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0 PEARCE, George Senator PEARCE - If we struck out the item, would our action amount to repudiation 1 0 DRAKE, James

Queensland 0 HIGGS, William Senator HIGGS - I am ~verv sorry that at this early period of the career of the new -Government they have done something which I think is very much in the nature

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portion of them which deals with Defence. When the Defence Bill was before the Senate I did not speak upon its second reading, because it was merely a machinery Bill, laying down the broad lines on which the defence of Australia was to be conducted

Western Australia 0 PEARCE, George Senator PEARCE - We have listened to a speech from the Vice-President of the Executive Council in which the honorable senator has shown his appreciation of the position which the Senate

. - I beg to moveThat the Bill be now read a second time. At about the end of July, the Treasurer of the Commonwealth, Sir George Turner, made his Budget speech to the

That the Bill be now read a second time. I think I can explain the provisions of this measure in a very few words. The British Extradition Act of

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