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<hansard xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../../hansard.xsd" version="2.1" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<session.header>
<date>1966-03-08</date>
<parliament.no>25</parliament.no>
<session.no>1</session.no>
<period.no>5</period.no>
<chamber>REPS</chamber>
<page.no>3</page.no>
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<para class="block">COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA </para>
<para class="block">PARLIAMENTARYDEBATES. </para>
<para class="block">(HANSARD.) </para>
<para class="block">First Session of the Twenty-fifth Parliament. (Fifth Period.) </para>
<para class="block">HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. </para>
<para>The House of Representatives, on 10th December 1965, adjourned to a date and hour to be fixed by <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Speaker.</inline></para>
<para>
<inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Speaker</inline>summoned the House of Representatives to meet on Tuesday, 8th March 1966, at 3 p.m. </para>
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<day.start>1966-03-08</day.start>
<para>
<inline font-weight="bold">Mr. SPEAKER (Hon. Sir John McLeay)</inline>took the chair at 3 p.m., and read prayers. </para>
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<debate>
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<title>COMMISSION TO ADMINISTER OATH</title>
<page.no>3</page.no>
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<para>- I have received from His Excellency the Governor-General a commission authorising me to administer to members of the House the oath, or affirmation of allegiance. I now lay the commission on the table. </para>
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</debate>
<debate>
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<title>DAWSON ELECTORAL DIVISION</title>
<page.no>3</page.no>
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<para>- I have to announce with deep regret the death on 9th January 1966 of the honorable member for Dawson, <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. George</inline> William Shaw. On 21st January I issued a writ for the election of a member to serve in the place of the deceased gentleman. I have received a return to the writ and by the endorsement thereon it is certified that Rex Alan Patterson has been elected. </para>
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<para>
<inline font-weight="bold">Dr. Rex</inline>Alan Patterson was introduced and made and subscribed the oath of allegiance as member for the division of Dawson. </para>
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<title>KOOYONG ELECTORAL DIVISION</title>
<page.no>3</page.no>
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<para>- I have to announce that on 17th February I received from the Right Honorable <inline font-weight="bold">Sir Robert</inline> Gordon Menzies a letter resigning his seat as member for the electoral division of Kooyong. On 3rd March I issued a writ for the election of a member to serve for the electoral division of Kooyong in the State of Victoria to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of the right honorable gentleman. The dates in connection with the election were fixed as follows - </para>
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<para>Date of nomination - Friday, 18th March 1966. </para>
<para>Date of polling - Saturday, 2nd April 1966. </para>
<para>Date of return of writ - on or before Friday, 6th May 1966. </para>
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</debate>
<debate>
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<title>MINISTERIAL ARRANGEMENTS</title>
<page.no>4</page.no>
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<page.no>4</page.no>
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<para>- You have referred, <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Speaker,</inline> to the resignation of the Right Honorable <inline font-weight="bold">Sir Robert</inline> Menzies as Prime Minister. Following that resignation, to which I shall be referring again later this week, His Excellency the Governor-General commissioned me, as the newly elected leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, to form a ministry. I formally announce that the new Government, which was sworn in on 26th January 1966 - Australia Day, <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Speaker,</inline> and this I feel has some happy symbolism for us all - is constituted as follows - </para>
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<title>Prime Minister - Right Honorable H. E. Holt</title>
<page.no>4</page.no>
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<para>Minister for Trade and Industry - Right Honorable J. McEwen. </para>
<para>Treasurer - Honorable W. McMahon. </para>
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<title>Minister for External Affairs - Right Honorable P. M. C. Hasluck</title>
<page.no>4</page.no>
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</subdebate.1>
<subdebate.1>
<subdebateinfo>
<title>Minister for Primary Industry - Honorable C. F. Adermann</title>
<page.no>4</page.no>
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</subdebate.1>
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<title>Minister for Defence - Honorable A. Fairhall</title>
<page.no>4</page.no>
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<para>Minister for Supply - <inline font-weight="bold">Senator the</inline> Honorable N. H. D. Henty. </para>
<para>Postmaster-General and Vice-President of the Executive Council - Honorable A. S. Hulme. </para>
</subdebate.1>
<subdebate.1>
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<title>Minister for National Development -</title>
<page.no>4</page.no>
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</subdebate.1>
<subdebate.1>
<subdebateinfo>
<title>Honorable D. E. Fairbairn, D.F.C</title>
<page.no>4</page.no>
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</subdebate.1>
<subdebate.1>
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<title>Minister for Territories - Honorable C. E. Barnes</title>
<page.no>4</page.no>
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<para>Minister for Works - <inline font-weight="bold">Senator the</inline> Honorable J. G. Gorton. </para>
</subdebate.1>
<subdebate.1>
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<title>Minister for Labour and National Service -Honorable L. H. E. Bury</title>
<page.no>4</page.no>
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</subdebate.1>
<subdebate.1>
<subdebateinfo>
<title>Minister for Shipping and Transport - Honorable G. Freeth</title>
<page.no>4</page.no>
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</subdebate.1>
<subdebate.1>
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<title>Minister for Immigration - Honorable H. F. Opperman, O.B.E</title>
<page.no>4</page.no>
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</subdebate.1>
<subdebate.1>
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<title>Minister for Civil Aviation - Honorable R. W. C. Swartz, M.B.E., E.D</title>
<page.no>4</page.no>
</subdebateinfo>
</subdebate.1>
<subdebate.1>
<subdebateinfo>
<title>Attorney-General - Honorable B. M. Snedden, Q.C</title>
<page.no>4</page.no>
</subdebateinfo>
</subdebate.1>
<subdebate.1>
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<title>Minister for Health - Honorable A. J. Forbes, M.C</title>
<page.no>4</page.no>
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<para>Minister for the Interior - Honorable J. D. Anthony. </para>
<para>Minister for the Navy - Honorable F. C. Chaney, A.F.C. </para>
<para>Minister for Air and assisting the Treasurer - Honorable P. Howson. </para>
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<subdebate.1>
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<title>Minister for Customs and Excise -</title>
<page.no>4</page.no>
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<para>
<inline font-weight="bold">Senator the</inline>Honorable K. M. Anderson. </para>
<para>Minister for Repatriation - <inline font-weight="bold">Senator the</inline> Honorable G. C. McKellar. </para>
</subdebate.1>
<subdebate.1>
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<title>Minister for Social Services - Honorable I. M. Sinclair</title>
<page.no>4</page.no>
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<para>Minister for Housing - <inline font-weight="bold">Senator the</inline> Honorable Dame Annabelle Rankin, D.B.E. </para>
<para>Minister for the Army - Honorable J. M. Fraser. </para>
