AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 February 1921, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

A JUDGE’S POSITION. By Telegraph.— Press Assn —Copyright Sydney, Feb. 3. Judge Ewing has communicated with Mr. Dooley asking that the Australian Workers’ Union Conference withdraw the proposal that lie be appointed to the New South Wales Supreme Court bench. Even if'the appointment were made he had no desire to leave Tasmania. WESTRALIAN ELECTIONS, r Perth. Feb J 3. Mr. Collier, leader of the Opposition, opened the election .campaign of the Labor Party. .He announced a policy which included taxation of unimproved land values, the initiative and referendum, the reduction of the number of members of Parliament, universal suffrage for the Legislative Council, or its abolition and the deposing of State Governors. There must be fundamental economic reconstruction.’ Labor stood not for a Red revolution, but for a complete change in the existing policy of society. PROHIBITION REFERENDUM. Sydney, Feb. 3. Mr. Dooley, defending the Ministry against prohibition criticism, charged Mr. Holman with hypocrisy and insincerity in providing a referendum with compensation, and meanwhile negotiating with the Repatriation Department to° settle soldiers on irrigation areas for the exclusive purpose of wine growing.