COMPULSORY VOTING.
AUSTRALIAN SYSTEM.
LORD BURNHAM INTERESTED.
(Received 9.35 p.m.) Reuter. LONDON. March 17.
The system of compulsory voting at Parliamentary elections in Australia was referred to in the House of Lords by Viscount Burnham. He suggested that a joint committee of both Houses should be established to inquire into the question.
Lord Burnham said the results of the system in Australia had been most remarkable and convincing. Lord Haldane and' other peers opposed the motion.
Lord Banbury remarked that Australia was governed by trades unions, which were most tyrannical.
Lord Desborough remarked that the fact that so far there had been only two prosecutions out of many cases of nonvoting in Australia indicated that the law was not being very effectively enforced. Moreover, the law was so new that it wouid be premature to inquire in that connection from Australia.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19280, 19 March 1926, Page 11
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