INFLATION PLAN IN AUSTRALIA.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20250, 30 May 1931, Page 20

INFLATION PLAN IN AUSTRALIA.

TASMANIA'S VpiDICT; A SIGNIFICANT ELECTION. (raou otm own cobbssfoscest.) SYDNEY, May 21. The outstanding event in politics this ' week has been the definite victory for the Nationalists at the Tasmanian Gen- / < «nii Elections—a victory even moro 1 pronounced than the Nationalists dared to hope for. As Tasmania was the first State to hold a General Election since political feeling became so bitter, great significance was attached to the polling 3sot Saturday, and the result has been acclaimed as a very decided warning ta-Mr Scullin jon the one hand and Mr lifng on theother, that, the majority of Autnlitni will- have, nothing to do with policies of inflation and repudiation. v., i ;■ s*l *» thay would, the campaigners wuH nptqluftinate federal z*wn<ipfa W»d it w*# very . ± aHnfl»tion vorsto sansl Aaautee.-- The'trader of the Tas'manian -l*l»oaf PRrter (Mr G. Ogilvio, K.C.) ¥(18g«d .himself Scullin and ; iscUwtid -that.ihjrissue |#.4dmsiny!;»'otes would save :Austra--3%. The Premier (Mr MePhee) exMnaioa fl, P9l|ey of fsaao finance,;with wjfuld the ~ rain oat* egpqomy in"the Public (jfervice, with reasonable relief for the, unemployed, and with assistance to et*. Sqbataatially,, the Premier's policy VU on the lines of that which has a&Ma advocated through all the States by Mr J. A. Lyons, not long ago Lead- - <BT of the, v Tasmanian Labour Party, „Premier of the State, and, to boot, a ' fritter opponent -of the followers of Mr . jMePfeee. : M . * Labour's defeat in Tasmania is interacting to .those who* have been seeking «MW$3 indicator of the possible" outcome . ■ 'twtafai there "are" five State electorates, ' witft.. *l*9 Jslpnd eonsti- \ tupMfe*.., "After the federal Election of f ?Upn»nl«Q was: Laife?'' 1 IjSJbex died and another Labour qftom.- '«> .v«(W ' fi» luw-t»pfl a' complete change of fwfe Ogfafcm, lyid were a, federal slec T aliaojt cej> \ a single repreuen. Wttve, JuTftnnfyaia of tho .Voting in- . IWyS as to "whether being, dropped in influential '' yedflral Govr - willing tp drop . for inflate and oa the suggastion foe an in- -* "ftffiUll IWLPf 'ilSfiOQftto. Mr "Scullin ' SfW*? jf*Ri it 11«'probably'mere 4 ■ wi he 'must see firiadl la. Ho wing. Tas- . .. ap«w«. is. definite and the East ' verdict cannot be • i aSPft^l'"'' Moreover th& Federal Theodore) has been spyWSff [Wat- thalajod in five of the States u&M Ji& reception has been far from lMwtoi»-ja any of them, it*is tmttwWJf that be baa gives the Prime Mm- ■ i jmwwragiilg- repori The ter4hmg,.*re going, the Government fwpdß a y«y good, chance of being depurpose- *ia fhty IW. Wry, on until the Elections next IWWi Mr fioyDin anrviiod tho first ph(dlffi>!ge Sawed to bim by the new tttbtar TJnUedf Patty two votes, cmd even the ciosurc in ordor Str.-Lyons, therefore, justified when he. n is on to'* thread. Mr Lyone 1 eenvinced that if< ral Election to-day 1 tent "would be wiped Conference, at the end of last <J>9rDlie'Hng dierather'late that he rejected a lq -at the Ae.nrpnos&t'pa.thatj. * f'4l& < iers do sot seem to iltefas can LsUivi/aome time, rith "the Ministry/ igflliribility , for- oniwdfi'endorsed ,■ by; l ,;C|ir)ttio(jii l ently l ,..H !|