AUSTRALIAN REFERENDA. This notorious fact demonstrated indisputably that Labour sought the new powers, not. for war purposes, but for party purposes extending beyond the war. In short, Labour wanted the illimitable war powers, which it already possessed and could use freely during the war, made a permanent part of the machinery of national government. Very naturally, the Stales objected to this wholesale obliteration of their Federal powers and privileges; and the people also objected, because the people of Australia are still strongly attached to the Federal principle.Melbourne "Age,"
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 586, 27 December 1915, Page 6
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