our land to free settlement. [More…]
For instance, where the law is basically made by men, how easy it is to pass legislation about women’s issues that are not worth a tinker’s curse. [More…]
We waste public time, for instance, abusing the women’s refuge movement instead of recognising and supporting its potential to undertake a social task the value of which is beyond measure and which cannot be fulfilled by traditional welfare bodies no matter how well intentioned they may be. [More…]
In the final analysis we mere men and women can do no more than our best making way for others if our best is not good enough. [More…]
It covered women’s refuges, child care centresone could go on- and involved people in the community in looking after young children, with the Government topping up only one- fifth of the cost. [More…]
Next I refer to the growth in the employment of married women in the work force. [More…]
I have no objection to married women working but believe that our policies should not actively encourage married women, especially if they have young children, to work at low wage rates. [More…]
It is fair enough if married women can earn wages high enough to pay for child minding services and such. [More…]
That might be acceptable, but I think it is wrong for government policies to encourage married women to go out to work at the bare minimum wage. [More…]
1 ) Did the Minister for Home Affairs advise the National Women’s Advisory Council that he was considering legislation to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex and marital status; if so, will the legislation apply to the Australian Capital Territory and the Commonwealth Public Service only. [More…]
I did indicate at the first meeting of the National Women’s Advisory Council on 10 August 1978 that I have a special interest in the means by which the law can be used to improve women’s status and officers from my department have been considering, with officers from the AttorneyGeneral’s Department, the possible form of Commonwealth legislation to proscribe discrimination on the grounds of sex and marital status. [More…]
It is not at present considered possible under the Constitution to extend such legislation to the whole of Australia, although persons (particularly women) who live in States which do not have such legislation will not have legal guarantees against discrimination on these grounds. [More…]
Women are now to be found in this category, whereas previously it was confined to men. [More…]
This is in line with the spirit of the report of the working party on homeless men and women, which recognised the need for all levels of government to participate in a program to assist the homeless and give recognition to the services that have already been established and are being run effectively by voluntary organisations. [More…]
He said that at present women are more predominantly homeless or that they are seeking help in greater numbers than at any other time. [More…]
I draw attention to the community health program under which women’s refuges are funded through the Department of Health. [More…]
The proposal will also affect some women in the community who sometimes find that the only income or personal money they receive is the family allowance payment. [More…]
If these women or poor families are to be deprived of these payments in part or whole by this proposal it is an unjust measure. [More…]
Senator Grimes has done a lot of worthwhile work on how this decision will affect individual families and what the realities of income reduction will be, but I suggest with the greatest of respect to him that he would make a more worthwhile contribution to the debate, and certainly one which would have more relevance to the women of Australia, if he recognised that the mother’s allowance is to be penalised because of the child ‘s income. [More…]
I have seen so many young Aboriginal men in particular and women as well who have lifted their heads above the crowd, have taken responsibility and have started to raise their voices on behalf of their own people. [More…]
The award for young people in their first job is far too close to the adult rate and employers naturally choose experienced people, often middle aged women re-entering the work force, in preference to juniors. [More…]
As a locally elected senator- a representative of this community- I am very much aware of the long delays in attending to very urgent matters, such as processing housing applications, processing applications for emergency housing for homeless families, processing applications for emergency welfare assistance from women who have been deserted or from homeless youth or any other person in urgent need of assistance. [More…]
There has been a failure on the part of officers of the Minister’s Department to consult with the local police and hospital staff on this very urgent issue and no women’s groups have been invited to participate in discussion. [More…]
Let me be the first to state quite unequivocalbly that there should not be discrimination against married women in the work force. [More…]
That would have meant that women would have had to work under the same conditions, lifting the same weights and working in the same dirt as men, to get equal pay. [More…]
A famous Frenchman said recently that liberation of women is freedom to choose between managing their homes and working in an office or factory. [More…]
Employment and Industrial Relations in his speech on 14 September recognised that the influx of married women seeking employment which was to some extent linked with the high level of migrant intake has been a factor of the labour supply from the 1950s onwards. [More…]
I hope I am not so stupid as to believe that these men and women did not achieve public office without some sense of concern and dedication. [More…]
While it is about it the Government might also recollect that it has a duty to Australian businessmen and women, thousands of whom have gone to the wall in bankruptcy over the last couple of years, a duty which I suggest the Government has been neglecting most seriously and for far too long. [More…]
If the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) still thinks he is controlling inflation I suggest he go and talk to some Australian businessmen and women as I have done recently- to a great number of them. [More…]
While Senator Ryan is fighting hard for the minority of women, the majority of women (and not only those in her electorate) are hoping for a better deal for single-income families so that they will not have to leave their families and seek work outside the home for economic reasons. [More…]
The Canberra branch of the Women’s Action Alliance (a national body of concerned women) sent a questionnaire to all ACT election candidates, seeking their views on indexation of family allowances . [More…]
Tonight he discussed the position of married women in the work force. [More…]
There is no doubt that there are married women in the work force because they need the money for various reasons, such as to bring up their families and so on. [More…]
I would say, too, that there are in the work force married women who do not need to be there at all. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Minister has made a block fund allocation to the States for child care services in women’s refuges? [More…]
If so, will she consider allocating money directly to the Canberra women’s refuge for child care purposes, or will funds be allocated to that refuge for that purpose from the funds allocated to New South Wales for child care purposes? [More…]
It is a fact that I have made grants to State governments and the Northern Territory as a contribution towards facilities for child care in women’s refuges. [More…]
Last night I received a deputation from Mr Fry, representing the interests of the Canberra women’s refuge. [More…]
At the same time I advise the Senate that I will make a grant of $2,000 for some capital facilities at the Canberra women’s refuge. [More…]
Most members of this House will recognise that I do not normally speak on what could be described as women’s issues. [More…]
In fact, I have said many times here and in other places that there are no women ‘s issues, and I would like to see the time when there are only people ‘s issues. [More…]
I want to talk about the 1978-79 Budget and women in specific areas. [More…]
Women have been particularly hard hit by this Budget and many will suffer considerable distress as a direct result of the Government’s priorities. [More…]
In general terms, I believe we can expect higher unemployment among women, decreased spending power, especially among lower income families, reduced services, and hardship arising from the decision to index pensions only once yearly. [More…]
Cuts in community health program spending will mean drastically reduced services by women’s health centres and refuges, despite increased demands and increased costs. [More…]
Two weeks ago I had drawn to my attention a matter which relates to the Emmaus Women’s Refuge in Glendower Street in North Perth. [More…]
I wrote to the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt) and the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) because I found that this refuge is existing mainly for the support of Aboriginal women who find themselves in rather delicate domestic circumstances and require some form of home in which to live until government agencies can take up their plight. [More…]
I received from the Emmaus Women’s Refuge a letter which states: [More…]
We approached DAA because we had so many Aboriginal women and children staying with us. [More…]
The Department of Social Security (Office of Child Care) again funds are not available for the actual running costs of women ‘s refuges. [More…]
We hope that you will be able to take up our case, as we are very concerned about the plight of the women who live at Emmaus as a result of homelessness- and who are again facing the prospect of further homelessness. [More…]
Under the heading ‘Emmaus Women’s Refuge- Operation’, it states: [More…]
Emmaus Women’s Refuge has been operating from its current address at 2 1 Glendower Street, North Perth for four months (since 15 May 1978). [More…]
I believe that the other address was unsatisfactory only because the building was not big enough to cater for all of the families that needed the support of a women’s refuge. [More…]
One month was also spent in looking for a more appropriate site for a women’s refuge. [More…]
As with all other women’s refuges in WA the basis of funding is- [More…]
Most of the women who work on the roster can only give their time as their contribution. [More…]
As most of the roster women receive income from elsewhere (e.g. [More…]
Tertiary Allowance, Supporting Mothers’ Benefit) it is impossible for roster women to sign for wages and thus lose their own income. [More…]
Some roster women do receive some money for their services. [More…]
Emmaus Women’s Refuge provides emergency accommodation for homeless women and children. [More…]
However Aboriginal women often have a great deal of difficulty in finding alternative accommodation, and tend to stay at Emmaus longer than white women. [More…]
Most of the Aboriginal women who come to Emmaus, have been housed by the State Housing Commission in the past- and have arrears on their previous tenancy which must be cleared before the Commission will consider re-housing. [More…]
This situation applies to each of the three women and their twelve children currently residing at Emmaus. [More…]
There has been a further eight days when the proportion of Aboriginal women and children has been at least 80 per cent. [More…]
In the four month period, we have had 37 white women and children who stayed 191 days, 34 Aboriginal women and children who stayed 1 70 days in total. [More…]
As I have already said, cuts in community health program spending will mean drastic reduction in the number of services provided by women’s health centres and refuges despite increased demand and costs, and the figures are there to prove not only increased costs but also increased demand. [More…]
There is an increase in demand for women’s refuges because in the past there has never been an opportunity to provide services somewhere where, in a rather disastrous domestic situation, women could suddenly gopacking, if necessary, in the middle of the night and taking themselves and their children. [More…]
There is no doubt that there are married women in the work force because they need money for various reasons, such as to bring up their families and so on. [More…]
I would say too that there are in the work force married women who do not need to be there at all; some of them work in industry out of sheer boredom. [More…]
I think that if we look at statistics we will see that when some of these women who are confined to the house feel emotionally insecure in the house they become one or all of those things. [More…]
I think that it is rather improper for Senator Kilgariff to use the floor of this chamber to denigrate the women who are in the work force and who are contributing to the economic stability of the country. [More…]
One directionissued in 1948 and re-affirmed in 1973 - prohibits the grant of assistance to a person who served during the 1939-45 war in the Citizen Military Forces or the Wartime Women’s Services unless that person served outside Australia; another- issued in 1972 to confirm the policy introduced in 1956- affects the eligibility of persons who served in the armed forces of other parts of the Queen’s dominions during the 1939-45 war after residing in Australia; the third- issued first in 1946 and re-affirmed in 1974- specifies the guidelines for disqualification of persons dismissed from the forces for misconduct. [More…]
Analgesics are doing a tremendous amount of damage, particularly to the women of Australia. [More…]
Evidence was put to the Committee that during tea breaks at a factory the women would have a cup of tea and an APC of some description. [More…]
We heard evidence that women were taking as many as 20 to 40 compound analgesics a day. [More…]
The women are responding to that advertisement, which is a disaster. [More…]
Women take twice as many analgesics as men and women present with five times more kidney disease than men. [More…]
Let us see what he had to say when he opened the ‘sharing of the work’ conference which was organised by people well connected with the Women’s Electoral Lobby in Canberra. [More…]
This civilisation and the trade union movement spent years getting kids out of the mines and out of the factories and releasing women from being pressured to go out to work because of need, and here we have the modern ideas of Mr Macphee, the person who is going to represent this Government at the vital conference which is being called by the Victorian Premier. [More…]
The people who created this problem during the late 1960s- Ian Macphee, as a representative of the employers, was one of them- were arguing against equal pay and were urging the women, the mothers, to go out into the work force as a source of cheap labour. [More…]
The Senate will recall Sarah Dowse as the head of the Office of Women’s Affairs. [More…]
Indeed, it was clear from a parable that she was acting not as a public servant but as part of the apparatus of the Women’s Electoral Lobby and other radical feminist groups. [More…]
Before I get on to anything else let me tell the Senate who was appointed as Director of the Office of Women’s Affairs when Ian Macphee took charge of it. [More…]
If I were a Minister I would be looking at all matters concerning women that came before me as advice because the Office of Women’s Affairs vets everything that goes to the Ministers when it concerns the women of Australia. [More…]
I am standing here on behalf of the vast majority of women in this nation. [More…]
They will not be in the efforts of the Women’s Electoral Lobby which, for example, asked the victimless crimes inquiry in Tasmania that all laws on victimless crimes, including those on homosexuality, prostitution, incest and abortion, be abolished. [More…]
proved that so far as a national organisation of women in this country is concerned Senator Ryan was opposed to the indexation of family allowances and that she had replied to it in respect of that. [More…]
She said: I did not answer that questionnaire that was sent to me by the Women’s Action Alliance’. [More…]
I have in my hand a Press statement dated Thursday, 8 December 1977 by the Women’s Action Alliance. [More…]
This is an important women’s organisation Indeed, it is an organisation which - [More…]
The Women’s Action Alliance, yes. [More…]
Senator Harradine brought forward as evidence for his views a letter from the Women’s Action Alliance. [More…]
We then got a burst on the giant conspiracy theory which involves the radical feminists of the Women’s Electoral Lobby taking over the Government in this country. [More…]
That makes it very difficult to take on in any detail the sorts of things that Senator Harradine talked about this evening in relation to women. [More…]
It is interesting to note that Senator Harradine is the senator who most frequently raises the subject of women in this place. [More…]
I rise tonight simply to get a couple of things on the record so that if Senator Harradine is going to pursue his arguments in relation to the role of women in Australia, perhaps we might be able to get that debate on to some reasonable bases. [More…]
It is the way that Senator Harradine approaches the subject of debate on women. [More…]
It is headed ‘The dark ages of women’. [More…]
It is an article on a book entitled The Years of Grace, published a couple of decades ago, which gave some advice to young women on how they ought to grow up. [More…]
Women these days are entitled to choose their own path in life just as men have been for some time. [More…]
Women are now starting to be released from those constraints. [More…]
It amazes me, for example, that he is unaware that the concepts of job satisfaction, automation, dehumanisation and the social implications that flow from them in the industrial arena have been discovered in modern research and technology to have strong parallels with some of the traditional social problems of women in our community. [More…]
They enable a family to have the right sort of economic independence so that women who choose to make a career of being a full time wife and mother are in a position to do so and are not pushed out into the work force. [More…]
However, while we recognise that, it would be as iniquitous as pushing mothers out into the work force to push all women back into the kitchen. [More…]
I was fascinated to hear him quote from a questionnaire which had been circulated by the Women’s Action Alliance. [More…]
I have answered questionnaires from the Women’s Electoral Lobby, the Women’s Action Alliance and many other groups who issue questionnaires, usually at the time of an election. [More…]
For example, I recall that during the 1 975 general election campaign I answered a questionnaire for the Women’s Electoral Lobby. [More…]
I was slightly surprised to find that on the subject of women’s rights I ranked below my Queensland colleague, Senator Glen Sheil and others. [More…]
The Women ‘s Action Alliance has never made available to me my score on any basis. [More…]
One of the things that I find particularly sad about this aspect is that the women in the community who are attempting to organise themselves politically do so from a certain disadvantage compared with most men. [More…]
They do it from the disadvantage that it is only fairly recently that women have become aware of the fact that they have political muscle and that through organising themselves in women’s groups they can exercise that muscle. [More…]
It is very sad to see these women’s groups exploited by male politicians who are well practised in the art of exploitation of community groups. [More…]
