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TASMANIA Miscellaneous The new Legislative Councillor Martin Cameron blew u p a minor storm when he accused the extreme right-wing Australian League of Rights of secretly infiltrating the LCL. Referring to the league as ‘the lunatic fringe in Australian politics’, he said i t had infiltrated certain branches of the LCL on the west coast and in some parts of the south-east. There were usually poor attendances at annual meetings of these country branches and the league had rounded up 10 or 20 people and taken over the meetings. ‘In this way the branches have become strong arms of the league’, he said. He saw his election as some hope of breaking the growing stranglehold by the ALR in rural areas. Certainly the Hall government’s decision t o redraw the Assembly boundaries, which reduced the country’s political power, brought sudden support for the League of Rights-and helped push apart the progressive and conservative groups in the LCL. Opposition Deputy Leader Millhouse described parliament’s ways as ‘antique’, due to a number of causes. ‘I believe the standard of our conduct is not as high as people outside expect it should be’, he said. ‘Secondly our procedures are so based on http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Politics and History Wiley

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Australian Journal of Politics and History , Volume 17 (3) – Dec 1, 1971
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Copyright © 1971 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
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0004-9522
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1467-8497
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10.1111/j.1467-8497.1971.tb00511.x
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Miscellaneous The new Legislative Councillor Martin Cameron blew u p a minor storm when he accused the extreme right-wing Australian League of Rights of secretly infiltrating the LCL. Referring to the league as ‘the lunatic fringe in Australian politics’, he said i t had infiltrated certain branches of the LCL on the west coast and in some parts of the south-east. There were usually poor attendances at annual meetings of these country branches and the league had rounded up 10 or 20 people and taken over the meetings. ‘In this way the branches have become strong arms of the league’, he said. He saw his election as some hope of breaking the growing stranglehold by the ALR in rural areas. Certainly the Hall government’s decision t o redraw the Assembly boundaries, which reduced the country’s political power, brought sudden support for the League of Rights-and helped push apart the progressive and conservative groups in the LCL. Opposition Deputy Leader Millhouse described parliament’s ways as ‘antique’, due to a number of causes. ‘I believe the standard of our conduct is not as high as people outside expect it should be’, he said. ‘Secondly our procedures are so based on

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