Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

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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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Identifikator:: 1896935052

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-238139

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

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 2

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XI Seiten, Seiten 570-1100

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part IV. The federations and the union // Chapter II. The commonwealth of Australia

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cHAP. IT) THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA 785 which, however, was dismissed with little attention. Mean- while, however, a new spirit was manifested in the country ; the Australian Natives’ Association developed in 1890 a strong propaganda in favour of federalism, and a meeting at Corowa in 1893 showed that the matter was passing out of the hands of the Governments into those of the people. The Premiers’ Conference at Hobart of J. anuary 1895 marked a further step in the process. The Premier of New South Wales suggested, and the conference accepted, a resolu- tion that federation was an urgent question, that ten dele- gates chosen by the electorate from each Colony should draft a constitution, that this constitution should be sub- mitted to a direct vote of the electors in each state, and that Bills for this purpose should be introduced into the several Parliaments. A Federal Enabling Bill was drafted and passed in five of the Colonies, in New South Wales and South Australia in 1895, and in the rest in 1896, excluding Queens- land, where a divergence of opinion between the Houses caused the Bill to be lost. In New South Wales and Victoria the number of the majority in favour of federation was to be 50,000, raised by Act No. 34 of 1897 in the former to 80,000, in Tasmania and Western Australia 6,000, while South Australia was ready to accept a simple majority. Western Australia provided for the choice of the members of the convention not by popular election as did the others, but by nomination by the members of both Houses of the Parliament sitting together and voting by ballot, and made the reference of the Bill conditional on the approval of Parliament. The tonvention thus appointed met at Adelaide in March 1897, and the Bill then drafted was in substance that of 1891, but there were sharp fights over questions of financial relations. Then the Bill was remitted to the consideration of the Legislatures, and in September the Convention reassembled at Sydney to consider the suggestions thus made. The larger Colonies desired more deference to the wishes of Population and less to state rights, while the lesser states fought to secure their autonomy. The conflicts centred in the position and mode of selection of the Senate. Finally 1279+

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