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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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

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part II. The executive Government

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316 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [PART II of Agriculture and Mines, together with four members with- out portfolio. It was altered by the accession to office of Sir E. Morris, who did not take the office of Colonial Secretary, but remained without portfolio. In the case of the Commonwealth the proclamation of the Commonwealth took effect on January 1, 1901. The Governor-General, who had arrived, was ready with a Ministry, having first entrusted Sir William Lyne, and then, on hig failure, Mr. Barton, with the duty of forming a Ministry, and so on the taking of the oaths he was prepared to form his Executive Council, whereupon he proceeded, with their advice, to declare under the Act that the following ministries should be established, those of External Affairs, Attorney-General, Home Affairs, Treasury, Trade and Customs, Defence, and the Postmaster-General. Besides there were two honorary ministers, of whom one bore the title of Vice-President of the Executive Council, and was the leader of the Government in the Upper House.! The departments of customs and excise in the states were on January 1 trans- ferred under the Act to the Commonwealth, and under proclamations of February 14 and 25 the departments of posts and of defence were transferred with effect from March 1. The department of external affairs was occupied in the first place by the Prime Minister, Sir E. Barton, and it included more than might otherwise have been ascribed to the post, namely, immigration and emigration, influx of criminals, and the relations with England, the state Governors and the Governor-General, the Executive Council, and the officers of Parliament. It also deals with the relations of Australia and Papua, the High Commissioner in England, an office only constituted in 1909 after a long period of inade- quate representation in this country, and such matters as the relations of Australia and the islands in the Pacific, especially in connexion with mail services, and since 1910 the control of the Northern Territory. The department has not been held in Labour Governments by the Prime ‘ Bee Harrison Moore, Commonwealth of Australia, pp. 170 seq.; Commonwealth Official Year Book, 1901-8, p. 970.

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