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COMMUNISTS IN AUSTRALIA NUMBERS STATED TO BE DECLINING PA. AUCKLAND, May 12. Members of the Communist Party in Australia were under the surveillance of the Commonwealth Intelligence Service, but there was no evidence which could lead to action against them as a political party, said Professor R. S. Parker, a member of the staff of the Australian National University at Canberra, who arrived by air to-day. Professor Parker will be professor of political science at Victoria University College, Wellington, from early next year. The number of adherents to the Communist Party in Australia, he added, had .obviously declined in recent years, and, in spite of suggestions from some quarters that the party should be banned, the Government took the view that the principles of freedom of speech should be upheld.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26770, 13 May 1948, Page 8
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