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 I. Introductory

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CHAP. 1] ORIGIN AND HISTORY 27 was also sent to South Australia! with an assurance that, while the Imperial Government had no desire to discriminate between that Colony and the others, in view of its short experience of representative government, they did not know how far the proposals therein contained would be welcome in the Colony, and they left it to the Governor to decide in what way they should be made known to the people. This dispatch crossed one from the Governor, forwarding a petition from the Legislative Council to be accorded the control over such portion of the revenues from lands as was not devoted to immigration, subject to such provision as might be necessary being made from the revenues by the Governor for the use of the aborigines. The New South Wales Bill was proceeded with and further discussed in the Colony: unhappily the committee were induced to recommend the adoption of an hereditary tenure for the Upper House, so as to assimilate it to the House of Lords, and there arose a controversy about that House which resulted in numerous petitions showing that an elective House would be preferred ; others again desired a nominee House, appointed not for life but for five years: while others desired that the northern portions of the Colony should be given a separate existence, a desire acceded to in 1859. In the meantime, while the Bill was delayed, the Duke of Newcastle, in a dispatch of August 4, 18533 intimated to the Governor that he should take care to warn all newly- appointed holders of posts which would be likely to be treated as political that they could not expect the usual security of tenure, and added that he trusted that there would be no idea of trying responsible government with a single chamber. At the end of the year the Governor sent home the Bill passed by the Legislature as 17 Vict. No. 41.4 On receiving the decision of the Imperial Government to permit responsible sovernment. the Legislative Council of ' Parl. Pap., March 14, 1853, p. 72. ? Tasmania rejected the idea ; see Debates, dic., of the Legislative Council. Pp. 69 seq. Cf. Rusden, Hist. of Australia, iii. 68 seq. Parl, Pap.. August 10, 1854, p. 62. ¢ Ibid., pp. 27 seq.

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