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Hansard
- Start of Business
- SOCIAL SERVICE BENEFITS
- QUESTION
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QUESTION
- COAL
- QUESTION
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QUESTION
- NATIONAL SERVICE
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QUESTION
- IRON ORE
- QUESTION
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QUESTION
- TELEVISION
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QUESTION
- RETIRING AGE
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QUESTION
- TELEVISION
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QUESTION
- LIQUID FUEL FROM COAL
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QUESTION
- LAUNCESTON POST OFFICE
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QUESTION
- PROCESSED MILK PRODUCTS
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QUESTION
- TELEVISION LICENCES
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QUESTION
- NATURALIZATION
- QUESTION
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QUESTION
- RADIO AND TELEVISION LICENCEFEES
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QUESTION
- LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE
- QUESTION
- QUESTION
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QUESTION
- RADIO-ACTIVITY
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QUESTION
- GARDEN ISLAND DOCKYARD
- GOVERNMENT BUSINESS
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ESTIMATES 1958-59
- Department of Labour and National Service
- Department of National Development
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
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Australian Atomic Energy Commission
- WHEELER, Roy
- ADERMANN, Charles
- CHAIRMAN, The
- CREAN, Frank
- HOWSON, Peter
- WEBB, Charles
- ALLAN, Archibald
- LUCOCK, Philip
- LUCHETTI, Anthony
- TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN, The
- BARWICK, Garfield
- KEARNEY, Victor
- ANDERSON, Charles
- CAIRNS, Jim
- BOWDEN, George
- BATE, Henry
- DALY, Fred
- HOLT, Harold
- CLAREY, Percy
- KILLEN, James
- WHITLAM, Gough
- SNEDDEN, Billy
- BARNARD, Lance
- Department of Defence
- Proposed Vote, £1,088,000
- Proposed Vote, £42,401,000
- Proposed Vote, £63,512,000
- Department of Air
- Proposed Vote, £59,302,000
- Department of Supply
- Proposed Vote, £21,757,000
- Other Services
- Thursday, 11 September 1958
- ADJOURNMENT
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ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
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Nuclear Bomb Tests
(WARD, Edward, MENZIES, Robert) -
National Service
(DALY, Fred, MCBRIDE, Philip) -
Overseas Consular Services
(WARD, Edward, MCBRIDE, Philip) -
Wheat
(WARD, Edward, MCMAHON, William) -
Maldive Islands Airfield
(SWARTZ, Reginald, OSBORNE, Frederick) -
Therapeutic Substances Advisory Committee
(WHITLAM, Gough, CAMERON, Donald Alastair) -
War Service Homes
(STEWART, Francis, ROBERTON, Hugh) -
Postal Department
(WARD, Edward, DAVIDSON, Charles) -
Telephone Services
(WHITLAM, Gough, WEBB, Charles, DAVIDSON, Charles) -
Australian Military Forces
(WARD, Edward, CRAMER, John) -
Army Personnel Removal Expenses
(BRYANT, Gordon, CRAMER, John)
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Nuclear Bomb Tests
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Mr DAVIDSON
- The granting of concessional rates in respect of television licence-fees is a matter which is determined by a particular section of the Broadcasting and Television Act. Speaking from memory, I think it is provided that licences may be granted free to certain persons, such as blind persons over the age of sixteen years, and to schools, and that reduced rates are payable by certain classes of age and invalid pensioners. It is not competent for the department to go beyond that in the granting of concessional rates for television or broadcasting licences; but I inform the honorable member for Henty that in certain cases where a hall has been used solely or largely by age pensioners who come within the provisions of the exemption, the department has been prepared to grant a concession. From the form of the question, I do not know whether the honorable member's suggestion comes within that category, but I shall be glad to have a further look at it to see whether it does. The question of extending concessions for broadcasting, and more recently television, licences, has received a great deal of attention over a period of years from various bodies, and on each occasion it has been decided that it would be unwise to extend the scope of the concessions.
