The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.
Refers to a recently defeated motion that Hansard should be supplied free of charge to newspaper propietors for distribution to their subscribers. The motion was supported by the Premier of Queensland, S. W. Griffith, but The Cairns Post agrees with The Townsville Bulletin that their readers would have little interest in 'wading through the eloquent utterances of our legislators'.