Pledge by McEwen to protect Industries.  SHEPPARTON (Vic.), Monday. The Federal Government would stand by any Australian industries harmed by Britain's proposed entry to the European Common Market, the Leader of the Country Party and Minister for Trade, Mr J. McEwen, said tonight.  Mr McEwen said the Government would use its best efforts to protect al Australian industries in the negotiations with the Common Market countries on the terms of Britain's entry. But if, unhappily, any industries were grievously harmed, the Government pledged itself to stand by them. Mr McEwen was opening the Country Party campaign for the Federal election on December 9. About 150 people quarterfilled the theatre in which he spoke. They frequently applauded his speech. the first half of which as broadcast. Mr MeEwen said that it Britain joined the Common Market it would be one of the great events of history and would present a major problem for Australia. The Federal Government had reacted with vigour to safeguard Australia’s interests, which had developed during 30 years of contractual reciprocal preferences.  No Industry expendable.  We have industries, indeed whole communities built up around this preferential trade. Britain, of course, has enjoyed benefits here of at least balancing value, he said.  Mr McEwen said the Government would not accept that any single Australian industry was expendable as a price for the preservations of other industries. The whole resources of Government would be devoted to safeguarding the interests of Australian export industries as Britain negotiated to join the Common Market. We will certainly argue that if Britain  is to buy food at higher prices from the continent we will not expect, when selling our food, to receive depressed, unprofitable prices, he said. We will argue that in so major a rethinking of world trading as is involved in the likelihood of 300 million non-communist Europeans coming together in one trading bloc, it is appropriate to discuss what is fair for all who depend on the export of food and raw materials, for their economic survival. Mr McEwen suggested that the United States and other industries evolve a new concept of world price stability at fair levels for bulk commodities. Food surpluses could be discussed at a meeting of the western countries and plans examined to help the hungry people of the world. Such a Policy would satisfy the highest humanitarian concept, and contribute massively to political stability in countries where there were millions of hungry people otherwise open to Communist approaches.  Steady Decline In Export Prices.  I regard the European Common Market issue as on the one hand fraught with great danger to Australian stability, but at the same time providing one of the great opportunities of history if the needs of all free people are to be taken into account, Mr McEwen said. The Common Market negotiations and the part we play in them will be a matter of tremendous importance to the future of Australia’s economy. "Matters of such complexity and importance affecting the future prosperity of all can best be handled by a Government as broadly representative and as balanced in its interests as the present coalition between the Liberal and Country parties. Mr McEwen said that above all other policy objectives the Liberal-County Party Government was determined that Australia should be free and remain free. Communism was the ultimate denial of personal freedom and therefore the Government denounced it. The Country Party which was the first political organisation in Australia to demand that Communism be banned, also opposed Socialism as a contradiction of the concept of a free and selfreliant Australian nation. Mr McEwen said the Government would ensure that manufacturing industry in Australia had adequate, tariff protection to grow strong and expand. There was evidence that this protection had been sustained. Today there were 41 per cent more factories in Australia than in 1949, when the present Government came to power. The value of factory production was three and a half times greater than it was 12 years.  Inflation Of Costs And Values.  Mr McEwen said the Government had faced last year the problem of concentration on speculative and nonessential activity. This had led to offers of very high interest rates and inflation of costs and values, all of which constituted a threat to a stable and solid base for expansion. Export prices had been declining. If Australia last had enjoyed 1953 of export prices, it would have earned £400 million more than it received for its increased quantities of exports. This, in a nutshell, was what led the Government to introduce the economic, policies which had been distasteful and hurtful to many. But today we are confident that these inflationary and speculative pressures at home have been arrested," Mr McEwen said. He said he expected the value of rural production to increase from £1,350million today to £1.600million by 1970.  Establishing Warehouses. The value of work done in factories would increase, by 50 per cent and there would be a rise of twothirds in the value of Australia's mineral exports. To help increase Australian export income the Government would support the establishment of warehouses to carry Australian goods for sale in important centres around the world. The Government looked to the steel industry to become a more important and continuous export earner. The decision to reconstruct the railway line between Fremantle and the great iron ore deposits near @ was related to this policy. Mr McEwen said the Country Party said the country party had long advocated decentralisation. There was no doubt that if new States were created in areas they would be a major contribution to decentralisation. Mr McEwen said the election promises of the Leader of the Federal Opposition, Mr A. A. Calwell, were a bubble which would burst and produce a real setback to Australia’s development. A policy of expanding Australia would be meaningless without an assurance that sufficient overseas funds would be earned to provide the import needs of Australian factories. This essential for maximum employment and without it migration could not he sustained.  Congo On Our doorstep. Mr McEwen said Mr Calwell suggestion for U.N. participation in New Guinea development could lead to a Congo on our front doorstep. I greatly fear Mr.Calwell proposal to ask the United Nations to assume the cost of developing New Guinea for self-government. Mr Calwell can find 300 million a year to curry favour in Australia, but to save Australia £5 million or £10 million a year in New Guinea, he would allow Communists of the UN to get a supervising position in New Guinea. We all know that the Communists never pass an opportunity to make mischief and cause disruption, particularly in emerging countries.  MENZIES URGES CAUTION IN VOTING.  In this first national television talk of the federal election campaign, the prime minister, Mr Menzies, said last night the government’s opponents were inviting electors to make a wild experiment by electing the Labour party to power. The electors were being encouraged to an excitable act arising from the very prosperity of the country, merely to see what the Opposition could do. The opposition consistent however of people quarrelling with each other, mostly disliking each other, with hardly an ounce of mutual loyalty. There were a collection of people who have not been able to live together @ and who have not been able to govern themselves politically. Mr. Menzies said that although the government consisted of two parties. Liberal and Country, it had been completely united. We have never had any discord in my government, he said.  Capital investment.  