WIDER POWERS BILL
FEDERAL REFERENDUM NON-LABOUR OPPOSITION ,MELBOURNE, June 13. Non-Labour parliamentary parties from all States nave unanimously decided to oppose the Government’s referendum proposals. The referendum," which is to be held on August 19, is to decide whether the Commonwealth should be given wider powers, for postwar reconstruction. It was officially stated that the delegates to the Opposition parties’ conferenct believed that a “no ’’ vote was likely in every State but New South Wales. The Leader of the Opposition, Mr R. G. Menzies, who attended the conference, said there were individual proposals which non-Labour parties were prepared to support because the parties were in no sense opposed to constitutional reform. But they objected to a referendum in wartime. They would, therefore, do everything possible to defeat it’. The most important of the powers sought—those relating to employment and production—would enable an indefinite continuance of industrial conscription and general socialisation of industry.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25565, 19 June 1944, Page 4
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