AUSTRALIAN AIR LINES BILL
INTRODUCTION DURING WAR CONDEMNED (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) CANBERRA, July 20. “The Government’s Air Lines legislation is a Bill for straight-out nationalisation,” said the Leader of the Federal Opposition (Mr R. G. Menzics) in an interview. “It will be interesting to see how the Government can reconcile this bill with the express promise given by the late Mr Curtin during the last election that the Government would not nationalise any industry during the war. The bill is being introduced during a war while the attention of thousands of citizens is fully occupied by urgent problems of national safety. “This legislation is purely post-war in character and represents an indecent attempt to give effect to a portion of Labour’s domestic policy in the course of a Parliament which was elected by the people for the sole purpose of hastening the defeat of Germany and Japan.”
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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24624, 21 July 1945, Page 7
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