VICTORIAN ASSEMBLY
Upper - House Reform Measure (Received 14, 8.45 a.m.) MELBOURNE, July 13. Acceptiug tho result of ihe recent eleetion of Ihe Vietoriaxl Legislative Assembly as a mandate to proceed with the Government's plans for reform of the Upper House, the Premier, Mr A. A. Duustan, introdueed in. the Legislative Assembly to.day a constitutional reform bill which is practically identical with the bill rejected by the Legislative Couneil during last ssesion. Mr Dunstan denied that the bill was a malign attempt- to abolish or destroy the Legislative Couneil. The whole purposo and intention of the bill was based on Ihe assumption of the retontion of a bicameral lcgislature. Experience over many years had sliown that in the event of a deadlock or disagreement between the Houses when a comproimse was impossible, the only solution -had been to let the couneil have its way, right or wrong. The bill was intended to give a better way than Iby the Government surrendering. Tlie Victorian Legislature was the most t'irmly; entrenched in the world.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 151, 14 July 1937, Page 6
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