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Hansard
- Start of Business
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QUESTION
- DAIRYING INDUSTRY
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QUESTION
- TRACTOR BOUNTY
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QUESTION
- TELEVISION
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QUESTION
- FILLED MILK
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QUESTION
- WEST NEW GUINEA: FORMOSA
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QUESTION
- CONSTITUTION REVIEW COMMITTEE
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QUESTION
- AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING COMMISSION PREMISES, ADELAIDE
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QUESTION
- SHIPPING
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QUESTION
- GARDEN ISLAND DOCKYARD
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QUESTION
- NORTHERN TERRITORY
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QUESTION
- SNOWY MOUNTAINS SCHEME
- QUESTION
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QUESTION
- LEAD AND ZINC
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QUESTION
- ARMED FORCES
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QUESTION
- BRITISH IMMIGRANTS
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QUESTION
- COMMONWEALTH MOTOR VEHICLES
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QUESTION
- MARGARINE
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QUESTION
- HIRE PURCHASE
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QUESTION
- DAIRYING INDUSTRY
- QUESTION
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QUESTION
- HIRE PURCHASE
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QUESTION
- CULTURED PEARLS
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QUESTION
- HOMES FOR THE AGED
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QUESTION
- SUPPLEMENTARY RENT PENSIONS
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QUESTION
- BUTTER
- AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CONTROL BOARD
- COCOS (KEELING) ISLANDS BILL 1958
- NATIONAL HEALTH BILL 1958
- SOCIAL SERVICES BILL 1958
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ESTIMATES 1958 59
- Miscellaneous Services
- Refunds of Revenue
- Bounties and Subsidies
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War and Repatriation Services
- HARRISON, Eli
- CLEAVER, Richard
- ADERMANN, Charles
- WEBB, Charles
- MCCOLM, Malcolm
- STEWART, Francis
- FREETH, Gordon
- DRUMMOND, David
- TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN, The
- DALY, Fred
- BATE, Henry
- CHAIRMAN, The
- GALVIN, Patrick
- MAKIN, Norman
- BUCHANAN, Alexander
- FRASER, Jim
- ASTON, William
- CURTIN, Daniel
- BOWDEN, George
- Division
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TARIFF PROPOSALS 1958
- Customs Tariff Amendment (No. 6); Customs Tariff (Canadian Preference) Amendment (No. 3); Customs Tariff (New Zealand Preference) Amendment (No. 3); Excise Tariff Amendment (No. 2)
- In Committee of Ways and Means:
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THE SCHEDULE
- Customs Tariff 1933-1958;
- Customs Tariff (Canadian Preference) 1934-1958;
- Customs Tariff (New Zealand Preference) 1933-1958; and
- Excise Tariff 1921-1958
- TARIFF BOARD
- ESTIMATES 1958-59
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PART 2.- BUSINESS UNDERTAKINGS
- Commonwealth Railways
- Proposed Vote, £3,993,000
- Postmaster-General's Department
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Proposed Vote, £98,067,000
- JOHNSON, Leslie
- LAWRENCE, William
- WHEELER, Roy
- LUCHETTI, Anthony
- DAVIS, Francis
- DUTHIE, Gilbert
- TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN, The
- SNEDDEN, Billy
- FRASER, Allan
- HAWORTH, William
- FRASER, Jim
- FORBES, Alexander
- CALWELL, Arthur
- BOWDEN, George
- HOLT, Harold
- POLLARD, Reginald
- FRASER, Malcolm
- COSTA, Dominic
- MCMAHON, William
- Division
- Bowden.) Ayes . . . . . . 49
- Noes . . . . . . 28
- Majority
- Northern Territory
- Australian Capital Territory
- Norfolk Island
- Papua and New Guinea
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- Department of Health
- Ayes Noes
- Majority
- Loan Consolidation and Investment Reserve
- In Committee of Ways and Means:
- Estimates
- Loan Consolidation and Investment Reserve
- Ordered -
- APPROPRIATION BILL 1958-59
- ESTIMATES 1958-59
- APPROPRIATION (WORKS AND SERVICES) BILL 1958-59
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ADJOURNMENT
- Retirement of Treasurer
- Friday, 12th September 1958
- ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
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Mr ROBERTON (Riverina) (Minister for Social Services)
\\2midnight]. - I speak for the leader of the Australian Country party (Mr. McEwen), who, unfortunately, is absent on Government business abroad. I speak also for the deputy leader of the Australian Country party (Mr.
Davidson), who, too, has found it impossible to be. here, I speak- for every member of the Australian Country party, and if what I have to say is tinged with sadness, it is because this is the last occasion when the Treasurer (Sir Arthur Fadden) will appear in this House as the Treasurer.
Those of us who have been privileged to be closely associated with him have for him admiration and affection in greater measure perhaps than any one else. I, myself, have known the right honorable gentleman for more than a quarter of a century. Any number of people, in our country know the Treasurer, as a man who has had to face up to grave responsibilities, particularly during these last ten years, but we are inclined to forget his early political history.
In that connexion, Mr. Speaker, I crave the indulgence of the House to recall a time when1 the right honorable gentleman was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. The Speaker of the House, having called members from either side, as is the custom, interrupted the debate, stood in his place and, addressing the members, said, " I am going to say now what I believe has never been said before in any legislature in the British Commonwealth. The last three speeches, I believe, are the finest I have ever heard in this House. I feel so very deeply about it that I grasp this opportunity to express this opinion to the chamber about them." Then he called the next speaker. Of the three speakers to whom he was referring, if my memory serves me aright, one was a gentleman named Randolph Bedford, a most colourful character of the Queensland Parliament. The second was a gentleman called James Garfield Bayley, who was to become a member of this chamber. The third was Arthur William Fadden. So there was a time, Mr. Speaker, when the right honorable gentleman could rise to great heights of oratory, and if that time has passed, it is probably due entirely to the onerous duties he has had to bear, the difficult tasks he has had to do, and the responsibilities he has had to undertake when he led the Australian Country party in this composite Government.
I express the views of every member of the party when I say that we know our leader as a man who has played the game of life according to the rules. If he has ever found the rules irksome, he has pressed against them, but he has discharged hi9 duties as a man, as a private citizen, as a public figure and as a very distinguished servant of our country.