Because Australia’s public credit was high, people overseas were willing to invest here. 1 know what my opponents say they do not like it, he added. But it will be a sad day for Australia if they do, because without the investment of capital in his country our progress would be slowed down almost immeasurable. Mr Menzies said the number of days of work lost under his government had never been as great as the lowest number lost under the preceding labour Government. This was remarkable and all the more so because many people would remember being told by his opponents. Oh, of course they will never be able to get on with organised labour. Yet we have the greatest record of industrial peace that this country can point to, Mr Menzies said. It is only when people have the opportunity of continuity of work and production that Australia can develop more and more as it has developed over the last 20 years. CALWELL LISTS MAIN POLL ISSUES  13 KEY POINTS IN POLICY.  The Leader of the Federal Opposition, Mr A. A. Calwell, said last night that Labour would fight the November 30 elections "broadly on all homefront issues of great national importance and deep personal concern to the electorate." In his policy speech he listed 13 main issues on which Labour asked the electorate to vote. He placed the need to promote the economic growth of the nation and its defence and foreign affairs first in his list. He said the other issues were: education and science; housing; health; northern development; social services (including child endowment and pensions); full employment; hospital benefits; repatriation; restrictive practices; trade; and the unsatisfactory state of rural industries. Mr Calwell delivered his policy speech in the Royale Ballroom, Exhibition Building, Melbourne. More than 1,000 people at the Exhibition Building heard Mr Calwell’s speech, which was also broadcast and televised throughout Australia. Labour's rural policy will be announced at Grafton tomorrow night by Mr R. T. Pollard, a former Labour Minister for Agriculture.  SUMMARY OF PLEDGES.  Mr Calwell said the most purblind Government supporter could not deny that there was widespread discontent and distrust and boredom with the present Government in every section of the community. He added: Where, for instance is the direction and the drive in government circles needed to expand our industries and to develop our empty north? They just don't exist. The nation does not surge forward with confidence as it should be doing, if we are to survive; it moves along at a jog trot, held back by a Government which swings wildly between complacency and violent panic. What is now needed is a Government that looks like a government that acts like a government and that listens to what the people and is trusted by them in return. Dealing the major issues on which labour would fight the election. Mr Calwell made these promises:  Economy: by economic planning to ensure a national growth rate of at least 51 per cent a yearat least onethird faster than at present. A national planning scheme to coordinate private and public development.  Defence. To increase Navy and Army "frontline" strength and secure the best available replacement for the Canberra bomber and the best available temporary replacement. To renegotiate with the United States, the agreement covering the U.S. naval communications base to provide for joint control, not military control, at Government level. To take the initiative in calling an international conference to discuss the possibility of declaring the southern hemisphere a nuclear-free zone. A foreign policy based firmly on membership the British Commonwealth adherence to the Australia American alliance, and loyalty to the United Nations. To insist that Australia’s voice is fully heard in the councils of its allies and Australia’s national rights and sovereignty are maintained. Seek to negotiate a clear and public treaty to cover the continued presence of Australian troops in Malaysia. Pending a treaty to regard any acts of aggression against Malaysia its breach of the UN Charter and resist them.  Education. Accept the fact that the Commonwealth has a responsibility in to regard to education. An emergency grant of £10m to the states to overcome the immediate education crisis. To double Commonwealth scholarship for university students from 5.000 to 10.000 at a cost of £5m a year. Establish a system of scholarships similar to the university scholarships for students at technical colleges, teachers' colleges and at both State and nonState secondary schools. An inquiry into all aspects of education to provide a "blueprint" which a Labour Government would implement. Wider opportunities for Australia to develop an exercise technical and scientific skills. A national science foundation to expand, organise and coordinate scientific education and research.  Housing. A Homes Finance Commission to provide finance for home building and to guarantee loans from those willing to lend at low interest rates and on low deposits of no more than from five to ten per cent of the capital cost. To provide the States with loans at 3,5 per cent interest to reduce rentals and repayment on Housing Commissions homes. To hold an inquiry into Australia's housing needs, as sought by the states.  Health. A complete national health service, including dental, optical and deaf-aid treatment. A free public medical service, including specialist treatment, based on public hospitals. To abolish the @ charge for prescriptions and extend the free list of drugs. Repeal the requirement that patients must join a registered fund to obtain additional commonwealth benefits.  Social services. To raise child endowment by 6/ to 11/ a week for the first child, by 9/ to 19/ for the second child and by 12/ to 22/ for the third and subsequent children. To double the maternity allowance to £30 for the first child, rising to £35 for the fourth and subsequent children. An extra 10£ a week for married pensioners. To abolish the means test progressively. Increase the pensioner funeral allowance from £10 to £50.  Employment. Full employment, without qualifications. Labour will never permit a repetition of the waste and hardship of the past three years.  Repatriation. Review the Repatriation Act, recognise cancer a war-caused disease, and interpret the onus-of-proof clause to give ex-servicemen the benefit of the doubt.  Trade Practice. To legislate exploitation and wasteful restrictive trade practices by monopoly interests, with protection for small traders.  Trade. To book Australia's trade, establish an overseas shipping line, a Commonwealth export bank to provide export credit, and an overseas trade commission.  Other subjects. After speaking for more than half an hour, Mr, Callwell realised he could not complete the whole of his prepared speech within an hour. He then omitted large sections dealing with overseas investment, manufacturing industries, restrictive trade practices, industrial matters, northern development decentralisation and local government. He told the meeting that these matters would be dealt with in detail as the campaign progressed.  1,000 At Ballroom Hear Labour Election Policy.  MELBOURNE Wednesday. A crowd of more than 1000 in the Royale Ballroom heard the leader of the Federal Opposition, Mr A. A. Calwell, deliver his policy speech tonight.  More than 30 Federal and State Labour members were on the platform with Mr Calwell, in addition to the 23 candidates for the Victorian Federal @ held by the Liberal or County Party. Mr Calwell was flanked by his deputy Leader, Mr E.G. Whitlam, and the Opposition Leader in the Senate, senator N.E. McKenna. The chairman was the president of the Victorian branch of the ALP, Mr R.W. Holt. The audience stood @ attention while the National Anthem and Advance Australia Fair were played. Mr Holt then called on the audience to observe a brief silence as a mark of respect for the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, Dr Daniel Mannix, who died this afternoon. Mr Calwell’s speech was frequently interrupted by applause, which on one occasion continued for about half a minute. After speaking for half an hour, Mr Calwell had @ only one-third of his prepared policy speech. However, he realised that he was behind schedule and @ large sections of the prepared text. This enabled him to get on to defence and foreign affairs before his commercial television time ended at 8.45, but he omitted the detailed references to the A.L.P. plans for the Army contained in his prepared speech, and also to taxation. Mr Calwell raced through the final paragraphs of his speech as the Federal secretary of the ALP, Mr C. Wyndham, stood in the front of the platform at 9 o’clock to signal that all television and radio broadcasts had ended. At no time did Mr Calwell appear disturbed by the fact that a live telecast was being made of his speech, but the @ of the @ @ @ obviously affected him.  