THE LABOUR PARTIES RESPONSIBILITIES.
A BITTER CRITICISM OF THE DEFEATED MINISTRY. SYDNEY, April 23. State politicians regard the situation is such as to clear the atmosphere. Tlie Labour Party can no longer rely on its shibboleth support for concessions granted, but as a Government would have to come out in the open and accept the responsibility it had always shirked. The new keynote in labour circles is, however, "Vjjhat they have done, why may we not do?" The "Herald" says that Mr Deakin is entitled to no credit for taking the stand he did. His own policy led him into a pitfall of his own making. Sir John Forrest not only made known the precise relations in which the Ministers and the Labour Party stood to each other, but abundantly confirmed all that the critics of the Federal Ministers during the past three years of disappointment have charged against them. It cannot be said that the Commonwealth parts with its first Federal Ministers with any sentiment of regret.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 11876, 25 April 1904, Page 7
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