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

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Title:: Part III. The Parliaments of the Dominions

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370 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [PART III Again, the Colonial Legislatures are, like the British Parlia- ment,! truly representative bodies, not delegates of the electorate in any sense. There was some feeling when the Commonwealth Parliament increased its pay to £600 from £400 in 1907 without any previous consultation of the electorate, and South Australia in 1910 made the increase dependent on the will of the people at a referendum which was taken in April 1911. Western Australia again in 1910 proposed to provide that the increase should only be effective from the beginning of the next Parliament, but Tasmania boldly fixed on January 1, 1911, as the date for the new provision operating under Act No. 53 of 1910, and Western Australia adopted that date also. Again, the Ontario Legis- lature in 1901 prolonged for a couple of months the term of its existence despite some protests,? and their action is not isolated. The remedy for any wrong action is the will of the people at the next election, and that must be relied upon if anything is to be found a check. There is no tendency in the Colonies to introduce a refer- sndum in the Swiss sense of the word, or to solve thus their difficulties. For deadlocks between the two Houses referenda are prescribed in the Commonwealth in cases of disagree- ments as to the Constitution only, just as all amendments of the Constitution require referenda to confirm the action of Parliament. In Queensland the procedure may, by Act No. 16 of 1908, be adopted in any case of a deadlock between the Houses, but a similar proposal in New South Wales was indignantly repudiated in 1910 by the Labour party and the project was dropped. No other state has adopted it, nor is it known in New Zealand or in Canada, Newfoundland, or South Africa. The constitutional referendum has been used in the Commonwealth already on five? occasions, and South Australiaheldin 1911areferendum on the question of members’ Y Cf. Mr. Churchill in House of Commons, February 22, 1911; Lord Morley in House of Lords, March 28, July 4, 1911. ' See Canadian Annual Register, 1901, p. 429, ¢ In 1906 as to date of Senate election (see Act No. 1 of 1907) ; in 1909 45 to state debts (Act No. 3 of 1910) and as to payments to states (rejected) ; in 1911 as to industrial powers, and nationalisation of monopolies (rejected).

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