AUSTRALIAN MEASURES.
GOVERNMENT’S POWERS. CANBERRA, April 10. The Government’s three referendum bills, providing for complete power to amend the constitution, for power to control industrial affairs, and control over trade and commerce, all passed their second reading. West Australian and Tasmanian members declared that there was no hope whatever of the first proposal, which would give the Federal Parliament power to alter the constitution at will, being carried. The electors were not prepared to allow the Federal Government to dynamite the constitution. West Australia and Tasmania would prefer that the Federal Parliament be abolished.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 115, 11 April 1930, Page 9
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