AUSTRALIAN STATES
ATTITUDE OF PREMIERS MR HUGHES'S CRITICISM <Rec. 2 a.m.) SYDNEY, June 16. "The States can do useful work on local matters, but their day for posturing in the robes of sovereignty has gone," said Mr W. M. Hughes, addressing the Australian Natives' Association. "The time is ripe for the Federal Government to declare its intention of submitting to the people proposals which will make the Commonwealth Parliament the supreme national legislative and executive authority of Australia." Mr Hughes said the uniform tax law was a hesitant step, since it was to end 12 months after the war. If Australia was to have a worth-while new order there must be far-reaching national planning, and the Commonwealth Government should have complete control. Mr Hughes referred to the State Premiers as "pinchbeck Cassars standing aloof and babbling about State rights, when not only rights, but the very existence of their people is in deadly peril." He added that the most urgent among the imperative changes of great national policy of post-war planning was the unification of the Australian railway systems.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24944, 17 June 1942, Page 5
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