<para>The Minister for Works <inline font-weight="bold">(Senator Gorton)</inline> will assist me in Commonwealth activities in relation to education and research which fall within the Prime Minister's Department. The first 12 Ministers I have mentioned will form the Cabinet, <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Fairbairn</inline> will be the Leader of the Government in this chamber, and <inline font-weight="bold">Senator Henty,</inline> Leader in the Senate. </para>
<para>In the Senate, <inline font-weight="bold">Senator Henty</inline> will be my representative in matters other than those relating to education and research and <inline font-weight="bold">Senator Gorton</inline> in matters relating to education and research. <inline font-weight="bold">Senator Henty</inline> will also represent the Minister for Trade and Industry, the Treasurer and the Minister for National Development. <inline font-weight="bold">Senator Gorton</inline> will also represent the Minister for External Affairs, the Minister for Defence, the Minister for Territories, the Minister for Labour and National Service and the Attorney-General. The Postmaster-General and the Ministers for Shipping and Transport and Civil Aviation will be represented by <inline font-weight="bold">Senator Anderson,</inline> the Ministers for Primary Industry, the Interior, the Navy, Air and the Army by <inline font-weight="bold">Senator McKellar,</inline> and the Ministers for Immigration, Health, and Social Services by <inline font-weight="bold">Senator Dame</inline> Annabelle Rankin. </para>
<para>Ministers in the Senate will be represented in this House as follows: The Minister for Supply by <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Fairhall,</inline> the Minister for Works by <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Freeth,</inline> the Minister for Customs and Excise by <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Howson,</inline> the Minister for Repatriation by <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Swartz,</inline> and the Minister for Housing by <inline font-weight="bold">Mr, Bury.</inline></para>
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<page.no>4</page.no>
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<name role="metadata">CALWELL, Arthur</name>
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<para>. - by leave - <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Speaker,</inline> I ask for your indulgence - or semiindulgence - to say a few words on what is a most auspicious occasion for the right honorable member for Higgins <inline font-weight="bold">(Mr. Harold Holt).</inline> On behalf of the Opposition and, I hope, on behalf of every honorable member, I extend to him personal congratulations on becoming the seventeenth Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia - a particularly great achievement. There have been only 17 Prime Ministers over 65 years. It has been on the average a long time between Prime Ministers. One lasted only seven days, another nine days and another nineteen days. So the occupancy of the office is rather greater than the average would suggest. Of course, we do not propose to allow the present Prime Minister to hold his position for 16 years or even 16 months if we can prevent it. Today we come to praise the new Caesar, not to bury him. We are turning history upside down. We will bury his policies as soon as we can. But while he occupies the high, honorable and great position of Prime Minister of Australia, he can be assured of the courtesy of this side of the House and its co-operation in the discharge of the business of the Parliament. </para>
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<para>The parliamentary institution is our great safeguard against tyranny of all kinds. If we are parliamentarians and if we have any respect for tradition, then obviously we must do all we can to maintain the traditions associated with the office. There will be times, of course, when we will disagree with each other, but on those occasions we must remember the dignity of Parliament, its importance and the significance it has in the life of people and in the defence of their liberties, their rights and their privileges. </para>
<para>The right honorable gentleman has exhibited remarkable patience. He has served his party for a great many years. He was loyal to his former leader for 16 years and he has received his reward. He exhibited the patience of Job and he has been given the same kind of reward that Job received, although I am not now so sure what that was. But, of course, Job was not in line for the Prime Ministership of Australia. The Prime Minister starts in his office with the goodwill of many Australians. It is for him to justify the choice of his party and for him to justify his policies. It is for us, the Opposition, to show, where we believe it is right to do so, that his policies are wrong and that a change of Government is desirable and necessary in the interests of the Australian people. </para>
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<page.no>5</page.no>
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<para>. - by leave- May I say how much </para>
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<para class="block">I appreciate the words of congratulation which have come so generously from the Leader of the Opposition <inline font-weight="bold">(Mr. Calwell)?</inline> He and I have sat opposite each other for a great many years, advancing as vigorously as we have felt able our respective points of view. We did not always find ourselves in agreement, but there are many matters affecting the wellbeing of Australia on which we have been in agreement. I hope that our daily confrontations in this Parliament, which in his case, I trust, will continue for a considerable time to come, will be marked by that recognition which I know he has always given to the national interest, as I hope I have also. He and I had the privilege of making a contribution to a programme launched by him which has served Australia well - the immigration programme. I know that in matters touching the national interest he has revealed a sense of responsibility which can well serve as a model to members of this Parliament, from whichever side of it they come. For my part, <inline font-weight="bold">Sir, I</inline> share with him the regard for this institution. We are parliamentarians first and servants of the Parliament, even if we have the good fortune to be chosen to serve the nation in executive ministerial capacities. </para>
<para>It is as a servant of the Parliament that I shall report faithfully from time to time what the Government proposes to do or puts forward by way of policy and in the conduct of the affairs of the Parliament which must be made to serve the interests of the people. In that respect I enjoyed the close co-operation of the Leader of the Opposition when I had the duties of Leader of the House to perform. That practice has been followed by his deputy. It is in this friendly, co-operative conduct of the affairs of a representative democracy, however much we may differ on matters of policy, that we find the true expression of a democratic people and a democratic institution. It is in that spirit that we shall occupy our respective roles. I thank the House for its congratulations. In particular I thank the Leader of the Opposition for his personal good wishes. </para>
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<para>. - I move - </para>
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<para>That this House records sincere regret at the death of Lal Bahadur Shastri, Prime Minister of India, places on record its appreciation of his high ideals, his service to the country, his dedication to the cause of international peace, and the development of harmonious relations wilh Pakistan, expresses to the people of India its profound regret at the loss they have suffered, and tenders its deep sympathy to his widow and family. </para>
</quote>
<para class="block">Since the Parliament last met the death occurred suddenly, as all honorable members will know, of this Commonwealth leader for whom we all had great respect. The Prime Minister of India, <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Shastri,</inline> had devoted his life to the welfare and advancement of his country, and his death took place while he was actually actively engaged on a mission of great significance for his country. Indeed, he died within a few hours of the signing of the Tashkent Declaration, an agreement negotiated so skilfully by him, and designed to. ease the tension existing between, his country and Pakistan. . </para>