ALP leader’s Melbourne speech. Calwell gives details on labour policy.  The Australian Labour Party welcomed the opportunity to place its policy before the people, the Leader of the Federal Opposition, Mr A. A. Calwell, said in his election policy speech last night.  Speaking in the Royale Ballroom, Melbourne, Mr Calwell said there was no pressing national need for the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, and treasurer, Mr H.E. Holt, to precipitate the election and throw the House of Representatives and the Senate out of electoral alignment. There could be no justification for the waste of £500,000 in having two elections where one alone next year would suffice.  Statement of Poll Issues.  Mr Calwell said: But now hat elections for the House of Representatives only are to be held, let me state the position of the Labour Party on the issues that will decide the result of the elections, in order that they may be clearly understood and appreciated. In other words, let me separate the Labour Party’s grain from the Liberal and Country parties chaff. We welcome the chance to do so. Even more, we can congratulate the Australian people on the chance which is theirs to destroy the Menzies Government. It is time for a change. It is more than time for a change: it is time to give  Australia a chance. Mr Calwell said Labour’s policy on defence was sound, realistic and inspired by the spirit of Australian nationalism. Consequently, it would appeal to all Australians who loved their country and wanted to see its security guaranteed. On the question of economic growth we most remember two things," Mr Calwell said. We are a young nation, not only in terms of our history but in terms of the age of our present population. Half of our present population is under the age of 30 and onethird of it is in the age group between five and 24. In this dramatic and significant trend in our population lies, at one and the same time, our greatest challenge and our greatest chance. If we meet the challenge now, we can make the youthfulness of our population our springboard to future greatness. If we neglect it will cause almost irremediable harm.  Growth of work force. Mr Calwell said Australia must plan for rapid growth to absorb a work force which was growing at the rate of 2 per cent every year. The numbers needing education would rise rapidly. And the glowing numbers in the marriageable age group means that more and more houses must be built to give a decent start to those seeking to marry and found families, he said. These are the basic facts of Australian life today, and in those facts lies the hard core of Labour’s economic policy, a policy which stands for spectacular economic growth, a revolution in education, and vigorous housing drive. These are the first things on which we set our sights. We are setting our sights on a great tomorrow. Labour stands firmly on its policy of full employment full employment without qualifications. That means that every Australian willing and able to work must have the opportunity to work. We will never permit a repetition of the waste and hardship of the past three years. Mr Calwell said that at the very moment unemployment had fallen below the intolerable figure of from 10.000 to 100000 the Government sought a renewal of its mandate. He went on: "Now, just as the economy emerges from the worst effects of the worst slump since the thirties, there is already speculation about the timing of the next credit squeeze if this government should remain in office. There is a simple reason for this: the credit squeeze is the one economic weapon this Government knows how to wield, and they have wielded it three times in a decade with disastrous results on each occasion. To secure the proper use of credit resources, the Labour Party would use existing banking powers to control hire purchase and to ensure that credit was available for all legitimate business purposes. We will plan Australia’s way out of the disastrous cycle of stop and go, he said. Labour in office will aim at a rate of national growth, that is, in the increase of all the goods and services produced, of at least 51 per cent annually. The governor of the Reserve Bank (Dr H. Coombs) pointed out this year that this rate can be achieved without placing undue strain on our resources, and without producing inflation. The rate of growth of 5,5 per cent annually could be achieved by a suitable working partnership between the Commonwealth and private enterprise, but the Commonwealth will have to play the leading part. Mr Calwell said a growth rate of 51 per cent was at east one third faster than the rate of growth achieved by the present Government. In the slump years @ by this government there was, in fact a fall of the rate of growth, he said. A labour Government would  - Institute a national planning scheme to co-ordinate private and public development to determine the amount of Commonwealth expenditure and required and, generally, to ensure the best of our resources.  - Establish a works planning council to plan public works in co-operation with the States over at least a five-year period.  - Establish regional development authorities to provide service and co-ordinate development within their own regions.  Plans For Economic Growth  Mr Calwell said that through sound planning, countries like France and Japan had achieved spectacular postwar growth. By setting targets, by ending the confusion caused by contradictory Government policies and by taking industry into our confidence and letting it know exactly what is expected of it, we will achieve similar results, he added.  Proposals on education.  On education. Mr Calwell said: we unhesitatingly accept the fact that the Commonwealth has a responsibility in regard to education. We will not, as the Menzies Government has done, seek to evade or avoid that responsibility. We propose. therefore, to establish a Commonwealth  Ministry for Education and Science to act as the instrument of our national policy. We make further propose to make an emergency grant of £10m to the State, to overcome the immediate crisis caused by teacher and accommodation shortages. We will enlarge the Commonwealth Scholarships Scheme so that students of ability are not debarred of their parents' financial position. The scheme will also be extended to encourage more students to take degrees at honours standards, and to encourage post-graduate studies by graduates. We will increase the number of Commonwealth scholarships from 5000 to 10000 at an estimated annual charge or rather invest of 5£m. we will however not be content to deal with education at the top of the pyramid alone, as the Menzies Government has done. We propose therefor to establish a system of scholarships on lines similar to the university scholarships for students at technical colleges, teachers, colleges and at secondary schools. When fully implemented the secondary schools scholarships system will be limited in number only by the ability of the pupils to meet the qualifying standards applicable in his or her state. The scholarships subject to a means test, will be tenable at the schools of the parents’ choice and will be open to students from government and nonGovernment schools.  Inquiry on education. Mr Calwell said a Labour government would set up an inquiry into all aspects of education in Australia and implement its findings. He said Labour equally determined that Australia should play its full part in the revolution in science, technology and automation. He said: our objective is clear: in human terms, we want wider opportunities for Australia to develop and exercise technical and scientific skills. On the economic side, we want to improve the efficiency of Australian industry. Mr Calwell said a Labour Government would:  - Establish a National Science Foundation to expand, organise and co-ordinate scientific education and research.  - Encourage, by concessions, Australian industry to undertake research.  - Arrange for and finance at least 1000 young men and women to go overseas each year for technical training.  - Encourage both by tax concession and subsidy, Australian industry to expand its training facilities for technicians and scientific workers.  Unless me take urgent steps now to place Australia in the forefront of the scientific revolution, we are doomed to be a nation of  Borrowers and imitators, living precariously on the fruits of foreign research, he said. This program, in its early stages, would cost at least £10m annually.  Housing scheme outlined.  Mr Calwell said one of the Government’s greatest failures was in housing. Labour would establish a homes finance commission to finance home construction, and guarantee loans at low interest rates, and on low deposits amounting to no more than 10 per cent of the capital cost.  - Provide loans to the States at @ per cent interest to enable them to reduce rentals and repayment on Housing Commission Homes.  - Increase grants to the states by £20m for public housing with emphasis on slum clearance and development projects.  - @ a steady and adequate flow of private finance for home building.  - Hold an inquiry into Australia’s housing needs as requested by the states ministers for housing.  Free Public medical Service  Mr Calwell said Labour would accept the responsibility of providing a free public medical service based on public hospitals. He said: we will establish a complete national health service to provide general practitioner, specialist, pharmaceutical, hospital, mental health, dental and optical and hearing appliance services, as was originally intended by the Chifley Government. We will repeal the requirement that patients must join a registered society to obtain additional Commonwealth benefits, but voluntary insurance will be encouraged. A Labour Government has no intention of hindering private medical practice, or of limiting freedom of choice of the patient in seeking medical attention. Suggestions that we seek to socialise medicine are so much propaganda. We have no such plans and, in any case. the Constitution would not allow it.  Commonwealth Health Scheme.  Increased health benefits would also include a salaried specialist service at pub hospitals, abolition of the 5/prescription fee and restoration of lifesaving drugs recently removed from the free list. A Labour Government would hold an inquiry in the costs of drugs a its effect on the level of pharmaceutical benefits with a view to ending waste, inefficiency and exploitation.  Social Service Objective. Mr Calwell said Labour’s objective was to restore all social services, without exception at least to the purchasing power they possessed the Chifley Government. He said: We intend to make child endowment of real value to the mothers of Australia. There has been no change in the level of child endowment since 1950, 13 years ago, although the basic wage was then £6/18, compared with £14/8/ now. We propose to increase child endowment by paying the following new rates;  - For first child, 11 a week (6/ rise).  - For the second child, 19/ (9/ rise).  - For the third and subsequent children, 22/ (12/rise).  We propose also to extend the endowment to children up to the age of 18 pursuing fulltime studies at universities. For the same purpose, that of helping the parents of Australia, Labour will double the maternity allowance to £30 for the first child, rising to £35 for the fourth and subsequent children. We will provide a n additional 10/ a week for married pensioners, ending the extraordinary discrimination against marriage established by the Government in its last Budget. We propose to increase the funeral payment made to the person who has paid or is liable to pay the cost of a funeral of an age or invalid pensioner from £10 to £50. We will abolish the means test progressively, and as opportunity offers. Labour would provide these services to enable Australia to trade anywhere in the world:  - An Australian shipping commission to operate overseas and coastal ships to the greatest extent possible.  - A Commonwealth export bank to provide credit facilities for exporters of both primary and secondary goods.  - An overseas trade commission whose functions would include investigation of franchise or licensing agreements which prevented or restricted the export of any commodity and to promote Australian trade generally.  Increase in forces.  Dealing with defence, Mr Calwell said Labour would lift the fighting strength of all three Armed Services. Referring to the Government's decision to buy American TFX bombers, Mr Calwell said: the deal was made, the decision was taken, in less time than the averages family needs decide on the purchase of a new car. So great was the haste, the Prime Minister could not acquaint himself with the full facts in time for the Parliamentary debate on the issue. On this question the Prime Minister did not bother himself or his hearers with the niceties of exact fact.  Bomber Deal Questioned. The decision to purchase a bomber which will not be available until the end of this decade is presumable based on an Assessment of the international situation that no emergency requiring a bomber is likely before that time. And yet we have not been told, has not this election been justified, officially, on the grounds that the emergency is upon us, here and now? To put it in blunt vernacular, either the emergency the Government talks about is phony or the decision to buy a bomber not yet off the drawing board is dangerous and unsound. Mr Calwell said Labour was confident it could renegotiate the treaty with the U.S. to provide for joint control on a government level of the US naval communications station at North-West Cape. He said: our foreign policy will be based firmly on four pillars; membership of the Commonwealth of nations; firm adherence to the AustralianAmerican alliance established by the Curtin Labour Government unswerving loyalty to the United Nations; and insistence that the voice of Australia shall be fully heard in the councils of our allies, and that our national rights and sovereignty will always be maintained. Labour believed that Australia should follow Britain’s lead of recognising Red China. Because of the new situation brought about by the emergence Of Malaysia, the labour Government would seek in negotiate a clear, and public treaty to cover the continued presence of Australian troops there, setting out the rights and obligations of both parties. Mr Calwell said: pending the conclusion of such a treaty, any act of aggression against Malaysia will be treated as a bleach of the Nations Charter, and will be resisted accordingly. We will help to defend Malaysia, but we are not without hope that the present strained relations between Malaysia and certain of her neighbours will soon disappear. The Prime Minister has stated that he wants the election to be fought of the question of Malaysia. In other words, he wants to force the nation to divide on a question on which it is fundamentally divided. He wants to have bandied around the @, in the hot and heady atmosphere of an election campaign, delicate questions affecting the security of nations. This indeed is irresponsibility of an Olympian order. CONFIDENTIAL  NOT FOR RELEASE UNTIL 8.00 P.M. on Thursday, 7th NOVEMBER, 1963.  Delivered by Federal Parliamentary Leader, Democratic Labor Party, Senator GEORGE R. COLE, at 8 p.m. on Thursday 7th November, 1963, in Festival Hall, Brisbane.  Ladies and Gentlemen:  This election makes history. It is the first Australian election in which foreign policy, security and defence, are primary issues. The DLP which said these issues were vital at the l961 election welcomes the change. It shows Australia’s maturity in that we now debate and decide our own foreign policies rather than follow imperial decisions.  It also vindicates the DLP fight, since 1954, for recognition that the issues of foreign policy, security and- defence, must be adequately provided for if Australia is to survive.  Fifty DLP Parliamentarians, Federal and State, over the past ten years, sacrificed their seats and careers for this same cause.  