AUSTRALIAN POLITICS
FEDERAL OPPOSITION'S POLICY. Prees Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. BRISBANE, July 7. Mr Andrew Fisher, in a speech at Bundaberg last night, announced the Federal Opposition policy. He favoured resubmitting the Referenda Bills as a means of securing industrial peace and of dealing with trusts, combines, and monopolies, including the Beef Trust, which he declared already had a hold in Australia. Other Labour proposals are: —Stateowned oversea steamers, a State-owned Atlantic cable, a national insurance scheme, the initiative and referendum, the development of oversea markets, a Commonwealth bank, a uniform railway gauge, and the careful nursing of military ana naval defence—although he was relentlessly opposed to borrowing for defence — the continuance of the maternity bonus, and the provision of funds for the prevention and cure of cancer, consumption, and the red plague. Mt Fisher added: "We fully favour reciprocal relations with New Zealand, Canada, and the other dominions, and favour every means being adopted to draw all of us closer together."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16120, 8 July 1914, Page 7
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