DEMOCRACY’S FALL
DEGENERACY AND CORRUPTION. AUSTR‘ALIAN’S GONDiE-MNATION.' NEW GOVERNMENTAL “SYSTEM URGED. United Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) . - MELBOURNE, This Day. Describing the present parliamentary government as carried on by “a. lot of nonldeseripts pulling the strings in the background,” Mr C. J. Gerutty (a. former Commonwealth Auditor-General) suggested a new system of Government, his idea, being that judges of the High Court and Supreme Court be empowered to appoint a Government of Australia, this to comprise 20 wellpztid members drawn from all sections of the people. . Mr Cerutty also suggested that the the State political boundaries be abol—is'hed. Mr Cerutty added: “Although democracy was conceived on a. high {plane theoretically, it has descended in practice to such depths of degeneracy and corruption that some change seems bound to come.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 209, 17 June 1936, Page 5
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