I only hope that these women’s groups will learn in time that by allowing themselves to be open to such exploitation they destroy their credibility and the credibility of a point of view which may be perfectly legitimate and which they wish to put in relation to women. [More…]
Unfortunately on the subject of women he is completely one-eyed. [More…]
If he were to come into this place and put forward his theory on what Australian women ought to be doing and what their opportunities ought to be I would be delighted to debate it with him on that basis, but I serve notice on him that if he embarks on the sort of attack that he made tonight he will be involved in long debates on the adjournment in which his speech will be analysed in a way which [More…]
National organisations of ex-servicemen and women. [More…]
The working men or women of this country, for various reasons which have been pointed out by speakers on this side, and most forcibly by Senator Evans yesterday and again by Senator Elstob today- Senator Rae said that he had some agreement with Senator Elstob ‘s remarks- will suffer to the tune of $ 1 10m in a full year. [More…]
The conservation groups and the umbrella organization- Movement Against Uranium Mining (MAUM)- a growing national coalition of trade unions, environmental, women’s, church, peace and other community groups have continued to urge for a 5-year moratorium, claiming that this is in concurrence with the recommendations of the second Fox report. [More…]
1 ) Amniocentesis tests are offered to all pregnant women of 40 years and over and younger women with previous or family histories of birth defects. [More…]
This report noted that diagnostic amniocentesis facilities currently available could cope with the present demand from the 40 and over age group and certain suspect cases in younger women. [More…]
However, the existing facilities are insufficient for this service to be offered to other younger women. [More…]
The Council has therefore recommended that (a) in future intrauterine diagnostic procedures should comprise a part of genetic counselling services and should be intergrated with those services in each State and Territory; (b) laboratory facilities should be expanded to allow genetic diagnostic services to be offered to all pregnant women in the 35-39 age group and (c) because of the complexity of the procedures, amniocentesis in early pregnancy and foetoscopy should only be performed by obstetricians associated with the State co-ordinated intrauterine diagnostic and genetic counselling services. [More…]
Mr Gangali did not address the meeting although two women from Oenpelli got up and spoke strongly against the proposed mining. [More…]
I understood these women had responsibilities for some of the land around Jabiru. [More…]
A pimp is a person who sells women in prostitution. [More…]
Were women officers in the Defence forces granted equal pay on 1 9 May 1 978, and was it decided that equal pay would be back-dated to 5 January 1978. [More…]
Why have women officers still not received equal pay, and when can they expect to receive it. [More…]
I refer, in a similar vein to the question asked by Senator Young, to the terrorist attacks in Rhodesia resulting in the murder of many hundreds of innocent men, women and children. [More…]
A pimp is a person who sells women in prostitution. [More…]
Perhaps the situation with the dependent spouse rebate will illustrate the point even better to those women who stay at home. [More…]
We must remember that the broken promise about twice-yearly indexation will affect not only the 1,200,000 age pensioners but also the 50,000 women who are on what was once called supporting mothers benefit but is now called supporting parents benefit, the 140,000 widow pensioners and the 240,000 invalid pensioners. [More…]
Prime Minister Fisher, in introducing legislation providing for the payment of maternity allowances in 1912, pointed out that it would be of use to the women of that time to obtain credit where they wanted credit and to meet the expenses associated with the birth of a child. [More…]
This Bill represents a brutal assault on something like two million Australian men, women and children who are dependent in some way on social services; two million people whose standard of living lies in the calloused hands of this Government- hands that have become calloused because the Government has spent the last 34 months wiping its hands of every pre-election promise it made. [More…]
I do not know whether those women who are on the way and who are listening would be able to apply to their medical funds for the cost of a basinet or nappies or the like and get refunds for them. [More…]
They include: ‘Welfare in Industry: Changing Perspective’, reports; Worker Participation in Management: The Australian Context’; a submission to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on migrants in the work force: ‘Social Policy and Problems of the Work Force’, volumes 1 and 2; ‘Adequacy of Income Derived from Work for Low Income Families in the Williamstown- Altona areas’; Development of a Working Women’s Charter’, submission to the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health; a submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare concerning the inquiry into the adequacy of Australian health and welfare services; and ‘The Collection and Dissemination of Information on Social Welfare Programs and the Role of Trade Unions in the Direct Provision of Welfare Services’. [More…]
I think that it is reasonable and that it would be appreciated by the women concerned. [More…]
The Commission also has two women on it, Professor Kramer and Mrs Roe. [More…]
We did not hear from Senator Ryan whether she thinks those women are unrepresentative and not fit to be on the Commission. [More…]
I know that the Government envisages that many noble men and women will make decisions- on what grounds we know not- as to whether a patient is disadvantaged. [More…]
Existing staff are, and will continue to be, entitled to maternity leave as it applies to all women employed in the Commonwealth Public Service, but staff joining after 1 November will not have that entitlement. [More…]
It is mean, totally unjust and directly conflicts with the Government’s frequent protestations that it supports equal employment opportunities for women. [More…]
It was pointed out in the discussion paper on paying for health care that was put out in February this year by Doctor Sax that the main increase in institutional care was the increase in nurses ‘ salaries- a catch up in wages for women with which I entirely agree. [More…]
The majority of women have perfectly normal births and the scans are not a necessary part of treatment in a normal pregnancy. [More…]
1 ) The figure of four female vacancies for radio technicians trainees was arrived at by consideration of the probable number of female applicants in conjunction with a requirement to establish the viability of employment of women in technical musterings. [More…]
The lower retention rates for women increases costs by necessitating training of additional numbers to sustain manpower levels. [More…]
Do we, as senators, have the necessary intestinal fortitude to initiate innovative and far reaching legislation, or are we to give truth to the fallacy that we are a chamber of stoic old men and women, deaf to the voice of the people, a mere rubber stamp of that other place? [More…]
I see the wisdom of years, and I pray to God that I also see men and women of principle: men and women of vision, men and women who are not the mere minions of government and bureaucracy, but men and women who are now prepared to stand up and be counted, and are in tune with the song of freedom that is presently resounding throughout this nation. [More…]
In 1973 the Labor Government extended eligibility for war service loans to regular servicemen and women after a minimum of three years’ service. [More…]
This clause proposes the introduction of a preference system for those servicemen and women who have had war service and provides, for the first time in the history of the defence service homes scheme, specific authority for imposing a waiting period. [More…]
It is quite amazing that the Government should be introducing legislation which in fact disadvantages ex-servicemen and women. [More…]
When one considers that about one-third of a million exservicemen and women have taken advantage of this scheme as part compensation for their sacrifices that were made in the defence of this country, one would imagine that it would be one of the areas in which there would be no attempt made to introduce legislation which would reduce concessions to such people. [More…]
I fail to understand why men and women who pledge to serve Australia should be charged different home insurance premiums solely because they live in Queensland. [More…]
Surely there are many men or women overseas with sufficient status who, given the necessary economic incentive, would take on such a responsible and worthwhile job. [More…]
This was typical of the loyalty of those men and women. [More…]
On one occasion a government official spoke glibly of the little social consequence of the closure since in his mind most of the men could obtain jobs and a high proportion of the women were married. [More…]
We can talk about the commitments of the husband and wife, the single women and all those people who are part of the manufacturing industry. [More…]
The three areas that are covered in the report are: Firstly, immigration, which has occurred very substantially since 1945; secondly, the influx of married women seeking and finding employment within the work force; and thirdly, the fluctuations in the proportion and number of young people who are entering the labour market, accompanied by a trend towards longer average periods of full-time education. [More…]
Therefore, married women accounted for over 80 per cent of the escalation in the labour force growth rate due to the addition of females. [More…]
The position in regard to married women in the work force had changed. [More…]
The number of married women in the work force had increased from 6.7 per cent to 11.1 per cent, and in 1971 it was 6.9 per cent. [More…]
Again, this demonstrates the very significant contribution that married women made to the work force during that period from the early 1 950s to the present day. [More…]
Very largely, that significant characteristic of the labour force over the last 20 years has had a considerable influence on the changes in the needs of the labour market insofar as married women have found jobs in areas which had not previously been available to them. [More…]
Of the remainder, there are three main recommendations: Firstly, that private free-standing abortion clinics should not operate in the Australian Capital Territory; secondly, that there should be a clinic, conducted by the Capital Territory Health Commission, within the grounds of a public hospital, to perform abortions authorised by law up to 11 weeks of pregnancy; and thirdly, that all women having abortions performed in the Australian Capital Territory after 1 1 weeks and up to 20 weeks of pregnancy should be in-patients in a public hospital. [More…]
The designating of facilities- for example, the setting aside of some portion of the building as a clinic in which counselling and termination of pregnancies may take place in the first 1 1 weeks of pregnancyand the provision of in-patient care for women between the 11th and 20th week of pregnancy are matters for the Capital Territory Health Commission acting under its own Ordinance. [More…]
That is a fact which is inescapable and, as between women seeking an abortion in Sydney and women seeking an abortion in Canberra, there is a discrepancy, a discrimination, which is important and which I believe would have been important in the deliberations of the Legislative Assembly of the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
But I do take the view, which I believe is strongly supported by circumstantial evidence, by facts and by the history of the abortion debate over many years, that, whatever this Senate does in relation to legislative proscription regarding abortion, abortions will still be sought by women and will still take place. [More…]
The significant point that I seek to make from the law as it has been and still is in most legislative prescriptions is that, however we might like to characterise abortion, the fact of the matter is that many women who are confronted with a difficult moral and social problem do not see it in that way. [More…]
Alternatively, do we make the judgment perhaps that we live in a society in which there is insufficient room for legitimate choice to be made by women confronted with this situation? [More…]
I find it appalling that the people who take the anti-abortion line can seriously believe that women have abortions for cosmetic reasons, that women take abortions lightly, that they have them for no serious reason but just for their own convenience. [More…]
These people very carefully forget the horrific problems that women have to face. [More…]
They take no responsibility for the poverty, the drudgery, the violence, the hunger, the illness, the despair, the lack of hope and the pain that women have to suffer in these circumstances. [More…]
The unfortunate women are left to wrestle with those problems on their own. [More…]
What are the people who call themselves the ‘right to lifers’ doing about those women there and what are they doing about those women here? [More…]
They are the ones who are pressuring women more and more and they are the ones who are not facing up to the real problems. [More…]
Because they do nothing about the problems that cause women to have an abortion. [More…]
These people force women into such areas. [More…]
If they really care about the health of the women and children in the Australian Capital Territory they should go out and find those butchers and do something about them. [More…]
But remember that they are there only because desperate women will find the means of having an abortion. [More…]
I say to the people who come out with that theory that women are not factories to be turned off and on. [More…]
Under present procedures, as I understand the matter, this committee of six may not necessarily include a woman although it sometimes does; that women seeking termination are not allowed to put their cases personally to that committee but only through a doctor, and that terminations are carried out more or less in parallel with other hospital procedures using the same staff, who may or may not wish to be involved. [More…]
Since the committee will not even see the women concerned under any circumstances there is no question of it actually counselling her. [More…]
That would be a respectable point of view, but I think that on such a massive moral issue, an issue which affects something like a quarter of a million Australian women a year, those women are entitled to hear the views of their elected senators. [More…]
I believe that abortion is abhorrent to all men and women of goodwill. [More…]
I believe the noble philosophy that I have espoused that abortion is abhorrent to all men and women of goodwill for the reason that I have given is viable only in a perfect society- and God knows we do not live in a perfect society. [More…]
To my knowledge, very few men are ever faced with the dilemma of whether they should have an abortion but women are. [More…]
The terrible choice is with women. [More…]
Without going into the morality of that situation, I think one can conclude at least one thing, and that is that there is massive sexual ignorance in Australia today by both men and women. [More…]
That a multi-lingual pamphlet setting out all aspects covered in the counselling session shall be provided to all women at the conclusion of the counselling session. [More…]
What moral right has a senator from Tasmania to determine the moral standards of Canberra and in particular whether the women of Canberra should or should not be able to see contraceptives advertised in chemists’ windows? [More…]
This issue surely affects the rights of the women of the Capital Territory. [More…]
The majority of women have perfectly normal births and the scans are not a necessary part of treatment in a normal pregnancy. [More…]
I would interpret from that that Senator Walters is against women having automatic ultra-sound scans, because she explained later just how expensive it is going to be. [More…]
This legislation and the whole issue that we are talking about do not mean that we are insisting that all women have to have an abortion. [More…]
Sometimes the reasons are purely and simply that women recognise that they cannot give the necessary emotional support either to a child or to another child in their family. [More…]
Some women are so emotionally drained that they know that they cannot cater for the needs of a child. [More…]
I did it on the basis that many years ago I recognised notonly that women have a right to determine what they should do with their bodies but also that there was a consideration for the unborn child to be taken into account. [More…]
Those of us who do not adopt the same view as those liberals on this occasion do so on the basis that the decision of the woman- a painful and difficult decision, which it must be for so many women- is a decision which affects not only that woman alone. [More…]
We speak as people who have been closest to pregnant women, who have had to face these problems and who have had to make some decisions. [More…]
My belief, and I put it simply, is that I would want to ensure for all Australian women the widest possible access to all the facilities they need if they wish to have a lawful termination of pregnancy. [More…]
The Ordinance narrows the potential access of women in the Australian Capital Territory to termination of pregnancy when they are legally entitled to it. [More…]
Women from the Australian Capital Territory certainly do use free-standing abortion clinics. [More…]
Of course, the fivehour bus ride from Canberra to Sydney indicates the hypocrisy that can come into this debate if we say that by excluding free-standing clinics we will in fact be stopping all women in the Territory from using them. [More…]
It may interest honourable senators to know that of the first 1 ,007 women who were treated at the Preterm Foundation the percentage that came from the Australian Capital Territory- 3.9 per cent- was exactly the percentage which the population of the Territory would represent if it were included in the population of New South Wales. [More…]
What happens to the rest of the women? [More…]
It is hypocrisy to pretend that failure to establish a clinic here will result in women not using this facility or not continuing to desire to have abortions. [More…]
Apart from the fact that it will mean delays in routine gynaecological surgery, what will it mean for the women desiring termination? [More…]
The purpose of the extra committee, I think, is just to make abortion less accessible to women in Canberra than it is in other parts of Australia. [More…]
There is not a State which as a rule for all women insists upon the imposition of a terminations committee between a woman and the doctors who certify her to need the termination and the procedure itself. [More…]
My concern is to decide what effects this can produce for the women of the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
The barriers are there and this is at a time when all the evidence shows that the procedure is becoming more common round Australia and when the Legislative Assembly tells us that each year more than 400 women in the Territory will require a termination of pregnancy. [More…]
