THE AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION
LONG-SIMMERING DISCONTENT “The financial chaos which exists in Australia to-day has brought to a head ilio long-simmering discontent of tho country under its present system of government,” says “Jobson’s Investment Digest.” “There are two alternatives—unification or a return to the system of separate States, which existed before federation. There is little doubt that if a. referendum of ,tho Commonwealth were taken as between federation and tho earlier system, the population would by a. great majority vote for a ueturn lo the old ways. It is probable, too, that if a referendum were taken on unification it would not be carried by the necessary majority. Mr Lang, by putting New South Wales into the same category as the second and third-rate States 'of Central and South America, the defaulting southern States of tho United States,- and the financial cripples of the Balkans, may quite possibly have brought to a head'a question of even greater importance iluyr the payment of debts, that is the entire constitutional future of the Commonwealth.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 2 May 1931, Page 11
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