During the life of the last Queensland Parliament Labour members adopted a novel form: of insurance against the loss of their seats at the next election. Each member paid a small weekly contribution into a fund to be distributed among any members losing their seats at the next election. Y all the sitting members were re-elected, the fund was to be carried on into the life of the new Parliament.
Somewhat precipitately a number of newspapers magnified the affair ud urged the Government to dis cipline the Commission for "its interference with the traditional de mocratic liberty of speech." Private members of the Federal Parliamen' seized on the opportunity to demand ithe fullest investigation, which was anic, but with rather unexpected? results.
In replying to criticism on behalf "f the Government. the Minister for Fxternal Affairs, Mr. Hughes, no! nly endorsed the banning of the broadcast, but expressed the opinion *hat if the Commission had erred in any way it was in ever having contemplated the use of such provocative material at all There the matter rests for the moment, but it is an open secret that Government back-benchers as well as Opposition members are awaiting the debate on the Commission's report to ventilate their views on the subject with the greater freedom that Parliamentary privilege allows.
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