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Women's Employment Bill Passed In Canberra OPPOSITION MOVE FAILS Rec. 1 p.m. CANBERRA, this day. The Women's Employment Bill, which is almost identical in substance with that previously rejected passed all stages of the Senate yesterday The Opposition tried unsuccessfully to secure amendments, but divisions on three were even, and so were resolved in the negative in accordance with constitutional practice. The fourth amendment was defeated by two votes. The bill was finally passed on the voices. A double dissolution of the Australian Parliament, the House of Representatives and the Senate, was threatened if the Senate had refused to agree to the bill to encourage and regulate the war industrial employment of women. This was revealed by a newly-gazetted regulation covering the operations of the Women's Employment Board, which was abolished in the third week in September when the Senate disallowed the regulations under which it was constituted. The newest regulations were deliberately framed in the wording of a section of the constitution, which contains provision for a double dissolution.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 234, 3 October 1942, Page 5
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