AUSTRALIA FOR AUSTRALIANS.
SPEECH BY ME DEAKIN, PROTECTION MUST COME FIRST. Received IS), 12.43 a.m. Sidnev, May 18. • Mr Deakiu addressed a large meeting in the Town Hall. Iu the course of his address Le elaborated a policy of " Australia fir Australians." Replying to the criticisms that industrial legislation should come first, he said, this was impossible. To legislate industrially lay with the States, not with the Commonwealth. Protection must come first. This diit not prevent seeking closer union with the Mother Country. At present there was not much prospect of any arrange ■ ment with the Mother Country, but the New Zealand Government was in communication with South Africa and Canada, which were turning towards Australia. Aithuigh Mr Seddon had said there was not much prospect of falling into line with Australia iu the matter, it would be looks! into in a ew days.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8114, 19 May 1906, Page 3
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144AUSTRALIA FOR AUSTRALIANS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8114, 19 May 1906, Page 3
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