MANY CHARGES AGAINST THE CURTIN GOVERNMENT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 June 1943, Page 3

MANY CHARGES

AGAINST THE CURTIN GOVERNMENT

MADE BY OPPOSITION LEADER.

SJO-CONFIDENCE DEBATE IN CANBERRA.

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) CANBERRA, June 22.

Declaring that the Curtin Government was incapable of governing, the Leader of the

Opposition, Mr Fadden, in opening the debate on his noconfidence motion, said today that it had allowed anarchy to prevail because of; its craven fear of its trade union .masters. Ah all-night sitting of the House is, in prospect.

Mr Fadden said that after 20 months of Labour rule ho was convinced that the considered opinion of the great mass of the Australian people was that the Curtin Government had shown itself unfit to govern. He charged the Government with inefficiency in administration, because of lack of ability and experience; bureaucratic control; the sub-ordination of immediate national needs to Socialistic theories, irrespective of adverse war effects; strikes and absenteeism in vital war industries being allowed to go unchecked; gross bungling of food production and the rural manpower plans; shortages of essential commodities in a time of teeming production and resti’icted overseas markets; an unfair and inequitable policy, endangering the structure of Australian economy and the prospect of successful post-war reconstruction ; and Ministerial and departmental differences.

Mr Fadden contended that for these and other important reasons the Cur'tin Government was deserving of the strongest censure. The debate is proceeding.