<para>Lal Bahadur Shastri had long and intimate experience in Indian politics and government. He began his political career as a very young man and played an important role in a succession of Indian cabinets. He was one of the most valued colleagues of his former distinguished leader, <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Nehru,</inline> and he was among those to whom <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Nehru</inline> turned when failing health made it necessary for him to share the burdens of office. His contemporaries regarded Lal Bahadur Shastri as something of a genius in. striking balances, in handling difficult situations, and in achieving successful compromises serving the purposes he had in view. <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Nehru</inline> has described him as a man of the highest integrity with devotion to high ideals. This seemed to shine out from the man, even to those of us who only knew of him at a distance. As we read about him we felt the. inner strength and the spirituality and force of character in this remarkable man. </para>
<para>
<inline font-weight="bold">His</inline>extensive political experience and his personal qualities stood him in good stead when he was elected unanimously to succeed <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Nehru</inline> in 1964. He took office at a difficult time for India, with all its manifold pressing problems, both internally and externally. However, he quickly established himself as a leader in the eyes of his people. He proved to be persuasive, but with an inner firmness and strength of purpose - a man who had humility of manner but an inward strength which carried him to leadership and sustained him there. </para>
<para>He served his country with distinction. He won respect for himself and his country around the world. The account and pictures of his funeral rites brought home vividly to us, remote from the scene in Australia though we were, how deeply his people felt his passing. They revealed convincingly the depth of his people's grief. We join with the people of India in mourning the loss of a notable leader and statesman and we extend our sympathies to his sorrowing family. </para>
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<para>. - The late <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Lal</inline> Bahadur Shastri was indeed a remarkable man. Any leader of India today has to be a remarkable' man - or woman, since <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Shastri's</inline> successor is <inline font-weight="bold">Mrs. Gandhi,</inline> the daughter of the late <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Nehru.</inline> The Indian subcontinent, which includes Pakistan, is half the size of Australia. It is not a large area, of the world's surface, but in the Indian republic there are 400 million people who are riven by a caste system, divided by dialectical differences, plagued with great poverty and disgraced by great excesses of wealth on the part of a small section of the community. </para>
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<para>
<inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Shastri</inline>had to deal with all the domestic problems of that subcontinent. He had to deal not only with the problems of his own area but also with the problem of Pakistan where, unfortunately, the religious differences between Muslim and Hindu asserted themselves frequently and led to dreadful riots. Indeed, <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Shastri</inline> must have been a remarkable man. He was a good man. He strove for peace: He strove for conciliation. It was ironically tragic that as a result of the successful conference between Ayub Khan and <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Shastri</inline> at Tashkent under the auspices of <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Kosygin,</inline> the Russian Prime Minister, peace between Pakistan and India if not permanently settled was at least considerably advanced. t </para>
<para>We in this country, in looking at the world's problems' in our own way and for our own benefit, have always seemed to regret that India remained unaligned. We blamed Nehru and Shastri because they did not line up with the West. They certainly did not line up with the East. Their great contribution to world peace was their progress along the road of neutrality. No other road is possible for nien like Shastri, for </para>
<para class="block">Ayub Khan or any of the rest who are charged with such great responsibilities in governing so many millions of the human race. Shastri fought for peace; he died for peace: May peace be to his ashes and may his memory endure. </para>
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<para>. - I desire to join my Party, the Australian Country Party, with the motion moved by the Prime Minister <inline font-weight="bold">(Mr. Harold Holt)</inline> and supported by the Leader of the Opposition <inline font-weight="bold">(Mr. Calwell).</inline> It was indeed a very great shock and a matter of profound distress to us all that <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Shastri</inline> should have been taken so suddenly from this world. History will, I am sure, record <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Shastri</inline> as one of the great men of India. He will take his place in the records beside that of <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Nehru.</inline> It was my fortune to have had discussions and negotiations with him just several weeks before he died, meeting him then for the first time. He was a man of very small stature, a frail man, but clearly a man of great strength of character who was perfectly clear in the things that he stood for and the things he wished to resist. He served not only his country, and his fellow countrymen well but he also served the world well in meeting the responsibilities he carried during his period of office. </para>
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<para>I am sure many people felt that it would be extremely difficult for India to find someone to fill the shoes of <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Nehru.</inline> In his short period of responsibility <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Shastri</inline> certainly did this. All his public life he demonstrated a capacity for understanding the point of view of the other person as well as for propounding his own point of view. His character revealed him as a man capable of settling issues by reasonable compromise. The great crowning point of his career was his achievement, in conjunction with Ayub Khan, of peace and a new measure of stability in relations between India and Pakistan. Not only is this good for the people of those populous and tormented countries but it is also a milestone in the development of world affairs in our day and time. I join with those who extend profound sympathy to his widow and family and to the people of India. </para>
<para>Question resolved in the affirmative, honorable members standing in their places. </para>
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<title>DEATH OF SIR ABUBAKAR BALEWA</title>
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<para>. - <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Speaker,</inline> I move - </para>
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<para>That this House records it regret at the death of <inline font-weight="bold">Sir Abubakar</inline> Tafawa Balewa and expresses its condolences to members of his family. </para>
</quote>
<para class="block">Our Commonwealth of Nations sustained another heavy blow - a blow felt throughout the world - with the tragic death by massacre in January of one of Africa's foremost statesmen, <inline font-weight="bold">Sir Abubakar</inline> Balewa, Prime Minister of Nigeria. <inline font-weight="bold">Sir Abubakar</inline> had shown himself to be one of the outstanding figures of the new nations of the Commonwealth. I know that he enjoyed a very high regard among his fellow Commonwealth Prime Ministers. I have frequently heard <inline font-weight="bold">Sir Robert</inline> Menzies and my colleague, the Minister for External Affairs <inline font-weight="bold">(Mr. Hasluck),</inline> speak of him in the highest terms from their own contacts with him at conferences. His death came at a high point in his career, shortly after he had been personally presiding at the conference of Prime Ministers held at Lagos, the capital of his own country. </para>
