AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 831, 26 April 1910, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

MR. FISHER’S POLICY

Brisbane, April 23,

A great Labour rally was held in the Exhibition Hall. The appearance ot Mr Andrew Fisher, Federal Premier elect, and Queensland’s three Labour Senators, was the signal for tumultuous cheering.

Mr Fisher declared that had the people been consulted at the time the Fusion was formed between Messrs Deakin and Cook, the Fusion Government would never have existed, and had the late Government carried out its policy in regard to the financial agreement, it would have frustrated Australian progress. There was something greater in the late elections, after all, than the return of Labour members, and that was the rejection ot the financial agreement. The Labour Government would proceed to carry out land-value taxation, for such taxation was economically sound and right. They would also proceed to adjust economic conditions so that the people who desired to draw wealth from our natural resources would be afforded reasonable opportunities to do so, and to open avenues of employment to people living in other ports ot the world. They would welcome people of European descent in any number as soon as economic conditions made it possible lor them to obtain a livelihood. As regards defence, the Labour Party would proceed to carry out its programme announced for ten years past. If the people desired the country to be piotected, they must pay for it; and the Government would ask them to provide the necessary money within the year. There would, added Mr Fisher, be at least one Labour daily paper in Australia, and within the next three years there would be six Labour dailies in the Commonwealth.

Melbourne, April 22

Mr Deakiu in a declaration at the Ballarat poll, promised the new Government fair treatment from the Opposition, adding that there would be no war to the knife.