POST-WAR POWERS
DR. EVATT WANTS INCREASE^
SYDNEY, September 10. - Unless additional powers were conferred on the one Parliament which, ! represented all Australia, the country would never become a great nation, sa'id the Attorney-General, Dr. H. V. ~ - Evatt, today. He added'that he would : recommend to.Cabinet, that there ~ should be.as little delay.as possible in .' referring the question to the people. Dissentient State Governments in his - judgment did not represent the opin- : ions of their own citizens. ' ,-•'.■''
"The success pf post-war reconstruction depends on whether the task can , be carried out by six State Legislatures, with six different policies, or . whether it does not require • action , under plans laid down by a national Parliament," he said. "After the war, when the power conferred by the Na- / tional Security Act is exhausted, the Australian Parliament will have no direct authority even to provide employment and prevent unemployment."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 63, 11 September 1943, Page 5
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