<para>The Commonwealth looked to <inline font-weight="bold">Sir Abubakar</inline> as a moderating influence in a troubled continent. Calm and dignified in demeanour, he was widely acknowledged as a man of integrity, fairness, courage and sound judgment. <inline font-weight="bold">Sir Abubakar</inline> entered his country's federal politics when the Nigerian Federation was established and in 1952 he was its first Minister of Works. His reputation grew steadily, and by 1957 he was Chief Minister. He played a large part in the formation of a national government and it was as Prime Minister on Nigeria's Independence Day in 1960 that he received the constitutional instruments from Princess Alexandra. In the same year he was knighted and in 1961 he became a member of the Privy Council. </para>
<para>
<inline font-weight="bold">Sir Abubakar</inline>had a firm belief in the value of the Commonwealth and the role that it can play in international affairs. He believed deeply in democratic standards, in fairness to all and in free speech. <inline font-weight="bold">Sir Robert</inline> Menzies has described him as a respected leader, clear minded, sagacious, tolerant, and just. The world can ill afford to lose men of this quality. We deeply regret his death and extend our sympathies to his family. </para>
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<para>. - The Prime Minister <inline font-weight="bold">(Mr. Harold Holt)</inline> has said all that can be said, I would imagine, about the career of this very distinguished citizen of Nigeria, the Commonwealth of Nations and the world. That any man, particularly a man of such distinction as <inline font-weight="bold">Sir Abubakar</inline> Balewa, should have been so cruelly butchered by his own people is a terrible reflection on those responsible for the deed and is a reminder to all of us that the veneer of civilisation is very thin in certain parts of the world, lt is of no use for us to try to establish that we are better than are those responsible for this foul deed. Perhaps we arrived at a degree of civilisation earlier than they did, but European history is full of accounts of similar terrible deeds. We would have thought that in our time and generation nothing like this could occur, but it occurred a few years ago when Al Nuri was murdered in Iran and we saw the terrible tragedies in the Congo. All we can hope and pray for is that those of us who know how to make democracy work will be able to inspire and persuade the people in other countries to make democracy work. I think the world was appalled and shocked to learn that this very great man had been foully murdered, particularly in the aftermath of the Lagos conference, which was called to deal with the problem of Rhodesia. I join with the Prime Minister in extending to the widow, relatives and friends of <inline font-weight="bold">Sir Abubakar</inline> the deepest sympathy in their hour of distress and grief. </para>
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<para>. - I join the Australian Country Party in the motion of sympathy and regret proposed by the Prime Minister <inline font-weight="bold">(Mr. Harold Holt). Sir Abubakar</inline> was greatly regarded as one of the leading figures of Africa and of the Commonwealth. I had the good fortune to sit in a Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference with him and I know the respect with which he was held by all of those who were present. It is history that just before his death he was giving real leadership in Africa, particularly in the conference at Lagos, from which he and many of his African associates expected great developments. It is a tragedy that this man who was so well regarded should have been taken in such dreadful circumstances. I join in the expressions of sympathy. </para>
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<para>Question resolved in the affirmative, honorable members standing in their places. </para>
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<title>DEATH OF SENATOR THE HONORABLE SIR SHANE PALTRIDGE, K.B.E</title>
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<para>. - I move - </para>
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<para>That this House expresses its deep regret at the death on 21st January, 1966' of the Honorable <inline font-weight="bold">Sir Shane</inline> Dunne Paltridge K.B.E., a senator for the State of Western Australia from 1951, a Minister of the Crown and Leader of the Government in the Senate, places on record its appreciation of his long and meritorious public service and tenders its profound sympathy to his widow and family in their bereavement. </para>
</quote>
<para class="block">The Parliament is the poorer for the passing of one of its most distinguished members. We are the mourners of a friendship which, I believe, touched every member of the Parliament. There can rarely have been a member of the Parliament in either House who was more popular or held more deeply in affection and respect than Shane Paltridge was. He was one of the Government's ablest Ministers and his loss takes from us a colleague whom we remember with respect and deep affection. He was more than a parliamentary colleague to many of us; be was more than just a personal friend. He was a truly remarkable man whose abilities took him to high offices in the land he loved so well. But somehow he never lost the common touch, his down to earth commonsense approach, his limitless energy and enthusiasm, his ready sense of humour, his so evident humanity, his integrity. These are all qualities that ensure for him a fond and enduring place in our memories. Those of us who sat in Cabinet with him realised so frequently that he possessed a great stock of that rarest of all qualities, common sense. The term may be a misnomer but he possessed this quality, with a sensitivity to the feelings of others and a realisation of the sound practical course to be followed. </para>
<para>He became Leader of the Government in the Senate and Minister for Defence. He had an oustanding record of service and achievement in this Parliament. He was first elected as a Western Australian senator in 1951 and became a member of the Public Accounts Committee and of the </para>
<para class="block">Parliamentary Proceedings Broadcasting Committee. During the period up to 19SS he was active in these capacities as well as in his general parliamentary service, but in that year he was promoted to the Ministry. His first portfolio, in which he quickly demonstrated his administrative abilities, was that of Shipping and Transport. He held that post from September 1955 to February 1960. He will be best remembered, perhaps, by most for the sterling work he performed as Minister for Civil Aviation between 1956 and 1964. He spared no effort to give Australia a standard of civil aviation measuring up to the best in the world. He made a first hand study of airline operations in many countries and negotiated important international air agreements for Australia. </para>
<para>During his term as Minister for Defence he conducted - as those of us who sat with him at the time remember vividly - a searching review of our defence programme and of the nation's defence needs. He was Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate from 1959 to 1964 when he became Leader of the Government and, as a consequence, a member of the Senate Standing Orders Committee. The defence portfolio came to him in April 1964. As Minister for Defence he went to South-East Asia and the United States of America last year, visiting Australian forces in the field and negotiating defence contracts. At various times in his career <inline font-weight="bold">Sir Shane</inline> Paltridge acted for the Minister for Labour and National Service, the Minister for Defence, the Minister for Civil Aviation and the Treasurer. </para>
<para>The death of a man wilh such talents as an administrator and with such breadth of experience at a time when the best years of service seemed clearly to lie ahead of him is a tragic loss to this country. We can regard ourselves as fortunate to have had the benefit of his wise counsel in Cabinet for so many years. He devoted much of his life to public service and during his parliamentary career gave unstintingly of his time, his energy and his great abilities. The award of a knighthood by Her Majesty the Queen in the New Year Honours List was a well deserved recognition of his service to Australia. He served his country well in the Second World War as a gunner with the 2/7th Australian Field Regiment. </para>
<para>That is in outline a recital of a great career of public service - a distinguished, a successful career - 'but as we reflect on it today our minds will tend to dwell increasingly on what we recall of a very remarkable man - his warm personal qualities and the loyalty and depth of friendship that he accorded to all his colleagues. Those of us who were privileged to know him require no verbal tribute to keep our memories of him fresh and green. The contribution that he made to his country will have a lasting memorial in the gratitude of his fellow Australians. </para>
