ANTI-COMMUNIST BILL
RE SUBMISSION IN CANBERRA
CANBERRA, September 16. The Federal Government has decided to push the Communist Party Dissolution Bill through the House of Representatives in the first week of its next sitting, which will begin on September 27. The Government will accent no amendments and will force the bill through all stages in time tor the opening of the Senate on October 4. If the Senate seeks to amend the bill, as it did last session, the Government may request the dissolution of both Houses and a new election. The Prime Minister (Mr Menzies) said: “The bill will be reintroduced in the precise form in which it last left the House of Representatives."
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26220, 18 September 1950, Page 7
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