QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16506, 6 August 1919, Page 2

QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT.

NEW LABOUR PROGRAMME. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received August 6, 10.55 a.m.) BRISBANE, August 6. At the. opening of Parliament the Governor, outlining the Government’s policy, said a. Bill would be submitted dealing thoroughly and equitably with the whole matter of tho present remorseless profiteering. Other measures would include an investigation of unemployment and the establishment of an unemployment insurance fund. It is also intended to reintroduce the Bill for the abolition of the Legislative Council and to amend the Electoral Act, extending the franchise to all persons attaining the age of eighteen. The Government also intended to make representations toJffie Imperial authorities with the object of abolishing the office of State Governor at the exporation of the present appointment in March next. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.