Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

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URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-236504

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 1

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part II. The executive Government

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192 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [parT II which were due in 1910, the Labour party withdrew formally its support from the Government, in order that it should be able to go before the country as a united party and fight the Government seats. This resulted in the retirement of Mr. Deakin, who, however, made no attack on the Labour Government until they declined, in the early part of 1909, to consent to the presentation of a Dreadnought to the Imperial Government at a time when feeling ran high in Australia, and when New Zealand had led the way by a muni- ficent offer of support. Then they were turned out by a coalition between the supporters of Mr. Deakin and Mr. Cook, Mr. Reid having retired to make room for the possibility of fusion, which could not have been accomplished as long as he was in active political life. The Governor-General refused Mr, Fisher a dissolution, and Mr. Deakin took office.! The party, however, was completely defeated at the general elections and retired and a Labour Government took its place in April 1910. In the States of the Commonwealth there have recently been strong examples of the difficulties of a Governors position. In South Australia, Mr. Price, the Premier, applied to the Governor in 1906 for a dissolution on the ground that he was anxious to take the steps necessary under the Consti- tution Act of 1901 to secure a penal dissolution of the Lower House with a view to coercing the Upper House, with which he was engaged in a bitter controversy over the right of franchise. The Governor was unwilling to dissolve a Parlia- ment which had not long been in existence, and in which the Premier had only a small majority in the Lower House and was in a hopeless minority in the Upper House. He therefore declined to grant a dissolution except as a last resort, and tried to find if any member of the Lower House could form a Government. He soon found that this was impossible, and he therefore recalled Mr. Price and undertook bo give him the dissolution for which he asked, and matters were settled with the Upper House in the direction of a con- Commonwealth Parliamentary Debates, 1909, p. 227. This is a case of special interest as it is very possible that a dissolution would have meant the return of the Government; cf. Turner, op. cit., p. 221.

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