AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17168, 2 August 1927, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

PREMIER'S TAUNT. POLITICAL PLEASANTRIES. " Mr Lang was sarcastic, says a Sydney paper. "It is noticeable that as the date of tlie elections approaches, Mr Bavin begins to be extremely nervous," he said. "This is due, no doubt, to tiie awakening realisation that Labour's legislation has been so popular that Nationalism's opposition in Parliament and outside lias practically killed any hope Mr Bavin ever entertained of reaching the Treasury benches. Speaking at Croydon, .Mr Bavin complained iiial 1 persisted iti declaring the policy of the Nationalists. He is wrong. All that i have done is to point out the legislation opposed by the Nationalists in Parliament, and to assume that they wiit act, as they did in the case of the first 4-i-flour Bill passed by the Storey Labour Government, and repeal "all legislation which they consider objectionable, They must either do Bus or brand themselves as hypocrites in trying to defeat Labour's measures when they were before Parliament." He also had a tilt at Mr Goodin.

'•livery political situation has its humorous side, but I have not heard of a funnier ci'isodc than the struttin^s

of Mr Goodin," lie said. '.'This political pigmy managed to scrape into Parliament two years ago. and ever since

has been posing as the one wise man Of trie Labour movement. His threat to, leave the Labour Parly might be' com- ! pared in importance to the threat of i< mouse to leave ihe underground pas-I sages of a cathedral."