As a doctor I have had to counsel many pregnant women, some of whom with my help have been able to find support to go through their pregnancies. [More…]
I have had to counsel many pregnant women who with my support have found their way to termination of their pregnancies. [More…]
But I find the possibility of less easy access to abortion for women in the Australian Capital Territory to be present if this Ordinance is upheld. [More…]
There will be less easy access that is likely to be socially inequitable in its impact and which is likely merely to direct women to Sydney and to the free standing clinics there. [More…]
Dr HUGHES: Well, could you put an approximate percentage on the number of women who would be given a pelvic examination by a doctor before the final decision was made that they would have an abortion and that they would go into the operating theatre. [More…]
Ms HOOKS: From the point of view of sterility the doctors eat and drink and smoke in the theatre at the same time as women are being operated on and thats certainly not sterile procedure by any means. [More…]
like things that are not sterile, the cloths that are used to wipe the women down afterwards, and sometimes they use the same cloths to wipe down all the women for one day and thats certainly not sterile and if that comes in contact with any of the instruments or anything - [More…]
He commenced his remarks by saying that he was a medical practitioner, that there are a couple of medical practitioners in the Senate and that they were close to the pregnant women. [More…]
The husbands of the pregnant women are pretty close to them, but I cannot see what that has got to do with any of the argument to and fro across the chamber. [More…]
To read the letters one would imagine that the effect of Senator Ryan’s motion would be to terminate the pregnancies of all Australian women forever. [More…]
Secondly, it has the support of a majority of the people and specifically, I suggest, of the women of the Australian Capital Territory and of the elected representatives. [More…]
Thirdly, and perhaps the most important of all, it is an action which, if supported, will give women even greater freedom for it is an extension of women ‘s rights to have control over their own bodies. [More…]
It is the right to legally solve an issue that faces most women. [More…]
Sixty per cent of the opinions came from women- and that in itself, I think, is significant. [More…]
They came from women’s organisations, doctors, nurses, lawyers, social workers and, of course, mothers. [More…]
Of those in favour, 55 per cent saw such laws as giving women ‘freedom to decide one’s self or as ‘enhancing women’s personal choice’. [More…]
These responses were to a completely open-ended question and showed the concern of the majority of people in the Australian Capital Territory to give women greater freedom and control over their own lives and bodies and futures- a right which they should exercise themselves and which the law should protect and guarantee. [More…]
A second survey, predominantly of adult women, was carried out in 5 1 Canberra suburbs and responses were obtained from 713 people. [More…]
It was assisted also by the surveys, which show that there is considerable public opinion that the right of women to terminate a pregnancy at a government clinic should be legally established. [More…]
Whatever the number is, each one represents a personal decision that has had to be made by individual women throughout the Commonwealth. [More…]
It matters not whether the number is 5,000, 50,000 or 200,000; each one represents a decision that has had to be made by women. [More…]
They are not decisions which the women concerned have taken lightly; they are not decisions that doctors have taken lightly. [More…]
The plain fact of the matter is that women do not make those sorts of decisions care-free and without regard to their responsibilities. [More…]
As a male I can say only that a tremendous responsibility rests with those women who are forced to make these sorts of decisions. [More…]
It appears that Senator Harradine has no conception of the need for women to be given help when making decisions about whether to proceed with a pregnancy. [More…]
If we support, as I believe many honourable senators in this chamber say they support, the principle of freedom of choice, then we ought to give to the women of the Australian Capital Territory freedom of choice in relation to these matters. [More…]
We have a clear cut plan to establish a clinic at which one-third of those women who become pregnant can have their pregnancies terminated instead of using different methods as they are now. [More…]
But if women are of that belief, then I emphasise that I believe that such an abortion should be conducted under the strictest supervision and in a public institution. [More…]
How could I not agree given that women in other parts of Australia have such a facility available to them? [More…]
I know that desperate women and girls will travel, for example, to Sydney or to Melbourne for this operation. [More…]
I also know that some women who need abortions will not be able to afford the fares to travel or that some women, having no one to leave their families with for a couple of days, will be forced to go through with a pregnancy that will damage their health and the welfare of their families. [More…]
Everybody here knows that through the ages thousands of women have died as a result of backyard abortions. [More…]
Without such provisions, a number of women with needed skills and experiences would be lost to the public sector. [More…]
Proper maternity leave provisions ensure that women, in whom the Government has made a considerable investment in terms of training and development of expertise are afforded employment protection by being able to continue in Commonwealth employment while also raising a family. [More…]
For women who do not resume duty following maternity leave, the sick leave entitlement under the existing provisions becomes a ‘retirement benefit’ not available to other employees on resignation or retirement. [More…]
Although access to sick leave will become dependent on the production of a medical certificate, women on maternity leave will still be able to draw on their accrued recreation and long service leave credits during the unpaid period of their maternity leave. [More…]
I refer also to the evenhanded approach of the chairmen, or perhaps chairpersons since some of the chairmen are women, for the way in which they allow the Government and Opposition members- in fact, all members of the Committee- to put their questions and then assist them in getting the answers for which they are looking. [More…]
When I asked the officer in charge- I want it to be understood right now that in no way am I blaming the personnel of the ABS; they are operating under the instructions of the Government and we were told that, in the main, these random sample tests are carried out by middle-aged married women who they claim have certain expertise- did the ABS ever recruit for their surveys any of the people whom they found to be unemployed and single people, I was told that the ABS would sooner have people with a certain expertise. [More…]
Why are they not recruited, instead of middle-aged married women, to do this work? [More…]
If its experience is that women of the type described in the Estimates committee do provide the service which is required by the Bureau, I think it would be an extremely odd thing if the Government intervened and told the Bureau that it should use these people to find pockets of unemployment that could be relieved and to get rid of its existing staff. [More…]
The Minister for Administrative Services (Senator Chaney) will remember that some concern has been expressed in some Navy circles in New South Wales about a suggestion that a considerable number of men were billeted in huts while it was claimed members of the Women’s Royal Australian Navy Service had far better quarters. [More…]
All that we have managed to salvage as a result of repeated representations to the Minister have been about six jobs for women stewardesses who supposedly were to have been retrenched when the Tasman Passenger Service was taken off the run. [More…]
-I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations: What plans are there for the continued funding of National Employment and Training scheme programs directed at retraining unemployed women? [More…]
As you know, it has a majority of Aboriginal men and women, all of whom play a prominent part in directing and advising our small staff. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware of the present requirement of the Australian Passport Office that married women, when applying for a passport, provide evidence of change of name, usually in the form of a marriage certificate? [More…]
Late last year women of the Timorese community in Melbourne, which is the only one with which I personally am familiar, were beginning to ask what was happening about that undertaking. [More…]
In Melbourne there are women with a number of children and no father, the father being in East Timor; and there are brothers and sisters under 12 years of age, with no parents here at all. [More…]
I do not know what validity there is in threats and so on; but a number of Timorese women in Melbourne have said that if they are not reunited with their families by Christmas this year they will go on a hunger strike until they are. [More…]
The two main components of unemployment are young people and women. [More…]
A second development in the last ten years has been that more married women have entered the work force. [More…]
Sixty-five per cent of the women working in those stores would prefer to work only two or three days a week. [More…]
If that could happen it would create thousands of part time jobs for other women, but with the casual rates currently applicable it is not possible. [More…]
It represents bad faith to women because the effect of the reductions in maternity leave, as I will point out later on, will be to force many women out of the Public Service into unemployment, permanently it would appear at the moment because it is almost impossible to get back into the Public Service once one has retired. [More…]
This demonstrates the bad faith of the Government with respect to equality of opportunity for women in the work force. [More…]
If the Government were worried about abuse and about women joining the Public Service simply to get maternity leave and things of that kind it could have introduced a fairer compromise, such as a pro rata qualifying period. [More…]
Also, it means that the Government’s commitment to equality of opportunity for women is qualified. [More…]
If the Government really believes that women should not be penalised in their employment for child bearing, why does it propose that there be a 12-month qualifying period? [More…]
However, in the present circumstances I cannot support the removal of automatic entitlement to sick leave to women who are on maternity leave. [More…]
The real difficulty for women going on maternity leave but who want and need to return to work within the qualifying period is the lack of proper child care. [More…]
That is not the situation and, as a result of the lack of child care facilities and, now, the necessity for a woman to be really ill before she can use up her sick leave credits as well, we will see women returning to the work force, because they need to hold their jobs, before they are properly fit to do so, or have been able to make really satisfactory arrangements for their small babies. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) said in his policy speech last year that the Government was committed to complete equality of opportunity for women. [More…]
Women make up 36 per cent of the work force. [More…]
Two-thirds of those women, or one in five workers, are married. [More…]
I believe that the proposed restriction on maternity leave, and the abolition of paternity leave, will have the effect of forcing some men and women out of the work force, out of permanent employment in the Public Service. [More…]
If women cannot find satisfactory child care or do not feel that they can return to work in the time now allotted, or if they have joined the Public Service too late to qualify for maternity leave, I think that many of them will have to resign from the Public Service. [More…]
This is unacceptable, especially at a time when it is so difficult to gain entry to the Public Service and does deny the policy of equality of opportunity of women that was announced by the Prime Minister. [More…]
The United Nations declaration on the elimination of discrimination against women states that maternity leave is essential to protect women from discrimination on the grounds of marriage or pregnancy. [More…]
Since 1911 the International Labor Organisation has recognised the right of women to maternity leave. [More…]
There has been much talk of abuses and of women never coming back. [More…]
Surveys show that 50 per cent of women do return to work after maternity leave despite the enormous difficulties of obtaining child care for children under 12 months. [More…]
-The figures have been produced in a report by an Australian Government Joint Council sub-committee entitled ‘Survey of women returning to work after maternity leave’ to which I shall refer later. [More…]
Well over 12 months ago through the device of placing questions on notice I sought to obtain information about who was returning to work, the number of women who were taking maternity leave, how often they were taking it and so forth. [More…]
Again, I do not think that there are many cases of women who are actually making a career of producing children so as to qualify for maternity leave year after year. [More…]
The claim has also been made that women are joining the Public Service when they are already pregnant just to qualify for maternity leave. [More…]
The survey to which I referred established that in the year 1976-77 only 80 women had been pregnant when they joined the Public Service. [More…]
There have also been many complaints, and in a sense they are genuine complaints, about the personnel and staffing problems which arise when women are on maternity leave because they are tying up jobs and cannot be replaced. [More…]
I am very sympathetic towards people in management and personnel areas who have to cope with the problem of women who are absent on maternity leave. [More…]
The reason is not that women are taking the leave to which they are entitled; the reason is the staff ceilings policy of this Government. [More…]
If the Government had a more flexible staffing policy with regard to the Public Service those women absent on maternity leave could be replaced just as other employees on sick leave, recreation leave, study leave, long service leave or any other form of leave available to all public servants are replaced or should be replaced temporarily by other officers. [More…]
It seems to me that women taking maternity leave have become the scapegoats for the situation that has been created by the Government’s policy of restrictive and - unrealistically low staff ceilings for the Public Service. [More…]
It found, for example, that only 2.7 per cent of women who took maternity leave had less than one year’s service. [More…]
It found that 88.8 per cent had between two and 10 years of service; that 8.3 per cent had 10 or more years of service; that 82.7 per cent of women surveyed had not previously taken maternity leave; that 16 per cent had taken maternity leave once before and that 1.3 percent had taken maternity leave twice before. [More…]
Maternity leave cost S6.1m last year, making a total provision of some $7m for public servants which would have assisted greatly in gaining equality of opportunity for women public servants and assisted greatly in supporting the families of Commonwealth employees. [More…]
Firstly, I must stress that it is grossly unfair that only public servants can get what all working women should have, and that is paid maternity leave. [More…]
I note that the Government, which is so fond of talking abouts rights for women and support for families, has not supported the ACTU case. [More…]
This means, of course, that many women return to full time employment that they cannot really cope with. [More…]
There are no provisions for easier entry into the work force for women who stay out of the work force until their children are of school age. [More…]
This was when the barrier on the continued permanent employment of women after marriage and on the appointment of married women as permanent officers was removed from the Public Service Act. [More…]
They enabled women officers who became pregnant to take leave of absence without pay for a period not exceeding 26 weeks. [More…]
Senator Ryan has said that the alterations to this Act demonstrate bad faith on the part of the Government- bad faith to families, bad faith to women and bad faith to public servants. [More…]
I contend that the only bad faith that they establish is bad faith to the abusers of the system, because there is no doubt that the maternity leave provisions were introduced to assist women to stay in the work force. [More…]
Less than 50 per cent of the women availing themselves of maternity leave have returned to the work force. [More…]
Part of that discussion paper reads: the Act is seen as providing a disincentive to changes in patterns of parental responsibility between men and women. [More…]
It goes on to say that it is not necessary that only women should be eligible to care for the baby and that such a restriction serves only ‘to institutionalise the role of woman as child-rearer and to reinforce stereotyped views’. [More…]
Because of that I will be accused of being against women generally. [More…]
Senator Ryan must surely agree that the figures show that the majority of women want to look after their own baby. [More…]
The majority of women have decided that they want to look after their own babies and the figures that I have prove it. [More…]
The figures for 1975-76, which are the latest figures that the Bureau of Statistics can give us, show that 57 per cent of women- not 50 per cent, but 57 per cent- resigned in the same year that they took their maternity leave. [More…]
Of the women taking the maximum leave of 49 to 52 weeks, 66 per cent resigned. [More…]
I believe that in the beginning maternity leave was brought in specifically to assist women to return to the work force. [More…]
As I said a moment ago, and Senator Ryan was obviously not listening, the majority of women are resigning because they want to look after their new babies. [More…]
As Senator Ryan said, in 1976-77 there were employed by the Commonwealth Public Service 80 women who were pregnant when they went into the Service and who immediately took their maternity leave. [More…]
I wonder how many of those women have since resigned. [More…]
I know that 57 per cent resign anyway, so obviously at least 57 per cent of those 80 women resigned as soon as they had taken their maternity leave. [More…]
Yes, this Government has bad faith with the abusers of the system but it has not bad faith with the family, with the women of this society or with the Public Service. [More…]
It should be borne in mind that it is the women especially who take the initiative in keeping in touch with the family and in planning the trip. [More…]
This means that the advertising should not antagonise women- for example it should avoid anything which might reinforce Australia’s reputation as a beer-swilling, male-orientated society. [More…]
Very often (especially where women are concerned) neither the saving nor the cheapness (of fare) idea comes across. [More…]
Not only does this not appeal to women but the comparison is often taken to mean ‘you ‘11 have a great boozy time in Australia’ (and this in any case is not what the VFR market - [More…]
