POLITICS IN N.S.VV.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 24, 29 January 1926, Page 7

POLITICS IN N.S.VV.

MR. LANG AND UPPER HOUSE. REASON FOR ABOLITION. I J LIFE-LONG REACTIONARIES. iß.r CaWe.-rrees Ass.iclation.—CofyrlgitJ 'Received 12.30 p.m.i SYDNEY, this day. The Premier, J. T. T.anjr. rej iterating his intention to abolish the Legislative Council, says he is firmly convinced the people of »w South \\ales are anxious to remove the stigma ;of life nomineeism from the political I affairs of the State. Sonre of the present ! memlw?rs of the Council had been legislating for from ten to forty years. Mr. 1-anjr continued: "The (Joverniment-* which appoint-ed them have loner departed from the scene. Tens of I thousands of people whom they now sov;crn were cither tinhorn or just out of , pwaddlinjr clothes when some of them jwcre appointed. Vet these honourable !{rentlemen. many of whom are seldom j seen in the Houso. roll up at critical times and consistently vote out the progressive measures demanded by an enlightened generation which they neither iknow nor understand. It has been real- ', ised t'nat when there exists an Upper j House with power to throw out bills passed by the Representative House, it is the T'nper Chamber which really governs and not the Representative Chamber. When the Upper House is filled I with life nominees, people have no control over them whatever. At some periods of its history our nominee House [has acted as a Chamber of Revision, but since the present Government came into office, with a majority in the Assembly elected by a majority of electors, the nominees have taken a malicious delipht jin mutilating all its important policy J measures, and in trying to make Labour I legislation impossible. The position has become intolerable. The will of the people is beinsr deliberately and superciliously flouted by a handful of reactionary nominees who by virtue of their life appointment have felt they could do aa they liked." — (A. and N.Z. Cable.)