AUSTRALIAN POLITICS
DOUBLE DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT LABOUR PARTY THREAT (Recd. 10.50 p.m.) Canberra, Sept. 28. The double dissolution of the Australian Parliament, the. House of Representatives and the Senate, is threatened by Mr. J. Curtin’s Labour Government if the Senate refuses to agree to a Bill to encourage and regulate the employment of women in war industries. This is revealed by newly-gazetted regulations covering the operations oi the Women’s Employment Board, which was abolished last week, when the Senate disallowed the regulations under which it was constituted. The newest regulations are deliberately framed in the wording of a section of the Constitution which contains provision for double dissolution. Should the Senate again decline to agree to the regulations the Govern-nor-General may dissolve the Senate and the House of Representatives simultaneously. However, political observers say the feeling among the Opposition members of both Houses is against forcing an election at this juncture. It is probable the Senate will climb down from its present attitude and pass the Bill in order to prevent an early election, which would be welcomed by the Labour Partv.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 229, 29 September 1942, Page 5
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