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AUSTRALIAN MILITIA BILL. Attitude of opposition SENATORS. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) , SYDNEY, February 16. Australia’s Militia Bill, which is now before the Senate, is practically certain to be placed on the Statute Book. One Opposition Senator has announced that he will oppose any amendment to the Bill, thus reducing the Opposition’s Senate majority of 19 to 17. Other Opposition Senators, may take a similar stand. An amendment to the National Security Act introduced by the Leader of the Senate Opposition (Senator McLeay) is directly concerned with the area of service for which militia men shall be liable, but in no way affects the Militia Bill. Senator McLeay’s amendment is aimed at the removal of the proviso in the Act preventing the overseas use of the militia. This amendment may possibly be carried in the Senate, but it would then come before the House of Representatives as a private member’s Bill, so that it could be put at the bottom of the agenda paper indefinitely. It is likely that such a Bill would not be considered during the life- of the present Parliament.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 February 1943, Page 4
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185EXPECTED TO PASS Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 February 1943, Page 4
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