POLITICAL WORLD.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 121, 4 May 1936, Page 2

POLITICAL WORLD.

Mew Move To Fight Labour. QUkWNSLAND NATIONALISTS. , : ■.-•/ Brisbane, April 19. Queensland Nationalists have decided to toss overboard their old party name and form a State brancTi of the United Australia Party. The pew branch, which was 1 agreed last .night-, 4 , will probably be launched' on ; it,g ' career by a vjsiti from. U.A.P> V leaders of southern States'!' ''■ /! ' Hitherto, anti-Labour forces in Queensland were combined in the Country and Progressive National Organisation, embracing Nationalist and •Country-Party interests. This organisation has now disappeared, splitting into a Country Party and the new U.A.P. branch.

For the last two decades, dur-y-.lnfl which they have had only one S; f'tea-m on the Treasury benches, the anti-Labour forces appear, to have passed frtom one domestic "squabble to another —not by rearson' of* any fundamental change In policy, but in the search for an attractive coalition name. The last State election brought an i even greater reverse to 'them than previously, and of the sadlydepletecf Opposition only three were National--1 Squabbles broke out anew, for while,quo, section, stylinjr itself "The 'Ginger Group," sought to rejuvenate the movement, the Country Party members showed sign's of restlessness. One of their members, Mr Godfrey 'in solitary'state on the cross-benches for several months, he had the pleasure, qf-seeing his action emulated by his Country colleagues. Now For Election. "The'oid composite party working agreement was abandoned and a separate Country Party was formed. members, with the siiii,'6| the Cdri|iitutional Club, has a U.A.P. branch. The torgantsefs are confident that it an agreement reached with the Country seats to be contested, ..' the present Opposition shoura""ina.ke a good showing at the next State elections. The Lajbaur Party, however, views the latestf|iovement with equanimity, Vhd is/convinced that its opponents kVill concentrate largely oh Federal ffliDlitics. I