Thousands of DLP rank- and file- supporters preferred their country security to old political associations and-friendships.  They have not made their sacrifice in vain.  Australia has, at last, been alerted to the danger.  EXPLOSION FROM ASIA  Before World War II, there was between us and the rest of the world, particularly the teeming Asian world, a protective screen. We had British forces in India; Burma, and Malaysia, the French in Indo-China, the Dutch in the East Indies, the Americans in the Philippines. That screen has vanished and at our doors thanks to modern air transport and communications, is overcrowded Asia, discontented, extremely nationalistic, hungry and facing a population explosion, which must intensify her troubles.  SOME YEARS AGO, RUSSIAN DICTATOR, KRUSHCHEV TOLD A BRITISH REPORTER THAT IT WAS INEVITABLE THAT OVERCROWDED ASIA WOULD SPILL OVER. HE SAID THERE WERE ONLY TWO UNDERPOPULATED AREAS AVAILABLE, SIBERIA IN HIS OWN COUNTRY, AND AUSTRALIA. “NATURALLY”, HE SAID, “I SHALL ENCOURAGE THEM TO SPILL”.  SOUTH EAST ASIA DRIVE  That explains aggressive Communism’s South East Asia drive, which has swallowed Tibet, the Indian frontier areas, Burma's frontier, North Vietnam, North Korea and part of Laos and Cambodia.  It explains Communism’s strength and subversion in such areas as Singapore and Indonesia. It underlines Australia’s danger if South East Asia falls. The figures speak for themselves.  Australia has 11 million people in a vast continent, underpopulated and underdeveloped. Red China has 700 million, India 400 million, the Philippines 26 million, South Vietnam 14 million, Malaysia 8 million, Thailand 26 million, Japan 94 million, Indonesia nearly 100 million. When Mr. Calwell calls for firm action by Australia's almost unarmed 11 million against Indonesia’s 100 million, armed by Russia, one may well ask – “What with?”.  WHAT MUST AUSTRALIA DO ?  At the 1961 Federal election, Mr. Menzies declared in his Policy Speech that Australia’s defences were in satisfactory shape. Mr. Calwell categorically stated in his policy speech that, if elected Prime Minister, he would not spend a penny more on defence than the Menzies Government.  Both now realise they were wrong, but we may ask Mr. Calwell, whom only this  election has made defence-minded, will his Left Wing masters let him carry out his defence promises.  Democratic Labor in 1961 was the only political party to call for strengthening of Australia's defences.  In 1961 our policy was, and still is in the present security crisis:  - THAT AUSTRALIA'S DEFENCES BE DOUBLED IN THE THREE YEARS OF THE NEXT PARLIAMENT.  - THAT OUR PERMANENT FORCES BE INCREASED, AND OUR MILITIA REORGANISED TO PRODUCE THE LEADERS NECESSARY FOR EXPANSION.  - THAT ESSENTIAL DEFENCE INDUSTRIES BE PROTECTED AND ENCOURAGED.  - THAT THE EXPANSION INCLUDE NATIONAL SERVICE. WE STAND FOR A NATIONAL SERVICE PLAN TO BE PREPARED BY MILITARY AND ECONOMIC EXPERTS, WITH THE PRO.  The Democratic Labor Party welcomes the decision since the 1961 election of the Returned Soldiers League, which supports no political party, to advocate doubling our defences and national service.  The DLP welcomes the discovery made in this election by the Liberal, Country and Australian Labor Parties that in 1961, the DLP policy was right, and Australia needs stronger defences.  POWERFUL ALLIES NEEDED  We need, however, not only defences - but powerful allies.  Democratic Labor recognises that Britain, weakened by her noble sacrifices in two World Wars, and by changes in the character of the British Commonwealth, can no longer offer Australia the assistance and protection on which we once relied.  Therefore, the American Alliance is to Australia all important.  Believing that whatever legitimately associates the United States with our defence is to our advantage, the DLP supports the agreement for a U.S. Communications Base in West Australia. If DLP preferences had not blocked an A.L.P. Government in 1961, there would not have been a Base.  In the 1961 Federal election when, as the result of the policies of the Credit Squeeze, the Liberal vote collapsed, there is no doubt that had it not been for the DLP, there would have been a Calwell Government with a majority of approximately twenty seats. And what would the result have been?  In March of this year, you would have had in office a Government which could not have signed the Agreement with the United States to establish the Naval Communications Station at North West Cape.  There was no possible hope of such an Agreement being signed because the A.L.P. Federal Conference would not have permitted it, and Mr. Calwell would have been powerless to influence their decision.  Whatever veneer of moderation was imported into the decision ultimately taken by the A.L.P., was due to the fact that they were out of office and that an A.L.P. majority absolutely against the base would have been politically ruinous to the A.L.P.’s future prospects.  Even then, seventeen votes out of thirty-six, were totally against the Agreement with the United States. Imagine the situation had they been in office, without the need to cultivate and reassure the electorate in order to get into office.  Should efforts by certain A.L.P. and Union elements continue to hold up construction of the Base by a ban on security checks on workers, necessary to prevent Communist spies obtaining employment there, the DLP will support legislation to enforce legitimate security arrangements such as the Chifley Government imposed at the Woomera rocket range.  NUCLEAR TRAP  The DLP regrets that the Australian Labor Party, while professing lip service to the American Alliance has fallen for the trap laid for it by Communist influences in the Trade Unions, who induced the A.L.P. to adopt the proposal for a nuclear free Southern Hemisphere. Mr. Whitlam has admitted that the proposal would be ineffective, without adherence of Indonesia and even Red China, yet his Party, bedevilled by its Left associations retains the policy.  It is clear that Communists insist on the nuclear free Southern Hemisphere plan because they know that the logical conclusion of such a plan is no American Bases in Australia, and without American nuclear arms, Asia and the Western Pacific will be dominated by Red China.  The DLP’s policy on nuclear weapons is:  - that while we do not require them at present, we must reserve the right to hold them especially for retaliatory defence, if required.  - that only world disarmament, both nuclear and conventional, can be effective.  DEFEND MALAYSIA  Democratic Labor welcomes Malaysia and endorses Australia's commitments to her defence.  If there had been a Calwell Government in office at the beginning of this year, the Australian troops would have been withdrawn from Malaysia, for in January, Mr. Calwell himself, demanded that the Australian Battalion should be recalled and stationed at Darwin.  The DLP saved Australia that.  The DLP believes our contribution, though pitifully small, in troops to the Commonwealth Strategic Reserve in Malaysia, through the Air Force in Thailand, and through Army Instructors in South Vietnam, to the defence of South East Asia against aggressive Communism must be maintained.  Provided our contribution is not extended so much as to leave us without reserves, it is fully justified.  Without such a contribution how could we establish our claim to assistance, should we be attacked later. In any case, South East Asia could be our Front Line.  Democratic Labor supports collective security alliances with which Australia is associated, such as ANZUS and SEATO.  Criticism that SEATO is a paper tiger has had some justification, but the remedy is to give it teeth, not as Mr. Calwell suggests, to reduce it to a cultural organisation.  FRIENDSHIP WITH ASIA  The DLP does not believe our relations with Asia should be based only on military or defence considerations.  As Asians are our neighbours we should seek friendship with them.  PACIFIC CONFEDERATION  THE DLP BELIEVES, AS IT SAID AT THE 1961 ELECTION, THAT AUSTRALIA SHOULD LEAD IN INVESTIGATION, ENCOURAGEMENT AND ULTIMATE FORMATION OF A PACIFIC CONFEDERATION OF NATIONS WITH SIMILAR POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND MILITARY INTERESTS TO OUR OWN.  