But what I am saying is that there is an enormous range of forms of industrial action of the kind in which trade unions and their members have always engaged and will always engage from time to time so long as this is necessary to protect the interests of the working men and women of this country. [More…]
Whether he is aware of the present requirement of the Austraiian Passport Office that married women, when applying for a passport, provide evidence of change of name, usually in the form of a marriage certificate? [More…]
The honourable senator will be pleased to know that in accordance with our policy on women ‘s affairs, provisions have existed since 1976 whereby a married woman may request the issue of an Australian passport in her maiden name. [More…]
Perhaps we could look at groups such as women’s refuges which receive government financial assistance or groups such as Apex which are non-profit making and purely service organisations. [More…]
Who are the members of the National Women’s Advisory Council, referred to on page 2 of the pamphlet For the Ethnic Media, dated 22 November 1978, and what are the details of their experience in community affairs. [More…]
The first appointments to the National Women’s Advisory Council, which was established to advise the Government on matters of concern to women, were announced by me on 14 July 1978. [More…]
Beryl Beaurepaire (Victoria)- Voluntary community and charity worker; Citizens’ Welfare Service of Victoria (VicePresident), United Nations Association of Australia, Status of Women Committee; Member, Women’s Advisory Body Working Party. [More…]
Sue Broad (Western Australia)-Federal Vice-President of the Isolated Children’s Parents’ Association: has undertaken an overseas study tour on a Western Australian Women’s Fellowship to look further at problems of isolated parents and children; President Yalgoo Museum; member Country Women’s Association; local correspondent for the ABC; contributor to ‘The West Australian’ newspaper. [More…]
student and researching the child and law in Queensland; has published and presented papers on rights of the child, emotional needs of young children and care of sick children; President, Association for the Welfare of Children in Hospital, Queensland; member, sub-committee on co-ordination of Pediatric Services, Queensland Pediatric Advisory Committee; member, sub-committee revising legislation in Queensland for handicapped children, Queensland Special Education Department; member, Women Lawyers’ Association, U.N. Association Human Rights Committee, Federation of University Women. [More…]
Wide experience in relation to issues affecting Aboriginal women. [More…]
Valerie Fisher (Victoria)- Involved in various community activities in farming district where she lives, including work with mentally ill patients, Mayday Hills Hospital, Beechworth; member, Country Women’s Association (Victorian State President 1973-75; National President 1975-77); member, United Nations Association of Australia, Status of Women Committee; has attended two world conferences of Associated Country Women of the World. [More…]
Wendy McCarthy (New South Wales)- Director, New South Wales Family Planning Association and home duties; previously a teacher, including teaching women re-entering the workforce; member of the Education Committee of the NSW Women’s Advisory Board; has also worked as a media consultant; Family Life Movement, Women’s Electoral Lobby and Childbirth Education Association. [More…]
Joyce McConnell (Australian Capital Territory)- Home duties; active in women’s affairs; immediate past President National Council of Women; delegate to Mexico IWY Conference; member, Association of University Women, Australian Pre-Schools’ Association. [More…]
Judith Roberts (South Australia)- Trained nurse; associate member of National Council of Women of SA; member of number of local community organisations (in the fields of health, welfare and education) including Unley Mothers and Babies Health Association ( former President, Secretary and Treasurer), Unley Royal Institution for the Blind, Unley Auxiliary of Crippled Children’s Association, Royal District Nursing Society, Red Cross, Good Neighbour Council of SA, State Committees of Schools’ Commission, Council of Governors of Walford CEGGS, Federation of Parents and Friends Association of Independent Schools in SA. [More…]
Women who are chronically anaemic need good food and proper nutrition. [More…]
Some women bringing up families on their own have health care available to them and some of them have no health care; some of them are helped with prescriptions at the chemist and some of them are not; some are assisted with fares and some get no assistance whatsoever; some have assistance with rates or telephones and some have none at all. [More…]
In view of the present high level of youth unemployment, is the Minister aware of any evidence that highlights the apparent preference of employers for young and middle-aged women over school leavers, especially male school leavers? [More…]
At the same time, the rates of participation in the labour force of women aged 25 to 44 rose very sharply. [More…]
Between 1971 and 1978 the percentage of” women aged 25 to 34 who were in the work force rose from 41.9 per cent to 5 1 per cent. [More…]
For women aged 35 to 44, the participation rate rose from 48.9 per cent to 56.7 per cent in the same period. [More…]
In response to Senator Teague ‘s question, I point out that we have a situation in which young and middle-aged women, particularly those aged 25 to 44, have in considerable numbers chosen to enter the work force or to remain in the work force longer. [More…]
This exercise by women of their freedom of choice, which I freely acknowledge, has had the effect of limiting further the opportunities and choices available to school leavers and people under 20 years of age. [More…]
Other factors have encouraged employers to take up middle-aged women in greater numbers. [More…]
In the eyes of employers, married women in particular appear to be more stable and mature employees and to stay longer in their chosen jobs. [More…]
Part of the problem, and this is rather basic to my argument, is that planning by authoritarian States has been arbitrary and has almost always been imposed downwards without any attempt to consult the community or those business men and women and workers who must inevitably be affected by that planning. [More…]
We believe that most problems can be solved by a reasonable consensus between intelligent men and women and that if we give that away in this world we have nothing left. [More…]
He is the man who, at his residence outside of Paris, had a sign: Women: Respect the Veil’. [More…]
We should pay tribute to that considerable group of men and women who, throughout the year and almost around the clock, negotiate on behalf of Australia as well as other nations at a wide range of conferences, seminars and meetings in which the highest standard of intelligence, negotiation and diplomatic effort is called for. [More…]
Six hundred million men, women and children living in absolute poverty without access to the basic amenities which we take for granted is, of course, a very frightening situation. [More…]
These articles, instead of reporting what actually had been said to the Committee, under sensationalised headlines such as ‘Maintenance for Women Must go’, selected complaints made by members of the public to the Attorney-General and then represented them as being endorsed by the Department. [More…]
Those reports were in fact blamed for an event in Melbourne whereby a group called the Women’s Revolutionary Guerilla Army threw a brick through the Attorney-General’s office window. [More…]
Women in particular are concerned because they feelwith justification- that the Act takes away any protection they may have had under the old divorce laws. [More…]
In fact, 30 of them said that men were being prejudiced under this Act and about 30 people said that women were being prejudiced under this Act. [More…]
Over 43 per cent of all married women are in the paid work force. [More…]
But that freedom of choice is not available to the vast number of married women with dependent children who are forced into the work force through the economic circumstances. [More…]
Why not consider the lifting of family allowances and the payment of a realistic homemakers allowance which would relieve the economic pressure and provide an opportunity for thousands of married women to leave the paid work force? [More…]
It has been estimated that if only 9 per cent of the married women in the work force responded to this opportunity there would be no teenage unemployment. [More…]
As well as giving married women a true freedom of choice, my suggestion would do something for the population. [More…]
Thereby real jobs will be created, not artificial jobs, not the palliatives which have been suggested such as the sharing of jobs, the reduction of hours of work, of getting married women out of the work force and so on. [More…]
This has resulted in an increased use of technology and the displacement of men and women in the work force. [More…]
I suggest we need more than attempts- like the one suggested by Senator Harradine- to take 9 per cent or so of the married women out of the work force. [More…]
I do not want to be taken the wrong way by any means when speaking on this subject but we have to look at the number of married women in the work force. [More…]
In 1933, 54,800 women were employed in the work force. [More…]
That number represented 2.04 per cent of the married women in Australia. [More…]
In 1975 the number of married women in the work force increased quite considerably. [More…]
In 1 973, 1 , 1 7 1 ,200 women were employed in the work force. [More…]
The percentage of married women in the work force has also risen quite considerably. [More…]
In 1933 the participation rate of married women in the work force was 4.2 per cent. [More…]
The figure is still increasing and now 42 per cent of married women are in the work force. [More…]
A very large increase has occurred in the number of married women in the work force. [More…]
There is no reason why women should not work. [More…]
I disagree with Senator Harradine ‘s remark that married women have been forced into the work force. [More…]
I believe that people today, receiving the wages that they do, are better off by far than were people employed in the pre-Depression years when only 4.2 per cent of women were in the work force. [More…]
It is not a case of women being forced into the work force. [More…]
Women today have a far higher expectation for their families than did women in the past. [More…]
Her explanation of the problem revolved very much around her discovery of a number of social phenomena which have happened in Australian society in the last 30 years such as the increased employment of women in the work force. [More…]
As Senator Walters quite properly pointed out earlier, this is due to some large measure to the entry into the work force of keen, reliable women. [More…]
65 per cent children ‘s, 25 per cent women’s, 15 percent men’s. [More…]
Can he assure me that this anomaly will be corrected so that these women will be given their democratic rights to cast their votes in all future elections? [More…]
In the early 1970s, wages, especially those for women, increased sharply, partly as a result of the introduction of equal pay. [More…]
As far as I know, human beings- children and women- are being killed, but nobody is interested in that. [More…]
If we sit back with complacency at the Vietnamese invasion of Kampuchea because we are justifiably horrified at the excesses of the Pol Pot regime, if we ignore the excesses of the Shah of Iran because he was pro- Western and then ignore the excesses of the Ayatollah Khomeini because he is allegedly anti-Marxist and ignore what his sort of religion will do to the women of that country and to the basic freedoms of people in that country, or if we remain silent about East Timor for fear of offending the Indonesians, we have no international standing and no right to be heard in international forums. [More…]
I think that is a very big question that ought to be considered, bearing in mind that 60 years is the age at which the pension is payable to women and that 65 years is the age at which the age pension is payable to men. [More…]
In fact, it dealt with the disparity between the ages of men and women at which the age pension is paid. [More…]
Is he aware of the great concern of many women in the community about this particular matter? [More…]
Is he considering the need for any action to amend the Family Law Act to take account of such a situation which could detrimentally affect the position of many women in the Australian community? [More…]
Voluntary organisations in the Territory- for example the Women’s Refuge, the Smith Family and the St Vincent de Paul Society- are strained well beyond their resources in trying to cope and give some assistance with the social problems which have followed upon the Fraser Government’s economic strategy for the national capital. [More…]
Further, Mr Anthony prophesied that in a few years there would be few young men and women to carry on the work of this nation and to develop Australia. [More…]
Is the Government aware of the results of two studies recently released by the Colorado State University and the Miami University’s School of Public Health which show that over six years miscarriages among women in the Oregon town of Alsea rose to the unprecedented rate of 130 per thousand live births in June of each year, just after surrounding forests were sprayed with 2,4,5-T, and that this figure represents almost three times the miscarriage rate in two control areas where miscarriages averaged 45 and 46 per thousand? [More…]
In the Medical Journal of Australia of September 1977 it was shown that there had been a continuing downward trend in smoking among men and a continued increase in smoking among women. [More…]
On the other hand, the 1974 survey showed that only 29 per cent of women smoked, but by 1976 that figure had increased to 31 per cent. [More…]
There the bellicose fans loll and writhe on the grass, hugging their capacious Eskys and sometimes, far far more infrequently, their women-folk. [More…]
This alleged interest in women makes an interesting contrast with the baying fellows’ apparent general preference for the company of their own gross sex on the Hill. [More…]
Australia as a sporting nation once dominated sports such as tennis, squash, women’s athletics, swimming and cycling. [More…]
Women use analgesics daily twice as often as men. [More…]
The number of women with kidney disease is five to six times more than the number of men. [More…]
A survey in 1969 showed that 56 per cent of males and 35 per cent of women over the age of 25 years were smoking. [More…]
Obviously we all know what will be said: Women will marry to get into the country. [More…]
If the Department or the Government is concerned that there are these marriages of convenience, and that women will come here, drop their husbands and go off into other areas of Australia, surely it would not be beyond the wit of the Department to devise some sort of scheme of length of time that the couple must stay together. [More…]
I wish to refer now to the fourth incident, involving two Aboriginal women. [More…]
The report states: Two Aboriginal women were warming themselves at a fire in the lounge of a hotel and were told only ladies were allowed in the area. [More…]
These two Aboriginal women, of course, were not classified as human beings and they were told to leave the area. [More…]
Managers have criticised young Aboriginal men and women for their state of dress. [More…]
These managers have told the Aboriginal men and women that they could not go swimming unless they were covered in something from neck to knee. [More…]
Children, women and blacks are totally discriminated against in Queensland and there are special laws to discriminate against them all. [More…]
We knew that this had been going on in this area with a number of young Aboriginal women, all of whom lived in fear because they had been threatened with violence if they talked to anybody. [More…]
The Government has also deplored the trials and sentencing of other courageous men and women associated with the human rights movement in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Whereas 27 per cent of married women worked in the past, 42 per cent to 45 per cent work today. [More…]
The scope of service of AAFCANS will be modified to take account of the generally greater accessibility that servicemen and women now have to goods and services from commercial sources. [More…]
The Whitlam Labor Government did it, firstly, by recognising the important part being played by voluntary organisations in providing recreational outlets for the Australian people; secondly, by providing capital grants for the construction of sporting community recreation and cultural facilities; thirdly, by assisting Australian sports men and women; fourthly, by stimulating an awareness of the benefits of individual fitness. [More…]
We recommended that the Federal Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development as he then was and the State Ministers responsible for youth, sport and recreation appeal to all sportsmen and women throughout Australia not to lend their names and prestige to the promotion of alcohol or tobacco. [More…]
The agency said its decision was based on studies finished only days ago showing high miscarriage rate among pregnant women following the spraying of 2,4,5-T in Oregon forests. [More…]
He did so when he was performing his duty as part of the police force, which was supervising a small rally of a group of women who were celebrating International Women’s Day. [More…]
As happens in Queensland from time to time, the police overreacted to the situation and, possibly stimulated by the peculiar attitude of the Special Branch in that State, took action against this small group of men and women who, in any other State, would not have been considered to be breaking the law. [More…]
They were men and women from the construction industry, the communications industry, munitions factories and hospitals and Commonwealth car drivers. [More…]
However, the testing of women in the early stages of pregnancy has indicated that approximately 10-15 per cent still have inadequate immunity, and it is considered that additional efforts are required to improve the immune status of women prior to their first pregnancies. [More…]
She is a woman, and in this period when women’s rights are receiving a great deal of extra attention from the Parliament and from senators individually, we do not feel we want to criticise her because of who she is. [More…]
A number of cases have been reported of Greek women being hassled in Government offices, both Territory Government and Federal [More…]
Obviously, if women go into hospital and they do not have a facility in the English language they tend to take an interpreter with them. [More…]
Yet others relate to the endorsement of migrant education programs, to the need for women to have wide access to skilled trades, to the need for special efforts to improve numeracy and literary skills, and to the need for greater flexibility in the staffing of Australian universities. [More…]
She said to the Aboriginal women present: ‘What you women ought to do is clean up your children. [More…]
Is it not about time that those men and women of goodwill in the Government parties asserted themselves, if not successfully in the party room, for God ‘s sake then in this place and said to the Australian Government that the Senate is exercising some of its powers and responsibility as a States’ House which says what it is concerned about is people and not institutions? [More…]
