Seeking the Unattainable: Certain Justification Unemployment Figures Remain High Frone Oun Own Conesronsee?
The Parliament of Wesiern" Aus-Syéney, May 5. ployment position of the State which owns it, and the slower the rate of tralia met again during April' to recovery, even allowing for artificial sive legal erin and sanction to the and temporary expedients.
Secession movement, as a non-party expression of the opinion. and' desire End. Not in Sight of the people and the Legislature. A The depression is now in its fifth referendum held a sear ago gave 2 year, and to some it is plain the end majority of almost two fo one not yet. There is an idea current favour of withdrawal from the Fed. here that Australia might yet have a eral Commauweaith, a committee apsecond innings of it, as the Ameri-pointed under the authority of the cans had. The ' second innings Biate Government prepared an ad-might be brought about by the cap-dress to the King, and identical petiture of the Commonwealth Parlia-ons to both Houses of the United ment and Government by the wild Kingdom Parliament, together - with men who undertake to perform mira-very. voluminous supplement set-{ing out the case for secession, and he Immediate business of Parliament is to approve these documents fand authorize a delegation to preent them, cles once they are given control of banking and currency, and who may be placed in that position by the support of selfish organized interests and by the feeling—it undoubtedly exists among large masses of the population in this country—that no change can be for the worse. Whether this disaster is in store for us here or not, it is plain that the coastal capitals have ceased to be able to carry 50 per cent, of the mainland population, The big city policy in Australia is played out. For their own good and for Australia's good, a great many city dwellers who now line up for the dole and pitiful scraps of emergency relief work will have to be transferred to where, with the development of inland towns and industry and of neglected ports, life will coffer them something more than a demoralizing dependence on charity.
Tt would be easy and to an extent justifiable, for the majority of non-Westrallans, to treat these pro: ceedings as {uille. Such a move: ment, fit avoids the offence of vio-
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