AUSTRALIAN HIGH COURT
(Rec. 7.30 p.m.) BRISBANE, August 25. ‘'Organise to destroy the Chifley Socialist Government before it destroys you,” said the Federal Leader of the Country Party (Mr A. W. Fadden) in a broadcast address on the Government’s decision to nationalise trading banks. The choice before Australians, he said, was personal freedom or State control. The High Court which had blocked the Government on the Banking Act was the last rampart of democracy in Australia. There was no symbol of national freedom in Australia to-day such as the Statue of Liberty in America. Perhaps it was just as well, as Mr Chifley’s version of lhe Statue of Liberty would be an Australian in a strait jacket, he said. “By every means within your power «ght this ‘bank grab’,” he concluded. “If you do not, your personal freedom will be at an end, and for all time you will be under the thumb of the Government.”
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25272, 26 August 1947, Page 5
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