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

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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oHAP, vii] CABINET SYSTEM IN DOMINIONS 317 Minister, who has in all three been Treasurer, and in the Ministry of 1909 Mr. Deakin held no portfolio. The Attorney-General is entrusted with the conduct of the legal business of the Commonwealth, and his department contains the legal draftsmen. The Treasurer controls the financial business of the Government, and the audit department is subject to his general supervision, though the Auditor is given an independent position, and cannot be removed except on addresses from the two Houses of Parliament. The Minister for Home Affairs is entrusted with all electoral matters and with the control of the Commonwealth site (Act No. 23 of 1907 and No. 25 of 1910), but the administration of the Invalid and Old Age Pension Acts falls under the control of the Treasury. The Ministry for Customs includes all customs and excise matters and other important Acts dealing with trade. The Minister for Defence is charged with military and naval defences, and the Postmaster-General deals with postal, telegraphic, and telephone matters. There have been from the outset ministers without portfolio, two in 1901, two in 1908, and two in 1909, and three in 1910, but on no occasion except in the Ministry of June 1909-April 1910, when Mr. Deakin was Prime Minister without portfolio, has a minister of first importance been without office. Care has been taken to divide the ministries between states so as, as far as possible, to secure representation of all the states, or four or five at least, in the Government! A sum of £12,000 is provided in the Constitution for the salaries of ministers, the distribution of the amount being left for the Government to decide. In New South Wales the Executive Council, besides the Governor as President (the Governor being President in all the states and in the Commonwealth), includes the Vice-President, a minister in the Legislative Council without portfolio, the Premier, who in Mr. Wade’s Ministry was Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Colonial Secretary, who is also There were two from each state except Queensland and Tasmania in she Ministry of 1910, but the extra member in each case save New South Wales was honorary, There were in the Senate two honorary ministers.

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