NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13646, 11 February 1913, Page 5

NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS.

CONFERENCE AND CAUCUS. MINISTERS RESENTING INQUISITION.

LABOUR PARTY'S PLATFORM.

Sydney, Feb 10.

The Labour Conference, after much*, bickering, appointed a committee to ; inquire, into the Government's attitude .regarding .the Blayney bye-eleer ) tibn, Mr. Nielson's Tetiremerit, and other matters. r The State Ministers have decided to ignore this so-called "heresy hunt." The "Labour Party has adopted tho following fighting platform :-—Abolition of the Legislative Council; abolition of the office of State. Governor; full citizen rights {to- women '• effective land settle-; ntentj ihcTitding cessation of" Crown land salea|.'and taxation of land values j natipiialis^iion;' of ■ health matters, in- : eluding;; free medical, surgical, .andlr nursing services, ,with State maintenance of, /hospitalsi; special care of maternity, and the protection of childl :life;- equitable industrial laws; complete free educational facilities; establishment of State ironworks ; local .government reform, embracing full adult suffrage.