<para>He will be sadly missed, of course, by his many friends in his native Western Australia, where he had come to be one of the leading figures of his own community. But it is the members of his own family, who are well known to so many of us in the two Houses of the Parliament, who have suffered the most grievous loss. Those of us who were at the funeral ceremony will recall the calm and courageous dignity with which his widow and his two daughters comported themselves in their sadness. Our deepest sympathy goes to them. Through the years we shall recall the richness of our friendship with a man who found a place in the hearts of all of us. </para>
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<para>
<inline font-weight="bold">.- Senator Sir Shane</inline>Paltridge certainly did serve his country well in war and peace. He died too young. He lived in an important period in Australian history. He was privileged to hold ministerial rank in that period. He was a kindly, affable and friendly man who usually wore a smile and seldom wore a scowl. He sought to ingratiate himself with all whom he met and all whom he knew. His political beliefs were definite, but he was not so positive a party man that he would refuse to consider other points of view. I believe that therein lay some of the reason for the success that he achieved during his administration of several important portfolios. I was shocked when I learned that he was so near death, because I had seen him in Canberra only a few months earlier and there seemed to be no evidence then that his end was so near. </para>
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<para>The Opposition joins with the Government in tendering sympathy to Lady Molly Paltridge and her two daughters, who in the midst of their travail exhibited great fortitude and courage. We hope that the sympathy of all of their friends will help them to bear the grief that they so naturally feel. We hope that time will help to assuage that grief and to reconcile them to their irreparable loss. </para>
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<page.no>10</page.no>
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<para>. - I associate members of the Australian Country Party in this Parliament with the motion that is now under discussion. <inline font-weight="bold">Senator Sir Shane</inline> Paltridge was a very distinguished member of this Parliament, a very distinguished Cabinet Minister and a distinguished leader of his party. Upon his entry to the Ministry in 1955 he immediately displayed that vigour and great enthusiasm which were characteristic of him. He applied to the portfolios that he held in succession - Minister for Shipping and Transport, Minister for Civil Aviation and Minister for Defence - the very great qualities of character, industry and intelligence and the general administrative skills which he obviously possessed in full strength. He exhibited those qualities and skills in his capacity of Leader of the Government in the Senate. It is indeed a tragedy that a man of such qualities was not spared to carry on for a longer time. He picked up a great burden at a time when defence was becoming an increasingly important issue for us, and it soon was crystal clear to all that in this highly important and highly complex portfolio he mastered the issues both in principle and in detail. The Australian Country Party joins in mourning the passing of such a distinguished member of the Parliament and of the Government, and we extend our very deep sympathy to Lady Paltridge and the family. </para>
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<para>Question resolved in the affirmative, honorable members standing in their places. </para>
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<page.no>10</page.no>
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<para>. - I move - </para>
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<quote>
<para>That this House expresses its deep regret at the death on 9th January, 1966, of George William Shaw, a member of this House for the Division of Dawson, places on record its appreciation of his meritorious public service and tenders its profound sympathy to his widow and family in their bereavement </para>
</quote>
<para class="block">
<inline font-weight="bold">Mr. George</inline>Shaw, who had represented Dawson in this House since 1963, died in Brisbane on 9th January. <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Shaw</inline> had been active in the Queensland sugar industry before entering the Federal Parliament as a Country Party member. For some years he was Chairman of the Managers' Division of the Mackay Sugar Manufacturers Association. He took an active part in the formation of the Sugar Research Institute, of which he was Deputy Chairman from 1949 to 1964, and he remained a director of the institute up to the time of his death. In Canberra, he closely watched the interests of the sugar producers, and with his passing the industry has lost a conscientious and well informed spokesman in the Federal Parliament. </para>
<para>
<inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Shaw</inline>had not been long in this House before his death and we had not had a real opportunity to form an assessment of the qualities which he might have brought, over a period of years, to the service of the Parliament. But we found him a warm, friendly man and we all felt a sense of shock and loss at his passing so suddenly from us. We extend the sincere sympathy of the Parliament to his widow, his daughter and his five sons who are left to mourn him. </para>
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<page.no>10</page.no>
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<para>. - Five members of this Parliament have died since the Parliament was elected. The first was the Honorable A. G. Townley, the next was <inline font-weight="bold">Senator Seddon</inline> Vincent, the next was <inline font-weight="bold">Senator the</inline> Honorable Harrie Wade, then <inline font-weight="bold">Senator the</inline> Honorable <inline font-weight="bold">Sir Shane</inline> Paltridge and finally <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. George</inline> Shaw. This shows us how short life can be and how our greatest expectations are not always fulfilled. </para>
</talk.start>
<para>The late <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Shaw</inline> came to this Parliament endowed with considerable gifts and, naturally enough, he expected to be here for some time so that he could make his contributions to the debates of this Parliament and also to the advancement of the welfare of Australia. He did his work in Queensland and was known better to most of my Queensland colleagues than he was to those from the other States. I really did not know him. I had never had a conversation with him. I bade him the time of day on a few occasions when our paths happened to cross but I did not know all that I might have known about him. 1 regret that the opportunity to learn more about him has slipped away. </para>
<para>
<inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Shaw</inline>was a quiet man and a constructive thinker. He did not speak often here although his attendance record was very good. He made quiet contributions and he was generally esteemed by my colleagues, some of whom did meet him socially from time to time. All of us deplore his loss. We offer to his widow and to his daughter and five sons our profound sympathy in their great and tragic loss. Again I say on behalf of the Opposition that we hope time will help to heal the great wound which has come so early in the life of the family of the late <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Shaw.</inline></para>
