GREATER CALL
ON AUSTRALIAN RESOURCES IN PROSECUTION OF WAR. STATEMENT BY FEDERAL PREMIER. (Special Australian Correspondent.) SYDNEY, August 11. Till Australia comes down to a stark subsistence level, the duty of the Government would be to devote to war purposes an ever-increasing amount of the remaining civil resources of the nation, the Prime Minister, Mr Curtin, told ..the State Premiers at the Melbourne conference today. “Waste, excess luxury, and even amenities, must become less and less if Australia as a nation is to survive,” he declared. The war programme would mean the acceptance of various shortages by Australia, including a sugar shortage, and possibly a coal shortage. This would be caused primarily by transport difficulties. Australia would have to use its internal lines of communication for war purposes in order to compensate for the increased lack of shipping. All the portents were that Australia was engaged in a life-and-death struggle for survival. This was true for every United Nation, and each of the United Nations had to share the perils of war and the resources available to meet the foe. Any adjustments to the original plans must be accepted without whining. .
The Premiers conferred in camera with General Blarney and the chiefs of the Australian fighting services.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1942, Page 3
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