AUSTRALIA: Change for £1

Australia found itself bursting with spring blossoms and a Labor Government last week. The Labor Government, the Commonwealth's first in ten years, got in through a squabble over £1.

Labor had introduced a motion to cut the Administration budget by £1. Two Independents, Arthur W. Coles and Alexander Wilson, turned against the coalition Government they had helped to keep in power, and during a ten-hour debate Prime Minister Arthur W. Fadden and Independent Arthur W. Coles shouted insults at each other across the House. Arthur W. Fadden accused Arthur W. Coles of...

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