'The electors of Australia in an emphatic manner, confirmed their confidence in the Lyons Govern. ment, and gave it a definite mandate to continue the administrative programme commenced nearly three years ago. The thanks for this result are' really due to Mr. John 'Thomas Long, as he, undoubtedly, won another election' for his opponents. There is no doubt that no party or combination of parties can rule Australia unless it carries New South Wales. By smashing a great bank and arrogantly demanding the power to smash other banks, Mr. Long, the Labour Leader, made vie-tory in N.S. Wales impossible for either wing of the Labour party or for both wings.
Australia's Prime Minister, therefore, 1s again Mr. Lyons, who, though a model of the domestic vir~ tues, is as common place a politician as ever mouthed a platitude. He cipal coadjutors have the reputa-ton of being even duller than himself, but the country, for all that, free for another three years, from the experiments of Australian Labour leaders. monkey had returned voluntarily, ind Was squatting outside a cage on f pile of straw, waiting for the door to be reopened.
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