VICTORIAN STATE ASSEMBLY
GOVERNMENT FACES CRISIS MELBOURNE, Feb. 15. 'Two rebel Government members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Messrs J. S. Leclite and F. L. Edmunds, have been expelled from the Parliamentary Liberal Party on the motion of the State Premier (Mr T. T, Hollway). The Government now has only 30 members, including the Speaker, in a Legislative Assembly of 65. It would need the support of at least three members of the Country Party to avoid a defeat. The leader of the State Labour Party (Mr J. Cafti) has demanded the immediate dissolution of Parliament and a General Election. Mr Hollway refused to comment on a report that lie would ask the Governor (Sir Reginald Dallas Brooks) for a dissolution in a few weeks’ time, rather than risk a defeat on the floor of the Assembly when it reassembled in April. The expelled members will sit in the Assembly as endorsed. Liberals.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 105, 16 February 1950, Page 5
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153VICTORIAN STATE ASSEMBLY Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 105, 16 February 1950, Page 5
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