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

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Year of publication:: 1912-

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

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

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Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

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Title:: Part II. The executive Government

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crap. vir] CABINET SYSTEM IN DOMINIONS 319 fixed by law of 1908 at not more than six, and a sum of £5,000 is provided for their salaries. In 1901 the numper was reduced to four, but that proved inconvenient. In Western Australia the Executive Council includes as ministers, one of whose members must be in the Upper House, the Premier, who is also Colonial Treasurer, the Minister for Works, the Minister for Mines and Railways, the Minister for Lands, Agriculture, and Industries, the Colonial Secretary, the Attorney-General and Minister for Education, and a minister or ministers without portfolio. The Premier receives £1,200 a year, and the other ministers £1,000 a year. In 1911 there were two, one honorary, in the Upper House. In Tasmania the Executive Council includes the Premier, who “is also Treasurer, the Chief Secretary, the Attorney- General and Minister of Education, and the Minister for Lands and Works, Mines, and Minister for Agriculture ; they all receive salaries of £750 a year, which were until 1910 voted annually. The Executive Council includes all the ex- ministers. There is usually one minister in the Upper House. It is recognized to be desirable that in both Houses of Parliament there should be an adequate number of ministers, but in practice the Upper House is repeatedly allowed to be without its fair share of ministers. In 1910 there were three ministers in the Upper House in the Commonwealth, seven in the Lower; two (one in Mr. McGowen’s Ministry) in the New South Wales Upper House, eight (nine) in the Lower; four in the Victoria Upper House! eight in the Lower ; two in the Queensland Upper House, six in the Lower : two in the South Australia Upper House? four in ! There was formerly only one member, but in the discussions of 1877 the inconvenience of only one became very clear ; see Parl. Pap., C. 2217, pp- 4, 40, 56. See also Act No. 1864, s. 5, which provides for not more than two members in the Council and six in the Lower House out of eight who can be members (and four must be members) of Parliament. * The Legislative Council on July 31, 1877, decided to take the conduct of business out of the hands of the Chief Secretary and to entrust the conduct to a private member, and there is still constant dissatisfaction with the treatment of the Council by the Lower House. See also South Australia Legislative Council Debates, 1908, pp. 166, 205,

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