-Is the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs aware of recent statements by Mr Hunt, the Minister for Health, and by Mr Robinson, the Minister for Finance, suggesting that the increase in unemployment amongst males, particularly young males, is due to the increasing participation in the work force of married women? [More…]
In proposing that amendment the Labor movement is saying that it accepts the concept of a security system within the internal operation of Australia but that until such time as the matters that are suggested in our amendment become embodied in the legislation and become part and parcel of the charter by which the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation conducts its affairs any government, particularly this Government, will find it hard to sell the concept of an Australian Security Intelligence Organisation to the ordinary man and woman in the Australian community- men and women who believe that they have a right to say what they want to say, to do what they want to do and to think what they want to think without necessarily being subjected to the spying and Sprying that go on in what is or might become a police state. [More…]
I have no doubt that that sort of activity continued throughout the 1950s and into the 1960s and was used by the conservative governments of the day for spying and prying, particularly into the affairs of young men and young women who were opposed to Australia ‘s involvement in the war in Vietnam. [More…]
Is the Government concerned that whilst in America since 1970 precautions have been taken to prevent pregnant women and women of childbearing age from making contact with this material, here in Australia pregnant housewives can purchase the herbicide from supermarket shelves with no warning of the physical damage that can be done by excessive use of the chemical involved? [More…]
I expect that honourable senators know that half of the male workers in this country earn less than $ 1 90 a week and that half of the women workers in this country earn less than $137 a week. [More…]
One can think of people who are trying to retain youth and women’s refuges in this country, who are desperately short of funds because of the need to provide crisis accommodation. [More…]
South Australia, who was third on the ticket, got a greater proportion of first preference votes than did any other candidate in third position on a ticket until Nancy Buttfield campaigned for the women’s votes. [More…]
Many thousands of Australians and men, women and children throughout the world have long felt deep concern about the activities of whalers. [More…]
It has been more of a radical group than a political party, operating on the fringe of society in search of causes and seeking to attract recruits on the basis of its support for various issues- aboriginal land rights, green bans, gay lib, women’s affairs, etc. [More…]
How many men and women are being trained as pilots by the Royal Australian Air Force. [More…]
-Has the attention of the Minister for Social Security been drawn to the advertisement in the Mercury of 3 March 1979 for the position of a worker for the Women’s Shelter in Hobart? [More…]
Does the Minister consider that a feminist principle, which is usually interpreted as a women’s movement principle, is an advantage for those who care for women forced into seeking shelter? [More…]
My question relates to that asked by Senator Walters concerning the women’s shelter in Hobart. [More…]
Will the Minister for Social Security also refer to the appropriate authorities a similar advertisement which appeared in the Melbourne Age of 6 January this year which sought a number of ‘co-ordinators’ for the Western Region Women ‘s Refuge? [More…]
The refuge operates as a feminist collective, and the positions involve organising political actions around women’s issues, as well as co-ordinating the day-to-day running of the house. [More…]
Is this the kind of activity, exploiting the unfortunate persons concerned, that is envisaged by the Government in its substantial financial assistance to women’s refuges? [More…]
I am not aware whether the women’s shelter mentioned by [More…]
The Minister for Health presented a statement to the House of Representaties on 24 November 1978 which referred to the establishment of a perinatal statistical unit and prospective study on pregnant women with regard to problems associated with the herbicide 2,4,5-T. [More…]
The feasibility and desirability of conducting the prospective study on pregnant women will be considered by a committee of the National Health and Medical Research Council at its next meeting. [More…]
It is ironical- I think that he would want me to say this today- that during the many times we were away together or had a drink or a cup of tea together, we both agreed very vigorously on one point: The insane way in which men and women are treated in this Parliament in regard to the hours of sitting. [More…]
This had been the practice over the years and Mr Stewart abhorred the sight of world championship class sportsmen and women having to take blankets around football grounds to beg enough money for their fares so they could try for medals for Australia. [More…]
Good broadcasting depends on talent- the talents of the men and women who make the programmes and for which there is no substitute. [More…]
b) to provide an opportunity for more mature graduates (mainly women) to enter or re-enter the practice of family medicine; [More…]
No English language courses in the Adult Migrant Education Program are restricted to women only. [More…]
However nearly all the persons enrolled in the community day classes and in the Home Tutor Scheme are women. [More…]
About 53 per cent of the persons enrolled in full-time and in part-time day classes are women. [More…]
For example, ofthe 375 persons presently enrolled in such courses at Westbridge Hostel 203 are women. [More…]
Whether it was the recessive trend and, therefore, the need for security or because more women were coming back into the work force, no one knows. [More…]
What will be the demand for re-entry into the work force, largely from married women who have become mothers and are now coming back, and what will be the mix between the States of new graduates and re-entries, are not matters that a statistician can calculate very well. [More…]
It was prepared for the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom as part of its contribution towards the International Year of the Child. [More…]
This report by the Western Australian Section of the Women’s International Leage for Peace and Freedom is concerned with the health of one group in this ocean of suffering- the Aboriginal children of Western Australia. [More…]
Like International Women’s Year, it is not something that is going to fold up its tent at the end of December and slowly fade away into the night. [More…]
I have had no opportunity to check the accuracy of the figures that were cited by Senator Grimes, but it is a fact that each year the funds appropriated for this program that was established to assist chronically homeless men and women have not been spent. [More…]
Women are no different from men in that regard. [More…]
Certain Women (22 eps. [More…]
1 ) How many men and women have been employed as trainee technicians in the Air Force, the Army and the Navy in each year since 1975. [More…]
Obviously Mrs Miller is unaware that there are some women in the Parliament- [More…]
Have Bowral residents exhibited concern regarding the closure of the Westwood Training Complex for mildly retarded young women. [More…]
The Working Womens Centre in Newcastle runs a range of services such as a child care program for working women in the area, including migrant women and aged women. [More…]
Funds also have been provided to the States for the expansion of services to children whose mothers are temporarily accommodated in women’s refuges, frequently because of domestic violence. [More…]
On 4 April I asked the Minister *br Social Security, who represents the Minister for Health, a question concerning the Victorian Western Region Women’s Refuge advertisement which appeared in the Age and which stated: [More…]
The refuge operates as a feminist collective, and the positions involve organising political actions around women’s issues, as well as co-ordinating the day-to-day running of the house. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that in this letter the Victorian Refuge Group states that the original and continued funding of the refuge program was for more than emergency accommodation for women and children at risk, and that in an attachment to the letter the refuge group declares that women’s refuges are ‘primarily concerned with the status of women in society and not with providing welfare and health services’. [More…]
Will the Government ensure that sufficient funds are made available through the community health program to groups with bona fide welfare experience to meet the needs for women’s refuges? [More…]
1 recall that on 4 April Senator Harradine asked me a question on women ‘s refuges. [More…]
He advises that it is legitimate for a women ‘s refuge organisation to be concerned with women’s welfare and the advancement of the status of women in our society. [More…]
Community health program salary funds in relation to women ‘s refuges are intended solely for the employment of workers to undertake the care of women and children in refuges and not for outside activities of any kind. [More…]
Community service clubs, including exservice, Apex, Lions, Rotary, senior citizens and the Country Women’s Associations; benevolent and welfare organisations, including Red Cross and Legacy; homes for handicapped persons; church and religious bodies; ethnic organisations; and sporting clubs. [More…]
I believe the more we broaden this tribunal with a composition of nine men or women the more we will have an effective tribunal. [More…]
It seems to me that just as there are views in the community that change with the nature of society and that there are individuals in the community who are more or less receptive to changing attitudes, so there are judges, eminent men and women as they may be, who, at the age of 65 years and over, are likely to be less sensitive to what the community regards, in a number of matters, as politically subversive or political undesirable and are therefore likely to attract an adverse security assessment- a view that might not be shared by a person appointed to the bench at a considerably younger age. [More…]
-On 4 April 1979, Senator Harradine asked me, as Minister for Social Security, a question without notice (Hansard, page 1274) concerning an advertisement issued by the Western Region Women’s Refuge. [More…]
It is, of course, legitimate for a women’s refuge organisation to be concerned with women’s welfare and the advancement of the status of women in our society. [More…]
Community Health Program salary funds, in relation to women’s refuges, are intended solely for the employment of workers to undertake the care of women and children in refuges, not for ‘outside’ activities of any kind. [More…]
I went to the Women’s Weekly. [More…]
Let me just read from the Women’s Weekly of 24 September 1949. [More…]
Let us have a look at another advertisement which appeared in the Women’s Weekly of that time. [More…]
Women’s Shelter in Hobart [More…]
-On 4 April 1979, Senator Walters asked me, as Minister representing the Minister for Health, a question without notice (Hansard, page 1270) concerning an advertisement by the Hobart Women’s Refuge. [More…]
The Tasmanian Department of Social Welfare, which has immediate responsibility for supervision of women’s refuges in that State and through which Commonwealth funds are channelled, has expressed the view that this advertisement was not discriminatory since it stated that ‘a feminist principle would merely be an advantage ‘. [More…]
The primary objective of such an advertisement should be to obtain the services of a person best qualified to care for women and children in crisis situations. [More…]
Accordingly, the Department of Health will be requesting the Tasmanian Department of Social Welfare to advise the Hobart Women’s Refuge that, for the reasons stated above, future advertisements should contain no such statement. [More…]
-On 10 May 1979, Senator Harradine asked me, as Minister representing the Minister for Health, a further question (Hansard, pages 1797 and 8) concerning an advertisement appearing in the Age for the Victorian Western Region Women’s Refuge. [More…]
A letter purporting to have been forwarded by an organisation known as the Victorian Women’s Refuge Group was received in the Department of Health on 3 May 1 979. [More…]
The Government made available $1 million in 1977-78 and $3 million in the current financial year for women ‘s refuges. [More…]
1 ) How many Australian servicemen or women in the Australian Army, Navy and Royal Australian Air Force were cither: (a) injured seriously enough to require hospitalisation: or(b) killed, in each year from 1967-1978. [More…]
The need for guaranteed, continued and adequate Federal Government funding for women’s refuges throughout Australia. [More…]
The need for guaranteed, continued and adequate Federal Government funding for women’s refuges throughout Australia. [More…]
Members of this chamber and those of another place who had the advantage of talking to representatives of women’s refuges throughout Australia who visited Canberra last week will recognise some of the problems that they are experiencing now. [More…]
The women who were in Canberra last week informed us that 75 per cent of that funding comes from the Federal Government and 25 per cent is normally paid by the State. [More…]
It is not paid in Queensland, as we know from questions which were raised in this place as long ago as 1976 and 1977, when the Federal Government paid to Queensland an amount for the maintenance of two women’s refuges. [More…]
The Federal Government then, quite rightly, took the position that it would directly fund women’s refuges in that State. [More…]
In Western Australia the situation now is that the State Government has reneged on its commitment to the women’s refuges. [More…]
It has now determined that as from a provisional date, 1 November 1978, women’s refuges will receive only 12’/i per cent from the State Government, in addition to the 75 per cent Commonwealth funding. [More…]
Perhaps she is not aware that State governments and local governments actually contribute to worthwhile community organisations such as women ‘s refuges. [More…]
So Western Australia has the distinction along with Queensland, of being the only State which does not contribute the entire 25 per cent to women’s refuges. [More…]
In the metropolitan area of Perth we have eight refuges which are specifically designated as women’s refuges, but I intend to show in figures which I will produce later that those refuges are used more for children than they are for women. [More…]
All of them are overtaxed powerwise- I was about to say …..powerwise’ but as we are referring to women’s refuges it would be totally incorrect to do so. [More…]
They counsel women and their children. [More…]
I want to make honourable senators aware now of the numbers of people who use or require the services of refuges- as I said, they are misnamed ‘women’s refuges’- in Western Australia. [More…]
I hope that sufficient shock will be expressed for those people who are concerned to make sure that when the Budget talks are being held additional, guaranteed, adequate and continued funding are provided for women ‘s refuges throughout the nation. [More…]
I remind honourable senators that 1979 is the International Year of the Child and that children are requiring the use of those refuges as much as women are. [More…]
Many more children than women are in need of the services of the refuges. [More…]
At one stage in Nardine the ratio of children to women has 4.1:1, which I think is quite horrific. [More…]
At the Lucy Saw refuge in the four months between January and April this year 34 women and 59 children were accommodated and five women and 1 4 children were refused because of lack of accommodation. [More…]
The Mary Smith refuge was able to take 35 women and 61 children, but 126 women and 230 children were turned away. [More…]
The Ave Maria refuge accommodated 82 children and women in that same period, but it turned away 226 women and children. [More…]
Warrawee managed to accommodate 76 women and 155 children, but it turned down 56 women and 82 children. [More…]
Graceville accommodated 128 women and 222 children in four months but had to refuse 1 18 women and 262 children. [More…]
Emmaus refuge- I will have a few words to say about this organisation lateraccepted 15 women and 28 children but rejected 4 1 women and 82 children. [More…]
Nardine catered for 78 women and 190 children but was forced to turn away 32 women and 109 children. [More…]
However, whilst accommodation was found at women’s refuges for a total of 1,163 women and children over a four-month period more than that number, or a total of 1,383 people, were turned away. [More…]
There is not one refuge that would not be able to tell members of this place absolutely heartbreaking stories about women with children who arrive in the middle of the night in battered physical condition and emotionally broken who are looking for some comfort, perhaps just a cup of tea and a shoulder to cry on to enable them to assess the situation. [More…]
These women have to find out for themselves just what their actions will be in the future. [More…]
The assistance given to women is another service that the refuges provide. [More…]
People who have used the refuge know that there are women at the refuge who care for them. [More…]
They receive the emotional assistance that is needed when a women with her children are suddenly turned loose on society. [More…]
I think it takes a great deal of courage for women with family responsibilities suddenly to walk out of the matrimonial home. [More…]
A women could walk out for a number of reasons. [More…]
I have seen women who have had their teeth broken, who have had bruises around their face and shoulders and possibly over their bodies, whose children have been battered and been taken to a refuge because it is a refuge for them. [More…]
Possibly because of its geographic situation in the metropolitan area it found itself catering for the needs of a great number of Aboriginal women with their children. [More…]
The other agencies take Aboriginal women and children. [More…]
But one generally finds that people of that ethnic background will in actual fact gravitate to where they know there are other women who understand their specific problems. [More…]
Therefore it will not be any easier for Aboriginal women to move out of a refuge into emergency housing. [More…]
However, they cannot do so if women are taking up bed days. [More…]
It is certainly not being utilised for emergency housing for women in drastic situations. [More…]
I think it is a bit unfortunate that women’s refuges have been an area of little public awareness and therefore easily swept under the carpet. [More…]
It is promulgated by such worthy organisations as the Daily News which in an article last Friday week, 18 May, twice referred to women’s refuges as ‘women’s Refugees’. [More…]
I am not terribly sure whether this newspaper is suggesting that women’s refuges are to cater for the needs of women refugees who happen to come from some other country. [More…]
I had hoped that I would be able to reply to criticism that was expressed by Senator Harradine and Senator Walters about the Tasmanian women’s shelter, but I will leave the reply to that to either Senator Melzer or Senator Robertson, if they have time to do so. [More…]
The letter from the Richmond Women’s Emergency Service in Lismore is dated 1 5 April and states: [More…]