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<para>. - I" would like, on behalf of myself and my colleagues, to join in the motion before the House. The death of George Shaw has removed from the ranks of my Party and from the membership of the House a man who was competent to speak with great personal knowledge and ability on the issues of Australia's great sugar industry. He had spent his whole life within the sugar industry. He started working in a sugar mill at the age of 22. He was mill secretary at the Cattle Creek sugar mill. His excellent work was so well recognised that he earned very rapid promotion and became manager of the great Farleigh sugar mill. He served his own mill, he served the sugar industry and he served his district well when his talents were devoted exclusively to the affairs of the sugar industry. <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Shaw</inline> came into this House at the request of many who wanted to have within the ranks of the Parliament men with deep personal knowledge of this industry. It is a. sad thing that it was not his fate to be allowed to remain here longer to communicate to the Parliament his great knowledge and his wise advice on matters concerning this industry. He was, as I think has been said, a very practical, down to earth man. He was always deferred to as a man who knew what he was talking about and who never spoke on an issue on which he was not competent to speak. His passing is a matter of great sadness for the members of my Party and great sadness within the . sugar industry. I. am sure, that the fact that he has been taken is greatly regretted throughout this Parliament. Our sympathy goes to <inline font-weight="bold">Mrs. Shaw</inline> and to the family in their great loss. </para>
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<para>Question resolved in the affirmative, honorable members standing in their places. </para>
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<para>. - <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Speaker,</inline> a distinguished former member of this House who had been with us until very recent years, Albert Victor Thompson, died in Adelaide on 13th January. The late Bert Thompson was a great stalwart of the Australian Labour Party. He began his political career in State politics in South Australia and was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly in 1930. Sixteen years later he resigned from the House of Assembly in order to stand for election to the Federal Parliament. He was elected to the House of Representatives at the 1946 election. He represented the seat of Hindmarsh until the redistribution of electorates, when he became the member for Port Adelaide. He represented his electorate faithfully and conscientiously in this House until his retirement in 1963. Bert Thompson was a most popular and highly regarded member of this chamber. I do not think one would have found a hostile thought in anyone's mind directed towards him. He was Temporary Chairman of Committees from 1 950 to 1954. He was Vice-Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee for a number of years. He was a member of the Australian delegation to the Fiftieth Conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Brussels in 1961. </para>
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<para>I am sure that all who knew Bert Thompson - that goes for most of the members assembled here today - recall him particularly for his evident sincerity, his integrity and the warmth -of his personal friendship. He had an innate dignity of manner about him, a fine presence. He was an adornment to the Parliament and a most worthy representative of his own parliamentary party. He was respected and liked by us all. We offer our sympathy to his widow, his two sons and his four daughters in the loss of their distinguished husband ;and father. </para>
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<para>. - <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Speaker,</inline> like all my colleagues I am sadly happy that the Prime Minister <inline font-weight="bold">(Mr. Harold Holt)</inline> has taken the opportunity to pay tribute to the memory ot Albert Victor Thompson. He was one of the old, traditional Labour men. He was born in Port Adelaide in 1886 and died at almost the age of 79. After receiving his primary education, he was engaged in general farming and dairy farming for 13 years. Then he became a foundation member of the Carters and Drivers Union. He worked as a member of that union at a time when the working week extended over 48 hours and men worked in their own time for an hour to prepare their horses before going out for the day's work. Bert Thompson knew much of the rigour of labouring life at the beginning of this century. But in spite of all his tribulations the iron never entered his soul. He was a really good citizen who lived according to the parable of the coin. He rendered unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God's. He identified himself quite early in life with the Salvation Army and it happened, as happened with the Methodist founders of the British Labour Party, who were preachers, that he preached his religious beliefs on Sundays and at street corners and then on other occasions he preached his political beliefs. He always spoke and behaved, as the Prime Minister has said, with great dignity and great decorum. </para>
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<para>Bert Thompson, despite his early setbacks, became an authority on public finance. Though he never claimed to have mastered it, he understood it. He served on the Public Accounts Committee of this Parliament for more than 10 years. But even before that he had been appointed by the Curtin Government a member of the Commonwealth Housing Commission. He made his own real contribution to the work of that Commission and its findings were accepted on both sides of the Parliament and became the basis of the Commonwealth and State Housing Agreements which still operate in the Australian States. </para>
<para>As we all knew, Bert Thompson was one of the kindliest men who ever entered this Parliament. I never heard him say an ill word of anybody and I never heard anybody say an ill word against him. I join with the Prime Minister in offering, on behalf of my colleagues and myself, sympathy to a wonderful helpmate who is now his widow and to the devoted children, grandchildren and others who presented to us an example of the way in which a family clan can be built around the life and times of one man. </para>
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<para>. - <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Speaker,</inline> I wish to associate the Australian Country Party with the expressions of sympathy at the death of Albert Victor Thompson. He, as we all know, clearly stood out as a man of great integrity and great sincerity. By any standards he was clearly a good man and I am sure that his memory entitles him to the respect of the Parliament, his party and the community in general. He served the Australian Labour Party and the Australian public for a long time - 17 years as a member of this House and 16 years in the South Australian Parliament. He served at all times with distinction and a complete consistency of attitude that was one of the notable features of his political attitudes and utterances. <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Thompson</inline> was a man whom we regarded as having had a full and useful life. He went from us holding our warm respect for all that he meant here and to the community at large. I associate my Party with the expressions of sympathy to his widow and family. </para>
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<inline font-weight="bold">-Mr. Speaker,</inline>I wish to associate myself with the remarks made by the Prime Minister <inline font-weight="bold">(Mr. Harold Holt),</inline> the Leader of the Opposition <inline font-weight="bold">(Mr. Calwell)</inline> and the Deputy Prime Minister <inline font-weight="bold">(Mr. McEwen)</inline> and to offer my brief but sincere tribute to the late Albert Victor Thompson whose long period of public service, both State and Federal, was so outstanding. <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Thompson</inline> was a man of the highest possible moral and religious character. He was loved and respected by us who were fortunate enough to know him. His approach to life was based on honesty and tolerance. I cannot recall his uttering a nasty word in all the years I knew him, nor can I recall a bad word directed at him. In the city of Port Adelaide and the surrounding districts the name of Bert Thompson is loved and respected by people in every walk of life. I join with the previous speakers in tendering sincere sympathy to <inline font-weight="bold">Mrs. Thompson</inline> and her : family. </para>
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<inline font-weight="bold">- Mr. Speaker,</inline>I too would like to say a few words about Albert Victor Thompson. I knew him all my life. My earliest memories of him go back to an occasion at the Largs Bay Public School when I was aged 10 and when he entered first into public life and was introduced to a gathering there. Eight years later be became the member for Semaphore in the South Australian House of Assembly. He resigned years later to enter the Federal Parliament. My late father was proud to call him a personal friend. My father, as leader of an independent group in the Port Adelaide City Council, for many years as Mayor, often was politically apparently opposed to A. V. Thompson, but this in no way dimmed the respect and regard in which my father held him. Indeed, I grew to know that A. V. Thompson's word was his bond, that he was a big man and that he had a big heart, a big spirit and bigness of character and outlook. He was too big for petty or negative ways. </para>
