1.
“Political branch formed,”
The Courier-Mail, February 26, 1975, p. 25.

A recently-launched political party which promotes individual rights has opened a Brisbane branch.

Workers Party Queensland convenor (Mr. V. Forbes) said yesterday the branch had 30 to 50 members.

He said there had been an encouraging number of inquiries about the party, and its members was expected to grow steadily.

Branches were planned for other major Queensland centres.

The party, launched on January 26, has branches in Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide, Kalgoorlie and Perth.

Mr Forbes said the party’s philosophy was based on the principle that no man or group of men has the right to initiate force, fraud or coercion against any other man or group of men.

The party’s platform included less government, fewer taxes, and more individual freedom.

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2.
“Workers Party urges census boycott,”
The Canberra Times, June 21, 1976, p. 3.

BRISBANE, Sunday. — The Workers Party has urged its members not to complete census forms on June 30.

The party’s Queensland secretary, Mr V. R. Forbes, said today he opposed increased government snooping into the affairs of individuals.

“The real issue of the census is compulsion,” he said. “There is no justification for peaceful law-abiding citizens to be threatened with fines or jail for refusing to provide private or personal information to their servants in the bureaucracy.”

He said the value of statistics was a secondary issue to the census.

“We are told they are necessary for planning,” he said. “The only planning they can be used for is the sort of central planning which is bringing poverty in countries like Britain, India and the USSR.