SOCIAL SERVICE
AUSTRALIAN SCHEME MAY TRAIN OWN DOCTORS (Rec. 0.35 a.m.) PERTH, Aug. 16. If doctors would not co-operate in the Government’s national medical scheme the Government would train its own doctors, said the Prime Minister, Mr Cbiiley, at a meeting in Fremantle. The Government, he said, wanted the referendum on social services to be carried because it wanted to see a decent national provision made against every field of human misfortune.
In an outspoken defence of Labour’s banking legislation, Mr Chifley said that in the depression the Commonwealth Bank had been run to suit the wishes of private interests which had sometimes dominated it. A board had been abolished to remove the bank from all forms of private or sectional interests and it was now conducted by a body of public servants. Its broad policy was subject to Government direction in the public interest
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26233, 17 August 1946, Page 7
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