AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 134, 15 September 1910, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

LABOR PARTY AND THE LAND. By Caiiie.—Press Association.—Copyright Received September 14, 9.30 p.m. Melbourne, September 14. In the House of Representative ; the land tax debate was resumed. Mi. West said that if the Labor Party got the land thrown open it would at once take steps to introduce a system of immigration. Mr. Fuller challenged the Prime Minister's statement that the Graduated Tax made more land' available. He said that in New Zealand the proposed tax was a step in the direction of land nationalisation.

PROPOSED TOPING OUT OF STATE PARLIAMENTS. Melbourne, September 14. Federal Ministers deny the persistent rumours of dissensions in the Cabinet. The Senate adjourned the debate on tihe amendment by Senator Givens to reduce the vote towards the Federal capital by £l. This is an attempt to throw out the Yass-Camberra site in favour of another. It is expected the voting will be very close. In the House of Representatives a Bill was introduced by Mr. Bamford providing for the division of the Commonwealth into sixteen provinces, each province to return three senators and six members of the Lower House, in place of State Parliaments. The Bill proposes to establish provincial councils with smaller powers than the State Parliaments.