NATIONAL INSURANCE

Evening Star, Issue 23270, 19 May 1939, Page 9

NATIONAL INSURANCE

AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT'S INTENTION REVIEW OF ORIGINAL PLAN TD BE MADE Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright CANBERRA, May 18. While reaffirming the Government’s intention to proceed with national insurance, tho Prime Minister, Mr R. G. Menzies, in the House of Representatives to-night said it would be impossible to bring it into operation this year. Review of the original plan was inevitable, for which reason he proposed to appoint a committee representing parliamentarians, the medical profession, approved societies, and the National Insurance Commission, to examine tho subject, and if possible evolve a practicable scheme in which all‘parties would cheerfully and patriotically co-operate. LABOUR'S ATTITUDE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE WANTED. CANBERRA, May 18. (Received May 19, at 10.30 a.m.) Referring to a statement by the Prime Minister that the Government intended to proceed with national insurance, Mr Curtin said that no system of national insurance would be acceptable to the Labour Party which omitted unemployment insurance.