I am writing on behalf of the women of the Richmond Women’s Emergency Centre. [More…]
Since we commenced operating we have had a very great demand for our service and at any one time we would average six women and fifteen children accommodated at the refuge. [More…]
There is outright discrimination by real estate agents who prefer to rent to ‘families’ rather than single women with children. [More…]
Would you please ask questions ‘without notice’ and ‘with notice’ in the house highlighting the problems of women’s refuges in general and ours in particular. [More…]
I can assure those women in Lismore that I am aware of their needs and that when I am in New South Wales I will visit them, if possible. [More…]
In this Parliament questions have been asked and statements have been made by Senator Harradine and Senator Walters in which they were very critical of the women’s shelter in Tasmania because of an advertisement that it had placed in a newspaper. [More…]
There is an urgent need for guaranteed, continued and adequate Federal Government funding for women’s refuges throughout Australia. [More…]
The Opposition has moved a matter of urgency with regard to the funding of women’s refuges, and I think that a number of matters can be discussed during this debate. [More…]
In 1974, the then Minister for Health approved the first women’s refuge for funding under the Community Health Program. [More…]
The funding of women’s refuges under that program was regarded as an interim measure pending a final decision as to the appropriate source of funding. [More…]
When the change of government took place at the end of 1975, a total of 19 women’s refuges in the States were approved under the Community Health Program. [More…]
In the 1977-78 Budget, the Cabinet decided that the funding of women’s refuges should be continued under the Community Health Program and the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt) announced that in that year, in addition to the funds required for the continuation of the 19 refuges previously funded, Sim would be made available for the funding of refuges which had not been approved previously. [More…]
In 1978-79 the Government provided $3m for the funding of women’s refuges. [More…]
Perhaps I ought to put the record in order by saying that when the Commonwealth’s funding of additional women’s refuges resumed in 1977-78, it was at the same rates as the funding of general community health projects, that is, 50 per cent of capital costs and 75 per cent of operating costs. [More…]
In this financial year, the Commonwealth’s funding of general community health projects has been at the rate of 50 per cent for capital and operating costs, but it ought to be noted that funding of women’s refuges has been maintained at 50 per cent of capital costs and 75 per cent of operating costs. [More…]
This could be regarded as an important recognition of the need for assistance to women’s refuges, and the bulk of the expenditure in this year is in relation to operating costs. [More…]
They are significant in the development of the women’s refuges program and the full funding in those four States, which comes by way of Federal and State government funding, I am sure has been of very great assistance in the establishment of the projects. [More…]
In accordance with the arrangements which were introduced in 1976-77, the Commonwealth’s funding of women’s refuges under the Community Health Program is by way of block grants to the States. [More…]
In each financial year the Minister for Health approves a block grant to each State for that State’s total program of women’s refuges. [More…]
Senator Coleman referred to the Emmaus women’s refuge in Perth and spoke of the difficulties with regard to it and the numbers of Aboriginal women who use it. [More…]
I understand that there have been difficulties with regard to the future of the Emmaus women’s refuge and I am told that on the recommendation of the State Department of Public Health it was approved for Community Health Program funding in 1977. [More…]
As has been said, it caters largely for Aboriginal women. [More…]
Apparently, the staff of the refuge have had great difficulty in maintaining effective supervision of the women and children and it seems that these problems resulted in the Theosophical Society notifying the organisation that its tenure had been withdrawn. [More…]
I would expect that, in the period leading up to the Budget discussions, he would be putting forward his proposals with regard to the further development of women’s refuges in several parts of Australia. [More…]
The motion of urgency referred to the need for guaranteed, continued and adequate Federal Government funding for women’s refuges. [More…]
This shows that the Government recognises the need for women’s refuges, recognises with alarm- as I think Senator Coleman put it- the increasing need for provision of such refuges in order to help people who are in distress, in danger or in terror, as well as children who are subjected to what is widelyspread abuse. [More…]
The week before last, when representatives of women’s refuges throughout Australia were in Canberra, I was able to see them. [More…]
I am hopeful that it will lead to improved care of children and greater relief for mothers and the staff of the women’s refuges. [More…]
Because I am not in a position to make commitments prior to the announcement by the Treasurer (Mr Howard) of projects which are to be approved in respect of a particular year, I have no other remarks to make with regard to the funding of women ‘s refuges, or the urgency motion that has been brought forward. [More…]
However, as far as women’s refuges are concerned, their increased development and the continuing and growing support that has been given to them by the Federal Government would lead everyone to understand that the Government recognises the need for them and that it must provide substantial funds to continue their existence. [More…]
The Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) says that the Government recognises the need for women ‘s refuges and has shown its concern by the commitment that it has made, but in view of the promises that have already been broken by this Government, notably with regard to the reduction of income tax and the retention of Medibank, we are worried that its concern about the need for refuges may also go out the window. [More…]
Only last week the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) admitted that unemployment would not disappear; that it could reach the figure of 550,000 by next February; and that increasing unemployment was one cause of the pressure which prompts people to react in a violent way and results in women needing refuges. [More…]
Honourable senators know that people react violently and cruelly, and that women and children are not in a position to protect themselves against that sort of behaviour. [More…]
Even there, refuges that have accommodation for small groups of, say, six to eight women with their children and which deal with people for short periods, have been accommodating up to 74 people over the last six months. [More…]
The people at all the refuges say that they have received calls for help from three times that number of women during the last six months. [More…]
They have to advise women on their legal rights, their rights to pensions and allowances, what they can do about housing and schools and what they must do about the care of their children. [More…]
These people have to develop skills of lobbying to attract funds from government departments, both for the women who use their refuges and for the refuges themselves. [More…]
So they have to become skilful in using what people might call political skills to service the areas and the women in the areas in which they work. [More…]
Every day of their lives these people are immersed in the gross injustice and inequality of all the women who either approach them for assistance or who live in those refuges for short periods. [More…]
They become very concerned at the injustice and the inequality that is meted out to so many of those women. [More…]
All the women who use the refuges and who work in them become concerned with changing society so that the problem does not exist any more. [More…]
The accusation has been made that the women who run or use the refuges are lesbians. [More…]
These refuges are for women. [More…]
They are run by women because women in trouble or despair find other women more understanding and more supportive of them. [More…]
Because they are all women in those houses does not mean that they are lesbians. [More…]
Because, a group consists of all women, it does not mean that those women are in any way sexually different from the ordinary women in the community. [More…]
If one is to say that groups of all women contain lesbians, one would have to say that groups of all men contain homosexuals. [More…]
There are no women sitting in the House of Representatives but I do not believe that the men in that House are homosexuals because of that. [More…]
It is as absurd to say that they are homosexuals as it is to say that because groups of women are living in houses together those women are lesbians. [More…]
It is unfair to women in States such as Queensland and Western Australia that they do not have at least the resources that States such as Victoria and South Australia have. [More…]
For instance, in Victoria the refuges are used by the police to dump women but the Police Department does not assist with the funding of the refuges and it does not assist with keeping the refuges safe. [More…]
The Government has already clearly indicated its support of women’s shelters in Australia. [More…]
Senator Melzer made the extraordinary comment that the Minister had said that the Government does not have the money to fund women’s shelters. [More…]
Let us look at the Government’s funding of women’s shelters. [More…]
We have not reduced the Commonwealth’s share of funding of women’s refuges as has been done in other health programs to the 50-50 share basis on both capital and operating costs. [More…]
The follow-up work entails obtaining information about the welfare benefits which it is the right of these women to receive. [More…]
Many women do not know that welfare agencies exist. [More…]
The women who run the shelters accompany their clients to lawyers and doctors and generate a tremendous amount of support after the initial crisis in the follow-up period. [More…]
All this is of great assistance as the figures show that the majority of women return to their home environment after the initial crisis. [More…]
Most of the shelters, and particularly the ones that I know of in Tasmania, have half-way houses and other forms of housing to which these women can go. [More…]
We have entered another area in Tasmania which I believe to be crucial- that of alcoholic women. [More…]
Before the suspension of the sitting I was talking about special shelters for alcoholic women. [More…]
Recently in my State Caroline House was established as a centre for alcoholic women in crisis. [More…]
The other shelters cannot take alcoholic women because they do not have sufficient area in which to set them aside from the other women and assist them with their particular problems. [More…]
Put a man and a women together and 1 8 years later you may have a soldier. [More…]
I am further advised that no women were included in the survey. [More…]
The Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) left Australia on 1 June to attend the International Conference of Women Leaders in Israel and to take up activities associated with the International Year of the Child in the course of visits to Europe and the United States. [More…]
Women who have the pills prescribed by their doctors or by family planning clinics will be given a warning leaflet with the pills. [More…]
So, this Government has set out to see that ordinary men and women have less wages, less food, less education, less health and, in the long run, of course, less security. [More…]
Of course, the other area of the work force which the Government blames for the position we are in is that of married women. [More…]
I suppose that that sort of philosophy was brought into play in the report presented this week on the forgotten work force- the migrant women who are slaving away in garages and workshops. [More…]
Where is the Government ‘s policy for those sorts of women? [More…]
We are told that if married women get out of the work force there will be jobs for kids. [More…]
I do not believe that men and women are governed by inexorable events beyond their control. [More…]
In speaking to the Bill, I want to highlight the problems that women in the Commonwealth Public Service will face if the Bill is passed. [More…]
I am moved to raise the matter because this Government, in varying ways, seems to me to have already decided that women in the work force are a liability. [More…]
Members of the Cabinet have already said that women caused inflation because of their insistence on equal pay and because of the equal pay decision. [More…]
It has been declared that women have been causing wastage through the use of this provision. [More…]
Under this Bill, the Government will be able either to cut out maternity leave and therefore make it impossible for married women to have a career in the Public Service and at the same time have children or to redeploy or retire women because of their need for maternity leave or because they may need maternity leave, in much the same way as Ansett Airlines of Australia refused a woman the right to train as a pilot, even though she had all the qualifications, because she may need leave to have a baby and she may have a baby. [More…]
They probably disapprove of women in the Public Service, except perhaps to make the tea. [More…]
The first of these is the policy which many organisations adopt of dismissing women when they become pregnant. [More…]
The second is that of dismissing women who are married in the event of staff layoff. [More…]
When the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission ruled on maternity leave it must have given hope and incentive to a lot of women who want a career other than the career of being a wife, homemaker and mother. [More…]
The Government’s whole attitude to women and women workers is a worry. [More…]
Already there have been statements by Ministers, including Cabinet members, to the effect that women have taken over jobs that men and young people should have. [More…]
The Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs, Mr Viner, gave the National Economic forum a detailed description of the effect women have had on Australia’s workforce since the early ’60s. [More…]
Between 1964 and the late ’70s, while the number of men working rose by 25 per cent, the number of women in the workforce increased by about 70 percent. [More…]
The percentage of women in the workforce rose from 23 per cent in 1 964 to 36 per cent in recent years. [More…]
Mr Viner said the increased number of married women working must have ‘weakened the imperative for the traditional bread winner to remain in, or take to employment’. [More…]
In a broadcast on a radio station in Melbourne this year, Mr Eric Robinson was quoted as suggesting that married women were responsible for much unemployment among males. [More…]
I did say that there were now in the work force many more women than there had been some years ago and that the structure of the work force had changed completely. [More…]
I went on to say that some jobs which normally would have been available to males were now occupied by women in the work force. [More…]
Of course, Mr Hunt hit really dizzying heights in the debate on abortion when he claimed that women having abortions were causing unemployment because they were reducing the number of consumers we produce, thus depressing the manufacturing industry. [More…]
I think it is indicative of the approach that this Government, particularly, its Ministers, is taking to women in the work force. [More…]
’; ‘Married men deserve preference because they are the breadwinner’; ‘Deserted wives deserve preference over single people or young people’; ‘People will lose their jobs by victimisation, so cannot be expected to lodge a complaint’; ‘You are telling women to work and this causes marriage breakdown’; ‘Training costs so much, men should get preference because women leave the workforce to get married’; ‘We can’t promote women because they are not dedicated like men’; ‘Men are not as sensitive as women. [More…]
Women add a human face to business’. [More…]
All of those remarks can be developed into areas that would give women in the Public Service cause for great alarm as to where their futures lie. [More…]
I can see people giving married men preference, and I can see the situation arising where deserted wives have preference over single women. [More…]
Almost twothirds of all unemployed women are in clerical service or in sales occupations. [More…]
The Government has put forward no job creating plans to replace these jobs and thus to give these women jobs in the work force. [More…]
If a decision is made to retrench excess personnel in certain areas, under the provisions of this Bill it will mean that an increasing number of women will be put on to the unemployment list. [More…]
It seems to me that redeploying married women in the Public Service can cause insurmountable problems for their families and for them in relation to their personal relationships. [More…]
It is in relation to that aspect that women are in an extraordinarily vulnerable situation. [More…]
I can see women in the Public Service taking the brunt of the provisions of this Bill. [More…]
It could wipe out women as employees of the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]
Many of those people, and I would point out that the majority of them are women, will be de-skilled by new technology which the Government is introducing into the Public Service. [More…]
One of the union’s big problems, especially in sections where there were a lot of women- exactly the same sort of problem exists in the Public Service- was to get people to act as honorary trade union officials. [More…]
As a start, put 1 ,000 unemployed men and women on to it, pay them the $300m we would save by cancelling one of the three already obsolete patrol frigates we are about to order from uncle sam for $900m (with planes) and let us enjoy a superb hot-shot inter-capital service while we are awaiting the next war. [More…]
There must be hundreds and hundreds of women in the community who are trained hairdressers because that was the only area in which women could get any sort of apprenticeship. [More…]
Old people die from cancer more often than young people; men have a higher cancer death rate than women; and blacks a higher one than whites. [More…]
In countries such as Nigeria, Jordan, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, women do not get a vote at all. [More…]
If so, how will this affect the thousands of other women in this country who have been refused pensions for similar reasons? [More…]
Is the Government concerned that, while in the United States precautions have been taken since 1970 to prevent pregnant women, and women of child-bearing age, making contact with this material, in Australia pregnant housewives can purchase the herbicides from supermarket shelves, with no warning of the physical damage which can result from excessive use of the chemical involved. [More…]
Of these, 38 were husbands of Timorese women resident here. [More…]
A number of new publications are planned for 1979-80, including nutrition booklets for adlolescents and for pregnant and lactating women. [More…]
Following a recommendation of the Australian Drug Evaluation Committee at its meeting held on 24 February 1978, these leaflets are required to include a warning relating to the increased risk of cardiovascular disease that may be encountered by women over 30 years of age, particularly those women who smoke. [More…]
