MNORITY GOVERNMENT
DEFEATED IN VICTORIA. OVER DEMAND FOR'FRANCHISE REVISION. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) MELBOURNE, September 10. Mr Dunstan’s Country Party Government, which has been in office in Victoria for more than eight years, was defeated in the House today on a Labour no-confidence motion, which was supported by the United Australia Party. The no-confidence motion was based on the Government’s failure to remedy an anomalous electoral position whereby 39 country electors have equal voting powers with 100 city electors. Labour and the U.A.P. have been demanding for many years a higher ratio for the cities, but Mr Dunstan has declined action.
The Dunstan Government, as a minority party, was kept in office in the early stages with Labour support, but later broke with Labour and remained in office with the support of the United Australia Party. The events which led the latter to withdraw its support were concerned mainly with the redistribution of electoral divisions.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1943, Page 3
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