VICTORIAN POLITICS
THE COUNTRY PARTY
CONFERENCE BROKEN UP
MELBOUENE, March 29,
Victorian politics took an unexpected turn at the annual conference of the Country Party at Ballarat tonight.
The central council of the party ruled last % year that.no Victorian Country Party member of Parliament may jqin a composite-Ministry with another party. This led to the formation of the present Country Party State 'Government, held in office with the Parliamentary support of Labour.
The subject, which has been a burning topic among moderates who object to the party's association with Labour, was brought to a head some months ago by the expulsion from the party of Mr. J. McEwen, the Victorian member of the Federal Parliament who joined Mr. J.A. Lyons's composite Ministry.
Tonight during a discussion; of Mr. McEwen's expulsion at the Ballarat conference, Mr. T. Paterson, the Victorian Federal member who last year refused to obey the instruction of- the central council of the party to resign from the Lyons Ministry, tendered his resignation from the party and left the conference, followed by 200 members, breaking upt;the meeting.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 75, 30 March 1938, Page 11
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