Counting the People: Socialistic Shipping: Decontrolling Industries:
Political Libel Action: Changes in Arbitration From Our Own Correspondent, Melbourne, June 24.
The figures concerning the census taken last April are now becoming available. It is not perhaps unnatural that the first thing which strikes the Australian is that it may affect his political representation, not as a na. tion but as a State or even a township. Already leading articles have been written to argue that though. Victoria will lose one member in the House of Representatives and New South Wales gain one, yet the importance of Victoria will remain undiminished. As 2 whole Australia has increased by something just short of a million people since the census was taken ten years ago. Taking the figures for 1901, 1911 and the first count for 1921 the State and total population was as follows:—1901.
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