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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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 III. The Parliaments of the Dominions

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508 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINTONS [PART 111 Act No. 18 of 1910 in the case of New South Wales.! Under it also a candidate would require to receive an absolute majority of votes; if no such absolute majority were re- corded a second ballot was taken between the candidate who had received the highest number and the candidate who had received the next highest number ; in most districts the second ballot was taken on the seventh day after the close of the first poll ; in others not less than fourteen and more than twenty-one days after the close of the poll. No candi- date could withdraw from the second ballot, The Act was put in force at the general election of 1910, but only in three cases was a second ballot necessary, and in those it appeared satisfactorily to perform its purpose of preventing split votes defeating the purposes of the majority of the electors. In the case of Tasmania 2 there is in force a most elaborate scheme for proportional voting. This scheme, which was put in force in its full form at the last general election in 1909, has been considered locally to be quite satisfactory, as it secures the more accurate representation of the parties in the state. On the other hand, it must be admitted that Tasmania presents—whether as a result of the principle, or not—the spectacle of constant instability of government, but that would almost be inevitable in any case, because of the fact that the Lower House is so small, consisting only of thirty members, that it is impossible to have an effective party system. It formerly tried the system in 1896, but abandoned it again in 1901, In the case of Queensland the principle of the contingent vote is in operation. The following provisions are laid down with regard to it in ss. 20-6 of the Act of 1892. No. 7.3 * Tt was adopted despite protests from the Labour party to avoid the weakening of the governmental party by solit votes: see Parliamentary Debates, 1910, pp. 1790, 1875. ? Seo the Electoral Act, 1907; Parl. Pap. Cd. 5168, pp. 54-63; Dr. MeCall in Cd. 5352, pp. 188-91; cf. Commonwealth Parl. Pap., 1901-2, No. 46; Reeves, State Experiments in Australia and New Zealand, i. 180-91 ; Western Australia Parliamentary Debates, 1910-1, p- 2477. Its based on the Hare system modified by Mr. Justice Clark’s advice, * Consolidated in 1905 ; see Parl, Pap., Cd. 3919, pp. 202, 203. In 1910

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