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<session.header>
<date>1918-04-04</date>
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<session.no>2</session.no>
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<chamber>REPS</chamber>
<page.no>3591</page.no>
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<para class="block">HouseofRepresentatives. </para>
<business.start>
<day.start>1918-04-04</day.start>
<para>
<inline font-weight="bold">Mr.</inline>Speaker (Hon. W. Elliot John son) took the chair at 3 p.m., and read prayers. </para>
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<title>DISORDER</title>
<page.no>3591</page.no>
<type>miscellaneous</type>
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<para class="italic">
<inline font-style="italic">A stranger having interrupted from the gallery,</inline>
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<talk.start>
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<page.no>3591</page.no>
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<name role="metadata">SPEAKER, Mr</name>
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<para>- If there is any further interruption, I shall be obliged, reluctantly, to have the galleries cleared. </para>
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<debate>
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<title>SUPPLY BILL (No. 5), 1917-18</title>
<page.no>3591</page.no>
<type>bill</type>
</debateinfo>
<para>Assent reported. </para>
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<debate>
<debateinfo>
<title>PAPERS</title>
<page.no>3591</page.no>
<type>papers</type>
</debateinfo>
<para>The following papers were presented : - </para>
<para>The War- </para>
<para>Australian Imperial Force - Report by the Royal Commissioner <inline font-weight="bold">(His Honour Sir Samuel Griffith, Chief Justice)</inline> as to number of members fit for active service and number of reinforcements and enlistments required. </para>
<para>Public Works Committee Act - Third General Report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works - 1917. </para>
<para>Ordered to be printed. </para>
<para>Audit Act - </para>
<para>Transfers of amounts approved by the Governor-General in Council - Financial year 1916-17- Dated 23rd January, 1918. </para>
<para>Regulations amended - </para>
<para>Statutory Rules 1917, No. 299. </para>
<para>Statutory Rules 1918, Nos. 13, 43. </para>
<para>Cattle-Tick Pest - Report and recommendations of a Conference called to prepare a 'scheme of campaign for eradication of the cattle-tick pest by co-operation between the Commonwealth and State Governments. </para>
<para>Customs Act - Proclamations prohibiting exportation of - </para>
<para>Butter,cheese, cream, concentrated milk, &c., if unfit, for human consumption. </para>
<para>Animal fertilizers and superphosphates (except under certain conditions). </para>
<para>Defence Act - Regulations amended - Statutory Rules 1918, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 23, 24, 20, 27, 42,67, 68, 70, 71, 72. </para>
<para>Defence - Navy and . Defence Administration - Royal Commission - </para>
<para>First Progress Report; together with announcement by the Prime Minis ter and memorandum by the Minister for Defence. </para>
<para class="block">Second Progress Report, together with Report by the Finance Member on Financial Administration ; Reportby the Quartermaster-General ; SolicitorGeneral's Report and memorandum by the Prime Minister onthe Howell-Price Case; Report ' by the Secretary, Prime Minister's Department, on the Commission's observations as to the Auditor-General and his functions; andPrime Minister's decision on recommendations Nos. 11, 12, and 13. </para>
<para class="block">Third Progress Report. </para>
<para class="block">Fourth Progress Report </para>
<para class="block">Decisions arrived at by the Cabinet, 15th March, 1918, on the Second, Third, and Fourth Progress Reports. </para>
<para class="block">Memorandum by the Minister for Defence on the Reports. </para>
<para class="block">Memorandum by thePrime Minister on the Reports. </para>
<para class="block">Dominions Royal Commission (Imperial) - Natural resources, trade, and legislation of certain portions of His Majesty's Dominions - </para>
<para class="block">Minutes of Evidence taken in the central and western provinces of Canada in 1916, Part I. . (Paper presented to the British Parliament.) </para>
<para class="block">Harbors and Canals - Memoranda and tables as to the chief harbors of the British Empire and certain foreign countries and as to the Suez and Panama Canals. (Paper presented to the British Parliament.) </para>
<para class="block">Elections and Referendums - Statistical returns in relation to the submission to the electors of the question prescribed by Regulation 6 of the War Precautions (Military Service Referendum) Regulations 1917;. and summaries of elections and referendums 1903-17. </para>
<para class="block">Lands Acquisition Act - </para>
<para>Land acquired under, at - </para>
<para>Ayr, Queensland - For Defence purposes. </para>
<para>Bunbury, W.A - For Quarantine purposes. </para>
<para>Cordalba, Queensland- For Defence purposes. </para>
<para>King Island, Tasmania - For Defence purposes. </para>
<para>Launceston, Tasmania - For Defence purposes. </para>
<para>Lithgow, New South Wales - For Defence purposes. </para>
<para>Rosemount, near Brisbane,. Queensland - For Defence purposes. </para>
<para>Rutherford, New South Wales - For Defence purposes. </para>
<para>Naval Defence Act- Regulations amended - Statutory Rules 1918, No. 16. </para>
<para>NorfolkIsland - Ordinances of 1918 - </para>
<para>No. 1. - Export of timber. </para>
<para>No. 2. - Executive Council. </para>
<para>Northern Territory - </para>
<para>Ordinance of 1917 - No. 11. - Crown. Lands (No. 2). </para>