THE DLP REALISES THAT DIFFERENCES IN STANDARDS OF LIVING, CULTURES AND ECONOMICS, ARE OBSTACLES TO EARLY FORMATION OF A PACIFIC CONFEDERATION AS CLOSE AS THE EUROPEAN COMMON MARKET, BUT DLP BELIEVES, AND IS STRENGTHENED BY THE SYMPATHETIC ATTITUDE OF PACIFIC LEADERS, THAT INVESTIGATION WILL REVEAL AVENUES OF ASSOCIATION AND CO-OPERATION ALREADY, WHICH COULD ULTIMATELY LEAD TO THE IDEAL OF A PACIFIC CONFEDERATION.  SUCH AN ASSOCIATION, APART FROM DEFENSIVE ADVANTAGES, COULD WELL COMPENSATE US FOR DECLINING MARKETS IN EUROPE.  IT WOULD ALSO BE A POWERFUL FORCE FOR PEACE IN THE PACIFIC.  HUMANIZE IMMIGRATION LAWS  The DLP also proposes to strengthen our friendship with Asia by:  - welcoming to our schools and universities more of the Asian students who have been powerful ambassadors of goodwill.  - humanising our immigration laws by, for example, repealing the ban on an Asian employee in a business in Australia, being joined by his wife and children, until he has been here fifteen years.  - increasing our aid to Asia through such avenues as the Colombo Plan. The figure often mentioned of 1% of our national income would not be too much. If the democratic nations could help Asia industrialise and raise her standard of living, Australia would have no worries about markets for our primary products.  - finally, we should increase our diplomatic and trade representation in friendly Asian countries. It is regrettable that we discriminate diplomatically against Free China (Formosa). We should be represented by an Ambassador.  The DLP opposes recognition of Red China, because that country fails to observe the rules, which entitle a country to diplomatic recognition.  The latest decision of UN supports our view.  The DLP strongly supports the latest trade agreement with Japan which, statistics show, will soon become our best customer. The agreement has been valuable to our primary industries, whilst reasonably safeguarding our Secondary industries.  IS A DLP VOTE EFFECTIVE ?  Before turning to our constructive policies, let me answer the question often asked – Is a DLP vote politically effective?  Every vote which has been cast for the DLP from the day of its formation in 1955 until today has been, politically, a most effective vote in Australia.  It has, in the first place, been a decisive vote in determining the Government of Australia. The DLP, by its preferences, has maintained the present Government in power, not because it approved the Government's policies, but because the only alternatives were the Government or the A.L.P.  Faced with that choice, we could make no other decision.  Better a Liberal Government with all its faults and failings, than an A.L.P. Government run by a Federal Conference, with policies often indistinguishable from those of the Communist Party.  PREFERENCE RESPONSIBILITY  How could we mark our preferences so as, in fact, to take the moral responsibility of putting into office a Government effectively dominated by Mr. Chamberlain? How could we take the moral responsibility of giving the power of Government to a Party whose Federal Conference includes men like Mr. Waters, who has urged the amalgamation of the Labor Party with the Communist Party?  Like Mr. Nolan, who on one of his Russian tours, has been made an Honorary Member of the Soviet organisation, the "Pioneers?" Like Mr. Whitby, who only this year, said that the A.L.F. and the Communist Party were both “workers” parties?"  Like Mr. Stout who said that, while he voted A.L.P. placed the Communists second on his ballot paper?  Like Brebner who two years ago, with Mr. Stout, handed the Yallourn Trades and Labour Council over to a Communist A.L.P. Unity Team.  How could we place in power a Government, whose leader would be compelled to humiliatingly wait in a hotel yard for his orders from such an.  ON THE 16th MAY THIS YEAR, MR. CALWELL HIMSELF SAID IN THE PARLIAMENT THAT IT WAS THE FEDERAL CONFERENCE WHICH RAN THE LABOR PARTY AND THAT EVEN JO CURTIN COULD NOT CHANGE THE PARTY’S POLICY ON CONSCRIPTION DURING THE JAPANESE WAR WITHOUT CALLING A FEDERAL CONFERENCE TOGETHER.   IF THAT IS SO, AND THESE MEN DOMINATE THIS FEDERAL CONFERENCE, HOW CAN WE BE EXPECTED TO PUT THEIR PARTY IN POWER?  CLEAN UNITED LABOR MOVEMENT  A vote for the DLP is effective in another way.  It is the most effective way of cleaning up the Labor movement. For it is an open secret that many prominent members of the A.L.P. Parliamentarians and others, now realise that their party cannot govern so long as the A.L.P. - DLP split lasts.  They realise that the DLP has one quarrel with them - pro-Communist policies and the presence of these United Fronters with the Communists, in the top ranks of the Party.  If the A.L.P. is defeated once again on November 30th, these influential leaders of the A.L.P. will realise that they have no alternative but to cleanse their party of Communist influences from top to bottom, both as to policies and as to individuals.  The DLP has always made it clear that when the non-Communist section of the A.L.P. moves to cleanse the ranks of the Party, it will not withhold its help.  Until then, the main pressure to induce these members of the A.L.P. to undertake the long overdue task of cleansing their ranks is a strong DLP vote, and tight DLP preferences.  A vote for the DLP is the most effective and meaningful vote in Australia today.  INTERNAL POLICIES & DEVELOPMENT  In internal affairs, the objective of the DLP is "Property for the People." We oppose both Private Monopoly and State Monopoly, or Socialism.  The DLP in accordance with its objective, stands for a just wage, full employment, home ownership, farm ownership, protection of the small business man. The DLP believes that the family should have first priority in legislation.  The DLP is for Social Justice.  IN DETERMINING ELECTION POLICIES, THE DLP BELIEVES IT IS NECESSARY TO DETERMINE PRIORITIES.  IN OUR VIEW, PRIORITIES FOR GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE SHOULD BE:  (1) DEFENCE AND SECURITY.  (2) DECENTRALISATION, DEVELOPMENT, IMMIGRATION, WHICH SUPPLEMENT DEFENCE AND SECURITY, AND STIMULATE THE ECONOMY.  (3) THE FAMILY – HOUSING, EDUCATION, CHILD ENDOWMENT, MATERNITY ALLOWANCES, NATIONAL INSURANCE.  POLITICAL PARTIES HAVE EXTRAVAGANTLY TENDED TO ADVOCATE IN ELECTIONS A WIDE VARIETY OF POLICIES WITHOUT REGARD TO COST. THE D.L.P STANDS BY THE PRIORITIES ABOVEMENTIONED. IN REGARD TO OTHER DESIRABLE POLICIES WE ADVOCATE, THEIR IMPLEMENTATION MUST DEPEND ON AVAILABILITY OF FINANCE.  TO STRESS THAT IS TO BE REALISTIC.  SOCIAL POLICY  Our social policy puts first the needs of the family man. It calls for a Contributory National Insurance Scheme at once.  This will give all citizens the opportunity of providing for sickness, accident, unemployment, invalidity, death of bread-winner, and old age.  We stand for an Independent Tribunal to determine just rates of social service payments, such as pensions, unemployment payments, etc., thus taking these services out of policies.  We will increase the maternity bonus for the first child from £15 to £30, and the second child from £16 to £32. All others to be increased from £17.lO.Od. to £35.  At the same time, we will increase child endowment payments from l0/-d. to 20/-d. in the case of the second, third and fourth child, to 22/6 for the fifth child, and thereon increasing by 2/6d. for further children up to a maximum of £2. 0. 0d.  We support liberalising of the Means Test with a view to its ultimate abolition.  We will extend full social service entitlement to all naturalised citizens.  NATIONAL HEALTH  The DLP believes that there should be some national responsibility in regard to the mentally ill. We, therefore, propose that the Federal Government should make an allocation specifically for use in the treatment of the mentally ill by the States which at present, cannot give either adequate humane treatment.  The DLP, believing prevention better than cure, believes in provision of a voluntary full medical check up for every citizen annually, at Government expense. This has never before been advocated in Australia, but its value to Community health would be incalculable.  