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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320 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [part 11 the Lower ; one (later two) in the Western Australia, Upper House, six in the Lower ; one in the Tasmania, Upper House, three in the Lower. But the numbers hardly show the extent to which the Upper House is considered inferior, because of the members in the Upper House one at least is merely an honorary minister, so that the Upper House has not the same control of the Government as the Lower House has. As a result the Upper House have continually contended that the number of ministers therein should be increased. and as continually nothing, or at any rate nothing sub- stantial, has been done to meet their wishes. Moreover, the Labour Ministry of South Australia declined in 1910 to introduce any business in the Upper House, with the result that that body had to content itself with dealing with Bills already passed by the Lower House ; so too the Labour Ministry in New South Wales in 1910-11. In the case of New Zealand the Executive Council contains, besides the Governor as President, the Prime Minister, who is also Minister of Finance, Postmaster-General, Minister of Telegraphs, Minister of Defence, and Minister of Lands and Commissioner of State Forests, the Minister for Railways, who is also Minister of Marine and of Labour, the Native Minister, the Attorney-General and Minister of J ustice, the Minister of Education, who is Minister of Immigration and Minister of Customs, the Minister of Public Works and Minister of Mines, the Minister of Industries and Commerce, who is also Minister in charge of Tourists and Health Resorts and Minister of Agriculture, and the Minister of Internal Affairs, who is the Minister of Public Health, besides a minister without portfolio representing the native race. This confusion of portfolios is due to a desire to diminish the expenditure of the Government. The allotment of ministers to the Upper House has caused much dissatisfac- tion ; in 1876 the number was reduced to one, and an attempt of the Council in 1878 to pass a Bill increasing the number to two was frustrated by the attitude of the Lower House, but the number—one—is still deemed inadequate by the Council. The Cape Ministry before the Union consisted of the Premier

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