<para>Ordinances of 1918 - </para>
<para>No. 1. - Supreme Court. </para>
<para>No. 2. - Crown Lands. </para>
<para>No. 3. - Darwin Town Council. </para>
<para>Crown Lands Ordinance - Regulations amended. </para>
<para class="block">Northern Territory Crown Lands Act' 1890 (South Australia) - Plan showing certain post and telegraph reserves in the Northern Territory. </para>
<para class="block">Post and Telegraph Act - Regulations amended - Statutory Rules 1918, Nos. 4, 20, 21, 22, 29, 30, 40, 49. </para>
<para class="block">Public Service Act- </para>
<para class="block">Appointments, Promotions, &c. - </para>
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<para>Bolton, Postmaster-General's Department. </para>
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<para>S. Brownley, Prime Minister's Department. </para>
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<item label="M.">
<para>F. Brownrigg, Department of Trade and Customs. </para>
</item>
<item label="L.">
<para>B. Fanning, Postmaster -General's Department. </para>
</item>
<item label="R.">
<para>T. Faragher, Postmaster-General's Department. </para>
</item>
<item label="W.">
<para>A.B. Gibson, Department of Trade and Customs. </para>
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<item label="K.">
<para>J. Gorman, Department of the Treasury. </para>
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<para class="block">Regulations amended - Statutory Rules 1918, Nos. 14, 15, 31, 32, 38, 64. </para>
<para class="block">Railways Act - By-law No. 2. </para>
<para class="block">Referendum - Statistical returns showing the voting in relation to the submission to the electors of the question prescribed by Regulation 6 of the War Precautions (Military Service Referendum) Regulations 1917, within each subdivision, of the States of - . </para>
<para>New South Wales. </para>
<para>Queensland. </para>
<para>South Australia. </para>
<para>Tasmania. </para>
<para>Victoria. </para>
<para>Western Australia. </para>
<para>Seat of Government - Ordinances of 1917 - </para>
<para>No.1. - Inflammable liquid. </para>
<para>No. 2. - Explosives. </para>
<para>The War- </para>
<para>China - Text of notes exchanged between the United States and Japanese Governments regarding the policy in China, and declaration of the Chinese Government on thesubject (Paper presented to the British Parliament. ) </para>
<para class="block">Hospital Ships - Correspondence with the German Government regarding the alleged misuse of British hospital ships. (Paper presented to the British Parliament.) </para>
<para class="block">Merchant Vessels - Correspondence with the Netherlands Government respecting defensively-armed British merchant vessels. (Paper presented to the British Parliament.) </para>
<para class="block">War Precautions Act - Regulations amended -Statutory Rules 1918, Nos.5,5, 12, 19, 25, 33, 34, 35, 37, 39, 45, 53, 55,56, 57, 60, 61, 62,. 66, 69, 73, 75, 80, 87. </para>
<para class="block">Wireless Telegraphy Act - Regulations amended - Statutory Rules 1918, No. 17. </para>
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<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>3592</page.no>
<type>Questions</type>
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<subdebate.1>
<subdebateinfo>
<title>ELECTORAL AMENDMENT</title>
<page.no>3592</page.no>
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<speech>
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<talker>
<page.no>3592</page.no>
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<name.id>JX7</name.id>
<electorate>EDEN-MONARO, NEW SOUTH WALES</electorate>
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<name role="metadata">CHAPMAN, Austin</name>
<name role="display">Mr AUSTIN CHAPMAN</name>
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<para>- I ask the Minister for Home and Territories (1) Whether he has a Bill prepared providing for preferential voting at parliamentary elections; and if so, when will he introduce it; and (2) Whether he has been made aware that the undue delay in introducing this measure is causing much dissatisfaction, more particularly as no reason has been given for it ? </para>
</talk.start>
</speech>
<speech>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>3592</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>KCO</name.id>
<electorate>ANGAS, SOUTH AUSTRALIA</electorate>
<party>NAT</party>
<role>Minister for Home and Territories</role>
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<name role="metadata">GLYNN, Patrick</name>
<name role="display">Mr GLYNN</name>
</talker>
<para>- I have two Bills dealing with electoral matters. One of them is designed to secure uniformity in regard to Commonwealth and State procedure, and on it. I hope Boon to get the decision of Parliament, so that the State authorities may be afforded an opportunity to deal with the matter. The second Bill deals with methods of election, and when I submit it to the Cabinet will probably include provisions relating to preferential voting, as well as provisions dealing with the method of Senate elections. Both Bills are practically ready, but I have not yet had an opportunity of obtaining the opinion of my colleagues regarding them. </para>
</talk.start>
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</subdebate.1>
</debate>
<debate>
<debateinfo>
<title>PRIVILEGE</title>
<page.no>3592</page.no>
<type>privilege</type>
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<speech>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>3592</page.no>
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<name.id>KWL</name.id>
<electorate>YARRA, VICTORIA</electorate>
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<name role="metadata">TUDOR, Frank</name>
<name role="display">Mr TUDOR</name>
</talker>
<para>- I ask you a question, </para>
