Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

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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:: 1896935052

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-238139

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 2

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XI Seiten, Seiten 570-1100

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part IV. The federations and the union // Chapter II. The commonwealth of Australia

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crap. 1] THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA 779 in 1861 the commission to the Governor of New South Wales as Governor ceased to be accompanied with one to make him titular Governor-General. Tn the Colonies, however, Went- worth in Australia until 1854, and later in England, Deas Thomson in New South Wales, and Gavan Duffy in Victoria, were anxious to secure some federal system of an elected assembly for common purposes, a forerunner of the Federal Council of Australasia, and from 1853 there was a good deal of activity in this direction, but the Acts of 1855 giving constitutions to New South Wales and Victoria contained no federal provisions. In 1860 a Conference was arranged, but a change of Ministry in New South Wales, and the reluctance of the newly formed Colony of Queensland, ended its pros- pects, and the Conference which considered tariff matters in 1863 declined, without instructions, to discuss federation. Yet the tariff difficulties in Colonies with land frontiers were very great; in 1855 an agreement was made between Victoria and New South Wales to allow free transit over the Murray, while goods paid duties at Adelaide for entry either to New South Wales or Victoria, and the proceeds were divided equally, but in 1864 New South Wales terminated the agreement, which was renewed, but modified, in 1865-7, and it ended in 1873. A proposal by South Australia in the direction of internal free trade made in 1862 received prac- tically no favour. In 1873 the Imperial Parliament removed the legal bar which had hampered the introduction of a Customs Union by allowing the Colonies to differentiate against the rest of the world in favour of the other Colonies or New Zealand, but by this time Victoria had gone far on her career of high protection, and was only willing to come into a scheme which gave her manufactures free entry into the rest of Australia, and denied their agricultural products free entry into that colony! and an Act of New South Wales in 1876 to encourage border conventions remained fruitless. 1 See Parl. Pap., C. 576,703, and 36 & 37 Vict. ¢. 22. For the Murray Acts, New South Wales, 19 Viet. No. 21; Victoria, 17 Vict. No. 17; South Australia, No. 6 of 1856. The New South Wales tariff was applied in 1857 to these goods.

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