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defending the substance of the scheme and stating that it was inevitable that it would be revived after the war. He stated "it will be my bill and my scheme – and no argument and no playing-of-politics can gainsay that". Casey told journalist Jack
Hetherington in 1964 that the decision to abandon the
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told federal parliament that "the more I think of it the more convinced I am that we must come ultimately to a form of national insurance which will give every man–the millionaire as well as the poor man–who has subscribed to his own insurance fund the right to receive that insurance, without taint
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into the House of
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in 1956 that “on my own personal initiative, I recommended to
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153:, who became prime minister. In 1923, the new government announced plans for a comprehensive social services system that would "remove altogether the taint of pauperism". It subsequently established the Royal Commission on National Insurance under the chairmanship of Nationalist senator
174:, although the government heavily promoted the scheme during the election campaign. The scheme was postponed indefinitely the following year, prior to the government's parliamentary defeat on a no-confidence motion and defeat at
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with the legislation required the scheme to become self-financing as soon as possible. It ultimately included contributory schemes for sickness and disability, old-age pensions, payments for widows and orphans, and
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on a platform which included a national insurance scheme covering both old-age pensions and healthcare. The strongest advocates of national insurance within the UAP were treasurer
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