STATE PARLIAMENTS
PROPOSAL FOR ABOLITION AGITATION IN AUSTRALIA CANBERRA, Oct. 20. Commenting on the growing agitation for the abolition of State parliaments, arising out of mounting taxation and overlapping services. Mr J. Curtin, leader of the Federal Labour Party said it was possible for the Commonwealth Government to ignore the State parliaments. All that the Commonwealth Government required to do, he said, was to demonstrate that the powers it had were to be used ably and effectively. That would constitute a challenge to the State administrations.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23946, 23 October 1939, Page 6
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