AUSTRALIAN POLITICS

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 166, 16 July 1920, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS

CENSURE MOTION IN FEDERAL

HOUSE.

[Press Association.l MELBOURNE, July 15. After the House was cleared of the women's irruption •Mr Tudor moved ;& vote of censure. He declared that his object in. moving it was to secure ~» double dissolution. He considered that the indications for the Opposi.tion were, very hopeful. "What had ihappened at the Ballarat election ■^ould probably happen1 in other constituencies. He strongly attacked the Government for. not grasping the "of the high cost of living. Mr Hughes, replying, said that jpower to deal with the high cost of Jiving was refused to the Government jby the turning down of the referen.cium, due. to the opposition of the Lal)or Party. He declared that, the • ■ present policy of the Labor Party was i one of destruction in t industrialism, ''go slow" in nationalism, and in iiParliament to waste time. The debate was adjourned.