</talk.start>
<para>
<inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Speaker.</inline>It relates to something that happened during the recent adjournment, in regard to which the honorable member for Cook . and myself promised that a question of privilege would be raised assoon as Parliament should meet again. 1 ask whether you propose to refer to the matter to-day? </para>
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<speech>
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<page.no>3592</page.no>
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<name role="metadata">SPEAKER, Mr</name>
<name role="display">Mr SPEAKER</name>
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<para>- I propose to. make a statement on the subject during the course of to-day's proceedings. <inline font-style="italic">Later:</inline></para>
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<page.no>3592</page.no>
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<para>- May I ask, <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Speaker,</inline> whether a question of privilege does not take precedence of all other business f </para>
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<para>- No question of privilege has so far been raised, and I am not prepared to say that any question of privilege is involved in the statement which I propose to make to the House later. It will be for the House itself to determine that point. I considered that before submitting the statement to honorable members it would be well to allow questions without notice and other formal business to be disposed of. </para>
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<debate>
<debateinfo>
<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>3593</page.no>
<type>Questions</type>
</debateinfo>
<subdebate.1>
<subdebateinfo>
<title>UNLAWFUL WEARING OF UNIFORMS</title>
<page.no>3593</page.no>
</subdebateinfo>
<speech>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>3593</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>JWG</name.id>
<electorate>PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA</electorate>
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<name role="metadata">FOWLER, James</name>
<name role="display">Mr FOWLER</name>
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<para>- Is the Minister representing the Minister for Defence aware that in Perth a returned soldier with an absolutely clean record, who had quite innocently put on his military uniform in order to pay what he thought was an official visit to the Military Headquarters, was arrested by the military police, thrown into gaol, and kept there as an ordinary criminal from noon on Saturday until Monday afternopn? If the Minister is not aware of these facts, will he make inquiry concerning the case, and will he also see that it is made impossible for a reputable citizen to be treated as a criminal for what at the most is merely a breach of the military regulations? </para>
</talk.start>
</speech>
<speech>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>3593</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>L1P</name.id>
<electorate>GIPPSLAND, VICTORIA</electorate>
<party>NAT</party>
<role>Honorary Minister</role>
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<first.speech>0</first.speech>
<name role="metadata">WISE, George</name>
<name role="display">Mr WISE</name>
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<para>- I do not know anything about the case, but I shall have inquiries made concerning it. </para>
</talk.start>
</speech>
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<debate>
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<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>3593</page.no>
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<title>MILITARY PENSIONS</title>
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<page.no>3593</page.no>
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<para>- I understand that returned soldiers who have taken up the craft of weaving are not so well treated in Victoria as in New South Wales. I have been credibly informed that from the pensions of such men there is deducted in Victoria the amount of their earnings, so that indirectly these men are being penalized for assisting themselves. I have here in the suit I am wearing a sample of the weaving done by a man who, three months before the material was woven, knew nothing of weaving. Will the Minister in whose Department the matter lies make an inquiry into the matter? </para>
</talk.start>
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<page.no>3593</page.no>
<time.stamp />
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<para>- I shall have an inquiry made. </para>
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<debate>
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<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>3593</page.no>
<type>Questions</type>
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<subdebate.1>
<subdebateinfo>
<title>POST MARKS</title>
<page.no>3593</page.no>
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<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>3593</page.no>
<time.stamp />
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<electorate>WENTWORTH, NEW SOUTH WALES</electorate>
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<para>- Some time ago it was the practice of the Post and Telegraph Department to stamp letters with a lettermark at both the place of posting and the office of receipt. That practice was discontinued allegedly in the interests of economy. I desire to ask the Postmaster Generai whether, in view of occasional delays that have taken place in the delivery of correspondence, &c,he will take into earnest consideration the advisableness of reinstituting that check upon the Department in the public interest ? </para>