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<para>In Federal politics A. V. Thompson's work and his worldly wisdom brought him affection and also on occasions envy and perhaps antagonism. I regret that he retired from this House immediately prior to the election at which I became a member of it. After 33 years of parliamentary service, he finally left the vocation which he loved and in which he had served so well. As - one who was a constituent for a large number of years and as the son of one of his friends, I pay this personal tribute to bis memory. </para>
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<para>- <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Speaker,</inline> I also wish to offer a tribute to the late <inline font-weight="bold">Mr.</inline> Thompson, not as a fellow member of the same party, but as one who had the privilege of working with him on a parliamentary committee. The Leader of the Opposition <inline font-weight="bold">(Mr. Calwell)</inline> referred to <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Thompson's</inline> outstanding service on the Public Accounts Committee. My remarks will be related to that service. <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Thompson's</inline> voice was a strong one indeed in this chamber, not only in its tremendous volume, which none of us will ever forget, but in the intensity with which he was glad to raise it in the interests of the parliamentary institution. Because of his service on the Public Accounts Committee, when that Committee presented to the Parliament its 66th report, just after <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Thompson</inline> retired from the service of the House, it said - </para>
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<para>Albert Victor Thompson was a dedicated member of the Committee. He advocated constantly the value of its work in respect of the preservation of the rights of Parliament. As a foundation Committee member, from 25th September 1952, he continued to serve until his retirement from the House of Representatives at the end of the Twenty-fourth Parliament. He was appointed Vict-Chairman on 22nd March 1956- </para>
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<para class="block">He continued in that position until the time of his retirement - and in this capacity contributed distinguished and valuable leadership. </para>
<para class="block">On behalf of the many senators and members who were associated with this parliamentary colleague, who sat with him as a member of the important Accounts Committee, I am happy indeed to pay these few words of tribute and to associate myself with the Prime Minister <inline font-weight="bold">(Mr. Harold Holt)</inline> and other leaders in our genuine expressions of sympathy. </para>
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<para>- I wish to associate myself with the motion which is before the House and which pays a wonderful tribute to Bert Thompson who came into the Parliament at the same general election as myself. Bert Thompson was a sincere and genuine parliamentarian. I could not think of Bert in any other field of employment or in other field of activity. He seemed to me to be what I would call the perfect parliamentarian in his attitudes to his comrades in this place, in his electoral work, in his intense regard for detail and in his complete sincerity in all he did. Above all, he was a sincere Christian. I feel that this place is always improved by men of his calibre who come with his beliefs and basic faith to a Parliament with all its problems, its challenges and its tests of character. </para>
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<para>Bert Thompson was a genius for detail. It may not be known to all honorable members, that when he drove his motor car most weeks between Adelaide and Canberra he kept a detailed record <inline font-style="italic">of</inline> his petrol consumption on each trip. He recorded even changes of tyres. This is an interesting facet of his life and it was symbolic of the way he regarded all his work. He did things to a pattern and with a purpose. I pay a tribute also to his amazing general knowledge. Have we ever had in this place a man, except perhaps Norman Makin, with such a wide general knowledge? He had great debating ability. I would have loved to hear him in the prime of his life on a street corner in those early days. I am sure he brought many people into the Australian Labour Party through the power of his personality and his message. He was a Whip's dream, if honorable members understand what I mean by that term. We often need men to fill gaps in debating lists for one reason or another. We need men to fill breaches in debate. On every occasion I went to Bert Thompson, even if I gave him only five minutes' notice, he was ready to go into the debate. Not many men can do this, but Bert Thompson was one who could. Although thrown into debates at a moment's notice he would always make a forceful and colourful contribution. </para>
<para>We will always remember his speeches in this place, perhaps not so much for the fact that we could always hear him but because they contained so many interesting personal anecdotes and experiences. His speeches, as recorded in " Hansard ", read like his autobiography. In his speeches his personal life was unfolded and his interviews and discussions wilh people were brought into the debate. I believe that no contribution to a debate by any person contained so many personal stories as did <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Thompson's</inline> speeches in this chamber. I pay a great tribute to him as a genuine and sincere parliamentarian and as a loyal colleague and a' loyal member of this Party. As has been said by the Leader of the Opposition <inline font-weight="bold">(Mr. Calwell),</inline> Bert came up the rough and hard way, but he never lost the common touch; he never lost his humanity and he never lost his faith. I pay tribute to his wife and family and trust that in their bereavement they will be sustained by the knowledge of what we in this Parliament think of him. </para>
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<para>- Very briefly I wish to be associated with this tribute to the late <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. A.</inline> V. Thompson. I was in this House for the whole period that he was here and I was proud to regard him as my friend. I believe he regarded me as his friend. We often followed each other in debate and I always appreciated the attitude he took. There was nothing fiery so far as party was concerned, but he would always put his case in a fiery way. He was very definite in what he said, but that did not interfere in any way with his friendship. As the Leader of the Opposition <inline font-weight="bold">(Mr. Calwell)</inline> said, he was a preacher. He not only preached but also practised the principles for which he stood, irrespective of circumstances. He was a man whom I regarded as being of the highest integrity. I join with other honorable members in expressing sympathy with <inline font-weight="bold">Mrs. Thompson</inline> and her family. </para>
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<para>- <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Speaker,</inline> I suggest that as a mark of respect to the deceased gentlemen the sitting be suspended until 8 o'clock. </para>
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<para>- I feel sure that the suggestion made by the Prime Minister meets with the concurrence of the House. As a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased gentlemen the sitting is suspended until 8 p.m. </para>
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<para class="block">Sitting suspended from 4.12 to 8 p.m. </para>
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<inline font-weight="bold">Mr. LUCHETTI</inline>presented a petition from certain citizens of the Commonwealth praying that action be taken, through Constitution alteration referendum proposals, to give the Commonwealth power to make laws for the advancement of the Aboriginal people and prevent the making of laws which would discriminate against any person born or naturalised in Australia. </para>
<para>Petition received and read. </para>
