AUSTRALIANS POLITICS.
[®T ELECTIIO XEIEG2APH.—COPY2IQH7.] (PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.) OUTLINED BY DEAKIN. ' SYDNEY, This Day. Mr Dcakin (Federal Premier) addressed a largo meeting in the Town Hall last night. Ho elaborated the policy of Australia for tho Australians. Replying to criticism that industrial legislation should come first ho said this was impossible. The power to legislate industrially lay with tho States and not with the Commonwealth. • Protection must como first. This would not prevent them seeking a closer union with the Mother Country. At present there was not much prospect of any arrangement with tho Mother Country, but ho was in communication with South Africa and Canada on (lie subject. They were turning towards Australia. Although Scddon had said (hero was not ! much prospect of New Zealand falling 1 into line with Australia, (he matter would bo looked into in a few days, lie announced that tho Navigation and Anti-irust Bills, and also a measure Federalist) old ago pensions, would bo introduced next session.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 May 1906, Page 1
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