AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION
PROPOSALS OP LABOUR PARTY. Melbourne, Ajiril 53. . The Federal House of Representatives is discussing a motion by Mr. Austen Chapman that a convention shall bo summoned to consider amending the Constitution. During the debate Mr. Malioney set forth the Labour proposals, whicli provide for tho'-abolition of the State boundaries and tho establishment of 31 provinces. There would be a House of Representatives to deal with matters afFecting Australia ns a nation. Tho Senate would be abolished, and affairs of local interest would be dealt with by 31 provincial Legislatures. State Governors would also be abolished,--Pre® Assn. ,
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 179, 24 April 1920, Page 7
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98AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 179, 24 April 1920, Page 7
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