NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL DROPPED
Australian Cabinet Crisis Averted MINISTERS’ THREATENED RESIGNATION By Telegraph.—Press Assn.— Copyright. (Received Dec. 8, 11.30 p.m.) CANBERRA, Dec. 8. The Federal Cabinet today decided to drop the National insurance Bill, which required contributions to begin next May, and to delay the proclamation of the original Act till probably May or June of next year.
This decision, says the "Sun s Canberra correspondent, solves the problem of the threatened resignation of the Attorney-General, Mr. Menzies, and the Treasurer, Mr. Casev.
Differences over the fate of the .Bill had placed the Government in tlie position of facing the most serious crisis since it was elected to office. The only alternative to abandoning the Bill appeared to be the adoption of a course in the House of Representatives which might have lead to the defeat of the Government on an issue sufficiently vital to force an election—the question of lhe exemption of lhe rural industries from the insurance scheme.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 65, 9 December 1938, Page 11
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