AUSTRALIAN LIBERALS
SOCIAL SECURITY SCHEME ADVOCATED (Rec. 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, Oct. 19. A social security scheme on a ocntnbutory basis was advocated at the first annual convention of the Liberal Party. The convention urged that every man and woman should receive £2 ' 10s a week on reaching the age of 60, irrespective of means or employment. The convention voted in favour of the State's paying the medical and chemists fees of all old>-a°;e and invalid pensioners, but is opposed the nationalisation of medical services.
It was decided that the principle of the 40-hour five-day week should be introduced constitutionally by means of the Arbitration Court, and applied where it was pconomicallv possible.
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Evening Star, Issue 25619, 20 October 1945, Page 8
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112AUSTRALIAN LIBERALS Evening Star, Issue 25619, 20 October 1945, Page 8
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