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The universities have changed Party policy on human rights and foreign affairs in a desirable direction, if for their own motives, at this conterence. But as the New Zealand Herald said contradicated, a Labour Government would probably ignore such a directive (on SEATO) and a party whose conferences are run as dictatorially as this one cannot take a very effective stance as a Party of Freedom. This leaves Labour offering a repetition of its 1935 economic policy—minus a Social Credit policy for the farmers and an adequate welfare programme. Labour will do better than National, we are told, but National's question of where the money will come from remains unanswered. Labour is still hoping for a blank cheque—in every sense—from the electorate, which will probably be filled by Black Budget-style taxation.