DENTAL SCHEME  The DLP is very conscious of the dental needs of the Nation and supports demands for legislation to see that the children of Australia have adequate dental treatment.  The DLP believes that all children under the age of twelve, should have the cost of treatment carried out by qualified dental practitioner subsidised in the same way as medical treatment is subsidised today.  EMPLOYMENT and ECONOMIC POLICY  Democratic Labor is keenly aware that Australia faces critical economic problems.  Liberal economic policies have been changing from day to day, baffling industry, inhibiting expansion and planning and contributing to widespread dislocation, unemployment, and loss of confidence at home and abroad.  While the A.L.P. merely mouths political catch-cries with no real human appreciation of the depth of the problem, Democratic Labor is pledged to go straight to the heart of the crisis.  It will develop a self-reliant Australian Nation of free men and women in full recognition of the States existence for the benefit of the individual.  We urge the use of budgetary, banking, and credit policies to encourage both capital and labour into primary and basic industries, to lift our export income and mould a sound and expanding economy.  We advocate a fact-finding Commission to study and report on secondary industry under these classifications:  - Industries valuable to defence and exports.  - Industries which save expenditure on imports.  - Industries which are not essential.  A tariff policy will then be clearly established on the Commission’s findings to cover Australia's requirements and to curb monopoly and increase competition and efficiency.  We will give priorities in credit and investment to primary production; steel, mining, transport, power, building and heavy engineering.  We will stimulate exports.  Loans by banks at special low rates of interest will cover the needs of local authorities, housing, export, new industry and decentralised industry.    EDUCATION   In the field of education, Democratic Labor is appalled at the fact that Australia spends only 1.6 of national income on education, compared with 3.4 per cent in England, and 4 per cent in the U.S.A.  We advocate immediate Commonwealth assistance to all forms of education in all States, with larger financial grants to satisfy present need.  The DLP, the first political party to advocate this policy, is happy that others are slowly seeing its justice.  Without limiting State responsibility in education, Democratic Labor advocates student endowment for each child attending a private school.  Our educational policy is based on the United Nations Declaration of human rights which guarantees parents a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given their children.  We advocate an increase of facilities for adults desirous of obtaining higher education and will increase the sustenance at present paid to University students and liberalise the Means Test for this aid.  HOUSING  Democratic Labor insists that the only real solution to the Austral housing problem is for the Commonwealth and State Governments in cooperation to develop and implement a National Housing Plan.  Democratic Labor would set up such a Scheme to guarantee, through an appropriate agency, up to 95 per cent of all housing Loans up to £5,000.  We would make every effort through the Commonwealth Bank to encourage other banks and financial institutions to make available a reasonable ratio of their funds for housing at a minimum possible interest rate.  We would give every assistance to cooperative housing schemes and stimulate efforts for the production of standardised and, therefore, cheaper building materials.  TAXATI0N  Democratic Labor would abolish payroll tax as an impost on initiative and enterprise and an unjustifiable loading on the cost of living, particularly for the family man.  We would allow as income tax deductions, the full amount of reasonable school boarding fees, the cost of hospital and medical expenses not otherwise reimbursable.  We stand for the standardisation of death duties throughout the Commonwealth.  MIGRATION  Democratic Labor believes that Australia's national development and survival as a free nation depends largely on a courageous migration program.  We, therefore, advocate the maximum intake of migrants with particular emphasis on the migration of family groups.  We would give special encouragement to those migrants best fitted to National Development, especially in meeting the needs of rural assist in industry.  The chain migration of relatives of migrants already settled in Australia is regarded as essential, as is a more reasonable balance between the sexes.  Democratic Labor would encourage particularly, the migration of complete industrial undertakings and of people with special and technical skills.  We favour an increase in the quota of disabled, aged refugees and orphans.  Our policy is to grant permanent residence to these classes of Asian nationals:  - Those already admitted under existing immigration laws, with their wives and families.  - Graduates of Australian universities; technical colleges and institutions.  Democratic Labor's policy would be to increase the present nominal migrant intake of 125,000 a year, to a higher figure which is essential for our development and survival.  DECENTRALISATION and NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT  Decentralisation of industry and population, and ultimately of administration and ownership, is an essential ingredient of any balanced, progressive plan of National Development.  We propose that the taxation structure be altered so that the decentralisation of industry and population can, and will, occur. We do not intend that the Government should take an extra penny out of the national income. We consider that the Government already takes far too much already.  But we do say that the manner in which the Government raises its revenue can be altered so that decentralisation will occur. We propose that income tax, company tax, and sales tax, should be reduced and a decentralisation tax imposed to balance the budget.  It is our policy to provide low interest long-term shifting and setting up loans for industry moving to rural areas and to help supply them with cheap power, and housing, health and education facilities, as populations develop.  The DLP would make special taxation rebates for decentralised industry.  We strongly favour the setting up of new ports to serve primary and secondary industries in their hinterlands, and will develop the necessary communications.  We support the establishment of new States in areas placed at a big disadvantage in their development by centralised political and economic control.  We would make a special drive to progressively open up end exploits our huge undeveloped northern areas, and with this in view, would immediately appoint a Northern Australian Development Commission as a Statutory Body, comprised of representatives of the Federal, Queensland and Western Australians Governments, and of the Northern Territory.  The Commission would be supplied with funds to survey the natural resources and communication needs of the area and to plan for stage by stage development.  Special attention would be given to mineral potential, the meat industry, and rice and other crops, which can make us the Supermarket of Asia.  AGRICULTURE  We strongly support all organised marketing of primary produce and would give particular aid to primary industries such as tobacco, in which Australia is not self-sufficient.  It is our plan by a series of vigorous export drives, particularly through South America and South East Asia, to build up new income from our pastoral and agricultural products.  Wool:  The Wool Industry, which is so vital to Australia's economy, is handicapped in coping with the synthetics threat, by disunity among growers on the vital issues of marketing and promotion.  The DLP will support measures, legislative and administrative, for the good of the industry, which are recommended by experts and accepted by growers as a whole.  