Is it possible to establish the viability of employing women as trainee technicians in the defence forces when last year there were only 7 women employed compared with 4381 men. [More…]
Why has the number of women employed as trainee technicians in the defence forces fallen from 19 in I97S to 7 in 1978, while the number of men has increased from 3S98 to 438 1 during the same period. [More…]
The objective was to bring young men and women together to create understanding between people, to avoid fear, hatred, suspicion and war. [More…]
We pose as dirty old men and dirty old women telling them things that are dirty, sneaky and smutty, whereas they are facts of life. [More…]
Union delegate, John Nuctor, said that “the young women had told him they refused to have any intimate contact with their husbands because their sweat might radioactively contaminate the linen”. [More…]
Where is Senator Young’s moral obligation to the men, women and children of the Philippines who live in the shadow of that reactor which has been built near a volcano in a geophysical site? [More…]
Senator Guilfoyle spoke glowingly about family allowances, which were going to give women freedom. [More…]
Will the entitlement to repatriation benefits proposed in the present Budget for those men and women who served in Allied armed forces be restricted to those persons resident in Australia who have taken out Australian citizenship? [More…]
Must they have been and be able to prove that they were bona fide servicemen and women in regular and legally constituted armed forces? [More…]
I refer to the Launceston Women’s Shelter. [More…]
When a women has to go to one of these shelters it implies that she has nowhere else to go- no friends, no neighbour, not even a relative close enough to turn to or to trust in, or from whom she can find comfort and assistance. [More…]
Since this shelter was formed four years ago over 1 ,250 women and children have had cause to use it. [More…]
The point I am making is that these residents are more concerned for themselves than they are for these desperate women who are seeking a refuge. [More…]
If so, how will this affect the thousands of other women in this country who have been refused pensions for similar reasons? [More…]
Every year hundreds or thousands of women in the community have their pensions taken away from them on the assertion of officers of the Department of Social Security that they are living in a de facto relationship with a man. [More…]
I believe that the Minister is in fact saying that women who feel that they have been unjustly deprived of a pension under these circumstances will have to do what Mrs Clarke did, that is, take out a High Court writ, obtain legal aid if they are eligible to do so and threaten the Department in this regard in order to have such a decision changed- if the guidelines are to stay the same. [More…]
The only other alternative is for the hundreds or thousands of women in this community who are deprived of their pensions in these circumstances to take out High Court writs to get justice. [More…]
It is important that this very difficult area- I admit that is is a difficult area- be cleared up so that justice can be done and be seen to be done for the many women involved. [More…]
It showed that in Australia men were better off than women, that 10 per cent of males got almost 20 per cent of all income received by males and that the corresponding 10 per cent of females received almost 32 per cent of such female income. [More…]
These thousands of people on below average weekly wage, to use the term, along with family households and businessmen and women, are being penalised while the oil, coal and mineral exploiters of our country generally continue to be allowed a free hand as they slip their dividends from many areas to tax-free havens around the world. [More…]
Men and women throughout Australia who almost four hears ago saw Malcolm Fraser as the great white hope for this country have had their expectations dashed to the ground, basically I believe for two reasons. [More…]
Proclaims this Declaration of the Rights of the Child to the end that he may have a happy childhood and enjoy for his own good and for the good of society the rights and freedoms herein set forth and calls upon parents, upon men and women as individuals and upon voluntary organisations, local authorities and national governments to recognise these rights and strive for their observance by legislative and other measures progressively taken in accordance with the following principles. [More…]
I think of the story told to us by one witnessthis may have been repeated in the Senate before- of the child who would not believe there were such people as women doctors. [More…]
The child saw a program on television in which a woman doctor was featured, turned to her mother and said: You are right, there are such people as women doctors’. [More…]
They include women who work in the Ammunition Factory in Victoria. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Department has a paper which claims that women and older workers are dropping out of the work force? [More…]
Also, does the Government intend to establish, and assist in the funding of, a committee representative of interested groups in the Australian community to undertake research and to publicise the second Special Session on Disarmament in 1980, along lines similar to those of committees established for the International Women’s Year and the International Year of the Child? [More…]
Most of the recent slow-down in the rate of improvement of life expectancy, and half the difference in life expectancy between men and women, can be attributed to the fatal effects of smoking. [More…]
In all, an estimated 2 1,400 deaths in men and 3,750 in women between the ages of 35 and 64 in 1974 were attributable to smoking. [More…]
The result of that can only be- if they succeed- that more and more people will die earlier than they need; that more babies will die young; that more work will be lost through illness; and worst of all, that men and women will spend the last years of their lives as respiratory cripples. [More…]
Is it not a fact that vaccination is contra-indicated in pregnant women and that it is probably not needed against smallpox now in many, if any, circumstances because the disease has been eradicated? [More…]
What steps are being taken to advise medical practitioners of the dangers of inappropriate vaccination in pregnant women or in other patients such as those with blood disorders or malignancies, or in persons on special medical therapy? [More…]
Does the Commonwealth Government expect to be paying supporting mother’s benefit to these women who previously received pensions from the Victorian Government? [More…]
1 ) As at 30 June 1979 the numbers of women employed in the Commonwealth Public Service were: [More…]
1 ask the Minister: What will happen to the women in Victoria who otherwise would have been paid pensions under the States Grants (Deserted Wives) Act between January and March next year if this matter is not to be finalised until March next year? [More…]
-Has the Minister representing the Prime Minister noted answers that have been provided to me this week to questions I have had on notice concerning the employment of women in the Commonwealth Public Service and in the Australian Broadcasting Commission? [More…]
Has the Minister noted that of the 50,000 women employed in the Commonwealth Public Service none is in the First Division and only 23 are in the Second Division? [More…]
Has the Minister also noted that in the Australian Broadcasting Commission, whilst the total number of women employed is 1 ,884, only one is paid at a rate equivalent to that of a Second Division officer? [More…]
Will the Minister agree that those figures evidence discrimination against women occupying senior positions in the Public Service? [More…]
These new provisions are designed specifically to protect the job security, safety, health or welfare of Australian men and women and their families. [More…]
They are issues about the role of individual men and women in the Australian community. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that in the first year of the Fraser Administration- Senator Guilfoyle would remember this- funding was made available for women’s refuges. [More…]
It was taken by the Queensland Government and never given to women’s refuges. [More…]
That is why this Government now funds women’s refuges in Queensland directly. [More…]
Unfortunately today most Australian working men and women are dependent on private cars to get to and from work. [More…]
In a non-partisan way and, if one likes, in an all-party way, those men and women have decided that they should sit down in conference and examine this very farreaching piece of legislation, that they should have a formal meeting for this purpose for the first time in the history of industrial legislation in this country. [More…]
We shall be lesser men and women and of lesser use to the community as a whole if they become law. [More…]
The introduction of the legislation in 1974 followed the 1 973 report of the Working Party on Homeless Men and Women. [More…]
The report’s recommendations highlighted the need to concentrate assistance on upgrading existing facilities for permanently and chronically homeless men and women. [More…]
These provide overnight accommodation for 3,600 men and women. [More…]
It should be noted also that the program is not directed exclusively towards chronically homeless men and there is a number of centres which cater exclusively for single homeless women; some agencies in developing new hostels have taken the opportunity to provide accommodation for both men and women. [More…]
When independent men and women are prepared to do without Christmas holidays for years, to see their bank savings totally eroded, virtually to starve and to allow their children to suffer, surely we can say: Is there not a basic reason? [More…]
Will the entitlement to repatriation benefits proposed in the present Budget for those men and women who served in Allied armed forces be restricted to those persons resident in Australia who have taken out Australian citizenship? [More…]
Must they have been and be able to prove that they were bona fide servicemen and women in regular and legally constituted armed forces? [More…]
How does the Government expect mature men and women to survive on an amount ofless than $ 12 a day? [More…]
This Bill does extend the program, but neither the Bill nor the second reading speech tell us very much about the future of the program, except that some youth refuges will be established under the Youth Services Program in the Office of Child Care, that some homeless people already receive support under the Community Health Program- that is, women’s shelters, and they have done so for four or five years- and that other homeless people receive support from welfare housing and the Family Support Services Scheme. [More…]
That women’s refuges ended up with the Community Health Program because of impatience with progress at the time- it was done when Labor was in officeand because more funds were available in that area is to be regretted. [More…]
I know that the program includes provision for a smaller group of homeless women and that some youth refuges are to be continued, but from the second reading speech of the Minister for Social Security it seems that the activity is to be confined largely to the group of so-called homeless men. [More…]
On figures I have there are an estimated 7,000 homeless people in Melbourne, comprising about 5,000 men and 2,000 women. [More…]
Page 2 of the Minister’s second reading speech shows that in total there are 113 centres approved at present and that these provide overnight accommodation for 3,600 men and women. [More…]
Generally, though, there are only women’s refuges. [More…]
The current promotion campaign on television, in national women’s magazines and in newspapers is being conducted by Monahan Dayman Adams Pty Ltd, 153 Walker Street, North Sydney, NSW 2060. [More…]
Since the World Population Conference in 1974, assistance to the population sector is no longer considered to be limited to family planning activities, but instead is considered to embrace activities in all areas that influence population- such as nutrition, sanitation, health, education, the status of women and economic factors. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council has not been democratically elected by the women of Australia; That the National Women’s Advisory Council is not representative of the women of Australia; That the National Women’s Advisory Council is a discriminatory and sexist imposition on Australian women as Australian men do not have a National Men’s Advisory Council imposed on them. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council be abolished to ensure that Australian women have equal opportunity with Australian men of having issues of concern to them considered, debated and voted on by . [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council has not been democratically elected by the women of Australia; That the National Women’s Advisory Council is not representative of the women of Australia; That the National Women’s Advisory Council is a discriminatory and sexist imposition on Australian women as Australian men do not have a National Men’s Advisory Council imposed on them. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the National Women’s Advisory Council be abolished to ensure that Australian women have equal opportunity with Australian men of having issues of concern to them considered, debated and voted on by their Parliamentary representatives without intervention and interference by an unrepresentative ‘Advisory Council’. [More…]
Extension of wife’s pension to women who are in approved benevolent homes. [More…]
Extension of wife’s pension to women who have no child in their care or who are under 50 years of age where their husbands are in benevolent homes. [More…]
As I have already indicated, wife’s pension will be extended to women who are in benevolent homes and to women with no child or who are under 50 years of age where their age or invalid pensioner husbands are in benevolent homes. [More…]
Senator Georges has pointed out that it is indicative of the thinking of this Government that it is prepared to allocate to those voluntary organisations only 25c by way of subsidy on the meals that these organisations provide to needy people and to homeless men and women and only 75c towards the cost of a bed provided for these people at night. [More…]
I would hate to think that those organisations might have to resort, as a lot of women’s refuges do, to lamington drives and the like simply in order to provide a service to the needy people of the community. [More…]
When I wrote the foreword to the booklet ‘A Place of Dignity’ I said that an estimated 10,000 homeless men and women in Australia were being assisted by welfare agencies. [More…]
These people are mainly young men and women who have found no employment opportunities in their own home-town centres where their parents reside. [More…]
As I have said in this place many times, a number of women’s refuges in Perth find that they have to cater for the needs of young women who suddenly find themselves destitute and without a place to stay. [More…]
He also stated that many of the men and women who would benefit from the improved services for the homeless were people who were receiving income security benefits at rates and under the conditions which had been liberalised since the end of 1972. [More…]
However, as has been stated throughout the debate, the youth services program is one in which the States are working on a matching basis with the Commonwealth Government, and the community health program, under which women’s refuges are funded, is another program where the States are working well with the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
I can see that the homeless persons program is an appropriate place in which to deal with the youth refuge program and the women’s refuge program. [More…]
The provisions in the Bill to which the Opposition has no objection are those which provide for twice-yearly indexation of pensions and benefits; those which provide an extension of income limits for pensioner fringe benefits; the extension of the wife’s pension to women in approved benevolent homes; the extension of the wife’s pension to women who are separated from their husbands because of illness or because they or their husbands are in benevolent homes; and the correction of the anomaly in the payment of family allowances and handicapped children’s allowances monthly which occurs when children are in institutions or away for a holiday. [More…]
Does the Minister agree that such a scheme has merit and might be a convenient way of eliminating the anomaly whereby men receive age pensions at 65 years and women at 60 years, even though the life expectancy of a female is much greater than that of a male? [More…]
Senator Hamer mentioned an anomaly with regard to the different age at which women and men are entitled to receive pensions in this country. [More…]
So far as raising the pensionable age for women to 65 years is concerned, this is not a matter that is before the Government. [More…]
Among the women to whom the benefit was granted was a woman whose husband was in a mental or benevolent home, who was a pensioner who had the custody, care and control of a child under the age of 16 years, or who had attained the age of 50 years. [More…]
We will go back to 1912 and not give assistance to women who are having children. [More…]
In October 1979 the Australian reported of scuffles which broke out at the Salvation Army offices at Clayton as 500 men and women lined up for vouchers worth some $30 to buy groceries and other items to feed their families because at that time they were not able to get the unemployment benefit as a result of a deliberate policy of the Government to delay payment of the unemployment benefit. [More…]
Also, does the Government intend to establish, and assist in the funding of, a committee representative of interested groups in the Australian community to undertake research and to publicise the second Special Session on Disarmament in 1 980, along lines similar to those of committees established for the International Women’s Year and the International Year of the Child? [More…]
In the case of International Women’s Year and the International Year of the Child, the international community required governments to promote national activities and it was appropriate for the Government to sponsor and to assist in funding committees established by Non-Governmental Organisations to support these two years. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Social Security: Is it a fact, as reported in the Press, that she informed either Mrs Pearl Logan, the State president of the women’s section of the Queensland branch of the National Country Party, or a women’s committee of that party, that the Government was considering lifting from $6 to $20 a week the permissible income of a person receiving the unemployment benefit? [More…]
The matters referred to by Mrs Logan were certainly not matters that were discussed with me; nor did I discuss them with any other member of the women’s committee of the National Country Party. [More…]
Generally, we cannot say how much of our resources, our help or assistance gets to the wealthy who do not need it or how much gets to the professional middle men and women who run the services and how much actually gets to clients in need. [More…]
Do we know who provides and who benefits from the provision of resources for women’s refuges? [More…]
