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

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

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780 THE FEDERATIONS AND THE UNION [PART IV A Federation Bill was introduced into New South Wales by Mr. Parkes in 1867, but did not receive the royal assent. Foreign relations also caused anxiety : in 1870 Mr. Gavan Duffy induced Victoria to appoint a Royal Commission which suggested the remarkable and absurd scheme that the Mother Country should give the Colonies rights of treaty- making, and that it should secure for them a position as neutral sovereign states! The idea was a singularly inept one, and was justly derided by their opponents at the time. Attention was, however, drawn to the new policy of France in transporting criminals to New Caledonia which began in 1864, while transportation ceased in Western Australia in 1867; Fiji was annexed to please Australia by the Crown in 1874, and created a Crown Colony, while in 1878 an agree- ment saved what remained of British interests in the New Hebrides. The intervention of the United States became marked in Samoa in 1875, and Germany was also active in these islands. In 1880-1 a conference at Melbourne, and later at Sydney, marked a real advance towards agreement.? In 1883 the desire for union was strengthened by the question of New Guinea. The Government of Queensland purported to annex the island, and when the act was disavowed the Secretary of State pointed to federation as a means of strengthening the Colonies in their desire to obtain the control of the Pacific. This was followed, through the exertions of Mr. Service, Premier of Victoria, by the conference at Sydney of November 1883, which was the first to consider federation. It included representatives of New Zealand and of Fiji, beside those of the six Colonies, and decided in favour of a Monroe doctrine for Australia, protested against the introduction of convict labour, and asked for the annexa- tion of New Guinea, and the securing the control of the New Hebrides. This conference decided to promote a Bill ' Victoria Parliamentary Papers, 1870, Sess. 2, ii. 247. There was no second report. The idea was revived in 1911 by the Volksstem in South Africa, * New South Wales Legislative Assembly Votes and Proceedings, 1881, i. 329. Victoria (Assembly Votes and Proceedings, 1880-1, iv. 459), Queens- land, and New Zealand would not accept a Federal Council then.

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