PEOPLE’S MANDATE
FEDERAL LAAV TO ENFORCE LAW AND ORDER. RIGHT OF DEPORTATION OF NON-AUSTRALIANS. (Received January 2S, 11 p.m.) MELBOURNE, Jan. 28. In the House of Representatives, Mr Latham introduced a Crimes Act Amendment Bill, which, he said, was brought in to fulfil a clear and definite mandate of the people. He added that as the Labor party was a party of law and order, he relied on the unanimous support of the House in the maintenance of law and order. The Bill provides for deportation penalties in certain cases along similar lines to those provided in the Immigration Act, and declares that any body of persons advocating or encouraging the overthrow of the Constitution by revolution or sabotage, or the overthrow by force of the established government of the Commonwealth, or the State, or any organised government, or destruction or injury of any Commonwealth property, or property used in commerce with other countries or States, shall bo doomed an unlawful association, and the officebearers of such association will be liable to twelve months’ imprisonment. A similar penalty is provided for teaching in any institution or school conducted under the authority of an unlawful association.
The Bill also provides a penalty of two years’ imprisonment for any person who, by speech or by writing, encourages the perpetration of any of these offences and, if the offender be not born in Australia, his deportation by order of the Attorney-General. Provision is also made for the Govern-nor-General, by proclamation, to declare that a state of serious industrial disturbances exists, and any person who, during the operation of such proclamation, participates in or encourages the continuance of a lock-out or strike in relation to transport in trade or commerce, or to employment in any public service is guilty of an offence and, if not born in Australia, is liable to deportation by order of the Attorney-General, with' whom lies the sole authority to deport.—U.P.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11014, 29 January 1926, Page 5
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321PEOPLE’S MANDATE Gisborne Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11014, 29 January 1926, Page 5
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