AUSTRALIAN POLITICS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 378, 2 May 1910, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS

LABOR'S EEIGN. RESPONSIBILITY'S SOBERING EFFECT. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, April 29. The Hon. J. McCall, Agent-General for Tasmanian, speaking at the Ironmongers' Company banquet, said he believed the Labour Government would cease to be representatives of a class since they had accepted the responsibility to govern the Commonwealth for aP classes The British need have no anxiety concerning Australia's Labour policy.'

THE NEW MINISTRY. * ■ FORMER MEMBERS RE-ELECTED. Sydney, April 30. The Telegraph, referring to the fact that with one exception the last Labour Ministry has been re-elected, says that 011 the'whole the allotment of portfolios is impressively significant of the party's disposition to trust to the bridge which carried it over, and members" of the last Fisher Government may fairly feel a pride in the testimonial given them by their re-selection, td Items mtfwam fwow dowad owaoaooi THE LABOR PARTY'S POLICY. Sydney, April 30. Mr. McGowen, discussing the State elections, says the chief pla.)tks will bo: —Decentralisiiii; in railway policy, reduction of members to 54 by re-ar-rangerjent of electorates before «iec-'' tions, nationalisation of sufficient coal mines to supply State industries and harbor ferries, compensation for injured workmen, an Appeal Board for public servants, and a progressive land tax in the event of the Federal Parliament failing to pass such a measure.