AUSTRALIAN ELECTIONS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1716, 6 January 1920, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN ELECTIONS.

LABOUR PARTY’S DISMAL

FAILURE

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Aiutralian-Mew Zealand Cable Association • ' r v-; ■, v /(BRISBANE, Jam ,5., ‘ Mr ‘Higgs,. .t)ie Deputy Laboip- Loader in the Federal Parliament, in returning thanks for hia election, said that the Labout Party had failed dismally in an attempt to' win it majority of the seats. The failure was largely owing to outside executives controlling the, Parliamentary Party, and dictating its policy. Some of these .men who pretended to be revolutionists were the most impracticable/ and impossible, yet they considered themselves entitled to interpret the Labour platform and dictate iris policy. He strongly condemned Labour's attitude against the referendum proposals, and suggested seeking a coalition with the Farmers’ Party, in order to meet the new political situation.

CAUSUS LEADER’S STATEMENT.

Australian-New Zealand Cable Association 'MELBOURNE. Jan. 5. The president of the Australian Labour Party declared that Mr Higgs’ suggestion of a- coalition with the Farmers’ Party t wns impossible. It meant a compromise, and it was essential that the Labour Party should remain free aiid untrammelled.

ANOTHER NATIONALIST WIN.

Australian-New Zealand Cable Association

SYDNEY, Jan. 5., Duncan won the second N^w,South Wales Senate_seat. It appears to bo certain that the - third seat will go to ' Gardiner, a Labourite, upsetting the earlier calculations that the Nationalists will win all the scats. Received January 6. 10.55 a.m. SYDNEY, Jaa. 6. Mr A. Gardiner (Labour) has been elected to the Senate. Labour lias now also hopes of winning a, seat cadi in Victoria, Westrulia ami Queensland.