The DLP favours legislation, if necessary, to prevent adverse influences such as extensive and uncompetitive pyre buying and we are diametrically opposed to the centralisation of wool sales.  We would crack down with the full force of government on any moves by any interests to sabotage sales at outer selling centres.  Wheat:  The DLP endorses the Wheat Stabilisation Plan, including the guaranteed home consumption price.  Dairying:  The DLP realises that there are many problems facing the dairying industry, conspicuous amongst which are the high price of dairying land, and the rising cost of production.  We appreciate that the industry must receive assistance.  We believe that representatives of all sections of the industry must be called together to work out a rehabilitation program for the industry.  Democratic Labor will sponsor such a move.  Until this is done, we will fight any move to withdraw the dairy subsidy, as such withdrawal at present would be disastrous for the industry.  Beef:  The DLP believes that there is a splendid market with great future potential for high grade Australian beef.  We will have that market investigated and growers will receive advice and assistance in how best to capitalise this opportunity. Additionally, we believe that this industry, with government advice and assistance, has a big future in Asia.  Expansion of beef production will go hand in hand with development of the North.  MONOPOLY and the SMALL BUSINESSMAN  I would like, at this stage, to draw the urgent attention of every Australian to the power which has taken place over the past few decades to a greater degree in Australia than any other country of the world.  One firm dominates the steel industry, another the glass industry, another seventy per cent of the paper industry, and a fourth fifty per cent of the rubber industry.  Additionally, there were nearly twice as many mergers per one thousand companies in Australia as in the United States since the Second World War.  Democratic Labor will enlist the cooperation of the States and seek whatever constitutional reforms are necessary to attack Australian monopoly, and we will reform the machinery of the Australian Industries Preservation Act.  We will legislate against price-fixing rings, collusive tendering, and such crimes against them.  In these circumstances, the small businessman was never more in need of an alert political champion.  The monopolies threaten to deprive him, not only of his business, but of his life’s capital.  Democratic Labor is his champion.  POSITIVE ASSISTANCE  We will not only attack the octopus groups robbing him of his independence, but we will also positively assist him:  - By giving Government backing to a Federal Small Businessmen’s Association which will provide him with research facilities, training in management technique, technical and financial advice.  - The Association will give reports on marketing trends to permit him to compete on reasonably fair terms with big companies which already have these advantages.  - By sponsoring of cooperative buying facilities to put him on equal terms in the rates at which he can buy.  - By ensuring him facilities for low interest finance.    INDUSTRIAL   Democratic Labor is the only party with a plan for peace in industry and the ability to carry out that plan.  We will give the wage-earner full employment and security in his job, while preserving industrial peace.  We will give full encouragement and support to the in the Industrial Groups in defeating Communism in the Trade providing strong and enlightened Union leadership.  We stand for a new era in industrial relationships with all workers sharing in the profits of industry.  Unlike the A.L.P. policy of sharpening the class war, and the Liberal policy of spoils to the victors, Democratic Labor will develop a new co partnership in industry.  Democratic Labor's wage policy would guarantee wage levels rising with productivity, and will assure a fair share of the benefits of automation to workers.  We would immediately legislate for the right of unionists to con tract out of political levies and affiliation fees.  We support the right of trade unionists to have ballots in their Unions cleanly conducted by impartial electoral authorities, and will strengthen the Clean Ballot Legislation to prevent intimidation of Unionists invoking it.  We are in favour of upholding the Clauses of the Crimes Act to maintain industrial discipline, provided they are applied equally to employers and employees.  CONCLUSION  We invite those critics who smear the DLP as a splinter party, that a DLP vote is wasted, to look at the figures.  One Australian in ten votes DLP.  Our Senate vote rose from 385,000 in 1958 to 472,000 in 1961.  Half a million good Australians who vote DLP cannot be a splinter neither can their votes or preferences be ineffectual. They decide governments.  I hope you will join them with your vote.  What will your vote for the DLP achieve ?  (1) IT WILL SERVE NOTICE ON THE MENZIES GOVERNMENT, THAT YOU ARE CONCERNED ABOUT AUSTRALIA’S DEFENCES AND ECONOMY. IT TELLS THE PRESENT GOVERNMENT TO GET TO GRIPS WITH THE BIG ISSUES.  (2) IT WILL SERVE NOT ICE ON THE AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY THAT IT MUST CLEAN ITS HOUSE AND REJECT THE APPARATUS OF RED UNITED FRONTS, PEACE COUNCILS AND UNITY TICKETS IN UNION ELECTIONS, WHICH HAS SPLIT LABOR, AND COST IT THE PEOPLE 'S CONFIDENCE.  (3) IT WILL APPROVE THE D.L.P.’S TEN YEAR CAMPAIGN AGAINST ODDS TO AWAKEN AUSTRALIA TO THE DANGERS OF ASIAN AGGRESSIVE COMMUNISM AND INTERNAL RED SUBVERSION.  IT WILL KEEP ALIVE THE CAMPAIGN FOR A CLEAN LABOR MOVEMENT.  PREFERENCES OFFER  Mr. Calwell's much publicised statement on television early in the campaign that he wanted DLP preferences, and would like to give A.L.P. preferences to the D.L.F. in return, was obviously an opinion, not an offer.  Mr. Calwell made it clear that any decision on A.L.P. – D.L.F. relations would be made, like most vital A.L.P. decisions, not by himself as Leader, or the Parliamentary Labor Party, but by the Chamberlain dominated Federal Executive, which has almost ruined the Australian Labor Party in electors eyes.  This A.L.P. Federal Executive rejected, only two months ago, the suggestion of the D.L.F. Federal Conference, that leaving political differences aside, A.L.P. men and DLP men unite in the Trade Unions to destroy Communist influence.  The Democratic Labor Party, therefore, can only see in Mr. Calwell's statement not an offer of negotiation, but a request for unconditional surrender.  As a political realist, he knows that an offer to exchange preferences with the DLP is meaningless, because in most seats, A.L.P. preferences will never be distributed.  DLP preferences will be distributed, and may well determine the Government.  WHAT KIND OF GOVERNMENT  Does he expect the DLP to allot preferences to elect an A.L.P. Government.  WHERE MR. CALWELL WILL BE PRIME MINISTER IN NAME, AND THE PRIME MINISTER IN FACT, WILL BE MR. CHAMBERLAIN, WHO DESPITE ALL SUGGESTIONS OF HIS DECLINING INFLUENCE, HAD THE NUMBERS ON EVERY VITAL ISSUE AT THE RECENT FEDERAL EXECUTIVE MEETING IN AIDELAIDE, AND USED THEM TO CARRY EVERY LEFT WING PROPOSAL:  - which stands for the Communist inspired nuclear free Southern Hemisphere policy, whose logical conclusion is no American Bases in Australia which will, according to Mr. Caliwell, leave our troops in Malaysia, but according to A.L.P. Federal President Keeffe and Mr. Chamberlain, who really decide, will bring them home and desert the fight against Communism in South East Asia.  - which will wreck the Arbitration System by repealing the penal legislation and emasculating the clean ballots law.  - whose electoral victory would be hailed as endorsement of all the truckling with the Communist Party on Unity tickets, Peace Councils, and other United Fronts over the past ten years.  - which, this year, has again cravenly permitted Unity tickets in the Railways and Meat Unions to defy its rules.  In this election where Australia’s security may well be at stake, the DLP will neither chicken cut, nor sell out.  The elector who puts Australia first, will vote DLP, and carefully follow the preferences on its Card.