MOTION OF CENSURE
ON FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THE ABRAHAMS CASE Canberra, March 22. In the House of Representatives Mr. Brennan, on behalf of the Labour Party, gave notice of a motion of censure on the Government in connection with the Abrahams case. The motion reads: “That the action of the Government in participating in improper, unprincipled bargaining with self-confessed malefactors is. repugnant to right practice and not in’ harmony with the correct settled practice of a Government in the administration of criminal law.”. [Three brothers Abrahams, in Melbourne, admitted after an income tax raid that they had defrauded the State of immense sums by under-statement of their incomes. They compounded their guilt for the sum of half a million.] IMMEDIATE DISCUSSION (Rec. March 22, 9.30 p.m.) Canberra, March 22. Tn the House of Representatives Mr. Brennan moved the motion of censure of which he had given notice. Mr. Bruce regarded it so seriously that he moved to suspend the Standing Orders to allow its discussion to proceed immediately.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 149, 23 March 1928, Page 11
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167MOTION OF CENSURE Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 149, 23 March 1928, Page 11
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