The Australian Federal Election
HE Australian Federal General Election will be held on May 29, and to help New Zealanders to understand the issues four talks will be broadcast from YA and YZ stations at 9.15 p.m. on the four Thursdays preceding the election-the first of them on May 6. The speaker will be Leicester Webb, Reader in Political Science in the Australian National University, Canberra, and former Director of Stabilisation in New Zealand. Mr. Webb is expected to begin with an account of the party sys- « tem in Australia, preferential voting, the "swinging" seats and developments in voting trends since 1951, He will go on to discuss parties and personalities-Mr. Menzies and Sir Arthur Fadden and the Liberal-Country Party alliance on the one hand, and Dr. Evatt and Mr. Calwell and the Labour Party on the other. Party policy and organisation will be examined and internal troubles mentioned. Mr. Webb will next consider issues old and new, compare the party programmes and survey the campaign, In the last talk he will sum up.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 771, 30 April 1954, Page 5
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174The Australian Federal Election New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 771, 30 April 1954, Page 5
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