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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38 RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT [PART I with slowly, as there was a deficit in the revenue and the extra expenses must be considered. He also insisted on the retention of an independent aborigines board, and he sent out a draft Bill based on the Governor’s draft, embodying the changes desired. Later correspondence made it clear that the first Legislative Council was to be nominated by the Governor on his own responsibility. The Bill was laid before the Legislative Council, which accepted the views of the Home Government on most points, but desired an elective council, and on a suggestion of the Governor’s the Secretary of State agreed to allow a nominee council to be appointed, to be succeeded in six years, or when the popula- tion reached 60,000, by an elective body. The Bill as amended was laid before the country, a general election took place, and the Bill was then brought before the local Legislature. There were made several amendments shorten- ing the duration of Parliament to four years, which were accepted by the Home Government, but that Government insisted on the strict adoption of the proposed Civil List, and on empowering the Governor, without the consent of the Executive Council, to set aside native reserves, though the Governor was prepared to give way on these points as being of minor importance. The demand of the Colony for full self-government was supported by the other Colonial Governments in Australia, but some opposition developed itself in England, where it was felt that if the land were handed over en bloc to the Western Australia Government there would be an end of any prospect of large British emigration to the Colony. Sir N. Broome, the Governor, took the unusual course of writing to The Times a letter to dispel the idea that there would be any prejudice to emigration by the transfer of control to the local Government, but the Imperial Government could not undertake to pass the Bill as an Imperial Act that year (1889), in view of the late date at which it could be intro- duced, and the unexpectedly strong opposition which re- vealed itself to the proposal. The Australian Colonies then 1 Parl. Pap., C. 5752.

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