QUEENSLAND POLITICS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 512, 20 May 1909, Page 5

QUEENSLAND POLITICS.

coAtrfioKiitMsl'ilt. A l'lioflAfliLinr op DEFEAT. ; '(at l'^ktuiiiirn—rimsS AssocMTtiitf-edrVlilanT.i tiflSHSrtOj Majp 19. , Owing to tlio number of clisaltccted metribe&. in thb State Absemblyj theroiis a likelllibod of tlic Kidstbii-Pllilp cbalitlbh fclovbrilmeut being defeated, when tho lloliso meets. tHrtEE'PAfITV SYStfeW'; ' . HOW Mil. tilDS'lM HAS ItHfAiNUD ;v. l'OWEl!. • , . ' Adept fstji bnef Mr, Plilly was I'ruiiiidl-—tliß Kidston Government litis bftJii id pottdr. slhcti Beplfemberj 1903 j" but it' uilllbi'gono distinct mbtaiubfphbse'3: 111 MS eaHisfreigh ]Ufi Kidston clailhed to bo a Laliflur ricinieri 'i'lle Labblii-, 1 party took , tip aft . attitude •'df ilidepeiidelice, cdii&iiig tlw Qudehsldnd As&mlbly tu be a libtable exailiplii" •bf vthß AUstralihil tUrebipafty ,: syMl'rii, ' fllb thftid patto ill: this ettse being thb KidStdnitel (Qbvbl'Ulnerit), 1/abblifj biid l J hilpite6, ail three being about eijual in strbiigthi I'teluiet 1 Kidotoll ltailbd' fbr a lotig tiliie to tlife Lalldll? pttfty for thb Siippbrt ilbcessafy to' fcariy dil ; claiming thilk lie fraij piittihg Labbur legislation; bn the statute bobk "lUtli' out'talking ilbbiit.it,", and that his GBVbfiiliicilf .inlS doifig I|i6cb tor Xabodi! thai! till bitfiuiisi adliiinigtt*atloil ivililld bo dble to do. , How the CoalHlbn AfrlVidi. ■ '|lid -braacli between MA Kidston : and thb lAbdtif party widened, and, after vaihly palling oil Laljotlf for ii 11. alliance ip a erusado against the Qdednsland' Upper Hbuse, Mr. Kidston reSlgied office in. N9vemberi 1907. Three Qdvefilinellts followed in . clofee succession—i'liilp, thiin Kiustdft, tlien .Kitlston-Philp, Jlr, Phifp a|id; llife PKilpltes first formed a Ministry in Nflvbmbbf, 1907, which thb :Kidstonites and Labddf menibers speedily defeated in tliil Assembly, but Sir. Philp obtained a dissolution Mm the. Governor, irr. Kidstqn protesting on CbfcatitUtionol grounds. The elections resulted ill tho defeat pf the Philpites and a dontlnU* ahbb of thb three-party statUs. jif. Kidston forMd a new Ministry, and ; went 6h working at tho cdllclUSlou that, co-operation with cauous-con- . trolled Labdiir Was iHipdsriblo, The result was a ctialitioh übtlveeii tho. Kidstonite9 and theil' fdHilet enemies, the Philpiles, thus ■ reducing the paftieS tb_ two, .Labour beilig tho .OppositipU/ .A 1 'J 1 , 0 JW't ";?« iln s of Kidstonilca and Philpites, at which this coalition was -dedided bll, .JU. .Kidston said his party wdS not Unanimblls. Ho had taken, ah unusual bburse in bdlhiig sildh a combined meeting, but his justi< iibatlbil was. the unuSiml positlbn existing ih QueonSlaad public life. The position ho nddetl.. Was siioli that no party could carrV bil witlibllt the assisjrtnce of another pnrty, anil tile wst thiilgjfor thb countrr Was a veordaii'' fntibn .-of parti™. _As a re.'.ilt of this, ineeiI'lrf, it. Was milWstodil that it members wollid, Siippbrt tlid lioaliiidn Alniii-try, whiell Mr, Kids, tdii glveh a free hand td form. A Majdfliy of tin Last Vcar. In the new Administration, wlllbh still hblds bflide Mr. Philp himself (fid liot take tidlce, but three of his slipjiuftbrs (Messrs, Deiihnill, App'el, and . Paget) dill, tile othOi' five Ministers being Kldstollites, Twb bf Ml 1 . Kidston'j forlner Minlstei'fl, JlfiSsfs, Alrfey alid Kerr, bl Labour eolivlcllrttls, rbsigilPli sooiief tllali joiii Jho coalition Ministry. Tho'Labour party at once moved a no-cdnlldeillio liidlioil, and thb Ministry ramb tlifdUfjli Villi a majority df ted (39—29). That vrns lb MdVflllbCi 1 bf Inst J ; bnh 111 April of llils yeai l Lrtbotll-, Wbil a tloni hlul It wbulil Scdhl .from tb-dAy'a hibS' Sngo'thnt the Ulditau tulo ti Ht># Mafillg its oonolualon.. '