Coming Federal Election
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Possible Reaction In Pacific Territories
TTHE writing is clearly on the wall for * the Australian Federal Government, which faces the electors within a few months. It has achieved nothing of moment, and it has contrived to offend public opinion in quite a number of direc tions. It was plain, some time ago, that its popularity was on the wane, and the result of the Gwydir by-election on May 8 (where a Labour man was returned despite everything the Governmental forces could do) shows this even more clearly.
Interest in the coming election is keen in Papua and New Guinea, because a new Government means a new Minister in charge of Pacific Territories and, prob ably, a new policy. It is not likely that such a change would affect Papua very much; but there are one or two political tipsters who insist that it would mean an administrative earthquake in New Guinea.