REFORM OF UPPER HOUSE
VICTORIAN PROPOSALS OBVIATING DEADLOCKS MELBOURNE, July 13. Accepting the result of the recent election as a mandate to proceed with the Government’s plans for a reform of the Upper House, the Premier, Mr. A. A. Dunstan, introduced in the Legislative Assembly to-day a constitutional reform bill which is practically identical with the bill rejected by the Legislative Council during last session. Mr. Dunstan denied that the bill was a malign attempt to abolish or destroy the Legislative Council. The whole purpose and intention of the bill was based on the assumption of the retention of a bicameral legislature. Experience over many years had shown that in the event of a deadlock or disagreement between the Houses when a compromise was impossible, the only solution had been to let the council have its own way, right or wrong. The bill was intended to give a better way than by the Government surrendering. The Victorian Legislature was the most firmly entrenched in the world.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19376, 14 July 1937, Page 5
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