AUSTRALIA AS REPUBLIC.
STORY OF LABOR PLOT. THE IDEA RIDICULED. By Tilesraph.—Fras Aasn.—Copyrlsht. Received March 10, 8.50 pm, Lpndon, March 8. Mr. Hunter, interviewed by the Australian Press Association, ridicules Mr. Minahan's allegations regarding a Republican plot in Australia. He said that although he was a .Queensland Minister during the whole of the war and was intimately associated witli Laborites during the conscription referendum, he never heard the slightest hint or suggestion of these alleged Republican plans. The first intimation had come a year after through London newspapers, and on the authority of Mr. M'ir.ahan, of whom he had never heard Aus.-NZ. Cable Assn.
Mr Storey, leader of the. Australian Labor Party, recently repudiated the statement made by Mr. Minahan. Labor candidate at the elections, that the Australian La'«,r Party was cognisant of a movement to defeat conscription and proclaim a Republic in Australia. Mr. Storey declared that the Labor Party, either as a Parliamentary party or an outside organisation, had no part in such an idea or scheme nor did they e\er hear of it. He said that Mr. Minahan's little joke was too absurd.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 March 1920, Page 5
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