Its integrity is beyond question, and it is composed of dedicated, hard working men and women who virtually place their lives in their hands every day. [More…]
We are dealing with criminals, with men and women who are working for huge profits, unemotional and cold men and women. [More…]
The Narcotics Bureau undoubtedly by and large is composed of dedicated and concerned men and women. [More…]
What threat to security were these 1,000 men and /or women in the Fretilin forces to the 130 million people in Indonesia. [More…]
Significant differences in the response to progestogen treatment between dogs and women have been demonstrated. [More…]
Depo-Provera is a most effective contraceptive and the AFFPA believes that its use is justified in selected women for whom all other methods of contraception are inappropriate or unacceptable and in whom the risks associated with pregnancy outweigh possible side effects of the drug. [More…]
Women and older workers are among the groups in the labour force where participation rates are declining. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council has not been democratically elected by the women of Australia; [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council is not representative of the women of Australia; [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council is a discriminatory and sexist imposition on Australian women as Australian men do not have a National Men’s Advisory Council imposed on them. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council be abolished to ensure that Australian women have equal opportunity with Australian men of having issues of concern to them considered, debated and voted on by their Parliamentary representatives without intervention and interference by an unrepresentative ‘Advisory Council ‘. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council has not been democratically elected by the women of Australia; [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council is not representative of the women of Australia; [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council is a discriminatory and sexist imposition on Australian women as Australian men do not have a National Men’s Advisory Council imposed on them. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the National Women’s Advisory Council be abolished to ensure that Australian women have equal opportunity with Australian men of having issues of concern to them considered, debated and voted on by their Parliamentary representatives without intervention and interference by an unrepresentative “Advisory Council”. [More…]
because one must remember the great occasions in the past when men and women fought for great rights. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Social Security and concerns women’s refuges and the funding for them. [More…]
Will she ask her Department to undertake an extensive survey in 1980 of working mothers of pre-school and school age children to establish the truth or otherwise of the oft quoted statement that a large number of women in our society would gladly give up work to look after their children if they could afford to do so. [More…]
Our relationship with neighbouring countries like Indonesia is, of course, important, but the sensitivities of the Indonesian Government should not be considered more important than the lives, the freedom, the self-determination and the health of the men, women and children of East Timor who have been sorely abused for centuries by a neglectful colonial power, who have been abandoned in the wake of a revolutionary change in that colonial power and who were then taken over by a neighbour obsessed with unreal fears that a hostile power could develop amongst the 600,000-odd people on the edge of its own country of 1 30 million people. [More…]
This can have a severe psychological effect, especially on women and children. [More…]
It is under State laws that Aborigines are discriminated against and it is under State laws that there is discrimination against women. [More…]
It might be worth while bringing to the attention of the Senate that it is only within the last 80 or 90 years that State legislation was placed on the statute books which gave women the right to own property. [More…]
Article 3 of the Covenant provides for equal rights for men and women. [More…]
Then there are other bodies such as the Immigration Control Association; the Immigration Restriction Council; the British Australian Association; the Ku Klux Klan, Melbourne branch; the Conservative Party (Western Australia) Inc.; Women Against Asian Immigration Committee; Westralian Nationalist Movement; National Australian Association; Truth and Liberty Mission; British-Israel World Federation; and the Children of God. [More…]
We can also agree, as has been said today and as was said last week, that human rights are indivisible and should be the same for men and women, black and white, child and adult, whatever one’s race, religion or social or national origin may be. [More…]
They even tried to establish a classless and raceless society with equality for women. [More…]
It was not until 1 920 that all those rights were extended to women in the United States of America. [More…]
For example, women are not allowed to vote in Nigeria, Jordan and Kuwait. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council has not been democratically elected by the women of Australia; [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council is not representative of the women of Australia; [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council is a discriminatory and sexist imposition on Australian women as Australian men do not have a National Men’s Advisory Council imposed on them. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council be abolished to ensure that Australian women have equal opportunity with Australian men of having issues of concern to them considered, debated and voted on by their Parliamentary representatives without intervention and interference by an unrepresentative ‘Advisory Council ‘. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council has not been democratically elected by the women of Australia; [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council is not representative of the women of Australia; [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council is a discriminatory and sexist imposition on Australian woman as Australian men do not have a National Men’s Advisory Council imposed on them. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council be abolished to ensure that Australian women have equal opportunity with Australian men of having issues of concern to them considered, debated and voted on by their Parliamentary representatives without intervention and interference by an unrepresentative ‘Advisory Council ‘. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council has not been democratically elected by the women of Australia; [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council is not representative of the women of Australia; [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council is a discriminatory and sexist imposition on Australian woman as Australian men do not have a National Men’s Advisory Council imposed on them. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council be abolished to ensure that Australian women have equal opportunity with Australian men of having issues of concern to them considered, debated and voted on by their Parliamentary representatives without intervention and interference by an unrepresentative ‘Advisory Council ‘. [More…]
There is no question that it is largely the disadvantagedmainly the migrant communities, the women in the migrant communities and the unskilled workers in the black sections of our communitywho are the first to feel the thrust arising from an economic downturn. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council has not been democratically elected by the women of Australia; [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council is not representative of the women of Australia; [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council is a discriminatory and sexist imposition on Australian women as Australian men do not have a National Men’s Advisory Council imposed on them. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council be abolished to ensure that Australian women have equal opportunity with Australian men of having issues of concern to them considered, debated and voted on by their Parliamentary representatives without intervention and interference by an unrepresentative ‘Advisory Council ‘. [More…]
However, we believe that in order to achieve this the critical consideration is not a question of geographical balance sustained over time, or at any given point of time, in the composition of the Court, but rather the certainty that the best men and women in the nation are appointed to the Court,, the best both in terms of their scholarly ability and technical expertise across the range of law with which they have to deal- especially constitutional law- and in terms of the kind of vision and breadth of understanding and approach that they bring to their job. [More…]
They are men and women whose jobs and living standards are assailed so often by the Liberal and Country Parties. [More…]
Their support for and endorsement of the national women’s advisory council. [More…]
I have come to the opinion that some women feel they have to be more militant about a Public Service screed than a man. [More…]
Their support for and endorsement of the National Women ‘s Advisory Council. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council has not been democratically elected by the women of Australia; [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council is not representative of the women of Australia; [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council is a discriminatory and sexist imposition on Australian women as Australian men do not have a National Men’s Advisory Council imposed on them. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council be abolished to ensure that Australian women have equal opportunity with Australian men of having issues of concern to them considered, debated and voted on by their Parliamentary representative without intervention and interference by an unrepresentative ‘Advisory Council ‘. [More…]
Their support for and endorsement of the National Women ‘s Advisory Council. [More…]
The initiative came from American congresswomen who, like the people of Australia, had been extremely concerned and distressed by the reports of massive starvation and deprivation in Kampuchea itself and in the refugee camps. [More…]
It was an initiative of congresswomen particularly I think arising from the women’s caucus within the Congress. [More…]
It was hoped that a delegation of women, perhaps because of its novelty, might have a particular impression on the Kampuchean authorities. [More…]
Women from legislatures all over the world were invited to join the delegation. [More…]
But we brought with us to the administration in Kampuchea messages of support for the exercise from all women in Australian parliaments. [More…]
That has sparked a great deal of feeling and was very much the instrument in stirring the Congress women to seek to visit the country and to carry the message that the world wants to help these people who are starving. [More…]
The report of the Office of Women’s Affairs and other reports outline the position in unorganised industries. [More…]
I want to know when women are subjected to some of these indignities. [More…]
Another example is the married women in the work force. [More…]
Over 43 per cent of all married women are in the paid work force. [More…]
Many surveys have shown that most of those women with dependent children have been forced into the work force by economic pressures. [More…]
But why not in some way such as that give an opportunity to thousands of married women who desire to come out of the paid work force to do so? [More…]
For the first time in history, less than half of that $572m will actually go to women whose husbands have died. [More…]
Of the sole supporting parents receiving benefits, 57,067 are women and 1,970 are men. [More…]
Almost half the women are unmarried, and 65 per cent of those women have no other income. [More…]
As I see it, there is no stated Government policy, in these documents or elsewhere, which says that that is the aim, but the deliberate pressure, both in the past and at present, on married women to enter the paid work force has helped to promote the trend. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council has not been democratically elected by the women of Australia; [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council is not representative of the women of Australia; [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council is a discriminatory and sexist imposition on Australian women as Australian men do not have a National Men’s Advisory Council imposed on them. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council be abolished to ensure that Australian women have equal opportunity with Australian men of having issues of concern to them considered, debated and voted on by their Parliamentary representative without intervention and interference by an unrepresentative ‘Advisory Council ‘. [More…]
It concerns that non-controversial body, the National Women’s Advisory Council, which recently delivered its first report concerning the need for Commonwealth legislation to protect women from domestic violence. [More…]
I have not seen the report of the National Women’s Advisory Council to which Senator Chipp refers. [More…]
The National Women’s Advisory Council has come under some criticism from very small minority groups in the community for its activities. [More…]
However, I would like to place on record my appreciation, and the appreciation of the Opposition, for the extremely competent and effective work by way of advising government on policies affecting women that has been carried out by the National Women ‘s Advisory Council. [More…]
I would recommend to all honourable senators, particularly those who may be sympathetic to some of the criticisms made of the National Women’s Advisory Council, that they read this report and address themselves to the very thorough recommendations within the report covering a vast range of areas affecting women in Australia in our time. [More…]
I express the hope that at the earliest opportunity in the meeting of the Parliament after Christmas we will have before us sex discrimination legislation as outlined in the first annual report of the National Women’s Advisory Council. [More…]
Women are a quarter of the workforce and in some sectors eight out often. [More…]
I know that many honourable senators who have read the survey carried out by the Centre for Urban Research and Action, that excellent document entitled ‘But I Wouldn’t Want My Wife to Work Here’, will have no problem in accepting that that sort of disadvantage exists, particularly for migrant women in the community. [More…]
It is a quite scathing indictment of the attitude of some trade unions to migrant women, particularly those who are process workers in Melbourne. [More…]
Some of the severest critics of the lack of participation by migrant women workers in the trade union movement, the most trenchant critics there, were in fact active trade unionists. [More…]
On 8 November 1979 (Hansard, page 2047), Senator Melzer directed a question to me, in my capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Health, concerning the addresses of women’s refuges. [More…]
The honourable senator’s question apparently relates to circumstances connected with the residential addresses of a small number of women’s refuges, all of which are located in Victoria and which are included in a total of 94 refuges funded under the Community Health Program. [More…]
It should be noted that the Commonwealth Government strongly supports women “s refuges. [More…]
Evidence of this support can be found in the growth in the number of women’s refuges which has taken place during the Government’s term of office- from nineteen refuges at the end of 1975, to ninetyfour currently approved. [More…]
Does the Minister not agree that the security of Tasmania is of interest to the women as well as to the men of my State? [More…]
For men must work, and women must weep, [More…]
Examples of these include: the Aboriginal Women’s Centre in Darwin which received $30,000; the National Aboriginal Child Care Seminar which received $10,872; and thirty recreational and youth activity programs for Aboriginal children to be funded at $132,326. [More…]
Examples of these include some 28 projects for children ‘s centres child care services for migrant women attending English classes, and an outside school hours project. [More…]
The Office of Youth Affairs is to develop a list of young men and women who might be interested in and be suitable for appointment to such positions. [More…]
-On 11 October 1979 (Hansard, p. 1209) Senator Douglas McClelland asked me a question without notice concerning the employment of women in the Australian Public Service. [More…]
The fact that there are only 23 women in the Second Division of the Australian Public Service reflects, in part, the fact that until late 1966 married women were precluded from becoming officers in the Service. [More…]
Another major influence on the participation of women in senior levels in the Service is that the average length of service of female officers is significantly less than that of their male counterparts, reflecting in part the higher resignation rates of female officers. [More…]
Since 1966, however, the representation of women in the more senior levels of the Service (excluding the First Division) has increased markedly. [More…]
For example, in 1973 there were only two women in the Second Division. [More…]
The role of women in the Australian Public Service and the removal of any discrimination are under constant attention by the Public Service Board. [More…]
The Equal Employment Opportunity Bureau in the Board ‘s Office is responsible for implementing and monitoring the equal employment policy as it relates to women. [More…]
The Bureau encourages the fullest possible employment and promotion of women, consistent with the merit principle. [More…]
It investigates any complaints by women of discrimination because of their sex or marital status when seeking employment, or in employment, in the Australian Public Service. [More…]
The Bureau has published guidelines to ensure proper treatment of women in selection processes. [More…]
The Board monitors, on a continuing basis, trends in statistical data on the employment of women and results of this work are published from time to time in the Board ‘s Annual Report and statistical publications. [More…]
Husbands and fiancees of women who are UK citizens but who were not born in the UK will no longer qualify for admission to the UK for settlement with their wives or fiancees. [More…]
I am sure that Senator Coleman and all other honourable senators will be delighted to learn that in fact there is no discrimination between women and men veterans of the Australian forces and that all are entitled to the same benefits in the same circumstances. [More…]
Although this in a sense could be regarded as prejudice in favour of the women rather than the men, at the same time one would have to acknowledge that this is a result of the many years of inequality between men and women and the assumption that has always been made that the only breadwinner in a household is a man and not a woman. [More…]
1 ) What is the incidence of breast cancer in Australian men and women compared with the incidence in American mcn and women. [More…]