AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12016, 5 March 1920, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

Second Edition.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright Received March 5, noon Sydney, March 5 Mr Storey, leader of the Labour Part}', strongly repudiated the statement recently made by Mr Minahan, a Labour candidate at the elections, that toe Australian Labour Party was cognisant of a movement to defeat conscription and proclaim a Republic in Australia. Mr Storey declared that the Labour Party, either as a Parliamentary party or an outside organisation, had no part in sucn an idea or scheme nor did they oven hear of it. He said Mr Minaliaa’s little joke was too absurd. „ , _ Melbourne, March 5 In the House Mr Hughes made a spirited reply to the vote of censure and Mr Tudor’s attack on Government administration. He said Government was challenged by a party which came from the people dishevelled and discredited, whose policy had been deliberately and unreservedly repudiated-by the people, and therefore it had no right to challenge Government. Ho demanded opportunity'to give effect to Government’s fully endorsed policy.