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<inline font-weight="bold">Mr. COCKLE</inline>presented a petition from certain citizens of the Commonwealth praying that the Commonwealth Government co-operate with the State Government of New South Wales in sparing the Customs House Building, Circular Quay, from possible demolition and to undertake its conversion into a national maritime museum. </para>
<para>Petition received and read. </para>
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<inline font-weight="bold">Mr. REYNOLDS</inline>presented a petition from certain citizens of New South Wales praying that the Australian Government accept responsibility for the erosion and siltation along the foreshores of Botany Bay, carry out repairs and works for prevention of further damage and, in the meantime, consider no further dredging in the Bay. </para>
<para>Petition received and read. </para>
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<para>- I direct a question to the Minister for the Army. Was Gunner O'Neill, a member of 105 Field Battery, Royal Australian Artillery, handcuffed to a star picket in a weapon pit for 20 days? Is this treatment contrary to the rules for field punishment? If so, what action is being taken against the officer responsible for ordering such punishment? </para>
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<para>- All the relevant information relating to this matter has not yet reached Australia from our Command in South Vietnam. The court martial that arose as a result of Gunner O'Neill's refusal to obey commands occurred last week and messages have been sent forward so that the full proceedings will arrive in Australia as soon as possible. I ask honorable members to bear in mind the circumstances of the theatre of operations. It is not easy, from the ease of security of Australia, to appreciate the situation in Vietnam. </para>
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<para>- What rot. </para>
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<para>- The honorable member may wish to visit Vietnam to see for himself. There is one point that I should like to emphasise. The original charge against Gunner O'Neill was that of being absent without leave when he was rostered for operational guard duty. This is regarded as a most serious offence. When he was discovered after this particular incident he opted, after discussions with his Commanding Officer, to take the C.O.'s punishment instead of insisting on a court martial for that offence. The C.O.'s award involved field punishment for 21 days. This required the soldier to wear field uniform instead of his being able to go around more lightly clad. It involved also the loss of privileges, such as that of using the canteens, during this time. It also involved half an hour each day either cleaning' out the storm drains or drilling. Gunner O'Neill refused to undertake this field punishment, though he had opted to take the field punishment instead of being - court martialled for his initial extremely serious offence of absence without leave from operational guard duty. The full proceedings of the court martial will arrive in Australia as soon as possible, and the matter will be fully examined then. Until this incident there had been no cause for our battalion in Vietnam to need a normal place of detention. This incident has demonstrated the need for it and instructions have already been issued so that suitable facilities may be provided for detention purposes. I think that is all I should say at this stage, having regard to the fact that full information about this matter has not yet reached Australia. </para>
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<para>- I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Works a question. Has the Government conveyed to the Maritime Services Board of New South Wales and the Rockdale Municipal Council its attitude on the erosion of the foreshores of Botany Bay? If the Government's attitude has been made known, will the Minister inform the House of the details? If the Government's attitude has not been made known, when may we expect details? </para>
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<para>- My colleague in another place has informed me that the Government has written to the Rockdale Municipal Council denying liability for the erosion referred to. At the same time the Government has offered the Council $5,000 for certain protective work- </para>
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<para>- Fair go. 1 </para>
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<para>- If the honorable member will exhibit a little patience I will explain what the Government proposes to do. It has offered the Rockdale Municipal Council 15,000 to carry out certain protective work at a certain place on the foreshores. The Government also has written to the Maritime Services Board of New South Wales denying liability and offering to carry out protective work at another point on the foreshores. Further, the Government has suggested that representatives of the Rockdale Municipal Council, the. Maritime Services Board and the Department of Works consult together with a view to carrying out further protective work. </para>
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<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>16</page.no>
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<title>POVERTY IN AUSTRALIA</title>
<page.no>16</page.no>
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<page.no>16</page.no>
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<electorate>ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA</electorate>
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<name role="metadata">SEXTON, Joseph</name>
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<para>- I. ask the Minister for Social Services a question. Has any survey on poverty in Australia been made by officers of the Department of Social Services? If so, has any report been submitted to the Department? Will the Minister release to the Parliament the contents' of any such report after it has been considered by his Department? </para>
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<page.no>16</page.no>
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<electorate>NEW ENGLAND, NEW SOUTH WALES</electorate>
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<role>Minister for Social Services</role>
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<name role="metadata">SINCLAIR, Ian</name>
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<para>- In the last few months considerable Press publicity has been given to statements by members of the Opposition claiming that poverty exists in the Australian community. The provisions of the Social Services Act are determined in such a way as to relieve every member of the Australian community from the position of being in economic want. The range of social service benefits enables all people who' are in a position of acute economic need to be provided f ot by the State. Prior to the budgetary deliberations each year the Department of Social Services reviews the whole field of benefits payable by the Government. It investigates the needs of bene,ficiaries receiving benefits and those people who might become eligible for benefits. In making its recommendations the Department takes all relevant factors into account. On this basis the Government then determines what percentage of the national Budget should be allocated to the National' Welfare Fund and, in particular,'- to social services. </para>
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<para>I understand that the Institute of Applied Economics of the University, of Melbourne is currently making a survey of the economic conditions of some members of the community residing in the inner City of Melbourne. I do not know whether a Government department would be the suitable body to make such a survey, but I feel that this type of survey is more suited to an academic institution, where studies may be made in an academic fashion, removed from the active field of politics enabling an accurate assessment of the situation to be made. I feel that any detailed survey of poverty, if such a condition exists in the Australian community, should be made through an academic institution. The Government regularly examines the position of those who are in need but not in such a way that the results of the examination would be suitable for release to the members pf this. House or to the Australian public. </para>
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<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>16</page.no>
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<title>WEIGHTS AND MEASURES</title>
<page.no>16</page.no>
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