THE AUSTRALIAN CRISIS.
Constitutional questions of tho highest importance are raised by the step! the Federal Government has already taken to discipline Nir. Lang and by what it is now considering. The Commonwealth has already gone beyond all previous conception in its 'nrerference with State Rights, and it ma/ be presumed that Mr. Lang will take the utmost advantage of the feeling mat thi« has aroused. He may decide to pay the Federal Government what it demands, and claim the right co raise the money in any way he chooses, and it would seem as if the Federal right to exact moneys due was stroag-»r ihau the right to forbid a form of domestic taxation. However, final decision as to which Government is the stronger will not now be long delayed, and here are such explosive elements in New South Wales that the possibility of a situation arising there not unlike civil’ -war cannot be excluded.—Auckland Star.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 118, 21 May 1932, Page 1 (Supplement)
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