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-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1896934455

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

Scope:: LI, 568 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part II. The executive Government

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208 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [PART II the adverse vote against the Government would be reversed by a new Parliament. (4) In the condition of parties there is no reasonable prospect of any Government obtaining sufficient support to enable them to conduct the public business in a satis- factory manner. {5) The attempt to unite in a common party a number of members who were elected to represent varying policies is in effect a misrepresentation of the electors. And the records of Parliament show that the attempt had failed. (6) The Lewis Administration was defeated in connexion with their financial proposals. Considerable dissatisfaction with existing methods of taxation was shown to exist during the elections, and Sir Elliott Lewis simply proposed to increase the present rates of taxation by 25 per cent. The policy of Mr. Earle’s party is to remodel the system of taxation, including the repeal of the Taxation Act under which the Ability Tax is levied, and the Land Tax Act, 1905. Important proposals of finance have therefore arisen, which the House has shown a marked disability to deal with. The new proposals have never been before the electors, and it is highly desirable that whatever Govern- ment is to hold office should receive from the electors clear authority to deal with the question of finance on well- defined lines. For these reasons Ministers think that a dissolution of Parliament at the present juncture would be in the general interests of the people of this State. (Sed. J. EArLE, Premier. The reply of the Governor to the above was as follows ;— To the Hon. the Premier of Tasmania :— {1) The Governor, in coming to a conclusion on the request for a dissolution submitted to him by the Premier, fully realizes that the present House of Assembly was not elected ander the auspices of his Ministry. (2) It is equally true that the vote of want of confidence is against a Government which has not as such appealed to the country, but at the recent general election Mr. Earle’s party was, it is presumed, a united one, and it apparently had every opportunity of declaring its policy to the electors, who, it must be assumed, voted to a considerable extent for or against that policy. (3) In the opinion of the Governor nothing has occurred

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