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42 DEFENCE FORCE JOURNAL No. 75 March/April 89Notes4. Michael Mornssey and Colleen Mitchell, "Summary otFindings — By Ethnicity", Females and Ethnic1. J.P. Robinson and R. Meadow, "Polls Apart", as Minorities: Attitudes to Defence, University ofquoted in D. Collins, Altitudes Towards Defence Issues Wollongong Centre for Multicultural Studies,— Experiments on Question Form, Frank Smalls and September 1988.Associates, 1988. 5. ANOP, op. at., p. 51.. _ . , . „ , ,, ,. r, ,, ,-, u 6. Morrissev and Mitchell, op. cit., "Findings — Total2. David Campbel, Australian Public Opinion on No- s , Information Sources and Needs".tional Security Issues, Working Paper No. 1, Peace 7 ANOp d[ p 34Research Centre, ANU, 1986, p. 11. g; Frank ^ma „ s and Associates, op_ ciL3. ANOP Research Services Pty. Ltd. Public Attitudes to 9. ANOP, op. cit., p. 39.Defence, 1987, p. 45. 10. General P. Gration, The Australian, 1 October, 1988.The Public Opinion polls referred to thoughout this article are both recent studies commissioned by the Directorate ofPublic Relations. The first was through Australian National Opinion Polls (ANOP). It was designed to;(1) monitor trends from two previous ANOP surveys (1980 and 1984), and to(2) explore public attitudes to Defence issues in greater depth and monitor the image of, and attitudes to, Defence Forceemployment.The second survey was carried out by the Centre for Multicultural Studies at the University of Wollongong. This researchwas intended to investigate the attitudes towards, and knowledge levels about, the ADF, of two groups of people: Namely,women of all ethnicities and migrants of non-English speakling background (NESB). The University of Wollongong surveyused three variables to test the groups surveyed. These were; ethnic background, gender and level of education.Lisa Keen completed an Honours degree in Politics and History in 1986. She joined theDepartment of Defence as a Graduate Administrative Assistant and has worked in Marketingand the Office of Defence Production. Lisa is currently working as a Research Officer forDefence Public Relations.SUCCESS FOR FAMILY INFORMATION NETWORKMore than 1000 Defence families and personnel have called the new Family InformationNetwork for Defence (FIND) service in its first two weeks of operation.The Minister for Defence Science and Personnel Ros Kelly officially launchedthe 008 telephone service for Defence families in March.She said the response rate was a clear indication of the success of the FINDinitiative."FIND is available to every Service person and family to make sure they are informedof the changing areas of service conditions and family entitlements."The number of people who have already made use of FIND demonstrates thatit is meeting a need in helping break down the feeling of isolation sometimes experiencedby Service families."Mrs Kelly said it was essential that families were aware of the range ofallowances and the help available, particularly when they were in areas or cities unfamiliarto them."No question is too trivial. FIND is confidential and callers can remainanonymous."FIND operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Operators are available between9am and 4pm on working days and messages may be left after hours."Defence families can contact FIND by phoning (008) 02 0031 Australia wide,or 57 2444 for Canberra callers," Mrs Kelly said.
The Rt Hon Sir George Foster Pearce (1870-1952)Trials and Triumphs of an Australian Defence MinisterBy Major Warren Perry, RLIntroductory RemarksIT is our business tonight to commemoratethe centenary of the birth of Senator Pearce 1and to do this by examining a few of hisachievements, as Minister of State for Defencein the Commonwealth of Australia, and topaint, by way of conclusion, some kind of wordpicture of his personality.Any discussion of Australia's defence historysince Federation would be incomplete if it failedto mention, and to mention often, the nameof Senator Pearce. Yet today his part in makingthis history does not seem to be widely knownin any detail. Indeed he may be himself partlyto blame for this situation for in discharging hisministerial duties in the Department of Defencehe does not seem to have considered anythingbeyond the demands of good day to day publicadministration and he certainly did nothing toseek publicity for himself. He kept no privatediaries; he kept no personal papers in anysystematic way; and so what he bequeathed toposterity in the way of personal records of hispublic life were disappointing quantitatively.George Foster Pearce was born in humblecircumstances on the 14 January 1870 at MountBarker in South Australia. It was later in thatyear that the British Government withdrew thelast detachments of its troops from duty inAustralia. 2 Pearce was 11 years old when he leftschool to become at first a farm labourer andlater an apprentice carpenter; he was 31 yearsold when the Commonwealth of Australia wasinaugurated in 1901; he was 44 years of agewhen, in August 1914, the War of 1914-18began and he became, in the following month,Minister for Defence; and in his 69th year heleft, for the last time in June 1938, the Parliamentof the Commonwealth of Australia in theSenate of which he had sat continuously as anoriginal member since 1901.Pearce's political career, although a successfulone in terms of tenure and achievementsas a cabinet minister, was one of sustained conflictin a political environment of friction, provocationand hostility. He knew the hisses ofthe ill-informed crowd; he endured the intoleranceand rancour of political opponents;he felt the private silence of former politicalfriends; and he long knew well the truth of theGerman proverb that "Ingratitude is thereward of the world". A weaker and less practicalman than Pearce would have sunk underthe load of undeserved unpopularity andunmerited abuse that he had to bear throughouthis long ministerial career; but especially duringthe War of 1914-18, when he crossed the floorof the Senate. Indeed, there were few contemporarieswhose public work was more persistentlymisinterpreted, more bitterly assailedor more ignorantly judged than that of SenatorPearce. But like President Truman later,Senator Pearce withstood "the heat in the kitchen"and survived politically until the electionsof 1937.Although in his post-war parliamentarycareer Senator Pearce was Minister for Homeand Territories on one occasion and on a laterone Minister for External Affairs and Territories,he is more widely remembered probablyfor his work, as Minister for Defence,which occupied the greater part of hisministerial career. We will be concerned,therefore, solely with his work as a ministerialhead in administering the Department ofDefence. We will not be concerned with his activitieswithin the political parties to which hebelonged; and we will be concerned very littlewith his activities on the government and oppositionbenches in Parliament.Mr John Merrit of Western Australia said in1963, in his unpublished thesis, George FosterPearce: Labour Leader, that: "No attempt hasbeen made to study in detail Pearce the administrator."In December of that year,however, an important paper was published entitled"Sir George Pearce as Administrator" bySir Peter Heydon' of Canberra who had beenSenator Pearce's private secretary duringPearce's last year or so as a minister in 1936-37.I propose, therefore, to proceed to an examinationof six major areas of Senator
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