AUSTRALIA
FEDERAL POWERS CANBERRA, October 15. Unless the Australian States grant, by next session, additional powers to the Commonwealth for post-war reconstruction, an appeal will be made to the people by referendum. This ultimatum has been delivered in the House of Representatives by the Prime Minister, Mr Curtin. After pointing out that only New South Wales and Queensland had passed the Draft Powers Bill which was agreed upon at the Canberra Constitutional Convention, the Prime Minister said: This matter cannot be allowed to rest where it is. South Australia and Western Australia have passed Bills, but in both cases the powers granted are less than those that were agreed upon Victoria has passed a Bill, but has imposed a condition that it shall not operate unles the other five States have previously passed the same Bill. The Tasmanian Upper House has shelved that State’s Bill.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 October 1943, Page 6
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