AFTER TEN YEARS.
FEDERATION IN AUSTRALIA. PEOPLE'S JUDGMENT BROADER' AND SANER. A DIFFERENT WORLD. Py Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright • (Rec. January 2, 1 a.m.) Melbourne, January 1. . Mr. W. M. Hughes, Commonwealth At-torney-General, in reviewing the first.dev cade of Federation, said the Federation had not failed in its chief object, which' was the creation, of a national sentiment;' Previously provincialism had been ram- r pant in Australia, but to-day the people's judgment was broader and saner.
"Ten years ago," said Mr. Hughes, "wewere content to depend entirely on the Motherland for our . defence, and to do; nothing ourselves. We are in another if world to-day."
.The experience of the decade had proved,, that the constitutional instrument by' which industrial progress bad bceij.. achieved was structurally defective,; and. it was imperative, if the Commonwealth-! was to stride to its true destiny, that the Constitution should be'amended to enable; Parliament to legislate eq as .effectively; to . regulate industry and control trusts,; combines, and. monopolies.'
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1014, 2 January 1911, Page 5
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