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PRESENT TENDENCY CONDEMNED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. ADELAIDE, January 28. (Received January 28, at 10 a.m.) The Premier (Mr Butler), speaking at the Australian Natives’ Association meeting, said the Australian Governments had more or less engaged in activities which it would have been as well to have left to private enterprise. Politicians had been encouraged to court : popularity and ■’support by a lavish expenditure of public money. This had become one of the most dangerous elements in political life. If it continued it would have a demoralising effect on the individual and would cause chaos. There , was still new country to be developed, and they required men with the pioneering spirit for the work.
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Evening Star, Issue 19776, 28 January 1928, Page 11
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116THE PUBLIC PURSE Evening Star, Issue 19776, 28 January 1928, Page 11
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