AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1887, 11 August 1920, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

SYDNEY, August 10. • The Governor opened the Slate Parlianient. 11 is speech loreshadowei , amongst other things, a Hill tor aniemli„.r the system of electing mcmbeis o the Assembly, profiteering lurislatibn, endowment ot niolh.us, compulsory wheat pool. r> lol < d )lll n u State industrial undertakings umlu n Ministerial head, estah.ishmeut ol nival banks and Government insurance nlUee, regulation ol the lumis ol labour, am! amendment ol too Industrial Arbitration Act. and a. Royal Commission to impure into the adnimistration of the railways including the. reinstatement of the E)l7 stnkeis.

(Press Association.) Received August 11, 10. 1.0 a.m. - SYDNEY. August 11. Sir George Fuller has launched a motion ot censure on the Storey Government, its gravamen being Mr .Justice .Ewing’s inquiry and the subsequent release ol the prisoners. Sir G. Fuller attacked tlic (on eminent over the proposal to reinstate the Ip|7 railway strikers and the delay tn

Inltillimg the promise to aval with pvoiheering. He caused some disorder by referring to Dr. Mahmx as a rebel priest, and declaring that two State Ministers who attended Dr. Maunix s fi! re well should have been severely iepr mutinied and imt out ol the : nus trv. He said that the action ot the Government over the Industrial ''bikes of the World ease had shaken the confidence ot people so lav as the at ministration of justice was concerned. He then moved the motion of censure. On the motion ot the Premier, the debate in the House was adjourned till this afternoon. —(Press Association.)