</talk.start>
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<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>3593</page.no>
<time.stamp />
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<electorate>MACQUARIE, NEW SOUTH WALES</electorate>
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<role>Postmaster-General</role>
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<name role="metadata">WEBSTER, William</name>
<name role="display">Mr WEBSTER</name>
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<para>- If the honorable member will put in writing exactly what he desires me to consider I shall be pleased to give it my best attention as early as possible. </para>
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<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>3593</page.no>
<type>Questions</type>
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<subdebateinfo>
<title>COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE</title>
<page.no>3593</page.no>
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<para>Broken Hill Sentences</para>
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<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>3593</page.no>
<time.stamp />
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<para>- Is the Minister representing the Minister for Defence aware of the scandalous treatment that is being meted out to lads in training at Broken Hill under the compulsory military service provisions of the Defence Act? I refer to the brutal sentences that are being imposed on some of these boys for slight breaches of discipline. Will the honorable gentleman contrast such sentences with those inflicted in other parts of Australia for similar offences? I ask him to have inquiries made. </para>
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<page.no>3593</page.no>
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<para>- If the honorable member will furnish me with particulars of the cases to which he refers I shall have inquiries made. </para>
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<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>3593</page.no>
<type>Questions</type>
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<title>AUSTRALIAN IMPERIAL FORCE</title>
<page.no>3593</page.no>
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<para>Alterations of Pay</para>
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<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>3593</page.no>
<time.stamp />
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<para>- Is the Minister representing the Minister for Defence aware that considerable delay occurs in forwarding from abroad official advice in regard to alterations made in the payments to our soldiers, and that consequently there is a good deal of dissatisfaction on the part of dependants? Will the honorable gentleman take action to expedite the receipt of such official information ? </para>
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<page.no>3593</page.no>
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<para>- I will see that that is done. </para>
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<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>3593</page.no>
<type>Questions</type>
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<title>SMALL ARMS FACTORY: UNEMPLOYMENT</title>
<page.no>3593</page.no>
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<page.no>3593</page.no>
<time.stamp />
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<name role="metadata">NICHOLLS, Samuel</name>
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<para>- I wish to ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence whether he is aware that 1,000 men previously employed at the Small Arms Factory, Lithgow, are at present out of work, and if so, whether he will take steps to see that these men are returned to their employment as quickly as possible ? </para>
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<page.no>3593</page.no>
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<para>- I am not aware of the facts, but I will bring the matter before the Minister for Defence. </para>
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<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>3593</page.no>
<type>Questions</type>
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<title>TREATMENT OF RETURNED SOLDIERS</title>
<page.no>3593</page.no>
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<page.no>3593</page.no>
<time.stamp />
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<electorate>CAPRICORNIA, QUEENSLAND</electorate>
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<para>- I desire to ask the Prime Minister whether he remembers the promise he made to our soldiers, that he would not desert them either during the war or afterwards, and whether he has seen a paragraph which appeared in the <inline font-style="italic">Argus</inline> of 20th February last to the effect that a request by a returned soldier that he should be given a monopoly of bone collecting and rag-picking at the Footscray rubbish tip was refused by the local council on the ground that there were other returned soldiers earning a living in the same way? Will the Prime Minister state what lias become of the repatriation scheme ? </para>
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<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>3594</page.no>
<time.stamp />
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<para>- I have not seen the paragraph, and I do not recall the circumstances. The honorable member, perhaps, will supply me with the information. </para>
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<page.no>3594</page.no>
