SOME AUSTRALIAN IMPRESSIONS.
TOO MANY PROFESSIONAL
POLITICIANS
FEDERAL CAPITAL ISOLATED
(Received Jan. 11, 8.21 a.m.)
LONDON, Jan. 10
Earl Dudley, in a paper read before the Royal Colonial Institute on "Some Impressions Of Australia," declared that federation had enormously facilitated the adoption of improved defence, and was also off the greatest value in matters of external affairs. As Australia's importance increased, the Imperial Government would find/ it necessary and advantageous to consult Australia very closely on some subjects. It would bave been wiser to wait developments before transplanting the Federal Capital to the middle of the bush, away from the broadening influences derived by contact with various interests in the centres of population. Australia had too many professional politicians, and too many politicians altogether. Fourteen Houses of Parliament was an overgrown allowance. He denied suggesting that Australian politicians were guilty of corruption. On the contrary, the purity of the public service was one of Australia's proudest boasts. He advocated immigration, a White Australia, and an Australian navy.
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Northern Advocate, 11 January 1912, Page 5
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