FEDERAL REFERENDUM
TO BE POSTPONED UNTIL AFTER
THE WAR
STATEMENT BY MR. HUGHES.
(Bj> Telegraph.-Press Association.—Copyright.)
(Received November 5| 8.50 a.m.)
MELBOURNE, This Day
• In the Federal House of Representatives, after suspension of business by both Houses to permit of a caucus meeting, Mr. Hughes (the Prime Minister) announced that in accordance with an agreement with the State Premiers, the Labour Party had decided to postpone the referendum until after the Avar. He explained that the Stats Premiers would bring forward in their respective Parliaments legislation providing for reference during the war and the first year of peace, to the Commonwealth Parliament of the powers sought in the proposed referendum, subject to certain limitations.
The Premiers at a later date would consider what powers the States would be willing to permanently surrender. With a view to removing any doubt as io the power of the States to refer these matters to the Commonwealth for a limited time, an Act of the < Imperial Parliament would be sought. Mr., Hughes added that since they had been^ able to get these powers during the Avar in another way than by referendum, they would feel they had done right in accepting the oiler of the State Premiers.
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 110, 5 November 1915, Page 8
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