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<title>WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT: PROSECUTIONS</title>
<page.no>3594</page.no>
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<page.no>3594</page.no>
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<para>- I wish to ask the Prime Minister whether he will consider the advisableness of creating a department, free from political control, to take action under the War Precautions Act with a view of preventing the followers of the Government, both inside and outside of Parliament, from endeavouring to bring about a revolution in Australia. </para>
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<talker>
<page.no>3594</page.no>
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<para>- I shall have pleasure in dealing with anyone who tries to bring about a revolution in Australia. To whom is the honorable member alluding? </para>
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<page.no>3594</page.no>
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<para>- I am alluding to a lot of clergymen and press writers. </para>
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<para>Later :</para>
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<page.no>3594</page.no>
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<para>-I do not think the Prime Minister quite grasped the question I put to him. A lot of individuals are endeavouring to bring about a rebellion by urging the arrest of other people, and I submit that they ought to be prosecuted under the War Precautions Act. At present the Government alone can take action. Will the Prime Minister create a department, free from political control, which will be empowered to 'take action under the War Precautions Act", so that hia supporters, as well as the supporters of our party, may be prosecuted where prosecutions are considered necessary? </para>
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<talker>
<page.no>3594</page.no>
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<para>- I understand the honorable member's suggestion is that 1 will not prosecute persons other than those whose political opinions do not coincide with my own. That is a reflection upon me, which, if justified, would make me unworthy to hold office. What the honorable member states is not in accord ance with fact. I am ready to prosecute anybody who offends against the War Precautions Regulations. </para>
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<talker>
<page.no>3594</page.no>
<time.stamp />
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<para>- Has the Prime Minister read the cables in this morning's press regarding the methods adopted in the United States of America for the treatment of disloyalists? If so, will he introduce the same punishments in Australia ? </para>
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<continue>
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<talker>
<page.no>3594</page.no>
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<para>- I read the cable message to which the honorable member refers, and I think it stated that the penalty proposed in America is imprisonment for twenty years and a fine 'of ,£2,000. I do not know whether we shall best deal with disloyalists in that way or by some shorter method. I-shall think the matter over. </para>
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<page.no>3594</page.no>
<type>Questions</type>
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<title>DEPORTATIONS</title>
<page.no>3594</page.no>
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<page.no>3594</page.no>
<time.stamp />
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<name role="metadata">CONSIDINE, Michael</name>
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<para>- Is the Prime Minister prepared to inform the House as to how many men have been deported from the Commonwealth, and the reasons for their deportation, !and what number of men are being held at the present time with a view to deportation? </para>
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<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>3594</page.no>
<time.stamp />
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<para>- I am not prepared to supply that information to the House. </para>
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<title>QUESTION</title>
<page.no>3594</page.no>
<type>Questions</type>
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<subdebate.1>
<subdebateinfo>
<title>EXPORT OF LEATHER</title>
<page.no>3594</page.no>
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<speech>
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<talker>
<page.no>3594</page.no>
<time.stamp />
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<para>- Is the Prime Minister aware of the great hardships that are resulting to those engaged in the tanning industry throughout the Commonwealth by reason of the embargo placed by the "British Government upon the imports tion of Australian leather ? Will the Prime Minister take steps to have the embargo removed in the interests of the employees in the tanning industry ? </para>
</talk.start>
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<speech>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>3594</page.no>
<time.stamp />
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<para>- I am aware that considerable trouble has been created by the embargo placed by the British Government on the importation of Australian leather. We have made many representations to the Imperial Government, and I am sorry that so far none of them has been successful. I shall be very glad to make further and more pressing representations, but the honorable member must realize that the scarcity of freight is the real reason for this embargo. </para>
