PLAN FOR GOVERNING
How Australian Would Change System Sydney. June 17. Describing the present Parliament ary government as being carried on by “a lot of nondescripts pulling rhe strings in t.he background." Mr. C. J. Cerutty, former Commonwealth Audi-tor-General. suggested a new system of government, his idea being that judges of the High Court and the Supremo Court should be empowered to appoint the Government of Australia, this to comprise 20 well-paid members drawn from all sections of the people. He also suggested that State political boundaries he abolished.
•‘Although democracy was conceived on a high plane theoretically,” Mr Cerutty added, “it has descended in practice to such depths of degeneracy and corruption that some change seems hound to come.”
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 224, 18 June 1936, Page 9
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120PLAN FOR GOVERNING Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 224, 18 June 1936, Page 9
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