NEW PARTY IN AUSTRALIA
FORMER MEMBERS OF SERVICES
(Rec. 11 p.m.) MELBOURNE, Feb. 23. A new Commonwealth political party, the United Ex-Servicemen s and Women’s Political Association of Australia will contest seats at the next Federal elections. Two of its principal planks are a national, non-party war Government and the welding of the Air Force and the Militia into one army for service anywhere. “In the formation of this new party are the symptoms of a dissatisfaction which the Federal Parliament will be well advised to heed,” comments The Melbourne Herald, editorially. Such movements as this, unquestioned in their sincerity, occur when a community begins to feel that those who represent it have already lost touch with its essential sentiment.” ! Branches of the new party, which has no connection with the Returned Soldiers’ League, will be formed in all States. . The Melbourne Herald urges that the party must not restrict its supporters to ex-servicemen and women, but must be wide enough to include all citizens of goodwill. The party chairman is Mr W. H. Anderson, a Melbourne accountant.
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Southland Times, Issue 24986, 24 February 1943, Page 5
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