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Title
Vote - Child Welfare and Outdoor Relief, £259,948
In
Hansard Archive 1870 to 1995
Imprint
Parliament of Western Australia, 22 December 1953
Url
https://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/Hansard/hansard1870to1995.nsf/83cc4ce93b5d4e0b48257b33001cfef6/1A9726355EDC3E9448257A41000FED3F/$File/19531222_Assembly.pdf
Description

'Vote - Child Welfare and Outdoor Relief, £259,948' is an excerpt from the digital copies of the Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) of the Legislative Assembly of the Western Australian Parliament. It includes a limited amount of information about the investigation into 'child welfare activities' in WA, undertaken by the Director of Child Welfare in New South Wales, RH Hicks. The excerpt includes a speech by the Premier and a response by the Hon. AF Watts (p.3073), which suggests that the Hicks investigation was critical of the WA child welfare system. See pages 3072-3073 of the excerpt.

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