News of the Week The Australian Crisis N O Dominion has
a more critical issue overhanging its daily life than the longstanding confusion which is the result of Australian methods of industrial arbitration. On Tuesday in the House of Representatives at Canberra Mr. Bruce's Government were defeated by thirty-five votes to thirty-four on an amendment to their most important Bill. There is not likely to be peace, or any real progress, in Australia till the arbitration dispute is settled. It is well known that Australian borrowings, the rise in the cost of production and in the cost of living, and the simultaneous fall in the price of' primary agri- cultural products have caused anxiety about the future of Australia. • Mr. Bruce's ,own :anxiety was expressed in his provision that fiitUreborroirings,should be congned to Federal purposes:" community aSuffieiently strong misgiving : is ,althost invariably the prelude to reform. For this reason we have no fears for the future of Australia.
