Mr McWILLIAMS (FRANKLIN, TASMANIA) . - This clause provides that every trade union or other organization which has, " in connexion with any election " expended money must make returns ; and the words I have quoted are likely to lead to endless confusion. All these organizations and bodies send representatives throughout the country, and are expending money without check; and there should be some definition or limitation of time. Does this mean three years before an election and thus the keeping of accounts showing every item of expense incurred in that period? The wording of this clause is only in keeping with many of the slipshod phrases used throughout the Bill, which seems to have been thrown together without any mature consideration. I am afraid that when this clause is put into operation it will be found inoperative, or will, as I said, result in confusion. We ought to either provide that every shilling spent between elections must be accounted for, or we must fix a limit of one, two, or three months. Is it the idea that the operation of this clause must be confined to a month before the election? We know the farce that has been going on for years in conoexion with the Australian Workers Union, who send out men, nominally to look after the organization, but really to act as political agents. In some cases these agents themselves receive nominations, and may spend months or years in politically organizing a district.

Mr PARKER MOLONEY (INDI, VICTORIA) - Organizations on the other side do the same thing.