THE YOUNG AUSTRALIAN PARTY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2406, 22 January 1909, Page 5

THE YOUNG AUSTRALIAN PARTY.

* ENGLISH NEWSPAPER CRITICISM. PRONO UNCEDLY ANTI-IM PERIA L United Tress Association. Copyright LONDON, Jan. 20. The “Tall Mail Gazette” characterises the Young Australian National party as extraordinary and pronouncedly a nti-Imperial. Tho “Tall Mall Gazette” states that the nvanifesto should give English Imperialists a shrewd hint to probe a little deeper below the surface platitudes--of Imperial rhetoric.

THE YOUNG AUSTRALIAN PLATFORM. AN AMBITIOUS PROGRAMME. (Received Jan. 22, 12.22 a.m.) * SYDNEY, Jan. 21. The Young Australian Party’s manifesto, mentioned by the “Pall Mall Gazette” evidently escaped attention in Australia, although it as understood that the party lias representatives in all the States and New Zealand. Its platform'proposes to secure the country from the possibility or successful invasion, after which it deals with the more difficult and intricate task of evolving a system ol national government under which poverty should be minimised and. extirpated and the commonwealth of all guarded against the rapacity ol the. few. Its platform-implies that there shall be no right of veto on Commonwealth legislation by the Crown or High Court, that there shall be a White Australia, with party government abolished, and with the right to make Ireatics with foreign Powers and appoint Consuls, a compulsory citizens’ defence force, an Australian navy built, manned, and absolutely controlled by Australians, the abolition of. State Governments, Parliaments, and constitutions, adequate wages for all, abolitiop of capital punishment, a national bank and Commonwealth coinage, only Australians to own land and mines, and the abolition of all Lues.