IN AUSTRALIA

Hokitika Guardian, 9 December 1940, Page 6

IN AUSTRALIA

POLITICAL DIFFERENCES

(Australian Press ; Association).;

SYDNEY, Dec. 8

’ Relations between Mr J. Curtin, the Fedeial Opposition Leader, ad Doctor Evatt, of the same party, are, according to the “Sydney Sun,” be'coining strained. Dr Evatt led a section oi the Labourites last week which aimed at'securing a yet further Budget concession from the Government. Mr Curtin, in the course ,of a statement yesterday, said that the Opposition regretted that they could Got secure, a larger measure of their policy. Nevertheless, they, had ; kept firmly in fiiirid the obligation. fo make Parliament workable. . , ; Dr Evatt, replying to' Air Curtin, said: j“I agree;that it is the duty of the present Parliament to become a workable institution. This means that Parliament 'itself should exert / the fullest control ’over ' the Government. It certainly- does not' mean that the : present Government should' bb allow•ed to continue in office.” 1 t .

AN ABORIGINE IN EGYPT

SYDNEY, December 7.

.. _A n. A W*trn 1i a ru..WfiL;,;, cor respond ent; reports, froih Gaza., thfit’a full-blooded Australian .aborigine, Wally Thomson, from 'the far west of New South Wales, has aroused great curiosity amongst the Arabs on the arrival of the Australian troops at Gafa. His eloquent outbursts, 0f... while. bftW&Ch dispersing a peering crowd, left no rdoubt-concerning his Australiatf'Origin.. He is now treated with even greater respfet and veneration', than'hfe"white comrades in arms.