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<page.no>3594</page.no>
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<para>- Hides require more space than leather. </para>
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<continue>
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<page.no>3594</page.no>
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<para>- I have pointed that out. </para>
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<page.no>3595</page.no>
<type>Questions</type>
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<subdebate.1>
<subdebateinfo>
<title>NAVAL CADETS ON PICKET DUTY</title>
<page.no>3595</page.no>
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<speech>
<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>3595</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>JOG</name.id>
<electorate>OXLEY, QUEENSLAND</electorate>
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<name role="metadata">BAYLEY, James</name>
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<para>- Will the Minister for the Navy inform the House whether any steps have been taken to utilize the services of returned soldiers to relieve those Naval cadets who have been performing picket duty for some months, and thereby have been prevented from, continuing their training for ordinary civil avocations? </para>
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<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>3595</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>F4S</name.id>
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<name role="metadata">COOK, Joseph</name>
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<para>- Steps have been taken in that direction, and, in a very great many cases, relief has been already effected. We are doing our best to recruit returned soldiers to the fullest possible extent, and as we do that, we shall return the young trainees to their ordinary occupations. </para>
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<page.no>3595</page.no>
<type>Questions</type>
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<subdebate.1>
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<title>RECONSTRUCTION OF MINISTRY</title>
<page.no>3595</page.no>
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<speech>
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<talker>
<page.no>3595</page.no>
<time.stamp />
<name.id>JWO</name.id>
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<name role="metadata">CATTS, James</name>
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<para>- Will the PrimeMinister say whether it is true, as published in the press, that there lias been some reconstruction of the Ministry ? If so, does he propose to make any announcement to the House as to the new appointments and the duties to be performed by the new Ministers ? ,. </para>
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<talk.start>
<talker>
<page.no>3595</page.no>
<time.stamp />
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<para>- I am not able to say whether the report in the particular paper the honorable member read is correct; but there has been a reconstruction of the Ministry, and in regard to it I made an official announcement. As soon as the preliminary business is disposed of I shall make a statement to the House on a motion for the printing of a certain paper, and it will then be competent for honorable members to discuss the whole matter. </para>
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<page.no>3595</page.no>
<type>Questions</type>
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<subdebate.1>
<subdebateinfo>
<title>THE WAR: AUSTRALIAN TROOPS</title>
<page.no>3595</page.no>
</subdebateinfo>
<para>Motion (by <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Hughes)</inline> proposed - </para>
<quote>
<para>That this House records its unbounded admiration of the heroic efforts of the Allied Armies on the Western Front, its pride in the valour and achievements of the Australian troops, and its firm intention to fight on to secure a victorious peace and the freedom of the world. </para>
</quote>
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<page.no>3595</page.no>
<time.stamp />
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<name role="metadata">BRENNAN, Frank</name>
<name role="display">Mr BRENNAN</name>
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<para>- (Batman) [3.28J. - I would be most hearty in my co-operation in a motion congratulating our Australian soldiers upon their valour, and, indeed, any soldiers who have fought for the Allies in this war, but I do not propose to concur in any further fatuous expressions on the part of this Government in regard to what they are pleased to term a "victorious peace.'' I .think that the very presence of this Government in office and in this House is in itself prejudicial in the highest degree to the success of our arms, and I consider, further, that the head of the Government knows perfectly well that when a few months ago lie pledged himself to a certain course of action, and was condemned by every member ot the Labour party, and by leading representatives of his own party outside this Parliament, for having failed to honour his word, and when he still continued to cling to the spoils of office in spite of that condemnation, he deliberately made the policy of recruiting a failure. He knew, without question or doubt, that the policy he had decided upon, would inevitably reduce' the Australian quota of reinforcements to a minimum. Quite apart from that fact, I do not propose to join in -a resolution of this kind, which expresses our inflexible determination to continue this war until we have won a victorious peace. </para>
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