AUSTRALIAN LABOUR
ATTITUDE TO DEFENCE STATEMENT BY LEADER CANBERRA, Apl. 30. (Received Apl. 30, at 10 p.m.) The Labour Party’s policy of refusing to send Australian troops to fight overseas does not apply to New Guinea and New Zealand,” declared Mr J. Curtin, Leader of the Federal Opposition, yesterday. He resented the suggestion that Labour intended to pursue a policy of isolation, and added that “ this country has the sufficient task of defending itself without trying to act as a police force or a salvage corps thousands of miles away. As we have to be realists it is absurd to regard New Guinea and New Zealand in the same category as certain zones, for example in the northern hemisphere.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23796, 1 May 1939, Page 9
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