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...hair of premier James Henry Scullin has turned almost pure white this past year, so crushing were his burdens while the State of New South Wales weltered in a series of defaults which the Dominion Treasury had to make good (TIME. April 6, et seq.). Last week young, buoyant Australia kicked Mr. Scullin, who now seems "old" at 55, into the discard. Triumphantly placed in power by a general election which gave his supporters 51 seats out of the Australian Parliament's 75 was "The Honest Man from Tasmania," Joseph Aloysius Lyons...
After 25 months in power the Commonwealth Labor Government of Premier James Henry Scullin suddenly fell last week. In Parliament Irate John Albert Beasley M. P. charged that Commonwealth Treasurer Edward Granville Theodore was showing political favoritism in the distribution of jobs to Australia's unemployed. Jobs at the Cockatoo Naval Dockyard which lies in the Beasley constituency were being given to unemployed men from Treasurer Theodore's constituency, before Beasley constituents had a chance to apply for them. Treasurer Theodore denied the charge. Mr. Beasley demanded an investigation. Radical Left Laborites deserted the Labor Premier, joined...
...Premier Scullin immediately proffered his resignation. Shouted he: "You can have your election now, and it's a mighty poor issue to fight...
Eleven thousand miles from Australia in London last week Laborite Scullin's foe & predecessor, former Nationalist Premier Stanley Melbourne Bruce, seemed flabbergasted by the suddenness of the Government's fall. Unable to get back to Australia in time for the General Election (which Mr. Scullin promptly announced to take place Dec. 19), Mr. Bruce frantically kept in touch with friends in Australia who organized a "Committee of 100" to try to win him a seat in Flinders, Victoria...
Mess No. 1: Repudiation by Mr. Lang last week of interest on another set of N. S. W. bonds, this time defaulting interest due in the U. S. as well as Great Britain. As he has done before, Prime Minister James Henry Scullin of all Australia announced that the Commonwealth will make good this default, but Mr. Scullin will raid Australia's gold reserve...