NATIONAL INSURANCE
AUSTRALIAN SCHEME TO PROCEED STATEMENT BY FEDERAL PREMIER OPERATION THIS YEAR IMPOSSIBLE. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. CANBERRA, May 18. While Reaffirming the Government’s intention to proceed with the national insurance scheme, the Prime Minister, Mr Menzies, said in the House of Representatives tonight that it would be impossible to bring it into operation this year. A review of the original plan was inevitable and therefore he. proposed to appoint a committee of Parliamentarians, members of the medical profession, approved societies and members of the National Insurance Commission to examine the subject and, if possible, to evolve a practicable scheme in which all parties would cheerfully and patriotically co-operate. LABOUR PARTY COMMENT. DEMAND FOR UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE. (Received This Day, 9.5 a.m.) CANBERRA, May 18. Referring to the statement' by the Prime Minister that the Government intended to proceefl with national insurance, the Leader of the Opposition, Mr J. Curtin, said that no system of national insurance would be acceptable to the Labour Party which omitted unemployment insurance.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 May 1939, Page 5
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168NATIONAL INSURANCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 May 1939, Page 5
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