LABOUR IN AUSTRALIA
THE DEFENCE POLICY CHANGES PROBABLE MELBOURNE, June 17. (Received June 17, at 11 p.m.) The Victorian Labour Party # at a conference, decided to-day to recommend to the Federal Labour Conference, which will be opened to-morrow, important changes in Labour’s defence policy. The party still opposes raising military forces for service outside Australia, but will, under the new policy, permit their use on lands and waters adjacent to Australia and New Zealand for strategical defence requirements. In view of the Government’s declaration against overseas conscription, the party recommends that the party’s plank for deletion from the Defence Act of all clauses relating to compulsory training stand in abeyance for the duration of the war.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24327, 18 June 1940, Page 7
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