Word: langs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Important as the success of the loan was for the whole Australian Commonwealth, New South Welshmen were more excited over the unsuccessful attempt of N. S. W. Premier J. T. Lang last week to appoint 60 of his Laborite friends to the State Legislative Council (Upper House...
...Laborite, Premier Lang has found every Socialist bill he has tried to pass blocked by the Legislative Council. In New South Wales, an exception to other Australian States, the members of the Upper House are not elected by the voters but appointed by the Governor at the suggestion of the Premier. Premier Lang announced that, just as the late great Herber Asquith pushed his Parliament Bill (curtailing the veto power of the Lords over money bills) through the British House of Lords by threatening to create enough new Liberal Peers to override Conservative opposition, he (Mr. Lang) would appoint enough...
...Sydney, capital of New South Wales, Laborite Lang not only threatened to advise but did advise His Majesty's representative Sir Philip Game, Governor of the State, to create as many new Laborite members of the Upper Chamber as might be necessary to cause the said Upper Chamber to vote its own abolition. So might James Ramsay MacDonald attempt to abolish the House of Lords...
Faced by Laborite Lang's advice, game Sir Philip Game refused to take it. So might George V have refused Mr. Scullin last week (see p. 17). In London the King (through the Times) defended his yielding course as the stronger, held that to have defied Mr. Scullin would have been "weaker...
...South Wales the Lang Government declared that Sir Philip Game's position is "an untenable one." Sir Philip held it. Mr. Lang then told reporters that Sir Philip had promised him some time ago, "man to man," that he would not balk at appointing the necessary Laborites to abolish the Upper House. Sir Philip neither confirmed nor denied this promise, continued to balk. Then Mr. Lang threatened to ask George V to recall Sir Philip Game...