Speeches and broadcasts

Start Date
01 January 1963
End Date
31 December 1963
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MS 4936-Papers of Sir Robert Menzies/Class. Original Consignment/Series 6/File 180
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Γ Bl HOUSE OF EEPRSBSKTATIVES  

th April, I9Ó3 CANBEEHA  

CENSUES MOTION  

CENSURE MOTION  

Statement in the House of Representatives by  

the Rt, Hon, the Prime Minister, Sir Robert  

Menzies, on Thursday, l8th April, 1963 Â·  

must say. Mr. Speaker, that listened, as always  

do, with great interest to the i^rords of my old friend the  

honourable member for Bonython (Mr. Makin), who became,  

thought at one moment, quite impassioned on this subject,  

do want to point out to him with all friendliness that he  

fell into few errors. He made demand for parliamentary  

control in this matter. Everything, that has been done and  

which is now the subject of attack has been done under  

statute of this Parliament and through an instrumentality  

set up under statute passed by this Parliament.  

would have suggested to my honourable friend that  

he be little cautious about invoking the authority of  

Parliament when, in the case of his own party authority has  

been handed over to the 36 men. Honourable members opposite  

may moan and may groan, but the Leader of the Opposition  

(Mr, Calwell) would not be allowed to move censure motion  

here today unless it came within the authority of the 36.  

Just remember that fact. Then the honourable gentleman  

attacked the Act of Parliament. This is censure motion,  

and presumably, like its happy predecessor last week or the  

week before, is designed to defeat the Government and produce  

an election. It is wonderful to realise how passionately  

fond the Labour Party has suddenly become of an election  

fought on the television law. Already two elections have  

gone by since the law was passed, and do not recall the  

Labour Party making point of it at either. Of course, the  

reason why it did not make point of it in either election  

was that it was convenient on those occasions to play for the  

support of some, at least, of the commercial television  

stations.  

Well, Sir, that prudence has now been abandoned.  

The Labour Party— with authority, trust, from its outside  

36 has nailed its colours to the mast. In this debate it  

has said "We are for nationalization of television. If we  

come into office we will take the earliest possible steps to  

wipe out the existing commercial television licences and put  

the whole thing into the hands of the Government," No longer  

is there any mystery about that policy, hope it will be well  

remembered when the time comes. In due course some time off  

yet we will be having an election.  

Then, my honourable friend got rather heated, thought  

if could apply such word to so mild man about licence  

being given to wealthy group. hope he will forgive me if,  

looking at this report, point out and am reading the  

names of applicants that never heard of until we got the  

report that Community Television Limited it was splendid  

arrangement is comprised of 1,000,000 shareholders of 5s«  

shares hold by returned servicemen and returned servicemen^  

clubs; members and affiliated branches of the Australian  

Labour Party (Victorian Branch); and then, to my joy and  

surprise, members and affiliated branches of the Liberal and  

Country Party, did not know they had this money. Then  

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