LEGISLATIVE COUNCILS
USEFULNESS IN REVISION
(From "The Post's" Representative.) SYDNEY, 6th December. Tho Labour Party, as part no doubt of its propaganda for the abolition of tho Upper House, "would have the peoplo believe that tho nominee Legislative Council of New South Wii'es is for tho most part simply the bu...-ark of plutocracy, and exists merely to do the servile bidding of those who are opposed to Labour. The fact, however, that Government supporters in that Chamber have given the Ministry's Taxation Bill a severe body blow, and forced the Government to reconsider the measure, seems to suggest, as has been illustrated on other occasions, that the Legislative Council is not quite so partisan as Labour would have the country believe. It has certainly justified once again its usefulness as a Chamber of revision. Iv general calibre and in debating strength, the Legislative Council of Now South Wales is far superior to the lower elective House. / A nominee Upper House is noI'doubt, in principle, out of keeping with the spirit of modern democracy, but^ taking tho mediocre Legislative Assembly as a basis, it; is very doubtful if the electors, in tho exercise of the franchise, could improve upon tho personnel of tho Legislative Council in this State to-day. _^___^__^^_
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 141, 18 December 1928, Page 8
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208LEGISLATIVE COUNCILS Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 141, 18 December 1928, Page 8
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