TOO MANY PARLIAMENTS

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2304, 5 September 1929, Page 5

TOO MANY PARLIAMENTS

AUSTRALIA 0 V hu-G o VE I IN El) LOCAL BODIES SUGGESTED (Aust. and K.Z. Cable) (Received lSe:pt. o, 11 a.m.) Melbourne, Sept. 5. The belief that Australia ha,; too many Governments for its six millions of population, thereby increasing the burden of taxation, finds support, .says the Melbourne Herald in the reports of the Constitutional Commission which was appointed last year to inquire into the Constitution of the Commonwealth in the light of the experience gained since Federation was adopted. Four sectional reports prepared on the matter nggest giving increased powers -*lo the .Commonwealth Government. A Labour minority ropork recommends the abolition of all State Parli aments as at present constituted add the creation of new States or provinces, governed by local bodies deriving their powers from-the Commonwealth Parliament.